Friday saw the grand opening of NPL’s sponsored exhibit at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park about ‘The Technology of the Internet’. I was there to record the event which saw past scientists who worked on developing the internet meet up again like an old school reunion, many of whom hadn’t seen each other in decades.

It was a great day, and the exhibit, along with the museum itself, is definately worth a visit if you happen to be at Bletchley Park! Below are a few photos from the day;

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More information:
The National Museum of Computing | Gallery Opening Article

A highlight of photos from the NPL Fireworks display 2009 in Teddington’ all of which were launched to the rhythm of James Bond music. Check out the photography section for more photos from the night.

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Today was the day of The Great River Race along the River Thames, which sees rowers from far and wide row 22 miles from Greenwich in East London, to Richmond in the West.

As with the previous years, NPL‘s own Physical Wrecks rowing team was there with 2 male boats and 1 female boat to show everyone how it’s done! I was there along the way to get photo’s of the start and finish of their race!

Congratulations to all 3 boats and everyone rowing them as it must have been a very tiring journey!

Update: 7 Sept ’09 The times of the boats were;

Mens A boat – 2hr 23 (The mens A boat won 2 classes)
Mens B boat – 2hrs 42
Ladies boat – 2hrs 46

The other week while at work at NPL, I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Fry and to take some photos of his visit to our facilities and to show him a scale model of a ship tank followed by a working reconstruction of Barnes Wallis’ bouncing bomb experiments which occured at NPL in 1942.

Below is a selection of photos of the day, along with a clipping of one of the photos I took in a local newspaper.

Newspaper Clipping (PDF)

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Yesterday was the Location & Timing KTN’s ‘Informed Traveller‘ event, which saw the likes of Microsoft, Google and Samsung take to the stage at NPL to discuss all things map-related on mobile devices.

During the event I set up a plasma screen and helped promote the use of Twitter during the talks by the attendees, which proved to be a success with a group of Tweople messaging all day! At first we used Twisouri Desktop to display the tweets on a mac, but due to a lack of customisation (even with the paid version), we ended up using visibletweets.com later in the afternoon to use on the screen which had the added benefit of showing the time and username of each Tweet!

Remember to follow me on Twitter! – @lloydengland, and if you’re interested in location and timing based technologies, check out @locationktn too!