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Thanks to Luis Reyes at AutoNotion (sorry the Headline is too long)

So to process all this data generated by us we need servers. Servers need electricity and water( to cool them down). Microsoft trialed having a server in the coastal waters off Scotland which worked well for them, using the surrounding sea water to cool the servers and an efficient wind powered electricity supply. The underwater tube was hermetically sealed so and pumped full of nitrogen to prevent any oxidisation.

The trial was a success , but the project was scrapped as the concern was how do they access the tube when things go wrong and possibly the practicalities of having an underwater server in a busy New York waterway with all the associated paperwork in getting access. The environmentalists were concerned by “heating up the sea water”.

Enter the Chinese who have built a full scale version of an underwater Server closely based on the Microsoft Pilot and seem to be having some success with it.

The problem remains that Servers on land require, a massive water supply ( for cooling all our hot ideas!) and a small power station requirement for electricity. Not to mention all the concrete used to house the server.

I thank Autonotion for explaining the situation so well,it seems sad that the Servers use so much energy and perhaps we need to understand better what use they are being put to and is it worth destroying the planet?

Thanks to Tommy Begley and Motorcycle News for the Headline.

Sad to say, despite the Ace Cafe being in a superb location in London on the North Circular Road , accessible to many bikers and a Legendary Biker’s Caf, (reopened thirty years ago by Mark Wilsmore )

Since the 17th July this year,it’s had to close its doors at 6pm on Friday evening.

This is a great shame as on a Friday night how brilliant it must have been to gather at this iconic venue and meet up with other bikers over nice food and drink. To sit and watch the world go by in their very boring cars.

Unfortunately, due to irresponsible rat run bikers taking to the North Circular until the early hours and causing distress and potential fatalities Mark had to make the decision that he could no longer open on Friday Evening as the risks to his customers and other road users on the North Circular was too great.

Rossi and Barry Sheene have said that racing on bikes on public roads is a risk too great to take. Stick to the Race Days, with their run offs and no stone walls , barriers or telegraph poles and enjoy your coffee and bacon rolls on a sunny evening. So the Ace Cafe can get back to being a brilliant place to go on a Friday night in London.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Georgie Docker at BBC Online News

The Creamfields Festival is held on land owned by the Daresbury Estate, about half an hours drive from Liverpool. I read a blog about someone who has been to the festival four times and recommends it. It’s electronic dance music , House and Tech House, Techno and Trance.

The Daresbury Estate is quite an extensive area, however, in true Modern Day Pirate Fashion, the drug dealers who wanted to “supply” at the festival buried their various stashes in the land where the festival would be held, presumably in the middle of the night over a period of months before the festival started with the intention of unearthing them when the festival was running, thus getting by the strict security at the Festival.

They were foiled by the Police and presumably sniffer dogs who must have had a whale of the time running across the land and finding stashes of buried drugs. The Police with the usual dry humour have said that if anyone wants to reclaim their property to please contact them. The fact that these stashes have been found has probably saved someone’s life, drugs are so dangerous and unpredictable.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Dan Sales and BBC Online News for the Headline.

A father and his two sons were on the ascent up to the summit of Mount Fuji when his 7 year old complained that he was tired.

The father in what he described “as a rash decision” decided to continue with his older son and leave the child sitting on a bench with some snacks and a soft drink. The bench was located at a height of 6500ft (over 2000metres) and conditions were foggy and rainy.

The father continued his hike and was three hours hike away when the Police caught up with him and after eight hours he was reunited with his “tired and fussy seven year old”.

The poor dad was probably coerced into going further by the elder son who was probably glad to see the back of the little “whiner”. The dad was caught between a stone and a hard place. Glad it all ended well though.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏