I’m a Pundit

We have reached that time of year again, ys the sports personalities of the year.  The mutually exclusive award which never really appeals to me, but nevertheless brings in a huge amount of interest from the public, rather like big brother or mass killings.

The top ten runners for sports personality 2008 are:

• Rebecca Adlington
• Ben Ainslie
• Joe Calzaghe
• Nicole Cooke
• Lewis Hamilton
• Chris Hoy
• Andy Murray
• Christine Ohuhuogu
• Rebecca Romero
• Bradley Wiggins

Personally I think Lewis Hamilton should be a frontrunner, but his shunning of the press, and other drivers, make it unlikely he wil win.

The press seems to be voting for Rebecca Adlington, she is a double olympic swimming champion, but lets face it, she has a face for radio.

Andy Murray is fairly entertaining, but hasn’t eally won that much, he is high on my list though

Rebecca Romero s alright I suppose, and as a gold medal winning track champion is probably alrigth in the sack, she has also done some nude poses, whehey she is probably one of the more personable people in the list, though thats not saying much if you take the competition into account.

All in all i’m not going to waste the exhorbonant text fee to vote.

written by Oli \\ tags: Sports Personality of the Year Award 2008

I read through quiet a few blogs on an evening and it was a couple of nights ago when I went through another of my regularhaunts, Jaggy’s Blog.  It was on this website where I saw the following.

Text messages are just data, there’s nothing special about them, in fact they’re a tiny amount of data. Each character (a,b,c etc) is represented by a single Byte of data. You can have 160 user characters per text message, plus the header data which is added automatically including the phone number the message is from, where it’s going, and the date, time etc. Let’s say a round number of 200 Bytes of data.200 Bytes of data, at roughly 10p per text message.5 X 200 Bytes gives you 1 kilobyte at 50p.

1000 X 1 kilobyte (KB) gives you 1 Megabyte (MB) of data at 50,000p or £500.

1000 X 1 Megabyte gives you 1 Gigabyte (GB) of data at £5000.

You can expect to use about 1GB of data a month on a typical home broadband connection, provided you aren’t downloading movies, are a porn addict or illegally sharing music. So would you pay £5000 a month to your Broadband provider?

Personally, I find these statistics shocking,  would you pay £5000 ($10,000) for a mere gigabyte of data, most providers are giving out 1 Terabyte of data  with computers nowdays!

On your broadband connection they usually have a fair usage policy, this apparently settles at around 30 gigabytes per day, so if you had to pay per gigabyte at this rate for your home broadband connection you would be shelling out £150,000 a month!

I had never even thought about the cost of text messages untill I read this post, now however I am utterly disguisted that the phone companies must be making such a huge killingon 10p texts it is insane.

True there must be connection and distribution costs to the suppliers, but do they really amount to £5000 per gigabyte of transfer?

written by Oli \\ tags: , Cellphones, Mobile Phones, Rip Off, Text Messages, Texts