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We have been making smothies at home.

They are great

Having heard some of the revoulting things that other people put into smoothies, we have three cardinal rules:

1. No sugar

2. No milk

3. No ice cream

Never ever ever. Simple. OK so there is a fourth rule, that is fairly obvious, which is

4. Use whatever is in the fruit bowl. 

So far we have invented three smooties.

The first, and probably the best was:

The red one 

Blueberries (small pot)

Raspberries (big pot)

Bannanas (one)

Mango (whole one)

Ice cubes and a bit of water

Score out of 10 was 9.

The Pale one

Water Mellon (quarter)

Apple (one)

Bannanas (two)

A few local plums (six)

Kiwi fruit (two)

Ice cubes and a bit of water

Pretty yummy, but average colour

Score out of 10 was 6

The Green One

Melon (half)

Apple (two)

Bqannana (one)

Lemons (two) Zest of one

Ice cubes

Glass of water

Score out of 10 was 5

More soon….

Giles and Daisy.

I’m pleased to be alive after surfing reef breaks with my brother in fuerteventura.

We went with a company called Extreme Sports - who provided a fantastic instructor, who pushed us just enough to stretch us, scare us a little bit and generally have a fantastic week.

We surfed different breaks most days; there can be a little bit of trouble with localism, but if you are carefull and don’t surf the well known breaks its OK.

Just washed my wetsuit, and wondering when I’m going to get a chance to go again.

 WIRE — Reciva and Treedia Labs today announced their partnership to deliver an enhanced range of podcasts to Internet radios and connected devices.Treedia Labs develops solutions and portals around its unique digital media aggregation and distribution platform. Partnerships with companies such as Liquid Air Labs, Motorola and Reciva along with portals such as Podcast.com (http://podcast.com) leverage Treedia’s unique platform to “hyper-distribute” content to the web, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

Reciva is the technology provider behind most of the world’s WiFi Internet radio devices available in the market today. More than 40 consumer electronics companies including British Telekom, Bush, Intempo, Revo, Sangean and Tangent use Reciva’s technology platform making Reciva the clear leader in the market for next generation radios.

Whilst on the Radiofeeds web site, I noticed that you can register with them to enable your Reciva radios can use the UK radiofeeds list, in addition to the standard Reciva list.  The radiofeeds list is a smaller more qualified list with just the mainstream broadcasters included, so you don’t have to search through so many small stations on your radio. Radiofeeds use the podcast feature of Reciva radios to supply lists of WMA, RealPlayer and MP3 streams available in the UK.

 You will need to register at radiofeeds  - make sure you provide your full name and type of radio, and they will send you a username to paste onto the end of the podcast streams. The podcast stream information is provided after registration.

It works well.  I have an AE radio using the list right now.

There is a good review of the Tangent Quattro here, along with information about how to sign up for a MyStuff  account at Reciva.

Signing up for an account at Reciva lets you use the greater search features found on their web site, to find Internet radio stations you like, and add them to your own list of favourites. If you register your radios serial number, then that same favourites list shows up on the your Reciva radios!

See how a Tangent Quattro internet radio works here:

http://kampanja.pisa.fi/avk/quattro/index.html 

Enjoy

Out of date I know, but there is a slide show here that describes how last.fm built the largest online music social network, that will be of interest to anyone trying to start or interested in a social networking/ online business.

A short clip of the Cantabs head race we took part in today  - 17th Nov 08.

See here

I read with interest the disruption caused by British rock band Radiohead releasing their latest album In Rainbows via their own web site.  This challenges various aspects of the established business models, in that they are not using a label to release their music which means that they are free to charge what they want. 

When you visit the Radiohead site, you are given the option to choose how much you pay for the album, in an attempt to reduce on-line piracy. However digg have indicated that large numbers of the album were pirated rather than downloaded from their site.  I am not surprised about this, as old habbits die hard, and it will take some time for people who use file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay and TorrentSpy, to change their habbits. 

In the first week over 500,000 illegal copies were made compared to the 1.2 million legitimate pre-orders and downloads.  Forbes reported that Doug Litchman, an Intellectual property profressor at UCLA suggested that “users may have interpreted Radiohead’s offer as a giveaway and so felt more comfortable downloading the album from other free sources”, and that people were not comfortable providing their email address and postal addresses in exchange for the music, something required by the Radiohead web site.

I have just finished  creating a MySQL database and installing wordpress, so that I can begin my blog.

So far the process has been fairly straightforwards, but lets see if it worked!