http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=9&catID=2#
“Cool” i said, until i saw the price.
…Though i really do still want one of these amazing coffee tables. You can have it in either boring blue, or union jack, so guess which one i fancy. also, they built in a plug socket to the table leg! genius?!
A really good centre piece for a funky lounge, clearly.. I’ll add it to my wishlist. I also quite like the sofas.
Well, some sad news.
My dog, Charlotte, or ‘Lottie’ as commonly known, died this week. A bit sudden considering her normal happy behaviour over the Christmas period, even if she was almost 12 years old, which in Dog-Land i’m told is not a bad lifespan.
Losing a dog is a strange one, its not like losing a relative or friend, but almost like losing a part of what you call home, of which my dog was definately a big chunk.
A Picture:
Last photo i took i think, on Christmas eve on the patio in France.
Well, a delayed post but what the hell, i’ve been busy. really busy.
after returning from The Gambia pre-xmas I’ve slowly sorted all the photos and gone through the faff process of adding everyone I met on Facebook etc. Don’t get me wrong, its not that I don’t want to keep up relations – I just don’t like Facebook.
Anyway, The Gambia. The locals are really nice and eager to get involved. Everyone seems to love the promise that tourists bring, especially the English. I’ve acquired quite a few friends now in Bakau, including staff, pupils and some of the locals. I think there’s plenty of scope for my return, and i look forward to seeing it all again. Some of the photos taken are below, although we took hundreds i’ll just display a few to give an idea.
As for the work we completed, the major projects were:
It’s a great feeling to really see the progress and effect some hard work and funding can achieve, beats paying £2 a month! although seeing how much £2 a month could buy out there, i will no longer discourage it! It was interesting to learn that for roughly £100 you could pay for almost a child’s full education!
Anyway, any questions or if you want to see more pictures, just contact me.
The coursework for this module i’ve just finished studying was to write a journal article on a topic of choice within the modules limits.
Collaborative Distributed Web Caching for Bandwidth Heavy Content Types
Abstract
Distributed Web Caching has the potential to solve multiple problems, whilst save ISPs, Download Hosts and Users a great deal of money. If you take the example of Streaming Media as a popular content type you can see how a distributed cache network at the ISP level would be of great use. This project seems to hold the most potential, and so is the key focus of this document, specifically around the growth of the percentage of streaming media traffic relative to total internet traffic levels.
Full Text: Here
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=nvda
After a nice 2 days tracking the worlds worst stock performance, in Banking and Tech – I saw my 6.74 drop to ~5.80.
How depressing, but the genius I am, I held on, and am now sitting pretty on a £120 turnaround, with a further £30 profit on top, leaving me high and mighty during this global crisis. Yes, I am grinning.
I’ll sell my tips and strategy at £30 a go, with no tech support or guarantees.
I will share any knowledge I have with anyone who might be interested, if they would be willing to part with some spare change for my Gambia Fund-raising.
Link here.
Hopefully a further drive upward might put me in the three figure profits, which would indicate time to cut and run. Take a profit, and repeat.
No, i dont have a new graphics card – but i do have a base investment in NVIDIA, which i intend to keep until such time as i make enough self-esteem money from it.
initially bought at 6.74, i had no idea where the “bottom” was, and from what i know (which isn’t much) that is quite cheap for a company like nvda.
Later, it turned out the bottom was more like 5.75, a new 52 week low – so im out of luck so far, and even though it fell twice over the the first 2 days since purchase, friday saw a nice rally leaving it at 6.38 (6.51 after close), which puts me not far into the red. hopefully if that repeats itself anywhere near like it did i’ll be seeing some profit, and time to do the same again.
