Life after Google reader

Dave Cloud

So it’s finally going, should have left it when they swapped RSS publication for Google Plus only. Here’s the then alternatives …

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Berlin

Dave Travel

I originally wrote this for me, and used it to record stuff I need to plan and visit the city.  It’s still pretty much the same. It might be useful for others. I first stayed there at the end of the summer 2005. We stayed at the art’otel mitte im Mitte and visited the centre…

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Sharing my Reading List

Dave Life & Death

I used to use books.livingsocial.com but they’ve gone away. I revisited this page in January 2014, and added that WordPress have at least one plugin, here is one called Currently Reading Book and this link, How to get an RSS feed out of an Amazon wish list, does what it says which may help on…

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Feed Aggregation, paper.li and storify

Dave Technology

I am considering a revamp of my web site. I am planning to rely more on dynamic content mainly hosted in this wiki and on the blog. One item of research is how to present my bookmarks and microblog articles. I thought I was interested in paper.li vs stori.fy. Here is a google search, storify…

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Modding in NWN, a custom helmet

Dave Games, NWN

I need to do some NWN modding. The first project I set myself looks harder than it should. I want to remodel the NWN1 Thayvian Circlet, to be a circlet. It’s currently a helmet.

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Belbin Teams

Dave Business

I have been aware of this important insight into team management and motivation for years, but I need to use it as part of a presentation I am building. I say, Strong Teams are based on a balanced blend of imperfect players. And I found these links Google Search on “Belbin team” Team Roles at…

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NWN – Some Modules

Dave Games, NWN

There’s only so many times one can play the official campaigns and after about 4 years I began to look for additional content. Obviously I have the Kingmaker Expansions, but for various reasons I decided to look further. This page is impacted by the bioware hack and also by the collapse/destruction of the original vault….

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Zurich

Dave Travel

The financial & commercial capital of German speaking Switzerland. I needed to visit on business, in Jan 2007, and returned 13 months later. In 2010, it began to be a second home, travelling through it to Zermatt (flickr pictures) and Budapest (flickr pictures) and needing to work on projects in Zurich West. When I started…

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Ripping BBC iplayer

Dave software, Technology

For some reason, I wanted to capture a BBC iplayer stream onto my hard disk; it looks like I was planning to use my MAC, and so didn’t because I would have needed to upgrade the MAC OS version to 10.6 or better. Please note I am a BBC license fee payer, although of course…

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zbench

Dave software, Technology

In 2012, I chose to use Zbench as my theme for the my then revised blog. I used it for a number of years until I migrated the blog to Nulis. I documented some aspects of the move on a wiki article, which now holds some history as comments. In 2023, I transferred some main…

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