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16 Mar 2013 Dammit. Chrome's G+ button has just lost my text. Again.
Anyway, the attached article is short but important.  : Why I love RSS and You Do Too »Even if you don't use an RSS reader, you still use RSS. If you subscribe to any podcasts, you use RSS. Flipboard and Twitter are RSS readers, even if it's not obvious and they do other things besides.... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:23pm ] There's a very simple cocktail known as the Whisky Mac, allegedly invented in India during the Raj, but more likely in Glasgow pubs. Basically equal parts Whisky and Green Ginger Wine (either Stones or Crabbie's). And drunk room temperature, or with an ice cube or two or even hot.
So here's the question. Is there a name for the same drink but made with other whiskies such as Irish, Canadian, Bourbon, etc? Any other cocktail uses of Ginger Wine? Given the Dark and Stormy, you'd think that something could be made with a med or dark Jamaican Rum as well. After a party at Christmas, somebody left behind a mostly full bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label and another bottle of J&B. The wife needed green ginger wine for some cooking recipe and then starting having a small sherry glass or two. The end result is that the Whisky Mac been a fairly common fri/sat night drink in the Bond household. Especially as the weather hasn't been great and the Whisky+Ginger is really warming in front of a wood fire. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 6:27pm ] Superb article about the history of RSS and Google Reader. Unfortunately it's TL;DR!
  Google's Lost Social Network »How Google accidentally built a truly beloved social network, only to steamroll it with Google+ . The sad, surprising story of Google Reader. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:44am ] The statue on one of the roundabouts outside Jerez on the way to the Jerez circuit. I have to say, I would like to live in a town that puts up statues of motorcycles!
 [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:27am ] 'Fauxstalgia'. Nostalgia for a time you never knew.
[from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:25am ] 15 Mar 2013 So here's Laverty doing a Jerez 1m41.47
http://superbike-news.co.uk/index.php/Motorcycle-News/aprilia-racing-tests-at-jerez-de-la-frontera Which would have put him on the grid in front of all the CRTs last year and level with Bautista.   - Aprilia Racing Tests at Jerez De La Frontera »The start of the World Superbike season at Phillip Island in February was definitely reinforcement for the confidence of the Aprilia Racing Team and its st [from: Google+ Posts] [ 15-Mar-13 6:46pm ] 14 Mar 2013 Oh, the irony.
http://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/rip-google-reader.html A hyper competitive space with dozens of choices? Reader made its first public appearance a couple of months before this, in October 2005. I remember this period well - it was a time of immense excite...  [from: Google+ Posts] Google announces closure of Google Reader. WTF!
http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html http://googlereader.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html This is why we can't have nice things. Google Reader was just better than most of the alternatives back in the day so they all slowly disappeared as everyone switched. Which then meant there was no money in building a better alternative because Google owned the space. Now it's not paying it's way in Google so they shut it and have effectively killed a whole segment of the software market. And as Dave Winer might say, it's worse than it appears because it kills the idea of rich feeds whether it's RSS/Atom or whatever, which is why G+, Twitter, Facebook and a host of other newer services don't provide them. Meanwhile we're all supposed to be switching to mobile devices with "Apps" so we get fed "News Services" like Currents, Flipboard and so on that only run on these mobile devices and have more focus on surface froth in the UI than on actually consuming large quantities of news. And they heavily push MSM sources who will pay for the privilege of being highly visible. The real losers here are the small blogs on wordpress.org, blogger.com and others who will lose visibility, readers and comment engagement because there's no longer any easy way to follow them. I'm all right jack because I never used Reader much, preferring my own home written news reader (php+MySql hosted on my rented server) but I'm already suffering from the lack of RSS on major services. Yahoo! and Marissa Mayer are you watching all this? Here's hoping you pick up the ball that Google just tossed over their shoulder. You've got the resources, servers and infrastructure to directly replace them. And the real puzzle? There's a whole bunch of ex semantic web, Atom, XML people inside Google. Did they all get sidelined?   A second spring of cleaning »We're living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change--it probably hasn't happened since th... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 14-Mar-13 7:52am ] 13 Mar 2013    BMW pedelec with Bosch drive | »BMW will sell pedelec bicycles this year - announced elektrobike-online.com. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 4:21pm ] [ 13-Mar-13 9:46am ] Nice piece about the Amen Break
http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/the_amen_break_the_most_famous_6-second_drum_loop_how_it_spawned_a_sampling_revolution.html See Also http://www.economist.com/node/21541707 which has this wonderful quote:- "A lot of young people are nostalgic for things they weren't there for," And this. Best tracks containing the Amen Break http://www.economist.com/node/21540676   The "Amen Break": The Most Famous 6-Second Drum Loop & How It Spawned a Sampling Revolution »So much of what enters the popular lexicon depends upon small happy accidents: chance encounters, misreadings, gaffes, extemporaneous bursts of inspiration. Artists attuned to the strange in the mund... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 8:36am ] Seems there's one or two people around with Vanity URLs for their Google Plus profiles. So how did that happen, and how do I get one?
eg https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 7:55am ] 09 Mar 2013 I'm a sucker for a good aphorism:-
"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it." "We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think." "Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors." http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3984 Predators run to eat. Prey run to live. Wealth corrupts. And absolute wealth corrupts absolutely.  No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Culpa. »Say what you will about this Peter Watts guy, he sure has a way with punchy quotes. Just look at some of the one-liners he's come up with that various folks have pinched for their sigfiles, or stuck o... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 09-Mar-13 8:44am ] 07 Mar 2013 Here's a good one for Google Play specialists. How do I copy a Winamp playlist to Google Play? Can anyone point me at a simple recipe? A quick search turned up some youtube vids and some descriptions that sounded horrible and awkward involving going via Windows Media player.
Search both in Google and Google plus was effectively useless as it just wanted to promote Winamp for Android or it was full of spam for keycodes to Winamp Pro. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Mar-13 1:26pm ] #WeLoveTheNHS If you're in the UK, please help #SaveTheNHS by signing this petition. https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75-share1
And here's an example of why. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/02/nhs-commercialisation-bereaved-mother-fight   Stop the NHS privatisation plot »Jeremy Hunt is planning to force doctors to help him privatise more of our NHS. I've just signed a petition to stop him - click here to sign it too. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Mar-13 7:24am ] 06 Mar 2013 Shame there's no photo. The electric Bromptons have the added advantage that they deal with the theft problem in London. You just fold them up and wheel them inside with you.
 The Electric Transport Shop originally shared this post: Ben Irvine from CycleLifestyle.co.uk takes our electric Brompton around London for a day. see what he says thinks here - http://ow.ly/ir7Ul   Electric Dreams: Why e-bikes are the future of transport in London »Wow. I've just had the most fun I've had since the eighties. And, in the process, I've had a revelation about the future of urban transport. With thre... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 06-Mar-13 4:57pm ] 05 Mar 2013 This is a good one. Just read it, m'kay?
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/03/05/honesty-and-the-human-body/   Honesty and the Human Body »Kevin is a 2013 blogging resident visiting us from his home blog over at Melting Asphalt. In economics and biology, honesty is understood in terms of signals. Signals are anything used to communicate,... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 05-Mar-13 6:17pm ] 04 Mar 2013 Yet another story about London's Tech City, Silli Roundabout, Hoxditch startups, Techhub and Google Campus. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/ceo_of_tech_city_joanna_shields/ What's slightly weird is that it seems surprisingly hard to find a big list of startups and even moderate success stories. Doesn't anyone want the free publicity or is it all so stealth that it's invisible?
 Queen of Tech City says she will decide what Tech City does soon now o The Register »CEO of Tech City Joanna Shields says that the "woolly" objectives of London's (in)famous Tech City predated her, but she isn't giving much more clarity on what the government initiative should achieve... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 04-Mar-13 9:41am ] 28 Feb 2013 Every once in a while I stumble over this website that dates from 1993. http://deoxy.org/deoxyold.htm Keep Clicking.
[from: Google+ Posts] [ 28-Feb-13 5:21pm ] 27 Feb 2013 I told you before. #WeLoveTheNHS #SaveTheNHS
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75#petition Now it's time to tell Jeremy Hunt we don't want it privatised to the extent that he wants.  Stop the NHS privatisation plot »Jeremy Hunt is planning to force doctors to help him privatise more of our NHS. I've just signed a petition to stop him - click here to sign it too. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 27-Feb-13 6:42pm ] 
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