Elected unopposed is an unfortunate phrase in any context. It has overtones of Mugabe, elections in the former USSR and Tony Blair against Micheal Howard in 2005. That is, however, the only phrase apposite or appropriate for how I have somehow managed to secure seats on the execs of both Xpress radio and Labour, where first and foremost, I would like to congratulate everyone else who was elected yesterday.
Another Interesting Fact:
Or rather, dear reader, the first “Another Interesting Fact” of what may turn into an ongoing part of this Blog, dependent on two factors, one being the extent to which it is popular with you, dear reader. The second factor, however, is significantly more random, in a holistic sense at least. This factor is based on the number of “Interesting Facts” (or IFs) that I experience in any twenty-four hour period. Thus, there is an infinite potential for IFs to occur in the vicinity of this blog, yet if you wish to calculate the exact proportion or probability of IFs per calendar day, it would involve dividing the average rate of IFs by some external indicator. This, I would suggest, would best be understood as a quantitative scale measuring the proportions of interesting to uninteresting phenomenology which I encounter in any one twenty four hour period. Thus, this PI2uIP scale could objectively discern the potential for IFs (and uIFs, for that matter) in my life, for potentially any specified time period. Of course, we then come to the difficult stage of cross-referencing the real world PI2uIP scale onto some measure of other datasets which could conceivably form a part of this blog. We will call this, for ease and clarity, the EBD set (Extraenous Blog Data set). Furthermore, for our formula to produce accurate and quantifiable results it would be necessary to map on certain other real life factors. For instance, the probability of a blog actually being created. This could be a simple binary indication where 0 = no blog created and 1 = blog created (the BC indicator, for want of a better term). Thus, if
PI2uIP = 1:32.56 and IFs = 2, but BC = 0, then the number of IFs recorded in the BS (Blogspace) would = 0 since it is impossible to record an IF in the BS if BC = 0.
In contrast, if
BC = 0, but PI2uIP = 1:1, thus making the IF = 0.5, then the potential for the IF being present in the BS = 0.75, and thus it is entirely probably on a level graded scale of 0 to 1 that the IF will happen to be recorded in the BS.
Such a system, however, lacks a certain theoretical rigour and mathematical finesse. Thus, I would humbly propose the system is altered to include some means of recording the level of procrastination, distraction, cooking or other distractive phenomenon which form the causal nexus behind the BC score. For clarity, I label this theoretical construct n. Thus, a proportionally higher n value would reduce the BC score proportionally, thus meaning that if:
n = BC / IF
then IF = BC * n.
And there we have it:
BC = IF / n, where IF = 1 / P2IuIP * 100.
Byeee!
