I just realised that this mug is probably over a quarter of a century old…

A hand holds a mug featuring colorful illustrated panels of New York City landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center.

Just discovered that Apple Creator Studio has an education discount: £29 per year, rather than £129. That’s a no brainer.


Life is not a football game. And sometimes we journalists have been guilty of making it one…


Well, this is uncomfortable.

Musk’s Grokipedia has quite an extensive page about me. It’s… not bad. But I’m not ecstatic that it exists at all.


That moment when you realise you’re trying to unlock your under-desk pedestal drawers with the key to your car’s roof box, and then you’re seized with an overwhelming desire to fill the box with camping gear and head to the woods.


Om Malik:

Cook is not stupid. He is not evil. He is trapped. The iron clasp of market expectations has turned him into what he never meant to be: a man who goes to parties at the White House while nurses die.


Wow. I only just noticed the appearance controls in Ghost’s ActivityPub reader.

Lovely stuff.


Today is tenuous links: what media publishers can learn about AI from…

Warhammer.

Slop for the slop throne!

A young girl assembles a free minature of the month in a Warhammer store.

Fascinating to see some details of the early life of a distant famous ancestor George Tinworth, in this Times piece.

Although Tinworth’s mother, Jane (whose first three sons — like approximately a third of babies born in early 19th-century London — died in infancy), did her best to keep the bailiffs from the door, the family endured a daily struggle to make ends meet. Even a child-sized wheelbarrow, made for the young George by his father, had to be sold; 60 years later he wrote that “I never forgot the boy that had my barrow”.


London can be very literal sometimes.

Yes, I’m in Angel.

A large, intricate metal sculpture resembling wings stands prominently in an outdoor public space, surrounded by modern architectural elements and greenery.

Substack now has an AppleTV app. But the headline calls it a “newsletter platform”.

It’s not. It’s an increasingly walled garden social content app, whose only difference from the others is the monetisation strategy is audience revenue, not ads.


Oh, brilliant. Ghost has added filters to its web analytics - and full support for UTM parameters. Get in there!


I just discovered the Moodle (and Moodle email) supports Markdown, and I could not be happier. I’ll certainly be more efficient…


Best ever feedback from an in-house training/workshop delivered a few months back:

“He’s a proper journalist, who swears and everything”.

That is so going on my gravestone. It should probably be my LinkedIn bio, too…


When I was a regular at the Barbican in the early 90s, back when the RSC had a residency there, I never dreamed that I’d find myself on that stage twice a year 35 years later…

#CityStGeorgesGrad


Just discovered that I need a 30 year old filling replaced.

Fabulous start to the week. Now I have to decide which day I want to sacrifice to that delight in the coming months…


Why is DNS propagation so annoyingly unpredictable?


Welcome back, iPad. Your new screen suits you.

An iPad with a keyboard case displaying a home screen full of apps and widgets on a wooden desk next to a wireless keyboard and a coffee mug.

My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month.

I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.


Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while.

Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫