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A little Grand National betting

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I don’t bet often. When I do it’s normally with a Google Spreadsheet, which I put fake money into fake bets. But today is Grand National day, and everyone likes a flutter on Grand National day right?

Probably the naughtiest part of the bet was the fact that I put all of the £10 I had on Southampton winning against Reading, that bet worked out leaving me around £20 to bet on the horses.

Sam Cole, a work colleague, had pointed be towards http://www.olbg.com, but those tips just matched BetFair.

I did a bet on the top 5 favourites, with slightly less money the closer the horses were to being favourite

Betting to place in top 4

Horse Odds Bet Profit
Seabass 3.6 2 7.20
On His Own 4.1 2 8.20
Chicago Grey 4.6 3 13.80
Cappa Bleu 4.5 4 18
Teaforthree 4.3 5 21.50

 

Top four were

1. Auroras Encore (Ryan Mania) 66-1
2. Cappa Bleu (Paul Moloney) 12-1
3. Teaforthree (Nick Scholfield) 10-1
4. Oscar Time (Sam Waley-Cohen) 66-1

So I won £39.50 + £9 of my bet back.

Horse Odds Bet Profit
Seabass 3.6 2 7.20
On His Own 4.1 2 8.20
Chicago Grey 4.6 3 13.80
Cappa Bleu 4.5 4 18
Teaforthree 4.3 5 21.50

 

I also bet On His Own to win, but that didn’t work out.

In all I turned £10 into about £40.

Raspberry Pi Pages

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Amy’s had a Raspberry Pi for ages now, but wondering what to do with a third screen on my desk at work, I’ve decided to get one as well.

Mostly to help me in the future when I break it, I’ve been writing the commands used to turn the standard Raspberry Pi installation of Debian (called Raspbian) into the working system on my desk.

More information can be found under Pages: Raspberry Pi

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Camera to town

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We never seem to take our cameras anywhere, but they went to town today.

Graham eating a malteser from a shakeaway cup

Amy Corner

Amy Corner wearing a red hat

I don’t think Amy was impressed with the hat shot though…

New site, new blog

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If you’re seeing this then you are viewing my new website on my new web host.

My last website had a lot of problems with WordPress (the blog that powers this site) and it has stopped Amy and I from posting as much as we would like. We couldn’t install plugins nor upload photographs without going through a large number of manual steps, and it isn’t worth it.

So while the Internet was working out where to find my new site I decided to update it! Hopefully the pictures and tweets will be a bit easier to read (seeing as I update those a lot more often than this site). Bloggingit and Robinsonic will follow shortly (once I’ve told my parents their site is moving).

Hopefully once I’ve sorted the wedding site out I’ll update that too.

The 2 W’s: Work and Weddings

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We’re definitely getting places with the wedding arranging and Amy and I have updated the wedding website with some more details. Passwords for a private area should be with you (who are on the list) will be with you soon.

On the work side we’re getting ready for the battle of lecture recording systems. Interestingly they are all very different. We tested out a Windows Media / Silverlight solution for the LLAS e-learning conference last friday (videos are here) and are also looking at a H.264 / Flash solutions too.

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