I think I should have become an engineer. I like problem solving, I like building things and dammit, I need an excuse for the CNC mill I want. What prompted this? Well it is the annual laser repair time. For a piece of equipment that cost somewhere between £30k – £50k, you have to wonder …
Category Archives: geeking
Boredom at work
Boredom at work is a bad thing, it leads to spending a day making things like this work: (taken in late October – no glue or trickery involved. It collapsed seconds after I took the photo)
mimeTeX
Ah the joy of being able to typeset proper equations in a ‘blog. I installed mimeTeX a while ago, but didn’t do anything with it right away so I forgot about it. I was just doing some admin on the server that hosts this site when I discovered I had mimeTeX still installed. I will …
Extreme Natural Hazards – the review
Some time back in August, Suzie (a friend from a ‘blog elsewhere), mentioned the Royal Society extreme natural hazards meeting that I linked to a few posts ago. I was expecting to be at a loose end by the time it came around so I signed up, as it happened I wasn’t at a loose …
More ice and silicon pillars
My work has headed in a slightly different direction over the last couple of weeks, we’ve become much more interested in the nano-scale silicon spikes I described here . We are now pretty sure we can tie together the ice spike phenomenon with the silicon pillar spikes. We have good reason to believe the spikes …