June, 2007
Safety Culture Today
Seismic has changed a lot during my years in the industry. In the late seventies there were no such things as HSE reports or stop cards. Management seminars and meetings were about production, costs, logistics and quality. These days HSE plays a very big role and takes up a lot of time both in such [...]
IBM ThinkPad T60 by Lenovo
I recently bought an IBM (Lenovo) ThinkPad T60 to replace my four year old Dell Precision laptop. You would think that moving from a 2.0 GHz Pentium M to the latest dual core 2.15 GHz processor and going up in RAM from 1 GB to 2 GB there would be a major difference in performance [...]
Partial News Reporting or PC Bias?
I was on a crew in Ethiopia’s southern Ogaden region in April. I left the crew just three days before an attack by ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) rebels, a muslim based group from the pictures shown. The attack killed sixty-five local employees (the people that the rebels claim to be fighting to liberate) and nine of [...]
