So, Google Reader is shutting down

Which has to be the most frustrating news I've heard in some time, as it's what I use as my gateway to the entire internet. I have 85 feeds set up, from sections of the BBC and The Independent, to individuals link feeds. RSS is the glue that brings the internet together for me.

And so here is a collection of discussions from around the web, so that I can comb through it later for recommendations for alternatives:
Metafilter.
Reddit
More Reddit
Hacker News

What _I_ want is a web-based feed reader that syncs to both desktop and Android clients. Preferably with keyboard access.

I will pay a subscription fee for this, and would have happily thrown Google Reader $10/year for this.

So far Newsblur seems to be in the lead, but I want to look around before making a decision.

Oh, and _all_ of the sites have been knocked offline, as people fleeing Google Reader try to log into them at once. *sigh*

Interesting Links for 14-03-2013

• The Dark Knight Rises was the best selling movie of 2012. Still beaten by Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Fifa 13.
  (tags: music games uk movies media )
• Rape investigations are undermined by the false belief that false accusations are rife.
  (tags: police rape )
• I had no idea there was such a charge as "Recklessly producing household electricity"
  (tags: law scotland electricity )
• A one-way loop for buses is being planned for Edinburgh's city centre
  (tags: buses edinburgh transport )
• The Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter. How long until we see a big movie funded this way?
  (tags: movies kickstarter )
• Hunting the spurious Eostre Hare
  (tags: easter myths )
• Labour admit it would keep the Bedroom Tax. (Although in a better form.)
  (tags: politics uk labour )
• A brief introduction to Dr Who
  (tags: viaJennieRigg funny drwho )
• HEAVILY ARMED SEX CRAZED DOLPHINS on RAMPAGE in Black Sea
  (tags: sex awesome dolphins )
• The Scottish Government is locking up trans men for not revealing their gender history to partners. Have a petition.
  (tags: law scotland petition lgbt )
• Bemused cat surrounded by puppies.
  (tags: puppies cat )
• A story about trying to do the right thing spawns a hilarious comment thread
  (tags: funny comments )
• Using handsfree kit is equivalent to half the legal limit of alcohol. Texting, much worse.
  (tags: alcohol driving phones )
• If we can't afford for people to be disabled, what's the plan?
  (tags: austerity uk disabilities welfare )
• The new pope was complicit in dreadful crimes in Argentina.
  (tags: argentina catholicism crime OhForFucksSake pope )
• The Health Secretary just banned gagging clauses in NHS severance packages. Huzzah!
  (tags: transparency uk nhs )
• Germany stands to lose a fortune if the Euro collapses. So why isn't it doing more?
  (tags: europe germany euro )
• Demographic time bomb: Government woefully underprepared to deal with Britain's aging population
  (tags: uk age demographics )
• The smartphone that costs $40 to make, and sells for $65.
  (tags: android phones )
• Revised Estimate is 7 light years to the Nearest potentially habitable planet
  (tags: life astronomy )

Game of Thrones: 1995 Style

Fantastic job with the VHS wobble there.

It's nice to know I'm so predictable.

I'm trying to get Tiny Tiny RSS installed on my webspace, on the grounds that it's self-hosted, and thus not vulnerable to the whims of capricious companies.

And I bump into some oddness around PHP, so the obvious first step is to ensure I have the correct version installed. A quick google tells me that putting a one-liner into a file and sticking it on the server will give me that information.

So I save it into a file called "info.php" and drop it in a folder, hit the upload button on my webspace's file browser, and it tells me that I already have a file called info.php. From 2008. Which turns out to have exactly that one line blob in it.

I assume that I was installing something back then (possibly RoundCube, when I was looking into better email front ends, before I migrated the backing store for ducker.org.uk to GMail) and needed to check exactly the same thing. And had the same thought process.