Elton One

I have for some time been using Transmission for downloading torrent files. I really like the application for a number of reasons; it’s simple and functional, it’s free, it’s open source and it works really well.

I have however discovered a little issue, or more a behaviour that can be counter productive on occassion. I have been using Transmission installed on a drive which contains the application and all my torrents and torrent files. This has worked fine for ages, but for some reason a while ago I opened Transmission up to find all my torrent files were still there, but had 0% downloaded (despite when I quit it last some of them were nearly complete). I couldn’t understand this, and the files themselves were the correct size, and not 0%. Very confusing. I started off the torrents again and no problem, but I did have to start again.

Then the other week, I couldn’t find Transmission. No idea what happened, possibly I deleted it when deleting torrent files. This made me think of what happened before, and I had no intention of starting some of the files I had downloading again, so I resolved to find out how I could re-install transmission but keep the torrent files in the same place and have them continue from where they left off.

Luckily enough it turns out that if you copy /User/??/Library/Application Support/Transmission and save it somewhere safe then re-install Transmission (I used to have mine in another folder and this time I installed it to Applications - everything was fine), open the application, quit it then replace the folder at /User/??/Library/Application Support/Transmission with the old one. Then re-open Transmission and everything should be back to normal.

Luuuuurvly.

Jay was telling me today about a recent story where Emma Clarke, the voice over artist who provides (until recently) the anouncements on the London Underground was sacked because some thing she said was not liked by LG. Never mind she was mis-quoted and has the right to freedom of speech, they still sacked her. And without even telling her - she found out in the paper.

There is speculation that one of the reasons LG have fallen out with her is because she made a series of recordings in the style of the LG recordings but humurous in nature, which she put up on her website. Here is one:

My favourite is:

Why can’t a person be employed by a company and be entitled to free speech without the risk of loosing their job? And why do recordings which are generally humorous in nature but reflective of the tube have to be a bad thing?

You know, I’m betting LGs lawyers heard the recording asking americans to keep their voice down and thought “Shit. Sack her, or the whole of america is going to sue us”.

BBC News Story

Emma Clarke Spoof LG Recordings

I was looking for the http://www.37signals.com/ site and typed 37 into my google bar. I linked off that to the Wikipedia entry for the number 37, and then straight on to the page for lucky numbers (lucky prime numbers) as 37 is the fifth. It’s interesting as I was watching Lucky Number Slevin today. Think I’ll go buy a scratch card or a ticket for tonights lottery with only luck primes on. Makes sense. Or maybe like quantum mechanics, observing that thread of eventuality has caused it to cease to exist.

Still worth a try I think.

Here is a nice animation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_prime showing the lucky prime numbers. Good to see 3, 33 and 69 are up there.

I like number theory and it’s relationship with nature. Lots of interesting images like this:

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory