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23rd June updates

Looking at a full site re-design. (done)

Also evaluating ideas and code for a comments system for Ackadia, bespoke or otherwise. (Tossing up between coding it myself, WordPress, Mtype and DRupal's CMS system). Things will be up and down for a week weeks but bear with me, it will all be worth it in the end.

Need to revise a number of older pages to removes tables etc and improve SEO and accessibility.

Next generation computer

If we are talking true next-gen and not the bi-annual increments in speed we are all used too:

You will be assimilated! No, wait, that was just a movie, or was it the latest Vista propaganda? Hmmm!

OK, multi-core chips that running cooler and several orders of magnitude faster than all current processors will allow real time speech and facial recognition, true AI*, real-world physics and photo-realistic gaming - and get nerfed by whatever version of Windows we are up to at the time.

*(Or at least indistinguishable by the casual person and initially be used by governements and major corporations as a replacement for 1st line telephone support, switch board receptionist etc)

In case you are wondering, I'm not talking 2 and 4 core and Vista but real next gen - Intel already have an 80-core teraflop cpu that only takes 62W and fits on a 275mm die.

Intel press release: Era Of Tera - Intel Research Advances World's First Programmable Processor to Deliver Teraflops Performance with Remarkable Energy Efficiency

According to one quote in PC Advisor that's the equivalent to the old ASCI Red super computer - which used 500,000 watts of power to run, another 500,000 watts to cool the thing and 10,000 Pentium Pro's

Recent blog enties on servers, web design and related:

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• SSH headaches
  I had so much hassle trying to get image manipulation packages like NetPBM, GD, ImageMagick, and Captcha installed on my GoDaddy VPS and Dedicated servers I cancelled them and moved to Hostgator (where I remain)! All worked out well in the end, but I could have cried at the time!
  
  
• Fixing a site
  Helping someone turn their holiday review site around and improve their Adsense revenue
  
  
• More code fixes
  Improving the search engine optimisation for a travel site
  
  
• Blair which?
  Tony Blairs leaving legacy after ten years of Labour guidance. Thanks Tony, you (!)
  
  
• SitePal
  Taking a look at this cool promotional tool
  
  
• Noah's Ark Joke
  and council planning permission. God meets the Labour Government!
  
  
• Personality tests
  Free online personality tests and what they revealed about me. But where they right?
  
  

Entries from 2006, looking at booze, kidney failure and lousy hosts:

• Commercialism
  destroyed Christmas, but the booze was good
  
  
• Kidneys Failure
  A thank you to the staff at the Royale!
  
  
• Hospital Diary
  Day by day account of hospital life following a diagnosis of acute kidney failure
  
  
• Thoughts on
  diabetes, kidney failure and gastric issues.
  
  
• Moved hosted
  Contract over, I fled the clutches Pipex's Webfusion VPS hosting
  
  

Entries from 2005: Mostly spend cursing Pipex!

• Pipex
  / Webfusion are still getting on my nerves over server failures and downtime!
  
  
• Website down!
  This month saw extensive downtime on my website due to the Webfusion based Mango server dying
  
  
• Run down!
  First look at the Audigy X-Fi Elite. Oh yes, and we got run over while on a pelican crossing!
  
  
• New Surge protector
  Getting another Belkin 1200VA Universal UPS and having a dig at managers in general
  
  
• What, no bath!
  Passed 43. What a weird month this was!
  
  
• THX Speakers
  Reviewing the Creative Labs GigaWorks S750 THX speakers. That and a world of pain!
  
  
• Happy Slapping
  Entries included a Social statement of disgust over 'Happy Slapping' and the attitude of kids in this country
  
  
• First Contact!
  My first glance at blogging software