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Happy New Year everyone. This year my New Year was spent with Szymon Wydra i Carpe Diem in Lodz (pronounced wudge), as they performed live in front of about 33,000 people at Manufaktura. We counted down the seconds to New Year and then watched a huge firework display before Szymon Wydra i Carpe Diem started their concert. The concert was excellent and the music is great. It is a little difficult to understand but some words I managed to pick up on. Below are three links to youtube clips so you can see them in action and listen to their music.
Szymon Wydra i Carpe Diem - Całe życie graszSzymon Wydra i Carpe Diem - Jak ja jej to powiem
Szymon Wydra i Carpe Diem - Teraz Wiem
It was my intention in 2008 to release more code and produce the webservice that I have been working on for some time. What with life being life and the credit crisis and everything this has not happened as I expected it would. So for this year I will be launching this service as it is maybe 80% complete now and I will allow beta testers to signup soon. I can now give a few details of what this service will be. There is a Firefox plugin which is a seperate part and is very useful. I am using this plugin myself while I iron out the last few bugs before I release this. I will release the Firefox plugin at the same time that I launch the webservice. This has been a few years in development and thinking and we shall see how this goes this year. All the services that I will be launching are all interrelated in some way and the project has seemed like chicken and egg, meaining which comes first. All in all I think the service will be really useful to many people.
To give you an idea I have data going back for a few years and this grows at about 5Mb per day. I use a variety of tools to post process this data and perform cleanups and the result is a few files that range from 400k to 2.5Mb iin size with over 80,000 lines. Most of the post process scripts are for data validation to ensure the accuracy is as near to 100% as possible. This will be a free service with some element of charging for historic data. If you want to know more then feel free to leave a comment or watch this website where I will announce the launch.So have a great 2009 everyone and lets hope this year is better than the last one.
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We then had to proceed quickly to lane 117 and we were both one of the last cars onto the ferry. Phew. Only just made the sailing in the nick of time. After about 10 minutes we set sail for Calais.
