It's OK, I've got someone now.

Seek is really good for getting people! We'll see how Mitch goes I guess, but I had many applicants that looked OK (as well as several "form responses" that didn't refer to the ad at all).

Cheers!
Andy

Cory's moving to Lake Macquarie with his family, and handed in his notice today. Very sad to see him go ( Read more... )

Out of the 32 Thunderbirds episodes and two movies, the emergencies for each can be categorised in the following manner:

Sabotage directed either at IR, or sabotage used to lure IR into action: 6
Sabotage directed at other targets: 10
Engineering design oversights (including environmental and process oversights): 18

Cheers

So, looks like another W&G short is coming out:

Linky-pies

In other news, I just learnt that the same guy, Thomas Midgley, was the guy who invented lead additives (for controlling knock in petrol enines), freon as a refrigerant, and CFCs as an aerosol propellant. All brilliant ideas at the time...

Cheers
Andy

Well, how cool.

Robert Knox, from Newcastle Uni Formula SAE team from 2007, has sent me a video of his code playing "Advance Australia Fair" on his Formula SAE engine (using an Adaptronic ECU).

Not quite as good as the Renault Formula One one, but pretty good nonetheless, I think - at high revs anyway.

Cheers

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Wow - that was by far the best skiing holiday I've ever had ( Read more... )

Public service announcement:

Don't stay until the end of the credits. There isn't anything after the credits.

The main feature is quite good IMHO.

Cheers

More YouTube randomness from Dr Andy:

Kylie Minogue and Kermit The Frog singing Especially For You

Not only do they have articles on Rayguns, including the types of ray guns (particle beams, plasma beams etc), but also Exploding bridgewire detonators (triggers for nuclear devices, detonate in nanoseconds, which is required to trigger the nuclear explosion accurately enough) and all kinds of other useful things ( Read more... )

To thebluefairy and malinari86!

Many hugs!