Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre
for the curious, and people getting to grips with computing and computers.
Friday 5 September 2008, 4:53 PM
Prozone, Vertigo And Captivity.
Hello fellow bloggers. I've been away. No not just been away, but been away against my will!
It goes something like this....I took a new job. I was asked in the interview if I was OK with heights, as part of the job involved being up a ladder. I said yes. I was then asked if I was OK being away for the odd night. again, I replied affirmatively.
The tech part of the job sounded good. It involved installing
the "prozone" ball detection system in football stadiums. This meant laying red light optical cable to the cameras, and going from the cameras via a media converter (copper wire) into an ethernet router and then onwards into the server. The option also exists to have the camera work as a self contained computer with its own IP address, which you can then point your favourate web browser at.
Wireless options are also available when laying cable is impractical but aren't as reliable. The end result is that the position of a ball can be pinpointed in any time or space.
Well, I found myself high up on the gantrys which is where part of the cable run leads to. At times I was only a sneeze away from a great big drop when bending down to put bolts into the cameras. This was it, virtigo big time. The ground spun away from me and rotated even though I was still!
I was also destined to never be at home if I stuck with this job. These stadiums (stadia)?? take a week to complete by default even though I had the Impression It was just the odd night away. Anyway, I've quit this job, and am going back to temping for a while, but it's nice to be home and back online, and also to see how far things have moved on in a week, as I've been stuck in a travel lodge in battersea with no laptop, no wife and no internet cafes around (I was too tired in the evening to go looking for one). Just a dodgy terminal in the hotel, and there was no way any login details were going in that thing!
Apart from all this, the people I worked with were great, genuine,
and very dedicated to what they were doing.
OK enough said, I'm looking forward to reading all the new blogs,
and getting involved with some discussions.
It goes something like this....I took a new job. I was asked in the interview if I was OK with heights, as part of the job involved being up a ladder. I said yes. I was then asked if I was OK being away for the odd night. again, I replied affirmatively.
The tech part of the job sounded good. It involved installing
the "prozone" ball detection system in football stadiums. This meant laying red light optical cable to the cameras, and going from the cameras via a media converter (copper wire) into an ethernet router and then onwards into the server. The option also exists to have the camera work as a self contained computer with its own IP address, which you can then point your favourate web browser at.
Wireless options are also available when laying cable is impractical but aren't as reliable. The end result is that the position of a ball can be pinpointed in any time or space.
Well, I found myself high up on the gantrys which is where part of the cable run leads to. At times I was only a sneeze away from a great big drop when bending down to put bolts into the cameras. This was it, virtigo big time. The ground spun away from me and rotated even though I was still!
I was also destined to never be at home if I stuck with this job. These stadiums (stadia)?? take a week to complete by default even though I had the Impression It was just the odd night away. Anyway, I've quit this job, and am going back to temping for a while, but it's nice to be home and back online, and also to see how far things have moved on in a week, as I've been stuck in a travel lodge in battersea with no laptop, no wife and no internet cafes around (I was too tired in the evening to go looking for one). Just a dodgy terminal in the hotel, and there was no way any login details were going in that thing!
Apart from all this, the people I worked with were great, genuine,
and very dedicated to what they were doing.
OK enough said, I'm looking forward to reading all the new blogs,
and getting involved with some discussions.
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