I started a new job today after discovering, applying for and being appointed to it in the space of five hours. I’m now designing water quality sensors based on optical waveguides. I expect I shall have a busy few weeks while I get into the project. I shall try and write something about the work …
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The post I was going to make…
has been delayed by the fact something is dying/has died/is under stress in my Powerbook’s LCD. So I can’t type for long before all goes dark. I hope it is a dodgy wire. I suspect it is the backlight inverter. I really, really hope it isn’t the backlight.
Tech support to random neighbours…
The door bell rang earlier – I answered it to one of the lesser seen neighbours carrying a laptop. “Hello, I’m Brian from number 18, I wondered if you could do me a favour, Tony says you are good with computers.” “Hello, Er, Ok. What’s the problem?” Brian had been using someone else’s WiFi connection …
Play
Having just had to suffer several hours of commercial radio due to builders some distance away with a loud radio, I needed to hear some decent music again. So does Bill Hicks… Bill Hicks at his most passionate – contains language Embedded video isn’t showing up for some reason, try the link instead.
I hope we don’t find the Higgs
As I said yesterday, there are rumours that the Higgs particle may have already been spotted at the Tevatron thus rendering LHC at CERN a tad redundant, but what is the Higgs anyway? Basically the Higgs particle is the last particle predicted by the Standard Model. The Standard Model being the particle physics theory that …