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HSE in Seismic
Once again I am back to the subject of HSE and its insidious effects on the industry. This episode is brought about by a HSE representative who massages the books by saying that people visiting the doctor on the crew and receiving medical treatment do not constitute medical treatment cases. How on earth does this [...]
Only in America
Where else would you see something like this?
Firewall Performance
I recently uninstalled Outpost Pro’s Firewall from my laptop because of performance issues. Outpost had just announced a full suite of firewall and antivirus and I had been thinking seriously about giving up my old antivirus program and moving to the suite when the performance issues started. I really liked the superb control allowed by [...]
Things I owe my mother
My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.” My mother taught me RELIGION. “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.” My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock [...]
Canon EOS-1D Mark III, 10 MP, 10 fps: Digital Photography Review
Canon are planning to release a completely new version of their flagship EOS-1D, not just an upgrade to the older Mark II model. The latest offering has a 10.1 megapixel sensor with dimensions of 28.1 x 18.7 mm so it is still not going to offer the same focal length as the old film cameras [...]
Restaurants guilty of sponsoring "extreme eating" say food police
Here is one of the type of headline that really galls me. What kind of garbage are these people expecting us to swallow now? Are we to believe that, in a world which sells more diet books than ever before and has headlines such as this all too often, there are still people who are not [...]
Design breakthrough
A committee formed at the HSE department of a major seismic firm have come up with a breakthrough design for handling traffic congestion in the area surrounding the base camp. They are confident that this will completely eradicate the current confusion and milling around that so often occurs when everybody is entering or leaving the [...]
