More French birthday treats! Cake from the gang at Sitback.
Month: March 2013
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RIP Google Reader
So yeah, I’m still pretty annoyed about Reader getting canned. But frankly my love for it was never the same after they gutted out all the social features, so I’m not as incandescent with rage as some folks. Just disappointed. In the ensuing Metafilter thread, people started sharing their lifetime stats (which you can see by hitting the “Trends” button in Reader). To my horror, my total was actually sitting on 299,987! So even though I’d decided to find a new service, I still had to scroll through 13 more items so I could hit the magical 300,000+ mark.Anyway, pretty early on I decided that I was going to test out The Old Reader as a replacement. It was built after the “sharepocalypse” and it’s basically attempting to recreate the Google Reader utopia of four years ago. Of course, their site (along with every other cloud based reader) started getting hammered. I managed to get my import request in and it got processed overnight. Now I’m deleting old dead feeds and reorganising. Be warned – they’re still slammed and the site is going awfully slow. (They put up a blog post talking about their plans to cope with the influx of new users.) So far so good though!
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Photo post
Well, @kunaalr didn’t bake for me… but I forgive him. 🙂
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Shared today on Twitter
@ppetrovski I’m trying out http://t.co/TWEaCqyLQr. Importing my subs over there right now…
For anybody setting up http://t.co/TWEaCqyLQr, I’m on there as “krishoward” if you want to follow me.
@Roceal HOLY CRAP, CONGRATULATIONS!!
RT @Pinboard: “We need to focus. Keep the self-driving cars, magic glasses, laptop, handheld OS, and Brazilian social network. Ditch the …
@knitterjp @Helen__H @liamvhogan @Alegrya So far The Old Reader looks good. Must be getting slammed; taking a while to import my feeds.
RT @TheOldReader: Hello new users. There are quite a lot of you because of that GR news, so things will be slow while you try to import …
@codepo8 I’m trying out The Old Reader. Getting slammed now, but it looks good. It’s got the old sharing/commenting too.
Annoyed that @the_snook signed up for @TheOldReader after me, yet his feeds are all imported and I’ve only got 3.
Manually setting up all my RSS feeds on The Old Reader. Huh. A lot of these sites are dead. I guess it was time for a spring clean anyway!
@liamvhogan It strikes me that I may be screwing myself doing them manually if the import I kicked off ever does finish.
@Alegrya I figured it out! Double click on the folder name.
@handmethepanda @Alegrya Not that I can see, but if @TheOldReader wants cash, I will happily throw some their way!
Pretty much going nuclear on Google Reader. As each feed folder is moved to @TheOldReader, I’m hitting “unsub from all”. NO GOING BACK.
@wheelyweb I vote YEA!
@drkknits GODDAMIT VIRGINIA. Hey @lemon_lime, your area has a lot to answer for!
@drkknits @imdominating No, Hicksville is in Ohio. I know because I was born there. (No shit.)
@KathrynElliott Huh! Very different to my experience. Whole30 is very strict though. I aim for a little more leeway.
Any knitters going to M&S tonight? (Or more specifically – to the Bowlo?)
Woohoo! Interview lined up for Monday with State Library. (Too bad I wore my sexy librarian outfit today.) http://t.co/grQ50ObgUu
@knitterjp @messicat Oh good. I might meet you over at 99 York…
The SEO “blog network” spam I get is ridiculous. “We’ll give you spam copy for your site, and in return you get a $15 website review.” FAIL.
@zosainsbury I signed up to http://t.co/6iqCycIfBe today. Lots of refugees heading there.
@zosainsbury It’s a bit slow right now – think they got hammered today.
@mrs_sockvictim Who’s this Tim fellow? 🙂
@messicat @knitterjp @smark31 @1funkyknitwit I’m having some beers with a colleague first, so I’ll go to the bowling club. 🙂
The Festival of Redundancy continues. Beers at The Lord Nelson with @venks79, @kunaal84, and Zagbot; now beers at the Bowlo with knitters!
@BendalongMorgan Really?! What were you doing for them? I was meant to interview tomorrow but couldn’t make it.
I met Galina Khmeleva tonight at M&S and showed her photos of my Show knitting and she said it was beautiful. Awesome.
@TheOldReader @the_snook It’s okay! I love your service so far. I’m serious; I’ll pay to keep it going!
@BendalongMorgan It’s Senior Business Analyst working in digital department. Not sure what sort of projects exactly yet…
@mrs_sockvictim Everyone was gone when I got to M&S, so I was the only one who met her. (She was talking to Mrs M.)
Last night I learned you can buy a takeaway bottle of wine at the Bowling Club for $9.50. Today I have a terrible headache. Related.
@drkknits 7:30. Ow. My head.
@drkknits It’s my Festival of Birthday Redundancy.
Yay! Overnight all my RSS feeds got imported into @TheOldReader. Loving it.
Well, @kunaal84 didn’t bake for me… but I forgive him. 🙂 http://t.co/ctt2SMUzFv
@brown_note It’s hard, isn’t it? Most people don’t enjoy reading info from sources they disagree with, so you don’t usually seek it out.
I am going to miss my Magic Mouse. Thinking of buying my own, but damn, $75?! Does anybody know of a non-Apple alternative that works well?
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Shared today on Facebook
Woohoo! Interview lined up for Monday with State Library. (Too bad I wore my sexy librarian outfit today.)
Well, @kunaalr didn’t bake for me… but I forgive him. 🙂
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Photo post
Woohoo! Interview lined up for Monday with State Library. (Too bad I wore my sexy librarian outfit today.)
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Google to Shut Down Google Reader
Google to Shut Down Google Reader – WTF. Seriously? GAHHHH. Now I have to find a new RSS reader. Ironically, I actually read about this ON GOOGLE READER and shared it to my blog VIA A GOOGLE READER PLUGIN. Crap on a stick.
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23 Leinster Terrace, Bayswater
Now I Know: Open House – Whaaa? 22-23 Leinster Gardens in Bayswater, London, is not an actual house. I lived on that street for the better part of a year all up, and I never knew that.
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OMG Rutger Hauer’s hair on the set of True Blood
OMG Rutger Hauer’s hair on the set of True Blood – Oh sweet baby Jesus, Rutger Hauer on True Blood? The Snook is gonna be ALL OVER THIS.
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Shared today on Twitter
@randomknits YOU ARE KILLING ME. (I say that to all your Liberty posts, I realise.)
@pyko You have clearly angered some god or other. I suggest sacrificing a goat!
@imdominating Ask her if she’s English. She loves that. Also, address her as “Carly.”
@imdominating She’s a shortarse like you, so look for someone you can make eye contact with. She’s also probably wearing hand knits.
@imdominating FORGET THAT. That the hell’s the deep fried thingies?
@imdominating @drkknits Yay, glad you had a good time!
@drkknits @imdominating She is VERY NAUGHTY like that. (It’s because she went to Westview. They’re savages over there, I tell you.)
@drkknits @imdominating I can’t believe it. The two people I know with the most fabulous specs, and neither are wearing them.
It looks like my basket weaving class this weekend is going to be cancelled for lack of interest. Disappointed, yes. Surprised, no.
@zosainsbury You’ll all regret mocking me when the zombie apocalypse comes and I’m the only one with baskets! Regret, I tell you!
@RoseRed_Shoes @drkknits *snort* That’s what she said.
Irlene, Louise and Barbara Mandrell with Dolly Parton, c. 1981. For @imdominating and @Justacogitating. 🙂 http://t.co/9tmN5iOGQs
RT @lemonmartinis: I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolut …
@that_alison But are they really “genderised”? I didn’t see any indication they were meant for girls. (I kinda dig them, actually.)
@that_alison Okay, they only turn up when you search Women’s + Pink, not Men’s + Pink. Still. I dig them. 🙂
I’m attending a Meetup with Sydney Business Analysts http://t.co/E92gVbVMQM
@Roceal Wait, what? Who? YOU?!
@eileenDCoE Congrats!!
RT @angelacox7news: White haired man at Vatican surrounded by adoring fans. Not the #pope but @andersoncooper http://t.co/J3ZbD8kNyM
WTF. Google is killing off Reader. First they gutted it, now they’re killing it. Happy birthday to me, JERKS. http://t.co/t0Jl9sg4na
@ppetrovski Agree. Very annoyed. Now I’ve got to figure out an alternative.
@codepo8 Lemme know if you find anything good. I’m in the same boat.
The MeFites said I should sign up for http://t.co/TWEaCqyLQr. If it really is like the old Reader, HELL to the YEAH.