Interesting website on the Millenium bridge here which explains why it wobbled (basically when we walk 10% of force is sideways rather than main force which, of cause, is up and down) apparently bridges have wobbled before but no one bothered to report it to engineers! Anyway its good to know that 200 engineers designing a bridge did get ‘it sorted’. I wonder how many engineers Brunel employed for his bridges.
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A good story here about google and evil. Here is an interesting excerpt here:-
“What is this?” asks a visitor squinting at the form he must sign before proceeding to the cafeteria at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. “An NDA? To have lunch?”
The receptionist shrugs. “This is Google,” she says. “They’re crazy that way.”
So much for free thinking folks!
Here is the official UK government census website, with results broken into regions. So within Cambridge there are 2313 other males of my age, interestingly there are 170 more women then men in same range.
Interesting comments on the way that the RIAA are destroying the music industry here never realised the vast sums that are paid as a legalised “payola”. I wonder what happens in UK?