21 October 2016

Royters News: Now what do we do?

A massive DDOS attack (from of a hacking attack) has brought down a lot of social media as well streaming sites like Netflix, Spotify in the US. On a Friday evening! No less!!

Now people have been left with no choice but to (gasp!) talk to each other. Unfortunately, most of their sentences so far have been constructed with the words – “Like”, “Retweet”, “Share” and “Pound Sign” :-)(Apparently some did not get the memo that it is called HashTag πŸ™‚ )

https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-outage-dyn-ddos-attack-twitter-spotify/

16 October 2016

From the bartender’s corner – Rusty Nail

While various predecessors of this drinks – BIF, D&S, Little Club 1, Mig-21 to name some – existed since the 1930s, the final formulation of a Rusty Nail is credited to the bartenders at Club 21 in Manhattan in the early ’60s. And this got the final seal of approval when it was mentioned in New York Times by the chairwoman of Drambuie Liqueur Company.

This very traditional cocktail comprises of Scotch and Drambuie (which itself is a Scotch based liqueur very rich in herbs, honey and spices).

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14 October 2016

Run in the dark!

Have a very full day today. So finished my run this morning in pitch darkness on the dirt roads near my house. We shall not talk about what was that cold thing I felt in my feet and we shall certainly not talk about what I might have stepped into that make my shoes stink to high heaven πŸ™‚

But I did achieve a first time feat – a week of seven consecutive (daily) 10K runs…

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