Archive for the ‘work’ Category
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I have picked up a bad but perhaps not unfair reputation of breaking something during pretty much every environmental test that I run. The reputation began quite early. When I first joined the environmental engineering group and was shown how to power on all the power amplifiers and ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I find it amazing that a new, professional site has the following message on a main page:
Please ensure pop-up blockers are turned off for this domain.
People block pop-ups partly because of advertising abuse, but I imagine it's increasingly because the popularity of tabbed browsing allows the user control of the ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Company has a flexi-time policy that allows for extended and shortened days, but we all essentially still work on the basis of an eight hour day that includes a thirty minute lunch break.
As such, when someone outside of the department draws up a day's test plan for us to ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I had my COSHH assessment at work this morning, testing my lung capacity. This is done because there is a particularly nasty coolant that some equipment uses and I really shouldn't be breathing, so I am checked once a year to make sure that I am not accidentally sucking ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I am running a qualification test at the moment, which in this case involves setting up lots of relatively short test periods. Because most of the work is involved in setting up a test, and watching it run for several hours is where the road to tedium lies, this ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Cor, it wasn't even 9 am before I had induced a failure in some expensive electronic equipment during formal vibration testing. It took me longer to set-up the test and update the test log than it did to run the test.
It's going to be a good day!
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
With hot weather upon us now I am trying a new strategy to cope with the often stupidly cold office. I don't think I should be wrapping up warm to work in a normal office environment, but wearing a t-shirt seems out of the question when I get chills ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I'm probably a little too passive for my own good some of the time, perhaps even excusing it as tolerance on occasion. The aggressive air conditioning in this stupid open-plan office is one area that I have tolerated through lack of action for ages. The temperature in here ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
My boss comes to me this morning with some interesting hardware in-hand, and tells me that 'I have a little job for you, the best part being that it doesn't need any paperwork'.
Hmm, I really should finish that draft report soon for the test I completed a while back.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
If you've ever read any formal specifications, particularly from standards bodies, you will probably have come across a page that is blank apart from the statement printed on it 'this page intentionally left blank'. These are paradoxical oddities. On the one hand, it is prudent to let a ...
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