Sad news - Dennis Ritchie died. He was a developer of the programming language C which has influences so many other languages and also part of the UNIX development team. I remember reading the book on C he coauthored with Brian Kernighan as if it was yesterday. C was officially the fourth language I learned after BASIC, Pascal and PL/1. It is certainly the most flexible of them all.
In other interesting news, a Google engineer has trashed Google+ but the problems he points out are programming related - not something the very day user will care about. Speaking of every day users, they may like the new feature of Google+ which allows real-time streaming of search results from the new social network.
Similar to HootSuite or TweetDeck searching on Twitter (yes it supports hashtags) - it provides you with constant results based on any keyword you search for. Here is a long screen shot from my computer and a video from Google with details.
While you are reading this I am updating to iOS5 - wish me luck - I hear there are potential problems.
