An end to the Tom Foolery
Sad times. This used to be my favourite coffee shop, Tom Foolery. Two years on from the change of ownership, it’s had the soul ripped out of it, the prices are way up - and there’s no wifi. The old days of working here for a few hours, buying a couple of coffees and lunch, are gone. They clearly want the tables turning over.
It’s not for me.
Games Workshop launched pre-orders for the 11th edition of #Warhammer40k at the weekend. So, I decided to take along the very last edition I bought…
Sad news: Anthony Head has passed away.
We’re having a weird spring. Hot summer last week, stormy weather like this over the last few days, and back to sunny now.
For the past 14 years, I’ve been exploring how tech will shape our long term future for a client. Now, I’m going to start doing it for myself.
So, here’s my first launch of several in the coming weeks: Coffee & Complexity — a newsletter about our lives in two years’ time, and 10 years’ time.
Things change. Things end.
The trick is to take the best of what came before, and make something new from it.
And that’s what I’m thinking about now.
And yes, I am being intentionally vague about what I’m referring to. Thanks for noticing. :-)
Happy AI use of the day. I had a WordPress export file that wasn’t properly importing into Ghost. I suspected some badly-formed XML somewhere in the 1000+ entries. I asked ChatGPT to have a quick look for me. It took a few minutes, but it found the error, corrected and created an export file that imports perfectly.
Result.
The new home office really beginning to come together. This was the back of the internal garage just over a week ago.
