Comment by lb1lf

Happy new year indeed!

Still some five hours to go here in Norway, but it has been dark outside for a few hours already.

Dinner is just about ready, friends pouring in the doors as we speak and as for fireworks, seeing as we live quite rurally, a couple of kilos of dynamite is at the ready.

Professionally, 2025 has been kind to me. Got to visit Japan and Libya for the first time and am going back to Japan next week for a scientific cruise down to the Mariana trench or thereabouts; when back, I will start working on the next generation control system for our products, having spent the past few months trying to learn enough about control system architecture to hopefully avoid the most obvious pitfalls.

Oh, and I have learned from painful experience a few of the things NOT to do evaluating the current design...