A handy performance tip from Overman

Here's a little twitter exchange between myself and Phil Rice earlier:

zsoverman: Had to restart master render of First today. 200% speed boost after blowing dust off heat sink. (!) Sony Vegas says 1 hr to go... tick tock

mattkelland: @zsoverman 200%? blimey!

zsoverman: @MattKelland I know, right? Dang thing was crawling, crashing... a little compressed air and voila!

So, give it a go. Pfft!

(Strangely, I did the same thing to my air conditioning last week, and that works much better now too.)

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night ...

It's hard work sometimes, you know. In the last few days before a release, nobody is allowed time off, no matter how extenuating the circumstances. Andrew, our Chief of Operations, oversees us with zeal. He doesn't exempt himself from discipline, though. When the Air Conditioning system began to freeze his delicate neck, he used the ingenuity natively available to any upstanding British chap:

You see? Stiff upper lip, and on with the job. That's the way we do things over here.

We're all now convinced that he's actually got an enormous ugly boil on the end of his nose, and the helmet is just an excuse.

EDIT: After I posted this, Andrew realised that his foolish antics were bringing shame on our once-proud nation, and changed into something that looked slightly less silly: a tea-towel held in place by a baseball cap.