24-core CPU (by alaric)

Hurrah:

SEAforthâ„¢-24A Embedded Array Processor

I'd been hoping something would come of this since I first came across the original design.

I still think much more RAM is needed, though. As it stands it'd be great for processing most kinds of streamed data, where you don't need to store much context, but for more general purpose applications, much more RAM is required, and with a high-bandwidth link to the processors that need it, too...

The Terror! (by sarah)

Jean doesn't seem to realise she's not two yet!

Her favourite word is 'No!' We also had a report from nursery that she had been grumpy on Friday and had been a bit pushy with the smaller babies - in other words she was being a bully 🙁

She has also started throwing things if she gets frustrated with them.

Sigh.

She's also being really clingy and wants to be held all the time - still she is cutting the back teeth and has a perminant glowing cheek and windy pops.

Bird Box Trouble (by sarah)

There is a second blue tit family nesting in one of the bird boxes along the drive - however it has been a bit under seige of late!

The kittens don't appear to be particaully erksome to the nesting family but they did have a bit of a near miss with the magpies/crows (can't remember which it is). Barabara found the lid of this one prized off to but the shape of the box ment they couldn't get the eggs so she wired the lid down whilst mummy and daddy blue tit fantically hopped about - amazingly the things don't seem to abandone disturbed nests!

Tony Blair (by sarah)

Well - I've been hearing on the radio that he has resind and bits of his speech where he claims that Britian is better off than it was before him.

I became very angry when I hard his examples - he asks the question when was the last time you heard of someone on a year long waiting list for hospital treatment - erm.... well I have only really been having the hospital treatment since he's been in power and I have had to wait pretty much a year for alot of the procedures and some have been perminatly canceled etc...

Some I waited over two years for - I really was not amused to hear this nonsense uttering from his mouth.

Now I'm not particually political but I found his claims far fetched and delusional at best. And what hits me hard is remembering the night he came to power - it was my GCSE's and we were coming back from a threater trip to see Le Miserabler (sorry don't do English spelling so I have no chance with French) and we all cheered - do you know why?

Becuase we thought that it was the end of the threats of taking University grants away - yeah - we thought our future was secured. But instead we were the first year forced to take loans, the first year to end up with a millstone of debt around our necks before we even started. Then the man proceeds to devalue our qualifications with continual dumbing down and insistance that every one should go through Uni.

I could continue for ages here but I will not - now I do believe he is telling the trueth that he was always doing what he considered the right thing for the country but that doesnt actually help anything does it?

So what now?

Is any other politician going to be any better - I have never seen one that represents me and the things I think (I still vote as maybe just maybe I can make a difference and also what right would I have to moan otherwise? Plus people died to give me this right and I am not going to throw it away).

I look at things look at people I've seen in charge small scale and those that don't want to be incharge but end having to be are far better leaders than those that are striving to rule, looking for power and being preditory in their persuit of it.

Sarah goes off to quietly seeth at the stupidness of humanity and depressed at the thought that we are in a preverlaiged country and that things are a lot worse on other parts of the globe.

Jean and Dandilions (by sarah)

I have been training Jean to pick dandilions and only dandilions! We spent ages saying 'no not that yellow one Jean look only these yellows ones!' as I gently guide her away from some prescous prize flower of Barabaras which just so happens to be yellow!

However she does spend most of her time taking them in and out of the punnets, she will even 'claim' dandilions from other peoples punnets!