Innovation, Industry, Opinion
Steven Garlinge
Bad Pizza

KODA started thinking about how often we've been delivered "bad pizza" in our professional lives, in our careers, and on our projects...and decides to call Customer Service for some clarification.

Bad Pizza
Reminiscing
Steven Garlinge
Making it Look Easy

A great effort by the Geodata KODA team in the last month prompts this blog post. For the previous two weekends we've had extra-curricula outings in which we've achieved some great things. Some days it's easy to overlook our achievements - not today

Making it Look Easy
KODA News, Reminiscing, Software, Innovation
Steven Garlinge
Roadheader the 13th

You know you're working in an interesting industry when the currents of the week push you to spend a couple of late night hours searching for some 'standard' dimensions for humans to try to justify the placement of a datalogger in a certain location on site.

Roadheader the 13th
Steven Garlinge
The Tansley Effect

As a repeat reader of Frank Herbert's Dune, I've found myself intrigued by a particular phrase written towards the end of the book.

I think that the phrase intrigued me because I'd never heard of it before... A rather trivial reason for liking a statement, I know, but I think there is something more to it...

The Tansley Effect
Innovation, Reminiscing, Techniques
Steven Garlinge
Technique Trumps Technology

Sitting here at MeatStock, doing the dawn shift, lighting the fire and tending to our 30 day dry aged briskets I'd just laid down, I started thinking about all the different ways I could apply what I do at work to cooking a great brisket. Was this madness? Or worth the musing?

Technique Trumps Technology

Reminiscing

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Roadheader the 13th

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Roadheader the 13th

You know you're working in an interesting industry when the currents of the week push you to spend a couple of late night hours searching for some 'standard' dimensions for humans to try to justify the placement of a datalogger in a certain location on site.

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Technique Trumps Technology

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Technique Trumps Technology

Sitting here at MeatStock, doing the dawn shift, lighting the fire and tending to our 30 day dry aged briskets I'd just laid down, I started thinking about all the different ways I could apply what I do at work to cooking a great brisket. Was this madness? Or worth the musing?

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Chasing Millimetres

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Chasing Millimetres

KODA has had a busy time in the last fortnight - lots of travel and lots interesting of work.

With a refurbished roadheader in front of us we required to assess the existing accuracy of the system, and then make any tweaks to the calibration if required.

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SUUNTO LUUV

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SUUNTO LUUV

KODA's been getting out and about quite a bit lately. One of my favorite activities is biking along the Barton Creek Greenbelt. I've been recording most of my adventures on my SUUNTO Ambit GPS watch, but haven't been able to do anything with the data as I lost the cable. Every time I get interesting in the data I realize that a replacement cable is a week away via Amazon.com, and I lose interest - well, until last week...

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Making Leap Seconds Count

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Making Leap Seconds Count

It seems a little silly at first – a leap second! I’ve been seeing it everywhere on LinkedIn and Facebook, so inevitably I started thinking about how a second can matter. Those more spiritual than I might see it as time for reflecting on life, the universe and our place in it – instead, KODA starting thinking about circuits, data-loggers, monitoring and navigation systems.

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Habanero Jelly and Google's Spiral Challenge

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Habanero Jelly and Google's Spiral Challenge

I struck up a great conversation with a friend while we were socializing over the weekend. We were drinking beer and doing what we could to help make some habanero jelly. Making these spicy jellies has become a bit of a hobby for me lately - it's strangely satisfying to see 20 or so new jars of yumminess sitting on the counter after a hour or so of toil. I find it also particularly good and keeping me distracted from all the other things that rattle around in my head... not this time though. Something got planted in there that I couldn't get rid of.

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HxGN Live - Vegas 2015 - Day 4

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HxGN Live - Vegas 2015 - Day 4

Today was KODA's turn to present its paper on "Multi-Instrument Total Station Monitoring with Advanced Weather Measurements". Not until I had to read the title out at the start of my presentation did I realize how gratuitous I was being with the naming of the paper. Either way, it was nice to reflect on my last (and successful) project before I left the mother country.