Week of 21st September, 2009

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Monday, 21st September

Eid ul-Fitr. End of Ramadan

New fortnight starts today - a 10 shift, swapped from an early.

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Tuesday, 22nd September

And it's the mixture as before. Basic operations working fairly well, material transfer to and from Final Cut editing flaky-to-impossible to start, improved later. In fact, they seem to have fixed two things - the slowdown just after the hour, which is now no more than a hiccup; and the material transfer to FCP, which has gone from a 10% or so success rate, to nearer 75 to 80%. And I hope I haven't jinxed things by saying that.

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Wednesday, 23rd September

To Ealing this afternoon, to collect my new glasses, and run a few errands. There's not much to say about this - they work.

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Thursday, 24th September

My 61st Birthday

A family meal at a local pub restaurant was the order of the evening. But I don't think we'll be returning. Although the food was good, service was slow.

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Friday, 25th September

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Saturday, 26th September

Everything worked reasonably well these two days. I was training a freelance, so not much work actually done by me. Luckily, there was a company-sponsored thrash on in Central London, so most of the day-working staff disappeared around lunchtime on Friday, leaving us to work through the last of the material delivered. Which we did - all gone by this evening. Short-form, that is. Programmes are still shelved in abundance.

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Sunday, 27th September

Kempton Park Rally

And I've taken leave to attend.

Although I needn't have bothered. The vendor turnout was lower than last spring, although I did pick up a USB webcam, and it's companion webserver - runs off 5 volts, supports 2 webcams containing a specific chipset, and presents an Ethernet interface to the outside world. Those 2 webcams can be the motorised PTZ style, or the fixed one I got, in any mixture. Just right for in-car security, since the webserver will e-mail stills to a nominated address on motion detect. And I know they work together - these were the vendor's display models, so seen working...

Another stall yielded a Cardbus TV input adaptor - analogue broadcast or baseband video/audio, including S-Video. That was a measly UKP5, so even if it doesn't work I'm not out much. The same stall had surplus Dell laptop carry cases at UKP10 - old ones, for older, smaller machines. But still useful for carrying fragile stuff.

So I spent a bit, but not too much.

An interesting sight was a newly-developed Az/El rotator array for satellite working. Shown with small antennas, for space reasons, but claimed, with photographic evidence in support, to handle major multi-Yagi arrays for Moonbounce or satellite work. UKP450, from here. Note: I haven't used this, just mentioning it in case someone might be interested. The website is very incomplete as yet.

The Viewsonic LCD monitor on Jane's computer is deceased. It seems to have died a few days ago,but I haven't had a chance for a close look until today. It doesn't power up, so I'll have to get a replacement - this one, from Morgan Computers. Tomorrow, before the overtime shift - or better, on my way to the overtime.

 
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