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Had a great day/eve out with good friends in London yesterday celebrating #50th #T

Cringely's (@cringely) predictions: a look back at Bob’s predictions for 2014 #tech #T Waiting for his 2015 ones. http://www.cringely.com/2015/01/09/first-look-back-bobs-predictions-2014/

Star Wars: Episode VII Trailer - George Lucas' Sp…: http://youtu.be/v93Jh6JNBng #starwars #T http://youtu.be/v93Jh6JNBng

10 Hours of Princess Leia Walking in NYC: http://youtu.be/7DCDYSJwwE4 #T Rather brilliant & yet not to undermine the message of the original. http://youtu.be/7DCDYSJwwE4

Danny Macaskill: The Ridge: http://youtu.be/xQ_IQS3VKjA #T Hey Charlie Adams ! http://youtu.be/xQ_IQS3VKjA

Ice Bucket Challenge: http://youtu.be/UKk5wuKI5hk #T http://youtu.be/UKk5wuKI5hk

Lost & Found: Bill Frisell's ES-175: http://youtu.be/u4HGTWj3DDo #jazz #frisell #T This is the lovely & rather moving story of Bill Frisell's reunion with an early guitar he learned on. More here: http://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/online/lost-found-bill-frisells-es-175 http://youtu.be/u4HGTWj3DDo

Happy Father's Day Bill Adams #T https://play.google.com/music/m/Tngfd5swvvurx77kr5tqpj7amiu

VoteMatch: Great Tool for exploring EU voting info/options #T "... tests your political preference based on how you respond to 26 statements." This looks like a great tool to investigate the parties' positions and test your own views. I'm increasingly a GREEN these days (can't understand how anyone who's educated themselves on resource depletion and climate change can be anything else). I rather like their generally left-ish/liberal-ish social stance and attitude on promoting genuine democracy... I've probably got a bit more "commercial liberalism" about me these days (than a typical Greeny)... properly regulated markets are effective. Greens also on the right side of "Net Neutrality" (i.e. they are PRO stopping the comms carriers breaking the Internet) - unlike ALL the other parties (except LibDems). So - that suggests a big swing to UKIP/BNP in the UK Euro elections - as whatever I vote for is always the opposite of everyone else. ht...

Business News: NASDAQ MANU (Manchester United Ltd) to appoint new mid-tier VP of Soccerball #T #MANU #Moyes The NASDAQ quoted entertainment company Manchester United Ltd are to replace the manager of their soccerball team - a mid-level executive role. The soccerball team are part of the sporting arm of the corporation and as such play a not insignificant role in the generation of revenues via sponsorship, television contracts and merchandising. Parts of the consumer base  (formally known as "fans" but in recent times recognised as a "large, passionate community provides Manchester United with a worldwide platform to generate significant revenue from multiple sources, including sponsorship, merchandising, product licensing, new media & mobile, broadcasting and matchday") appeared to misunderstand their relationship with the club and its decision making processes - apparently unaware that all such mid-management executive staffing announcements must be made to su...

Worth a listen if you are into your alt.70s.Glam.Rock/universes #T https://soundcloud.com/h-i-male/tony-visconti-reads-from-etc

*"WARNING: [Installation] Succeeded:"* How do people put up with this Windows server stuff?   #T I am setting up a Windows Server Environment (for work) and I just had to use the Powershell (lol "power") to run a command and it terminated with that message. Installing s/w on Windows just hurts. Why can't I do "apt-get install" :(

Burroughs at 100 #T    #BBCRadio4   #Burroughs    Just listened to this on iplayer. Very good.  (Adult themes and words!). _"Iggy Pop reflects on Burroughs' extraordinary life with close friends and artists that felt his influence."- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v9p0x

Happy Birthday David Bowie :) #T http://www.davidbowie.com/news/happy-birthday-david-bowie-and-wawn-52856

Wisdom: Good article on the business of dumb viral 'news' sites/stories/posts. #T We, the audience, need to stop clicking/sharing this crap but that requires intelligence & judgement, both apparently in short supply. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/we-broke-the-internet?src=soc_twtr

Latest from Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen. #T Appears not to be available via streaming services... I may have to buy it! Getting 5 star reviews - e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/24/arve-henriksen-places-worship-review See also: http://www.arvehenriksen.com/ https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/arve-henriksen-saraswati?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=googleplus