30 November 2006, 10:24 pm

M60 at night

There appears to be a direct correlation between the amount of posts here and the levels of traffic on the motorways. It’s fair to say the last few weeks have been horrendous – I think the M56 is getting as bad as the M62 in places…

But hey, here’s the M60 in central Stockport looking east from the A6 with not much traffic unfortunately… I should have composed the photo’s last week maybe!! Oh well, enjoy with the thought that the tram photo’s from Manchester that are to come are even better :)

Category: Photo Album

29 November 2006, 7:38 pm

Ikl can build a bridge…

Yep, it’s true. What’s more… so can everyone else! I came across this fun bridge building simulator whilst at work today. You can either go with a given design and modify it, or build something from scratch. Once you’ve built your bridge, you test it by running a lorry over it! Great fun!!!

If the members are red, that denotes varying levels of compression; if they’re blue the members are in tension. If any members are curved then they’ve failed.

The best bit is to try and design for a catastrophic failure of the members so the lorry ends up in the river :D Great fun. The program is a 3.3Mb download but well worth it…

West Point Bridge Design Contest / Software

Category: Main Blog

28 November 2006, 10:30 pm

Manchester Pillow Fight!

Hmmm, I thought Flashmobbing was long gone, a craze that time had superseeded. Possibly not… there appears to be a Pillow Fight planned for Albert Square in Manchester on the 23rd December 2006. We shall see what transpires…

Category: Main Blog

27 November 2006, 8:47 pm

Bug of the Week #10

Another pair of bugs. I’m not too sure of the red Thales bug though… he looks a bit shifty lurking in the background!

Category: Bug of the Week

26 November 2006, 8:39 pm

Seasonal changes

You can really see just how late Autumn arrived this year, The trees in the woodland garden only started to lose their leaves earlier this month. It’ll be interesting to see when I get 12 photo’s, one from each month…
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Category: Photo Album

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