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/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/ibm-thinkpad-t60-by-lenovo http://www.seismictalk.com/ibm-thinkpad-t60-by-lenovo#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:01:39 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/06/13/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/ibm-thinkpad-t60-by-lenovo/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/partial-news-reporting-or-pc-bias http://www.seismictalk.com/partial-news-reporting-or-pc-bias#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:52:41 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/06/12/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/partial-news-reporting-or-pc-bias/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/pullout-from-iraq http://www.seismictalk.com/pullout-from-iraq#comments Wed, 23 May 2007 18:29:33 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/05/23/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/pullout-from-iraq/feed 1 http://www.seismictalk.com/online-purchasing-online-payments-credit-card-credit-refused-credit-denied http://www.seismictalk.com/online-purchasing-online-payments-credit-card-credit-refused-credit-denied#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:24:32 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/04/14/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/online-purchasing-online-payments-credit-card-credit-refused-credit-denied/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/hse-in-seismic http://www.seismictalk.com/hse-in-seismic#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:10:37 +0000 bbrigg http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/04/04/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/hse-in-seismic/feed 1 http://www.seismictalk.com/firewall-performance http://www.seismictalk.com/firewall-performance#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:02:01 +0000 bbrigg http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/03/22/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/firewall-performance/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/restaurants-guilty-of-sponsoring-extreme-eating-say-food-police http://www.seismictalk.com/restaurants-guilty-of-sponsoring-extreme-eating-say-food-police#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:31:02 +0000 bbrigg http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/02/27/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/restaurants-guilty-of-sponsoring-extreme-eating-say-food-police/feed 0