I last worked as a Pharmaceutical Analyst in March 1993. Since then new techniques have been developed (this is to be expected, of course) It makes me feel quite old.

I was using Ion-Pair HPLC in my lab. At the time, this was a new method of Pharmaceutical Analysis. Now there is SBWC which looks like it might replace HPLC and it might be more environmentally friendly into the bargain!

I think this confirms that I probably would not be able to return to science: Too much has changed in the time that I have been away.

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Have you ever been waiting for a late bus, and all of a sudden two or three buses arrive at the same time? That's called bus bunching.

 

Bus bunching happens because, if a bus gets delayed, then there will be more people waiting at the next stop than anticipated. The extra passengers' boarding time makes the bus even later, and so on in a vicious cycle.

 

To combat bus bunching, bus sytems have to build slack into the system, but that slack involves extra buses and labor and longer travel times.

...These improvements will be rolling out to our customers in the next few weeks, so if you don’t have access to them yet, check back again soon....

[Ordnance Survey blog date: 12th November 2012]

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...The image was created by scanning the maps and then using Photoshop to seamlessly blend the nine images into one complete image...

As a user of Google Alerts this news does not make me happy. A quick search just now didn't turn up any other news to confirm this. However Google has killed off so many other products in the past I guess this can't just be discounted out of hand.

Time to start looking for another service to replace Alerts just in case...

I must confess to not having much time at the moment to read this article fully. I intend to read more of it tomorrow. I place it here now to gain the opinion of others before I am able to read it in its entirety.