Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics: semiconductor physics, Edge Emitting Lasers and VCSELs

Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics: semiconductor physics, Edge Emitting Lasers and VCSELs

The mind boggles. It actually is a site on semiconductor physics, from the basics of semiconductors up to lasers, crystal growth, photolithography and much more.

There are also some pictures of Britney dotted around the site.

My what lovely colours

Glasses repaired. Had a checkup and ordered new ones (Was going to anyway but this certainly got me moving in that direction.) Seeing dentist soon about a possible cracked tooth. The rest of my bruises and scrapes are turning lovely colours. I have been advised about arnica oil and am putting it to use on the bruises.

This morning when I walked by the speedbump it had some yellow warning bollards next to it. This evening as I walked by again the whole speedbump was a nice, bright, visible yellow so this shouldn't happen to anyone else.

Looks like I'll be spending a lot of time in this week, book club not on, badminton I'm too sore for. Hopefully will get to Kylie's thing on Friday night.
Time to tend my bruises before bed.

Ouch.

I have come to the conclusion that I don't like speedbumps. Especially ones that have been moved. And are the same colour as the road. Halfway down a steep hill. At dusk.

It's mostly very embarassing, I haven't done that on a bike since I was a child.

I have assorted scrapes and bruises but so far the only things that seem to be broken are my glasses and my bike lamp. I'm using an old pair of glasses for now but plan to get new ones soon. Old ones may be fixable as backup, (lenses fine, but need new fishing line)

Many, many thanks to Art for the lift et al. I really didn't fancy walking home in the dark, with or without the bike.

Explosion imminent?

Andrew has downloaded the new 'I, Robot' trailer, apparently interviews with the director stating how it was difficult making a movie from a short story collection, but that all of the stories were about how the 3-laws got 'bent', and he worked within that framework...

Interspersed with action shots from the movie of armies of robots killing people.

We suspect Simon may explode if he sees it.

Today I've been shifting computers at work, with the usual hassle of trying to find details for software you installed 4 years ago but are still using. More to go tomorrow, but the essential stuff is on there so far.

I even tidied up a bit tonight, my place looks like only a small bomb hit it, rather than a tactical nuke :)

I can't remember if I've got anything on this weekend, apart from movies on friday. Poor Andrew has to work Friday & Sunday nights. Friday will be the killer as he has lectures to give in the morning.

Recovering from the con :)

Well, it was a good con. Lots to do, lots to see, now if only I could have all that fun and enough sleep. Oh well, catching up slowly. Only minus is that I was tired, and didn't think to watch Dr Who on Monday and my tape at home had run out already. :( Oh well.
Time for the traditional post-con pancakes!

Fuelwatch makeover

Now, I don't think I'm the only one to use the FuelWatch site to see if I should fill up and where. But I must admit I was a little boggled at first by the new design. Where was the black and orange??? However a little playing around found where they'd put the standard searches etc, and a neat new feature. You can click on a map symbol and see the location of a petrol station, (If like me you're suburb challenged) but that's not all, the map shows all the petrol stations in its range, you can move around like whereis.com.au and the prices are shown on the map itself. There are maps both for today, and when tomorrow's prices are available, for tomorrow as well. I like. :)

I know that face....

Dr Who and the Silurians - the current one showing on ABC at the moment appears to be stuffed full of familiar faces, early in their careers. Geoffrey Palmer, Paul Darrow, Fulton Mackay...

Given that a fair few people had parts in various Dr Who adventures, I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for future occurrences.

Feeling better today, though more sleep would be welcome, think hayfever starting to subside.