10,000,0000, a Lost Bet, Some Trees & New Foundations

Busy, busy busy!

We passed 10 million credits, which was nice.

I bet the Scotland team of the BBC CPDN Project that they couldn't get a new leader appointed in place of their lost founder. They did and I lost, or at least transferred to a worthy cause, £200 so that trees for life (link right) could restore the carbon fixing glory that was the Caledonian forest.

Inspired by them getting a new leader I managed to get myself appointed leader of our Seti@Home & Einstein teams. Although there is no mechanism for it, it is just a matter of asking the right people nicely.

Meanwhile we go from strength to strength, gaining a member a day, and with many more active members. I've tried to capture the comings and goings, my apologies to anyone I've missed.

Last update 23:40 27th March 2006
This update 00:15 11 April 2006
Total Active Members 184 (+10)
Recent Active Members 109 (+14)
Total Credit 10,074,548 ((+382,276)=27.3K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 73rd (-1)

Hello to: Paul, Greenglen, marineris, ScB, Sheridon, ShazzaDouglas/Lady Shaz, Boris mk2, Alex Ball, BadgerWI, dad, Sammy, Paul, Tony Pattinson, sQuonk,
Farewell to: Kevin Dawe, SSGlobalUnion,

Update 27th March

Last update 23:15hrs 9th March 2006
This update 23:40 27th March 2006
Total Active Members 174 (+3)
Recent Active Members 95 (+7)
Total Credit 9,692,272 ((+385,335)=21.4K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 72th (static)

Sorry about the delay since the last entry but as the forum has begun to take off that has kept me busy. If you've not tried the forum get there now and sign up. Reading my occasional ravings is all very well but it's not real communication! As you can see all the recent activity has been very helpful in building the team again. There has been a modest increase in the total members but the number of people active in the last month has risen quite significantly. By the way don't worry about the apparent drop in daily productivity - this is just because SETI, our biggest project hasn't updated it's stats in 2 days - it happens.

A new project is the BBC Climate Change Experiment. As far as I can see this is good old fashioned Climate Prediction Boinc sexed up to appeal to the telly watching masses: Elitist prejudices aside, there is nothing wrong with that if it gets people interested in distributed computing & indeed the project is proving very popular. We noticed that a team called "Scotland" had been set up and was doing quite well. Now it seems a shame to have rival Scottish teams splitting the Scottish effort so I visited the BBC CCE forum and suggested a merger. This innocent proposal proved to be as popular as a turd in a swimming pool and I got thoroughly flamed.

Having had the hand of friendship savagely hacked off I did set up a Scotland's Seti team for this project which you can join or not (please don't get angry it's just an option).

Who'd be a spammer?

Tonight I've been mainly typing addresses into my Outlook Express address book.
I got over 50 addresses from the Einstein@Home team website -as team founder I can see such stuff- and with way too much fiddly cutting & pasting made a group. I then composed an inspirational e-mail and pressed the send button.
Bums! My server rejected the message on the grounds of "too many recipients". It doesn't like any more than 12 (c'mon, I'd have to be a really ambitionless spammer to want to spam just 13 people). However after lots more cutting and pasting I made 5 groups and finally sent my message 5 times. You may have got it. Hopefully lots of lapsed members will have also and will flock back to us like lost sheep redeemed.
So now, before bed, I will update the website at last.

We've got a forum!

Snowdog has come to the rescue and set us up a splendid new forum -the link is on the right. So rejoice, sign up and start communicating as if we weren't all Autistic Spectrum Disorder geeky types!
I'll revamp the website to make this, very welcome, development central to our efforts sometime very soon.

Onwards & Upwards-ish.

Last update 23:55hrs 1st March 2006
This update 23:15hrs 9th March 2006
Total Active Members 171 (+1)
Recent Active Members 88 (+1)
Total Credit 9,306,937 ((+185,354)=23K/day)
Overall Boinc Place 72th (-2)

As predicted, we've slipped back a bit, not because we're doing badly, but just because a couple of other teams have powered past us: I don't anticipate being overtaken by anyone else before we hit 10 million. We could, with only a marginal raising of our game, even overtake World Wide Seti. Anyhow, it's the taking part that counts, and we're certainly doing that.

Thanks to FlyingfocRS, a Scotland's Seti stalwart of old, who has become the third member of uFluids team, this, the youngest of our teams, is now the highest placed (albeit against a meagre field) in 39th place.

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