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Well, a pleasant Sunday sitting in the Pershore garden, having a barbecue, and only spending 90 minutes in the "roving PBirks as IT Consultant" mode. Pershore, despite only being advertised as the land of 512K maximum, appeared to be trucking along at 2.8MBps.
On the Lewisham front, I'm getting 6.5MB downloads (good), but I'm suffering intermittent connection loss (v bad). So, on the plus side, I can watch streaming downloads without any problem, and I can download software updates much much faster. On the minus side, the disconnection already looks to have cost me 80 bucks when the line went down as I was holding Aces against one opponent (18 big blinds in pot, effective stacks 40 big blinds) on a board of Qxx rainbow.
Then again, that site has internet disconnection, so presumably I actually lost the hand, rather than folded. Maybe it saved me cash :-)
But that's by the by. Intermittent drop-offs I can do without, and I only hope that the system settles down.
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I finished Sebastian Faulks' Engleby in a single weekend, partly because I went up to Pershore by train. A nice work, albeit one that makes you realize how good Ian McEwan is compared with just about any other English writer (with the possible exception of William Boyd). Engleby approaches the line of "unreliable narrator" quite well, but Faulks's attempt pales in comparison with Atonement
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News this morning that my company is in merger/takeover talks. The immediate question, of course, is why we rejected a bid of more than six quid a share last year, but now seem minded to accept one for a fiver a share or less this year. The "obvious" answer is that times have changed and the our highly leveraged balance sheet is now a big drawback. However, I suspect other factors at play. One would be the relative positions of the executives should the takeover/merger go through (under last deal, position would be probably have been out of the front door; under this deal, positions perhaps rather more guaranteed).
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On the Lewisham front, I'm getting 6.5MB downloads (good), but I'm suffering intermittent connection loss (v bad). So, on the plus side, I can watch streaming downloads without any problem, and I can download software updates much much faster. On the minus side, the disconnection already looks to have cost me 80 bucks when the line went down as I was holding Aces against one opponent (18 big blinds in pot, effective stacks 40 big blinds) on a board of Qxx rainbow.
Then again, that site has internet disconnection, so presumably I actually lost the hand, rather than folded. Maybe it saved me cash :-)
But that's by the by. Intermittent drop-offs I can do without, and I only hope that the system settles down.
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I finished Sebastian Faulks' Engleby in a single weekend, partly because I went up to Pershore by train. A nice work, albeit one that makes you realize how good Ian McEwan is compared with just about any other English writer (with the possible exception of William Boyd). Engleby approaches the line of "unreliable narrator" quite well, but Faulks's attempt pales in comparison with Atonement
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News this morning that my company is in merger/takeover talks. The immediate question, of course, is why we rejected a bid of more than six quid a share last year, but now seem minded to accept one for a fiver a share or less this year. The "obvious" answer is that times have changed and the our highly leveraged balance sheet is now a big drawback. However, I suspect other factors at play. One would be the relative positions of the executives should the takeover/merger go through (under last deal, position would be probably have been out of the front door; under this deal, positions perhaps rather more guaranteed).
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