Vote Archives

Question:

As you can tell from the email, I've been processing a few photos this week. Well, to be honest, for the last few weeks as I had to catch up with the photos from last year that I hadn't done anything with. Anyway, my laptop is getting fairly old now ... I think it was purchased back in 2011, so over 5 years old. I'm debating whether to get one of the Surface Books, but can't quite decide. Should I splash out on a new Surface Book?

Results:

Yes was the clear winner with 100% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (100%)
• No (0%)

Analysis:

A unanimous yes. Well, not surprisingly, being the cheap skate I am, I have two options. The first is to get work to buy me one given I technically should have one when visiting a certain account. The next is that I just met someone today who can get a huge discount, so it'll probably happen soon.

Question:

Wow, I'm so dead right now. Not sure if it's a cold, allergies or both. I have gone to the local pharmacy to relieve them of various remedies for both potential culprits and have started to take them. Will I wake up tomorrow morning feeling better?

Results:

No was the clear winner with 60% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (40%)
• No (60%)

Analysis:

The correct answer was indeed no. This was one of those double attack colds. It came over the weekend. I thought I got rid of it on Tuesday, but awoke Wednesday morning worse than I had been. Just when you thought it was gone, bam, sucker punch. It does, however, seem to be better now.

Question:

I see front and center of the news is an article about a company in Panama helping people hide money. The report states that it helped people launder money and hide money from taxes and ex wives by setting up shell companies. Should I have setup a shell company to hide money from my ex wife?

Results:

Yes was the clear winner with 100% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (100%)
• No (0%)

Analysis:

Where were all of you when I needed you? You could have given me this advice at a time when it could have been used. It's somewhat late now. I guess it's somewhat late for all the people that put money into the shell companies that have now had their names leaked. At least I know I'm not going to end up on a list somewhere.

Question:

Well, there's only one question I can ask this week. Following the amazing success of my Twitch stream I had a few really interesting comments as this week I had a camera on me. Do you think I'm a 20 year old guy?

Results:

Yes was the clear winner with 75% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (75%)
• No (25%)

Analysis:

That is correct, I am indeed a 20 year old guy. One of the folks on the stream had thought I was a 20 year old based on conversations we'd had in the game chat, but once I put a camera on, the truth was told. That said, I don't know if you ever stop believing you're 20. I seem to think that one day I'll wake up and be a spritely young man again. Hey, nobody gonna stop me dreaming!

Question:

A couple of weeks ago I posted a question about buying a new computer. I made the decision last week that I would, went online to place the order only to be told that they had sold out of the one I want. The fact that I need a new computer was underlined this past weekend when my current one overheated and stopped working mid stream. I mean seriously, I lost both my viewers, ha ha. Anyway, I'm heading up to Seattle on Monday and am going to be at the makers of the device I want. Do you think I'll be able to pick up a new computer next week?

Results:

Yes was the clear winner with 75% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (75%)
• No (25%)

Analysis:

Question:

This question may be premature, but I was watching Leicester's emphatic win against Swansea today and I got to thinking - how many fathers and sons have won the premier league?

Results:

1 was the clear winner with 80% of the votes from the following selection:

• 0 (0%)
• 1 (80%)
• 2 (0%)
• 3 (20%)
• 4 (0%)
• 5 (0%)
• 6 (0%)
• 7 (0%)
• 8 (0%)
• 9 (0%)

Analysis:

So, how many of you cheated before you answered the question? I know Mr O didn't as I consulted with him to make sure I had the answer correct which is indeed 1. That honor goes to Ian Wright and his son Sean Wright-Phillips. If, and it's still and if, Leicester win the title then that number will double with Kasper Schmeichel succeeding his father Peter. There was an interesting quote during today's game where Peter Schmeicel said blood is thicker than water and he was supporting Leicester against his former club Manchester United.

Just to add some clarification the question relates to players only and not managers, otherwise the Fergusons would have a claim.

Question:

Well, I'm going to give you the first question that comes to mind as I sit here at my computer. A quick look out the window and here it is .... Do you think the pretty girl in the skimpy bikini would rub sun cream on me if I went down and asked her?

Results:

No was the clear winner with 67% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (33%)
• No (67%)

Analysis:

Well, many thanks for the vote of confidence to those that voted yes that she would apply sun cream to me, but sadly we'll never know as I didn't pluck up the courage to go and ask. Honestly thought, kinda think she would have said no. To be perfectly honest, I kind of think we could have ended up in a situation where the police were called had I asked, so I think it was best that I didn't. An interesting side note is that after I wrote this question, someone I know turned up that I'd said can use the pool. Now, she might have said yes, but again, I didn't go down and ask.

Question:

Well, my new computer seems to be running perfectly. We had a slight hiccup today, but managed to figure it out pretty well. Technical stuff, so it kept me happy. Essentially I had to tell a program to use the GPU to process resizing of a stream rather than using in memory software. Boring stuff for most of you. The plan is to re-image the old machine, clean the crap off it and let William use it to play whatever he wants on it. You just know that as soon as I wipe the contents of my old machine, then I'm going to remember something I need off it. How long do I wait until I wipe the contents of my old computer?

Results:

3 months was the clear winner with 60% of the votes from the following selection:

• 1 day (10%)
• 3 days (10%)
• 1 week (10%)
• 2 weeks (0%)
• 3 weeks (0%)
• 4 weeks (10%)
• 2 months (0%)
• 3 months (60%)

Analysis:

3 months! Wow, that's a really long time. So you think I'm going to ask William to wait 3 months before he gets a computer to play on. I can only think those votes are coming from people that have never had children. The computer will be wiped as soon as I get chance.

Question:

The main question I have tonight is whether or not the automated email will send tomorrow morning. I've done another upgrade of the software the website runs on and it actually broke a number of things that required a fair amount of time to fix. I won't go into the details, but if you look at many posts, you'll find question marks in diamonds have been entered all over the place. Not entirely sure how I'm going to fix it yet, but that'll give me something to focus on next week. Anyway, that's not really much of a question as you'd know the answer if you got the email and wouldn't vote if you didn't, so we best think of something else. Will I be able to book William for a tour of the King Power stadium when we are on holiday this summer?

Results:

Yes was the clear winner with 63% of the votes from the following selection:

• Yes (63%)
• No - it will be sold out (0%)
• No - there won't be any (38%)

Analysis:

Yeah, I'm hoping it will be available as I think it would be something that William would enjoy. Well, at least for five minutes. I am somewhat fearful that it will be sold out though as my guess is a lot of folks are looking to see the stadium given the success of the team. I guess we'll find out soon as I keep looking to see if there's something I can book. Even if we can't book a tour, I'll still take him for a ride round to see the ground.

Question:

Well, I've been having a huge amount of fun re-writing my website. There's nothing that anyone should notice, but I've completely changed the database and coding, so all the backend technical stuff. Anyway, I've got some ideas on writing some programs that you'll probably see the foundation start to appear on the fun stuff pages as I tinker with some of the coding. Anyway, one of the photo editing and organizing software programs I use doesn't work on high definition displays. Well, it does, but the text is so small you can't read it. I'm debating whether to write my own photo cataloging program, paying for an upgrade or looking for a freeware/GPL solution. Should I write my own photo cataloging solution, pay for an upgrade of the software I use or find a freeware/GPL solution?

Results:

Pay for the upgrade was the clear winner with 60% of the votes from the following selection:

• Write your own (0%)
• Pay for the upgrade (60%)
• Find a freeware/GPL solution (40%)

Analysis:

OK, so I did pay for the upgrade, but the thing is, that still resulted in a fair amount of re-coding given that the underlying database structure of the tool I am reading from had changed. I had to figure out the new structure and alter my code. Then there's the issue of being tied into that application, so if it breaks, then I lose everything. I did research freeware/GPL options, but the challenge is that I have over 11,000 photos that have all been tagged. None of the other options offer the ability to do a data conversion from the application that I'm using .... and I'm sure as hell not going to re-tag 11,000 items. I know it's hard to believe, but even I've got better things to do with my time.

So, although I have bought the upgrade, I've also started to write my own app. The basis of the app is on the website. It's in the fun stuff section and is called draggables. Essentially the basis is to be able to drag tags from a menu and drop them onto photos. The draggables page contains the code necessary to do that. It's a very messy page though and locks a screen aspect ration that matches my surface book which is high res, so you won't be able to see all of it unless you have your own high res display.