Fuel Tanks

I spoke to Richard last night. The fuel tanks that we worked on last weekend are basically fully sealed, apart from a couple of minor issues that need to be looked at. The biggest issue is that water was seeping through the middle of the BNC socket used for measuring the fuel level. This is rather strange since we sealed both of these sockets up really well, or so we thought. Richard is going to have a look at it during the week.

I have a meeting with a client at Rose Hill this morning. Given how much I enjoyed my last meeting with this client I am looking forward to this meeting. I would almost call this particular client an ideal client. Not quite sure how long the meeting will go – you never can tell.

Surfing the Internet I found a reference to a Uni of Washington TV show called Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look describing some of the internals of Google, some of these challenges, discusses applications Google has developed, and highlights systems they’ve built, including GFS, a large-scale distributed file system, and MapReduce, a library for automatic parallelization and distribution of large-scale computation. He also shares some interesting observations derived from Google’s web data.

The Sydney Morning Herald has a Story this morning on how using mobiles when filling up your cars can cause an explosion. What they found is that any explosions (which are very rare) are caused by static electricity. Whilst there is no evidance, I can assure that the airline industry uses ‘intrinsically safe’ radios that under no circumstances will cause a spark.

They have also picked up a Story about how SMEGmail offers 1 terabyte storage . According to their April Fools Day press release, “It uses microscopic black holes – created when cosmic rays travelling at near the speed of light collide with tiny particles in the Earth’s atmosphere – to form a grid of ultra high speed ‘write only’ memory.”