Phew! We seem to have run out of time…
(if you think it is all going to end why bother with a copyright notice?)
…but we are (surprise! surprise!) still here. It must be a miracle.
Himself
Apple Downloads Adobe bargains email scam
Interesting email from Apple offering huge discounts on Adobe software…
..but wait. That is not my usual email address. The web site looks like an Apple site apart from the poor [wikipop]typeface[/wikipop] choice.
The About Us page masterfully utilises the English language to convince anyone that might be thinking that this was not a real Apple page.
Splendid. Next.
Broken Blogger
This post is primarily for Martine because:
a: She observed that my postings were somewhat infrequent; and
b: She will come home and want to know why her blog is not working; so…
On Monday it was announced that Blogger would be put into maintenance mode for an update to the system on Wednesday. The process was due, according to the Blogger Status page, to last about an hour…
It is now Friday 13th and Blogger is still not working…
Presumably even the Blogger people cannot update their own pages so the status page remains frozen from last Monday. There has been some information on Google’s support page where they claim to have reverted to a previous version but this does not seem to have helped much…
It is a little unfortunate that this hiccup coincides with the announcement of Google’s web based Chromebooks. To [wikipop search=”Cloud computing”]the cloud![/wikipop] Oh! Wait a mo…
Update: And they’re back.
Chorlton to Dunham Massey
April’s 30 Days of Biking came and went without our active participation. Our biking is mostly a daily commute to work and occasional shopping trips. But coinciding time off and some sunshine inspired us to venture out last week. Being new to the area we are still exploring various routes and are grateful for knowledge and insights shared by local bike bloggers (Note to self: Remember to sponsor Lorenza.) From the map we reckoned we could get along the [wikipop]towpath[/wikipop] on the [wikipop]Bridgewater canal[/wikipop] to Dunham Massey. So we set off to explore:
The Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle have produced a video that pretty much says it all in under three minutes:
The sound of a slow Bank holiday Monday
Traditionally a [wikipop]Bank holiday[/wikipop] is a time to slow down and unwind. So I took a short snippet of piano music (by [wikipop search=”John Adams (composer)”]John Adams[/wikipop] if I am not mistaken)
and slowed, unwound and tweaked it:
and then a drum loop
which was slowed and turned on its side so all the percussive (steam train) comes at the end: