Off On One Again

A blog of no interest to anyone apart from me. Highly egotistical. Somewhat ironic that once upon a time people kept diaries secret. Now we publish to the world, even if no-one is listening (or reading). This may include stuff on Greece, history, rugby, cricket, Health and Safety, Wales, genealogy and West Hendred. It will almost certainly include complete rants about things I find amusing, interesting or annoying. There is no guarantee that anyone will share my views!

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37, forgetful, cynical, sarcastic, would like to have been a struggling artist but ended up with a PhD in chemistry. Got bored with being in the lab, fell into Health and Safety and now can't get out of science without taking a pay cut. Rather enjoying the diversion into Environmental compliance. Unfit and terminally depressed. Lovely wife Sam - just about all that keeps me together. Son Rafferty GFX Hall born 24 Oct 2005 is growing up quickly. Greyhound (Buddy), cats (PJ and Boots), tortoises (Tinkerbell and Compost). Learning Greek at Evening Classes. Play Cricket badly for Didcot CC, haven't played rugby for years and am a little annoyed about that. According to my medical, am clincially obese. Earn far too little. Completed H&S and Environmental Diplomas

July 03, 2007

CSI

There are just too many nitpicks and criticisms. Firstly, I enjoy CSI, all three versions. However...

You cannot get the printout from a a 10 min GC run a couple of seconds after you've submitted the sample. You cannot get an entire structure of a steriod including stereocentres just from its mass spec trace.

Cops do occasionally run down blind alleys which don't lead the plot forwards, or maybe they don't do that in Nevada. Maybe every wild guess and seemingly random conclusion based on the flimsiest of evidence doe come off.

Maybe just when the writers have an idea for using a new bit of gadgetry then the plot will demand it (for example oil on someone's shoe means that the roof he was on has only just been repaired so it can clearly be seen in orange from a thermal camera held on a helicopter).

The serial stuff is annoying as well. Either make the programme a proper serial with proper development of the stories over a period of time, or ignore it completely. At the moment, the serial stuff takes about 5 minutes out of the episode and is completely incidental the rest of the show.

I'm not sure whether US procedures is different from UK procedure, but there woudl be no way that someone under investigation for a serious crime woudl be able to continue working with the evidence (especially forensic) of that crime, if indeed they did any work at all.

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