Sorry for lack up recent updates. I’ve left the laptop at work (my preffered system for writings posts involves the latop a nice cool beer and a period of sitting on the roof in the early evening) and it is too bloomin’ hot to sit at the computer. There are a couple of science posts …
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Fuck!
Several explosions on London Underground , possible train crash at Kings Cross station, bus explosion at Russell Square. update: 12:30 Now claiming 2 dead, many injured. 7 explosions. And of course ID cards would have prevented all this [/sarcasm] update: 17:56 Well the story is all over the news now. at least 32 dead, many …
Off for a bit. Or Why I lothe and detest and want to maimstabmurderdeathkill powerpoint.
Tomorrow sees me heading off to Cardiff for the ISSC-15 conference. Just under a week of geeking my particular variety of science with a few hundred like minded individuals at the UK’s premier surface science conference. Looking at the program, the will be talks on everything from ablation (my field) to catalysis to xenon adsorption …
DTL inna box
I’ve been having a cleanup at home, throwing out random boxes, consigning ancient dead hardware to the spare-parts heap, tidying up personal documentation. I now have a box-file full of personal stuff, stuff that really means something to me. I suppose in a way, the collection really is ‘DTL inna box’. I didn’t set out …
Happyness is…
A freshly gassed excimer laser delivering 200 mJ pulses of hard UV radiation to a 2 mm square spot. Now I can get back to some science.