This is a great visualisation of how London would look after rising sea levels. The infographic greatly ties in the globally familiar tube map with the new level of the Thames.

The graphic was created for Practical Action, the development charity with a difference.

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As the Google algorithims shift around I note my personal site is now at the top. Not really a surprise but if you are looking for the professional me, try Digital Tomorrow Today , look through my published articles or connect with me on Linkedin.

 

I’ll be back to continue the 30 day song challenge soon

Crikey, how to start the challenge with a toughie. I have many favorite songs, for many favorite reasons so picking one above all else is tough.

I think therefore it has to be Baker Street. I remember this song as being unlike anything I had heard of before which had a lasting impact on me. (Other songs that sounded like nothing else included Games Without Frontiers).

What I love about this song is the depth. There is a real feeling of depth on this record, something I struggle to explain easily but that velvety feeling you sometimes get with a record. Other songs with depth would be ‘If you leave me now‘ by Chicago and ‘Golden Brown‘ by The Stranglers.)

I only realised on Gerry’s death that Baker Street was inspired by Gerry’s own struggles to deal with previous success. Of course this made him an even bigger star!

Enjoy.

My friend Ross introduced me to the 30 day song challenge. The challenge, found on Facebook asks you to name a different song each day for 30 days. Each day the song is different, in this order:

day 01 – your favorite song | Baker Street

day 02 – your least favorite song | Dignity

day 03 – a song that makes you happy

day 04 – a song that makes you sad

day 05 – a song that reminds you of someone

day 06 – a song that reminds you of somewhere

day 07 – a song that reminds you of a certain event

day 08 – a song that you know all the words to

day 09 – a song that you can dance to

day 10 – a song that makes you fall asleep

day 11 – a song from your favorite band

day 12 – a song from a band you hate

day 13 – a song that is a guilty pleasure

day 14 – a song that no one would expect you to love

day 15 – a song that describes you

day 16 – a song that you used to love but now hate

day 17 – a song that you hear often on the radio

day 18 – a song that you wish you heard on the radio

day 19 – a song from your favorite album

day 20 – a song that you listen to when you’re angry

day 21 – a song that you listen to when you’re happy

day 22 – a song that you listen to when you’re sad

day 23 – a song that you want to play at your wedding

day 24 – a song that you want to play at your funeral

day 25 – a song that makes you laugh

day 26 – a song that you can play on an instrument

day 27 – a song that you wish you could play

day 28 – a song that makes you feel guilty

day 29 – a song from your childhood

day 30 – your favorite song at this time last year

So I am going to play along and [try to] post a new song every day along these lines. Feel free to comment, laugh or cry along with me

 

 

I consume content every day and work hard to archive the key elements of knowledge that I may wish to read again or use at a later date.

To that end, I bookmark extensively with Delicious , clip content to Evernote , and read content offline with Instapaper. I also favorite a lot of tweets for future reading, mainly because they have interesting articles I wish to read and ‘bank’ for a later use.

But when it comes to looking for content or information, I still Google first. I have to remind myself to check Delicious, evernote and Instapaper as well.

So this started me thinking, I want the ability to centralise all my sources into one easily searchable place.  So, I started thinking about ‘creating’ my own search engine. A quick Google showed me that wasn’t to be an easy task so I started thinking about how I could centralise my sources to feed into my Google search results when I typed.

This is where I have got to:

1. Use Evernote & Chrome

Evernote has a Chrome Plugin that allows you to both crop articles and also to include Evernote results in your Google results.

This is a great service as it means my Evernote articles are queried for every Google query I make. As you can see the results will indicate if I have articles of relevance but I have to click through to see the results. Not perfect but a good start.

2. Feed Evernote

As I am not able to use Evernote for all my ‘digital filing’ I need to feed what I can to Evernote. After a bit of searching, it seems I cannot simply feed Evernote with RSS feeds (no that would be too easy.) So, I need to feed them through email.

For this I have been using two functions:

i. For emails I use Gmail’s Filter function to forward specific emails (newsletters, press releases) directly to Evernote.

ii. For RSS feeds I convert them through Feed my Inbox. I then send them to my Gmail account and using Filters, send them into Evernote.

Now I am feeding about 100 articles a day into Evernote, I can start to achieve a more personalised search experience.

It is not perfect and I do hope someone comments with a ‘just do this’ solution which will make it much cleaner. Have you tried personalising your search? Do let me know how you get on