And to make all the materials ‘accessible’ everything is stored in the cloud. But this cloud is called Sharepoint, MS Sharepoint 2003.

And what happens when I was trying to login:

Please note: The KTP Portal has been developed using MS Sharepoint 2003 and in order for users to make use of all available features please use Internet Explorer version 6 or 7, and not Firefox or Safari. The portal does not currently support Apple Macintosh users.

WTF. I think it is ridiculous that a government funded project is forcing participants to use a certain product when there are alternatives that do not require anything and are free by the way. I was directly all over it and I bed I am the first who has the problem. And nobody will give a shit because we all know:

Never touch a running system

Please guys redo your course work on requirement engineering and find out if you have considered all your potential usergroups. Hint MS windows is not the only operating system.

Why sharepoint, why??

I am a hardcore podcast listener and you know that I am sometimes also write some more or less interesting blog entries. I would love the capability to quote sections of certain podcasts to comment on them or to use them as a sources for some statements. But this is a real pain at the moment. You have to write down what the time was of the comment, import the podcast in garageband or any other audio editor at hand, make new file out of it, tag it, upload it and integrate it in you blog post. That means you will not do it, never, ever.

So what I want is a possibility to just jump back a couple of seconds, set a start marker, wait to the end of the quote press again to set an end marker, get the waveform displayed so that i can adjust the waveform by pinching it into the boundaries, than get a text field/Headline field write my short blog entry and than upload it directly from there or if I don’t have a proper connection, let iTunes upload it to my blog while syncing.

Is that asked to much?

Cheers
J

Powderblasting is basically the same then sandblasting just on a smaller scale. Instate of sand you use alumna (Al2O3) powder with a diameter of about 5 to 50 µm. He is applying this to Wafer level packaging. The presented work is on a vargus nerve interface. And the Powderblasting is used for via forming and cavity forming in an silicon wafer.

Transverse and Through silicon vias are possible. For the Bonding itself he recommends Anodic bonding. And the cool thing is that you actually don’t need a cleanroom for the processes.

The mask is a PVA Dryfilm resist. 25µm particles are used. Minimum hole diameter is 140µm (for 140µm thick) in Si. Pitch is determent outer Diameter +40µm. Roughness is about 2µm. They also doing double sided blasting.

Now Natalia Beshchansa is talking about an “Investigation of thick film electronic packaging materials in dynamic contact with artificial body fluids”

It is mainly focusing on implants and the biocompatibility of this thickfilm materials, mostly for packaging and connectivity applications. She is explaining the the potential failure modes. Materials are for example Ag-Pt or Ag-Pd.

The experiment was basically to introduce a flow of artificial body fluids (blood for example) over the samples to analysis the degradation. Very interesting, she is showing the defects of the surface topology appearing over time. And it seems that the fluid building up a layer that first increases the surfaces roughness. Now she is explaining that the materials absorbs quite a lot of Cl and some P and Mg in the Ag-Pt structure. And the films are also oxidised.

Property evaluations of polymers used as housing material for passivation of electronic devices by Eberhard Engeling. After telling us why you have to encapsulate electronics and that he is using Parylene C, Dynamask 5000, Multi-Cure. He is explaining that you don’t get hard data on material properties necessary for medical applications.

One of the properties he is testing for is diffusion properties (permeability). He is actually treating the polymer as a semi permeable membrane between to chambers and and then measuring the ions travelling form one side to the other. He can also provide to provide data o the cell cultivation rate on the polymers.

Kristin Imenes In now talking about “Micro Ribbon Cable bonding for Implantable devices“.

Basically How to wire your pacemaker. The cable so far have been quiet big and chunky. To reduce the size she is suggesting a ribbon cable with 13 Cu Conductors, diameter 45µm ad 71µm pitch(temp-flex) insulation made from PFA (teflon like). Wire stripping is done by laser of plasma etching. Good result were shown by the use of IR/fs laser. Bonding has been don by wire bonding to the gold coated glass substrate of the glued cable (wedge bonding). The flip chip like bonding with non conductive adhesive is beneficial because of the remaining pitch due to the just partially removed insulation.

It is pointed out that plasma etching is has the advantage over Laser ablation , that the wires are not damaged. Wedge bonding (Copper) is working. The non conductive gluing as well, but is showing some critical alignment challenges.

All together this was a very interesting session. Now lunch is on the program.

Well I just installed wordpress for iPhone and I already love it. Great work
Thanks
Jens

Cheers
Jens

Ah noch mehr nebenbei.
Ich werd wohl in nächster Zeit etwas mehr beschäftigt sein. Also wenn ich etwas träge reagiere keine Sorge ich arbeite nur mal zur Abwechslung. Ja mein Phd Neigt sich dem Ende zu und wird langsam aufwending. Upwriting und so.

After more than twenty year I was able to obtain the fist 38! episodes of my second most beloved toy cartoon series from the 80s (and this for £10). M.a.s.k. the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand was a secret organisation financed by an super rich U.S. entrepreneur who was fighting an bunch of rockers and punks under the command of an ex military. And what was is that a young man in it one digit years needed to be sure that he was seeing one of the original story, the one man kind was telling since its origin. Of course transforming vehicles and some bad ass mask that can shoot fire, see trough walls and let you fly.

Could it be any better?!

No it can not or better not at this time, not for me (GIANT ROBOT EXCLUDED). But today everything look a bit different. The dialogues a silly, the tech talk is completely absurd and to my horror also in a bad quality. Nevertheless I will watch them all (one by one, more is not possible) and look out for the pearl. Or was I really such a moron, well lets not talk about that. I would have bought. A few things that are really pissing me of are the carelessness which was visible in the whole presentation of the DVD Box, no booklet, no original artwork on the box, no special feature and was I pointed out before the digitising of the material was done by an absolute numbskull.

Well lets see if I can watch them all.

jens

After ten month I was able to convince our landlord/letting agency to fix our bath. It was just possible by using financial force (refused to pay the full rent). Well, tomorrow the plumber will start to take the tiles from the wall. The schedule says that the works will be finished on Friday. That’s never gonna work.

Wish me luck

Jens

Thanks

Jens