Sometimes you just want a peanut burrito...
Originally shared by David Barnett
Pass the salsa! We noticed a squirrel in our back yard eating something huge. It turned out to be an entire tortilla.



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Is there anything we can do to help hacked Wordpress installations that have pharma ads? As you can see below it's impacting sharing to G+:
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This has been going on for *years*, I've personally had to burn down and rebuild many WP blogs for friends. (and multiple times due to backdoors). (Read more about it at http://
What can we do? Are we still running netagent to detect spam cloaking? Can we detect spammy links/text and refetch? Should Google+ ignore spore and just refetch using it's own user-agent (ick!)?
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Sometimes you just want a peanut burrito...
Originally shared by David Barnett
Pass the salsa! We noticed a squirrel in our back yard eating something huge. It turned out to be an entire tortilla.



Can GFEs do more than basic redirects? Like mod_rewrite? It seems like it'd be super useful. For example:
https://
could be redirected to
https://
It appears the the path_redirects only allow for path->absolute redirections.. Happy to be proven wrong.
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Someone needs to convert to Google+ sign-in...
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Just found my next cleanup
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@Nullable Present<T> means nothing...
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It's the _green_ room show room.
Check out those snazzy animate-in effects...
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Social Score pipeline visualization. I think Alexandria is the slow draining bathtub...
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Ever wonder what the "brick circles" are in San Francisco? Wonder no more.
For more technical details you can read this writeup which goes into the various failsafe mechanisms involved:
Though I wonder if they're still using a SCADA system connected to a VAX 4000 to run their pumps?
When did we hire Lady Penelope?
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Sadly it appears we may need to add (like facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+https://
to our fetch requests...
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Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Julie & I spent a fine evening at Pizzaiolo which had a March 32nd themed menu with dishes we won't see till next year, including their special Italian spring break cocktail sesso sulla spiaggia.
Two bytes are sitting in a bar. One says: "I'm not feeling so well. I think I might have a parity error."
"Yeah," says the other, "I thought you looked a bit off."
(found in the latest DNA Lounge mailing...)
"Google should just buy stuff for me" -- Sergey at a TGIF a while back.
... or Takeout for subscription services
Think about Spotify, Rdio, Netflix, HBO and other content subscription services. Once you stop paying you have nothing left. Takeout is nothing more than references to a paywall.
A way to disrupt this might be to structure systems to reward you with ownership of a portion of the catalog each month. Examples:
- Your most listened song or TV show.
- The ebook you shared the most.
- etc.
Then when your subscription period ends you get to keep the fruits of this relationship.
In many ways this is like the Columbia House[1] or BMG music club. You get a free thing each month by default. You can sample the entire catalog, or get more if you want. But you're always *owning* something new and interesting each month.
[1]
Intuit's market cap is $20B. If the government bought them and sold off the non tax related assets the return on investment would be less than 5 years.
That's how a government run like a business would operate...
If you're a wikipedia contributor you might be interested in this feature request...
Here's another episode of the fun with stopcharacters for #musicmonday
Last time we covered the curious case of "ke ha"
Today we have someone that's truly ungoogleable. He's Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name "-M-" (that's dash, M, dash) Go ahead, try searching for that, you won't find it on Google, Youtube, or Play. Not even Dailymotion or Fnac.
This is sad because less people see and hear his high-energy rock&roll played on a pacman-ghost guitar. Enjoy!
Should a search for -M- (a french musician of some note) work?
I had to actually search for M disambiguation to find this:
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Google, remember this....
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So go/babble exists.. It's basically "Readability" for English (and I'm glad there's no such requirement..)
I did learn a little bit, specifically the source of "do the needful".
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This out-of-print audio book is a must-listen.
Brought to my attention by Julie Lindner via a Gibson retweet.
Note that a 5-disc CD version was made - we have one.
Free Pie on π day...
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
MTV-40-2-Seville Tech Talk (155) VC
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Another shuttle ride close-call! ... and my most strenuous exercise of the day.
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Only a week to go until the radio play of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere on BBC Radio 4. It has quite the all star cast:
New widgets refactor code-name: Sprockets
Your widgets have become tiresome.
It evokes SNL, the Jetsons, and a tooth'd gear.
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So had a four hour power outage last night. Pretty sure we're down to 2 nines of availability for the year.
You'd think with all the new Smart Meters that
Pacific Gas and Electric Company should accurately know about power outages in near real time. Instead of alerting on their usage graphs it appears that the primary feedback mechanism is phone calls.
I've asked for a callback. When I do I'll post it to the Postmortems community. Ought to be interesting...
Thinking of posting this externally.... Already left as a comment on a post. I think it might help people understand what's at stake.. I just need to find a creative commons image of dollars in a mattress :)
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Keeping all your data on your own hard drive? Do you keep your money in your mattress?
Just like most of us keep our money in a bank/credit union, most of us should keep our data in a trusted place and only carry around what we need at a given moment.
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Anyone know how to debug gmail issues? I don't know which dogfood just bit me.
All of a sudden I saw my mail in my inbox dissappearing 4-5 per second inside the offline gmail chrome app. First time I ever saw the 'happy sun' image which I assume is what you get when your inbox is empty.
Not sure if it's the Chrome app or the dogfood android or something else.
All inboxen are affected back to Feb 19.
Also if you sent me email and need a response ping me on chat until I sort this out...
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No, this isn't today's doodle. It is some very creative high-speed liquid photography.
Originally shared by Alex Koloskov
Behind the shot video:
Have one can of blue paint left, should we shoot Facebook from it? :-)
The grandfathers of Grunge are back on a new Sub Pop Records release 25 years after their first.
Thanks to Pixbear
If you hit a bug too many time your IP gets DoS-blocked which makes Google+ unusable. Ouch...
The funny thing is that the /jserror and /reporthttp4xxerror endpoints also end up getting blocked so our backends won't allow us to detect this behavior.
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#gpluswishlist
Automatically create a reverse-time sorted youtube playlist for videos posted to a community. Allow you to subscribe to it like a podcast.
Automatically create a photo album for all photos posted to a community.
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Hi fine folks at Montclair Vet clinic. You should merge your Google+ page with your local page here:
I work for Google and am happy to help you out if you want.
Paul Lindner
It's working fine on my Sony
Google TV Friends, Apr 14 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com