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Month: April 2007

  • Excess Use of Network

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesHere is my daily good morning message from the ISP: Yesterday you exceeded the daily usage limit of 500MB as referred to in our Terms and Conditions. This type of activity could have a detrimental affect on our network unfortunately be forced to downgrade your service to a throughput limit of 56Kbs…

  • From One Culture To Another Through Podcasting

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the moment I’m listening to a lot of podcasts. Probably 5-10 a day on average. I go through one collection of podcasts and once that one is finished I move onto another. As a result of this, the culture of those I am listening to is sinking through. Yesterday I listened…

  • Podcasts and Bandwidth

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere have been a lot of discussions between podcasters and the amount of bandwidth that is needed to serve these files. Successful podcasters shift several gigabytes of data with each episode of their podcast and since everything is automated everyone requests and receives the file at this time. This means there’s a…

  • Time For The Dissertation Re-write

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that I’ve achieved my goal of getting most of my dissertation written I’m going to take a day’s break and work on another of my assignments to clear my head and also to make sure I complete all assignments by the required date. It’s been a long effort but last…

  • My Dislike Of Cleaners

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral times I have had to clean the exterior of Airbus 320 and similiarly sized aircraft. You get some really long brushes and firehoses and you spray the plane before you clean it. it’s hard physical work and it’s done between midnight and five am. It’s not a pleasant job. Now that…

  • A Larger Readership Than The Student Newspaper

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was with a friend discussing the student media within my university. I’m not speaking about the content created by those in the various courses but rather about the student newspaper and television channel. It’s gone downhill over the past year. In my first year at uni although…

  • Three Thousand To Go

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn three thousand words my first dissertation draft will be ready. This evening I may be able to get up to ten thousand words and from that point on it will be about the re-writing of one section after another until I am happy that I have fit in as much…

  • Barbeque Sunrise – A Student excentricity.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are many things I have done in the past but having a barbeque at five am whilst the birds are tweeting and the sun is rising is not within my normal realm of experiences. It was nice, felt more like the end of a festival night than anything else. The party…

  • The Ten Thousand Word Project

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I woke up and within half an hour started working on my dissertation. For a few minutes, I added one or two more paragraphs of text before going on a search for interviews. I looked up Cousteau and arrived at the INA page. The INA is the french video archive online.…

  • I’ve been joost(ed)

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter informed me that a friend got his Joost invite whilst I was in the library. I was looking for some books that had been recommended to me by someone I had interviewed for my dissertation so I did not pay much attention to this at the time.