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posted by Iain @ 09:45 0 comments

Eurovision political voting

Anyone who watches the BBC's Eurovision output will be well aware that Terry Wogan has persistently complained about block voting in recent years. And it's certainly true that many of the votes can be predicted: Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Belorus and others will always receive high marks from each other, as will the various Balkan countries, as well as the Scandinavians/Nordics.

But there are other, smaller groupings that always occur too, and they can work in our (ie Britain's) favour. The absolutely appalling entry this year from Scooch came second from bottom in the finals, and the few points they did receive came only from Ireland and Malta. And if you look back over previous Eurovision shows we always get points from those two. Others too, if the entry's half decent, but the Irish and Maltese can always be relied upon.

"Long live political and block voting at Eurovision", I say!

Labels: eurovision, trash tv

posted by Iain @ 09:40 0 comments

Pleasantly warm

I recently had my home Linux machine in pieces -- updating some hardware and adding a mirrored pair of SATA drives for extra storage. After doing all that I left it running in my main computer room for a while just to check it was all OK, then once I was satisfied nothing was going to go horribly wrong I put the sides back on the case and stuffed it back in the cupboard under the stairs where it normally lives.

It's rather interesting to look at the
temperature differences noted by RRD monitoring while that was going on: once it was all cased up and back in the cupboard the CPU temperature jumped by 8-9°C and the motherboard temperature by about 4°C. Not that it's running at all hot, and the cooling is fairly basic as it's predominately a file server rather than an application server, but it's still a noticeable difference:

posted by Iain @ 11:00 0 comments