2020s
The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes my deep loyalty to the medium feel completely validated. 😏
Media artisans and their tools…
One thing from the before times I really miss: just grabbing my laptop or iPad and heading to a coffee shop to work for an hour or two.
If home working turns into a long-term trend, I guess we’ll have to find ways of recreating those social lifelines.
First impressions of Big Sur: amazingly fast on my ancient 2013 MacBook Pro. The visual refresh takes a little getting used to, but it’s close enough to the current iPad look that it feels fairly familiar.
A couple of hours in, and I haven’t hit any problems yet.
Hello, Big Sur.
(That sounds like something from a really bad prison movie: “Jim, if you want to survive in here, you need to keep Big Sur happy…”)
The balance of my wardrobe has changed during the eight months of lockdowns and remote working. I wear far fewer smart jackets, shirts and jumpers, and far more sustainable outdoors gear.
I like this change.
Looks like the Big Sur update is in the process of completely hosing Apple’s online services.
The company normally handles these peaks of demand much better. I wonder what went wrong?
I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life.
But it would be a lie.
”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places without really putting down roots in any one. Ramsbury made me a somewhere person.”
— Peter Marren, The Consolation of Nature
This is true of myself and Shoreham Beach.
Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…
The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook Pro — but perhaps I should hang on until next year.
It might not be all Zoom, all the time, by next summer…
The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is much, much less of a threat, and that makes me wonder: will we see a struggle between those who want to embrace a new normal, and those who want to force us back into the old ways?
There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms curtailed. But last time, it helped bind communities and families.
Will this one do the same?
Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to Amazon.
