title Science Park Demolition, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Taptu/Qualcomm Miscellany, Cambridge - 29th April 2007 intro It's not every day that an entire building is removed from the Science Park, but apparently this particular office/laboratory building has to make way for a terminal to service the controversial "guided bus" that is being built into North Cambridge. Nosher's office is a few hundred metres away, and the earthquake-like rumbles of destruction could be clearly felt in our building. Elsewhere, there's a round up of randomness: Taptu and Qualcomm meet up a few times, once at the Green Dragon in Chesterton and again at the Golden Curry on Mill Road, Marc gets a slug in his Tesco salad, which we watch oozing around for a bit before Nosher grosses everyone out and eats what's left of the salad, then Nosher's off to a nerd-fest lecture by Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the computer language C++, at the Department of Pharmacology off Lensfield Road in Cambridge, after that there's a barbeque round at Matt and Emma's, and finally Isobel is in the garden of the Ward Road flat. imgp2666 Matt and Marc do some paper prototyping at Taptu imgp2670 Marc and Matt around a table imgp2693 A nicely-lit tree imgp2703 A sunset near Wetherden imgp2706 Sophie's got her frizz on in the back field imgp4130 The building is mostly destroyed after a day imgp4131 The digger gets stuck in imgp4133 A pile of rubble imgp4136 Big skips are filled up with scrap metal imgp4147 Big piles of ironwork are lying around imgp4150 Air-conditioning conduit hangs from the roof imgp4153 The digger tidies up a bit imgp4155 Two diggers in action imgp4173 The scene after day one imgp4629 A few days later there has been a tidy up imgp4636 Marc gets a slug in his salad imgp4645 There's now nothing left of the building imgp4646 Stef, Nick and Ben at the Green Dragon in Cambridge imgp4649 Nick ketchups his chips imgp4650 There's a Qualcomm/Taptu meetup at the Green Dragon imgp4656 Back at the Science Park, the site is almost clear imgp4659 In the Kingston Arms, on Kingston Street imgp4676 The White Horse at Finningham gets its walls repaired imgp4677 Later that day, the White Horse is all covered up imgp4680 There are some baffling skid marks near Wetherden imgp4681 Improbable skid marks at Wetherden imgp4684 Bob Last poses for a photo imgp4688 Bjarne Stroustrup checks his slides imgp4691 Bjarne Stroustrup waits to present imgp4694 Bjarne gives a lecture imgp4695 Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++ imgp4699 Bjarne and a screen-full of new C++ features imgp4703 In the university lecture theatre imgp4707 The Department of Pharmacology on Tennis Court Road imgp4711 At Taptu, Hani spins up a new cluster of storage imgp4722 A pile of 1U servers at Taptu imgp4732 Sophie the cat imgp4756 We meet up with Qualcomm at the Golden Curry imgp4764 Pietro looks over imgp4766 Andrew looks uncertain imgp4768 A table full of food imgp4774 One of the Ukranian dudes waves in the Taptu office imgp4778 The Taptu office is slowly filling up imgp4780 Taptu's wide open spaces imgp4786 A view of Marc, and Nosher's desk on the very left imgp4789 Graffiti wall in Diss imgp4822 A huge pike looms out of the Mere in Diss imgp4827 Isobel reaches for Pringles imgp4829 Matt sits outside the house imgp4835 Emma grabs a bottle of Rosé imgp4836 Isobel uncorks a bottle of red wine imgp4840 Barbeque action in the back yard imgp4842 Isobel plants a cucumber in the garden of the flat imgp4845 Isobel in the Ward Road flat's garden imgp4846 Isobel assembles a barbeque imgp4850 Isobel flakes out with Soph-bags the cat imgp9954 We go for a walk somewhere