The web is huge

the web consumes 4% of North American Power

Google has got problems

What are Google s Problems, well lets look into but first we need to change the way we think, so lets scale up the way we think because the average internet user has no idea what belies the Google search page, after all its just a browser and a search result right !
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The Facts

BIGGEST COMPUTER ON EARTH

Google use alot of computors 200,000.00 to 400,000.00 and increasing daily some suggest even up to 600,000.00 to 800,000.00 ?

A Google Data center

Google Data Center there are 36 world wide

600 million dollars each the size of three football fields under cover with a Four story cooling tower.

No two data centers are alike each Data center has 10 – 12 clusters at 2000 machines per cluster giving a total of 20,000.00

American data centers consume more power then American televisions, over 4 years  the cost of a computers power is half the cost of the hardware.

Google Data Centers

Googles power usage  is close to 50MW  or  $5000 per Hour (Not very Green)
Google has to build its own custom designed mother Boards as-well-as power supplies. ( * Note: Google’s custom built power supplies are 90% efficient where commercial units are 70%)

FAILURE IS AN OPTION

In the first year for a new Data center there will be at least 1000 Machine failures, Thousands of Disk drive failures, One power unit will will fail taking out between 500 – 1000 machines for 6 hours, there is also a 50% chance a cluster will fail taking 1 – 2 days to recover a minimum of 20 racks  will fail!

Google quote : “Our view is its better to have twice as much hardware thats not as reliable than half as much thats more reliable”

Custom software is how Google handle failure

Stevie Wonder has canceled the Bowl of Brooklands as date with United States presidential election celebrations proves to be bigger draw .

The US music legend was booked to play the Beautiful location of the Bowl of Brooklands on November  1st , and has stated that the presidential elections as the main reason for canceling  half of the 4 planned shows the other being Auckland on the 31st

The united State presidential election culminates on November 4th

Stevie Wonder with Obama

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The New Plymouth Music Fesitval was was suddenly announced for November  1st, last week and promptly canceled on the Wednesday night only hours before tickets went on sale to the General public.

How ever, that does not do anything for the thousands of early bird pre ticket sales buyers who will at this stage be feeling gutted by the turn around from the music legends itinerary, although a 100% refund is being offered.

Promoter Gary Sharpe-young is equally disappointed stating that Stevie wonder and the Bowl where as good as it could get! .

New Plymouth Accommodation providers are also affected by the News of Stevie Canceling with New Plymouth motels being the most heavily effected with booking Cancellations .

Stevie Wonder 58 is a solid supporter of Democratic nominee Obama and has already been involved with run up to the election date, Stevie Wonder is one the artists featured on Obamas official campaign soundtrack.

Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris)^[1] is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won 26 Grammy Awards^[2] (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.

Numbers Going Down

New Zealand Accommodation tourism businesses face a tough winter as industry bosses warn of flat trading as the high kiwi dollar and economic woes thump global visitor spending.

Tourism Minister Damien O’Connor and Tourism New Zealand boss George Hickton were in Christchurch yesterday to prepare traders for what lies ahead, because of the world-wide credit crunch.

“I think it will be tougher. It would be hard to pick at this stage but I’d certainly be surprised if we got any growth in the winter,” Hickton said before the briefing.

“The ski season is lining up OK, and next year we’ll probably have a reasonable summer again … but I think we’ll get one or two months this winter which are a bit tough,” Hickton said.

Negatives included the continued fall in visitors from Japan and South Korea, and higher demand for aircraft around the world constraining the number of seats to New Zealand.

Higher oil prices and falling house prices were reducing discretionary spending of consumers, particularly in North America and Europe.

Most traders were expecting a flat season, with competition getting more intense, O’Connor said. “They are concerned about whether they should plan for growth or whether they should try and make better use of the (visitor) numbers they are currently getting.”

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Businesses needed to pay more attention to yield — getting more dollar out of each visiting tourist, O’Connor said.

Hickton said small tourism firms could use the internet for better marketing and to target overseas wholesalers, rather than expecting visitors “to come automatically”.

Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism chief executive Christine Prince said the region had performed above the national average for gaining more Australian visitors.

Yesterday the tourism bosses were looking ahead to the 2011 Rugby World Cup as a way to target visitors, particularly from Europe.

By November, O’Connor said a decision on where teams would be based around New Zealand, would allow more strategic marketing initiatives.

Prince said she hoped the English team would be based in Canterbury for pool games — providing a drawcard to the high spending UK supporters.

New Zealand Tourism Going Down

New Zealand Tourism Going Down

The most recent figures from Statistics New Zealand show in February 2008 there were more than 280,500 visitors to the country, up 4.8 per cent from February 2007.

To balance falling numbers from South Korea — down 16.8% in February from the year earlier — and Japan (down 13.4%)- TNZ would now focus on Australia, China and the United Kingdom.

“New Zealand  Backpacker Markets like Japan and Korea won’t be growing next year,” Hickton said.

In China, TNZ would chase higher spending Chinese wanting to visit New Zealand, Hickton said.

He hoped to see further growth in competition on the important trans-Tasman market to draw even more Australian visitors, given that fares on that route had recently gone up. “That could well change. You’ve got Emirates possibly introducing the A380 from the beginning of next year to Auckland. But it will still have some (wider) impacts in terms of volumes.”

Alan Wood – The Press

Useful Travel Links

www.Newplymouthmotel.co.nz – New Plymouth Backpackers

www.newplymouthmotel.co.nz – New Plymouth Motel

www.newzealandmotel.co.nz – New Zealand Motel

www.accommdationfinder.co.nz – New Zealand Accommodation

I saw a great Headline the other Day it went Like this

500 Billion Dollars and 3000 days what could you do with that!

Cullen

Well I know I wouldn’t be 14 billion in debt!

Labour has failed to deliver on many of its election Promises

Cheaper Housing, Better Health, Better Education, Honesty, More Employment Tougher Sentencing, The Criminal Proceeds Bill, which was promised before the 2005 election. The Corrections Amendment Bill, which was introduced in June 2007 by their fifth Corrections Minister. The Legal Services Amendment Bill, which Justice Minister Annette King said would be introduced in May and passed soon after, but which is still to have its first reading. Electronic bail legislation, which Helen Clark announced in June, but which has yet to appear before Parliament. The amendment to the Domestic Violence Act, which Annette King said would be introduced in July but which also has not appeared.

A fair review of M M P which is still to happen but why would that Happen before their last election they need all the support of all the hangers  on even if they don’t hold a seat in parliament

In the famous qoute from Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli ” THERE’S LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS”

a quick lesson on how to temporarily reduce the work Unemployment situation, Create a social welfare programme and call it a course or even create a Wānanga

Labour is Addicted to Power No matter what the cost!

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This Photo says it all

The evil tax collector Addicted To power

our very own new Age robin Hood Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, Government Workers paid 20% more then the private sector a massive investment into State Owned Assets and an exploding Government  workforce, Labour  is hell bent on building Liability when now is the time to build physical Infrastructure or repair the ones that are there! this will be the Last time Oil will be this cheap!.

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Some Interesting Facts 2007  Stats  Via  CIA World Fact Book

World Rank Order – Current account balance

174   New Zealand     $ -10,380,000,000

World Rank Order – GDP – real growth rate

169   New Zealand        3%             2007

World Rank Order – GDP – per capita (PPP)

46   New Zealand      $ 27,200      2007

World Rank Order – Unemployment rate

42   New Zealand         3.60%        2007

World Rank Order – Public debt

96   New Zealand        20.70%       2007

Not that Pretty a Picture

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Addicted to power no matter what!

Its Like a nightmare that wont go away for Winston Peters now, In a damning report released late last night, the privileges committee found by a majority that Peters had knowingly provided false or misleading information on a return of pecuniary interests.

The committee has recommended that Parliament today formally censure Peters for providing the false return.

And the committee has recommended that Peters be ordered to file, within seven days, amended returns for the past three years that include every gift, debt, or payment he has not already disclosed.

See full article here

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Brian Henry changes story

The master of ducking and weaving

Winston Peters’ lawyer has changed his story to Parliament’s Privileges Committee.

Brian Henry concedes Mr Peters was the client he referred to in an email to Owen Glenn, something he had previously denied.

Mr Henry remains positive however he solicited the $100,000 donation. He says he thought of doing so in a phone call with Mr Peters after he told him he had talked with Mr Glenn.

“That jogged my memory and then sent an email to try and jog Mr Glenn’s memory in the hope we’d get a donation.”

When asked if it was pure coincidence, Mr Henry replied “that’s just what happened”. Mr Henry says Mr Peters never mentioned money in the phone call. Story Here

Here is Report of the Privileges Committee

http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/5B0AE983-1849-4113-B6D8-34B07AE474DE/93673/DBSCH_SCR_4211_6254.pdf

But no doubt Wnston will come out fighting as he always does Just do us all a favor Winston get your self a new Career based on this last Smoke screen Im sure you have got your reserves all lined up
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• Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

• On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.

• Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.

• By age 20 we lose 20% of our sense of smell. By age 60 it is 60%

• After a person dies there nails and hair continues to grow

• The average length of an orgasm for a pig is 30 minutes.

• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary. It refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling particles from volcanoes.

• An elephant cannot jump.

• It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes biting you simultaneously to drain all your blood.

• Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the very same day: February 12, 1809.

• Porcupines float in water.

• Pancreaticoduodenostomy is the longest word with all six vowels in order.

• You are more likely to get strike by lightning then win the state lottery

• The original Coca Cola was green in color.

• the average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing

• A human can not kiss his elbow with his lips. Also 96 % of people who reads this information are compelled to try this.

• Dogs can’t look up.

• The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body

• A bee can smell with its knees.

• Rabbits are the only animals that lack the ability to vomit.

UNNECESSARY KNOWLEDGE here and refresh the

“Well, for my first post I thought this was of great importance, It’s a perspective most humans don’t want to have…”
This is a fair representation of our current situation. “Earth! to the majority of us is the center for all living consciousness… Ha Ha Ha, Its about now that I start to wonder how small minded the current powers really are in their current endevours, focus, and energy I reckon it amounts to fighting over a crumb? an infinitesimal one at that.

“don’t you love EGO…”

“Well Well Well,

this is an awe inspiring sight to think we are at the center of the universe,

its just who’s universe…”

Well Here She is in all its Glory the Life support system for our Planet, The Sun .

Now look at the sun start to get mighty small…

Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.
Now how big are you?

Now TRY to wrap your mind around this………

This is a Hubble Telescope Ultra Deep Field Infrared View of countless
“ENTIRE” Galaxies Billions of Light-Years Away.

Below is a close up of one of the darkest regions of the photo above.

Humbling, isn’t it?

Now How Big Are You?

And how big are the things that upset you today?

Keep life in perspective.

and don’t sweat the small stuff!

Regards Bill