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I’ve jumped ship yet again! I’m now hosting my blog using Dreamhost, I’ve got my very own domain name and everything 
This blog will stay here, possibly forever, possibly for a year or two…But it won’t be getting updated!!!
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The Intel Manager game is on it’s third incarnation and brings a very different form of game play.
I didn’t play the IMG2, but in the first version you bought more servers and upgraded network cards etc (choices from ‘no-name’ brands up to Intel’s finest). This new version you do no buying. You first train in various areas by completing challenges (answering an Intel related question) or taking the training course (your skill is increased over a short period of time). Once you have learnt a skill (such as multi-core) you can apply it to the employees desktop/laptop.
I think I prefer the first version, I wish they had built apon that…
The weekend was great. Faye came down on Friday and went home on Sunday, we had a really nice, weekend doing not much. Parents came round on Saturday too to show Faye the photo scrapbook Mum had made me for my birthday.
Monday I worked on a ticket which I had picked up last thing on Friday. It was to install four network cards into a T2000. The T2000 booked was on the back bench under a 3310 array (or something similar). Since my engineer had a genuine booking, I disconnected the T2000, put it back in it’s place and set about taking out old cards and adding in the new ones.
When I came across problems with the SP and asked for help, it transpired that the machine actually belonged to someone else…Tom had canceled the booking, and I had dismantled the config. I hastily set about undoing what I had done to some success, I emailed the original owner and apologised. Read the rest of this entry »
Week off! Woo!!!
I started my time off on Saturday 31st January, I woke up at 5am, was out the house by 6:15am and waiting to catch the 7:02 train to Reading from Blackwater. Everything was good, I’d had a duck and hoisin wrap from Tescos.
The trip from Reading to Oxford was to be taken by bus. I sat upstairs and off we went! About halfway to Oxford, the bus broke down on the dual carriage way. Grrrr! We were there for an hour before another bus came, then we were an hour and a half late!
I caught the next train to Wolverhampton where I had to wait an hour and a half for the train to Aberystwyth, I wandered into town and got myself a Starbucks 
I finally got to Aberystwyth two hours later than I wanted to be, met up with Faye and went home for some dinner!
Later that evening we went out to celebrate the end of exams. Me and Johnny formed a team for beer pong, wining our first round, but losing 2 – 1 in the final round. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I woke up to snow!
Every car in the street was covered, and were the streets, all in about a quarter of an inch of the stuff! At 7:45 this morning, it was still pretty unspoilt on the way to the bus, it was quite a sight!
I’ve got some pics, will put them up later this evening!
Happy New Year all!
I hope that everyone has a great 2009. Fingers crossed that all goes well for all.
2008 has been a good year for me overall, though it hasn’t been without it’s low points.
So, to all, raise your glass for the new year!
Merry Christmas to all!
I’m currently waiting for people to wake up so we can have presents etc…
I can hear Faye’s family moving around, byt Faye is still fast asleep here…
I may check back with the day’s events, or I might not
Hope you all have/had a good one!
Ben & Faye
Dull and drizzly.
There have been lots of talk over the past couple of years, and now more than any time in that gap of applications on cloud.
Netbooks have been talked of:
Wikipedia:
“A netbook is a small to medium sized, light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient laptop, generally optimized for internet based services such as web browsing and e-mailing.”
Which basically says to me, run a minimal system on your side and let the cloud do the rest. Read the rest of this entry »
How do we save our falling economy? Well, it would appear the answer has arisen in the popular BBC quiz show QI. On Friday 14th November 2008, QI did a Children in Need special.
The topic was on the Eaurovision song contest, and how countries such as France complain about us, yet use our language to sing their songs.
Ronni Ancona said (at somewhere around 19 minutes in), that we should tax other countries for using English.
What a ruddy good idea! Tax countries for using our language which we have shrived to create. Can you imagine how much America could owe us!
The penalty to other countries would be “sod off then and create your own language, or steal someone else’s”, it may also allow us to imprison the youth of today for fowl mouthing out language, and we could filter texts etc to stop the annoying use of ‘text talk’.
A jolly good idea I think
