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Audiobook Review Roundup

Since I have listened to and reviewed quite a few audiobooks, I thought I’d just put them all in one post for easy reference. All of the audiobooks below are highly recommended by me.

Swurl is dead

Looks like Swurl has closed shop. It was down for the past few days citing “performance issues” and now it says they have closed.

Hello Swurlers,

We built Swurl as two guys doing something we love in our spare time.
Unfortunately, due to the pressures of our day jobs and other
distractions, we can no longer support or maintain the service at the
level that we think our users deserve.

Building Swurl has been a great experience for us. We want to thank
all of the folks that used Swurl as a way to document their lives
online and share with their friends and families. Thanks a bunch to
those users that gave us lots of valuable feedback and encouragement.

Thanks,

Ryan & Jonathan

Such a shame. Would be nice to know what technology they use and where the problem was.

Anyone know of a site I can use as a replacement?

My first kidney stone

Sunday night at about 11:00 I started having some back pain – it felt like I pulled a muscle or something but I hadn’t done anything to pull a back muscle. It got bad enough for me to take some Alleve (and I never take pain meds). The pain moved around to the front and into the groin area and since I was online I started googling things like “What does a hernia feel like?” trying to figure out what was going on and at some point I searched for something that led me to kidney stones.

The symptoms of kidney stones was EXACTLY what I had – back pain, spreading to the front and groin area, and nausea. So, before I went to the ER I knew what it was. The pain was bad enough to bring me to tears. For guys, imagine the feeling of getting kicked in the junk for 15 minutes straight then add to that severe back pain.

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