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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 [...]
Pullout from Iraq
Although I generally tend to disagree with the majority I have to admit that I am in agreement with them one the subject of pulling out of Iraq. I do, however, have a very different reason for thinking this way. Most people want to get the soldiers out of harms way or want to stop [...]
Political Correctness
I met up with an old friend last night and we talked about a lot of things. The more we spoke the clearer it became that we are a pair of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs is probably the wrong choice of words as we are not quite extinct yet but we are definitely part of a dwindling [...]
Online Purchasing
I wonder how many of you out there have problems with online purchases while you are on the crew. I just had another payment rejected by one of the big online payments processing groups. My firewall just came up for renewal or, more accurately, informed me that it would soon be up for renewal. I [...]
Absolutely SFW | Reg Developer
Just a quick one on the subject of safety. Click on the link below to go to The Register and have a look at their article on workplace safety. I have included a choice quote below. Does this sound like any of the HSE people you have come across? Go over there and read the [...]
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 [...]
Tesla Roadster
While I have worked in the seismic industry for more than 30 years and believe that everybody who makes a living in the oil industry should drive a big block V8 powered gas guzzler I have to admit that I do like the look of this electric roadster. Looking at the car you would never [...]
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 [...]
Male & Female definitions
buttfemale – the body part that every item of clothing ever manufactured makes “look bigger”male – what you slap when someone scores a touchdown, home run, or goal. Also good for mooning commitmentfemale – a desire to get married and raise a familymale – not trying to pick up other women while out with one’s [...]
