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I passed my assessment on Tuesday, so I am now approved to deliver the National Water Hygiene scheme. Until April 30th that is. Good job I am also booked in for the trainer briefing that should last another 3 years!

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It seems there are still a number of industial systems that do not like Internet Explorer 7. And today I discovered it is possible to get IE8…. oh dear…

Its possible to go back in time and run IE7 as a Virtual Machine from Microsoft however, I am currently giving it a try….

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Me, a Project Manager.

Not that it makes a huge difference in how I work day to day, as I’ll still be doing engineering, but now I will actually be responsible for the management of my projects too (I have always tried to get involved with it, and lead myself though)

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I may not work for the best employer in the country, I think I do, but I will accept others might beg to differ….

I do officially work for one of the best companies though.

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I watched a video on Thursday about using fire extinguishers. I suspect I might be unique in the class, in that I have discharged fire extinguishers in the past - and when doing this with CO2 extinguishers, I am sure we were told to hold the trigger (obviously) NOT THE HORN (obviously) and give support using a hand on the bottom of the fire extinguisher.

The video said not to hold on to the base.

My fellow students of Health and Safety suggested that this was because the extinguisher would get cold, and you don’t want your hand to stick to it but the video said to “support” the extinguisher by placing ones palm against the extinguisher about halfway down the cylinder.

Any ideas what’s going on here anyone?

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The management of information is something that will be forever cropping up in my life. And as my hobbies seem to imitate my career, it seems i cannot escape it.

Whether its understanding what a specific cable languishing in a road box might be required for, or learning how to sail a ship in 18 hours (including sleep) or navigation and camp craft. Or just those niggly little lessons you learn, like the best way to try and make some programming software do what you want.

Hence why this week I have been playing with ubuntu, first in a VM providing me LAMP and then on a PC.

And now I have a knowledge tree to play with.

Now for the sanity check that more technology is really a good thing….

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So, the other day I was at a Water Treatment Works (a very short visit. induction, a cup of tea and that was it. Well, except for then going to the WTW we were meant to be working on, as opposed to the one with the site office….) and part of the induction mentioned how the company running the site works put notices on the wall in the canteen with updates on health and safety, e.g. from occurrences on other sites, other parts of the company, etc.

And as I was perusing them, waiting for my tea to cool, I noticed a sign which mentioned how some people seemed to like to break into such sites, look round, and put photos on the web.

For some reason, a certain someone muttering “MMMMMmmmmm - Plant Rooms” at college sprang into mind.

Remember, its not big. and its certainly not clever.

Of course I have a job that lead me round these places anyway. Which is cool. As is the amount of Hi-Vis yellow clothing in my boot at the moment. Thinking of boots tho, i must remember to get some new ones, a lace eye came off, which doesn’t help keep my foot in…. just as well i have spare shoes.

Failing that, why not just be a tourist? Or combine the industrial with lighting?

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Use the following query format: HotBackupPairName!AlarmGroup. Later versions use: HotBackupPairName\AlarmGroup.

Well, that is good. and after all the effort to dig down and find the information too….

It seems 9.5 SP3 is a later version, as well as being the latest version. But why did it have to be changed at all?

And now I have left it here, for future reference, although I ought to put a bit about alarm hot backups on the company wiki too….

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Its like I am at University doing Labs again.

It feels like it, mainly because the equipment can be a little “argumentative” maybe

Much fun and merriment with three days in Manchester doing some training. Its interesting, and has a real world application very soon.

So nothing like my Uni experiences then…..

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Treemaps are cool. Well, they look cool. And thanks to WinDirStat, I can use them to see which the largest files or directories are on my PC. and suddenly I removed files which were taking up 25% of my hard drive. There. That’s better. That is cool.

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