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Tue, Jul. 14th, 2009, 08:27 am
Green shoots of recovery?

The developers who demolished the factory next door say that they plan to resume work on the site in a few weeks.
(They want to know if they can rent the small patch of land behind our sheds for their "site accomodation". Any idea how we might find out what the going rate for that sort of thing might be? Given that we rarely use it, and no-one else is going to want it, I suspect "take whatever they offer".)

Fri, Jul. 10th, 2009, 02:12 pm
Release the Robo-bats

http://www.gizmag.com/metal-muscled-robo-bat/12188/

Did Batman ever use flying robotic bat shaped surveillance devices? If not, why not?

Mon, Jul. 6th, 2009, 12:15 pm
Google and NHS records

On the whole, I think Google mean their "don't be evil" slogan. But handing over management of health records to them? WTF? (As for "or Microsoft"...)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/tory_nhs_googlization/

Sat, Jun. 20th, 2009, 03:39 pm
iTunes podcasts

Every now and again iTunes tells me that it has assumed that since I hadn't listened to a podcast for a while, it's stopped subscribing to it.
i) Why can't it notice that I have been copying the podcasts to an iPod where they have been listened to?
ii) Is there a preference to say "just keep downloading them until I tell you to stop, don't guess"?

Tue, May. 26th, 2009, 10:57 pm
3 peaks

We made it (or at least some of the team did, if not actually within the 24 hr target), and I finally got back home about 5am on Monday morning. Many thanks to the Coca-Cola Company for help with the night driving.

Sun, May. 24th, 2009, 03:45 pm
3 peaks

Llanberis

Fri, May. 22nd, 2009, 08:43 pm
3 peaks

Loch Lomond

Fri, May. 22nd, 2009, 11:47 am
3 peaks

In minibus on A14

Fri, May. 15th, 2009, 12:42 pm
Scouts return to paramilitary roots....

Scouts, at least UK ones, are no longer expected to learn pike rifle staff drill and carry knives.

Meanwhile, in the USA: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html

Tue, Apr. 14th, 2009, 06:58 pm
Three Peaks Challenge

I'm succumbing to family pressure not to do the Three Peaks thing after all. There is still an nCipher team.

Wed, Apr. 1st, 2009, 01:56 pm
Top Gear switches to cycling

http://tinyurl.com/cxhu3x

(I know it's a bit late, but I thought [info]elfwhistletree should see it.)

Fri, Mar. 13th, 2009, 05:26 pm
"Hug an Engineer day"

Apparently it's hug an engineer day:
http://engineeringblog.experience.com/2009/03/march-13-is-hug-engineer-day.html

I can't say it's noticable at work other than someone having mailed the link.

Fri, Mar. 13th, 2009, 12:00 pm
Three Peaks Challenge

A group of us from work are planning to do the Three Peaks Challenge in May to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care (walking up Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Snowdon within 24 hrs).

Please sponsor us.

http://www.justgiving.com/ncipherthreepeaks

Mon, Feb. 9th, 2009, 05:05 pm
Parking

I have a parking Penalty Charge Notice. I also have a Pay and Display ticket with an expiry time 14 minutes after the supposed time of infringement. I am not happy. The query button on http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/transport-and-streets/parking/ says it doesn't know about that notice yet.

Thu, Feb. 5th, 2009, 10:40 am
Chemical Life

Glider guns - implemented chemically: http://arxivblog.com/?p=1183

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