Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged

Could very well be a case of 'be careful what you wish for'? Setanta sucks big style, always has done and, in what is looking like an increasingly limited future, probably always will do. It continues to appear very analogue in a digital age and if it sinks under the financial burden of ripping a piece of Premiership football away from Murdoch, well so be it. I couldn't care less, could I? Well, maybe. Reports suggest that ESPN may pick up the Premiership contract and if this happens, unless they are going to make every game pay-per-view, whatever channel they put it on is likely to be bundled with ESPN America and I am still going to end up subsidising the Premiership. Maybe BT Vision will step in and take it off satellite all together? I could live with that!

Ultimately, if it is curtains for Setanta, there won't be too many tears shed by the subscribers I suspect which is damnation enough when you consider that they were trying to break the Murdoch hegemony in sports broadcasting and were still unable to garner any affection from their viewers.

I think I may have put the control unit in the wrong place? It's on a shelf below the TV and I seem to spend as much time looking at it as I do the TV. I shouldn't be too surprised I suppose, when I got a car with a continuous read out of the fuel consumption I got a little obsessive about watching that. I guess neither is a bad thing, as long as I remember to watch the road as well.

I also downloaded some data on energy consumption of many consumer products and now have a spreadsheet which attempts to predict energy use for the house and it suggests about 10,000 kWh per year, which is way above average for this part of the country though I couldn't find anywhere with data broken down by type of residence and number of occupants. This consumption level may be down to not being on mains gas so cooking and part of the heating, one 2.5 kW storage heater, being electric. The hub recorded 28 kWh yesterday and my spreadsheet suggests about 28 kWh per day, but this is averaged over the whole of the year and I would expect usage of another 3-4 kWh during the winter, so the spreadsheet maybe not as accurate as I first thought. But as least I now have something against which I can continue to make comparisons.