Don't see one of your favorite non-technical peaks?
In the quarterfinals of the Temple Challenge Cup, Harvard's lightweight varsity was never able to challenge the favorite, Oxford Brookes University, a technical school, losing by two boat lengths.
The students also served as a dream audience for the balance of the evening, cheering on their favorites and acknowledging technical feats with amusingly ear-splitting cries of delight.
Some of them are pretty arcane, but among TechCrunch writers, anyway, we're pretty bummed to see that Google Reader will be shut down on July 1. "We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites," SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle writes in the blog post.
Now, before I say anything about our favorite finos, let me get technical again: Our No. 1 fino, the Pérez Barquero, and our No. 4, the Alvear, are not, strictly speaking, sherries but Montillas.
The wealthy families living on the estates of these scholar-officials – as well as rich merchants, princes, and nobles often maintained a massive entourage of employed servants, technical staffs, and personal favorites.
It is very detailed, and my personal least favorite, since it goes into many highly technical details that may not appeal to certain audiences.
Prakash Loungani has an interesting (but fairly technical) presentation on one of my favorite subjects: comparing the performance of nations within the euro with performance of states within the United States.
