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iTunes agreement

Having just upgraded my iPhone software to 3.1. I was suddenly confronted with the monster 69 iphone pages of contract before I could access Itunes. Just for fun I analysed it in Textalyser and Wordle. Here are the results:-

Total word count : 11242
Number of different words : 1530
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 13.6%
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 10.2
Total number of characters : 117476
Number of characters without spaces : 74036
Average Syllables per Word : 1.85
Sentence count : 1143
Average sentence length (words) : 18.15
Max sentence length (words) : 99
( you agree that itunes has the right without liability to you to disclose any registration data and or account information to law enforcement authorities government officials and or a third party as itunes believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate to enforce and or verify compliance with any part of this agreement including but not limited to itunes\ right to cooperate with any legal process relating to your use of the service and or products and or a third party claim that your use of the service and or products is unlawful and or infringes such third party\ s rights )
Min sentence length (words) : 1
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Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 32.3

Just love that sentence with 99 words! and also that Itunes is mentioned 479 times out of the 11,242 words that Apple lawyers deem I should read and understand before pressing the Agree button.

Here is the rather pretty Wordle of the contract:-

Planning…

Busily planning my next little hiking trip, which has to take less than two weeks, so I can be back to take Emily of to Sussex to start her three years of partying 🙂 Sorry, university!

Here is the elevation plot of the proposed trip taking using memory map:-

Pretty bumpy, should be interesting, More to follow…..

Stats about me on Facebook

According to the natty programme developed by Stats about me. My Facebook profile shows:-

“You have 124 friends, 4 more than average. 61% are male, 39% are female. 11 are single, 54 are dating or married. If you contracted a deadly variant of flu, you would likely infect 9 people, 1 of whom would die. If you died today, an estimated 362 people would try to attend your funeral. Based on your Facebook profile, you have a 89% probability of getting married. You are likely to earn US$1.8 million and have 2.1 children over your lifetime. “

Looks like I have overshot the mark having 3 kids 🙂 and I find it hard to believe that 362 people would TRY and come to my funeral, more like half a dozen I would think!

Cambridge to Les Gets the final map.

After much effort with dodgy computers I’ve stitched together all 10 days of my travel to Les Gets. Joost at Everytrail listened to their customers and have now enabled importing pictures from Picasa. So here is the trip with all the photos beautifully geotagged. The GPS data is down to street level so you can see every turn and mistake I made.

Unfortunately the GPS height data is very ‘noisy’ and Everytrail doesnt seem to have any statistical smoothing,  so the ascent/descent numbers are  wildly out. It says I climbed 57,653 feet and descended 56,402 feet 🙁 (Although the overall effect is not bad as it implies I’m at 1251 feet whereas I’m at 3800 feet) However, the trip profiles are correct.

The cyclometer displayed a distance of 779 miles and the GPS 801 miles, The boat covered 21 miles where i didn’t pedal 🙂 So pretty amazingly the correlation was spot on!

The moving average for the whole trip was 10.7mph and the overall average including stops when travelling was 7.9mph. So my biking is just over 3 times faster than me walking!

Here it is:-

Cambridge to Les Gets bike ride

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