http://www.seismictalk.com News and views, rants and raves from the seismic industry Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:16:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:16:30 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves I just bought myself a new computer and reinstalling all of the software is one of those activities that I don’t particularly enjoy but I can live with that. What I find incredibly annoying is that a new computer and freshly downloaded antivirus software (direct from the manufacturers site) required almost 3 GB of updates. [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/pet-peeves/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/i-wonder-why http://www.seismictalk.com/i-wonder-why#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:27:26 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/i-wonder-why HSE has become an important part of life in the oil exploration business but I have often wondered why it is that many of the HSE people seem to have things backward. Instead of looking at crews that get through without any HSE incidents the HSE people concern themselves with why accidents happen. Seismic exploration [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/i-wonder-why/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/spending-your-way-out-of-trouble http://www.seismictalk.com/spending-your-way-out-of-trouble#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 00:40:34 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/spending-your-way-out-of-trouble The world’s financial problems came about by having a government push financial institutions into providing home mortgages to people who would not be allowed to hold a credit card in a third world country. These mortgages were invested in by a wide range of outside companies without anything approaching due diligence. These companies include insurance [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/spending-your-way-out-of-trouble/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/great-service-from-amazoncom http://www.seismictalk.com/great-service-from-amazoncom#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:56:45 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/great-service-from-amazoncom A recent experience with Amazon’s service people has left me smiling. Generally I have rather low expectations for service from online sellers but this was one occasion when the service was genuinely excellent. I had ordered some books and had them sent to my address in Indonesia using the cheapest method, which has worked okay [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/great-service-from-amazoncom/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/nokia-e71 http://www.seismictalk.com/nokia-e71#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:17:13 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/nokia-e71 My all-time favourite mobile phone was my old Sony Ericsson P910i but SE’s later phones just don’t match up in features or ease of use. I replaced the P910i with a Nokia E61i after the scroll wheel got wrecked by an idiot in airport security in Jakarta knocked the phone off the scanner in his [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/nokia-e71/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/microsoft-office-2007 http://www.seismictalk.com/microsoft-office-2007#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 17:09:44 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2008/05/25/microsoft-office-2007 I have been using Microsoft’s 2007 version of their office suite for a little over six months now and while i have managed to become accustomed to some parts of the “ribbon” there are other parts where it is sheer torture to use for anybody with a good working knowledge of the older version. One [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/microsoft-office-2007/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/will-it-break-10000-this-year http://www.seismictalk.com/will-it-break-10000-this-year#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:10:22 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/10/20/will-it-break-10000-this-year Technorati Tags: oil prices , Turkey , Kurdish separatists The title is referring to the price of oil. At $90.00 per barrel as this is being written it would be foolish to bet against it. With the turmoil in the Middle East being added to by the Turkish government’s decision to pursue Kurdish separatists into [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/will-it-break-10000-this-year/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/thirty-reasons-women-have-things-easier-than-men http://www.seismictalk.com/thirty-reasons-women-have-things-easier-than-men#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:47:56 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/10/11/thirty-reasons-women-have-things-easier-than-men 1. They got off the Titanic first. 2. They get to flirt with systems support men who always return their calls, and are nice to them when they blow up their computers. 3. Their boyfriend’s clothes make them look elfin & gorgeous. Guys look like complete idiots in theirs. 4. They can be groupies. Male [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/thirty-reasons-women-have-things-easier-than-men/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/things-you-may-not-have-known http://www.seismictalk.com/things-you-may-not-have-known#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:46:11 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/10/11/things-you-may-not-have-known Technorati Tags: strange facts , human body The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail. The human body has over 45 miles of nerves. The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body’s weight. [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/things-you-may-not-have-known/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/personnel-department-computer-system http://www.seismictalk.com/personnel-department-computer-system#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:44:52 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/10/11/personnel-department-computer-system Technorati Tags: personnel department , personnel shortage , computerized systems While on a crew run by one of the biggest name seismic outfits recently I was surprised to hear that one of the staff had been bid for multiple jobs at the same time. Bidding in this manner is not unusual but what is highly [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/personnel-department-computer-system/feed 0