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Number 15 – Suggestions from Work
For Task 15, I also asked some of the people I work with for suggestions; and this is what they came up with: Alex Muir: “For Whom The Bell Tolls” – Ernest Hemingway Chris Jones: “Glittering Images” –...
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Number 8 – Abingdon to The Railway bridge
Abingdon is a charming riverside town with many fine buildings including the majestic County Hall in the market place. This was built when Abingdon was Berkshire’s County Town . The town was once...
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East London Line
One of those interesting PDF’s you pick up while moving around is the 2000 issue of the London Underground Railway – Junction Diagrams book. This is one of those documents that most people who use the...
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Didcot Power Stations Tours
On Friday, Organised and went to the two Didcot Power stations with a group of people from work, there is a third power station on the Didcot site; however that is mostly un-used; or used as emergency...
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CCFE Flywheels
At Culham Centre for Fusion Energy we have a number of really cool things; Including some very very large power requirments (we are one of about 13 National Grid customers on our own 400 kV feeds)....
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CCFE Flywheels; Revisited.
At work today, we had a work tour of the flywheels; that I have previously mentioned; The Flywheel Generator Converter (FGC) works in a similar manner to the alternator in a car, the rotating part of...
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JET Torus Hall
During the last JET Shutdown, Mark Woollard mounted a digital camera inside the JET Torus Hall to record the working activities of the Shutdown. Over the course of the Shutdown the camera captured...
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MAST tour
Last week Peter took a group of people for a look round MAST (Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak), MAST like JET (JET Tourus Hall Photos) is a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, unlike JET however MAST is a Spherical...
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MASCOT
MASCOT is one of those weird things we have at work; (Italian: MAniplatore Servo COntrollato Transistosissato / English: Transistorised Servo Controlled Manipulator). its the in vessel remote...
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Book 27 – Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Plain & Simple
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Plain & Simple is a work book. One of the fun things I have been involved with is the long running Alfresco vrs Microsoft SharePoint Fiasco, Recently we have finally...
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Jobless Skippy is Sans Job
Things sort of went quite badly last weekend; and I did something silly on Monday evening, on Tuesday Morning I went to my GP and talked to him, He gave me a prescription for Citalopram and looked into...
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Jobless Skippy, is less Jobless
Today I went for a job interview with Pennant Training Systems; I felt the interview went very well, what I was not prepared for was for less than two hours after the interview finishing being called...
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Skilling up
Last time I was without employment (back before CCFE) I managed to get an SL2 form from the Job Centre, and I used it to get my CSCS card (Construction Skills Certification Scheme), and my 17th Edition...
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Train and Cost
Tomorrow I start a new job in Staverton (near Staverton Airport) its a small village between Cheltenham and Gloucester Swindon to Staverton by Car takes 56 minutes and is 37.1 miles (according to...
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First Week at Work
For the past week I have been working at Pennant Training Systems Limited, which is in Staverton Technology Park, near Gloucester. The job is an intresting one However it’s very unlikely there will be...
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Task 72 – Learn to Program
On my Day Zero List is the desire to learn to program; one of the things that people have been playing with in their down time here at Pennant Traning Systems is Project Euler: What is Project Euler?...
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Dundas Basin Elsan Point
The Elsan disposal point at Dundas Basin on the Kennet & Avon Canal was taken out of service back in November 2011 and has remained broken since; British Waterways plan to have a temporary elsan...
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Hippy’s cause trouble
Some of you may think I have some hippy tendancys; being that I live on a boat, and that I plan to be as off grid as I can, bma and I have over a number of years had a smiler talk; he is a fan of...
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An update
It’s been a fair while since I last wrote an update to my blog; back then b0atg1rl and I were looking for a boat; since then we have bought ourselves a 58ft Semi-Trad called nbSteven (the name will be...
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Hacky Birtday
On Saturday 23rd FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology [*NOT* Federation Against Copyright Theft]) are having their buildings 10th Birthday party; Join FACT in celebrating 10 years since the...
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