2020s
The (brief) time we decided to share the beach with Storm Ciara yesterday…
Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
Not a surprise. I nearly joked that it could prove to be the mental health equivalent of smoking - and then realised that was no joke.
After Ciara
This was the garden at 8am this morning, after the worst of Storm Ciara had passed:
Not too bad, although things aren’t looking great for the potted Christmas tree.
I was planning to sort this out around lunchtime, as a work break. But I ended up legging it to my daughter’s school in a hurry, to take her her water bottle before she went into class. And, as I had my coat and boots on anyway,…
Tidying in the storm's wake
20 minutes of quick tidying (and refilling the bird feeders) later:
We got off lightly, despite being in a coastal AND river location. We’re pretty luck about how sheltered we are from weather coming off the sea. (Gales blowing down off the Downs and along the Audr are a different matter entirely). In fact, much of the Quay is looking surprisingly tidy, and many of out neighhbours have been out sweeping and tidying. All very minor.
Others have not been so lucky.
Typical Medium post: “I’ve never been married, but I’ve spend 20 minutes with a search engine, and now I’m going to pretend I know the seven behaviours that will destroy your marriage”.
A letter of recommendation. Great as ever.
Mac photo editor Luminar 4 Sends Data to Facebook in the Background by Default.
I’m glad I stopped using their products about a year ago now.
Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for sale for £100
Beach plant.
One of the nice things about Shoreham Beach is that, as a protected and rare habitat, we get a good range of plant life, even in winter.
Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked…
The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of Apple’s services offerings.
A new report on UK news consumption during the general election shows that many of the things we think about the media and politics are false - and that people’s news consumption is less than 3 minutes a day.
Worrying stuff.
TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.
Y’know, normally I mourn layoffs at a content website. But I’ll make an exception for The Daily Stormer. The wages of hate cannot make payroll…