Hangouts questions...

When using Hangouts on mobile, and I later see the chat in my browser pop-up, the images in the mobile hangout are not visible in the browser – just links to them are there instead.  Is it possible to show images?

Also, is there an Hangouts community that isn’t a pick-up joint? 🙂

Thanks.

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The biggest swell in decades hit Puerto Escondido at the beginning of May. The death-defying wipeouts that followed were humbling, to say the least.

Week In Review: http://srfer.co/SL7GmH

    Forbes summary article on S6 bloatware

…which is convincing enough for me to rule out another Samsung phone as my next choice. I expect I’ll go Nexus or Moto.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/03/28/samsung-galaxy-s6-galaxy-s6-edges-bloatware/2/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/03/28/samsung-galaxy-s6-galaxy-s6-edges-bloatware/2/

    Internet under attack.  Again.

As if BT’s attempt to patent the hyperlink[1] wasn’t bad enough, now we have movements in the shadows to prevent linking at all.  This goes against the quintessential fabric of the internet itself, and is stupid.

If your average copyright holder is truly so upset that part of their content gets copied into a search result snippet, why don’t they just stick it all behind a paywall and be done with it.  

     

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/bt-loses-hyperlink-patent-case/

https://savethelink.org/save-link

View from the Admiralty Buildings, Grenwich
View from the Admiralty Buildings, Greenwich (22 Mar 2015)

Despite it’s controversial history and, some might argue, “dodgy” financial underpinning, I can’t help but admire Greenwich.  It’s a part of London relatively untouched by the progress of time; where the city-at-large surrounding it has left it be, as a kind of comforting “nod” back to its imperial glory.

These days, of course, it’s not the done thing to refer to the British Empire as glorious.  Oh no, that’s far, far too politically incorrect.  Instead, we must loosely use in reference words such as “enslaving”, “pillaging”, “disempowering”  and, simply, “colonising”.

Such are the mists of time, allowing us  now to moralise on a spirit of adventure and exploration, taking for granted that the world is now known, the risk of travel is small and our collective enlightenment a “given”.

Yet I pause for thought when considering the next leap into the unknown – space, and what harvests me may assume ours to take and do with as we please.

If ever there was a time to unify people towards common goals, for the betterment of us all, now is it.

    Despite it’s controversial history and, some might argue, “dodgy” financial underpinning, I can’t help but admire Greenwich.  It’s a part of London relatively untouched by the progress of time; where the city-at-large surrounding it has left it be, as a…

http://stevedowe.me/2015/05/greenwich-time.html

I’ve decided I need to dance more in my life.  Being a techy-programmer-web_developing-CEO-type, there is so little time anyway.  With the remainder, I usually indulge in sci-fi, walking the dog, eating… and occasionally sleeping too.  Yet, being almost an artificial intelligence by any reckoning, I can tell you that Androids are too busy to dream.

Well, this has to stop!  No more sleeping!  Only raving.  It’s essential.

A trip to Miami is essential too.  After all, you can’t be all the time!