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.
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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.
Elegantly Dressed Wednesday: John Owers
My entry for Elegantly Dressed Wednesday – John Owers. This dashing fellow is my claim to fame, my cousin once removed is related by marriage to John’s (step?) brother. Front cover of $RANDOM-TRASHY-CELEB-MAG here I come. John was a bit part film actor in several 1940s films, his most significant being Scott of the Antarctic …
Something in the air…
In another life I was a particle physicist, or rather I become an engineer involved in the ATLAS detector at the LHC Cern. Things change, projects carry on and I quit to blow things up with big lasers. One of the primary stated aims of the LHC is to find the Higgs particle before any …