http://www.seismictalk.com News and views, rants and raves from the seismic industry Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 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 is [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/i-wonder-why/feed 2 http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:00:48 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration Sensor Systems claim to have made a the first advancement in almost 50 years in seismic sensors. The new device, an all-optical, fiber-optic omnidirectional geophone, requires no in-situ electronics, copper conductors, or electrical power. It incorporates a self-contained optical interrogation unit (using an optical time division multiplexing methodology) with integrated laser sources; all of the system [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/new-sensor-supports-oil-exploration/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 many [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/great-service-from-amazoncom/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/sudan-pictures http://www.seismictalk.com/sudan-pictures#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:52:28 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/sudan-pictures ]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/sudan-pictures/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/global-warming-scam http://www.seismictalk.com/global-warming-scam#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:22:28 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/global-warming-scam I think that it is high time that the public started calling the media on the garbage they are spewing about global warming, sea level rises and all of the associated ills which they are making up as they go along. Take a look at the old pictures and quotes below and make up your [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/global-warming-scam/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 [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/nokia-e71/feed 2 http://www.seismictalk.com/vibroseis-versus-dynamite http://www.seismictalk.com/vibroseis-versus-dynamite#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:54:08 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2007/02/11/forums-now-operational/ I’m currently on a 2D job which is mainly flat but it does have one portion in the middle which has some hills requiring bulldozer cutting. The client emailed me the other day asking about using vibes in the hills as somebody at the office had asked if it wouldn’t be better to use dynamite. [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/vibroseis-versus-dynamite/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/new-server-home-for-seismic-talk http://www.seismictalk.com/new-server-home-for-seismic-talk#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:27:36 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2008/11/21/new-server-home-for-seismic-talk I have not made any posts for some time as I tried different software to run Seismic Talk and a couple of different hosting accounts. I tried using another gallery style as well with the images hosted on another service but could not get things set up to make it easy for other people to [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/new-server-home-for-seismic-talk/feed 0 http://www.seismictalk.com/airport-security http://www.seismictalk.com/airport-security#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:50:01 +0000 admin http://www.seismictalk.com/2008/06/02/airport-security I thought airport security was over the top when I couldn’t get into an airport because I was carrying a windproof lighter as “It could be used as a weapon” but this is just plain downright ridiculous. Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, was stopped from boarding because his Transformers T-shirt depicted a robot with a [...]]]> http://www.seismictalk.com/airport-security/feed 0