The week in Tweets for 2010-04-18

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Pete
  • Morning – watching the F1 qualifying. #
  • RT @SirBlimelyWindy: @brammers sure it’s not a well-hung parliament? #ge2010 (Gave me a good chuckle!) #
  • http://bit.ly/awMhb1 Makes May 6th interesting – everyone being nearly neck-n-neck, which will mean one very hung Parliament #ge2010 #
  • RT @CCPGames: CCP Greyscale wrote a new dev update about deep space: http://bit.ly/cZL9xv WTB – bookmark thats 95k light years from its sun #
  • Watching #F1 Second Practice re-run on BBC Red Button, if you want to see Sebastien Buemi crash, tune in about 7:55pm #
  • It’s the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekend!!! Have a good one everyone! #feelgoodtime #
  • I think Nick Clegg came out well from that, he addressed the questions asked a lot better than the other 2 did #eadersdebate #
  • That got more interesting as it went on. #leadersdebate #
  • Politicians being honest? Since when has there been a honest politician #
  • Now for a interesting question- expenses! #
  • Not that impressed with the debate so far… #
  • Right…time to grab popcorn and watch the election debate. #
  • Except I should have gone out a lot earlier if I wanted to take a picture of the sunset…I got a red haze instead. #
  • So there is supposed to be a spectacular sunset tonight, with all this volcanic ash in the area? TIme to grab the camera! #
  • Getting Avatar on Blu-ray/DVD 4/22 #
  • Right after an evening of music, GIT, emails and tweeting about red hair.. Goodnight all! #
  • Glastonbury 2010 – Muse (Yes!), Faithless (Yes!) and Florence and the Machine (OH YES!), and so much more! http://bit.ly/d8Bgrb #fb #
  • RT @glastofest: The 2010 Glastonbury Festival line-up is revealed – http://bit.ly/2010lineup #glasto #
  • Now to other things, sorting out a IRC web client for @ProphecyNetwork before @neal_revell nags me. #
  • Quite a few issues sorted out with GIT… Now have a server setup working at home, it works with Redmine. Just now need to use it more. #
  • So the iPad launch is delayed. I feel so sorry for all the Apple fans out there, no honest really I do! #
  • …And I can’t spell Tortoise tonight…. keep missing that o! #
  • Git is clever – I added a identical file (Different name), removed the old one. It spotted this, and treated it as a rename operation. #
  • Hmm discussion of straight or bendy keybaords…..can we not go there please? #
  • …And I’m getting annoyed with this ergonomic keyboard. It has a curve that causes me to press enter, when I want to press backspace. #
  • RT @chastmeister: http://xkcd.com/723/ – So true and re-re-tweeting since Tweetdesk shorten a short link already…. #
  • RT @chastmeister: http://bit.ly/cVXJkW (So true!) #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-04-11 http://bit.ly/a1ad6G #

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The week in Tweets for 2010-04-11

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Pete
  • And back home after some 4WD action on the Welsh hills, and also an excellent BBQ with @alexcstanley, @chastmeister and everyone else! #
  • Fantastic sunny day in Wales today – I an off to do some 4WD off road driving #fb #
  • Been messing around with GIT today. An odd moment was when GIT refused to add empty directories. I found this useful http://bit.ly/9NCCAk #
  • I’m chuckling at a Fail2Ban report – a IP has been banned, and the location in the whois is listed as “opp. Begum Peth police station” #
  • Ok the iPhone OS4 – is there a video somewhere from the conference? #
  • Although isn’t the #debill getting another debate tonight, before being voted on? #
  • I choose not to recognise the UK’s Digital Economy Bill #whatdebill #debill http://whatdebill.org #
  • Beep…..Beep….Beep….Beep B-B-B-B-Beeep! #24 #
  • Hmm…an Android phone or wait for a Windows 7 Mobile phone? #
  • Right everyone, you have 30 days to decide which bunch of crooks you want to vote for. #ge2010 #fb #
  • Right finished a bit of tweaking on the #FF1GP site – Bit of food, beer and Just Cause 2 calls! #
  • Anyone know any good javascript date handling libraries (Besides DateJS) #javascript #jquery #
  • …thats after I fixed the error mailing code to not fall over when it tries to send more that 1meg of log attachments . #
  • …thats after I fixed the error mailing code to not fall over when it tries to send more that 1meg of log attachemen #
  • Has just received 4megs of error logs from his websites as a result of the MySQL server falling over this morning. #
  • That was a cracking race to watch. Will do the #ff1gp results after the post race coverage #
  • A black and white for Lewis – thats a flag you dont see that often. #
  • And Button overtakes Alonso! #
  • Fantastic battle between Lewis and Petrov #
  • Morning and happy Easter Watching the F1 looking like a good race #fb #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-04-04 http://bit.ly/a7DC0l #

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The week in Tweets for 2010-04-04

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Pete
  • Dr Who – Early days I guess for Matt Smith, however Karen Gillan was great! And the picture in HD was gorgeous! #
  • Ohh some interesting news at the LHC http://bit.ly/dtxCkU #
  • This is brilliant http://xkcd.com/ Type ls, or any linux command or apt-get moo #aprilfool #
  • Day 42 – Well come this Sunday, I’ll be allowed to touch cola again! Can’t believe I’ve got this far without touching a drop. #
  • Why do they need to make a sequel to Independence Day? – http://bit.ly/cKsWDN #
  • Great – so Freeview HD is going to have more HD channels than Freesat HD – http://bit.ly/9FH8m3 #
  • I wonder what’s in the air in Wiltshire – That’s the 2nd night I had with bugger all sleep. #fb #
  • Oh and to you know who…. I now have Borderlands! #
  • Ebay = One excellent area to get cheap copies of Xbox games. #
  • What’s new in trunk: Subtasking: Subtasking, one of the most requested features was committed in trunk a f… http://bit.ly/bl3yIf #redmine #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-03-28 http://bit.ly/cfkmnL #

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The week in Tweets for 2010-03-28

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Pete
  • This Earth Hour was ok upto a point – I was blinded by the Fridge lights when I went to get a cold beer… #
  • Just had a call from the Lib Dem’s while cooking tea – Have the @libdems never heard of the Telephone Preference Service list? #fail #
  • Anyone know how to clear the dictionary of user words on a Nokia #N95? Got one too many mis-spellings in it. #
  • Everyone – there is some good news. It’s Friday! #
  • I’ve finally got a copy of Lego Star wars for the Xbox, I will finally be able to give @Siygess his copy back! #
  • I’ve found some amusing old Neocron game footage…time for a bit of fun I think! #neocron #
  • Played the Just Cuase 2 demo – reminds me a bit of Far Cry 2 a bit, but with more destruction. #
  • Opera Mini Countup http://is.gd/aU8g6 So what is the chances of Opera getting approved for the iPhone. #Opera #
  • Anyone know a way to copy a HD image off one PC to another PC via the network? (Looking for a Linux solution ideally) #
  • Best error message I’ve had today “Cannot find Adobe Acrobat” Unfortunately it was found a short while later… #
  • Day 34 – Just over 10 days left! Although I’m thirsty, and I would like something other than Tea Coffee or water! #NoCola4Lent #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-03-21 http://bit.ly/9OBGJJ #

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The week in Tweets for 2010-03-21

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Pete
  • Is at a great party, and dreading what will appear on facebook later! #fb #
  • I did have a problem activating windows 7 – but a call to MS seemed to have sorted it out. #
  • New PC is up and running! Yeah! #
  • Just reading the agenda at @TermiSoc AGM, and wishing I was a student again! #
  • Also I’ve ordered bits for a new PC aka Sedna 2.0 …or shall I give it a new name? #
  • 3 new followers in 1 min…. all 3 blocked and reported for spam in 1 min. #
  • Morning! Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! #fb #
  • It’s one of those days…. Goodnight Twitter! #
  • Right…where in Bristol shall I go tomorrow for St Patricks? #
  • Some good news is I’ve got Gnome running on my Server box as a stop gap. Just hope it’s easy in Debian to take it off again! #
  • Looks like my main PC (aka Sedna) has got terminal Southbridge failure. Ubuntu wont run for long, Win 7 BSOD and hardware keeps vanishing. #
  • Orbital are at Glastonbury this year! – http://bit.ly/9Q7QFn #
  • I really don’t like the new Dabs website. And somehow everything is expensive compared with Overclockers. #
  • Grr… Look like the main PC has died again. Sticks after the main BIOS main messages, but before the SATA and Network cards BIOS messages. #
  • FF1GP results are not final http://bit.ly/bC59jn #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-03-14 http://bit.ly/aOJ0HR #

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FF1GP results are now final

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Pete

There has been was a few issues with the FF1GP points.

The 1st was Jaime Alguersuari was missing his 13th place finish. I must have been looking at the girls in the pit lane when I was recording the results. That one was fixed within 10 mins of the results going live. That was about Monday at around 17:00 Thanks to the users who emailed me very quickly to tell me about this mistake.

The 2nd problem is related to your 2nd driver in your team, and if you correctly predicted a DNF for that driver. It seems you are missing 4 vital points.

Update 20:36 16 Match 2010

Right, I’ve identified the problem and checked a few more bits of code. If you want the technical bits on what went wrong, you can read a bit more below.

All the results have been updated, and anyone who predicted their 2nd driver in their team to not finish, like any of the Hispania drivers, was not being awarded their DNF points.

A big thanks to the users who did email me about the problems.

However, I’m going to mark these results as provisional for the next few days. just in case there are any other issues. I’m hoping there isn’t, any more issues, and I’ll be updating this blog with any more changes and randomly checking results.

If you think you have an issue with any of the results please email me at admin@ff1gp.com

Finally, I can only apologise for the issues you had this race. The next race in Australia should be a lot smoother affair, and also I hope a better race as well!

Update 08:00 19 Match 2010

Right, there have been no more protests or queries against the FF1GP results. I’m happy with the results, so the Bahrain results are sorted. (Short of any F1 scandal between now and Australia.)

The results have not been changed since the last update.

So what went wrong…

The first I heard was when got a few emails about the problem, it was clear that many FF1GP teams was not getting their DNF points for their drivers. A quick scan at the calculation code quickly revealed where the problem was, but as I have my daytime job as well, I had to leave for work.

Why did the code went wrong, when it’s almost the same code as last years code? Currently I’m migrating 8 years of legacy data to my own to a new code base. The data migration has to be done in phases, and currently about 50% of the database is done. This does mean that some of the old code has to talk to the new database. When I updated the old calculation code I made a slight typo that stopped that 2nd driver from being picked up when the user had predicted a DNF.

The fix was simple, and I wanted to get it done at lunchtime today. However when I got home to apply the fixes, my PC (Which I call Sedna) and Windows 7 which I use for the development was refusing to see my home network.

Now my PC has been having a few problems lately. Back in December the SATA controller on the motherboard packed up, but I was able to get going again with a new controller. In January the onboard network interface died, but this was replaced with an new PCI network card that was Windows 7 64 bit compatible. Something was obviously going wrong here, it looks like the Southbridge on the motherboard was on its way out. At the weekend I had a problem with Windows crashing, but a reboot was fine after that.

Well today, when I most needed a working PC, it failed. Windows 7 was Blue Screen of Deathing all over the place, and Ubuntu as my backup OS was just freezing. Then the hard disk on the IDE controller disappeared, and no swapping of hardware with spare bits made the problems go away. I’m now on a spare PC typing this, and doing hot-fixes on the server to get the FF1GP results up and running.

So sadly I have to say RIP Sedna, and now I need to spend a little money on buying the parts for the new PC aka Sedna 2.0.

I’m off to have a pint, thanks for your patience.

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The week in Tweets for 2010-03-14

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Pete
  • Just over 8 hours until 1st F1 Practice starts. Just can’t wait! #f1 #ff1gp #
  • Nice easter egg in Firefox – type “about:robots” into the URL box. #
  • …is waiting for the tweets of flying feathers…. #
  • And the story of the Electrician. Turns out the guy coming is off with bad toothache, but they have phone up to apologise. #
  • At home today, waiting for this electrician to come and test the house wiring. He’s 30 mins late already, and is from Chippenham. #
  • I would like to thank @kernowek for a) Calling me a slacker! and b) Thanks for the copy of Toki Tori game! #
  • Been watching “Wonders of the Solar System” and “In the Loop” tonight, enjoyed them both. #
  • Hmm unit testing a random password generator will be interesting. #phpunit #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-03-07 http://bit.ly/9vabla #

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The week in Tweets for 2010-03-07

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Pete
  • Right going to try to watch 24 again – any Black Op teams making raids in Chippenham requiring power-cuts, please cancel them now. #fb #
  • Looks like power was properly restored at at 3:44am #
  • Looks like some parts of Chippenham have no power …and now i dont have power #
  • Back again… #
  • Ok power back for 4 mins and its gone again #
  • Wow! Power cut in chippenham – just as I am getting to a crucial plot point in 24 #fb #
  • Have you got USF1 or their ex-drivers in your FF1GP team? http://bit.ly/aa9Rby #
  • Grr, got spam from Click2pay. I thought I closed that account years ago… #
  • I have too many twitter accounts to look after! #
  • Oh yes! 2-1 #
  • Thats better! 1 all! #
  • Wish all the girls at the pub would stop ordering drinks with coke when I am at the bar! #
  • Bollocks… Egypt have scored :-( #
  • Night off – watching the football and hoping Steve G will score in the England match #
  • Campos change their name to Hispania http://bit.ly/9H0AZ2 #
  • Day 15 – That means I’m just over a third of the way through the #NoCola4Lent #
  • USF1 removed from FF1GP price list http://bit.ly/codWTP #
  • Just been removing USF1 from the http://www.ff1gp.com price list – didn’t realise the ID for USF1 in the DB was 666 #f1 #ff1gp #
  • Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix 2010 is now open http://bit.ly/biFfeO #
  • Redmine 0.9.3 released: Redmine 0.9.3 was released to Rubyforge yesterday. This is a bug fix release for t… http://bit.ly/bh0Bkl #redmine #
  • *Checks the Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix site* http://www.ff1gp.com site. Running smoothly so far! #f1 #ff1gp #
  • Right some more FF1GP bugs ellimated, and USF1 looking like a total no show in 2010 http://bit.ly/aDiwaT (It’s speed TV treat with caution) #
  • *Turns key in the ignition* Looks like the 2010 FF1GP is a go! http://www.ff1gp.com #
  • The week in Tweets for 2010-02-28 http://bit.ly/d5m9QQ #

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Have you got USF1 or their ex-drivers in your FF1GP team?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Pete

On Thursday, the final F1 entry list for 2010 was released. Here is the short version.

1. USF1 would not be racing at all in 2010.
2. Stefan Grand Prix would also not be racing in 2010.
3. I ran in circles around the building screaming “ARRRGHHH!”. (Actually I didn’t but I wanted to!)

When I opened the 2010 season, I was working under the assumption that USF1 would race at some point, but it became clear a few days that USF1 was not going to race this year at all. As soon as that was clear, the USF1 team and it’s drivers was pulled from the price list.

Also for the 2010 season, I revised the pricing system to be a lot tighter and more linear. Originally I had Campos (Who are now called Hispania.) priced at 4 million and USF1 at 3 million. Then the news stories about USF1 asking to miss the first 4 races and also Stefan looking to take their places. Clearly a big mess in the making, so what I did was drop all the prices down by 1 million and priced both Campos and USF1 at 3 million each, allowing for you pick your bargain basement teams a little more easily. I also had the prices for Stefan GP set to be also 3 million, so the situation was pretty much covered.

However it does leave the a situation for a small number of FF1GP teams, who have USF1, Jose Maria Lopez or the USF1 2nd Driver. Those drivers or teams will not score any points in this years FF1GP, including prediction points for DNF.

What I’m in the process of doing is setting up a page to allow you to delete your team if you have USF1, Jose Maria Lopez or the USF1 2nd Driver. However this option to delete your team will be only available for a limited time which will be until 14:00 GMT on Friday 12th March (UK time)

More details will be released on this blog when the new page is ready which will be in a few days. Also I will be emailing the team owners of the effected FF1GP teams as well.

Update

The option to delete teams is available to teams that qualify. If you do qualify.

1. Go-to http://www.ff1gp.com
2. Click on Login and enter your FF1GP account details.
3. At the top of “My teams” page a message will appearing telling you if you have tells that qualify for deletion. Click on the link.
4. Select the team you want, and click on “Delete Team”
5. After the team is deleted, you may re-enter your team using the old team name, with a different driver and team line-up.
6. Don’t forget to re-enter your team into any private leagues you may have entered!

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Campos change their name to Hispania

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Pete

Campos have changed their name to Hispania Racing Team, which has probably raised a few eyebrows in a few places I’m sure.

Anyone with Campos in their FF1GP will have found the name has been updated to reflect the name change, since they are the same team, just a different name.

Hispania are expected to formally launch their team on Thursday 4 March, and it is hope they finally confirm their driver lineup. It is expected that their lineup is to consist of Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna.

As for news on the final slot on the grid, all I can say is watch this space. It’s expected that the slot could be confirmed by the FIA when they release the full entry list. Of course, the FIA have not given a date when they will release that list.

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