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Self funded sabbaticals

I’m making this post to document the informal conversations I’m trying to have as often as possible with people I know.

A lot of my former colleagues and friends are going through a period of turmoil at Symbian and other places. Whilst the Nokia takeover and the birth of the Symbian Foundation are creating lots of opportunities, the change means I’m aware lots of people are looking around at their options.

If you’re thinking of doing something new, I can recommend the self funded sabbatical. I enjoyed mine last year, and the progress Transmission Begins has made is a direct result of that time.

Transmission Begins is not in a position (yet) to hire employees and offer salaries. That will come later, if mine and Morgan’s plans come to fruition. There are lots of other options though. If you’re based in London, are a skilled software engineer, and thinking that some sabbatical time spent on a ‘busman’s holiday’ is a good idea, I’d love to have a chat:

john@mcaleely.com

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Happy Saturday

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I’m not the worlds biggest fan of Valentines day, despite being a bit of a romantic at heart. meish.org says it so well!

(and yes, I have re-used last year’s post)

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Bandwidth use 2008

I recently discovered that my ISP provides handy statistics about the internet traffic to my house. Here, as a historical curiosity, are the figures for 2008:

Month Download (GB) Upload (GB)
January 116.8 3.4
February 140.3 4.3
March 12.1 0.7
April 10.5 0.9
May 12.3 1.4
June 11.6 1.2
July 12.7 2.0
August 18.6 5.9
September 33.9 10.2
October 66.4 7.0
November 19.1 6.5
December 13.1 1.6
Total 467.4 45.0
Average 39.0 3.8

As background, we don’t make use of P2P for content that the original owners aren’t happy distributing, so I imagine there are heavier users of the net out there. We do use Miro though, so I imagine a fair amount of that traffic is video. The peak in October certainly is (I watched Democracy Now during the US election), and I imagine that was what Jan and Feb were too.