Birdy

Ha! I found this bird outside my house yesterday afternoon. I have no idea what kind of bird it is, but it was quite small and very fluffy and soft. I think it fell out of its nest, coz when I picked it up and tried to move it, it attempted to fly, but smacked into the car instead! It wasn't hurt so I decided it would be ok to laugh.



It was gone this morning when I went out to look for it.

Monday wash up

The most obvious thing to write about in this wash up is the wedding on Friday night (well, the reception, the wedding was on Tuesday) But the Friday was when the SRF turned out in full force to celebrate with Richard and Suzy!

It was very hot on Friday night, but that didn't hamper the fun OR the dancing! We burned that floor good!

Since Bron already posted some photos, I thought I'd just post a few choice shots. At some point during the night other people were taking photos with my camera and damn they took some golden moments! Not naming any names!

Anyway, enjoy...
First, the happy couple







The group (minus the bride)

Now for some not so glamorous ones....
A very obvious dial-a-wreck-a-photo

We told you to put your hands in your own belts and look manly!

That's better!

A three way bridal toast and a cat's bum...

and finally...burnin' that floor....

...or at least using sarah to polish it!

Memories from Friday Night (Richard & Suzy's Wedding)

What a lovely night. Here are some photo's .... Enjoy!

Super-geeky Friday

Oh my I'm in geek heaven - I got a tour of some of IBM's more expensive toys this morning including a close up look at a BlueGene server, for those of you who think your dual processor home PC is pretty snazzy this puppy has 32 cores on each of its 32 mainboards, crammed into a box not much bigger than a people mover. They've got a couple of these things lying about but not enough to get to the maximum you can stick together to form one computer which is 64 of them, so that's 32*32*64 cores = 65536. Each one of these boxes does around 12 tera flops but before you run out to place your order there are two things to consider, each one of these requires a lot of power - domestic power supplies just aren't going to cut it, you're going to need a dedicated sub-station, the other is cooling - I'm not even going to describe the noise of the room we went into but apparently most of the noise was the air-con as well as the the huge fans in the cabinets.

I've stopped dribbling now.

Water Found on Mars!

You should take a look at this.I got a little queasy, but it was worth it. Scroll down to the Cuitlacoche (Part 7)