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On Bridges
Doing some background research for a client I came across a surprisingly comprehensive introductory page about the basics of bridge design. This isn’t Civ Eng stuff by any means, but it’s a great...
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Innovative uses of bobcats
Ordinarily Rail car movers (aka HiRail trucks) are either enormous ugly yellow painted beasts (which are inevitably maintenance nightmares) or are glorified pickup trucks (which, while great for...
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The Great Storm of 1703
Looking into disaster scenarios and doing actuarial and engineering forecasts of potential impacts, I came across a fascinating paper about the impact of “The Great Storm of 1703“¹ on southern England...
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DART data
A couple weeks ago an earthquake in south-western South Island, New Zealand, triggered a tsunami. The alert text put out by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was: An undersea earthquake of magnitude...
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Complexity
Newcastle railway station, circa 1960: From an online exhibition sponsored by the Royal Institute of British Architects. And you think you’re having trouble keeping your life straight. AfC
View ArticlePoisoning DNS perhaps a bad idea
This is insane. I’m sitting at a café in Sydney using their hotspot. Went to search for something, and I kept getting strange looking “site not found” pages. Huh? Thy were working a few hours ago. So I...
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Railway Signalling
I’ve long been interested in railways. Not because I’m a “foamer” (UK parlance — apparently some people foam at the mouth when they get the chance to watch passenger trains move, or so the railway...
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