It all started with a discussion around the tea-table a few days ago, about the fact that a lightyear is a measurement of distance and not of time, because a light year is the distance travelled by a photon over the period of a year. (d=s*t for those who like the maths, or the area [...]
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a constant c?
May 15
So today I needed to meet a colleague at a mutually convenient location between our two homes. He suggested a place that he’d been to in the last week or so with another of my new colleagues. So I set off to meet him at Chievely Services just off the M4, prior to taking to [...]
Following on from information about a wrecked A340-600 for Etihad during engine tests on Thursday 15th November, with follow-on information indicating that Airbus may have failed to follow it’s own procedures, leading to several injured in the resultant crash against the engine test-pen walls.
Today we hear of an issue with de-pressurisation on a pre-delivery test [...]
After spending a little time fixing a friends computer, I spoke to her this morning.. apparently it is bust again, similar issues (loading various Facebook pages) fails with errors.
Bah..
I said I would never do this again, but despite my better judgement, I dropped in on a friend last night to fix their computer.
It had problems with accessing facebook, and since I’d dropped them a friend request, and they hadn’t replied, it was sort of in my interest to fix this.
I like simple problems, [...]
