As a spinoff from the CNM project 'Making The News' ROSTRA now has the ability to swap the order of attached media and documents. And now you can also edit the text or URL or related links. Related Links: KMi Planet News The ROSTRA Project
Senior Administrator Peter Sharpe, who has been on KMi's management board for six years, retired today in a ceremony at the Podium. He said "Now I can return to the proper occupation for a person – growing things, looking, listening, reading and, occasionally, thinking. I will miss some great colleagues and meeting the interesting visitors…
Jessica Bartlett presented KMi's collaborative project "ERA" (Enabling Remote Activity) to Earth Sciences today. Set up as a trial to provide remote access to field locations for a mobility-impaired student on the SXR339 summer school, KMi were called in to provide technical expertise on still and video imaging and wireless networking technologies. The workshop heard…
I have made a change to the way publication and expiry dates can be applied to stories in ROSTRA. Instead of having to separately enter the day, month, year and time, both fields now have a popup calendar. I have made use of a popular free JavaScript utility called Tigra Calendar. Related Links: Tigra Calendar…
KMi's 6-a-side cricket team have won this year's competition. Earth Sciences' "Main Boundary Thrust" batted first for a total of 53. Roses won with an over to spare, but also took two wickets, one to a brilliant catch by Dnyanesh Rajpathak (far left). Neil Benn (far right), Roses' captain, also took the award for the…
At last, the KMi Roses have beaten their nemesis team, PSSRI, to make it through to the semi finals of the annual 6-a-Side cricket tournament. PSSRI, forced to bat first, managed 67 runs in their alloted five overs but once again Francis Chantree took two wickets in his bowling over. In reply, Roses won with…
Italian Lorenzo Gariano summited Everest on the morning of 21st May, but the achievement has been severely dented by the loss of two members of the team. Climbing again with experienced Russian Alex Abramov and Dutchman Harry Kikstra, the teams travelled through war-torn Kathmandu on their way to Base Camp in Tibet for a North…
Internetzionale, the 6-a-side team a number of KMi members have been playing for in this year's tournament, were knocked out in the semi finals. After play was delayed due to a collision between John and a Headers & Footers player, and no substitute was available, Headers continued with a man down and eventually won the…
KMi's John Domingue and Carlos Pedrinaci both made important defensive contributions to Internetzionale's last knockout game of the OU's annual six-a-side football tournament against Planetary Science's PSSRI United today. Their team won 2-0, leaving them undefeated in their three games to date. Related Links: 6-a-side Tournament websiteMatch photos John Domingue Carlos Pedrinaci
Adventurer and long-time friend of KMi Lorezno Gariano this week set off on his second attempt to summit Everest and at the same time has flown into new unrest into Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. A seven-party alliance of Maoist rebels has called for a four-day nation-wide shutdown beginning this Thursday and a rally in…
