fahrenheit 451

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November 25

Fixing missing/deleted Feedburner feeds in my Google Account


A quick note to share how I resolved my problem with disappearing RSS feeds when migrating from Feedburner to Google Apps for Domains. (RSS is the syndication bit that makes this blog appear in your reader.)
 
Back in May when forced to migrate from the Feedburner service to the… Google Feedburner service I needed to associate my old username with a Google Account. I chose to use a Google Apps account, i.e. my own domain name, and thought nothing of it. When I finally came to look for my feeds I couldn’t find them under my ‘new’ account nor my ‘old’ username. They’d gone, and it was looking like they were gone for good - although the feeds themselves still existed. 
 
Google support is notably flaky when things go wrong (fair enough, I’m not paying for the service but I’m also wise enough to back up the important stuff, particularly email). Hours of searching left me none the wiser until I landed on this page.
 
Searching for “gtempaccount.com” in my old emails showed that I have another Google account called username%domain.com@gtempaccount.com - whoda thought it? - which, when I finally figured out the password, was found to have those ‘missing’ feeds. Confusingly the email address for this ‘temp’ account appears the same as the one for my ‘regular’ account. Nonetheless I was able to transfer the feeds and double-check that I do still have two subscribers. Phew.
 
Good luck if you’re stuck in the same situation.

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November 14

We’re off to see (if we can see) the Northern Lights from Tromso this weekend. I wonder if they’ll be a tenth as spectacular as this. (Via Urban75.)

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March 21

Thanks to young Upstart for a loan of this documentary which presents a partisan, engaging defence of modernist public architecture. I mention it here partly as it’s rather interesting, and also as I learnt through it that the 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was shot on the Alton Estate in Roehampton. This may mean little to non-South West Londoners, but I was tickled to know how this dystopian vision of the future, referenced in the title of this electronic page of toss, was filmed so close to home (and so close to the homes of the current leadership who seem so keen to bring that dystopian vision inches closer to reality).

(Source: vimeo.com)

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If you are, say, a hot air balloon pilot used to flying without permission in the South East of England, then you’re in for a big shock between 13 July and 12 September 2012 as you’ll suddenly be required to deal with the ‘Relevant Control Authority’. Orwellian and ominous. 

If you are, say, a hot air balloon pilot used to flying without permission in the South East of England, then you’re in for a big shock between 13 July and 12 September 2012 as you’ll suddenly be required to deal with the ‘Relevant Control Authority’. Orwellian and ominous. 

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March 18
“ I blog the same way I make love. Infrequently but spectacularly. Or should that be, badly and you’ve seen it all before. Either way, with the best will in the world I can’t seem to make it happen more than once every three weeks to a month. I’m talking about this blog now. Adam Buxton on the challenges of writing regular toss when the real, money-paying world gets in the way.
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November 6
Food Porn, or How to Shoot Ugly Food. There is often a mismatch between how food looks, and how food tastes, especially if it’s intermediated by my cooking skills. Here’s an interesting NYT blog about the professional’s approach to glamourising carbs and starches.  The photo above was my attempt to show how unattractive airline food can be. Pea… mousse?, anybody?

Food Porn, or How to Shoot Ugly Food.

There is often a mismatch between how food looks, and how food tastes, especially if it’s intermediated by my cooking skills. Here’s an interesting NYT blog about the professional’s approach to glamourising carbs and starches. 

The photo above was my attempt to show how unattractive airline food can be. Pea… mousse?, anybody?

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May 27
Take a close look: is this an orchestral score? The Da Vinci code? Nope, it’s one of God-in-waiting Craig Venter’s previous synthetic genome applications - a map of Mycoplasma genitalium (snigger). Is it possible to patent life? 1,000 words on my desk by Friday, thank you. Via Steve van Dulken’s always interesting British Library Patent Blog

Take a close look: is this an orchestral score? The Da Vinci code? Nope, it’s one of God-in-waiting Craig Venter’s previous synthetic genome applications - a map of Mycoplasma genitalium (snigger). Is it possible to patent life? 1,000 words on my desk by Friday, thank you.

Via Steve van Dulken’s always interesting British Library Patent Blog

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May 22
“AND ER VICTOR GOLF ECHO WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM A MAJOR POWER PROBLEM IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE’RE ER GOING IN WE’RE GOING IN. You’ve just taken off and think one or both of your engines have failed. You try and restart them whilst circuiting to return to the airfield. You realise you’re not going to make it. What’s going through your mind? Who do you think of? What do you say? The transcripts of flight deck conversation on BA038 shortly before crashing at Heathrow have not been released, apparently out of respect for the crew (although the Air Traffic Control audio is worth listening to for the calm manner in which the event was handled); now we can read the transcript of a Cessna Citation crash at Biggin Hill. In a situation that’s almost impossible to imagine, the crew attempt to return to the runway before realising they’re “going in”. And it was all because of a faulty bearing in an airconditioning unit.

“AND ER VICTOR GOLF ECHO WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM A MAJOR POWER PROBLEM IT LOOKS AS THOUGH WE’RE ER GOING IN WE’RE GOING IN.

You’ve just taken off and think one or both of your engines have failed. You try and restart them whilst circuiting to return to the airfield. You realise you’re not going to make it. What’s going through your mind? Who do you think of? What do you say?

The transcripts of flight deck conversation on BA038 shortly before crashing at Heathrow have not been released, apparently out of respect for the crew (although the Air Traffic Control audio is worth listening to for the calm manner in which the event was handled); now we can read the transcript of a Cessna Citation crash at Biggin Hill. In a situation that’s almost impossible to imagine, the crew attempt to return to the runway before realising they’re “going in”.

And it was all because of a faulty bearing in an airconditioning unit.

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February 4
“ The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more Gabriel Zaid quoted in Nick Hornby’s The Complete Polysyballic Spree
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February 3
BBC News - Today - Audio slideshow: 'Shaped by War'

‘I don’t want to be remembered as a war photographer’
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