Barry Rowlingson

@geospacedman
979 Followers
210 Following
5K Posts
Maps, statistics, guitars, land rovers, photography.

Assistant Professorship advertised at Durham University - they're looking for expertise in Earth observation, with applications in the fields of mountain environments, geohazards, geomorphology and catchments and river science.

https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=26000445&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon

#AcademicChatter #FediJobs #GetFediHired #RemoteSensing #jobs

Assistant Professor in Physical Geography

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

Laughing my head off that someone is selling "audio grade" 13A fuses at 63quid each on ebay - and has a 100% rating 8)
On this day 60 years ago the Soviet Union launched Luna 10, the first artificial lunar satellite. Also launched on this day in 1966, me. Unlike Luna 10, I have spent the time in a loving orbit of friends and family.
If anyone in the I.T field in the UK has any corporate laptops being discarded because of Windows 11 requirements please either give me a shout to help them get to FreeITStafford or reach to https://www.freeitstafford.org/
A UK non-profit volunteer team fighting e-waste and digital poverty by giving them back to the community.
Link: https://www.freeitstafford.org/
Free I.T. (Stafford)

Free I.T. Stafford

I saw two hares yesterday, or possibly three, because one magically turned itself into a brown molehill with a fluttering leaf for an ear when I got it in my binoculars. Hare next was boosting his magic powers by eating grass in a field, and hare last was the vanishing act.
Just watched a hare running along the edge of a field and then vanish by jumping into an apparently solid wall. Hares are magic.
My "f" key is a bit dodgy on this laptop, so my code is all about unctions.
I don't know if they mark a boundary, a route, or who made them, but I've wanted to record and map them for years. So I did a bit of survey work today, but could only find three in twenty minutes. Pretty sure a lot have gone recently.
A long time ago, maybe 15-20 years ago or more, someone stencilled hearts over this part of town. Mostly on street furniture and not private property (unless those were removed rapidly), they're gradually fading and being painted over, or the original street furniture gets replaced.
Is it possible to write an SQL script that runs on different DBs with different SQL dialects, or does one need a preprocessor and do stuff like "#ifdef postgres" and feed it through cpp (or wev) first?