{"id":2769,"date":"2005-04-04T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2769\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:11:21","slug":"2769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/2769","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The roads were fun this morning. It seemed that everything was moving slowly. The M5 almost stopped just after the tolls, so I exited there to use Henry Lawson Drive. Which was slow until I crossed the Hume Highway. But the worst was General Holmes Drive, since lots of people wanted to turn right into the race course for a caravan show. <\/p>\n

This meant that traffic was stalled because people were blocking the other lanes. And then when I needed to turn right across it there was just a continuous stream of people waiting to get in too. Thankfully I managed to make a turn through this stream of people. <\/p>\n

The meeting went well. Looks promising. <\/p>\n

Archives<\/h2>\n

New Scientist has an article<\/a> on how some patent databases are really incomplete, but how paper archives are being destroyed. Something like 322,000 documents are missing from the Brittish patents database. And now there is a move around the world to turn old documents into pulp to save storage costs. <\/p>\n

Storing old documents costs a lot of money. When I was with Pacific Power we has a 200 square meter drawing archive which was not cheap to operate. There were certain people who wished a fire would burn the place down, but with the asbestos roof there was no way that would happen (and thankfully I never needed to actually visit it). But I have first hand experience with trying to ensure that there are good copies of every drawing, Things happen. Even with great systems in place. When I was working for them I found numerous drawings that were not usable in the digital archive. I worked out how to find them and got most of them fixed. Those that I didn’t usually did not matter.<\/p>\n

Pacific Power used to own the site of the Star City Casino since they had a power station there. Some of the digitized drawings for that site were lost – but this was not a real problem since the power station had been knocked down years before. Therefore the drawing was for historical purposes only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The roads were fun this morning. It seemed that everything was moving slowly. The M5 almost stopped just after the tolls, so I exited there to use Henry Lawson Drive. Which was slow until I crossed the Hume Highway. But …<\/p>\n

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