Most people like hot sunny weather on a bank holiday or weekend. I don’t.
When living next to Cassiobury Park carpark any sign of good whether results in loud music emerging from cars, illegal parking and congestion leading to total gridlock.
All it takes is for one car to park on the double yellows and then 10 minutes later the other lazy unthoughtful bastards follow. Oh, the joys of summer.
F1fanatic has reported that the Super Aguri Formula 1 team could be on its last legs, with the team reportedly being barred from the Turkish circuit despite the confidence expressed by the team principle when interviewed by Martin Brundle at the Barcelona Grand Prix.
If this is the case F1 would be down to just 20 cars. Ideally I would like to see more teams competition, not else, but since I started watching Formula 1 about five years ago the number of teams has fallen from 12. Whilst Super Aguri or the other back markers appear to achieve little they have the potential to give young drivers a chance to prove themselves before they inevitably get snatched by the bigger and faster teams, a bit like football….
You could blame the money, but formula 1 without money would be - walking.
I was pleased to hear that Neil Price wasn’t spouting his usuall nonsense alongside Simon Oxley’s commentry of Blackpool versus Watford on BBC Three Counties Radio.
Neil “blindingly obvious” Price, “we aren’t going to win this game unless we score”, normally spouts out rubbish each week but today we had the voice of Watford Observer sports reporter Kevin Affleck.
Now we can loose in the playoffs.
I’ve never really compiled a comparative list of all my monthly traffic stats, instead I tend to focus on one site at a time - but I figured it would be nice to see the relationship between the effort I put into maintaining sites and the amount of traffic they receive to see if my time could be better spent.
GameMaker Blog (blog only, NOT gma)
Unique visitors: 2,704
Pageviews: 9,760
Time spent on site: Lots - blogging, checking comments.
Aidy Boothroyd
Unique visitors: 1,737
Pageviews: 2,939
Time spent on site: Half an hour creating a soundboard.
Note: Normally traffic would be at much lower levels than this, however the soundboard was picked up by a couple of football forums resulting in a huge spike in traffic levels.
Stencyl
Unique visitors: 375
Pageviews: 660
Time spent on site: None.
freeg131
Unique Visitors: 202
Pageviews: 426
Time spent on site: Surprisingly little considering the number of blog posts made - a distant second behind GameMaker Blog.
Note: Traffic increased dramatically with the addition of this blog.
GameMaker.tv
Unique visitors: 125
Pageviews: 185
Time spent on site: None.
Cassiobury Park
Unique visitors: 83
Pageviews: 279
Time spent on site: None.
GameMaker Stream
Unique visitors: 56
Pageviews: 79
Time spent on site: None.
The site below was excluded from the above list because of its nature - serving ‘ads’ across many sites - most of them not mine.
Game Maker Affiliation Service
Unique visitors: 10,938
Pageviews: 70,810
Time spent on site: Very little. Fixed a chmod issue, otherwise just checking stats.
Whilst looking through the local election results I noticed that Antony Tristram Cooke stood as an independent candidate in the nearby Nascot ward.
I don’t know what policies he put forward, but I do remember than a few years back he ran for mayor of Watford with promises including “to bring in loads more sleaze and corruption” and to “retire to Acapulco Bay on the annual £50,000″.
Needless to say he came in last place with just 18 votes.
Thank you Jon for sending me a link to this Macbook Air parody after we had talked about the impracticalities and style over substance nature of Apple’s latest product.
We were discussing which laptop we would buy for Uni.
Yesterday lunchtime I was invited along with Jon to attend Mr Needlestone’s first student e-council meeting to discuss the use of technology in school and in particular our school’s e-learning resource, Rickypedia. Most years were represented and I was surprised to see that I actually knew a couple of the lower school members.
I couldn’t stay for the full meeting as I then had to demonstrate my computing coursework to Mr Cruse. And yes, it went wrong. This was followed by a discussion about GameMaker - Mr Cruse is considering teaching in it to Year 9 (but couldn’t complete the 1945 tutorial!), and my websites - primarily GameMaker Blog but also some general talk about SEO (mainly how I ‘hijacked’ 3rd place in a search for “Rickmansworth School“).
This was followed by Computing in which we undertook a field-trip. To the room next door, the library and LI6 to inspect hubs and the server. What fun! Still it made a change from the normal lesson format.
The Libdem candidate George Derbyshire, for whom I voted, won Park ward by almost 300 votes - the biggest margin in local council elections in this area for a couple of years.
We still have to see whether Jam-making Boris or Newt Breeding Ken wins London.
Democracy in action.
And on the way back from the polling station (boys’ grammar school) it poured with rain. Perhaps god didn’t like my choice. Found out the name of the labour candidate though… at least the Green’s tried with one leaflet introducing their sexless ‘Alex’ double-barreled surname candidate.
A couple of videos of some spectacular crashes in GP2 and F1 were posted on F1fanatic today in an article about the importance of safety cars.
The unluckiest man in Formula 1, Mark Webber, looses pretty much the whole of the front of his car in the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix creating an unavoidable obstacle for Fernando Alonso which leads to the abandoning of the race.
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