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Hi Steve, I finally got around to putting your lin...

2012-05-27T14:48:43.367+01:00

Hi Steve, I finally got around to putting your link up. Sorry for the delay.

You'll find it on the links page.

Hi, I've linked to your site and would appreci...

2012-05-21T16:10:20.400+01:00

Hi, I've linked to your site and would appreciate a reciprocal link:

Website URL: http://goalprofits.co.uk
Link text: Goal Profits Football Trading
Description: Profitable football trading using correct score and lay the draw strategies.

Hi Loocie Not heard from you for a long time. I t...

2012-03-01T00:22:07.423Z

Hi Loocie

Not heard from you for a long time. I trust things are well with you.

Yes, I'd be very interested in ways to get more out of the free API if you are willing to share. I appreciate you might not want to make it public so feel free to pop into the chat room some time. I'm usually there during afternoon horse racing.

Cheers

Alistair

Hi Alistair, there are a few ways to get more out...

2012-02-29T22:44:09.268Z

Hi Alistair,

there are a few ways to get more out of the free API. If you need a hint, just let me know.
All the best!

Cheers, Loocie

Great, great post! It’s something I have never tho...

2012-02-23T09:28:14.412Z

Great, great post! It’s something I have never thought about, really, but it makes a whole lot of sense. Thanks for sharing

As suspected, the free API and its inherent thrott...

2012-02-21T21:58:10.641Z

As suspected, the free API and its inherent throttling frequently means the market has long since come and gone by the time my triggered be hits the market.

This causes big problems trying to trade out using Fairbot.

At the moment, the trigger mechanism fires for any horse that reaches the trigger point. Perhaps I'll look into limiting the triggering to the top three or four in the market. This, hopefully, will make it easier to trade out due to less runners being matched. It won't help in the situation described above of course, but I'd rather not give up on the technique just yet, despite today being a rather expensive one.

"I'd scrap this ridiculous dumbing down o...

2012-02-11T10:39:51.914Z

"I'd scrap this ridiculous dumbing down of sport in our schools where the loony brigade have forced non-competitive sport on our children for years."

This hasn't happened and there's no such thing as "the loony brigade". Stop reading tabloids.

Thanks for the comment. I certainly do not intend...

2012-02-03T15:40:33.504Z

Thanks for the comment.

I certainly do not intend to live trade using the free API. I'm simply using it to submit the triggered bets as Fairbot doesn't have that facility. I'll be trading out using Fairbot which of course doesn't use the free API.

Even then, Fairbot might not be suitable anyway. As I'm running it on Linux through Wine, it is not the fastest trading application.

Very much an experiment at the moment to see if there's something I can put to use.

Hi, i'm very shure the free-API is too slow fo...

2012-02-03T14:36:59.748Z

Hi, i'm very shure the free-API is too slow for inrunning. I test similar betting with the new multi-bet-tool from the geekstoy. Very easy handling. This kind of trading could be very boring over the time. To hack a automatism in it looks impossible for me. On some days the odds bouncing in the right direction and on other days they going straight the wrong way. All winnings of the week going on such days away. It has something to do with other bots i believe. On days where the bots can holding the market books inrun on the 100% mark all works well. But if the bots turned off or other things happen, than it's a day to forget.

There are three areas I am concerned about: 1. Th...

2012-01-12T10:11:29.905Z

There are three areas I am concerned about:

1. The quality and the type of subjects covered by ICT lessons in the UK. If the intention is to simply churn out kids who can work in an office environment, then no change is required. Though, having given training courses to hundreds, many of them recent school leavers, and seen the standard of those delegates, such ICT lessons ain't working.

I applaud the proposed changes if the lead ICT away from simply teaching the kids the interface of a limited set of applications. I'd like to see the emphasis change so that kids are encoutaged to unlock their creativity through the use of computers. And I don't just mean graphics design, or computer programming.

Kids are being taught how to 'use' Excel for example, but are they being encouraged to explore its use in their advanced mathematics or physics course? No.

That's the change of emphasis I want to see.

2. As a tax payer, I object to the way my money is spent on propriatry systems when there are other solutions out there. As I mentioned in my original post, I am concerned about the subsequent indoctrination of our kids by any commercial organisation. I believe it is the public sector's duty to resist that.

That is not to say that such organisations should be blocked from tendering for public sector contracts. Of course not. If, for technical reasons, such solutions provide the desired results then they should be considered, as long as they provide value for money for the tax payer (a laudable, yet laughable goal given the record of public sector IT projects).

Getting back to the educational sector though, kids should be made aware that there are other solutions out there, not just Microsoft. Kids should be taught generic topics rather than specifics. That way, when they do become decision makers of the future, they will be better informed of the options available.

3. Flutter raised an interesting point regarding technological advances and in particular, the use of tablet PCs in schools.

I'm not a tablet user. I cannot see any requirement for me given the way I do things. However, I can certainly see how they'd be of great benefit in school.

If we give our kids tablet PCs, what do we give them? An iPad will, lock them in to the world of Apple. Persumably a Microsoft tablet, when they arrive, will do much the same for Microsoft.

It is this lock in process that I am particularly uncomfortable with. It is bad enough in business where many feel the need to jump on a perpetual Microsoft upgrade train in order to keep up with suppliers and customers who make the change - even though, internally, there'd be no need to do so.

Should we be doing the same to or kids?

As regular readers will know, I am a Linux user. I fully switched some 4-5 years ago. Even my daughter's machine ran Linux. She was perfectly happy with it, and could do everything she wanted and needed to do. Yet her school kept telling her that she had to use Windows and Microsoft applications in order to submit her work.

What right does a school, or any public body for that matter, have to tell its users that they MUST use one application over another?

Anyway, I digress.

The bottom line is, despite the reservations I have outline above, changes to the ICT curriculum have to be welcome. At the moment, it is failing our kids and ultimately failing employers.

I await with interest to see the changes being made.

Hi Al, wondered where you've been of late! Fl...

2012-01-11T22:04:49.804Z

Hi Al, wondered where you've been of late! Flipping burgers? Ho ho.
You make some valid points. MS now seems to rule the roost in most homes and businesses and obviously people stick with the biggest player. In the 70s and 80s we used to see "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"; nowadays it's the same for MS.
I used to program in COBOL on old ICL mainframes bought by HM Customs VAT centre in Southend on Sea as the MOD found they were not powerful enough for their needs, but were OK for VAT accounting etc.
When I retired early and went to work as a finance officer for a school in Lincolnshire using an Elonex to run the budget. Sometimes I'd be in a class where the kids were using spreadsheets but the 'teacher' had no real clue as to how to use, let alone teach, this discipline. I would help one or two of the pupils when they asked how to do this or that.
I would guess that most ten-year olds and older would now be able to teach the topic better than the teacher.
An interesting subject. What we know and use today will soon be as obsolete as the ZX80 and this is one of the big problems. Technology races ahead at an exponential rate of knots and many older people (especially me) will have to give up the struggle to keep in step.
Hope all goes well with you and yours. Have a good 2012

Interesting points - although I feel we are about ...

2012-01-11T18:50:01.434Z

Interesting points - although I feel we are about to enter a massive battle in the world of tablet/pad style pc's when Microsoft enter the market with their Windows 8 tablets later in the year. I have seen a few hints from them they really believe this is the future and I can imagine a number of companies looking to get their products into schools. Imagine how big a deal it would be to get school contracts (maybe even on a national scale) to supply tablets in education - they will eventually replace pen and paper as the costs come down, and I can see Microsoft forcing their way into that market - if they don't they will get left behind.

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2012-01-06T12:07:46.093Z

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2012-01-06T12:05:25.468Z

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2011-12-28T02:34:39.494Z

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Hi Alistair My name is Ruairi Fitzpatrick - affil...

2011-12-16T16:42:17.037Z

Hi Alistair

My name is Ruairi Fitzpatrick - affiliate manager in BETDAQ. I'd like to discuss a possible affiliate partnership with you.

rfitzpatrick@betdaq.com

Thx,

Ruairi

Hes been too busy looking for a job ,,,lol He is p...

2011-11-09T22:08:59.516Z

Hes been too busy looking for a job ,,,lol
He is perfecting his pitch "Would you like to go large on your meal" PMSL
Yours,
DONKEYDICKALLREDRAW !!

Self appraisal, a fine concept, to which no one wo...

2011-11-09T14:34:47.717Z

Self appraisal, a fine concept, to which no one would ever argue.

Perhaps the fact that you are an odious,obnoxous b...

2011-11-09T01:47:56.911Z

Perhaps the fact that you are an odious,obnoxous bell end is why you are on the rock and roll and are unable to get a job in a candy floss shop.
You need to take a long hard look at yourself,i have never in all my life come accross a "so up your own back passage" merchant than you.
Yours,
Bobbyobbyridesagain.

still a fucking prick lol

2011-11-09T01:35:34.807Z

still a fucking prick lol

@James and Josh I finally got around to posting y...

2011-10-30T18:00:25.071Z

@James and Josh

I finally got around to posting your links which you will find, not surprisingly, on the links page.

@James and Josh Sorry for not getting back to you...

2011-10-25T12:50:16.110+01:00

@James and Josh

Sorry for not getting back to you. I've been very busy this week and just catching up with blog comments.

I'll stick up links later this week.

Alistair

Hi mate, love the blog. Could I have a link exchan...

2011-10-20T17:48:29.523+01:00

Hi mate, love the blog. Could I have a link exchange please?

Cheers,

Josh

http://bet19.blogspot.com/

Hi, Great blog. I have just started a new Betfair...

2011-10-17T02:58:33.404+01:00

Hi,

Great blog. I have just started a new Betfair Challenge blog and wondered if you'd like to exchange links??

http://tradingbetfairchallenge.blogspot.com/

Cheers

James