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Student Loan Repayment...
Given all the fuss over the last couple of weeks i have been trying to sort out whether i think the student loan proposals are more progressive or not. I don't really agree with them in principle, but am not massively against them either. Its a slightly tricky thing to judge because you need to make a bunch of assumptions to start with about ( Read more... ) -
LHC now at world record energy
I just received an email from CERN's Director General informing me that we have now exceeded the energy of the Tevatron and the LHC is now officially the world's highest energy particle accelerator (i don't think we have to wait for the guys from Guinness before it becomes official in this case). It isn't clear is whether there have been ( Read more... ) -
Testbeams
So i am back running my second testbeam in as many months and have just started a 10 hour shift on a glorious saturday morning. Since those of you who have not delved into the jargon laced madness that is HEP will have little idea what im talking about i thought i would while away some of our time explaining what it is i'm doing ( Read more... ) -
giga...
On my daily trawl through the beeb's steadily deteriorating news pages i found the following statement i thought i would share with you nice folk in lj land ( Read more... ) -
Leaving Imperial
Just to Let people know today is my last day at Imperial. I will be going to work for CERN, for the MediPix collaboration for 18 months. Essentially I will be working on understanding the performance of their new radiation imaging sensor ( Read more... ) -
Making a wokbench
Today i completed my long running workbench project. The idea was that i needed a very sturdy table in my shed to accommodate my grandfathers metal lathe and associated machines and also have a place to make things on. After looking at some cheap flimsy rubbish and some very expensive things i decided i had better make my own. This escalated ( Read more... ) -
From the Conference
so i've just returned from the 10th bi-annual ICATPP conference on instrumentation in particle, astro-particle and medical physics. I delivered my talk with aplomb and only a little procrastination and have returned to report to you good people ( Read more... ) -
BBQ Chicken Satay
After a request here goes my recipe for an Indonesian style chicken satay. This is not an authentic recipe, i am not Indonesian, and only lived there before the age of two. It was picked up by my family and repeated so often it became a regular feature of my childhood.. heres how a reasonable facsimile of that experience can be achieved in the uk ( Read more... ) -
First National Electrical
Ok heres a quick warning to everyone out there searching for First National Electrical (aka 1st National Electrical) especially the Buckinghamshire branch of this useless company. Don't use them. This is my internet revenge for the day off work i squandered waiting for their electrician to turn up. Well at 4pm i phoned them to make sure ( Read more... ) -
Pointless Post
Todays post (the first for a long while) is brought to you by a free half hour before going for a budvar in Resteraunt 1. It concerns the unimaginative topic of today.
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