Years ago, I used a recipe from Sunset Magazine in the 70s or maybe 80s, was so great I cooked it up every time I got down to a jar or two of the previous batch - Cranberry Chutney…. had cranberries, pears, apples, onions, celery, spices…. SO much more flavorful than plain ol’ relish.
Well, I lost the recipe somehow. So for the last 10 years or so, I haven’t had any chutney. Every few months I’ve gone looking. I even resorted at one point to calling Sunset and asking if they could drag it out of the archives for me…. they couldn’t find it.
Well, tonight (my 3rd search of a few hours duration this year) I FOUND IT. I’m back in business! Thanks to the internet and Google.
Just one more reason for net neut to stay alive and well….
Don’t know that anyone else has ever paid much attention to this sort of thing.
Hummingbirds and dolphins sound a lot alike….
And so do Enya et al and Deva Premal - and I’m not talking about voice. I’m talking about the “soundex” both languages use (that is, how the words sound when spoken/sung)….
is a big part of trying to contain the spam we’re all inundated with on a minute-by-minute basis. But y’know what? I *think*…. pandora is using something similar to allow me to “tweak” my likes (thumbs up!) and dislikes (thumbs down!) as time goes on.
Of course I’m a pretty new account/user. But already I’m noticing that there are far fewer thumbs down choices than thumbs up ones. Which sounds like Bayesian tech to me…. or something remarkably similar.
I really didn’t. But bj’s right…. this is exactly the sort of thing we’ll never see again if net neutrality gets submarined.
Since I started using Pandora Internet Radio, I’ve hit Amazon a few times to check availability of cds, etc. Today I see that the ads showing in the Amazon section when I’ve got the player running are ads which actually pertain to “my sort” of music.
Now is this a good thing? Or not? I guess it’s all of a piece with the rest of the “no privacy left without mega-intervention” situation….
which are guaranteed to make me cry. Period. No stopping for second thoughts, or reasons why.
Chariots of Fire by Vangelis…. Colors of the Wind by Vanessa Williams…. Simple Gifts by anyone in the world….
Makes it hard to listen to music sometimes….
After a partial server/provider move that turned out “wrong” for so very many reasons, I thought we’d just have to stay with Below10, even though they’ve done some seriously wonky stuff in the last few months - stuff that prevented most of the php scripts we use on a daily basis from working.
Then I ran across Network Redux who provide more space/bandwidth, and the same cPanel I’m familiar with for years now (which Mosso did not, having their own proprietary one - and which would not have made our clients happy, being functionality-limited and practically stats-program-less!) NR migrated our whole reseller setup (into separate accounts, mine and my daughter/business partner’s, instead of having them munged as we’d had before) in about 2 hours total - and sorted out the minor confusions we had due to different ways of handling support etc.
So things are back in working order, and were “out of order” for such a short time no one even noticed. I still rather resent that Below10 forced this move, but then again, without change life would be no fun, ain’t?
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