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Google not eating dogfood

I got a very early invite to Google+ from a friend at Google. Of my many friends at Google, he is apparently the only one who signed up for Google+. This is not a good sign. Update: A Googly person has informed me that this might be related to a known bug in this early release, in that nearly everyone at Google is using Google+.

Radio Radio, without the second Radio

Before the Attractions, Elvis Costello was in a little band called "Flip City". Someone unearthed a demo tape they made, and you can hear Elvis just before he took on the rough-n-tough nerd persona for his debut on Stiff Records. Flip City had a few songs that later morphed into early EC songs, notably "Radio Soul", which clearly was the genesis for Radio Radio. (Ignore the Jacksons-sounding intro; the lyrics are on par with Radio Radio.)

Paul Simon covers

Was never a huge Paul Simon fan, but loved him as much as most people my age(ish) did. Here's a great collection of covers of some of his best known songs from an wide variety of folks.

How to write a book or other very long document

Do so without a word processor. Use some text editor and splash LaTeX in at the end. I assure you that the LaTeX part will suck; I also assure you that it will suck less than Word or OpenOffice destroying your document and you can't even figure out which previous version to use. The versioning step can also be a bit tricky but worth learning to do, particularly with a good program like Versions. As for backing up: I often tell friends who I know don't back up that they can't call me with any tech support questions until they do. That has worked in more cases than I thought it would...