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Expanded Street View
I discovered yesterday that the Street View feature on Google Maps now has vastly expanded coverage. When it was first added in the UK I could see all the places I had lived by dint of having lived in a good proportion of the areas they used to start the service, like York and Oxford. Now I can "visit" friends and family all across the UK.
In fact, while I haven't tested the theory, I suspect that I can now revisit almost every road I've ever travelled down in my life!
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That's All Folks?
Reports last month (I am safely behind the bleeding edge of the news curve!) suggested that Warner was intending to stop licensing music for free streaming services such as Spotify. As far as I can see, they have not pulled the trigger yet because I can still pull up a list of almost 1,400 Warner artists on that site. I might miss a few of them but there will still be plenty to listen to if they withdraw in a sulk.
In fact, if they do go ahead, I think I could quite happily live with myself while avoiding purchasing any of the products of their media empire. It is far reaching but still far from encompassing the sum of human creativity. If anything, it would arguably be a great step forward for music and another nail in the coffin of the more traditional music industry if major players retreated from licensing their music to such services.
Shared Worship Group Backgrounds
This morning, I've used my blogging time to write a post for the Shared Worship Group Backgrounds group on Flickr, which is of several that I administer — just a little bit of housekeeping to explain how the rules of the group are designed to serve not to hinder.
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The Truth About Multitasking?
According to Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University, multitasking is a way of getting less done. Despite the image of efficiency, it steals concentration from each task and so they take longer and are done less well. Therefore, I'm going to turn off the computer and concentrate solely on cycling safely to work.
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Toad in the Hole
This toad had a close escape yesterday. I was turning over some ground with a fork (prior to moving several rather stunted currant bushes away from the wall that was inhibiting their growth when I spotted him. I presume he must have burrowed down into the earth somehow to overwinter!
No harm was done though and, after a short photo session, I found him another corner of the garden that is due to be less disturbed (sheltered behind one of our mature shrubs).
Rhubarb
Last October, I planted some rhubarb. It had been purchased earlier (possibly a year or more earlier) and it was perhaps a touch optimistic expecting it to amount to anything. Despite the budding signs of spring in the garden it showed no sign of life, so we bought four fresh roots from the local branch of Notcutts yesterday and got them straight in the garden.
The old roots, which I dug out at the same time, were definitely dead. They have graduated to providing more fodder for the compost heap. That experience made the parable that came in this morning's gospel reading (Luke 13:6-9) particularly striking (being based on the picture of giving a plant a little longer but only so much to bear fruit)!
Oxcleaning
Was out this morning litter picking as part of the Oxclean initiative... the streets are a little bit cleaner now
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