2023s
One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the snowflakes illuminated by the street lights.
Two damn decades of writing the same blog.
Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.
After spending most of the winter feeling cold when out and about, I bought myself a new coat in the sales — just in time for one last cold snap.
#mbmar 📷 Prompt: zip
Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
I want that sticker.
The Good Apple and the Bad Apple
“Putting the legality of Apple’s anti-steering rules aside, I think they make the company look spiteful and petty.”
It sometimes feels like there’s two Apples: the user-first Apple that makes delightful hardware, and the App Store Apple that’s cheap, nasty and willl nickel and dime you on everything.
That latter Apple is busy damaging the reputation of the company for surprisingly little return.
A rather lovely hagstone - and a deep one - found on a quick beach walk this afternoon, trying to burn off some of my daughter’s energy. She’s home today because of the teachers’ strike.
Trust in me, just in me…
I really need to learn to trust myself. Yesterday, I opened the slides for week two of my social media course.
“Why so few?” I thought. “I’ll need more content than that for the 90 minutes.” So I prepared more slides, and pulled some forwards from week 3.
Guess what?
Yes, I ran out of time, exactly where Adam-from-four-months-ago had cut off the slides. I know what I’m doing. Old me knew what he was doing. We need to learn to trust each other…
A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the Chatham House Rule, alas, so I can’t say any more.
Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t understand the existing games coverage business.
I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.
What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The sun is up for our early morning pool run. The views up the Adur valley were spectacular.