Archive for the ‘Work’ Category
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
A strange object appears from nowhere. A six-foot tall slab stands proud in the middle of The Company's seating area in the lobby, where employees and guests enjoy drinks and snacks from the coffee bar. Our watering hole, if you like. The monolithic structure is not featureless, ...
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
The laboratory I work in is a dedicated area of The Company's building. It is similar to other laboratories in the building but different in feel because of the sound-proofed rooms, smell of grease, and large industrial chambers, plants and machinery, instead of electronic test equipment. Never the ...
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
I occasionally opine that little in New Eden happens quickly. I have recently completed skill training in battlecruisers V, the duration of around twenty five days being part of a grander skill plan to pilot a Damnation command ship, which will take around seventy days of skill training in ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
There was a fresh snowfall yesterday morning, but not so much as to stop me from jumping in the car and making the daily commute. Sadly, the weather north of the M25 had different ideas about my getting to work. The snowfall wasn't great, but combined with the ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
After trying to get this current piece of equipment through the first part of its qualification test and failing several times it finally seems like I am going to guide it through the test successfully. The fault was recently diagnosed as a design issue, resolved with an internal tweak ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I have picked up a bad but perhaps not unfair reputation of breaking something during pretty much every environmental test that I run. The reputation began quite early. When I first joined the environmental engineering group and was shown how to power on all the power amplifiers and ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I find it amazing that a new, professional site has the following message on a main page:
Please ensure pop-up blockers are turned off for this domain.
People block pop-ups partly because of advertising abuse, but I imagine it's increasingly because the popularity of tabbed browsing allows the user control of the ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Company has a flexi-time policy that allows for extended and shortened days, but we all essentially still work on the basis of an eight hour day that includes a thirty minute lunch break.
As such, when someone outside of the department draws up a day's test plan for us to ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I had my COSHH assessment at work this morning, testing my lung capacity. This is done because there is a particularly nasty coolant that some equipment uses and I really shouldn't be breathing, so I am checked once a year to make sure that I am not accidentally sucking ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I am running a qualification test at the moment, which in this case involves setting up lots of relatively short test periods. Because most of the work is involved in setting up a test, and watching it run for several hours is where the road to tedium lies, this ...
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