Hard at work in the office.

This is supposed to be a Honeywell Hot desk, but the same people usually occupy a given desk. Myself, and Paul Day, to my left, are in our usual seats, with Gerard Brennan opposite Paul, and Haytham Amin to my right, who usually sits opposite me. My roll as Technical Expert is slowly evolving, I am now getting the odd problem to solve, here and there. When things are slow, I look at different technologies. For example, this week, I looked into OPC. Haytham is an OPC expert, so he has been helping me. He gave me a suite of OPC servers, clients, and OPC modbus server, so I installed these on my laptops and was able to use a modbus simulator on one laptop and an OPC server and client on the other laptop, network them and read the modbus data on the client, via the OPC server. Quite interesting, and useful, as we have a lot of OPC links here on site. Today, Friday, my day off, I have been in the gym, and at the pool, as usual. Three hours at the pool, two and a quater hours sun bathing. Thank goodness I have good sun tan lotion, otherwise I would have been burned to a crisp! Well I am about to start the final week of my second visit, wednesday night I fly back to the uk for a two week break. Returning for my third visit on the 2nd October.