The march of progress

[morsla]

I have my mental jack-boots on today. Puny mortal tasks will not stop me from excavating myself from under this pile of work - so far, I have crushed everything that dared to raise its head. aeliel gives good advice - if I set out to finish everything in one day, even if I fail I'll still have done more than I otherwise could.

Work
* Decant old Chromic Acid solutions into waste
* Mix 4L chromate/orthophosphoric solution for aluminium samples
* Heat solution to 90 C.
* Weigh aluminium
* Prepare aluminium blanks
* Hot acid treatment for corroded aluminium
* Dry, cool, weigh samples
* Digital photography: salt-spray samples
* Relabel & archive photos
* Enter aluminium results in database
* Clean equipment and work area ready for Zinc treatment

After work
* UniCon meeting (Tues)
* Prepare new UniCon flyers, purchase Warmachine prizes for tournament (Wed)
* Science journalism seminar (Thurs)
* Warmachine demo games (Friday)


In other news, my favourite piece of 'net-related technology is Firefox's "live bookmark" option for RSS feeds. I now have buttons my toolbar that give me all the ABC Science headlines as they appear, so for a change I'm actually following some current events. Now I can put those stray 30-second slices of my life to work - with the headlines one mouse-click away, I can read a news story or two whenever I'm waiting for a test to finish.

My second-favourite bit of the 'net is its ability to give me complete information overload on GenCon news :-) Privateer Press are releasing dozens of new models, a new game that's compatible with Warmachine, new Iron Kingdoms material, and the next issue of their magazine. There was an hour-long queue just to purchase things at their stall throughout the weekend...

Time to get back to the lab. CHAAARGE!

Comments

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Does the BBC Science/Technology site do the same?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Yep - I installed the Firefox with "English - Great Britain" instead of US English as the default language, and it came with a "current news" link to the BBC website.

Each of the news subpages from the BBC portal has a seperate RSS feed - you could subscribe to the whole lot, or just the bits you need. There's a little icon down the bottom of the browser that appears when a site is using RSS, and you can set up a bookmark by clicking on it. 'tis very handy.

[aeliel.livejournal.com]

You've crossed off more things since the last time I looked. Go you. You shall conquer all! (except for the bits of the universe that apparently belong to me. I'll lend them to you for a bit though. We can timeshare.)