Showing posts with label Geneva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geneva. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 December 2008

TZ=Europe/Zurich

OK - So I've now been here (.ch) for a week. What's it like so far? well, cold. Snow on the ground all week at the house (900M ASL ~ somewhere between The Cobbler and Ben Lomond). Commute to work takes ~50 mins (after scraping any ice / snow off car) and is presently timed with the sun rising over the alps.

Work -- hectic. YAIM can only do so much. There's a big gap between a barebones install, getting the middleware installed and configured and being able to reliably run a test suite on machines.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Fizzicists

Y'know what worries me? I'm out in Geneva just now at CERN - sharing a flat used by the Glasgow ATLAS scientists. Supposedly a rather smart lot.

...except the batteries in the TV remote control were the wrong way round.

Ressurection of a WirelessThings OpenPi (from kickstarter)

Many years ago, I was handed one of the openpi kickstarter devices (see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wirelessthings/openpi-wireless-...