Monthly Archives: February 2012

Oregon & Eee display

Geoff’s Weather Station

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Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above.

Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the TV aerial above the house to minimize ground effects. That can wait for the warmer weather though.

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Cambridge snow

A day in the Cambridge snow

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four inch of snow on tableAfter last night’s epic (by Cambridge standards) 4″ of snow. The Cambridge Rambling Club A group walk around Histon was cancelled so Sally & I met up with Jill at the usual starting place in Harvey Road and concocted our own walk up to Coton (where we bumped into the B group) then across to Grantchester for a scone and cuppa at The Orchard with a ramble back along the river to Cambridge.

A very pretty walk in the snow, although my legs found it quite tiring like walking along the beach. The most surprising part was that the Coton Footpath had been largely cleared of snow so was easy walking.

My Fitbit said I covered 15.4 miles burning 2700 calories the Etrex GPS made it 14.7 miles (3mph) so pretty close. I took quite a few pictures and also made a Everytrail of the walk here.

Snowman with can on a wall

Snowman on a wall

It was interesting to see the different types of snowmen that students had been making especially the latest trend of creating them sat down on park benches etc My favourite was this one on Elizabeth Way.

The day ended with one of Sally’s wonderfully relaxing hot stone massage :-) I tried to use my Zeo sleep measuring device to see how deep a sleep I go into, but it insisted I needed to plug the iPhone in :-( and lets face it when you are so relaxed can you be bothered….

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People & Facebook

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Having just read or skimmed Mark Zuckerberg’s letter in the regulatory filing to make Facebook a public company. I thought it would be fun to do a Wordle on his public letter about Facebook. here it is.

Wordle - Mark Zuckerberg S1 filing letter

Wordle - Mark Zuckerberg S1 filing letter

Just love our the word People (41 mentions) stands out!

In fact the words in numerical order, from Textalayser,  are people(41) our (30) facebook (17) build (16) building (15) make (15) world (14) want (11) better (11) best (11)

Total word count : 1242
Number of different words : 583
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 46.9%
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 10.2
Total number of characters : 12998
Number of characters without spaces : 7896
Average Syllables per Word : 1.68
Sentence count : 110
Average sentence length (words) : 20.36
Max sentence length (words) : 51
( through the process of building a team — and also building a developer community advertising market and investor base — i’ve developed a deep appreciation for how building a strong company with a strong economic engine and strong growth can be the best way to align many people to solve important problems)
Min sentence length (words) : 2
( simply put)
Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 44

Frequency and top words :

Word Occurrences Frequency Rank
people 41 3.3% 1
our 30 2.4% 2
facebook 17 1.4% 3
build 16 1.3% 4
building 15 1.2% 5
make 15 1.2% 5
world 14 1.1% 6
want 11 0.9% 7
better 11 0.9% 7
best 11 0.9% 7

Word Length :

Word Length (characters) Word count Frequency
4 441 19%
2 386 16.6%
3 375 16.1%
6 218 9.4%
5 215 9.3%
1 186 8%
7 159 6.8%
8 150 6.5%
9 84 3.6%
10 54 2.3%
11 24 1%
12 13 0.6%
13 9 0.4%
14 8 0.3%

Syllable count :

Syllable count Word count Frequency
1 1171 55%
2 599 28.1%
3 248 11.7%
4 89 4.2%
5 19 0.9%
6 2 0.1%

2 word phrases frequency :

Expression Expression count Frequency Prominence
we have 10 0.5% 33.9
the best 9 0.4% 34.9
to build 9 0.4% 47.6

That’s a very clear company mission, now if only I can find Google’s equivalent letter..

 

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