This week has been a very good work week. At the very end of last year I managed to get a new prototype together, which didn't seem to want to work, and on Monday I found the component that was causing the problems. I've got a short term work around, and I'm now actually making progress, and proving that most of what I've done is going to work ( Read more... )

I used to work for Cambridge Consultants, and they seem to be on Engadget talking about tea ( Read more... )

Went to Turku.
Learnt about R&D projects the PE office here are doing.
Moomins everywhere.

It is very hard to get a last minute hotel just outside of Cardiff when there is a Take That concert on in the evening. Everywhere was booked up!

(Now in Bridgeend)

It was my T850 exam in the run up to Whitby. This was not something that I was well prepared for. I had not managed to engage at all with the course as we were going along, and this meant that I'd done much less than I should have and only really started revising for the exam the morning before. This is not consistent with the advice given by the ( Read more... )

Great weekend of doing nothing! It was supposed to be a weekend of giggery, but bad weather and band illness put pay to that, so it was spent in the house, relaxing and watching cheesy films. We had D&W around, watched Weird Science and had a picnic in the living room. All good stuff ( Read more... )

It was an early start Tuesday morning, as I had to get myself over to the factory in Llantrisant. The alarm went off at 5am, but it took a little while to get the motivation up to leave bed and face the world. I took it easy, and the first stage was to face LJ before attempting anything too strenuous.... As usual, I was going down well laden with ( Read more... )

( I went over the pond. Cut for length )

I was down in Wales again at the factory for a few days this week. Whilst we did have a timetable of what we were planning on achieving, this got changed out of all recognition and we did other stuff instead. Still, we were doing useful things and it felt good to do actual constructive work, rather than watching and learning existing procedures. I' ( Read more... )

This week I’ve been over in Wales at our factory which is based just outside Cardiff. It has been a pretty good week to be honest. We’ve gone through various bits of build procedure, and I’ve got another bundle of work that will need doing as well as a trip to Canada in the offing ( Read more... )