A beer in a church - an under-appreciated combo.

A person is holding a pint of stout inside a church where other people are seated.

Gorgeous afternoon down on the beach. 🏖️

A "Swimming Only" sign stands on a pebbled beach with the sea in the background.

Candle in the rain.


Walking the tightrope between AI and audiences.

I get the feeling that a lot of business are gonna take a tumble into a dangerous canyon… 


What happened to student Rag and Rag Weeks?


Just corrected a 15-year-old typo on my blog.

Hurrah.

That typo was older than my oldest child. Some of my students were still in nursery when I made it.


Here’s @ayjay pointing out the major flaw in one of the weaker arguments for AI:

A useful mental exercise: when people say “AI isn’t going anywhere” or “AI is here to stay,” substitute for “AI” the word “cancer.” A great many things that are here to stay are really bad and should be resisted as energetically as possible


Oh, Dr Beeching.

A tribute to an infamous moment in UK rail history.

#mbjune Day 10: Rail 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A cartoon character representing Mr. Beeching is depicted holding a red briefcase and an umbrella, with a note about his mission to close non-profitable railways at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

A new look for One Man & His Blog.

The old theme was feeling dated, and isn’t being updated for new Ghost features, as far as I can tell. So, for now, one of the default Ghost themes has take its place. Some tweaking is likely in the coming weeks…

The homepage design of One Man & His Blog, hosted on ghost(pro).

Oh, yikes. The home office iMac won’t get macOS 26. Somehow it’s still “my new iMac”, but it’s five years old now…

Time to start putting the money aside for a Mac Mini and a decent 5k screen.


Wow, Midjourney really struggles with the idea of scissors.

A high-angle shot shows a person's hands holding an old pair of metal scissors, cutting out a square from a newspaper spread open on a table. Another piece of newspaper, already cut, is held in the person's other hand. The newspaper appears to be in a foreign language.

#mbjune Day 9: Wood 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A wooden birdhouse is attached to the trunk of a large tree with leafy branches extending into the scene.

Escaping email hell with a beach walk before school pickup.

A pebble beach stretches along the coastline with two people and a dog walking near the water's edge under a clear sky.

When did you last reply to someone on social media?

As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more conversation, a little less promotion please.


The downside of falling behind with your email:

“Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I must book. Let’s see, when is it…? Oh. Two weeks ago.”


I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to take the idea of community-building around its journalism seriously.

Now it’s finally, finally happening I should feel vindicated and celebratory. But largely I just feel tired.


#mbjune Day 8: Travel 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A Snapchat advertisement on a London Underground platform features a collage of photos, including people and a dog, with overlayed text and the Snapchat logo.

I can’t find the list of #mbjune prompts for today onwards. Anyone seen it?


#mbjune Day 7: Switch 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A white light switch is adorned with a small, yellow bee decoration at its center.

My daughter clearly likes hanging around in our local Warhammer shop too much. This was her latest procrastination technique in face of my “Ready to go yet?”

A group of white dice with black dots is neatly arranged in a grid pattern on a red surface, next to a Warhammer Age of Sigmar Spearhead battle mat. All of the dice are showing 6s