Been visiting customers in Lagos this week and for the first time ever we have Google maps here, meaning we can check routes to our next meeting and choose the one that hasn't got a massive Lagos go-slow. Unfortunately this is causing chaos in the carefully-ordered mind of Mathhias the driver who has been driving around Lagos for 25 years so has "The Knowledge" and often can't understand why we want to go a different way to his habitual way, which causes him to tut and make funny grunting noises as if he's on the point of saying something.
However, yes, Google Maps has made life easier here and we only hit one monster go-slow all week. Drop in with the little yellow man and have a drive around the city, it's fascinating.
Lots of things, but ultimately the microchip. Without it I'd have to do lots and lots of long, tedious equations by hand.
Also this
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@organic: I've two of those (my original one I got 25 years ago and the 'spare' I blagged off the rep as back up just in case... 😀 ).
What I really need is the computers that were ordered in February to finally arrive, get all the software loaded and the training for the team organised... try producing tenders without cad/modelling, design or specification software!
And after that I could do with more hours in the day and more days in the week. And a couple more people in the team to farm the work out to... rapidly turning from a working engineer into a manager (was told it was 50/50)
JT2Go - A piece of CAD software that lets me view complex / large catia models in a lightweight environment which will run on my laptop allowing me to do design checks and reviews without having to sit at a CAD station in the middle of the office.
A second monitor - two monitors is amazing, genuine productivity booster, excel tracker on one, drawings on the other, doc on one, email on the other etc. etc. (Only beaten by my old triple monitor setup . . .)
Rain. Which is an abundant commodity up here.
A pragmatic and forward thinking IT security team that allow current kit and systems... Oh wait, what was that... Did you just say the cloud is dangerous and we can't use video calls because they're not secure... OK, 3 of us will spend £600 on travel and a day out the office for a 2 hour meeting that we could do on Skype. <I'm not bitter, honest>
Kayak was that your Router? If so was it homemade?
For me at actual work (offshore) remote control units when given a chance, but not on current projects. At home a dust extractor that fits to power tools
my own music. no more petty arguments over which radio station is on!
