Mid July, wet weather? It must be town show time! 2007 sees the 56th running of this annual two-day event. I’m planning to visit on Sunday. On Saturday I’ll be in Regent’s Park not learning to dance at the Broadwalk Ballroom.
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Clueful evil
The visitor turned out to be of the clueful-evil variety – a scientist turned administrative bean-counter. Luck had it that the lash-up experiment was buried under a pile of other equipment I’d just moved into the lab. I was honestly able to say I was working on sorting everything out. There was a brief discussion …
Bullshit baffles brains?
The new job is going reasonably well, I’m not sure that I’m over-keen at being introduced to people as the solution to all their troubles, but I hope I can be useful. Tomorrow I have to entertain, persuade and divert some industrial partner visitors. Progress on the project they are coming to see is pretty …
New job…
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 …
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.