To get back into the real sharing activity and intent of this blog to share my experiences with visitors, I plan to begin a series of short stories about my measurement experiences in both a small and large organizations over my multiple careers in R& D, Instrument Marketing and web publishing.
In my multifaceted careers I have worked with and in very large, large, small and tiny organizations and seen firsthand some of the activities in the W. E. Deming mode that inspired me. The Dilbert cases were there, too; they were the ones that convinced me some managers were pure idiots, or acted that way, no matter how intelligent they were.
In case you are unfamiliar with the name W. E. Deming, his full name is W. Edwards Deming and his traditions and teaching about a better management (and measurement) world are carried on at the Deming Institute, and elsewhere. His legacy in well known among Quality Assurance people and in Japan the annual prizes for top quality management are given each year in his name. Read the rest of this entry »
Based on an idea by Omer Roucoux. Can’t learn chemical reactions? Don’t know how combining powers work?
Discover new ways of understanding, or teaching, chemical reactions.
In 1978, Omer Roucoux published this chemical jigsaw puzzle. It is available here in two parts, as a GIF and the original DrawFile version for RISC OS, which you can download separately.
Just spent four days at the several Infrared Conferences that are part of the SPIE DSS meetings plus one of the world’s biggest Infrared & Optical Expos in the world. It was all held in Orlando Florida, USA at the giant Marriott World Center.
ThemoSense was kicked off by the Fourth Annual Vendors Presentations & Reception on Monday evening and was followed by 13 Technology applications sessions ranging from Pyrometry to Image Fusion and NDE Materials Evaluation during Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
The goal of the SocialCalc project, as described on the Software Garden OLPC Home Page, is “to provide a capable, simple spreadsheet which runs locally on your computer”.
Software Garden is involved in the project of Socialtext, Inc., to provide a system based on a new version of the SocialCalc spreadsheet code on the OLPC XO-1 computer that is being called “SocialCalc” on the One Laptop per Child - OLPC initiative.
The main engine is written in JavaScript and is available under Open Source licenses. Much of the code, being written in a common scripting language, should lend itself to examination, reuse, experimentation, modification, and extension.
The latest version and its documentation is free and is downloadable from the page link above.
Described in wonderful detail, the pinhole camera is an easy to make introduction to the world of photography as this page on the KODAK web site shows.
What is A Pinhole Camera. you ask?
It is simply..”a small, light-tight can or box with a black interior and a tiny hole in the center of one end. By using common household materials, you can make a camera that will produce pictures.”
You don’t even need a PC or a digital camera, just some simple tools a little film and some way to develop the film.
For news of new devices or applications visit MeasurementDevices.com where you also may post PR & New Product news at no cost, without need to register!
The ISA (which used to be the acronym for the Instrument Society of America but now stands for the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society -shouldn’t that be ISAS... whatever) publishes a monthly magazine for its members called InTech. I’ve been getting the paper version for more than 35 years and just the other day I received an email announcing a online Digital version of InTech.
Based on an idea by Omer Roucoux. Can’t learn chemical reactions? Don’t know how combining powers work? 
The goal of the SocialCalc project, as described on the 
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