Update on the £1 gamble!

So it’s been 3 and a bit weeks since I started with £1 in my gaming account, and in that time I’ve turned it into over £6. >500% profit is pretty impressive, maybe I should do this professionally! Only one bet went against me in this time, a damn stupid one on a cricket match. [...]

Bioshock 2

Okay. I bought this game today (And paid an eight pound steam premium to download it tonight rather than wait two days for a copy from Amazon) and: IT’S AWESOME!

I’m only a couple of levels in and already I’m gripped. The plot has unfolded fast enough to keep me hooked, but there’s enough being kept [...]

STATISTICS

Not a major post here, just me posting about realising I’ve been making a large mistake. I’ve been struggling with R (A statistical programming language) recently, and I believe I have discovered why: I’ve not been treating it as a programming language! It’s all very well me knowing it’s Turing-complete, but I’ve been treating it [...]

Edd's £1 Gamble!

Last weekend I logged onto the betting site I use to look at the odds on some matches, and noticed I had a pound left in my account. An idea struck me: How long can I make this pound last, betting it (and it’s return) once a week, on the most obvious result of that [...]

Welcome... 2.0

I broke my last blog with some ill-advised plug in installations, so I decided to start over. This time I’m going to be realistic – I don’t have a huge amount of interesting things to say, so I will update this blog when I feel like it. Months may go by between updates, followed by [...]