Well I got a bit stuck last week with my supervisor out of the office on holiday. I am currently trying to run a dynamic simulation of a snowboard moving around on an artificial snow surface and it was slightly harder than I initially thought and they I think I over complicated it with the software…kinda like trying to run before you can walk which is one of the things I often do when it comes to coding stuff – most of the time unintentionally!

So I decided last week to have a little go at looking at my thesis chapter layout very important the aesthetics of it all you see :-p and having a go at rewriting some of the introductions and things from my first and second year reports. Its really tough going especially for a dyslexic who struggles to construct a sentence properly! Doh! I am getting so much better though and I have to say a HUGH thank-you to learning support (or as I call it my ‘Special Needs’) at Wiltshire College Chippenham, who have helped me so much during my doctorate and undergraduate studies.

I have also got the management chapter well underway now which is pretty good going I am very pleased with myself even thought I didn’t actually get my model working. Fingers crossed I will press forward more with that this week now Dr Purdy is back in the office and can advise me on whether I have got the right or wrong end of the stick so I know whether to press forward or not with my current thinking.

***by the way I still have TWO unclaimed sticker requests! one has no address on and the other no stamp! Could the person with no stamp send me one and the person with no address let me know what it is!***

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I had never even seen these videos! I’d love to see some more! If you have done a True Snowboards video as part of the North America scheme then please get in touch with me. If you are interested in continuing your sponsorship with True Snowboards then also please email: liza@truesnowboards.com

Honest Expression from Davis Paul on Vimeo.

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had a free sticker request from a reader. Unfortunately you forgot to stamp your SAE as per the instructions you must stamp it as my uni won’t pay for me sending off stickers through internal mail as you can probably guess I get loads and it would just cost too much. Please send me a large letter stamp and your stickers will be on the way.

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I’ve been sent a stamped envelope with no address on it for free stickers. If this was you can you please email me your address so I can get them in the post to you. Liza@truesnowboards.com to avoid false claims the individual wrote me a message on the back of the envelope in your email you’ll need to put what tHat message was so I know it’s you. Postmark is 21/11/09 Watford.

I hope we find the mystery person soon!

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Well I am currently on the way back from two lectures in Manchester at the university. Was a bit of a polava in getting there and I’ve not had much luck with the public transport since.

First I booked train tickets on the wrong day. Really not like me. I am such an organised person to make a cock-up like that I was very angry with myself. So new tickets purchased I arrived at Chippenham station to make it to Manchester for 8pm where I would meet a friend from uni who is now working in the city. As I printed out the tickets I went to slip them into my wallet for my young persons railcard and it was no where to be found. Unfortunately you can upgrade the ticket and because I am 25 I couldn’t get a new railcard on the spot so back home I went calling mother to make a rescue!

Found the railcard and made it back to Manchester. Someone really didn’t want me to come!!!

Met stu and we went to nandos. Yummy! We then went back to the hotel bar for a bevi. I went to bed but there was a lot of noise from the room next door with the person snoring! Bad sound insulation or me being a light sleeper you decide.

The next day I met Alison who got me where I needed to be by bus ok. I’ll do another entry about the talks when I have more time and I’m not using my mobile! On that not please excuse spelling and grammar errors!

After the first talk there were loads of questions which was pretty good but it meant we were running late and Rob decided we should walk to the other campus. Not too far but it was raining and my trousers don’t care for rain!

We had a really quick lunch packet of crisps for me I’m not starving but making a decision whether or not I want Chinese or chippies for tea as need hot food!

Alison decided the bus was a better option for the return but this nearly spelled more disster for me when I stood up thinking we were at the stop and the flip seat went up and I just saved myself from falling on the wet muddy floor :-p never mind!

Next presentation went well and they were kind enough to book me a taxi back which was fab and so far no more train polavas!

As I said I’ll blog about the talks and interesting people I met later!

If anyone from today is Reading this my email addy for those that didn’t get a card is liza@truesnowboards.com feel free to fire any questions. You can also tweet at me Liza_Brooks thanks everyone for coming!

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Does anyone know a good twitter widget for wordpress? One which people can just click through to follow or see my most recent snowboard related tweets? I had one on here but it really clogged the page and looked very messy.

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Yesterday I was a bit nervous as I went for my professional registration interview. Was a but scary as it cost me £170 to do the interview so if I didn’t impress them thats one snowboarding holiday less for the privilege :-p

I think the interview went ok I gave them lots of information on my work with True Snowboards and all the hands on engineering I do. Hopefully they were impressed and they will recommend me for I.Eng

Hopefully this will help me in future when I finish my doctorate to find a job if a full time one isn’t available within True.

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Just downloaded the iPhone app for word press so I’ll be able to update on the go from now on.

Having a go at adding photo as well.

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Well I am hoping that you will be able to read this as I have just installed the new version of wordpress!

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A few of you may have read the other week that I got to spend a morning riding the slopes of MK to myself (and Cody who was showing off his skills on the board) all in the name of promoting science and maths! The “See where they can take you” campaign has featured a number of exciting careers in the past from computer games designers to roller coaster engineers and a snowboard engineer was the next step! Click on he image below!

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