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May 14, 2025: Seriously proud of my year two journalism undergrads. They’ve shown both a real commitment to core journalism skills, but also finding new and …
May 9, 2025: Why They Hate Science: The fact of the matter is that a lot of people want to say whatever stupid thing pops into their head or share the latest …
May 9, 2025: Down at the Tooting campus to do some social media training. This is a weird feeling. It’s where my wife did her postdoc…
May 8, 2025: Just spent 30 minutes in the garden with a coffee and a book, as a lunchbreak. It doesn’t sound much, but in 13 years of self-employment, It’s been a …
May 6, 2025: Why do people still wish their friends Happy Birthday on Facebook, when the friend in question clearly haven’t used the site in nearly a decade?
May 5, 2025: Some traditional bothiers feel their world, the sacrosanct inner circle, is under threat in an age of Instagram posts and online blogs. — From …
May 4, 2025: The dawn chorus up on the downs for #InternationalDawnChorusDay 🐦⬛🎶 Transcript
May 4, 2025: Started reading: Fringed With Mud and Pearls by Ian Crofton 📚
May 2, 2025: One idea that I’ve been playing around with in my head is that we’re living in what I call “a fragile now”. So many of our old assumptions about the …
May 1, 2025: Y’know, it’s getting ever clearer that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t actually know what he’s doing – and when the Meta money machine starts to dry up, that …
Apr 26, 2025: Enjoying a morning coffee under the watchful eye of this fella.
Apr 25, 2025: It’s breathtaking to me, how casually leadership speaks of employees being jailed. As if it’s a fact of life like taxes (though of course that’s …
Apr 25, 2025: Friday night link-dump, so so I can finally escape my desk: Pre-digested weekend reading. (Hmm. “Pre-digested” sounds worse in this context than I …
Apr 24, 2025: Ah, a gift from Paramount to meme-wranglers everywhere.
Apr 22, 2025: A fox snoozes the afternoon away in our back garden. (Photo by my nine year old daughter…)
Apr 20, 2025: Sunrise service, Easter Sunday, Shoreham Beach
Apr 18, 2025: Digital Camera World: After announcing a 15 percent reduction in staff last year, GoPro is continuing its cost-cutting measures into 2025 as CEO …
Apr 18, 2025: Might have hung on to this past its useful life…
Apr 15, 2025: Apparently I have the cultural sophistication of a 9 year old, as my youngest daughter and I have just nearly wet ourselves laughing at A Minecraft …
Apr 14, 2025: Decided to put the fire pit back into service.
Apr 11, 2025: Some thoughts on journalism, trust, AI and… a 20 year old debate? Trust me, I’m a journalist. Hat-tip to @ayjay for starting this thought process off. …
Apr 11, 2025: A flashback to an old feeling: opening up the office copies of a new issue… The latest issue of XCity magazine is here. Congrats to our magazine …
Apr 11, 2025: Spring is bursting with colour today.
Apr 10, 2025: Brighton by Night
Apr 10, 2025: This is the end. Embrace it.
Apr 2, 2025: Hassocks Station. 📍 Testing the new check-in feature in Micro Social…
Apr 2, 2025: This is a lovely piece of artistic graffiti, but it’s the “official” notice next to it that really makes it.
Apr 2, 2025: Layoffs at Automattic: This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction. Ouch. Sympathies to those impacted.
Mar 29, 2025: Rule for life.
Mar 28, 2025: Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it. I know how he feels.
Mar 27, 2025: ChatGPT has remade me in Studio Ghibli style:
Mar 26, 2025: Listening to an interesting talk by Professor Nick Couldry, who pointing out that we legislate to stop companies filling our rivers and land with …
Mar 26, 2025: Taking advantage of micro.blog’s new EU hosting option to move adders.blog’s hosting to the EU. For obvious reasons.
Mar 25, 2025: Turns out there’s a lot of books I wrote in the pirated data Meta used to train its LLM. And I’m not the only family member impacted, either… I’d be a …
Mar 25, 2025: Meta’s AI Will Suggest Comments for Users to Post About Your Photos: Meta is testing an Instagram feature that suggests AI-generated comments for …
Mar 24, 2025: Finished reading: Lucius: The Faultless Blade by Ian St. Martin 📚 Interesting dipping back into Warhammer fiction after 30 years. Surprisingly good …
Mar 24, 2025: Print isn’t dead, and doesn’t need to die. Because, in a digital-first world, it’s an invaluable form of retreat and escape.
Mar 23, 2025: Bit on the nose… (From a recent issue of the Avengers Academy digital comic.)
Mar 20, 2025: Betteridge’s Law applies: Will big AI save the world?
Mar 19, 2025: Why I’ve taken the first step in connecting One Man & His Blog to the #Fediverse - and why I think this will matter for media businesses in the coming …
Mar 17, 2025: The Ghost ActivityPub Public Beta is here! (Well, for ghost(pro) users…)
Mar 17, 2025: Drawing towards the end of several months of quite intensive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The best decision I’ve made in a long time. I finally feel …
Mar 16, 2025: Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
Mar 15, 2025: But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching a bunch of …
Mar 15, 2025: This explains a lot about Facebook: Javi’s my favourite of the coworkers here tonight; Javier Olivan, in charge of “growth” at Facebook, which means …
Mar 14, 2025: Started reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Mar 12, 2025: Just found a cache of old videos on my Dropbox, while hunting for something for a friend. Here’s some moments from a trip to Helsinki in the early …
Mar 11, 2025: Everything we’ve learnt about technology is upended by AI: we’re used to digital technology being frustratingly literal — but AIs make shit up. …
Mar 8, 2025: Hmm. I can’t figure out how Micro Social’s link post format works. I can see it in the settings, but can’t figure out how to invoke it when posting.
Mar 8, 2025: The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied: The fediverse is a jailbreak. It’s not a product, not a single platform, it’s not …
Mar 8, 2025: Recovery will not be rushed. One of the major societal advances of my time on this planet is how much more seriously we take mental health these days. …
Mar 7, 2025: This doesn’t fill me with hope for the future of Bond: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover. Maybe Amazon just paid an awful lot of money for something that’s …
Mar 6, 2025: I found myself wondering what had happened to Kevin Rose, of Digg / Diggnation fame nearly two decades ago. Turns out… he’s working on bringing DIgg …
Mar 5, 2025: Ryan Sholin is sticking with WordPress — but leaving behind Automatic hosting and services. Seems a sensible response to the recent behaviour of the …
Mar 5, 2025: Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming: Phoenix. I can’t wait.
Mar 5, 2025: This is just awesome: A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 …
Mar 4, 2025: I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
Mar 3, 2025: Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a “return to the office” survey of journalism workplaces - using Substack. But it requires you to have a …
Mar 2, 2025: Making space elf Fire Dragons with my youngest in the Warhammer store.
Feb 28, 2025: It’s a landmark day for beavers: Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the announcement today allowing licensed releases of Beavers into the wild in …
Feb 28, 2025: Well, it had to happen. Here’s the first thing I actually agree with the current US president about: Trump likens UK encryption law to ‘something you …
Feb 28, 2025: That is… not a small number.
Feb 28, 2025: We have entered the age of goatse as government. IYKYK (I’m unreasonably proud of that phrase.)
Feb 27, 2025: Just updated my Twitter archive on micro.blog. It really brought home just how little I use the platform now. I first joined back in 2006, and it was …
Feb 22, 2025: Terrible Tudors time from Horrible Histories at the Worthing Pavillion with my youngest.
Feb 21, 2025: The Open Rights Group: The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. As a result, British citizens …
Feb 21, 2025: I’m disgusted and angry at this. Not at Apple, but at our government: Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data …
Feb 19, 2025: Matt Webb: Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of …
Feb 19, 2025: What are the best RSS readers on Android and Windows these days?
Feb 19, 2025: Peter Bihr: Rather than accepting that tech happens to society, we need to put societal needs first, and then examine how we want and allow tech to …
Feb 19, 2025: Seth Godin: Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and addictive.
Feb 17, 2025: It’s always encouraging seeing new banks of EV chargers popping up. Today, it was my first spot of chargers on a National Trust property: Nymans.
Feb 14, 2025: I sometimes find it depressing how rarely I actually see people in their gardens.
Feb 14, 2025: Laptop stickers state of play, Feb 2025. My somewhat venerable M1 MacBook Pro this morning.
Feb 13, 2025: Mary E. Dozier: Compared with the general population, participants with hoarding disorder scored almost universally high on altruism. Fascinating.
Feb 13, 2025: Best cover ever.
Feb 13, 2025: Romantasy is here for your attention. Blame TikTok.
Feb 13, 2025: January 2025 was probably the month I’ve taken the fewest photos in years. Possibly in decades. I need to change that.
Feb 13, 2025: Late evening in Brighton station.
Feb 12, 2025: Om Malik: DeepSeek represents more than just a product — it embodies a different way of thinking that challenges the conventional approach to AI. …
Feb 12, 2025: Please don’t ruin it, Apple.
Feb 8, 2025: Bit tired this morning. Had a tyre blow out in the way home, and the AA finally got to me over four hours later. Got home just after 2.30am. Today’s …
Feb 7, 2025: 😱 Six Colors, Dan Moren: UK orders Apple to implement secret global backdoor for end-to-end encryption the United Kingdom’s government has mandated …
Feb 4, 2025: Charles Arthur: Maybe that’s the real threat of AI: not that it acquires superhuman intelligence, but that it acquires superhuman persuasiveness. …
Feb 3, 2025: This is not an architectural movement that I’m rushing to embrace… BoND turns Fire Island house into a “machine for voyeurism”: “Calling it a machine …
Feb 3, 2025: No, spell checker, when I write “virality” I mean it. I do not mean “virility“. Giving students feedback on “virility“ would not be good for my …
Feb 3, 2025: What a difference an hour makes. 7.30am: 8.30am:
Jan 31, 2025: The university system in the UK is in trouble: Over the last two weeks, more than 1,000 redundancies have been announced by just four institutions, …
Jan 31, 2025: Beautifully written and conducted interview with James May from Top Gear/The Grand Tour. Love the final line: James May is the eternal combustion …
Jan 31, 2025: At the station a bit early for my train, so enjoying a quite moment before I head to the smoke.
Jan 29, 2025: Bluesky’s passed the 30m user mark.
Jan 29, 2025: Why Ewan is going back, as far as is practical, to the Web 2.0 era.
Jan 28, 2025: A very graceful exit to @coreint, @danielpunkass and @manton. Thank you. The nice thing about podcasting basically just being spicy RSS is that I can …
Jan 28, 2025: At the theatre, daaaahling.
Jan 28, 2025: Pub dinner with my daughters before a school performance. Monday night really is a dead night for the hospitality business.
Jan 27, 2025: Oh, look, it’s an “update all the Apple things” night.
Jan 27, 2025: Worth keeping an eye on: The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think) Good luck on writing that five year business plan, …
Jan 26, 2025: This week’s swimming lessons inspiration.
Jan 26, 2025: Sunrise up on the Downs.
Jan 25, 2025: Beach sunset.
Jan 25, 2025: It’s normally late February or March before we dig the bikes out, but today was such a lovely, mild sunny day, we dragged them out of the garage, …
Jan 25, 2025: A winged maple seed fell from a tree, landing on the page of the book I was reading. The world was going about the work at hand. Survival and renewal …
Jan 25, 2025: Started reading: Visualizing Nature by Stuart Kestenbaum 📚 Picked it up cheap in an Islington bookshop. Looking forward to it.
Jan 25, 2025: Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media: Also you have the right to check their papers, as in to demand they prove to you their commitments …
Jan 25, 2025: Manuel Moreale: I’ll start sounding like a broken record but, at this point, I don’t care: social media was and still is a mistake. Enough people all …
Jan 24, 2025: I’m not saying AI is Apple’s achilles heel. But…
Jan 24, 2025: Nature: 55% of respondents to the question ‘What do you use Bluesky for?’ said it was a mix of three research-related activities: to connect with …
Jan 24, 2025: Bloomberg: Over the past two years, a set of massively popular podcasters and streamers cemented themselves as the new mainstream source of …
Jan 24, 2025: I am immensely sad that the situation around micro.blog has accelerated as far and as fast as it has. I’m disappointed that opportunities to …
Jan 24, 2025: Community Management Micro.blog needs a community manager again. If it’s going to aspire to be a community, not just a platform, then community management is needed. In a …
Jan 23, 2025: I have written over 2,000 words inspired by, but addressing larger issues than, the current clash between micro.blog and omg.lol staff. I’m not sure …
Jan 23, 2025: There’s a very good reason that witch hunts and lynch mobs are replaced with legal process, courts and standards of evidence and punishment in …
Jan 22, 2025: Benedict Evans: If I need something that does have answers that can be definitely wrong in important ways, and where I’m not an expert in the …
Jan 22, 2025: It’s fascinating watching the ban on links to X spread, virally, from subreddit to subreddit.
Jan 22, 2025: Two of my least favourite aspects of social media are witch-hunting individuals and guilt by association. If you’re going to go after someone’s …
Jan 21, 2025: John Gruber: The better the Apple product, the more shamelessly it gets copied. Apple should make Clips into an iOS video editing app that everyone …
Jan 20, 2025: Ezra Klein: Silicon Valley and crypto culture’s embrace of Trump has changed his cultural meaning more than Democrats have recognized. In 2016, Trump …
Jan 20, 2025: Great analysis of why the current New Yorker cover is so powerful: 1000 words.
Jan 20, 2025: Oh, flip, I’m out of coffee beans. 😱
Jan 20, 2025: Today is Blue Monday, which is a myth, invented by the marketing team for a travel company. Have a great, productive day! 😉
Jan 18, 2025: Watching the kids do HADO.
Jan 18, 2025: Started reading: The Year in the Countryside by Frances Pitt 📚
Jan 17, 2025: Journalism department Christmas lunch (delayed)
Jan 16, 2025: Just finished watching Skeleton Crew with the family. Just the best Star Wars in years. Family-friendly but with enough of an edge of darkness to give …
Jan 16, 2025: Oh, no. David Lynch is dead. From now on, sadly, the owls will be exactly what they seem. 🏔️ 🏔️
Jan 16, 2025: These are some lovely images of winter.
Jan 15, 2025: Rule #1: Never trust Facebook. It’s been over 20 years. You’d think people would have learned this by now.
Jan 15, 2025: People who are trying to escape Meta’s platforms in light of the changes in recent weeks, and Zuckerberg’s latest moves, here’s an unwelcome reminder …
Jan 15, 2025: For those playing with Pixelfed, an open standards-based Instagram competitor, I’m there under the usual username.
Jan 13, 2025: Sussex Downs, 8.30am, Sunday 12th January 2025
Jan 12, 2025: Duolingo rather over-estimates how much time I spend interacting with owls, bears and elephants, day-to-day.
Jan 10, 2025: Just another Friday night in Falmer…
Jan 10, 2025: Telling people they’re doing it wrong is fun. In a webinar for Smartocto yesterday, as part of a panel of trend watchers, I suggested that the …
Jan 8, 2025: What were the five most read posts of 2024 on One Man & His Blog? They were all about the need for real, genuine audience work, the messy drama around …
Jan 7, 2025: I think that today I have comprehensively proven that a man my age should not attempt to understand Skibidi Toilet. That is all.
Jan 7, 2025: Back to some work blogging, with a look back on the posts that caught people’s attention in 2024. The fall of Twitter, Facebook and the big digital …
Jan 7, 2025: Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report — not great news, but not as bad as it could be. The secondhand bookshop world is changing.
Jan 7, 2025: I spend quite a bit of my life feeling like imposter syndrome on legs.
Jan 7, 2025: Too many of us are trapped in a social media-generated bubble of synthetic citizenship, with activism and attention in the digital world substituting …
Jan 7, 2025: The work I do for NEXT Conference is relentlessly future-looking. But, once a year, we allow ourselves to look backwards. Lots of interest in where AI …
Jan 6, 2025: “Wits’ end” not “wit’s end”.
Jan 6, 2025: Winter sun on the beach.
Jan 6, 2025: The beach is doing drama today…
Jan 6, 2025: Guess who just took his youngest daughter to school - on an inset day… 🤦🏼
Dec 27, 2024: Misty walk.
Dec 27, 2024: Morning long black.
Dec 26, 2024: Duck! It’s a Canada goose.
Dec 26, 2024: Summer’s memory lingering in winter.
Dec 26, 2024: The invitation of winter is to reconnect with the lost and wounded parts of yourself that hold the seeds of a new spring. — From The Wilderness That …
Dec 26, 2024: Started reading: The Wilderness That Bears Your Name by James A. Pearson 📚
Dec 24, 2024: Second coming: confirmed… 🌟
Dec 21, 2024: Winter wetlands boardwalk.
Dec 20, 2024: Shot: Is Matt Mullenweg the mad king of WordPress? Chaser: Inc Hit Piece Where will this end?
Dec 18, 2024: Miha Kralj, a Slovene composer and performer, in what was then a Yugoslavian hotel, back in the early 80s. We stayed there on holiday when I was a lad …
Dec 17, 2024: A school friend, Stephen Kent, in my bedroom in Scotland, back in the early 80s. I’ve long lost any contact with him — but look at that Star Wars …
Dec 16, 2024: My late parents’ old angel is atop our tree. She must be over 60 years old now.
Dec 12, 2024: As a coastal dweller, I do love the Tides app Apple added to the Watch…
Dec 11, 2024: Getting some work done in the library of the RSA House. I’ve been a Fellow for years, but I’ve slipped out of the habit of using the venue.
Dec 11, 2024: Interesting piece from @lloyddavis on how he integrates micro.blog with WordPress. And I’m not just linking to it because he calls me an “early blog …
Dec 11, 2024: Trafalgar Square, December 2024
Dec 11, 2024: WP Engine wins the first round in its battle with Automattic. And the whole WordPress community watches and waits.
Dec 11, 2024: Well, this is very disappointing: PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct.
Dec 10, 2024: Our annual Christmas tree buying trip to Spithandle Nursery. It’s a tradition that really marks the beginning of the Christmas season for us.
Dec 8, 2024: Christingle time.
Dec 6, 2024: The last magazine I worked for before moving fully into digital is closing. RIP Estates Gazette - after more than a century and a half.
Dec 6, 2024: I’ve got a full-on day of lectures in today (six hours back-to-back 🤪), so have yesterday’s thoughts on the difference between social media and social …
Dec 6, 2024: Morning ivy #2
Dec 5, 2024: Billionaires: Bozos or begrovellers?
Dec 5, 2024: This is more than a little bit disturbing: Why The Faroese Whale Slaughter Must End 🐋 WARNING: graphic footage of whale slaughter.
Dec 4, 2024: Just finished my last session with the MA Newspaper journalism students this year. Lively, engaged, questioning, and quite savvy bunch. Some good …
Dec 4, 2024: Morning ivy.
Dec 4, 2024: Do you want cybermen? Because this is how you get cybermen.
Dec 4, 2024: Weird how persistent old ways of thinking are. I saw this headline - Hopes are growing for Bakerloo extension to Lewisham, TfL official says - and …
Dec 2, 2024: Obi-Wan Kenobi is the perfect TV series to watch with my 9 year old on Daddy/Daughter TV nights while her big sister is at Guides.
Dec 2, 2024: Today has been a relentlessly local day - delivering the local residents’ association mag, and editing the parish mag. Print is not dead. It’s just …
Dec 2, 2024: Least surprising discovery of the day: Substack’s RSS feeds are a disaster. — @manton It’s platform that takes what it wants from the open web, and …
Dec 2, 2024: I doubt I’ll ever be the sort of person that enjoys camping in the snow, bit I can enjoy the stunning photos of those who do.
Dec 1, 2024: On-brand daughter.
Nov 29, 2024: Jared Newman wanted a blog that would automatically crosspost to the major social services. And he found his answer: I tried a bunch of different …
Nov 26, 2024: Another test, for @index@www.coffeeandcomplexity.com
Nov 26, 2024: What happens if I try to mention Ghost Activity Pub beta users like @index@john.onolan.org or @index@www.coffeeandcomplexity.com or …
Nov 25, 2024: Nice to be quoted in this piece about Bluesky versus Threads by a former student, Hannah Murphy, in the Financial Times today.
Nov 22, 2024: If you remember and still miss Nuzzel, and use Bluesky or Mastodon, have I got good news for you. This tool shows you the most shared links in your …
Nov 21, 2024: John Gruber: My advice to any writer looking to start a new site based on the newsletter model would be to consider Substack last, not first. Not …
Nov 20, 2024: Pretty sure that this isn’t what GoPros are designed for, but this still makes me smile when I rewatch it… Sisters vrs the Sea
Nov 20, 2024: Today the Podcasting MA students are going to learn what RSS is and why it matters — whether they like it or not… :-)
Nov 20, 2024: Awesome (and important) piece from Anil Dash: Don’t call it a Substack Links are powerful — that’s why Instagram and Twitter and Threads punish and …
Nov 18, 2024: I know it’s free, but I think the days of publishers relying on Google Analytics should be done. Not only does GA4 not really deliver the metrics …
Nov 16, 2024: Me, according to Image Playgrounds in the iPadOS 18.2 Beta
Nov 16, 2024: Spoke to a Sky News journalist about the Twitter to Bluesky (and Threads to Bluesky) moves. The piece is now up, with some good quotes from me. 🦋
Nov 15, 2024: Remembrance Sunday: veterans, volunteers and… Mods?
Nov 14, 2024: Turns out the limit for open tabs in Safari on an iPhone 13 Pro is 500. That was an intentional test, and not tab hoarding. cough
Nov 14, 2024: Bluesky is really having a moment. So should journalists be paying attention to it? Almost certainly. We’re approaching the tipping point for the …
Nov 14, 2024: Really? Already?
Nov 13, 2024: It’s been many years since I had cause to generate a Doge meme for a lecture, but thanks to current year US politics, I had the chance again…
Nov 13, 2024: Marshmallow challenge action from the #mapodcasting students at City St George’s…
Nov 10, 2024: Remembrance Parade outrider, Southwick
Nov 9, 2024: A yomp around Seven Sisters Country Park to celebrate my birthday.
Nov 9, 2024: According to Google Trends, Americans have suddenly decided they need to know what tariffs are. This could be… interesting.
Nov 9, 2024: My reign is nearly done. But what a reign it has been.
Nov 9, 2024: Remember, Remember…
Nov 8, 2024: You know, I think it might be autumn.
Nov 6, 2024: I woke up, looked at the news, and seriously considered adding a shot of whisky to my morning coffee.
Nov 5, 2024: This will be the first presidential election in the US where Twitter isn’t the go-to place for real time updates. A decade and a half’s development …
Nov 5, 2024: Ofcom fines GBNews £100,000 for impartiality beaches. This isn’t going to go away. The whole rationale of GBNews flies in the face of UK broadcast …
Nov 5, 2024: This is what happens when hyped tech fads meet game development timescales: Ubisoft quietly releases an NFT game. slow clap
Nov 5, 2024: 1970s child me: “It’s ridiculous that the people of Superman’s planet would ignore signs of an imminent planetary apocalypse. Totally unbelievable!” …
Nov 2, 2024: There’s an awful lot wrong with British politics, but at least even our mainstream right wing party is prepared to elect a black woman as its leader.
Nov 1, 2024: Wow. Apple have acquired Pixelmator. I love Pixelmator’s editing apps — so I’m not sure how I feel about this.
Nov 1, 2024: Our Podcasting MA students are talking creatively about making promotional GIFs without me prompting them. I’m so happy. 😁
Oct 28, 2024: This is the best description of the platonic ideal of Star Trek I’ve ever seen: space friends competently solving space problems That’s it. That’s …
Oct 27, 2024: Busy wee fella.
Oct 27, 2024: Lancing College playing fields, early morning.
Oct 26, 2024: Tonight is Talisman Adventures night.
Oct 26, 2024: Blimey. The WordPress debacle has made it onto the BBC News website.
Oct 25, 2024: Good ideas versus mediocre teams. Seen this in action, more than once.
Oct 24, 2024: What happens after X? The ex-Twitter is in decline, but what replaces it might not look the same… (Plus why video won’t kill the text internet, and an …
Oct 23, 2024: So, I have an ActivityPub-enabled Ghost site (part of the private beta). You can follow it at @index@www.coffeeandcomplexity.com. Many Pugs died to …
Oct 20, 2024: Started reading: Groundbreakers by Chantal Lyons 📚 Been eyeing this one up for ages. Just dived in and am loving it already. 🐗
Oct 20, 2024: Sunday morning swimming pool whiteboard wisdom.
Oct 20, 2024: Started reading: Sleepless by Annabel Abbs 📚 I saw her talk about the book on Wednesday, at an event organised by the Steyning Bookshop. I’m really …
Oct 19, 2024: Very proud of my eldest daughter. It’s a seemingly small thing that really matters: she’s choosing well in her friendships.
Oct 19, 2024: The Ghost ActivityPub team being even more spicy than normal in their latest update, talking about choosing their first beta testers: How did we …
Oct 18, 2024: It was a beautifully misty autumnal commute this morning.
Oct 18, 2024: Finishing the (working) week with a round-up of news from the scrum where AI and journalism meet. Technology is great. People are idiots.
Oct 17, 2024: This is great reporting from 404 Media - but I do feel they buried the lead. The Blind stuff is more jaw-dropping than the second buyout offer. Things …
Oct 17, 2024: Dashed dreams of better EV batteries are a core disappointment.
Oct 17, 2024: I love Discworld and I like TTRPGs. But I’m not convinced that the combination that’s being Kickstarted is something I’m interested in. What makes …
Oct 17, 2024: This looks worth a watch:
Oct 15, 2024: Not gonna lie, it sometimes righteously pisses me off that journalism was going in exactly the right direction with community/audience work 15 years …
Oct 15, 2024: Finally had a much-needed trim.
Oct 14, 2024: Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that it might have been Agatha all along.
Oct 14, 2024: A good rule to keep online debate constructive is “play the ball, not the man”. If you attack the poster, not the ideas, you’re playing the man. …
Oct 14, 2024: This is the problem with AI: “AI can help you create this” is a successful marketing message “This was created with AI!” isn’t Far more people want …
Oct 14, 2024: The growing tsunami of AI slop is going to force us towards a new wave of trusted curator. Optimistic? Perhaps. Idealistic? Certainly. But that …
Oct 14, 2024: Set up author attribution on Mastodon on my Ghost blogs, based on this handy guide. It’s basically just setting up the meta tag using Ghost’s Code …
Oct 13, 2024: Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights. Oh, yes.
Oct 13, 2024: Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off for two decades now. I really need you to come and …
Oct 13, 2024: I week ago I was just glad I didn’t use WordPress for any of my sites. Now? I’m wondering if I need to plan to migrate the journalism department’s …
Oct 13, 2024: My rule for living.
Oct 13, 2024: Early morning, South Downs.
Oct 12, 2024: Late summer rambles at the RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve.
Oct 12, 2024: Nice image from Hamburg a few weeks back.
Oct 12, 2024: So London it hurts.
Oct 11, 2024: Another commute begins.
Oct 10, 2024: I spent an interesting evening yesterday at the launch of City St George’s new Institute for Creativity and AI. How refreshing to see academics …
Oct 10, 2024: Well, this is profoundly worrying: Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, …
Oct 8, 2024: Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.
Oct 8, 2024: Meta is actually going to try to win back young people to Facebook. Good luck with that. I suspect they have more chance of annoying their current …
Oct 8, 2024: Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular? Interesting read.
Oct 8, 2024: Night beach.
Oct 8, 2024: The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film. — @jbaty@social.lol I still have a film camera. One …
Oct 7, 2024: It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, I’d still continue. It’d be less fun, obviously. But still …
Oct 7, 2024: Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on. Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave’s 30 years of blogging…
Oct 7, 2024: Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, contradictory and contain multitudes. The more it tries to shove …
Oct 7, 2024: A simple way to improve the internet.
Oct 7, 2024: Headline of the day: No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons
Oct 5, 2024: I was complimented on my hair by a cashier at the supermarket today. If nothing else, this proves I can still have brand new experiences in my 50s.
Oct 5, 2024: A first experiment with Halide’s Process Zero while shooting with my iPhone.
Oct 5, 2024: The beach huts on Littlehampton beach this morning turned out to be a real photographic gift, as did an unexpectedly shaped café. I must do more …
Oct 5, 2024: Cheeky coffee and bap at Edge by the Sea after dropping my youngest at a Brownies day.
Oct 5, 2024: The clash between Sober October and London Cocktail Week feels particularly vexing this year.
Oct 4, 2024: Quite the reverse: challenger digital news brands are now snapping up traditional print media ones. But what should we make of the sale of The …
Oct 3, 2024: A Network of AI ‘Nudify’ Sites Are a Front for Notorious Russian Hackers - and the site attempt to infect you device with malware. Moral of the story: …
Oct 2, 2024: Survived the first day of lecturing this academic year. Just 9½ weeks to go…
Oct 1, 2024: Abandoned shoe on the beach.
Sep 30, 2024: Need a POSSE? I think we all do. And, right now, micro.blog is mine. This is the way forward, if we want to navigate the social media diaspora in an …
Sep 29, 2024: Another day, another pub. 🍺
Sep 29, 2024: Started reading: Late Light by Michael Malay 📚
Sep 28, 2024: Started reading: Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham 📚
Sep 28, 2024: Morning from a Kentish pub.
Sep 26, 2024: Brits: Adventurous Ink, a great book club that sends you books on nature, adventure - and reconnecting with each other and reclaiming our attention — …
Sep 26, 2024: Here’s a secret: Fritz Kola is one of the main reasons I love going to Hamburg…
Sep 26, 2024: I sometimes wish I had made photography a bigger part of my professional life. The only time I really get to do it is when I’m doing event …
Sep 25, 2024: What the hell is happening at Automattic? It looks like the war for the profits of WordPress has begun…
Sep 25, 2024: Beardy Guy Appreciate and take care of your devices. Take pleasure in their longevity. If they get the job done, keep using them. This is the way. …
Sep 25, 2024: The Bell, the first Mill Media local journalism site to be powered by Ghost, is live. Glasgow is getting Ghosted…
Sep 25, 2024: Good news, chums! Coffee is good for you! (Yes, I am avoiding reading the details, lest they undermine the news I want.) ☕️☕️
Sep 24, 2024: This Automattic / WP Engine story is absolutely wild. If those texts are genuine, I’m going to need a lot of popcorn as this plays out.
Sep 24, 2024: One of the lovely things about NEXT Conference is that, thanks to it happening alongside the Reeperbahn Festival, we get some great musical opening …
Sep 21, 2024: Liking the aesthetic of this coffee shop.
Sep 20, 2024: Saying goodbye to Hamburg again. Great trip this year, even if BA seemed reluctant to actually fly any of us home…
Sep 19, 2024: That’s how you start a conference… #next24
Sep 19, 2024: Good morning from Hamburg and #next24 on Reeperbahn. Busy day ahead…
Sep 18, 2024: This tribute to David is touching but a little surreal: In Ottawa, Canada, anti-war protestors put up pictures of Knowles on what’s called the …
Sep 13, 2024: Lovely autumnal moment in the churchyard.
Sep 13, 2024: This is interesting: one of the most interesting news startups in the UK is leaving Substack and heading to Ghost: Mill Media titles to depart …
Sep 13, 2024: A spicy panel from yesterday’s Future of Media Technology conference. Those in and around journalistic publishing are very wary indeed of the AI …
Sep 11, 2024: Started reading: Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
Sep 11, 2024: Getting back to familiar territory with the newsletter, after the sadness of earlier in the week. A touch of SEO, a pinch of analytics, and some …
Sep 9, 2024: I can’t believe my former student and friend is gone. Ukraine: the latest podcast host dies. Rest in peace, David. Oh, the journalism you would have …
Sep 9, 2024: Jony Ive made a button. So far out of my price range, it’s ludicrous. But so very interesting.
Sep 9, 2024: Spot on from @moonmehta: You don’t have to leave X if you don’t want to for some reason but please take some effort to widen your horizons and …
Sep 8, 2024: Yup. Definitely autumnal.
Sep 8, 2024: Back to the early morning swimming lessons. The summer holidays are truly done.
Sep 8, 2024: A bird is a poem with wings. Jeremy Hughes in the essay A Risca Boy’s Birds from Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place edited by Jon …
Sep 7, 2024: Agree 100% with @jack about this: I often vigoriously disagree with Freddie deBoer, but I also often love how he puts things.
Sep 6, 2024: This sums up exactly what I’m feeling as summer wanes: The end of summer seems like a more significant marker of the passing of time than any other …
Sep 6, 2024: Something tells me autumn is on its way.
Sep 5, 2024: Very pracitical newsletter today: Why doomscrolling is boring - and what works better The simple secret of great headlines Plus more… Read on.
Sep 4, 2024: This looks like a good scheme: sell old books for credit and keep them out of the hands of Amazon. Authors get a cut — and independent bookshops might …
Sep 4, 2024: Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging: I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on multiple aspects of creating social media. And by …
Sep 4, 2024: Manuel Moreale on a better web: That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, …
Sep 4, 2024: Daily newsletter: go! Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
Sep 3, 2024: Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from Mark Braggins.
Sep 3, 2024: The new design for Colossal looks really nice. Web magazine design seems to be going through a resurgence.
Sep 3, 2024: Back from my hols, and back to blogging/newslettering.
Aug 29, 2024: Making the most of the end of the summer hols.
Aug 21, 2024: Acorns, ripening.
Aug 20, 2024: Opening your work emails after 10 days of holiday is terrifying.
Aug 19, 2024: Iconic view.
Aug 17, 2024: Just experienced my first aviation go-around as our EasyJet flight landed at Gatwick. The sudden return to the air wasn’t too bad - the successssion …
Aug 16, 2024: Life is hell.
Aug 13, 2024: OK…
Aug 11, 2024: Sometime in the late 50s, my mother did a river trip down the Thames, based on these old negatives. I wish I could work out what the …
Aug 10, 2024: 🎆
Aug 7, 2024: Proud to live in Sussex tonight. The extremists who came to Brighton really came to the wrong town.
Aug 7, 2024: ☕️ on the 🏖️
Aug 7, 2024: Summer, allegedly.
Aug 6, 2024: Rough time ahead for Google: it has AI challengers eying up its search business, while the DOJ has decided that it’s abusing its search monopoly. …
Aug 5, 2024: This morning’s newsletter is a bit more serious: to what degree has Musk’s loosened moderation on X helped incite the UK riots this weekend? Alan …
Aug 4, 2024: Adding or updating some details on Open Library about the slightly obscure books I read is surpringly satisfying.
Aug 4, 2024: Started reading: A Countryman’s Summer Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚— working my way through these four seasonal collections, in the appropriate season…
Aug 2, 2024: Dennis Sellers for Apple World Today: Apple should revive the AirPort line-up with Wi-Fi 6E support Yes, it damn well should.
Aug 2, 2024: I’m back from our road trip holiday, and getting the daily newsletter back up and running. Today’s edition is, inevitably, dominated by AI, but …
Jul 31, 2024: Big Willie style
Jul 30, 2024: Bardcore
Jul 29, 2024: Burn, baby, burn.
Jul 28, 2024: Started reading: Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place, edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
Jul 27, 2024: Scottish sundown
Jul 25, 2024: Shark!
Jul 25, 2024: A beautiful example of clickbait that immediately owns up to being clickbait in the first par…
Jul 22, 2024: Y’know, if you’re trying to persuade someone to give you something, arguing with and attempting to patronise them seems like a poor tactic to me. I do …
Jul 21, 2024: Sticks are fine things. You can dabble in ponds with them. You can throw them for dogs to fetch. And if they’re of the right build - stout, with a …
Jul 17, 2024: I love the way the MG logo on the front of my EV glows while it’s charging.
Jul 17, 2024: Don’t you hate it when an old friend starts dating someone you can’t stand? That’s pretty much exactly how I feel about Apple getting into bed with …
Jul 15, 2024: Negative positivity — or why even scanned negatives are worth hanging on to… 📷🎞️
Jul 14, 2024: Why being in nature is so good for your mental health: We have evolved in nature for thousands of years, and so it’s just intuitive that we are …
Jul 14, 2024: Surfers Against Sewage: Ofwat have championed that water company plans will cut discharges from storm overflows by 44% by 2030. But, this will still …
Jul 13, 2024: Jodie Whittaker returns to Doctor Who for Big Finish. Oh, brilliant!
Jul 11, 2024: Zak Asgard: By January this year, videos about Stanley cups had been viewed a soul-destroying 201.4 million times. Think about that. Videos of people …
Jul 10, 2024: Dream house. [via Dezeen]
Jul 10, 2024: Apparently BT have decided that providing us with broadband is a pretty optional thing, so today will be powered by mobile broadband. Let’s hope it’s …
Jul 9, 2024: If you’re a journalist, everyone’s a critic. @manton’s turn: It used to be that opinion sections and letters to the editor were great places to hear …
Jul 9, 2024: It’s time to stop caring what journalists think. — @dave, not beating about the bush…
Jul 7, 2024: Does a new government open up the chance to refresh the transparency agenda? A discussion from #ODCamp in Manchester…
Jul 7, 2024: Uploading the first of my photos from #ODCamp to Flickr.
Jul 6, 2024: The last #ODCamp session liveblog from Matt and I today: with the Microsoft AI CEO saying all web content is “freeware” and usable for training, how …
Jul 6, 2024: Here’s the pitches from the #ODcamp 9 unconference in Manchester today.
Jul 6, 2024: Reservoir #ODCamp dogs.
Jul 4, 2024: Did a democracy. Took my daughters - this will be the first general election that they really remember.
Jul 3, 2024: Blimey. As the other social networks pull away from journalist, Mastodon is embracing it — and even Threads might be warming up to it again. …
Jul 3, 2024: This is a pitch for a Doctor Who episode, not a useful journalism notification…
Jul 2, 2024: Why didn’t the 100,000 strong march to restore nature get more coverage? The suggested answer is depressing: the protestors were too well-behaved.
Jul 2, 2024: Escaping tech’s boom/doom cycle requires a nuanced view of risk/reward. And the global south has something to teach us here.
Jul 2, 2024: Guess which party standing in the UK general election made no commitment to do anything about the sewage going into our rivers and seas? I bet you can …
Jul 2, 2024: Things are busy in growing corner.
Jul 2, 2024: This is the week when the UK changes. But we’ve very little idea of what it will become…
Jun 30, 2024: Shoreham Beach, Sunday 30th June
Jun 29, 2024: Church Times reporting on a new CoE report on trust and trustworthiness: Social media is also touched on in a section on access to information, with …
Jun 29, 2024: Not coming to this café again…
Jun 29, 2024: Started reading: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie 📚
Jun 29, 2024: It’s possible that my childhood bedroom was a bit geeky.
Jun 28, 2024: 🚨If you have old data in Google Analytics (version 3 / Universal Analytics), you only have until Monday to save it. 🚨 Here’s some suggestions for …
Jun 28, 2024: This is a fascinating experiment: use a newsletter to build a (paying) community, and once it’s large enough, launch a print magazine. I’ll be …
Jun 26, 2024: Well, I didn’t have Rushi Sunak versus David Tennant on my bingo card for this election.
Jun 23, 2024: It’s easy enough to dismiss these birds [pigeons] as rats with wings, but if we hate them for their ubiquity, adaptive success and propensity to make …
Jun 23, 2024: ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather,’ Alfred Wainwright once said. ‘Only unsuitable clothing’ He was right, I suppose. Although possibly also a …
Jun 22, 2024: Cross-posting from micro.blog to Threads via the new API seems to be working perfectly. 👌🏼
Jun 22, 2024: Adult bullies are so much worse that child ones. They have much less excuse and no chance of “growing out of it”. This is the person they have chosen …
Jun 22, 2024: The old lighthouse, Shoreham.
Jun 18, 2024: Just scrolled through my Facebook feed. In the first 70 posts, there are just two from friends: No. 5 No. 68. The rest is all groups, pages and ads.
Jun 18, 2024: Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary festivals. Their campaign is full of good intentions, …
Jun 16, 2024: Touching grass, very literally.
Jun 13, 2024: Time to hear about making the vast Sussex Bay better…
Jun 12, 2024: Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails. This is a different approach to AI.
Jun 12, 2024: I’m spending the day at a conference about newsletters for publishers. Here’s some live-blogged notes from a panel about lessons publishers can learn …
Jun 11, 2024: Some good thoughts here from Matt Webb: Observations on Siri, Apple Intelligence, and hiding in plain sight.
Jun 11, 2024: Om Malik: Why Apple Should Support National Parks . /signed
Jun 7, 2024: Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore. Idiots. Physical back up right there.
Jun 7, 2024: I miss the old group blogs that were a big feature of the 2000s internet. Dave Winer thinks we should bring them back, but with a fediverse twist.
Jun 6, 2024: Typing student feedback, and “the ‘gram” (Instagram) got auto-corrected to “the ‘grim”, and I’m not entirely sure that’s actually wrong.
Jun 6, 2024: Could an afternoon in the woods at the rewilded Knepp Estate rewild my child? My youngest and I went along to find out — and found ourselves …
Jun 2, 2024: I don’t need a forest bathing ticket or expensive gear to sit and eat a cheese and pickle sandwich on a fallen tree trunk. I don’t need an end point, …
Jun 2, 2024: When a man begins to turn the earth he finds that spring is not born in the branches of the trees, but down in the cold and dark and damp. Before the …
Jun 1, 2024: Finally, the shot I was destined to take. A wild adder, shot by @adders.
May 30, 2024: All 34. Blimey.
May 30, 2024: Having one of those moments when you’re happily scanning your way through some old negatives of your parents', and it slowly dawns on you that this …
May 28, 2024: When going through my late parents' negatives, I found a small number of medium format negs I don’t have the capacity to scan myself. I sent off a …
May 28, 2024: Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚 These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.
May 28, 2024: Do electric vehicles use more water than petrol cars? Depends. As ever, it’s not just about switching to EVs - it’s about the source of the …
May 26, 2024: Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
May 25, 2024: This is where my eldest is camping with the Guides. I am very jealous.
May 25, 2024: Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
May 24, 2024: Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
May 24, 2024: We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities. Good fences and all that…
May 22, 2024: I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a general election quite as much as this one.
May 17, 2024: The Rail Riders Club was a marketing thing British Rail did back in the 1980s, before it was broken up and privatised. These images are from a meet …
May 17, 2024: Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.
May 17, 2024: Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
May 11, 2024: Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚
May 10, 2024: The web is not dying:: Let’s imagine we ban TikTok. And Facebook. And Instagram. And Threads. And all the other huge platforms. There would still be …
May 10, 2024: Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.
May 10, 2024: The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.
May 10, 2024: Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully chaotic” in my latest newsletter/post…
May 10, 2024: Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.
May 9, 2024: When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are terrifying: “I expect a semi-dystopian future with …
May 9, 2024: Why are so many journalists still wary — or even ashamed — of the word “blog” after 25 years?
May 8, 2024: Lovely tribute to CJ Sansom and his quiet faith in the ability of humans who can walk the middle path to improve the world.
May 7, 2024: If you go down to the woods today…
May 6, 2024: UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.
May 6, 2024: Flip. I knew the electricity cost of AI was high, but the water cost is awful, too: For inference (i.e., conversation with ChatGPT), our estimate …
May 6, 2024: John Naughton in The Observer: The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by …
May 5, 2024: Good morning from the South Downs.
May 1, 2024: The nice thing about EV tech developing so fast is the realisation that my current EV - good though it is — is probably the absolute worst EV I will …
May 1, 2024: Beware! The link controllers don’t want you soiling their pristine websites with your dirty open web linking behaviour. (People are really still …
May 1, 2024: There’s never 30 to 50 feral hogs around when you need them.
Apr 27, 2024: If AI search takes hold, and upends the business model of web publishing and Google itself, the search giant will have been the architect of its own …
Apr 26, 2024: Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.
Apr 24, 2024: The US really went and did it. Bytedance faces an ultimatum: sell TikTok - or see it banned in the US. Now we’ll find out how important the app is to …
Apr 24, 2024: The last post for Post News: a potential Twitter successor that tried to cosy up to the news industry is shutting down. The field is thinning… I …
Apr 23, 2024: The one cost of AI we don’t talk about nearly enough: it’s seriously energy hungry at a time when we’re both trying together to decarbonise and …
Apr 23, 2024: The new CEO of Vimeo gets ready to sell your content to the AI companies: Over the next few weeks, we will be gathering input via a survey and …
Apr 23, 2024: Piper Haywood: spewing mediocrity is a pretty strong sweet spot for AI
Apr 21, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 21 The Cairngorms in early 1989. For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: mountain, suggested by David, aka @dejus.
Apr 21, 2024: Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.
Apr 18, 2024: I have a courtesy car while my own car is in the coach works. But, oh sweet happiness, much to my surprise, it has CarPlay. Once you’ve had CarPlay, …
Apr 17, 2024: This is awesome. A couple of months ago, researchers found a huge area of ancient seaweed off the Cornish coast. What’s the significance of 900 rugby …
Apr 17, 2024: Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr
Apr 17, 2024: A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.
Apr 17, 2024: The political problems around TikTok will only get worse if it keeps behaving like this.
Apr 16, 2024: Don’t think about this!
Apr 16, 2024: Advice to make sure you never create anything. I feel very seen by this post from @havn.
Apr 16, 2024: AI is speedrunning the financial boom and bust cycle says John Naughton, in The Observer.
Apr 15, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 15: small, suggested by James, aka @jmanes.
Apr 10, 2024: Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks. Birds and trees and bluebells.
Apr 3, 2024: A sobering find in my Mum’s negatives. This is the original Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, taken in 1989. The bridge was destroyed in …
Apr 3, 2024: Just found and followed @duncanhart and @ton, thanks to this conversation about micro.blog over at Euan Semple’s blog.
Mar 30, 2024: Started reading: The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent 📚
Mar 23, 2024: OK, why did nobody warn me that Inside Out is such a harrowing watch for a parent?
Mar 23, 2024: Cetacean Corner. Videos of our watery mammal friends. Not for the easily offended.
Mar 21, 2024: Starbucks quietly pretends it never fell for the NFT hype. I think that bubble is well and truly burst now.
Mar 18, 2024: It’s really hard to find a theme for most of the big blogging platforms that supports the old-style “all of the last few posts on the homepage” …
Mar 18, 2024: I’m having one of those days where good news in the journalism/tech/publishing space is remarkably hard to find.
Mar 18, 2024: OK, the experiment is done. Let’s just shut down the internet now: The “Young Indian Method” is a term that has been circulating among TikTok and …
Mar 18, 2024: Is Elon Musk getting bored of X/Twitter? With a bold prediction that Xitter will change hands by year end…
Mar 18, 2024: The tale of the credulous publishers and the AI Pied Piper: a cautionary fairy tale for grown-ups everywhere.
Mar 16, 2024: The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.
Mar 15, 2024: Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video? Betteridge’s Law applies…
Mar 14, 2024: AI is going down great at SXSW: “The incredibly pro-AI sizzle reel today at SXSW being loudly booed and told to fuck off by roughly a thousand people …
Mar 7, 2024: A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now shared to everyone.
Mar 6, 2024: Saw an article that looked interesting. Saw that the first subhead was “Synergy”. Bailed on that article.
Mar 5, 2024: Huh. Just discovered that I still had AMP turned on for Coffee & Complexity. Another Google project that went nowhere. It’s off now.
Mar 4, 2024: It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.
Mar 3, 2024: Time Travel, via scanner.
Mar 3, 2024: I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.
Mar 3, 2024: Early morning mist over the Adur.
Mar 1, 2024: The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983. Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. …
Feb 29, 2024: Mum, March 1983.
Feb 29, 2024: Yikes. I need to do better than that.
Feb 28, 2024: Well, who doesn’t?
Feb 27, 2024: Today I have been moving over 30Gb of videos around my network, archiving footage from livestreams and other events. Every single file I’m moving is …
Feb 25, 2024: Ah, who can fail to love one of these?
Feb 25, 2024: Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.
Feb 25, 2024: Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚
Feb 24, 2024: A sign of spring.
Feb 24, 2024: Living at the coast takes a special kind of stoicism and hardiness. And a readiness to make hay while the sun shines. If you are born to it then it’s …
Feb 23, 2024: Sad times for Portuguese D&D fans.
Feb 23, 2024: Turns out I can’t spell phoenix to save my life. I have a complete mental block over how to spell it correctly. Yes, I had to look it up for this …
Feb 22, 2024: So, just starting to get my head around micro.blog’s new premium offer. It took me a while to twig that, when you set up a new blog, you’re the same …
Feb 22, 2024: So, Reddit is selling all the free labour of its users to an AI company to train its model. Well, that explains the API changes last year…
Feb 22, 2024: Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: Unknown Exposures
Feb 22, 2024: I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow. Ugh.
Feb 21, 2024: Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.
Feb 20, 2024: One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.
Feb 20, 2024: This duck is stylin’.
Feb 17, 2024: Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.
Feb 17, 2024: Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.
Feb 17, 2024: Bit of a “grab bag” protest in town. They’re against: Cashless payments Vaccines Ultra low emissions zones The World Economic Forum I might not …
Feb 13, 2024: My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.
Feb 11, 2024: Friendly wee chaps.
Feb 11, 2024: Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.
Feb 11, 2024: Water level a bit on the high side, then.
Feb 11, 2024: semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation. — Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
Feb 11, 2024: Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!
Feb 10, 2024: Love a bit of crema
Feb 10, 2024: 🔗 Hunter-Gathering For Wimps: Making a conscious decision to shut the f@&£ up, not cause the planet bow and crack under the weight of more opinions, …
Feb 9, 2024: We’ve just had the world’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit. What’s it going to take before people treat this seriously?
Feb 7, 2024: Looks like Apple has an image editing Generative AI coming. Quite Apple-y to be task specific.
Feb 7, 2024: Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…
Feb 6, 2024: Want to feel old? Somebody born when Leeroy Jenkins wiped his raid will turn 19 this year. You’re welcome.
Feb 6, 2024: Finding the intro that finally makes the piece you’ve been struggling with work is such a blissful moment.
Feb 6, 2024: Let’s get phygital… Apple’s Vision Pro is a tentative first step towards building a blended digital/physical world. But this is like the launch of the …
Feb 4, 2024: Good morning from the Downs.
Feb 3, 2024: Haircut achieved.
Feb 3, 2024: Today I will be: a. marking b. learning about DMARC c. getting a hair cut One big party, my life.
Feb 3, 2024: 🔗 Return-to-office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study says: Now, new research from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the …
Feb 2, 2024: Finally, some harbingers of spring.
Feb 1, 2024: After nearly a month battling a respiratory virus, today is the first day I’ve woken up and genuinely felt like I was on the mend. Feels good.
Jan 30, 2024: Why are publishers making fools of themselves by deploying generative AI that clearly isn’t ready yet? They’re terrified of repeating the mistakes of …
Jan 27, 2024: Started reading: Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
Jan 24, 2024: A quick round-up of podcasting news, derived from my work on the audience strategy module of our new MA in Podcasting.
Jan 23, 2024: Last summer danah boyd was still trying to ignore the Metaverse. It’s only got easier since!
Jan 22, 2024: A compelling argumentment from Om Malik that Google has entered the same stage of decline that, for example, Microsoft saw under Steve Ballmer.
Jan 16, 2024: I have to say, I’m a little bored of being ill now. I’ve had one illness or another since I caught COVID nearly a month ago.
Jan 12, 2024: Whether or not Substack ever had a significant Nazi problem is now a moot point. It undoubtedly has a Nazi image problem – and that’s not going to …
Jan 12, 2024: Platformer leaving Substack for Ghost over the “platforming Nazis” issue. That’ll be a substantial hit for Substack.
Jan 11, 2024: This is an insanely long, but very detailed and compelling, telling of the Substack story — and how the platform got into its current mess. …
Jan 11, 2024: I’m getting a lot of traffic from Russia at the moment. Not quite sure what to make of that.
Jan 11, 2024: My annual look at the most popular posts on my journalism site, One Man & His Blog. The clearest trend is the real sense of uncertainty surrounding …
Jan 10, 2024: Dave Winer: It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone. Amen.
Jan 10, 2024: One of the (very) small ironies of the “Substackers against Nazis” ruckus is that I’ve ended up spending way more time on Substack than usual, just to …
Jan 10, 2024: My inability to remember which is the correct spelling – whether or wether – means I accidentally write about castrated rams rather more than anyone …
Jan 10, 2024: Substack launched Notes to steal attention from Twitter. It succeeded. Right now, I bet they’re regretting that.
Jan 10, 2024: This was very interesting to write. It does feel like some models of society and lifepaths have reached their natural end — and are now running on …
Jan 10, 2024: These cactus leather iPhone cases look nice. Still a natural material, but without the environmental costs of cow skin. Quite tempted to get one in a …
Jan 10, 2024: Oh, marvellous. The UK government is now making policies based on easily disprovable conspiracy theories. They’re either idiots, or they think …
Jan 10, 2024: My companion didn’t stay long…
Jan 10, 2024: Frosty but beautiful beach walk after school drop off this morning. Starting to feel like I’m finally shaking off the Christmas lurgy.
Jan 9, 2024: On the intrigue side, Fieldwork can be relied on to provide the spectacularly weird. Downstream from Richmond we once spotted a polystyrene takeaway …
Jan 9, 2024: This, and the piece it’s based on, are well worth a read: Dorothy Thompson On Who Goes Nazi Sad that it feels as relevant today as it did when it was …
Jan 8, 2024: Man shocked to discover that two-edged sword does, in fact, have two edges.
Jan 8, 2024: OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.
Jan 8, 2024: Futurism: After a storm and flash flooding knocked out the power in south-east Queensland, Australia, a local woman used her electric car to power …
Jan 8, 2024: I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two bags of beans to go.
Jan 8, 2024: A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.
Jan 6, 2024: Sunset on Old Fort Road.
Jan 6, 2024: Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚
Jan 4, 2024: This is spectacular even by crypto scam standards:Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist.
Jan 3, 2024: The Festive Silence — or how exhaustion, burn-out and COVID conspired to give me an offline Christmas.
Jan 1, 2024: Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
Jan 1, 2024: Took a New Year’s Day beach walk with my eldest, and found somebody’s lost glasses on the strand line. The lenses have been ground into mistiness by …
Dec 22, 2023: Beach life, December 22nd 2023
Dec 16, 2023: Term finished yesterday. Today, I have a cold. Obviously.
Dec 15, 2023: The single biggest thing that would improve my AI prompt writing skills: not making typos.
Dec 13, 2023: Oh, shit. The dolphins have had enough and are coming for us.
Dec 5, 2023: Fog on the Adur.
Dec 5, 2023: What if the real X/Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone at all?
Dec 4, 2023: When the problem contains the obvious solution: Residential areas are increasingly unaffordable even for the middle classes, while the office …
Dec 2, 2023: Ah, the horror on my daughter’s face was only matched by the delight on mine when Siri delivered The Wurzels version of I wish it could be Christmas …
Dec 1, 2023: Sad to see TinyLetter closing down. It was ahead of the curve on newsletters, but got bought by MailChimp, and was left to wither on the vine. …
Dec 1, 2023: It’s easy to claim you have ethical supply chains. It’s much harder to actually monitor them to check, say, your outdoors costs aren’t being made by …
Nov 30, 2023: OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks My girls will use Keynote, or it’ll a disappointing Christmas. 😉
Nov 28, 2023: Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚
Nov 24, 2023: It’s beginning to look a lot like…
Nov 24, 2023: ”’Was your world once wild?' a distant intelligence might ask. Yes, we’d say. Till it went under our ploughs and the hooves of our cattle. Under the …
Nov 23, 2023: WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is good and holy in web publishing.
Nov 21, 2023: The problem with WordPress’s 100 year plan. I would absolutely pay for a service to keep my work online after my death. This is not the service for me …
Nov 21, 2023: OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼♂️
Nov 17, 2023: Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚 It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.
Nov 17, 2023: Interesting update from Bluesky: They’ve hit 2m users, despite still being invite-only A web view of posts and timelines coming this year Federation …
Nov 17, 2023: I’m really happy with this little quality of life improvement from the Ghost folks. As a habitual emoji user, anything that makes it easier gets a 👍🏻 …
Nov 17, 2023: The Gawker brand is coming back — but not the archive or the same approach, it appears.
Nov 16, 2023: For years, Twitter was second only to to Google as a source of traffic to my blog. This month, it’s being beaten by… Yandex. LinkedIn is now the top …
Nov 11, 2023: A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.
Nov 11, 2023: Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.
Nov 11, 2023: Lovely to see someone whom I got started in blogging (I ran the network of businessss blogs he alludes to), hit a decade of doing under his own steam. …
Nov 7, 2023: Podcast listeners! I’m looking for podcasts with vibrant and well-managed online communities, be they on Reddit, in Facebook groups, Forums, Discord, …
Nov 5, 2023: Started reading: Enchantment by Katherine May 📚 Reminded to do so by this podcast with her.
Nov 3, 2023: This is worrying: publications are using AI generated images of the Gaza conflict from Adobe Stock without declaring that they are AI created. One …
Nov 3, 2023: I’ve spent a lot of time on alt text for presentations over the past five weeks, and more than once Apple’s Live Text feature has saved me a whole …
Nov 3, 2023: Put that phone down and go be bored: your creativity depends on it. (And other things worth reading).
Nov 3, 2023: Worth a read: Mastodon Is the Good One
Nov 2, 2023: Greetings from Storm Ciarán…
Nov 2, 2023: Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening… 🤫🤫
Nov 2, 2023: Sad times: Canon formally discontinues the last EOS-M cameras, saying goodbye to EF-M I used EOS M cameras for much of the last decade, and will miss …
Nov 1, 2023: Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to travel in the morning.
Nov 1, 2023: Me: I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a geek; I’m a journalist! Also Me: Just finished updating nodejs on two VPSes so I can update my self-hosted …
Nov 1, 2023: Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically Webmentions under the hood. I was one of the test group …
Nov 1, 2023: Huh. Movable Type 8 is out. Once upon a time I’d have been really excited by that - but at $499 a licence, not much chance I’d ever go back… They seem …
Oct 31, 2023: Happy Halloween 🎃! Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.
Oct 30, 2023: I posted to my Substack for the first time in, um, two years, 10 months and 28 days. Hell of a posting frequency there, huh? Some thoughts on …
Oct 29, 2023: Having a gourd day. 🎃
Oct 28, 2023: Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 2023.
Oct 28, 2023: I’ve just bought my youngest the dry robe reviewed in this article. It’s great for our 7.30 am Sunday swim lessons run. In the spring, it’ll be sea …
Oct 26, 2023: So… blogs are dead are they?
Oct 24, 2023: The first would-be competitor to X/Twitter to fail? Stand up, Pebble (formerly t2). Maxed out at about 3000 daily activity users, so funders weren’t …
Oct 22, 2023: Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚
Oct 21, 2023: I treated the girls to pancakes to celebrate the first day of half term.
Oct 20, 2023: I know Ahsoka has not gone down well with a lot of adult Star Wars fans, but watching it with two pre-teen girls who are absolutely rapt — and seeing …
Oct 20, 2023: Jack Baty: The only way I’d pay Musk $1 to join Twitter (X) is if I could mail him a check. I miss having @jack around these parts.
Oct 20, 2023: Om Malik: Yes, teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media — just not as much on what we old-timers call social media. The big takeaway …
Oct 19, 2023: The nice thing about X (formerly known as Twitter) being in a death spiral is I feel so much freer to mute, block and unfollow people there who have …
Oct 18, 2023: Amazing how many people who have been happily driving around with a large container of highly flammable fluid in their vehicles suddenly think that EV …
Oct 17, 2023: The next stage in human evolution?
Oct 16, 2023: Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991
Oct 15, 2023: “Those who had a close relationship with nature used their phones half as much each day, took 90% fewer selfies and took 300% more pictures of nature …
Oct 15, 2023: “Since the early 1990s, no country has met the basic needs of its population without overconsuming natural resources.” — Reconnection by Miles …
Oct 15, 2023: “When 16,000 people across 18 nations were surveyed, it was found that the British people visit nature much less frequently than people in other …
Oct 15, 2023: Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while outdoors. ☕️
Oct 15, 2023: Started reading: Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
Oct 13, 2023: This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes me unexpectedly happy.
Oct 13, 2023: I have fought with 301 redirects, and I have won. And now I fact the terror of Google Search console migrations…
Oct 13, 2023: So, if I’ve done everything correctly, my micro.blog no longer sits in the shadow of my “main blog” on a subdomain. It has got a domain of its own: …
Oct 13, 2023: And I’m back in the timeline. I didn’t realise that changing the URL of my blog would essentially stop my posts hitting the timeline, unless I edited …
Oct 13, 2023: Literal standing room only for the lunchtime talk by BBC News’ Ros Atkins on explainers at City Journalism. That includes me. I am standing…
Oct 11, 2023: Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one
Oct 10, 2023: Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.
Oct 8, 2023: Turns out that if you go to bed super early on Saturday night, because you’re exhausted thanks to the first teaching week of term, a train strike, and …
Oct 7, 2023: John Gruber: X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off.
Oct 5, 2023: Fair point.
Oct 4, 2023: I feel judged by my iPad.
Oct 3, 2023: Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have nightmares about that image”.
Oct 3, 2023: Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival. Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to Germany…
Oct 3, 2023: Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the early work I led.
Oct 1, 2023: A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.
Oct 1, 2023: No early morning drive to the pool this morning, as my eldest is unwell. So, I’m drinking coffee and processing photos instead
Sep 30, 2023: It has begun. 🎄
Sep 30, 2023: Dave Winer: There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media.
Sep 30, 2023: Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) 📚 🎲
Sep 27, 2023: I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN. And that pretty much sums up my day.
Sep 26, 2023: I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.
Sep 24, 2023: Gen X erasure is real.
Sep 24, 2023: Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚
Sep 22, 2023: Spectacular views over London en route to Heathrow.
Sep 22, 2023: Podcast insertion ads are still so laughably primitive. All the British podcasts I downloaded while in Hamburg are full of German ads.
Sep 21, 2023: A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival. #next23
Sep 20, 2023: Late night on the Reeperbahn.
Sep 20, 2023: I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense you get in British airports.
Sep 15, 2023: Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism? Not so much.
Sep 15, 2023: It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating. The number of occasions when you need to bust out the “real” …
Sep 13, 2023: An interesting move from The Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.
Sep 13, 2023: We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.
Sep 13, 2023: 📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glowing.
Sep 13, 2023: TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.
Sep 12, 2023: My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.
Sep 8, 2023: Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚
Sep 8, 2023: Breakfast of champions.
Sep 7, 2023: Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening. Important security updates out…
Sep 7, 2023: Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…
Sep 7, 2023: I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news publishers are thinking about at the moment, well, here you …
Sep 7, 2023: These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to bankruptcy.
Sep 7, 2023: Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip cheese.
Sep 5, 2023: Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule looks great this year.
Sep 4, 2023: I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old. Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.
Sep 4, 2023: Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good for journalism and audience work. Honest.
Sep 1, 2023: Currently reading: Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover 📚
Aug 29, 2023: This will do.
Aug 27, 2023: Lovely afternoon for a cycle with my youngest.
Aug 23, 2023: This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.
Aug 21, 2023: Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist. I’m very proud.
Aug 20, 2023: Somebody will be very sad about losing this chap.
Aug 20, 2023: Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚
Aug 16, 2023: Found a lovely place for breakfast in the port yesterday morning.
Aug 16, 2023: It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.
Aug 15, 2023: One unexpected surprise in upgrading from a 2006 car to a 2020 car: it got two software updates when I took it in for annual service… Cars get …
Aug 15, 2023: Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to “X”? 🤔
Aug 15, 2023: Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore? Well, it depends…
Aug 12, 2023: Why people are pulling up their fake lawns. Good.
Aug 12, 2023: Why selfish co-workers stick together: a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s …
Aug 12, 2023: Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress: “The physiological sigh is the fastest hardwired way for us to eliminate a …
Aug 11, 2023: A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.
Aug 11, 2023: The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.
Aug 10, 2023: Back from holiday. What have I missed?
Aug 7, 2023: Aaaaaaar!
Aug 2, 2023: “Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness while still being at home. It is a sense of loss, …
Jul 28, 2023: Oh.
Jul 26, 2023: Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.
Jul 24, 2023: Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.
Jul 23, 2023: This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.
Jul 22, 2023: First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.
Jul 19, 2023: A happy transatlantic delivery.
Jul 19, 2023: I just read an attempt at a scathing take-down of Caitlin Moran’s new book on men. Guess the gender of all the writers whose scathing reviews were …
Jul 18, 2023: Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: the new microblogging ecosystem. 😮💨
Jul 18, 2023: Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚
Jul 12, 2023: In the process of consolidating my personal blogging (going back to 2001) here on micro.blog. It’s going to take a bit of work to tidy it up - but I …
Jul 12, 2023: Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number of false spam positives recently?
Jul 11, 2023: Oh, my. This is the man who created Clippy. (Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)
Jul 11, 2023: On women who write while lying on their stomachs.
Jul 8, 2023: There’s a takeaway near us that looks like it went out of business years ago. But no, it’s still open and trading. I wouldn’t eat there.
Jul 8, 2023: Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified? (Some would argue that it’s already there…)
Jul 8, 2023: I just looked at my Facebook feed for the first time in a wee while. How many posts from the first 20 shown were from my friends do you think? (Rather …
Jul 7, 2023: Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me. 🤯
Jul 7, 2023: Finally got to spend some time writing in my favourite coffee shop this afternoon.
Jul 7, 2023: Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.
Jul 7, 2023: Oh, dear. So sad. Too bad. Anyway… The Broke Ape Yacht Crash
Jul 7, 2023: Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? [Guardian cartoon.]
Jul 7, 2023: Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of this cup of coffee left. That was much easier than …
Jul 7, 2023: Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product: Substack has it, via Notes Instagram has it, via Threads The Fediverse has it, via Mastodon The …
Jul 7, 2023: Chances of Threads ever getting an API for general use? I’d imagine they’ll be about 0%.
Jul 7, 2023: My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data grab.
Jul 7, 2023: I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle an invite anywhere, and still stuck in the invite …
Jul 6, 2023: What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.
Jul 6, 2023: And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…
Jul 5, 2023: Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚
Jun 25, 2023: Adrian Bell on newspaper experts: I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a gardening expert who wrote for a London paper. ‘And …
Jun 24, 2023: So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
Jun 24, 2023: Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry: Also, there’s no point blaming a studio which turns out two-four films a year for …
Jun 24, 2023: Utterly brazen.
Jun 23, 2023: These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human relationships. And then they do this.
Jun 20, 2023: The phrase “deeply unserious” is becoming a thing, isn’t it? One of those meme-like phrases that we’ll look back on in five years and think was “so …
Jun 16, 2023: Nice work of the day goes to the cyclist who literally rode into me while I was trying to shepherd children across the road on a green man at traffic …
Jun 14, 2023: That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day. I’m just not looking forward to a hot train ride home…
Jun 12, 2023: Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students' final projects, I miss being a commissioning editor. I love the feeling of working with …
Jun 11, 2023: Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which it differs from and contrasts with workaday …
Jun 11, 2023: Winning at Wordle…
Jun 11, 2023: Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies cinema trip: The Laughing Dog.
Jun 11, 2023: Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home as well as abroad, and he who has a little may use …
Jun 11, 2023: Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer …
Jun 11, 2023: Beauty right by the front door.
Jun 10, 2023: David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating: “All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but …
Jun 9, 2023: When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I can think about is this photo:
Jun 8, 2023: This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.
Jun 7, 2023: What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇
Jun 5, 2023: I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There goes that streak.
Jun 5, 2023: That’s the sort of keynote I like from Apple. Lots of new features for devices I already own, no temptation to spend any money. 👍
Jun 5, 2023: Ah, crap. I just got it. The two big “secret” Apple projects: the headset and the car. They’re basically the same project: spatial computing. Low …
Jun 5, 2023: If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.
Jun 5, 2023: Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR. But I still can’t see myself buying one.
Jun 1, 2023: Dragonflies at Woods Mill.
Jun 1, 2023: It may be a common cardinal beetle, but it’s uncommonly beautiful.
May 29, 2023: Beach flower.
May 28, 2023: The wind farm has really grown on me over the years.
May 28, 2023: The gull parade.
May 28, 2023: Oh, nuts.
May 24, 2023: Squee.
May 20, 2023: Having an 80s moment.
May 20, 2023: Saturday morning pancakes.
May 19, 2023: The sun going down over micro.camp…
May 19, 2023: Micro camping.
May 18, 2023: Wow. Engagement on posts in my Substack Notes feed has collapsed. Only the very biggest newsletter authors are getting any reaction at all.
May 17, 2023: Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher …
May 17, 2023: There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. — A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
May 17, 2023: Started reading: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
May 11, 2023: Hello there.
May 11, 2023: RIP Dooce. One of the true blogging pioneers. I worry that the history of those early days is being lost, as the people as the people who defined it …
May 9, 2023: Final Cut Pro on the iPad — and they’re announcing this before WWDC? This is exciting stuff.
May 6, 2023: Penny Mordaunt cosplaying as Britannia. Still, Britain has a bit of a cultural thing about women with swords.
May 6, 2023: All the faith leaders coming into the coronation together, and then our Hindu Prime Minister and our Muslim Scottish First Minister, is surprising …
May 6, 2023: All this fuss over an impractical new hat. Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.
May 4, 2023: Bunting is occurring.
May 4, 2023: Don’t let Bluesky become a 💩 like Twitter Wow. @dave is not impressed with Bluesky: I definitely want Blue Sky to just go away. I don’t like it because if it gains traction it has potential …
May 4, 2023: Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web: “That means two major driving forces of the contemporary internet are… basically useless now? …
May 4, 2023: Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months away from its demise…
May 4, 2023: May the Fourth be with you.
May 3, 2023: These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?
May 1, 2023: Up on the Downs as the rain hits.
May 1, 2023: Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world. [via @baldur]
May 1, 2023: micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post: “It’s all another reminder that centralized platforms …
May 1, 2023: This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
May 1, 2023: This is the way.
Apr 30, 2023: I needed this.
Apr 26, 2023: Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme. This is the (medieval) way.
Apr 23, 2023: Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚
Apr 23, 2023: “But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed uncomfortable, take chances in the way a mountaineer …
Apr 22, 2023: Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚
Apr 21, 2023: Never really got into Picard Series 1 & 2, but I have loved every moment of series 3. My Friday evenings won’t be quite the same.
Apr 19, 2023: Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for post-school play tomorrow.
Apr 18, 2023: Scenes from a commute.
Apr 17, 2023: Some notes on Substack Notes.
Apr 17, 2023: I’ve been called “Tim” twice in emails already today, and it’s not even 10am on Monday. Why? Do I seem like a “Tim” so much it overrides my actual …
Apr 16, 2023: I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, Ghost. But not as bad as I feared.
Apr 15, 2023: An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people online makes them a better person. Being nasty does …
Apr 15, 2023: Storm brewing in the deer park.
Apr 15, 2023: Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is taking…
Apr 14, 2023: Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
Apr 14, 2023: Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.
Apr 13, 2023: Reach for the sky.
Apr 13, 2023: Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should be thinking about Mastodon right now.
Apr 12, 2023: 20 years ago today.
Apr 12, 2023: Substack Notes: first impressions Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter writers trying to persuade each other to subscribe …
Apr 11, 2023: Like father, like daughters.
Apr 11, 2023: “Dad, I forgot to add Frozen songs to my playlist. Can I have more iPad time to sort it?” “Hazel, that idea? Let it go.” “DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD! Worst Dad …
Apr 10, 2023: Down by the sea on a blustery day.
Apr 9, 2023: Sunrise over Shoreham Beach, during the Easter Sunday dawn service.
Apr 8, 2023: Beach life.
Apr 8, 2023: Back in your in-boxes: season two of Engaged Reading Time starts here.
Apr 8, 2023: 358 tabs open on my iPad Pro. I suspect my Easter project should be cleaning them down. (It was over 400 before my morning coffee.)
Apr 8, 2023: This piece from Robin Sloan is looking more prescient by the day: the last decade’s platforms are over.
Apr 8, 2023: Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly? What a fascinating watch.
Apr 7, 2023: On GM swapping CarPlay for subscription services. Jason Snell: The arrogance in believing that GM should force people to bend their digital lives in order to fit into their cars is breathtaking. Are …
Apr 7, 2023: I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble. Possibly a beer, too.
Apr 1, 2023: My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.
Mar 31, 2023: My train is running late due to… rain. Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the UK?
Mar 31, 2023: I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential growth in the next few weeks…
Mar 31, 2023: Bit of a shocker: gal-dem magazine is closing. It had a passionate following - I’m genuinely surprised that they couldn’t convert that into a stable …
Mar 31, 2023: This should chill events businesses: the big games show E3 has been cancelled, in part because publishers announce new games directly to customers via …
Mar 30, 2023: Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.
Mar 25, 2023: Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do I have you sorted.
Mar 24, 2023: Hey, @help, am I missing something, or is the only way to trigger a webmention send manually adding class=“u-in-reply-to” in the link?
Mar 24, 2023: In the couple of days since I wrote this post, the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have only increased. This feel genuinely unprecedented.
Mar 21, 2023: The girls are eating fish fingers and custard. Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.
Mar 18, 2023: Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
Mar 17, 2023: News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.
Mar 16, 2023: I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…
Mar 13, 2023: Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. The Fediverse momentum is growing.
Mar 12, 2023: William Davies on The Reaction Economy: The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the liberal philosophical tradition – as an autonomous …
Mar 11, 2023: Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚
Mar 9, 2023: I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting next year — on the audience development side.
Mar 7, 2023: A general US TikTok ban edges closer…
Mar 7, 2023: This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.
Mar 6, 2023: Iris wanted to watch some Doctor Who. So, we started at the beginning. The very beginning…
Mar 6, 2023: Lots of writing to do today — so lots of coffee will be drunk…
Mar 6, 2023: 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.
Mar 6, 2023: Two damn decades of writing the same blog. Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.
Mar 5, 2023: Wood and tile. #mbmar 📸
Mar 5, 2023: Your Sunday morning swimming pool white board wisdom.
Mar 4, 2023: 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. …
Mar 4, 2023: Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
Mar 3, 2023: I want that sticker.
Mar 3, 2023: Sometimes solitude is possible, even in the heart of London. #mbmar 📸
Mar 3, 2023: The Good Apple and the Bad Apple John Gruber: “Putting the legality of Apple’s anti-steering rules aside, I think they make the company look spiteful and petty.” It sometimes feels …
Mar 2, 2023: The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon. #mbmar 📸
Mar 2, 2023: 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 …
Mar 2, 2023: 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 …
Mar 2, 2023: Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.
Mar 2, 2023: 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.
Mar 1, 2023: Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t understand the existing games coverage business.
Mar 1, 2023: Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure. #mbmar 📸
Mar 1, 2023: I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.
Mar 1, 2023: Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.
Feb 26, 2023: 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.
Feb 22, 2023: A walk down memory lane to 1994, when this young chap (me) had his view of journalism shifted by the launch of a new magazine for men…
Feb 22, 2023: We did the thing yesterday.
Feb 22, 2023: Just corrected a typo in a blog post published… 10 years and 20 days ago. Ooops.
Feb 19, 2023: Adventure time.
Feb 16, 2023: Plausible Analytics providing both Search Console integration AND Google Analytics import is making me very happy.
Feb 15, 2023: Finally got my (consulting/training) work inbox down to double digits. Plenty of people will be waking up to slightly (or, in some cases, very) tardy …
Feb 15, 2023: That’s one way of making a politician’s life suddenly more complex From today’s eye opening story about a global disinformation team: “Much of their strategy appeared to revolve around disrupting or sabotaging rival …
Feb 15, 2023: This is one hell of a story: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
Feb 15, 2023: Free speech absolutism excludes China, it seems.
Feb 15, 2023: I enjoyed the conversation between @manton and @danielpunkass on Core Intuition about the shifting sands of the Twitter API. I’m certainly one of the …
Feb 12, 2023: Started reading: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 📚
Feb 10, 2023: Holy flip, that’s a lot:
Feb 10, 2023: Good to see that the Musk rat is experiencing the same as the rest of us: cratering Twitter engagement. Less good that he’s randomly firing people who …
Feb 9, 2023: I’ve just revamped the look of my Ghost blog One Man & His Blog, and am very happy with the results:
Feb 9, 2023: 14 years ago, someone registered a domain name for the local church. Nobody remembers who. Somebody is still paying for it. Tracking down the …
Feb 9, 2023: This pen is a blast from the past. Early 2000s blogging, when Movable Type and Typepad seemed like they would dominate - a good time, but so long ago. …
Feb 7, 2023: First time using my iPhone as a webcam for my training course this morning. It worked great. One of the best new features of macOS.
Feb 7, 2023: Google’s Bard is singing a whole new song. Could this be the start of a whole new age of search? It really looks like it right now.
Feb 6, 2023: Ah, the sweet satisfaction of landing one of the free EV charge parking spaces in the morning.
Feb 5, 2023: And, really, nothing is more political than the way we engage with the world around us. We have an obligation to see the world for what it is, the bad …
Feb 5, 2023: The origin of the phrase “up sticks”: ”Instead they used Gypsy tents of the traditional style, a tarpaulin thrown over a platform of bent wooden …
Feb 5, 2023: We’re coming back into the light. The sun was rising as we drove to the pool this morning, after months of doing this trip in the dark. Spring’s …
Feb 4, 2023: Beware: killer clowns and hangry bears.
Feb 3, 2023: My kind of diversion.
Feb 3, 2023: I declared RSS bankruptcy last night, marked the 5,000+ articles which were unread in NetNewsWire as read, and revelled in the manageable flow of new …
Feb 3, 2023: Great post by Matt Genmell on why we should give ourselves permission to write shorter, less weighty posts in blogs. Some of this is down to platform …
Feb 2, 2023: Visiting.
Feb 2, 2023: I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.
Feb 2, 2023: This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of depression after all.
Feb 1, 2023: I have 300 open tabs on my iPad. Tonight, I wage war on them. (By “wage war” I mean “read and decide if I’m going to blog about them”, of course.)
Feb 1, 2023: Home learning on teachers’ strike day, thanks to BBC Bitesize.
Jan 30, 2023: Took me too many years - but I finally got that last elusive micro.blog badge…
Jan 30, 2023: Lovely sunrise over Hassocks station this morning.
Jan 29, 2023: This morning’s wisdom from the crack-of-dawn trip to the pool for my daughter:
Jan 29, 2023: SUPpers and swans.
Jan 28, 2023: On the D&D OGL mess: “This is a community that literally invented the term “rules lawyer.” WotC simply didn’t realize how literally that would be …
Jan 28, 2023: I know their days are numbered, but nothing quite beats a free charge at the station while you’re up in London.
Jan 26, 2023: Lovely to see some blue sky again today. It’s been a hard January, and this was the lift I needed this afternoon.
Jan 25, 2023: Ivory has won promotion to my iPad dock…
Jan 25, 2023: So, this post proved more controversial than I expected. I expected pushback on my warning about TikTok. What I didn’t expect was how attached some …
Jan 24, 2023: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in, just around the corner from my house.
Jan 24, 2023: HomePod and AppleTV updates are out this evening.
Jan 24, 2023: Ivory from Tapbots is now on the App Store. Trying it out now for my Mastodon needs…
Jan 24, 2023: I can’t quite bring myself to delete my last copy of Twitterific. I’ll do it soon, but it still saddens me. The final end of an era that once brought …
Jan 23, 2023: iOS, macOS and watchOS updates all ready for you in Software Update.
Jan 23, 2023: The tide was far enough out today that we actually had something approximating sand! -
Jan 22, 2023: Touching.
Jan 22, 2023: Interesting set of links from Alex Roddie.
Jan 22, 2023: “We need somehow to press the reset button, and completely rethink how we see our relationship with the earth. We need to reinvent ourselves as …
Jan 22, 2023: Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
Jan 22, 2023: Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.
Jan 21, 2023: Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚
Jan 21, 2023: On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes. Harsh, but fair.
Jan 20, 2023: Quite a show.
Jan 20, 2023: Somewhere in all that is my eldest, preparing to sing her heart out. I first came here 23 years ago, and saw Peter Gabriel’s OVO as part of the …
Jan 20, 2023: My first time back at the Dome in maybe 15 years. Last time I was here, it was to see Pink as a birthday treat for my wife.
Jan 20, 2023: Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.
Jan 19, 2023: It’s official. Third party Twitter apps are dead. Not a surprise given the events of the last week — but still a spectacularly shitty way to treat …
Jan 19, 2023: Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.
Jan 19, 2023: A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,
Jan 19, 2023: Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.
Jan 18, 2023: Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.
Jan 18, 2023: I just don’t understand why people think £250 for Airpods Pro - single user devices, with a lifespan of a few years - is fine, but £299 for a HomePod, …
Jan 18, 2023: That’s it. Revue is gone, killed off by the new “management” of Twitter. Once a great service, it never really kept up with the accelerating pace of …
Jan 18, 2023: Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down for most people across the Beach.
Jan 18, 2023: Frost on the roof, sun on the river.
Jan 18, 2023: Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.
Jan 18, 2023: Quite the sunset this evening.
Jan 17, 2023: Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…
Jan 17, 2023: Craig Hockenberry: “It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to …
Jan 17, 2023: Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.
Jan 16, 2023: Home, from the bridge.
Jan 16, 2023: If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really about? The answer is in the rediscovery of …
Jan 15, 2023: Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.
Jan 15, 2023: ”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to reach silence anywhere. One only need subtract.” — …
Jan 15, 2023: Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it. And sometimes it’s really true.
Jan 14, 2023: Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼
Jan 13, 2023: My weekend reading has arrived. 📚
Jan 13, 2023: It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.
Jan 13, 2023: Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.
Jan 13, 2023: Metal cover of the A-Team theme. Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.
Jan 13, 2023: Twitter’s API appears to be down, breaking any third party client access to the service. And now we wait to find out if this is intentional, or just a …
Jan 13, 2023: What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just frictionlessly disappearing when they shut down the …
Jan 13, 2023: Looks like Hasbro is learning that you can create a community, play host to a community, but never, ever own a community. The D&D community is on the …
Jan 12, 2023: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in just around the corner.
Jan 12, 2023: The courage and talent of Laura Price, whom I had the privilege of teaching a few years ago, continues to inspire me, as she prepares to launch the …
Jan 12, 2023: D&D’s OGL was a corporate con job Cory Doctorow on the Hasbo D&D OGL rugpull: If you’re a game designer who was pissed off because the OGL was getting ganked – and if you’re even more …
Jan 11, 2023: There’s a guy down the river collecting old boats. He seems to be working on them. It annoys some locals, but I rather like it. It’s a great reminder …
Jan 11, 2023: This looks worryingly like the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack.
Jan 11, 2023: The science of stupidity Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an …
Jan 11, 2023: It’s interesting how many publications do “predictions for the year ahead” posts - and how few of them go back and assess how good their post the year …
Jan 10, 2023: The sea is bringing in some big bits of jetsam right now.
Jan 10, 2023: The sea was putting on an impressive show earlier.
Jan 9, 2023: Walkers and shingle shifters on the beach this afternoon.
Jan 8, 2023: Up on the Downs this morning.
Jan 8, 2023: Nice wooden boat coming ashore on the slipway.
Jan 8, 2023: I love it when a book randomly mentions where I live: ”I was also looking forward to experiencing my first aid station, laid on at regular intervals …
Jan 8, 2023: Back into the “7.30am swimming lesson for my eldest” routine for Sundays. As ever, a flask of great coffee and a good book makes it tolerable - and …
Jan 7, 2023: From the library towards the church.
Jan 7, 2023: From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚: “Deep down in the ocean, below the waves and ripples, you can find your internal silence. Standing in the shower, …
Jan 7, 2023: From Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚: “A seam of bullying ran unchecked through the school, which wasn’t uncommon in the late seventies and …
Jan 7, 2023: Yup, just walking home through the graveyard. 😨
Jan 6, 2023: The time has come to…
Jan 6, 2023: Twelfth night, so saying farewell to our mighty wee tree.
Jan 5, 2023: Just survived the slightly nerve-wracking process of upgrading my Mastodon server to 4.0.2. All went smoothly, and it’s up and running again. 😮💨
Jan 4, 2023: That kind of a day.
Jan 4, 2023: Here’s my top 10 posts of 2022 from my work blog. Interesting that the journalism world is really interested in the fall of social media and the rise …
Jan 3, 2023: Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.
Jan 2, 2023: Family lightsabre action.
Jan 2, 2023: A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it would come from big-in-Japan Six Apart these days…)
Jan 1, 2023: New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.
Jan 1, 2023: Happy New Year from (a house in) London!
Dec 31, 2022: The wisdom of @patrickrhone spreads.
Dec 30, 2022: “Hello, I’ve got a burning desire to go somewhere online where groups of people will complete to tell me how I should think and behave, while judging …
Dec 30, 2022: Matt Buck compiled some great links and videos to mark the passing of satirist John Bird.
Dec 25, 2022: Home from midnight Mass: 12.30am Girls up: 6.30am 😴
Dec 25, 2022: Midnight Mass, Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach.
Dec 24, 2022: Crib service in 15 minutes… My daughters will be playing the roles of “Magus” and “innkeeper”.
Dec 24, 2022: Newsletter delivery via RSS has a name. It’s called blogging. This is literally what we were doing in 2005.
Dec 22, 2022: Yes. Yes, I do.
Dec 22, 2022: Started reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚
Dec 20, 2022: Presented without comment.
Dec 19, 2022: Tower Bridge by night.
Dec 19, 2022: London very on brand this morning.
Dec 19, 2022: Started reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚
Dec 19, 2022: Off to London for work. The last commute of the year!
Dec 13, 2022: It’s “update all the Apple things” evening! iOS/iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 are out, along with accompanying HomePod and AppleTV updates.
Dec 13, 2022: Blimey. Musk has disbanded Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council. He’s not even pretending to listen to others now.
Dec 12, 2022: Euan Semple on the importance of doing fuck all: “We feel driven to achieve more, to influence more, to build more, to buy more. And all of this …
Dec 12, 2022: Potential album cover.
Dec 12, 2022: Ice Ice Baby
Dec 10, 2022: This is a nice one:
Dec 10, 2022: A quick video of the Shoreham-by-Sea Santa SUP this morning:
Dec 10, 2022: More SUPping Santas!
Dec 10, 2022: Oh, that is dangerously tempting.
Dec 10, 2022: What’s SUP, Santa?
Dec 10, 2022: Bottomed out at -2.5°C last night. Pretty cold for these parts.
Dec 10, 2022: Artificial grass is evil: “Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in short-termism and a distaste and disrespect for …
Dec 9, 2022: Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
Dec 9, 2022: Worthing Pier from Shoreham Beach, 8/12/22, 4.10pm
Dec 9, 2022: Cold enough that I’ve actually put on my rarely-used woolly hat for the commute this morning.
Dec 8, 2022: My beloved Canon M50 is back from the camera doctor and working once more: And here’s one of my test shots, just to prove it’s working again. Happy …
Dec 8, 2022: Another wave of angst over Musk fiddling with the blue tick systems, I see. And all because Old Twitter created a system that was a confusing mix of …
Dec 8, 2022: First night we’ve gone below zero this winter. Plenty more to come, I’m sure.
Dec 8, 2022: Heavy Metal x Indian Singing This is just brilliant: [via Boing Boing]
Dec 7, 2022: Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.
Dec 7, 2022: I wonder what microposts look like on WordPress.
Dec 7, 2022: MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is my first post using it.
Dec 6, 2022: People have a long and inglorious tradition of mangling my surname, but this is a new one for me…
Dec 6, 2022: Thesis: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made.
Dec 6, 2022: Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is dead.
Dec 6, 2022: Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…
Dec 5, 2022: In Brighton on business for the first time in years. When I started out in business for myself nearly 11 years ago, I hoped to do more in Brighton, …
Dec 4, 2022: D&D drops the word “race” Dungeons & Dragons announcement: we understand “race” is a problematic term that has had prejudiced links between real world people and the fantasy …
Dec 3, 2022: Started reading: The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent 📚
Nov 29, 2022: Seeing “Tom Baker” and “Death of the Doctor” trend together on Twitter was a scary moment, but thankfully that icon of my childhood still lives. Just …
Nov 28, 2022: 🎲 Me in #7TTRPGs Ordered by “amount written for”, to the best of my memory: Hunter: the Reckoning Demon: the Fallen Werewolf: the Apocalypse Werewolf: the Forsaken …
Nov 28, 2022: Hitting the sack early (for me, at least) as I’ll need all the energy and motivation I can manage to get through the week ahead.
Nov 27, 2022: This is a lovely reflection on the joy of the old, the analogue and the enduring: Personal connections, a season for repairs, and my grandfather’s …
Nov 27, 2022: Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚 Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.
Nov 27, 2022: Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.
Nov 27, 2022: Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.
Nov 27, 2022: That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.
Nov 26, 2022: Hello, Saturday.
Nov 26, 2022: It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, perhaps
Nov 26, 2022: Working with people who show a real commitment to what they do is an absolute blessing.
Nov 25, 2022: Good morning from a crisp, Autumnal but delayed commute.
Nov 25, 2022: I retain the determination to complete the November micro.blog challenge this year. Less than a week to go!
Nov 24, 2022: I get more wary of applying a software update the older I get. I miss the old devil-may-care attitude to tech - back when it didn’t matter.
Nov 22, 2022: One unintentionally positive outcome of the cost of living crisis is that we have less food routinely in the house, which means there’s less to graze …
Nov 21, 2022: “Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.” — Robert Macfarlane, Underland 📚
Nov 21, 2022: Sunset approaches. Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.
Nov 21, 2022: I have earned this today.
Nov 21, 2022: I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the UK.
Nov 21, 2022: Some interesting nature reads to kick off your week.
Nov 21, 2022: Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning: “Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst Twitter: it’s like a bandpass filter that stops useful …
Nov 20, 2022: How culture changes: ”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could be called Sirens, in no complimentary sense.” …
Nov 20, 2022: Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊♂️
Nov 20, 2022: Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with my early morning Sunday trips to the pool. An hour …
Nov 20, 2022: I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in Starbucks last week. It’s been a long time since I …
Nov 20, 2022: After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this year, and am enjoying losing myself in other lives.
Nov 19, 2022: It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life. It’s nice to be home in Sussex.
Nov 18, 2022: Weather like this almost makes the early start worth it.
Nov 17, 2022: I know that the phone has the advantage of being the camera you always have with you, but I do enjoy the tactile nature of more traditional cameras — …
Nov 17, 2022: I’m just not ready for this…
Nov 16, 2022: I try to avoid spending too much money in franchise chains, but when your small, indie coffee shop is closed due to a broken coffee machine, sometimes …
Nov 16, 2022: This may have been one of the first music videos I watched on a computer: It was included as an Easter egg on the installation disc for OS9 for the …
Nov 16, 2022: aluminium aluminium aluminium
Nov 15, 2022: Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating.
Nov 15, 2022: Weird. My #mbnov post from yesterday didn’t make the “all posts” Discover timeline. I wonder why.
Nov 15, 2022: A good pub is one you don’t want to leave.
Nov 14, 2022: Life doesn’t always go to plan. The secret to resilience is to just adjust and forge new paths forwards. And that’s fine.
Nov 13, 2022: Really not used to singing “God save the King” yet.
Nov 13, 2022: Youth organisations and veterans together on Southwick Green, marking Remembrance Sunday.
Nov 12, 2022: Well, dealing with the flat tyre put pay to our planned afternoon out. But, given how tired the girls were, I have a suspicion it was for the best.
Nov 12, 2022: Oh, great. Screw in the tyre.
Nov 12, 2022: Matt Birchler: “I heard someone recently describe Twitter as a social network where the users hate the service and they hate each other. That’s …
Nov 12, 2022: The evening light was putting in a wonderful display earlier.
Nov 11, 2022: Right, I’m now using my own Mastodon instance for work-style stuff. Anyone interested in journalism, audience and the creator economy can follow me …
Nov 11, 2022: Finally solved the email problem, and my personal Mastodon instance is working. A few more tweaks, and then I’ll open it up to newsletter subscribers. …
Nov 11, 2022: I just discovered that the minister from my childhood home carried on working well into his 80s. There’s something quite moving about being that …
Nov 10, 2022: We’re not even half way through November, and I’ve seen my first Christmas tree. 🎄
Nov 10, 2022: There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station was spectacular.
Nov 9, 2022: OK. So, I just set up a Mastodon Instance. 🤓
Nov 8, 2022: Amazing news for non-iOS mobile journalists and filmmakers - Lumafusion is now on Android and Chromebooks. The consensus is that it’s the best mobile …
Nov 8, 2022: I’m just an ordinary guy, looking at the weather, and asking it to stop pissing it down before I have to go and collect my daughters from school.
Nov 8, 2022: Well, I think we all now have more insight into how hard it is to run a social network well…
Nov 6, 2022: Well, I’d completely forgotten just how much noise the echo of 30-odd primary school children and a bouncy castle can make in an otherwise empty …
Nov 5, 2022: I’m having an idiot evening. I was just about to build a special page for Microblogvember and then I remember it’s much easier to just do a category. …
Nov 5, 2022: It is very odd and sad to see the life and death of a young journalist you used to chat with at journalism events in London, become the centre of such …
Nov 5, 2022: Gah. Great website. No RSS. No newsletter. Protected Twitter account. How am I meant to know when you write something new?
Nov 5, 2022: Sadly, a birthday weekend doesn’t make me exempt from the business of being Daddy taxi for most of it: Brownies, swimming lessons (x2), Sea Lights and …
Nov 5, 2022: Reading everyone’s “admiration” posts made me realise that, at this point of my life, I rarely admire people, but I often admire actions or decisions. …
Nov 4, 2022: 🤔 I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.
Nov 4, 2022: It’s a rough morning, watching friends and former students getting fired from Twitter. I’m glad I’ve got this place to spend time in instead. Thank …
Nov 4, 2022: Well, I suppose the good thing about the reports that Revue (owned by Twitter) will be gone by the end of the year, dead by order of Musk, is that I …
Nov 2, 2022: Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to ”enjoy”…
Nov 1, 2022: Well, it might have been chucking it down all day, and the wind has thrown things around the garden, but given how dry the summer was, I figure the …
Nov 1, 2022: Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night. A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in good company.
Oct 31, 2022: Has anyone seen any news outlets doing anything interesting on Mastodon?
Oct 30, 2022: This is a great resource for people thinking of starting a blog: Get Blogging! [via @manton]
Oct 29, 2022: London being London in its charming way.
Oct 28, 2022: So, it looks like the deal is done, and Elon Musk has acquired Twitter. It’s certainly the end of the beginning: the legal drama will now be replaced …
Oct 23, 2022: I think this is spot on. British politics — or, at least, the Tory party version of it — is now completely absurd. They are making us a global-level …
Oct 23, 2022: More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.
Oct 22, 2022: Autumn sun through the oak.
Oct 22, 2022: A few moments of tranquility while the girls play.
Oct 22, 2022: Lovely bit of sulphur tuft, there.
Oct 22, 2022: Caption competition…
Oct 20, 2022: I asked Siri to “play something I’ll like”, and it’s been back to back 80s and 90s music since. I now feel: seen old. 👴🏻
Oct 18, 2022: This is fascinating. I’ve noted students doing this despite the slides being available for them to download: Study Finds Taking Photos of Slides Helps …
Oct 17, 2022: Quite the sunset tonight.
Oct 17, 2022: This is a good look back at She-Hulk Attorney at Law. Insightful about how it played with audience expectations.
Oct 17, 2022: I sincerely hope that the focus Long Covid has brought to post-viral syndromes will be extended much further than just this one virus. This field …
Oct 16, 2022: Words of wisdom at the 7.30am swim.
Oct 15, 2022: A lovely little discovery – an acorn cup fallen into another plant.
Oct 15, 2022: The path through the woods.
Oct 14, 2022: I’m really enjoying all the photos from around the world making up the Day in the Life of the micro.blog community.
Oct 14, 2022: Breakfast at the Talking Hands café, after my train was cancelled. Hassocks, Sussex, in the UK. 8.30am.
Oct 9, 2022: Started reading: The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon 📚
Oct 9, 2022: Sometimes getting up early for my daughter’s 7.30am swimming class is totally worth it.
Oct 7, 2022: Home to find, happily, that my eldest has survived her year 6 residential mostly intact…
Oct 7, 2022: Morning commute.
Oct 7, 2022: An image from a time, a place and a life far away. And long gone.
Oct 6, 2022: A terrifying photo of me as a pimply teenager has just emerged from the film scanner. I will not be sharing the horror with the interwebs.
Oct 6, 2022: Well, this is not at all what I was aiming for when I prompted Midjourney, but it’s very dramatic, and rather lovely…
Oct 2, 2022: Undergraduate student me, early 1990s…
Oct 2, 2022: A photo from a promotional photo-booth for a long-dead social network at a long-dead conference…
Oct 2, 2022: 7.20am Lancing College. Another nice, relaxing Sunday. 🙄
Oct 1, 2022: Just a family of swans out for a Saturday stroll…
Sep 30, 2022: Happiness is getting one of the few free charging spaces at the railway station.
Sep 29, 2022: Just over three years ago, I flew back from Hamburg, little suspecting that it would be so long until I flew again. A week ago, I finally got on an …
Sep 28, 2022: All the evidence – with more reported this morning - is that hydrogen won’t be a good path to decarbonising heating and travel. Yet, people keep …
Sep 23, 2022: The crazy battery life of Apple Silicon Macs and iPads really makes days of live event coverage in a theatre with a distinct paucity of power sockets …
Sep 22, 2022: Finally got my hands on a copy of the new book I co-authored…
Sep 22, 2022: One of my favourite parts of coming to Germany.
Sep 22, 2022: The stage is set. Ready to go! #next22 #hugthesystem
Sep 21, 2022: Hamburg by night.
Sep 21, 2022: Most people still wearing masks on the S-Bahn in Hamburg.
Sep 21, 2022: Compulsory facemasks on the flight to Hamburg. #next22 #hugthesystem
Sep 21, 2022: Waiting at Heathrow for my first flight in three years. I haven’t missed airports.
Sep 18, 2022: Quick Review: Coasting Finished reading: Coasting by ELISE. DOWNING 📚 I enjoyed this more than I expected. On the surface, it’s a book about a woman running around the coast …
Sep 16, 2022: Local family out on the river.
Sep 16, 2022: The problem with studying and lecturing around online communities is that you don’t only get to look at the nice ones. I have learnt some stuff this …
Sep 14, 2022: Yikes. This is going to hit a lot of people very fast: Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using WPGateway Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability
Sep 13, 2022: On the road again 25 years ago, I worked near Oxford Street in London. One lunchtime, I popped into the HMV store there, and picked up a double cassette boxed set …
Sep 12, 2022: Back in my favourite sneaky reading spot, after the summer break. Daughter learning piano, I’m on the beach drinking coffee and reading Coasting by …
Sep 12, 2022: They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…
Sep 11, 2022: Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.
Sep 10, 2022: Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️
Sep 8, 2022: Weird. I just realised that after singing “God save the Queen” every now and then my whole life, next time it’ll be “God save the King”. And probably …
Sep 8, 2022: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
Sep 7, 2022: The outdoors rescue/location features of the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 are an impressive idea that I didn’t expect. Let’s hope they work as …
Sep 7, 2022: Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent
Sep 7, 2022: I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent
Sep 5, 2022: This is a really good defence of RSS as the basis of podcasting. If you’re involved with podcasting, you need to understand this. Without RSS, big …
Sep 5, 2022: Evening on the beach.
Sep 5, 2022: This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.
Aug 30, 2022: Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search of inspiration for walks to tire out small people. …
Aug 30, 2022: Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.
Aug 30, 2022: Campfire reading. Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚
Aug 29, 2022: Night in the woods.
Aug 24, 2022: Currently reading: Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis 📚 Such a melancholy book. It’s absolutely bursting with Roy’s joy in nature, and his knowledge of …
Aug 24, 2022: Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.
Aug 24, 2022: Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.
Aug 24, 2022: A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.
Aug 23, 2022: The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.
Aug 23, 2022: A long dive into the current and future fortunes of the tarnished newsletter platform Substack. The easy ride is over. These are the hard yards.
Aug 23, 2022: Wow. Tinder’s a decade old. It’s been two decades since I dated, (happily married!) and the landscape has changed out of all recognition in that time. …
Aug 22, 2022: Took me a while to adjust to vegan burgers, but I’m really enjoying them now. A fine example from the pub this evening.
Aug 22, 2022: Summer’s not over while the sunflowers still look this good.
Aug 19, 2022: My eldest, playing an iPad game: “10pm is about the time a grown-up goes to sleep.” My wife and I: “In our dreams.”
Aug 17, 2022: Looks like there’s urgent security updates out for all the major Apple platforms this evening. Updateapaloza ahead.
Aug 13, 2022: A few images from the beginning of our holiday two weeks ago: Wightlink to the Isle of Wight, and setting up at the campsite outside Sandown. Oh, and …
Aug 12, 2022: I am faintly baffled as to why anyone would think that I’d like to run a piece about going commando on OM&HB. And yes, it’s “commando” as in “no …
Aug 11, 2022: Hwæt!
Aug 11, 2022: I think it would be fair to say that my teenage record buying was not cool.
Jul 27, 2022: My youngest is enjoying a trip to the local Lidl far too much.
Jul 24, 2022: Finished reading: The Earth Beneath My Feet by Andrew Terrill 📚 Quite a remarkable book. It takes you deep into the highs and lows of an epic - and …
Jul 24, 2022: Last early morning trip to the swimming pool before the Autumn. Rewarded with some lovely views.
Jul 22, 2022: Lovely still afternoon on the river.
Jul 21, 2022: What’s the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated with experiential social media?
Jul 20, 2022: Well, fibre to the premises certainly makes a difference…
Jul 19, 2022: Coastal blessings - the warmest it got yesterday was 33.5° in the back garden. Everywhere in the house stayed sub-30°.
Jul 19, 2022: Instagram is dead. Or, at least, it’s no longer recognisable as a photography app.
Jul 18, 2022: The back garden’s hit 29℃, closing in on our predicted high of 31℃ today. Windows all shut and curtains drawn on the side of the house with the sun on …
Jul 17, 2022: I’m not quite sure when and how it happened, but I’ve slowly become a mornings person. I was always a night owl, but getting up at 6.30am to have my …
Jul 15, 2022: It’s been a long time since I walked over this bridge.
Jul 15, 2022: Winnersh Triangle Station is pretty small for a station right by a big office park. It’s barely more than a halt. There is a tiny ticket office and …
Jul 15, 2022: Yesterday morning in Crewe and this morning in Winnersh.
Jul 14, 2022: Doing a lot of this over these few days of work…
Jul 11, 2022: Finally done on a client report that’s been hanging over me for a while. Treating myself to a celebratory whisky before bed. 🥃
Jul 10, 2022: Lovely brunch prepared by my daughter!
Jul 10, 2022: Fascinating seeing Shoreham Beach from the other side of the harbour entrance for once.
Jul 8, 2022: And there we have it: Elon Musk Moves to End $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter
Jul 6, 2022: And… breathe.
Jul 2, 2022: OK. I admit it. This is absolutely my kind of feature: “Memes can be thought of as a form of symbolic art. A meme isn’t usually about what’s being …
Jul 2, 2022: This feature is going to have to work hard to convince me of its thesis… (From the latest Standart Magazine.)
Jul 1, 2022: Sugar rush incoming.
Jun 30, 2022: Booked in to get fibre to the house, rather than just fibre to the cabinet, next month. Really looking forward to that — given the amount of video I …
Jun 26, 2022: Cosmopolitan place, Shoreham.
Jun 26, 2022: Meanwhile, down by the lifeboat station.…
Jun 23, 2022: Calling Michael Gove the Levelling Up Minister does make it sound awfully like he spends all day in front of his Xbox, playing an RPG…
Jun 23, 2022: I told a student I would give her piece a “tense check”. And I’m still giggling about the quasi-pun an hour later. WHAT HAVE I BECOME?
Jun 23, 2022: So, turns out your keyboard works better if you turn it on. 🤦🏼♂️
Jun 21, 2022: Tough economic times are already hitting eco charities and sustainable businesses just at the time we need them the most. We all need to make smart …
Jun 21, 2022: Sitting, working, on the balcony, and wondering why I don’t do this more.
Jun 19, 2022: Best badge ever.
Jun 18, 2022: I’ve got a feeling we’re being watched here in the churchyard…
Jun 17, 2022: All ready to see my youngest get a Gold Award at the Funky Friday assembly…
Jun 12, 2022: The beach, late this afternoon.
Jun 10, 2022: Oh, no. Julee Cruise Has Died, Aged 65. The Twin Peaks soundtrack was the backdrop to my uni years, and Falling is still a go-to track for me in …
Jun 7, 2022: I love this light. Wouldn’t fit in our house, but looks great in this pub.
Jun 7, 2022: Does the glamour never stop?
Jun 6, 2022: Choosing Peter Capaldi to narrate a nature documentary builds in a vague irritation at humanity’s stupidity…
Jun 6, 2022: Leaving behind the #wwdc22 keynote to watch something more important…
Jun 6, 2022: My big lesson from yesterday’s Platinum Jubilee street party is that I’m now officially too old for afternoon drinking.
Jun 1, 2022: My most common typo for “metaverse” is “meat verse” which is ironic, given that it’s pretty much the exact opposite…
May 27, 2022: Good grief - 5G in central London is quite something…
May 25, 2022: So, by botching a Spotlight search for Teams, I accidentally opened a search for “teacup puppies”. I win the internet today.
May 23, 2022: 👻5️⃣ Ghost 5.0 is here…
May 21, 2022: Finished reading: From the Mull to the Cape by Richard Guise 📚 A pleasant enough read. Entertaining in place, interesting in others. But a few rather …
May 20, 2022: Whoops.
May 19, 2022: I found out today that one of my good university / student magazine buddies passed away some weeks ago. Regretting deeply phone calls not made, chats …
May 18, 2022: Netflix’s itchy cancellation finger has made me less and less likely to start watching a new series there. Our subscription is safe for now, but it …
May 16, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 16: Time All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
May 16, 2022: Not one of my better looks… On the Suffolk coast, circa 1993.
May 15, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 15: Clouds All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
May 15, 2022: I might get used to these “swimming pool by 7.30am” Sunday starts. Today is not the day that happens.
May 14, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 14: Fence All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
May 14, 2022: Well, yes, you need to protect your magazine brand. But maaaaaybe check that the business hasn’t been using the name longer than you have…
May 14, 2022: These are my people.
May 13, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 13: Community All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
May 13, 2022: I was completely unaware that today was Friday the 13th until I read John Naughton’s daily post. Two hours left to avoid bad luck!
May 13, 2022: Was slightly thrown to see @maique out of context — in the Fastmail newsletter.
May 12, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 12: Tranquility Down by the harbour arm, sharing half an hour and hot drinks with my eldest. All my photos from this …
May 11, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 11: Maroon All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
May 11, 2022: Thanks to today’s theme from @challenges, I find myself debating whether my hoodie is, in fact, maroon or not.
May 11, 2022: After years of doing digital work, editing a (print) book can be a challenge. “Oh, I’ll pop a link in to explain… oh, right, can’t do that…”
May 10, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 10: Pot I’m fond of this pot. And yes, I know that the pot inside the pot is a bit too big. I just don’t care. All my photos …
May 10, 2022: Can anyone point me to the master list of May Photoblogging prompts? My attempts to locate it have failed…
May 9, 2022: This is very good. And no, it’s not what you’re assuming… BBC Reveals Secret “Woke Agenda” with Latest Doctor Who Casting (Satire, obviously) …
May 9, 2022: I have no idea what differentiates a badge and a brooch. Anyone?
May 9, 2022: We’ll see more of this: Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work. Remore working policies are going to become a key …
May 9, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 9: Bloom
May 8, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 8: Union The union of car and house. I’ll eventually get used to the fact that I plug my car in these days. But after decades …
May 8, 2022: Nobody warns you about the “getting your daughter to swimming lessons for 7.30am on a Sunday” part of parenthood. 😴
May 7, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 7: Park
May 6, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 6: Silhouette
May 5, 2022: I’ve given the May photoblogging posts their own category. It’s a good incentive to keep up with it…
May 5, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 5: Earth When we moved in, our garden was full of rubble from the old boat yard that was on the site originally. Years of work …
May 5, 2022: Obligatory democratic selfie.
May 5, 2022: This may be the best ever typo-driven page: Welcome to the Meatverse. (I particularly like “Cryptographic hache”)
May 5, 2022: Due to poor typing on my part. auto-correct just turned “evangelists” into “Eva nag lists”, and I’m not sure it’s actually an error.
May 4, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 4: Thorny
May 3, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 3: Experimental Who doesn’t love pond dipping? A fun science experiment for the girls.
May 2, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 2: Photo
May 2, 2022: The more I look at this, the more disturbing it is.
May 2, 2022: Bank holiday breakfast in a wee café deep in the Sussex countryside.
May 1, 2022: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 1: Switch
Apr 29, 2022: I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have …
Apr 25, 2022: Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie: Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk
Apr 25, 2022: It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories…. (And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)
Apr 25, 2022: The odds of anyone with a blue tick and a very substantial following actually, truly deleting their Twitter account should Twitter be Musked must be …
Apr 23, 2022: Nice new paint job on one of our local pubs.
Apr 21, 2022: “Because here’s the thing about comfort, ease, security - it can topple into insipid inertia in a nanosecond. And when that happens we are trapped.” …
Apr 19, 2022: Down on the river, SUP-style.
Apr 18, 2022: Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an extremely poor life choice.
Apr 18, 2022: Quayside ladder, high tide.
Apr 17, 2022: Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.
Apr 17, 2022: More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.
Apr 17, 2022: Sunrise on Easter Sunday.
Apr 16, 2022: A tiny escape on Good Friday.
Apr 16, 2022: My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful people - but I couldn’t help thinking that all this …
Apr 15, 2022: What’s SUP, Doc?
Apr 15, 2022: New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - instructs the brain to produce the neurons needed to …
Apr 15, 2022: Such a beautiful morning.
Apr 15, 2022: Morning coffee by the sea.
Apr 13, 2022: One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher loading. Why yes, we do have a visitor. Why do you …
Apr 13, 2022: Jonathan Haidt: “A mean tweet doesn’t kill anyone; it is an attempt to shame or punish someone publicly while broadcasting one’s own virtue, …
Apr 13, 2022: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid “Once social-media platforms had trained users to spend more time performing and …
Apr 12, 2022: Some beautiful prints of British wildlife, signed by nature presenters and celebrities. 50% of the proceeds go to nature charities. Which to pick… 🤔
Apr 9, 2022: My Mark 2 is finally here – only a year after Studio Neat planned. Still, worth waiting for.
Apr 9, 2022: Apparently students these days buy their clothes by the kilo…
Apr 7, 2022: I suspect I have written more words this week than any other week so far in my life. And it’s still only Thursday.
Apr 5, 2022: The couple of years since the allegations about Warren Ellis came to light have been on long succession of internet-famous people from 15 years ago or …
Apr 4, 2022: It may be bitterly cold here in Sussex, but the beach knows it’s spring. The first of the plants that dominate the beach during the summer months are …
Apr 3, 2022: Weekend Nature Reads: the Good News, Bad News edition… Sometime’s it’s hard not to despair when reading about things like this. But there is hope.
Apr 2, 2022: I do wonder if one of the triggers of moving from independent consultant to small agency is that having more bodies in the operation gives you mores …
Apr 2, 2022: This is a fascinating tale of a man who enjoyed taking photos more then developing the, creating a huge recovery and archiving challenge: …
Apr 2, 2022: Finished reading: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell 📚 Took me quite a while to get through this one. It wasn’t that I disliked it — it’s that the …
Apr 2, 2022: Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change at work again.
Apr 1, 2022: Online lecture mode.
Apr 1, 2022: I have survived six hours of lectures via Zoom with my sanity largely intact. (My wife suggests there is evidence to the contrary.)
Mar 31, 2022: Iris loves her piano lessons, but I suspect she enjoys playing with Snufkin more…
Mar 31, 2022: Half an hour by the sea Chose a different spot down by the harbour arm today. I’m tucked into a wee hollow, with the structure of the arm itself sheltering me from what is a …
Mar 26, 2022: Chillin' by the harbour arm.
Mar 23, 2022: I love this time on a Wednesday.
Mar 23, 2022: “People claim they enjoy winter, but what they really mean is they enjoy winter as a livener, a cobweb-blower-away, a quick flirt with the elements …
Mar 22, 2022: I suspect that this is the first time I’ve worn this gilet since the autumn, given that I just found this in the pocket…
Mar 20, 2022: So did you know it was World Rewilding Day? I didn’t until just now… Pity. This is such an important and misunderstood issue.
Mar 20, 2022: An unusual beach find today.
Mar 19, 2022: Watcher on the bridge.
Mar 18, 2022: Perfect commuting reading…
Mar 17, 2022: Oh, hurrah. Discord is finally Apple Silicon native.
Mar 17, 2022: The house in the woods…
Mar 15, 2022: Gmail of the Beast
Mar 15, 2022: It was a great sunset yesterday. 🌅
Mar 10, 2022: Yikes. Mystery mummified body found in convention centre walls…
Mar 10, 2022: Just playing around with Glass. Anyone out there using it? Here’s my profile.
Mar 10, 2022: Best hag stone discovery in a while.
Mar 9, 2022: Very mixed feelings about the new edition of Hunter: the Reckoning. I’m glad it’s back, but part of me is sad that while the themes and some of the …
Mar 9, 2022: I’ve always been very aware that Substack is heavily VC-backed, and that creates pressure to “build a moat” and become a platform. Their new app is …
Mar 9, 2022: Well, I suppose it was inevitable that Substack would do this. But it changes the dynamics of the market significantly, if it takes off:
Mar 9, 2022: Listening to Apple-centric podcasts the day after an Apple event is a good reminder that pretty much all of them are better off than you, given how …
Mar 8, 2022: Continuing my obsession with Apple Watch fitness challenges, I just got the International Women’s Day challenge badge with my #AppleWatch. …
Mar 6, 2022: Let me distract you from the geopolitical horror of the moment with some good nature reads…
Mar 6, 2022: Selfie in shadow and wood.
Mar 6, 2022: Car Play is one of those things that you don’t understand the value of until you’ve used it. And, when you have, you can’t go back.
Mar 6, 2022: A protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Shoreham’s East Street yesterday. 🇺🇦
Mar 3, 2022: Dreich.
Feb 27, 2022: A Seaford seafront walk this afternoon.
Feb 27, 2022: This is officially my new favourite warning sign.
Feb 27, 2022: Up and out for a self-defence class for the girls.
Feb 26, 2022: Coffee and chat with my youngest at Tom Foolery.
Feb 26, 2022: This piece in the most recent Standart takes on a whole different tone given what’s happening in Ukraine right now.
Feb 25, 2022: First time this year that I have finished a day’s lecturing at City, and it’s still been light when I left.
Feb 20, 2022: Weather like this makes isolation easier…
Feb 20, 2022: Some good reading (and viewing/listening) about nature and the great outdoors. Some of it will make you happy. And some of it will make you very, very …
Feb 20, 2022: Stuck inside and desperately missing the outdoors… 🤞🏻for a negative lateral flow soon.
Feb 19, 2022: Images from Ukraine as they prepare for possible invasion. How powerful photography can be in showing the human impact of politics.
Feb 18, 2022: A time lapse from the height of Storm Eunice earlier.
Feb 17, 2022: Our house has apparently had enough of those Donny Downer negative lateral flow tests, and are going to be positive, positive, positive instead!
Feb 15, 2022: Morning beach walk #2: cold, grey and a wee bit bleak. Still, was home before the rain hit.
Feb 14, 2022: Two Apple Fitness Awards day:
Feb 14, 2022: Morning beach walk #1: Valentine’s Day Lovely sun, but a cold wind, and plenty of spray in the air.
Feb 12, 2022: Tony Blair in The Times: “All social media has taught us is that there are a lot crazier people out there than we realised. Years ago, they were at …
Feb 11, 2022: Another day’s lecturing done.
Feb 11, 2022: The person sitting in front of me on the train has a coffee that smells so good it’s almost torture. ☕️
Feb 9, 2022: The reality of Partygate Martin Fletcher in the New Statesman: Partygate is not about left versus right, or Remainers versus Brexiteers. It is about decency versus indecency, …
Feb 7, 2022: Some waves for you.
Feb 7, 2022: Why political activists spend so much time fighting their own side Ian Leslie: Note that Ataöv suggests that differences don’t cause conflicts; conflicts create differences. Members of a group seize on differences in …
Feb 7, 2022: Second screenbreak of the day: cleaning and refilling the bird feeders.
Feb 7, 2022: Giving myself a commute One of the clichés of working for ourself is that, when you’re self-employed, your boss is an arsehole. And, in my case, that’s true. Traditionally …
Feb 6, 2022: Today’s edition of “spot the raptor”.
Feb 5, 2022: We made a friend in the churchyard this afternoon. 🐿
Feb 5, 2022: Currently reading: Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 📚 This is an engrossing read. To write with such honesty and directness about the depression that …
Jan 30, 2022: Getting up early on a Sunday t9 take the girls to their swimming classes is challenging, but this morning it paid off. Stunning golden light across a …
Jan 29, 2022: A morning long black in relaxed surroundings.
Jan 28, 2022: Just started: Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs 📚 I’ve been looking forward to this one. 🤞🏻Hope it lives up to my expectations.
Jan 28, 2022: Finished reading: The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚 Excellent book — and timely. Full review at the weekend.
Jan 26, 2022: Nice to have a bit of company while I was chilling out down by the harbour arm.
Jan 25, 2022: “To be very online is to be in a toxic collective solitude where everyone is battling their own demons in their own infinite echo chamber, their own …
Jan 24, 2022: This is just joyful. 🎵Worries for another day🎶
Jan 24, 2022: While enjoying Winterwatch on the BBC, I got to wondering why summer is the only season that doesn’t get a Watch. And it, turns out, there are two …
Jan 21, 2022: Martin Belam: “I also saw someone else describe NFTs as “content-free DRM” and reader, I howled.”
Jan 19, 2022: Enjoying a walk by the harbour arm, while my youngest has a piano lesson.
Jan 14, 2022: Charge!
Jan 14, 2022: It was frosty on the beach again, this morning.
Jan 14, 2022: Well, that arrived quicker than I expected…
Jan 13, 2022: This is one of the more thoughtful takes I’ve seem on dealing with the problem of online anonymity without ending it: Curtailing anonymity is a first …
Jan 13, 2022: The Undeath of the Author (With apologies to Barthes.) “But social media has tilted things so that books by contemporary authors—let alone essays—are no longer portable worlds …
Jan 13, 2022: The masocism of social media “When was the last time you were out in public and felt actively rejected by someone you felt familiar with? Chances are it’s such a rare occurrence …
Jan 13, 2022: Respect to the people having a morning sea swim at 0°C this morning.
Jan 13, 2022: A frosty morning on Shoreham Beach.
Jan 12, 2022: Sunset from the harbour arm.
Jan 12, 2022: A fond farewell to a long-serving car. I had the Fire Engine (as we called it) for over 12 years.
Jan 12, 2022: John Naughton: “Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; but it’s not a way of solving a problem.”
Jan 10, 2022: “If you climb a mountain but don’t Instagram the view from the summit, have you even climbed it? I wanted the answer to be yes - knew it to be - but, …
Jan 9, 2022: Tiny thespians at work…
Jan 9, 2022: Just put some petrol in the car for what could well be the last time ever. Changes…
Jan 7, 2022: Good morning from Shoreham Beach.
Jan 4, 2022: Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.
Jan 4, 2022: Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic: “The acceptance and fellowship that online communities bring, be they subreddits and Facebook groups or …
Jan 2, 2022: This is a rather nice one. Trafalgar Square, early summer 1994.
Jan 2, 2022: More West End candids from 1994.
Jan 2, 2022: A few candids shot around London’s West End in early summer 1994. Sure, the fashions date them — but the sheer absence of phones is what really leaps …
Dec 31, 2021: Here’s the posts that caught your attention on my site in 2021. Happy New Year to you all!
Dec 29, 2021: Finding a stolen and burnt out motorcycle near their grandma’s house was an education for the girls…
Dec 25, 2021: A very merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it!
Dec 22, 2021: Somebody’s not enjoying the festive season.
Dec 22, 2021: Night boat to nowhere, Worthing.
Dec 22, 2021: “Organisers are people who have noticed what is happening and want to do something about it. We roll up our sleeves and get on with it. Organisers …
Dec 22, 2021: “The way nature brings peace to my busy mind feels like one of the most abandoned parts of who I am. Slowly I am rekindling it. I walk in the woods …
Dec 21, 2021: This rather elderly angel used to top my late parents’ Christmas tree. And now she tops ours.
Dec 21, 2021: So, after having two vaccinations on Saturday (flu and COVID booster): Sunday I spent barely able to stay awake and shivering all the time Monday …
Dec 18, 2021: I suspect that the best use of my evening would be ensuring that there’s enough good coffee and whisky in the house to see me thought what feels like …
Dec 18, 2021: Two jabs in one session: Covid: 💉💉💉 Flu: 💉
Dec 18, 2021: The iPad Pro is the best coffee shop computer yet invented. Thank you. I will not be taking questions.
Dec 16, 2021: Time to slay the iPhone tabs monster…
Dec 15, 2021: One for GoPro folks: New firmware for the Hero 10 Black, including more 24fps modes.
Dec 15, 2021: Down by the harbour arm again. It’s cold and grey, so I had the beach to myself, apart from a handful of scavenging birds.
Dec 15, 2021: Some useful trends amongst the Web 3.0 / Metaverse hype picked out here.
Dec 12, 2021: Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter by Nigel Slater 📚 Well, it’s the right time of year. …
Dec 11, 2021: We have our Christmas tree.
Dec 10, 2021: Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.
Dec 10, 2021: Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.
Dec 10, 2021: When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.
Dec 10, 2021: I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting married in, not the ”metaverse”: Getting Married in the …
Dec 9, 2021: The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.
Dec 9, 2021: These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad. A 15 mile walk. In December. In their swimming costumes. 🥶
Dec 7, 2021: A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.
Dec 7, 2021: This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a negative educational impact from the pandemic.
Dec 7, 2021: At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside. I’m off to have a celebratory coffee, while the editor goes to work on it.
Dec 7, 2021: 13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated. I suppose I’d had digital cameras for half a decade at that point.
Dec 6, 2021: I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.
Dec 6, 2021: I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no longer online. I’m slowly starting to reconstruct them …
Nov 29, 2021: Shoreham sunset.
Nov 29, 2021: A frosty morning down on the beach.
Nov 29, 2021: If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the more British politicians say that “holiday x will be fine”, the more likely it is to end …
Nov 29, 2021: A lot of a individual creator newsletters are basically a week’s worth of old-style blogging (lots of links with context, a bit of analysis, a hot …
Nov 28, 2021: This is a lovely wee story of how a camera was lost in the Highlands, but found and reconnected with its owners 12 years on.
Nov 27, 2021: Castlehill, Edinburgh, Spring 1994.
Nov 27, 2021: About time: Discord working on macOS app that runs natively on M1
Nov 24, 2021: Proof-of-work crypto comes with a substantial climate cost: Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris climate goal, say Swedish regulators
Nov 22, 2021: Playing detective on my own past I’m busy scanning some negatives from nearly 30 years ago. Now, it’s not uncommon to find things in old photos or negatives that you don’t really …
Nov 22, 2021: This is probably a symptom of getting old, but I find getting Black Friday emails (a) in the UK and (b) on a Monday slightly confusing.
Nov 22, 2021: Some thoughts about Doctor Who, present and future 📺 Flux This series feels like the format Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who should always have been. It’s the mutant offspring of classic Who with its weekly …
Nov 21, 2021: Dramatic light over the sea today.
Nov 21, 2021: Chilly beach walk with the girls.
Nov 21, 2021: A newsletter that is half about NFTs and crypto and half about decarbonisation is an uneasy mix, given the huge energy costs of the former.
Nov 20, 2021: We’ve got a goshawk lunching in our back garden.
Nov 20, 2021: Not sure I could rock this look, 29 years later…
Nov 20, 2021: I now know what a lakh is.
Nov 19, 2021: Spending an enjoyable evening looking at journalist-created newsletters from India and surrounding countries. I know how to live it up on a Friday …
Nov 18, 2021: I love writing. I hate getting started on writing.
Nov 14, 2021: Night in the Quay.
Nov 13, 2021: Always sound advice.
Nov 10, 2021: Blimey. I think Substack is down.
Nov 8, 2021: Do I have the mental bandwidth left to update a theme on one of my Ghost blogs? Hmmm.
Nov 8, 2021: Cory Doctorow is not pulling his punches on NFTs.
Nov 8, 2021: Are you an outdoor or wild swimmer? Then fill in the 2021 Trends in Outdoor Swimming Survey to help gather information about the potential and …
Nov 6, 2021: One of those headlines that takes on a whole new level of “ick” if you’re a Brit: The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants
Nov 6, 2021: Today, I turn 50. Please respect the privacy of my family and I at this difficult time. Thank you.
Nov 6, 2021: UK has “no intention” to deliver COP26 pledges says Cambridge scientist: “The UK’s net-zero strategy is as unrealistic as “magic beans fertilised by …
Nov 5, 2021: Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥
Nov 4, 2021: While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time meandering through this: A Year Unfolding 📚
Nov 4, 2021: One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between Time Spent Playing Video Games And Wellbeing – …
Nov 4, 2021: Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post. I’ll write more about this tomorrow. But I just wanted to mark the day. Two decades …
Nov 2, 2021: Evening walk at Woods Mill.
Nov 1, 2021: Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?
Oct 29, 2021: 🚨 Important discourse. 🚨 Will the Metaverse save journalism?
Oct 27, 2021: It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the costs of managing that scale: How Facebook Failed …
Oct 27, 2021: Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly occupied, though.
Oct 26, 2021: One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching. Today is not that day.
Oct 26, 2021: Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log straight back off.
Oct 25, 2021: MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could have easily persuaded me that the install failed and …
Oct 25, 2021: Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on: Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a device that made it easy for normals to understand …
Oct 25, 2021: Let’s do this…
Oct 22, 2021: And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
Oct 22, 2021: Doc Searls on supply chains: “But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources …
Oct 22, 2021: Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.
Oct 21, 2021: The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once done a gift guide in 18 years of writing my blog. …
Oct 18, 2021: Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with their laptops, wasn’t it?
Oct 12, 2021: Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.
Oct 12, 2021: Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.
Oct 8, 2021: Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot happier and calmer. I actually think I can spot two …
Oct 7, 2021: Shell game.
Oct 6, 2021: Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.
Oct 6, 2021: Back at City, ready to teach journalism again. 18 months ago, I walked out of here during one of the production weeks, completely unaware that it …
Oct 6, 2021: Officially back in London.
Oct 6, 2021: First commute to London in 18 months. It’s… quieter.
Oct 5, 2021: Zoom fatigue hits women and new hires disproportionally.
Oct 4, 2021: We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.
Oct 4, 2021: Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…
Oct 4, 2021: Facebook being down might actually ease the petrol crisis, now that there’s no way for people to flag up that a petrol tanker has just arrived at a …
Oct 4, 2021: Slightly perturbed to discover that my daughters think that I’m basically Izzy Moonbow…
Oct 3, 2021: The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.
Oct 2, 2021: Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct
Oct 2, 2021: There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about just chilling out in the house.
Oct 1, 2021: Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the Artisans' Market. #mboct
Oct 1, 2021: I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…
Oct 1, 2021: It feels like a crunch is coming in the UK petrol crisis in my part of the country, at least. Those people who have held off filling up, as their …
Sep 28, 2021: A dramatic evening beach walk.
Sep 28, 2021: The deadlines of my working life used to be defined by when the presses needed to roll. Now, they’re defined by school pick-up time.
Sep 28, 2021: A first play with the iPhone 13 Pro’s cinematic video mode.
Sep 26, 2021: Well, I wasn’t expecting My Little Pony: A New Generation to deliver some of the most on-point political commentary about the last 5 years, but here …
Sep 26, 2021: Macro mode on the new iPhone is pretty impressive.
Sep 24, 2021: Helloooo </Terry Thomas voice>
Sep 23, 2021: I wonder what would happen if I just started posting on a neglected blog, and saw what happened?
Sep 23, 2021: Selfie shot with the new GoPro Hero 10.
Sep 21, 2021: Journalistic clichés to avoid like the plague. Note to self: rewrite before posting.
Sep 21, 2021: The text recognition in photos that’s part of iOS15 is pretty damn impressive.
Sep 21, 2021: Gotta say, shipping the new GoPro in a plastic bag somewhat undermines the “plastic free packaging” messaging…
Sep 21, 2021: I’m really leaning into the Dad joke thing right now.
Sep 21, 2021: Life is too short to gift attention to unpleasant people Something I should have worked out 30 years ago: If someone whose work you like and enjoy turns out to be a complete tosser, let them and their work …
Sep 20, 2021: The new Netflix CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the kid-friendly reboot not the Kevin Smith continuation series) is really quite a bit of …
Sep 20, 2021: In less than two weeks, we’ve gone from “so hot in my study, I had seat beading on my face during courses” to “so cold I’m contemplating turning the …
Sep 17, 2021: Just ordered a new iPhone for the first time in four years. That’s the longest I’ve held onto a phone in the smartphone era. But the time to upgrade …
Sep 14, 2021: New iPad Mini? That’s my wife’s Christmas present sorted, then.
Sep 14, 2021: Only Apple can get me to watch an hour-long advert.
Sep 13, 2021: Ah-ha. Big Sur 11.6 finally shows up for M1 Macs. Apparently today’s wave of Apple updates patch vulnerabilities that are actually being used to …
Sep 13, 2021: Huh. Weird. My pre-M1 iMac has the MacOS 11.6 update, but not my M1 MacBook Pro.
Sep 10, 2021: Well, hello.
Sep 8, 2021: Quite a sunset over the river tonight.
Sep 8, 2021: Oh, gosh. An I about to buy a new phone gimbal? I am, aren’t I?
Sep 8, 2021: And yes, that includes washing it.
Sep 8, 2021: Today’s exciting lunch break: cleaning the tent post-camping trips.
Sep 6, 2021: Just booked my first evening out in Brighton since the pandemic began. I shouldn’t be — but I do feel slightly nervous…
Sep 6, 2021: When I had a Real Job (™), I used to routinely ignore work email when on holiday, and come back to a terrifying pile of unreads. This is the first …
Aug 27, 2021: My classy, elegant meeting space this morning…
Aug 23, 2021: Just spent a happy couple of hours revamping a neglected blog, ready to start posting on it again from tomorrow. Very happy with the new look.
Aug 14, 2021: One of the things I love about visiting Woods Mill is that you can get beautiful images before you’ve even left the car park…
Aug 6, 2021: The seductive lure of cognitive bias. Don’t look too hard, or the story might melt away…
Aug 5, 2021: Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.
Aug 5, 2021: Spiked beauty.
Aug 5, 2021: The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit Has Been Banned
Aug 5, 2021: It is slightly terrifying to realise that, as of this autumn, I will be in a position to do “what I was blogging about 20/10/5 years ago…” posts.
Aug 3, 2021: Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog posts coming next.
Aug 2, 2021: By the river’s edge.
Aug 2, 2021: Thoughtful piece on the tenor of social media interactions by Roxane Gay.
Aug 2, 2021: Receipts:
Aug 2, 2021: Twitter Social Distancing — why I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month.
Aug 1, 2021: The inverted man.
Aug 1, 2021: “I do not demand a gin palace at every corner, merely that it is written into the constitution of the nation that every village must, as a public …
Jul 31, 2021: So, about the Doctor Who news…
Jul 28, 2021: Merely a meerkat.
Jul 25, 2021: Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions of you from earlier in your life?
Jul 24, 2021: Is it even social media if you don’t occasionally post photos of your lunch?
Jul 24, 2021: Not something you see every day in Shoreham…
Jul 23, 2021: I much prefer the feel of matt dust jackets when reading a hardback book to glossy ones.
Jul 22, 2021: John Naughton’s review of An Ugly Truth, a new book about Facebook, makes it sound like essential reading. Next on my list after I’ve finished Charles …
Jul 20, 2021: How can you not?
Jul 20, 2021: The absence of iPadOS 14.7 from last night’s round of updates is curious…
Jul 19, 2021: Evening on the Adur.
Jul 19, 2021: Schmigadoon! is an intensely joyful slice of TV.
Jul 17, 2021: Beach flora.
Jul 15, 2021: Ha ha. No, no and more no to this terrifying idea. There’s absolutely no way I want Facebook to have more access to my purchasing data than it already …
Jul 15, 2021: I have coffee and a piece on supply chains to finish. Wish me luck.
Jul 15, 2021: Beach break.
Jul 15, 2021: Self-solving tech problems are my favourite kind.
Jul 11, 2021: Last night I had intense dreams about Swedish third wave coffee shops. That’s about as on-brand for me as it gets.
Jul 9, 2021: The problem with working on a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro side-by-side is that I keep trying to touch the Mac screen…
Jul 9, 2021: Today is my “Max Vax" day — two weeks since my second dose. 💉💉🎉
Jul 4, 2021: I am happy to report that, as of this weekend, all adults in my household are fully vaccinated. 💉💉 (It’s just me and Lorna, but still…)
Jul 3, 2021: UK schoolchildren faking positive lateral flow COVID tests to get two weeks off school — using orange juice. 🤯
Jul 1, 2021: Just had a depressing email about the planned final withdrawal of the .eu domain name I used to own, but am no longer entitled to.
Jun 30, 2021: A good reason for a drizzly beach picnic last weekend…
Jun 30, 2021: Steve Leighton has left HasBean, and now I don’t know what to do My favourite coffee buyer and roaster is no longer running the company he founded. The most recent bag of coffee I had from the company was, well, …
Jun 27, 2021: Up at stupid o’clock for a podcast guest appearance…
Jun 26, 2021: Concert time down near the Beach.
Jun 26, 2021: The Bear on the Adur.
Jun 26, 2021: Having a coffee in Tom Foolery with my daughters. It almost feels like the old days again. ☕️
Jun 25, 2021: Mr Hancock and his rules People died alone, not even able to hold the hands of loved ones, because they followed rules Matt Hancock set. People gave birth without their …
Jun 25, 2021: I’ve done the double! 💉💉
Jun 24, 2021: Coffee date with my youngest.
Jun 24, 2021: Although I no longer live anywhere near Deptford, I’m pleased to hear that the local swimming pool, Wavelengths, has been saved from closure. Why? …
Jun 24, 2021: This is a great piece about the mixed blessings of being a Doctor Who fan. I suspect it will resonate with anyone who is a fan of a long-running show. …
Jun 24, 2021: Today, in a career first, I received a press release about a toilet brush. Not any old toilet brush, mind. A crowdfunded toilet brush.
Jun 23, 2021: This plan to make Oxford Circus a car-free pedestrian piazza absolutely needs to happen.
Jun 23, 2021: Beach walk selfie.
Jun 23, 2021: If you ask me, this is nothing but a pile of junk.
Jun 22, 2021: It’s easy to forget that long before Vox was the site we know now, there was a blogging platform that used to live at vox.com. Looking back at my …
Jun 20, 2021: Luca, the new Pixar movie on Disney+, proved a perfect Father’s Day watch with my girls. It’s a simple story, but the richness lies in the …
Jun 20, 2021: Fathers Day gifts from my girls.
Jun 17, 2021: Another afternoon’s remote training ahead…
Jun 12, 2021: This is a really, really interesting podcast on how to reverse polarisation in society. Thought-provoking.
Jun 11, 2021: This week it has become abundantly clear to me that some tasks are better done on a big screen, and some on a small screen. And figuring out which is …
Jun 8, 2021: See you, open rates. It was good while it lasted. Apple closes down open rate tracking
Jun 7, 2021: Missed the live WWDC keynote stream, so here’s the plan: Read the previews on Apple.com Scan the hashtag #WWDC21 on Twitter Pour a beer Watch the …
Jun 7, 2021: An engaged newsletter audience is better than a big one. (And I managed to write it without making a “size isn’t everything" joke. Apart from that …
Jun 5, 2021: Friendly wee chap in the churchyard this morning.
Jun 5, 2021: First library visit since the first lockdown! 📚
May 31, 2021: Nostalgia.
May 29, 2021: Walking.
May 28, 2021: Genomics and pandemics and the avoidable crisis Zeynep Tufecki: The latest news from the United Kingdom, which has better genomic surveillance than almost any other country and thus can allow us to …
May 26, 2021: Online culture is now just culture: Dominic Cummings References Spider-Man-Pointing Meme To Parliament
May 26, 2021: Well, now. Amazon Makes Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion
May 23, 2021: Amen to this: If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry
May 23, 2021: I will never cease to be amazed by the speed with which my daughters can make our living room chaotic.
May 23, 2021: Watching last week’s Countryfile has me thinking about drones again. There’s some fantastic drone-driven storytelling shots, rather than the normal …
May 23, 2021: Now, that’s better.
May 21, 2021: I know I should move on from being annoyed when people use “blog" when they mean “blog post”. But I’m finding it really, really hard.
May 21, 2021: Gosh. Gee whizz. What a surprise.
May 21, 2021: This is a fascinating story of how and why aerosol spread of COVID-19 was discounted for far too long — and the decades-old misunderstanding turned …
May 19, 2021: There is not enough side-eye in the world for this: Google revives RSS. Google, some of us remember Google Reader. And we have not forgotten. And we …
May 19, 2021: Dear Substack writers, Crossheads massively enhance the readability of your precious multi-thousand word hot takes. They are fully supported by the …
May 18, 2021: Birthday party in progress: pin the tail on the Gnasher…
May 17, 2021: This was the very first piece I wrote in my self-employed life, back in 2012: What is post digital? In classic style, it was about 10 years too early… …
May 15, 2021: I’ll be honest — editing these photos is making me hungry.
May 15, 2021: Macarons anyone?
May 15, 2021: Strawberry feast.
May 14, 2021: This is a good read (ha,ha) in light of @manton’s new trial bookshelf feature here: Why I’m deleting GoodReads and maybe you should too. I’d be happy …
May 13, 2021: Nature really doesn’t understand the rules of storytelling…
May 13, 2021: This week I have more good old-fashioned phone calls than Zoom or Teams meetings. It’s such a relief.
May 11, 2021: Lovely afternoon down on the beach.
May 11, 2021: Look at me, updating node.js from the command line like I have the first clue what I’m doing.
May 11, 2021: I think I’ve found a way to articulate the discomfort I’m feeling in my work: I’m passionate about journalists, who are generally a good, passionate …
May 10, 2021: Current status:
May 10, 2021: For creativity to thrive, digital needs to learn its place…
May 10, 2021: “Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are Extremely Online have Substack.” Source: How …
May 10, 2021: Millennials are hated for being defiantly uncool “From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s young people were allowed just two modes of expression: …
May 10, 2021: I just managed to lose a cup of coffee in the living room. How’s your Monday going?
May 10, 2021: Wow. Just found a classic example of misusing “proof links”. A writer on Medium making certain statements, and linking to “prove” them, but the pages …
May 10, 2021: It turns out that our local church uses some rather dated tech…
May 7, 2021: Hmmm. Does anyone have any idea why my micro.blog site wouldn’t pick up an analytics code put in the Footer section of ->Design? It seems to have …
May 7, 2021: Always worth taking time out to feed our feathered friends.
May 7, 2021: Bottoming out On Wednesday morning, I hit a low. My family has been lucky during the pandemic — none of us have caught the virus (as far as we know), and we haven’t …
May 7, 2021: Zero for two so far on ATT
May 6, 2021: Want: Hexagonal garden office on stilts.
May 6, 2021: The beach is going for drama this afternoon.
May 6, 2021: I have done a democracy. 🇬🇧
May 5, 2021: Having one of those days where I wonder why I bother with the stress of being self-employed. It’s been nearly a decade since I had a full-time job. …
May 4, 2021: It’s lovely to see the vegetation sprouting again on the beach — a sure sign that summer is on its way.
May 4, 2021: Dear Substack writers, It is not compulsory to have an opinion on the Basecamp mess. Yours, Adam (Who has just deleted several lukewarm takes on the …
May 4, 2021: Looks like there are security updates for Apple things out — urgent ones, too. Looks like I’ll be updating all the family devices while I work this …
May 2, 2021: 🎵 You’re driftwood… 🎵
May 1, 2021: This is an absolute shocker: last night someone cut down an osprey nest at Llyn Brenig in Wales, where a young pair were incubating their first egg. …
Apr 30, 2021: Just replaced the Cat 5 on the wired elements of our home network with Cat 7 cables. Boy, I know how to have fun on a Friday night.
Apr 29, 2021: This is genius: Paddington in Film
Apr 29, 2021: Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might actually be a good thing…
Apr 27, 2021: The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life improvements for Apple Watch users.
Apr 21, 2021: I know everyone’s talking about the “paid podcasts” bit of yesterday’s Apple Event, but I do wonder if the sheer multimedia creation power of the new …
Apr 20, 2021: So, if M1 Macs can run some iOS apps as well as Mac apps, and the iPad Pro now uses an M1 chip… …WWDC is going to be really interesting this year, …
Apr 20, 2021: So happy to see Apple go back to colour in the post-Ive era.
Apr 20, 2021: From our trip to Wakehurst last week:
Apr 20, 2021: So, 100 hours on from my first vaccination jab, the side-effects have been negligible. My arm was very sore until yesterday morning. I had a slight …
Apr 20, 2021: Finally, I’ve had my post-lockdown haircut.
Apr 18, 2021: So, it turns out that the downside of being married to a woman with a PhD in Immunology is that I get a narrated description of exactly what’s …
Apr 16, 2021: 💉 #1
Apr 15, 2021: Six thoughts about the Substack local initiative.
Apr 14, 2021: Are we losing the fight on content moderation? If so, what should we do instead?
Apr 13, 2021: Hazel, Dora and the leaf skeleton
Apr 13, 2021: My first jab booked for Friday! 💉
Apr 12, 2021: I think the obsession with newsletters is obscuring the bigger story: that the growing prevalence of publishing platforms with built-in member support …
Apr 11, 2021: While pulling together this list of weekend reading I remember thinking how often I was linking to Substack in it. And then I remembered feeling the …
Apr 11, 2021: Anyone else using a Mac found that their rate of genuine emails filtered to spam has shot up in recent months?
Apr 11, 2021: Hiking dates are a thing? Seems like a good way to destruction test your relationship…
Apr 9, 2021: I think my daughters might be prematurely middle-aged:
Apr 8, 2021: I am HERE for headline puns that combine Doctor Who and typography: Time’s New Roman
Apr 8, 2021: Sometimes it’s amply clear that these are chalk downs:
Apr 6, 2021: Easter walk at Woods Mill.
Apr 6, 2021: There’s a metaphor here about nature and technology…
Apr 6, 2021: Medium introduces the blogroll. Wait — have I somehow slipped back 20 years to 2001?
Apr 1, 2021: Up and at ‘em early this morning for a last pass on a really interesting research report I’m editing.
Mar 30, 2021: OK. This doesn’t feel like good news: Getty Images is acquiring Unsplash.
Mar 30, 2021: Spring really came to Shoreham-by-Sea, yesterday. I took advantage of the lockdown easing to have a bonus lunchtime walk.
Mar 29, 2021: Bat kerb.
Mar 28, 2021: M1 MBPro life: “Right, I’ll just send this video over to Compressor to render out while I make a cup of coffee and … “…oh, it’s done.”
Mar 24, 2021: I do like to get down and dirty with a server once in a while:
Mar 24, 2021: Today seems to be a 5/10/15 years ago day: Medium pivots and seeks to reduce editorial staff? 2016! Should employed journalists have their own …
Mar 23, 2021: The very old and the very new in a port town.
Mar 23, 2021: This, from @colinwalker, is what so many people miss about blogging at its best: There is no truly right way to blog but there is a best way, one …
Mar 22, 2021: A rare moment Yesterday morning, I did something I’ve never had the chance to do in the last eight years: I lay in bed for a while and just looked out of the …
Mar 22, 2021: It’s World Osprey Week, as European ospreys start returning to their nests for the breeding season.
Mar 22, 2021: Now, can I post to micro.blog from Ulysses OK?
Mar 21, 2021: A digest of nature-centric reading (and viewing) to round out your weekend.
Mar 21, 2021: Last night, we finished the last of the Christmas mead — just in time for spring.
Mar 13, 2021: New boats in the Adur.
Mar 13, 2021: Beach fishermen.
Mar 13, 2021: Not this way, apparently.
Mar 13, 2021: Sea chains.
Mar 13, 2021: Beach finds.
Mar 13, 2021: Down by the harbour wall.
Mar 9, 2021: This is not the real view from my house - but neither is it a Zoom background…
Mar 9, 2021: On the Harry & Meghan interview and the UK media.
Mar 7, 2021: The Shoreham Harbour pilots' boat coming back in after meeting a container ship offshore.
Mar 7, 2021: Spring is here!
Mar 6, 2021: The Ernst Hagedorn coming into Shoreham Harbour this afternoon.
Mar 5, 2021: The uncomplicated way year ones express their joy in seeing their school friends over Teams is something we could all stand to learn from.
Mar 4, 2021: They really want the train to stop #worldbookday
Feb 25, 2021: It’s very much a Gray Day today.
Feb 25, 2021: I’ve just realised what I miss most about face-to-face lecturing: the after lecture chats. Nobody hangs around to ask questions or chat after Zoom …
Feb 21, 2021: Taken this afternoon. Spring is coming.
Feb 21, 2021: Some weekend nature-centric reading and viewing for you.
Feb 21, 2021: Cooking “last day of half term” pancakes for my daughters.
Feb 20, 2021: New fancy coffee brewing method to kick off the weekend right.
Feb 19, 2021: Mask upgrade.
Feb 18, 2021: The combination of stupidly fast yet silent when dealing with lots of video and other tasks is still making me very happy I invested in an M1 MacBook …
Feb 18, 2021: First take-out coffee of the year.
Feb 15, 2021: I do like the geometry and colours of this image.
Feb 15, 2021: This sign has met a premature end, but I look forward to the day when its ilk are no longer needed.
Feb 15, 2021: I’ve seen how this movie ends — and it’s not pretty…
Feb 15, 2021: Finally got a flexible boom arm for my Mevo streaming cam. I’ll have my home training studio just about perfect by the time we go back to training …
Feb 15, 2021: I do miss the days when my home office was my home office (as a self-employed person), rather than one my wife lets me use on occasion…
Feb 15, 2021: This is quite an important intervention from Nature: Coronavirus is in the air — there’s too much focus on surfaces. In short, we’re spending too much …
Feb 15, 2021: It may be cold, but the beach is the beach.
Feb 14, 2021: I think they’re plotting something.
Feb 13, 2021: I’m not saying it’s cold — but here’s a frozen boat we found.
Feb 13, 2021: I think we were making him nervous.
Feb 13, 2021: New hat!
Feb 13, 2021: 9 days until we need to homeschool again. Bliss.
Feb 13, 2021: New Year, New Lens One of my joys during this year of lockdowns and restrictions has been rediscovering photography with a camera, rather than a phone. My trusty Canon …
Feb 12, 2021: Well, this morning I had to reset my router to factory settings and rebuild my network to get everyone online again. How’s your day going?
Feb 11, 2021: One thing that being married to someone with a PhD in immunology has taught me: take any pronouncement on immunity from anyone who isn’t an …
Feb 11, 2021: Not the morning conference(s) I expected to be attending at this point in my career, but it is what it is…
Feb 10, 2021: Ouch. This Big Sur upgrade nightmare is exactly what has happened to my sister-in-law. Looks like I have bad news for her.
Feb 9, 2021: Team Tinworth lockdown work and homeschooling station for the day.
Feb 9, 2021: Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday. I’ve been on the beta. It’s interesting - but really needs the network …
Feb 9, 2021: I would read this.
Feb 8, 2021: Well, I suppose it counts as snow.
Feb 7, 2021: When you head towards the beach, it’s easy to forget that Shoreham is still very much a working harbour. But a walk up the riverside quickly reminds …
Feb 7, 2021: We found a great hagstone yesterday.
Feb 6, 2021: More low tide discoveries.
Feb 6, 2021: Low tide adventures.
Feb 6, 2021: The “staycation” semantic drift is complete, isn’t it? The accepted usage now seems to be “a holiday in your own country” rather than “a holiday at …
Feb 6, 2021: Description of the day: “Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all her congressional committees on Thursday.”
Feb 5, 2021: TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.
Feb 2, 2021: Shoreham-by-Sea fishing boats.
Feb 2, 2021: 😱 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
Feb 2, 2021: Another day done. Goodnight, friends.
Feb 1, 2021: Evening
Jan 31, 2021: This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s vaguely horrifying…
Jan 30, 2021: Beach walk views
Jan 30, 2021: Low tide on the Adur.
Jan 29, 2021: Oh, Wix websites are a pain. They have a “blog” section, they even publish RSS feeds - but they don’t set up auto-detect properly, so you have to know …
Jan 27, 2021: Something new.
Jan 27, 2021: An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID crisis to solving the climate crisis, we might just …
Jan 26, 2021: Oh, marvellous. Well done.
Jan 26, 2021: Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but feels productive.
Jan 26, 2021: Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.
Jan 26, 2021: Scenes from homeschool: 👧 “What does ‘dour’ mean?” 👱🏻♂️ “If only there was some sort of book that listed words alphabetically alongside their …
Jan 24, 2021: Plenty of people enjoying the waves down at the Beach today.
Jan 24, 2021: Be a fox, not a hedgehog One interesting idea in Matthew Syed’s Sunday Times piece on how social media sound bite culture is destroying nuance in complex debates: In a wise …
Jan 24, 2021: Evening on the beach.
Jan 24, 2021: Fascination read about Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat
Jan 23, 2021: On the shore.
Jan 22, 2021: Repeatedly misspelling “audience” is probably not good, when you’re running a new module called “Audience Strategy”. And I just misspelled “strategy” …
Jan 22, 2021: Emails from luggage companies are getting ever more desperate.
Jan 22, 2021: Lockdown isn’t easy. I’m having a rough day. It’s OK if you are, too.
Jan 20, 2021: Podcasting is 20 years old today. Here’s the story of the first podcast feed.
Jan 20, 2021: Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities — some thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead.
Jan 20, 2021: I’m not sure this is going to work.
Jan 18, 2021: Hard to argue with this message.
Jan 16, 2021: Bit wet out today.
Jan 16, 2021: Dusk on the boardwalk.
Jan 16, 2021: Brighton by night. Shot on Shoreham Beach, at dusk
Jan 14, 2021: Some ocean-based learning resources for parents struggling with homeschooling.
Jan 13, 2021: Oh, this is just perfect: Wondermark #1523; In which Hot Takes are Served Fresh
Jan 11, 2021: It deeply bothers me that on-going access to a whole load of important and significant writing from the last few years is entirely based on the …
Jan 11, 2021: Socially-distanced beach walk.
Jan 11, 2021: Well, it took less than a week of lockdown before I saw someone in a local Facebook group calling for martial law to stop people drinking takeaway …
Jan 11, 2021: Shout out to fellow working parents who are trying to navigate both earning a living and home-schooling our children. The extra time with the little …
Jan 10, 2021: A cold and frosty morning on the Beach, and it’s not lifting.
Jan 8, 2021: This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of assaults on facts.
Jan 5, 2021: Ryan Broderick: I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, at least right now, they are.
Jan 5, 2021: Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
Jan 5, 2021: Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has clearly never seen a class full of parents try to use …
Jan 3, 2021: I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.
Jan 3, 2021: Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard (gard,gard,gard)
Jan 2, 2021: My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously very cute and mildly creepy.
Jan 2, 2021: Workin’.
Dec 31, 2020: Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…
Dec 30, 2020: I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has passed from COVID. A lovely person and a great talent, …
Dec 28, 2020: How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
Dec 28, 2020: Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?
Dec 27, 2020: Evening on the beach.
Dec 27, 2020: Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.
Dec 24, 2020: Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
Dec 24, 2020: Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.
Dec 24, 2020: Oh, elf. How I hate you.
Dec 20, 2020: 🙀 What real estate agents are finding in empty offices right now
Dec 20, 2020: I can vouch for the accuracy of this feature: Six things only people who were forced to do social dancing at a Scottish school will remember 🏴
Dec 20, 2020: Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us? Kids today wouldn’t believe that.
Dec 20, 2020: Love a bit of garden office porn.
Dec 20, 2020: Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how Russian misinformation was sowing discord in US …
Dec 20, 2020: I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, upgrading them and correcting problems left over from various …
Dec 18, 2020: Archive spelunking Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a subject for another post). Looking back on the …
Dec 17, 2020: We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
Dec 17, 2020: Breakfast of champions.
Dec 16, 2020: This eco cabins are just irresistible to me. One day. One day.
Dec 15, 2020: These two things can both be true: Herd immunity is a real, valid scientific concept. Attempting to achieve it for COVID19 without vaccinations would …
Dec 15, 2020: Listening to my daughter’s Zoom singing lesson is making me very proud and a bit emotional. As someone who can’t carry a tune in a bucket, hearing her …
Dec 15, 2020: And now COVID19 is [hitting the coffee supply chain]sprudge.com/covid-19-…). Enjoy that cup of joe while you can…
Dec 15, 2020: This is interesting, and ties in with what immunologists I know have been saying for a while: disinfecting surfaces is basically COVID theatre, and …
Dec 15, 2020: There’s plenty of discussion of journalism business models. There’s some discussion about emergent journalistic forms. There’s rarely any deep …
Dec 14, 2020: I’m not saying we’re deep in middle age, but there is considerable excitement in this household about the arrival of a new washing machine tomorrow.
Dec 11, 2020: A quick digest of some worthwhile or interesting nature and outdoors reading.
Dec 11, 2020: There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles with a little caution. It wouldn’t take much for the …
Dec 8, 2020: A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas. And go to restaurants.
Dec 7, 2020: Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so.
Dec 6, 2020: Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders.
Dec 6, 2020: I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into a quick Zoom call, have done some emails, edited …
Dec 2, 2020: Conspiracy theories: making the gullible feel insightful in your Facebook feed right now.
Dec 2, 2020: So… this is my first post from a Mac powered by Apple Silicon.
Dec 1, 2020: Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the pandemic.
Dec 1, 2020: This is a good piece: I found the wall-to-wall COVID coverage very hard to cope with back in the spring. Research shows just how much it dominated …
Nov 30, 2020: Blogging is a discipline: it’s a practice of expressing your thoughts in writing, routinely, and with focus. Writing a post every day for …
Nov 30, 2020: It was a gorgeously foggy morning this morning:
Nov 29, 2020: I am, and have been for as long as I can remember, a pedestrian by preference. Walking is my favourite way of getting anywhere. Shame it’s impractical …
Nov 28, 2020: Has anyone else come to quite enjoy wearing a mask? I like seeing the fashion choices people make with them, and will quite miss that when the …
Nov 27, 2020: Last night, I faced the dilemma of going to bed early, or staying up and having some quiet time to myself. I chose the former - and was rewarded with …
Nov 26, 2020: After years of having the house to myself for several days a week, it’s hard to adjust to constantly sharing it. I’ve never craved “alone time” much - …
Nov 26, 2020: Much as I hate to admit it, structure and focus make a huge difference to a client Zoom call. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the pleasures of …
Nov 25, 2020: Lovely day for a beach walk.
Nov 25, 2020: Requiem for a lamp I’m saying “goodbye” to an old friend this morning. For the last 23 years, whenever I’ve been working at my desk, across three different properties, …
Nov 25, 2020: Eight months ago I was forced into delivering online training by the pandemic. Even after mass vaccination, I think it will remain part of my mix. The …
Nov 24, 2020: Chris Cook in this morning’s Tortoise email: “The challenge is how we all get to the finish line without needless further fatalities: a vaccine makes …
Nov 24, 2020: Today’s lesson: do not record your Zoom sessions locally, if you have multiple incoming streams. It seems to strain the connection too much.
Nov 24, 2020: Revamped online lecturing and training setup working well. 👍🏻
Nov 23, 2020: The power of disinformation to capture people’s minds is terrifying. Watching a friend’s Facebook friend who is clearly deep in the rabbit hole is …
Nov 23, 2020: As someone who spent my entire childhood north of the border, the increasing likelihood that Scotland will soon be an independent country is troubling …
Nov 21, 2020: Today’s beach walk did not feel autumnal at all. Between the waves and the overcast skies, not to mention the biting wind, it felt distinctly like …
Nov 21, 2020: Burn out or fade away? Tonight, it’s a bit of both.
Nov 20, 2020: It’s just possible I’ve found a solution to something that’s been bugging me all year. 🤞🏻
Nov 19, 2020: OK. A week in I am prepared to say this: Big Sur is bloody lovely and it has completely reignited my joy in using my Mac.
Nov 18, 2020: As I child, I railed against my dependence on sleep. As an adult, I embrace it. Night, all.
Nov 18, 2020: New, chez Tinworth.
Nov 18, 2020: Wake. Take children to school. Train people via Zoom. Collect children. Feed children. Read bedtime story. Edit training videos. Sleep. Wake. Take…
Nov 17, 2020: I regret I didn’t take more notes in the early days of the first lockdown. It was an unusual, but quite special, family time. And I do want that …
Nov 16, 2020: I need to remind myself more often that it doesn’t actually matter how far I am from my goals, as long as the direction of movement is largely …
Nov 14, 2020: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re altogether ooky, They’re Adam’s family. 😎
Nov 14, 2020: Facing the sea.
Nov 13, 2020: The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes my deep loyalty to the medium feel completely …
Nov 13, 2020: Media artisans and their tools…
Nov 13, 2020: Quite proud of this:
Nov 13, 2020: 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 …
Nov 13, 2020: 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 …
Nov 13, 2020: 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…”)
Nov 13, 2020: 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, …
Nov 12, 2020: 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 …
Nov 12, 2020: Should I?
Nov 12, 2020: Charles Arthur: […] classical orchestras are just tribute bands for old music 🤯
Nov 12, 2020: Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…
Nov 12, 2020: 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.
Nov 12, 2020: ”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. …
Nov 11, 2020: Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…
Nov 11, 2020: 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 …
Nov 9, 2020: 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 …
Nov 9, 2020: There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms curtailed. But last time, it helped bind communities …
Nov 8, 2020: Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to Amazon.
Nov 8, 2020: Shell.
Nov 7, 2020: Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative.
Nov 7, 2020: Today’s news about the US presidential election gives me a little hope for the first time since 2016’s Brexit vote that being of fundamentally decent …
Nov 6, 2020: It’s not exactly puzzling why we chose to live here, is it? There’s something utterly magical to me about beaches in the off season, when it’s just us …
Nov 6, 2020: Birthday beach walk with my daughters.
Nov 6, 2020: I’ve slipped out of the habit of using my 9.7 iPad Pro, and that means I’d forgotten what a lovely size of device this is for reading and email. It’s …
Nov 6, 2020: This is strangely delightful in the twilight world of an uncertain presidential result: Neon Trump comes to Hackney (It’s guerrilla art)
Nov 5, 2020: Hospital visit concluded. My youngest’s head wound cleaned and glued together. And I didn’t have to stoop to bribing her to be brave. She managed that …
Nov 5, 2020: Have to say - I wasn’t expecting to be spending time in A&E on the first day of lockdown.
Nov 4, 2020: So, lockdown it is, from tonight. I’m very lucky to be living very near to these places. It’s going to be much easier for us than so many others.
Nov 3, 2020: My family continue to astonish me. I’m a lucky man to have these people in difficult times.
Nov 2, 2020: Things that have become a routine part of my life since the first lockdown began: moving around Gigabytes of video recordings every week.
Nov 2, 2020: Sometimes you have to get something out of your head before you can concentrate on the other things you need to do. It’s out of my head, so it’s time …
Nov 2, 2020: Thoughts in the face of Lockdown 2.0 On Friday, I drove my mother-in-law home, and passed through many towns on the journey. We were often caught in traffic jams, and sometimes I ended up …
Nov 2, 2020: How’s the UK Covid app doing? Oh: “The “world-beating” NHS Covid app, downloaded by 19 million people, has systematically failed to send alerts …
Nov 1, 2020: Today, had the makings of a dreary, dreich day. But time with good friends helped me recover from some tech stress and face the coming lockdown with …
Nov 1, 2020: Autumn roof, from below.
Nov 1, 2020: TIL: never try to shove a 1080p stream down a 720p pipe.
Nov 1, 2020: Misty, dreich morning in Sussex.
Oct 31, 2020: How the year 2000 web reacted to the tense election standoff between Bush and Gore. Useful historical context for the coming week…
Oct 31, 2020: Just spent 30 minutes catching up on newsletters. My, do some well-known journalists suffer without subs and editing. Witticisms that aren’t witty, …
Oct 30, 2020: Parole by election John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK: Maybe it’s because there’s a possibility that on …
Oct 30, 2020: Today is a Zoom-free day. That is a good day.
Oct 29, 2020: Lovely walk with the girls, despite the dreich weather.
Oct 29, 2020: Should you turn on your video camera during online training?
Oct 28, 2020: Another day in front of the ring light…
Oct 27, 2020: Ah, the BBC’s Autumnwatch. Balm for the soul.
Oct 27, 2020: Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and editing them for later reference by trainees, I …
Oct 26, 2020: Half term adventures.
Oct 26, 2020: Wellies was the right decision.
Oct 24, 2020: I walked up into Old Shoreham yesterday, to pick up some things. It’s interesting seeing the traces of the old village concealed within more modern …
Oct 24, 2020: Interesting opinion piece on the hijacking of the word “freedom” and why we need to push back with a good, solid understanding of what it means in a …
Oct 21, 2020: Telling the stories of our wild places (by way of another childhood reminiscence).
Oct 21, 2020: Well now. Substack is adding custom domains for everyone (which is good), but is changing $50 to do it (which is not). A way of heading off or …
Oct 21, 2020: I just started looking for some data for a lecture, and the third result was one of my own blogposts, which had exactly the information I needed. …
Oct 21, 2020: Handy guidance here for leading journalists and authors: How to Avoid ‘Zoom Dick’ Incidents During Zoom Calls at Work
Oct 21, 2020: If you’re going to write 500 words summarising a report, you could at least do the reader the courtesy of linking to the original. 😤
Oct 21, 2020: The garden office as ‘sanity shed’ is a nice idea for those privileged enough to have both the money and the garden space to do it. Maybe one day…
Oct 21, 2020: I know it’s a thing some SEOs like to recommend, but I do find webpages with no publication date on them immensely annoying as a user.
Oct 21, 2020: Interesting piece. The start of a shift from “proximity to work” to “proximity to lifestyle amenities” as a major determining factor in residential …
Oct 21, 2020: I’m trying an experiment. I’ve switched my default search engine on my iPhone to DuckDuckGo, and will see how I get on.
Oct 20, 2020: Shoreham Beach, 8.55am
Oct 17, 2020: Lo! There comes a Toast Cat!
Oct 15, 2020: So, I thought I had the whole 20 seconds hand washing things sorted. And then the Apple Watch update with hand washing tracking hit. A month later, I …
Oct 14, 2020: Beach silhouettes.
Oct 14, 2020: Shoreham Beach, UK / 2020-10-14 / 8.49am Walking home around the quay after dropping my children at school. I’ve lived here for 10 years, but I’ve …
Oct 13, 2020: Apple ProRaw actually looks quite interesting. Be interested to see how quickly the major editing apps support it, though.
Oct 13, 2020: Lisa on the roof, talking environmental stuff amongst the solar panels is cool.
Oct 13, 2020: I’d be more excited by 5G coming to the iPhone if I thought I’d be going anywhere in the next six months 🤷🏼♂️
Oct 13, 2020: “Something only Apple can do” is going to get really annoying really fast.
Oct 13, 2020: On the sofa for the Apple announcements, and my daughters have joined me…
Oct 13, 2020: Shaping up to be a nice Autumn day down by the river.
Oct 13, 2020: Morning beach walk.
Oct 12, 2020: Just rewatched Frozen 2 with my daughters. Anna is clearly the most thirsty of Disney heroines. 🍿
Oct 12, 2020: Uggh. One of those days where I’ve been working solidly since 9am, bar 10 minutes in the garden, it’s now time to go collect my daughters, and I don’t …
Oct 12, 2020: Well, you can tell I just topped up the suet ball feeder, because it sounds like there’s an avian riot in progress in my back garden. 🐦
Oct 12, 2020: I just betrayed my principles and did a rant as a Twitter thread not a blog post. I shall say 3 “Hail Sir Tim”s, and recommit to the open web.
Oct 11, 2020: This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – the ‘lab conditions’ in question include in the …
Oct 11, 2020: I love our beach.
Oct 11, 2020: Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.
Oct 9, 2020: Current status:
Oct 9, 2020: Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢
Oct 8, 2020: That’s quite a sunset.
Oct 8, 2020: Fear my mighty traybake powers.
Oct 7, 2020: Mackerel skies.
Oct 5, 2020: Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media (Or why your spicy hot takes are making everything worse.)
Oct 5, 2020: Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance
Oct 5, 2020: Why we need a new framework for discussing powerful women — and it’s all the fault of the Greeks
Oct 5, 2020: It’s disturbing how easily the California fires slip off our radar, just as the Australian wildfires did. I don’t so much want slow news as …
Oct 2, 2020: 15 years on, journalists are still talking nonsense about blogs This person has no idea what they are talking about: The reason no one talks about “blogging” anymore is that, for what blogs were good at — sending …
Oct 2, 2020: Well, I never thought I’d reach a point where the US president announces he’s ill with a potentially life-threatening disease — and my first response …
Oct 1, 2020: I just experienced this when I had to pop out in the car briefly. It’s a big improvement: Apple Launches Revamped Maps App in the United Kingdom and …
Oct 1, 2020: Spending my evening editing the videos of yesterday’s lectures. I know how to live.
Oct 1, 2020: It’s possible that our HomePods are the most used pieces of digital tech in our house at the moment. We’ve lived the six months of the pandemic to a …
Oct 1, 2020: This is a fascinating long read. It suggests that COVID-19 is largely spread by a small number of people in particular settings - super spreading …
Oct 1, 2020: Cygnet.
Sep 30, 2020: Today’s learning: six hours of Zoom feels very different to six hours of in-person lecturing. However, I’m not facing 90 minutes of travelling before …
Sep 30, 2020: Lecturing kit, COVID-19 style.
Sep 30, 2020: Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of an iMac Zooming, rather than gamboling, …
Sep 27, 2020: A promise of new life.
Sep 26, 2020: Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.
Sep 24, 2020: And finally, we have the app.
Sep 22, 2020: Oh, sweet joy. iOS14 has brought emoji search to the iPhone. 🙌🏼
Sep 22, 2020: That URL looks completely legit and I shall be claiming straight away. 🙄
Sep 19, 2020: Weekend cooking. 👌🏻
Sep 19, 2020: A nice early autumn surprise in the garden.
Sep 18, 2020: Interesting. You can now find Substacks written by people you follow on Twitter.
Sep 18, 2020: This one of those rare things, an online quiz actually worth doing. It’s a test to see if you can identify which social media accounts are real, and …
Sep 17, 2020: As a palate cleanser after that last post, here’s Martin’s enjoyable ramblings about classic Doctor Who story The Invasion.
Sep 17, 2020: Everything wrong with both Facebook and internet fandom in one screencap.
Sep 17, 2020: Percentage chance I would use smart glasses from Facebook: 0%
Sep 16, 2020: Just a reminder to folks (especially journalists) who rely on their iOS devices for work. You REALLY shouldn’t update to iOS14 this evening. Your apps …
Sep 15, 2020: One thing that makes me sad about the Apple Event: a few years back the Fitness+ announcement would have been a set of APIs to allow fitness providers …
Sep 15, 2020: What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard and Pencil 2?
Sep 15, 2020: Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while its citizens are encouraged to report their …
Sep 14, 2020: This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish
Sep 14, 2020: John O’Nolan: ”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.” Not completely true, but uncomfortably close to it…
Sep 13, 2020: Duck!
Sep 13, 2020: Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.
Sep 12, 2020: And… breathe.
Sep 12, 2020: Finally.
Sep 10, 2020: Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓
Sep 8, 2020: Pubs 👍🏻 Offices 👍🏻 7 people in the park. 👎🏻 Yup. That all seems logical. 👀
Sep 8, 2020: Autumn comes when the ospreys leave. 🍂
Sep 7, 2020: Working like this might actually tempt me back into a proper job. Probably not, mind. But it could.
Sep 7, 2020: Once you know an AI is grading your work — you can game it. The next decade is just going to be a long series of disasters as people try to use AI …
Sep 6, 2020: On social media pile-ons Melissa Harrison: Moreover, I’ve learned not to join in with Twitter pile-ons, or insult or mock people I disagree with. This is partly because I …
Sep 4, 2020: Look at this cute fellah.
Sep 4, 2020: A buzzard, drifting lazily over the Woods Mill car park.
Sep 4, 2020: Into the woods.
Sep 4, 2020: Homestead.
Sep 4, 2020: This “shed” is basically pornography for writers.
Sep 2, 2020: The absolute genius of “Black Lives Matter” as a phrase is that its very existence provokes evidence of its need, as people react negatively to what …
Aug 31, 2020: Evening sea swim.
Aug 31, 2020: My procrastination is weird. For example, I’ve nearly finished what will become issue 2 of Coffee & Complexity — but I’ve barely started issue 1. …
Aug 29, 2020: I’m doing my best to keep the bird feeders topped up today. The sudden cold snap means they’ll be looking for food more urgently - and some of them …
Aug 29, 2020: Rainbow over Shoreham Beach yesterday.
Aug 29, 2020: My July in one second every day.
Aug 29, 2020: Sitting by the sea while my daughter has a socially distanced outdoors Rainbows meeting.
Aug 28, 2020: Some interesting thoughts on the future of newsletters. I certainly think many newsletters resemble blogs - but many are nothing like them, too.
Aug 25, 2020: I’m glad people are starting to talk about this. The coffee cup and plastic bag situation has reversed years of work, and that’s before you get to …
Aug 25, 2020: Uh-oh: Second national lockdown warning as R rate rises ”[…] on Friday the Sage advisory group said Britain’s reproduction number was now between 0.9 …
Aug 25, 2020: Beach cleaning after (Storm) Ellen.
Aug 24, 2020: Managed a little time on the beach before the rain hit.
Aug 24, 2020: I couldn’t figure out why my mouse wasn’t working this morning, until I turned it over. Well played, daughters of mine.
Aug 21, 2020: Fiddling around with a side project while my daughters do their martial arts class via Zoom.
Aug 19, 2020: So much “nope” in this vision of a home office cubicle.
Aug 17, 2020: The faceless mob of Twitter accelerants.
Aug 17, 2020: Sea swim with my tiny limpet. 🌊
Aug 17, 2020: Trying a small productivity hack today: doing half hour bursts of email, and then closing the app for a couple of hours. 🤞🏻
Aug 16, 2020: Beach life.
Aug 16, 2020: I’m currently reading The Daring Of Della Dupree by Natasha Lowe 📚 to my daughters. They are absolutely loving it. Just enough peril to keep them …
Aug 15, 2020: The “aircraft engine housing and car wash brushes” look for garden gates is in, in, in, this summer.
Aug 15, 2020: John Witherow, editor of The Times, in his morning newsletter: Put simply, Britain is an over-centralised state that is weak at the centre. Hard to …
Aug 14, 2020: In praise of the cloudy summer's day After a week of glorious sunshine and sweltering sunshine, it’s a relief to see clouds overhead again. Oh, it’s still warm, but it’s the lack of …
Aug 14, 2020: The over-50s are coming for your TikTok. And they’re taking no style prisoners.
Aug 14, 2020: As soon as the sun goes in, we get the beach back to ourselves. This was absolutely heaving a few days ago.
Aug 14, 2020: There are worse places to catch up on a few emails.
Aug 13, 2020: Tempting.
Aug 13, 2020: Upgrade for our Zoom future.
Aug 12, 2020: Right here. Right now.
Aug 10, 2020: Well, this is not great. I hope this does not survive the beta into release: Apple News+ in iOS 14 Opens Article Web Links in Apple News, Intercepting …
Aug 9, 2020: Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures. What fantastic news.
Aug 8, 2020: Evening in the Quay.
Aug 8, 2020: Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, why they confuse even other biologists and what …
Aug 8, 2020: Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚
Aug 8, 2020: Stunning skies yesterday evening.
Aug 7, 2020: This was a very long time ago in the Cairngorms.
Aug 7, 2020: Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱
Aug 6, 2020: Poirot after Christie I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah 📚. While I was sceptical about the …
Aug 6, 2020: Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more directly the relationship between what you write …
Aug 6, 2020: I am embarrassed it has taken me until my late 40s to understand the difference between a good quality, long-lasting t-shirt, and a cheapo one.
Aug 5, 2020: The pandemic lockdowns seem to have kicked the tablet market back into growth. Apple has 38% of the market with the iPad, Samsung is next with 18.7%.
Aug 4, 2020: Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people
Aug 4, 2020: A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.
Aug 4, 2020: Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings. Sometimes they way we write something can do more harm than good.
Aug 1, 2020: Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.
Aug 1, 2020: This is an adorable version of something that every parent who has been working from home the last few months has experienced. Except, the parent is …
Aug 1, 2020: This sums up pretty nicely why I, as a teenager in the 1980s, completely fell in love with this series: Moonlighting: How Pre-Dramedy Era Dramedy Made …
Jul 31, 2020: This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.
Jul 30, 2020: Typo of the day: “toe-hugging”. Less green than tree-hugging, and just possibly a bit more kinky.
Jul 30, 2020: Um. Get your GoPro merch?
Jul 30, 2020: Trump just used a massive dead cat to distract from appalling US economic news.
Jul 29, 2020: A devastating consequence of the pandemic and lockdown: the National Trust are making over 1000 people redundant.
Jul 27, 2020: The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one critical element.
Jul 27, 2020: Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored by children for whom it’s an irrelevance. Roll on …
Jul 27, 2020: Beach detail.
Jul 24, 2020: The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.
Jul 24, 2020: An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.
Jul 23, 2020: We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.
Jul 22, 2020: Buoyant bird.
Jul 21, 2020: Beach life.
Jul 19, 2020: My eldest daughter loves performing. She never voluntarily passes up the opportunity to be in the limelight. I suspect she gets it from her paternal …
Jul 19, 2020: Darling buds of July.
Jul 19, 2020: Girls in the wood.
Jul 19, 2020: Window in the canopy.
Jul 18, 2020: A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.
Jul 18, 2020: It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…
Jul 16, 2020: I’m loving the way micro.blog plugins solve a few pain points I have with the platform - but which might not bother most people.
Jul 15, 2020: This is bleak news: Guardian announces plans to cut 180 jobs. 70 are editorial jobs. Best wishes to my friends and former students working there.
Jul 15, 2020: Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.
Jul 14, 2020: Hand-writing this post using Scribble and my Apple Pencil in iOS 14. That was easier than I expected!
Jul 13, 2020: Evening swim selfie.
Jul 13, 2020: Exploring the idea of the blogletter. What differentiates it from a more traditional newsletter?
Jul 12, 2020: Current status:
Jul 11, 2020: Evening on the beach.
Jul 10, 2020: Evening in the garden.
Jul 8, 2020: Early evening beach walk.
Jul 8, 2020: After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to actually do a little work on a side project again: …
Jul 7, 2020: Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics. 🤦🏼♂️
Jul 7, 2020: A wee visitor to our garden at night…
Jul 7, 2020: Homeschooling break in the garden.
Jul 7, 2020: Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, Facebook is just an arms dealer.
Jul 7, 2020: Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.
Jul 5, 2020: Maltese boats. Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.
Jul 5, 2020: The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago. Photo by my late mother.
Jul 5, 2020: Looking back at locked-down May in 1 second every day.
Jul 4, 2020: Down by the Adur.
Jul 3, 2020: The news we need, if not the news we deserve: Dogmatix to Get His Own Asterix Comic Book
Jul 3, 2020: Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts. Time to get the Keep Cup out again.
Jul 3, 2020: One unexpected - but happy - side effect of lockdown: I’m now wearing jeans of a waist size I haven’t managed to squeeze into since my 20s.
Jun 30, 2020: It is just possible that 1989 Adam was trying a bit too hard.
Jun 29, 2020: This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others: How to engage with life when you feel down
Jun 29, 2020: Malta in early autumn 2000. While the clothes certainly date it, the complete absence of phones is quite remarkable. Just a film camera and a chunky …
Jun 27, 2020: More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but it all comes together in the end!
Jun 27, 2020: My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!” BRB - exploding with pride.
Jun 27, 2020: Clare Foges: Politics can either be a parlour game of ideological point-scoring or it can be the business of meaningful change. To be the latter our …
Jun 26, 2020: I am middle-aged enough that I really am very excited about my new compost bin. 🌱
Jun 26, 2020: Gaming through the eyes of privilege 20 years ago I was quite involved with the tabletop gaming world, and the fringes of the SFF world, as an author. Hit Amazon or Wikipedia and you can …
Jun 24, 2020: This is lovely: The Archers Theme as you’ve never heard it - with the cast at home !
Jun 24, 2020: Wow. Olympus is selling off its camera division. I first got serious about photography with a Trip 35, and my first SLRs were all OMs. End of an era, …
Jun 24, 2020: Today’s Social & Digital lunchbreak digs deep on narcissism, toxic communities — and Nazi My Little Pony fans. Really.
Jun 23, 2020: The Fate of the Mac? Jason Snell: Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One: The truth is probably that the future of the Mac is as a “pro” version of iOS and iPadOS. It’ll run more …
Jun 23, 2020: Phew. My MacBook Pro just scrapes into the Big Sur compatibility list. This time next year I suspect I’ll be choosing between an Apple silicon …
Jun 22, 2020: Well, having Adobe and Microsoft both on board already will make the ARM transition for Macs much, much smoother. And 3 times 4K streams in Final Cut …
Jun 22, 2020: MacOS Big Sur: love the new design, but feel like they’re just trolling us with the name now.
Jun 22, 2020: Automatic hand-washing detection and timing on Apple Watch! That’s as Covid-y as it gets.
Jun 22, 2020: Controversial opinion: I prefer this keynote format.
Jun 22, 2020: Dance workouts on Apple Watch. Oh, yes. 💃 ⌚️ (Watch-based cycling navigation seem vital in a Covid-world, too.)
Jun 22, 2020: I can barely read my own handwriting. Good luck to iPad OS in figuring it out.
Jun 22, 2020: So… if your phone runs out of battery, your car won’t start or open?
Jun 22, 2020: Cycling directions in iOS maps in iOS 14 🚴♂️ 🎉
Jun 22, 2020: They have a real aversion to static shots in this pre-recorded WWDC keynote, don’t they?
Jun 22, 2020: The new iOS 14 widgets just announced at WWDC are going to be amazing on iPad.
Jun 22, 2020: Wow. Empty Steve Jobs Theatre. Striking way to acknowledge the unusual times.
Jun 22, 2020: 👀 Heavy Coffee Drinkers Want Coffee A Lot More Than They Actually Like It ☕️
Jun 22, 2020: The Into the Wild bus has been Removed by the Alaska guard. Probably a good thing, but the end of an era none-the-less.
Jun 22, 2020: The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement - and the piece highlights the two key things that went wrong.
Jun 22, 2020: Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed.
Jun 22, 2020: Tech false economy So, today I’m working on a brand new iMac - the first time I’ve bought a new Mac in over half a decade. And that last couple of years where I was …
Jun 22, 2020: I’m actually more interested in how — visually — Apple chooses to do the WWDC keynote later on today, than what they actually announce. Do they try to …
Jun 21, 2020: What’s collective noun for a group of SUPpers?
Jun 20, 2020: When the Rampion Wind Farm was announced, I was worried about its impact on the feel of the beach. A few years on, I’ve grown rather fond of it.
Jun 20, 2020: Kitesurfers on Shoreham Beach
Jun 19, 2020: Well, I am deeply disheartened to read this about Warren Ellis. Is it that we as a society rewards manipulative talented people with success? Our that …
Jun 18, 2020: This lockdown concert by Madness is a real balm to the soul. Nicely done.
Jun 18, 2020: Turns out it’s easier to say “world-beating” than actually deliver it. Who knew? (Everybody else.)
Jun 18, 2020: Has the meaning of the word “blog” changed? Sadly, I think the answer is “yes”.
Jun 17, 2020: Blimey. Plurk. The microblogging service where I was [marginally more popular than …
Jun 17, 2020: This one was a big hit for me back in the day. I can still recall the frustration and anger I was feeling as I wrote it: Why media gets community …
Jun 17, 2020: This is remarkable. A 12 year old blog post - and both the links in it are still live: How To Be a Community Editor (in 2 posts or less)
Jun 17, 2020: Home schooling parents: a nature documentary on Disney+ is a perfectly valid natural history lesson, right? RIGHT?
Jun 16, 2020: Beach fun.
Jun 16, 2020: Beach.
Jun 15, 2020: Today’s Social & Digital Lunchbreak is out. Let’s not talk about what happened to it last week. 😱 I was deep in the combined trenches of video and …
Jun 13, 2020: We’re still weeks away from re-opening swimming pools in the UK. We’re so lucky to live near the sea.
Jun 12, 2020: My talented sister-in-law talking about Hogarth’s The Madhouse at Sir John Soane’s Museum
Jun 12, 2020: Hit a million views on Unsplash.
Jun 11, 2020: An old schoolfriend of mine, Nichol Wheatley, has become an accomplished and talented artist. And yet, he remains a lovely bloke. ;) With art shows on …
Jun 11, 2020: Sometimes, you only realise how unwell you’ve actually been when you start feeling better. Today, I feel roughly human again for the first time in a …
Jun 9, 2020: Still COVID-free.
Jun 8, 2020: Current status:
Jun 8, 2020: Quite a sky this evening.
Jun 7, 2020: Better broadband please. kthxbai
Jun 6, 2020: A Tender Key of Place.
Jun 5, 2020: Evening on the beach.
Jun 1, 2020: After some thought, I put today’s social & digital lunchbreak outside the reg wall, because the lead story is important for everyone in online …
May 31, 2020: How to foster ‘shoshin’ - the beginner’s mind. Such a good discipline.
May 31, 2020: Fish.
May 28, 2020: Finally getting back to the beach. It’s amazing the difference removing the feeling that the clock is ticking on your trip out makes.
May 27, 2020: Nice evening for a swim…
May 27, 2020: 30 seconds of Shoreham Beach for you:
May 26, 2020: Shoreham Beach is a rare vegetated shingle habitat. And it’s just coming into bloom now. Stunning.
May 26, 2020: What you need to know about Dominic Cummings John Naughton: I’ve been reading Cummings’s blog since long before anyone had ever heard of him. Here’s what I’ve concluded from it… 1. He’s a …
May 25, 2020: First sea swim of the year. 🏊♀️
May 24, 2020: Kite surfers off Shoreham Beach.
May 23, 2020: Beach life.
May 23, 2020: Photographer friends: can you recommend a good hand strap?
May 22, 2020: “You’re muted” has been uttered more often in the last two months than in all the rest of human history combined.
May 22, 2020: Ingenious - forces social distancing on trains, while making it easier to commute by cycle: Increased bike storage proposed for socially distanced …
May 22, 2020: I want a kilt version of this social distancing ‘petticoat dress’.
May 22, 2020: There are probably a lot of future PhD theses in exploring why masks have become such a polarising issue in the US, compared to pretty much any other …
May 21, 2020: An evisceration of Google Classroom Khoi Vinh: Google Classroom’s lackluster design is actually perfectly in line with the way we’ve always thought about the spaces we build for …
May 21, 2020: The pandemic office job needs flexibility Rory Sutherland: I was influenced in this by the work of Nassim Taleb, who argues that a high degree of variation may be better than monotonous …
May 20, 2020: Om Malik: Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook? “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Facebook!”
May 20, 2020: The Cambridge University decision seems sensible - push the low-hanging fruit online, work on how you handle the rest. Better to plan for strict …
May 20, 2020: What will the pandemic do to real estate and the way we live in cities? Here’s a little bit of (informed) speculation: difficult times ahead - but …
May 19, 2020: Your waves for today.
May 19, 2020: Blogging in the cramped internet BLDGBLOG, mourning WIRED ending Bruce Sterling’s blog: […] the pull of regular blogging—the urgency of it, the personal routine and daily discipline …
May 19, 2020: My wife is making two cups of tea - for herself. This is going to be an interesting day…
May 18, 2020: Beach school this morning.
May 17, 2020: I miss cinemas. The longer this goes on, the more I realise what I miss and what I don’t from The Before Times. And I miss going to the cinema with my …
May 17, 2020: The time finally arrived. The lockdown haircut had to happen.
May 16, 2020: A little beach calm for you.
May 15, 2020: Actually made it to the beach for the first time this week.
May 15, 2020: So. Our printer just broke. It’s probably the shock of being used more in the last six weeks than in the previous six years.
May 14, 2020: Between home-schooling and trying to sustain a self-employed income, I don’t think I’ve ever worked as hard as I am right now. I am very much not here …
May 13, 2020: Oh, the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival is going virtual. That looks like a fun distraction.
May 10, 2020: I have won the viral apocalypse. Please send tribute.
May 9, 2020: Lockdown bank holiday camping. Yes, that’s our back garden. ⛺️
May 8, 2020: Caterpillar.
May 8, 2020: Fly past.
May 8, 2020: Ed Yong’s reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic really is superb, like this piece on the over-blown reporting about “a new strain” of the …
May 8, 2020: This is new to me, despite being three years old - and is quite lovely, if a little melancholy: The last time I saw Steve Jobs (Turns out that Jobs …
May 8, 2020: Why a vaccine is unlikely in 2020 Don’t hold your breath for a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020: It is only once researchers have taken the time to understand the context of results that they …
May 6, 2020: A stunning late afternoon down on Shoreham Beach.
May 5, 2020: After three mildly stressful days, the results of the PCR jury are in: and I’m clean. (I was asked to take a test as part of a research study, not …
May 4, 2020: My four year old daughter has just declared that I am the leader of all journalism in the world, and my wife is the leader of all science. We have …
May 4, 2020: Listening to the Independent Sage group talking online, once again I’m struck by how willing the truly smart are to say “I don’t know” or “we don’t …
May 4, 2020: Three learning byproducts of the current crisis Things I have learned through reading about Covid-19, which aren’t actually about it: I need to have the flu jab in future. Not because I’m at any …
May 3, 2020: Generally not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but in thinking about social media and how you should behave and spend your time there, this remains …
May 1, 2020: Oh, dear. Here’s a piece advising SEOs to use fact check markup for marketing purposes. This is why we can’t have nice things. Or accurate things.
May 1, 2020: April in 32 seconds and 13 years So. That was April. It lasted just over 13 years, I only drove the car three times, and those were the only times I left Shoreham Beach. This was - …
May 1, 2020: The danger of valuing confidence over humility This is a really key insight in Ed Young’s superb piece The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This Confusing: A lack of expertise becomes problematic when …
May 1, 2020: That’s about as socially distanced as it gets.
May 1, 2020: Lockdown skies.
Apr 30, 2020: Moody sunset last night.
Apr 28, 2020: Lockdown reasons to be cheerful… Some folks here on Shoreham Beach are being a lot more creative with lockdown than I’m managing…
Apr 27, 2020: Me pre-lockdown: Do we even need a printer at home any more? Me in lockdown, and homeschooling: We need a better printer!
Apr 26, 2020: This fella dropped by while I was lounging in the garden.
Apr 26, 2020: Current view.
Apr 25, 2020: Our family lockdown exercise. I love these three so very much.
Apr 25, 2020: Bluebells in the garden.
Apr 25, 2020: If you give your article a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” I will not read it.
Apr 23, 2020: I’ve got the perfect background for the next few Zoom meetings. Very professional, I think.
Apr 23, 2020: When lockdown eases, which approach do you think companies will choose? Allow more remote working? Up their office space to allow for social …
Apr 22, 2020: Consequences, consequences: WarnerMedia Is Rethinking Theatrical Release Model Huge TVs with good sound systems at home. Hard to socially distance in …
Apr 22, 2020: Evidence, I think, that my daughters are handling this lockdown more productively than me. The worst of it? I can’t even eat them. I’m milk …
Apr 22, 2020: D-Nile Odd, odd 36 hours. It turns out that I was in emotional denial about how much the world has and will change, even if I acknowledged it intellectually. …
Apr 21, 2020: Rough day - two bad pieces of news about two different projects means things are looking financially pretty precarious for me. Just about enough …
Apr 21, 2020: Ballet class via Facebook Live.
Apr 21, 2020: Agenda: Tuesday 21st April Difficult evening last night. I found it hard not to think about all the things that this situation has taken away from my life - but I really should …
Apr 20, 2020: My weekend project was taking a moribund blog, exporting it, migrating it to a new platform and getting it up to speed. It worked. Now, let’s see if I …
Apr 20, 2020: Agenda: Monday 20th April Morning all, With at least three weeks to go before there’s any chance of easing this lockdown, I need to get my brain in gear. Home school restarts …
Apr 19, 2020: Spectacular caterpillar nest in a tree.
Apr 16, 2020: This is fascinating. Ash trees most likely to overcome killer disease if they stand alone: The researchers found that dense stands of ash trees with …
Apr 12, 2020: The Goodies helped define my humour and view of the world as a child. This makes me unspeakably sad: Tim Brooke-Taylor dies at 79 after contracting …
Apr 11, 2020: Tonight I am transcoding an Easter Service video, produced remotely by multiple local households, for best playback on Facebook. It’s already on …
Apr 11, 2020: Prepping a video for the local church. Not how I expected to be using this kit…
Apr 10, 2020: Here’s the big question on my mind: how does journalism survive the Covid-19 crisis? And I mean “journalism" not “news” - because there’s a whole lot …
Apr 9, 2020: Not walking with daddy.
Apr 9, 2020: Dr Tinworth and I started watching The Mandalorian last night. OK, I now understand the fuss. It gets the Star Wars aesthetic perfectly, and tells an …
Apr 9, 2020: Lovely 13th Doctor short story from ex-Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat: The Terror of the Umpty Ums. He nails her voice perfectly.
Apr 9, 2020: Testing video setups is much harder when you actually have to share your home with the rest of the family while you’re doing so…
Apr 8, 2020: Socially distanced martial arts classes begin…
Apr 8, 2020: Funny how my plans for the year have now largely boiled down to: Don’t die. Don’t go bankrupt. Everything beyond that is a bonus right now…
Apr 7, 2020: The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom has re-emerged with a blog and It is all about coronavirus and maths. Uh-oh.
Apr 7, 2020: We can’t fight the big hiatus. So, we have to embrace it. Embrace the Pause: time to plan and prepare for what comes next.
Apr 6, 2020: I have just remembered that once, a very long time ago, I drank whisky, smoked a cigar and chatted with Omar Sharif. Life has been good to me, in ways …
Apr 5, 2020: Daily exercise.
Apr 5, 2020: The speed with which some local folk have started demanding that martial law be imposed is quite, quite terrifying.
Apr 4, 2020: Mum, Christmas day, 1983.
Apr 4, 2020: Time-lapsing again.
Apr 3, 2020: I’m gonna be really good at these motionlapses by the end of 🔒⬇️
Apr 3, 2020: Life blossoming in the espalier trees.
Apr 3, 2020: Nearly 14 years ago, then-French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy talked to the attendees at LeWeb 3, a digital conference. It seems like …
Apr 2, 2020: I’m really enjoying the process of pulling together my daily distractions newsletter. Finding three things to link is great fun. Today’s issue …
Apr 2, 2020: And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.
Apr 2, 2020: Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.
Apr 2, 2020: Shooting random time lapses, because why not?
Apr 1, 2020: Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home
Apr 1, 2020: April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, Lies and Spammers
Apr 1, 2020: One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs standing idle.
Mar 31, 2020: John Gruber: How to Open the Emoji Keyboard While Using a Hardware Keyboard on iPadOS But the shortcut he refers to for opening the Emoji picker on …
Mar 31, 2020: Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?
Mar 30, 2020: Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty much everyone leading our response has the novel …
Mar 29, 2020: Well, the quasi-lockdown in the UK is really good at showing up who are the selfish people in your neighbourhood - and who has the scary authoritarian …
Mar 29, 2020: Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.
Mar 29, 2020: So, today I corrected one small piece of misinformation about the government’s position, and got accused of all sorts of things as a result, before …
Mar 29, 2020: We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists could make that easier to find.
Mar 29, 2020: How BBC Radio 4 is going to keep The Archers going during Coronavirus lockdown.
Mar 28, 2020: One for the Blake’s 7 fans…
Mar 28, 2020: Here I am in the Stockport Advertiser in July 8th 1976:
Mar 28, 2020: Oh my, oh my.
Mar 28, 2020: Oh, my.
Mar 28, 2020: Blossom in the garden. Nature’s beauty continues, oblivious to our anxiety. And it is a balm for it, too.
Mar 28, 2020: Dear fellow journalists, It is not necessary to give every article an intro linking it to the pandemic, especially if it has nothing to do with …
Mar 28, 2020: Is it right to be shopping online for non-essential goods right now? A good piece by Rachel Moss for Huffpost explores the health and ethical …
Mar 28, 2020: Where is the coronavirus information campaign? This is a good point in an otherwise rather run-of-the-mill “tutting at the tutters” piece: It is strange that we are not being bombarded with …
Mar 26, 2020: Clapping for the NHS in Shoreham-by-Sea.
Mar 26, 2020: A new take on my Engaged Reading Time newsletter. 3 links a day. None of them about the coronavirus. What do you think?
Mar 26, 2020: I’m slightly jealous of people who are dealing with lockdown boredom. Luckily, I still have enough work to more than fill the working time I have left …
Mar 26, 2020: Consequences a’coming. Any way back from this? The Cornish revolt against second-home owners.
Mar 26, 2020: This is a challenging read, that slowly brings me around to a position I never thought I’d hold: We Need A Massive Surveillance Program)
Mar 26, 2020: This morning: teacher Now: cook Afternoon: back to working Evening: 🥃 Repeat for an indefinite number of weeks.
Mar 24, 2020: Perfect timing for the quasi-lockdown: Disney+ is live in the uk
Mar 24, 2020: Tuesday Yesterday was a good day. After a bleak start to the morning, I managed to find my mojo and buckle down to work. And there was good work news - one …
Mar 23, 2020: There are times when I think one of the fastest ways to stop coronavirus misinformation spreading would be to shut down Medium.
Mar 23, 2020: A quick history of technology lesson - now the girls understand why the return key is called the return key.
Mar 23, 2020: Computing lessons with Mr Tinworth. The pupils are learning that there’s more to iPads than games.
Mar 23, 2020: Currently staring at a newly-arrived “while you were out" card from a delivery company. I mean, WTF?
Mar 23, 2020: Monday I do find myself wondering about the long-term mental health implications of this crisis. We’re making massive changes to our lifestyles and economies …
Mar 22, 2020: Well played, Beach Deli. Well played.
Mar 22, 2020: Highly socially distanced beach walk. Hoping the idiots who are carrying on as normal don’t take that from us as well.
Mar 21, 2020: A Tory rebellion for the self-employed? 10 Days That Changed Britain: There is a growing Tory backbench rebellion on the lack of measures aimed at self-employed people. MPs expect Sunak to …
Mar 21, 2020: That’s one way of social distancing.
Mar 21, 2020: Doing Brownies at home.
Mar 21, 2020: Not one of my better timed recent purchases…
Mar 21, 2020: “Does anybody remember the old days, the days before, when we used to have coffee shops and pubs, and people used to go to work in offices?” “Stop …
Mar 20, 2020: Looks like the whiteboard has arrived - ready to start delivering courses remotely.
Mar 20, 2020: Look, I know the world doesn’t need more “how to work from home" pieces. But I wrote mine anyway, because, unlike most people who have been writing …
Mar 20, 2020: Every gamer who is now working from home and video conferencing is feeling very smug about their microphone quality…
Mar 20, 2020: Just saw my daughters off to school for the last time for the foreseeable future. Homeschooling from Monday. Strange times.
Mar 19, 2020: At this difficult time, I would like to reassure everybody that, for the sake of the nation’s — nay, the world’s — morale, I will NOT be participating …
Mar 19, 2020: All respect to the Debenhams marketing team for giving it everything they’ve got in this moment…
Mar 19, 2020: ‘Conan’ To Air New Shows Beginning March 30 – shot in his iPhone: ”The new shows will be shot remotely on an iPhone, without an audience and with …
Mar 18, 2020: Has anyone seen any reporting on how the anti-vaxxer communities are reacting to the pandemic?
Mar 18, 2020: So, I’d like to apologise for wishing to spend more time with my family, whilst holding the monkey paw. My bad, everyone.
Mar 18, 2020: Why Coronavirus social distancing is negatively impacting social media content moderation.
Mar 18, 2020: Facebook’s moderation problems last night - what you need to know.
Mar 18, 2020: This is a sobering, but thoughtful, read: We’re not going back to normal. No, I don’t think we are.
Mar 18, 2020: Twitter’s role in a time of global pandemic,
Mar 17, 2020: How do you cope with losing half your income in a matter of weeks? I’m struggling tonight, as I read about the people who are looking at this period of social distancing and self-isolation as a special, cocooning …
Mar 17, 2020: My daughters are currently in the bath pretending to be antibodies attacking a virus as it binds to cells. 😶 I suppose this is what happens to …
Mar 17, 2020: Video from my wife of Victoria Station this morning at around 10am. She estimates it was 80% quieter than normal…
Mar 17, 2020: Supermarket delivery is being overwhelmed Lewis Dormer: 25% of UK shoppers polled by RetailX have reduced or completely stopped shopping ‘in person at physical stores’ while 5% report a …
Mar 17, 2020: Hard to disagree with the last line of this, although I hope we’ll see better behaviour, too.
Mar 17, 2020: Behaviour change is hard. But if we don’t evolve - we suffer the consequences.
Mar 17, 2020: Social distancing at my local coffee shop.
Mar 16, 2020: I have no words for this: The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would “Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of …
Mar 16, 2020: Well, things are getting a little, um, motivating. I’m self-employed, and make the major part of my income from face-to-face training. Looks like I …
Mar 15, 2020: Good day on the hagstone front.
Mar 15, 2020: Rustic.
Mar 14, 2020: My January in one second everyday. (I always seem to be playing catch-up with these.)
Mar 14, 2020: Pleased with this one. The print is long gone - it was in display in a photo cube and was bleached out years ago. The negative was loose in my …
Mar 13, 2020: So. After supper Iris gets down, grumbling a bit. And then sits in the corner assiduously writing. This is what she hands to me. “I have just eetn …
Mar 13, 2020: Reporting on COVID-19. Trying to amplify signal, not noise.
Mar 12, 2020: Let this destress you in the midst of the current mess: A Joyful Flash Mob Plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
Mar 12, 2020: So, based on what is emerging from my scanner as I work, I was quite a cute toddler. Unexpected.
Mar 12, 2020: Scanning 126 and 110 format negatives with a Plustek OpticFilm scanner I’ve been taking photographs for a long time. I was a photographer as a primary school child, using the cheap cameras of the 70s that my parents would …
Mar 12, 2020: This is one of the best and most measured pieces I’ve read on Coronavirus (from a scientist): Rupert Beale - Short Cuts: Wash Your Hands
Mar 11, 2020: Hidden in the UK budget - the government will levy an additional 2% tax on social media companies, search engines and so on from the beginning of next …
Mar 11, 2020: I worry that coffee shops (and elsewhere) now refusing to let customers use reusable cups because of Coronavirus concerns will kill the momentum built …
Mar 11, 2020: A London hairdresser marketing its way through Coronavirus.
Mar 11, 2020: Om Malik on how social networks lose our trust.. Thought-provoking.
Mar 10, 2020: Cleaning up negative scans in Photoshop on my iPad is quite soothing.
Mar 9, 2020: Rather concerning, if not surprising piece: Russia ‘hired network of Britons to go after enemies of Putin’. Some very careful wording in there…
Mar 9, 2020: Britain is currently split between those buying every roll of toilet paper in sight, and those who are too embarrased to buy any toilet paper lest …
Mar 9, 2020: Well, the course I was running today may have been cancelled (yes, Coronavirus-related), but the view early this morning on the way to the station was …
Mar 9, 2020: Hard to disagree with this one: Quote of the Day
Mar 7, 2020: Well, the panic buying is clearly still happening. This is Waitrose in Worthing a few hours ago - toilet paper and paracetamol sold out.
Mar 7, 2020: Post-Nature Tots babychino from the Woods Mill café.
Mar 7, 2020: Morning in the woods.
Mar 6, 2020: Oh, fabulous. Coronavirus means we’re back to disposable coffee cups: Starbucks Will No Longer Fill Your Reusable Cup Because Of COVID-19
Mar 6, 2020: This is a rather concerning piece from over the pond: ‘It’s Going to End in Death’: Doctors Say U.K. Is Ill Prepared for Coronavirus
Mar 5, 2020: It’s fun looking back on my old “blogiversary" posts - like this one from 11 years ago, when my blog was 6.
Mar 5, 2020: Well, now. One Man & His Blog is 17 years old today. That’s astonishing. It’s probably the most time I’ve committed to a single thing, bar the …
Mar 4, 2020: Oil consumption just fell off a cliff…
Mar 3, 2020: After school beach club.
Mar 3, 2020: Beach mental health break.
Mar 3, 2020: Could the coronavirus be a globalisation inflection point? Maybe. If we want it to be.
Mar 3, 2020: I have managed quarter of a century as a journalist without hearing the phrase “fronted adverbial”. But now I am a parent of a primary school child, …
Mar 3, 2020: Children in school. Bird food topped up. Dishwasher on. Coffee made. Dammit. It’s time to do some work.
Mar 2, 2020: I do wonder if the double-whammy of the climate crisis and the coronavirus might make us think a little harder about how and why we travel - and maybe …
Mar 2, 2020: David Allen Green’s characterisation of us entering “Brexit: Season 2" is a useful one, I think: Brexit: the end of the beginning
Mar 2, 2020: Actual interview with actual scientist for those who are overwhelmed by inexpert hot takes on COVID-19: Coronavirus’s Genetics Reveal Its Global …
Mar 1, 2020: Spectacular sunset as storm clouds approached this evening.
Mar 1, 2020: This made me chuckle:
Mar 1, 2020: Sea still lively in the wake of the storm.
Feb 29, 2020: Craig Mod, in his Roden newsletter: “What I find most dangerous about Twitter is that it can generate similar chemical feelings to having done “the …
Feb 29, 2020: Trees and the climate crisis The trouble with trees: I do worry, however, that a destructively naive view of nature and a rush to get trees in the ground will sweep all before …
Feb 28, 2020: I was doing some site analysis for a client, when it occurred to me that I’d never registered my micro.blog account for search console, or anything …
Feb 27, 2020: The government just made us look untrustworthy on the world stage The Law and Policy Blog, David Allen Green: The moral hazard of the United Kingdom casually breaching the Political Declaration: In effect: the Unite …
Feb 26, 2020: Interesting piece from The Atlantic suggesting that the coronavirus is likely to join the cold and the flu as a persistent part of our lives.
Feb 26, 2020: This is an absolutely fantastic essay on how fragile the cultural works created on the web have become, through the lens of the late Clive James’s …
Feb 25, 2020: Nic Tinworth, Hong Kong trail community legend, dies aged 44. This is sad news. Nic and I were probably distantly related, as there aren’t an awful …
Feb 22, 2020: Well, this is troubling. ¼ of all climate crisis tweets appear to be generated by bots - and 95% of them take a denialism position. This, of course, …
Feb 21, 2020: A day of exploring with my girls. Making progress on a long walk.
Feb 21, 2020: This post by Euan Semple, which is an expression of moral relativism (or adjacet to it, at least), feels both elementally true to me - but also a …
Feb 20, 2020: Brexit consequences: Google moving UK data to the US - where data protections are weaker.
Feb 18, 2020: Polarisation wears an unexpected face in today’s Engaged Reading Digest.
Feb 18, 2020: Iris is having an artistic moment.
Feb 17, 2020: Kinda struggling to believe that Facebook can’t afford enough developers to do an iPad app.
Feb 16, 2020: Looks like Storm Dennis has abated enough that the kite surfers are heading out again.
Feb 15, 2020: This is a fascinating, and troubling, German investigation into the way corporations are funnelling funds into climate change deniers: The Heartland …
Feb 15, 2020: The girls appear unimpressed by my efforts to get them to go for a walk in the face of Storm Dennis
Feb 15, 2020: A new town, alone and on foot Martin Belam, on the joys of travelling to see his team play an away game: I also think there’s something useful socially about travelling around the …
Feb 15, 2020: Podcasting the great outdoors - one of the ways I try to disconnect from work over the weekend.
Feb 14, 2020: Spotify is trying to become podcasting’s gatekeeper. We musn’t let them.
Feb 14, 2020: I’m pleased with this one, winding up our VUCA series for NEXT Conference: Embrace ambiguity and forge our quantum future.
Feb 14, 2020: Riders on the shore.
Feb 14, 2020: My major lesson this year so far is that the right new coat can do wonders for your self-image. Good night.
Feb 13, 2020: Watching the boats on the Adur rise as high tide approaches.
Feb 13, 2020: Whatever happened to Yahoo’s digital time capsule? Marie Boran asks if everyone has forgotten about Yahoo’s digital time capsule?: This was to be opened on the company’s 25th anniversary on March 2nd, …
Feb 12, 2020: This video might challenge your ideas of what you can do with an iPad: Editing Podcasts with Ferrite and Apple Pencil
Feb 12, 2020: The psychology behind Boris's war on the media Nick Cohen on why Boris Johnson is so suspicious of the media: I suspect there is a strong element of projection at play. It is because Johnson was a …
Feb 12, 2020: This is absolutely one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about most newsletter software. It not just tells you how many people opened your …
Feb 12, 2020: Plain old driftwood.
Feb 11, 2020: The information ecosystem is badly polluted — and journalism is playing its part. We need to clean up our act, and depollute the information …
Feb 11, 2020: Great newsletter from David Mattin on the creation of the technocratic elite. This is shaping up to be an essential weekly read.
Feb 10, 2020: Beach sign
Feb 10, 2020: The (brief) time we decided to share the beach with Storm Ciara yesterday…
Feb 10, 2020: Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety Not a surprise. I nearly joked that it could prove …
Feb 10, 2020: Actually getting out of the house to work – it’s far too rare at the moment.
Feb 10, 2020: 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 …
Feb 10, 2020: 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 …
Feb 9, 2020: Gotta say, it’s a bit breezy out today…
Feb 8, 2020: A letter of recommendation. Great as ever.
Feb 8, 2020: 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.
Feb 7, 2020: Laterns above the Adur
Feb 7, 2020: Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for sale for £100
Feb 6, 2020: 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.
Feb 5, 2020: Gnome Hide
Feb 5, 2020: Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked…
Feb 5, 2020: The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of Apple’s services offerings.
Feb 5, 2020: 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 …
Feb 4, 2020: Reading some embargoed research - and it is basically 😱. Huge shift to the way I think about .
Feb 4, 2020: Spot the children’s beginning reading book.
Feb 4, 2020: Volunteers needed.
Feb 4, 2020: TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.
Feb 4, 2020: 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…
Feb 3, 2020: Reflect.
Feb 3, 2020: Russell Davies always does such creative One Second Everydays: January 2020
Feb 2, 2020: Sight.
Feb 1, 2020: Open.
Jan 31, 2020: I’ve never come across any device that’s better for writing on than an iPad. There might be a big ass Mac behind it, but the wee iPad is perfect for …
Jan 30, 2020: Unsplash’s Year in Review makes for fascinating reading - and the images are stunning.
Jan 29, 2020: Well, this is one way of dealing with it: The Daily Dot, Nahila Bonfiglio: Influencer gets revenge on her male trolls with Instagram account
Jan 27, 2020: On my Om, Om Malik: iPad at 10. An affair forever: ”And after so many years, I can confidently say the machine has made me more productive — and yes, …
Jan 26, 2020: The great unsolved mystery of the last 22 years: we still don’t know what she gonna look like with a chimney on her.
Jan 23, 2020: I don’t tend to procrastinate on difficult tasks. It’s the boring, repetitive ones I put off too long.
Jan 22, 2020: Finally started watching Halt and Catch Fire. I now want to listen to a lot of 80s music. 📺
Jan 21, 2020: Took a riverside walk today. It’s a good reminder that Shoreham-by-Sea is still very much a working port.
Jan 20, 2020: Sunset silhouettes.
Jan 20, 2020: This is rather lovely, too. Classic on the outside, modern on the inside: John Pawson designs his own Home Farm in the Cotswolds
Jan 20, 2020: This is an excellent set of suggestion of how to write a better newsletter.
Jan 20, 2020: Good Lord, this is a lovely house: Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water
Jan 19, 2020: Shell game.
Jan 19, 2020: Lovely hagstone find on the beach just now.
Jan 19, 2020: Hagstones - the sea’s beautiful gift for the mindful.
Jan 18, 2020: 💕
Jan 18, 2020: Flickr’s goals for 2020.
Jan 16, 2020: What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands' videos Sometimes, it almost feels like humanity deserves to …
Jan 16, 2020: I’m not a great one for making too much of New Year, but it is a great marker for doing some analysis. I’ve just been going through the analytics for …
Jan 15, 2020: Brighton, from Shoreham Beach.
Jan 15, 2020: Quite a day, down on the beach… <img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/772/2020/e63078dc2f.jpg" width=“600” height=“400” alt=“Waves on Shoreham …
Jan 13, 2020: My old employer — RBI — has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of making online journalism pay? Get out of the …
Jan 12, 2020: Guess how this ended…
Jan 12, 2020: The house in the woods.
Jan 11, 2020: Oh, Lord. I just tried to swipe to scroll a print magazine. 🤦🏼♂️
Jan 11, 2020: I’m pleased with this for 49p.
Jan 10, 2020: I feel seen: Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again
Jan 10, 2020: What’s the best thing you’ve read online this week?
Jan 9, 2020: Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, claims laid off staffer.
Jan 9, 2020: Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create
Jan 9, 2020: Just occasionally, bad things happen to bad people in an amusing enough manner to give you faith in the goodness of the universe: British Nazi set …
Jan 8, 2020: OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a different person
Jan 8, 2020: Newsletters are a particularly brutal medium. You put in the work, craft something you are proud of - and often the first feedback you get is someone …
Jan 8, 2020: Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
Jan 8, 2020: I’m trying something new - triggered because I couldn’t get this stuff in my usual links digest if it was going to work in an email. But I think …
Jan 8, 2020: Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons
Jan 8, 2020: There’s a slug on the kitchen window this morning. Our kitchen is in the first floor. I can’t decide if this slug is ambitious or has had a lucky …
Jan 7, 2020: Dry January? I’ll drink to that… 🥃
Jan 7, 2020: This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic Cummings’ blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to …
Jan 7, 2020: Why aren't we taking Australia's bushfire apocalypse more seriously? David Wallace-Wells: But the response to what’s transpired in Australia — again, over a period that has stretched into months — is unfamiliar, to me …
Jan 7, 2020: If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, this set of information and links will open your eyes. …
Jan 7, 2020: Oooooh, Matron… Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.
Jan 7, 2020: Good morning waves.
Jan 6, 2020: Journalism's Facebook narrative Dave Winer on journalism’s narrative around Facebook: Saying online is dangerous is like saying the subway is dangerous. But if you live in New York, …
Jan 6, 2020: The scam of pseudo-attention metrics Seth Godin: Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot of people. It won’t. It can’t. The math doesn’t …
Jan 6, 2020: It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this year… is a blog post. Still, beats US politics and one …
Jan 6, 2020: Who broke journalism? Om Malik: ”I would like to add that greedy and short-sighted executives and media company owners broke the industry because they were too lazy, …
Jan 6, 2020: Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) on digital media you’ll enjoy for the year ahead.
Jan 6, 2020: It’s well-known that women are under-represented amongst both Wikipedia editors and biographies, but how about in the citations. Go on, have a guess. …
Jan 5, 2020: I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. I’m using it to try to push myself to spend more time reading long-form, and not just articles on …
Jan 5, 2020: Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about trees. 📚
Jan 5, 2020: Found on the beach this morning. Someone’s feeling patriotic, clearly.
Jan 5, 2020: Bridge.
Jan 4, 2020: Sunset on the Adur.
Jan 4, 2020: Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
Jan 4, 2020: I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very calming.
Jan 3, 2020: Wow. The memory cheats sometimes. I tend to think of my early years in editorial development as largely positive, but back in 2008 I was clearly …
Jan 3, 2020: My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in… …2 days before they go back to school. 🙄
Jan 2, 2020: I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.
Jan 1, 2020: Is it me, or is Gruber a bit pissed (in the British sense) in the latest Talk Show? 🥴
Jan 1, 2020: My December in one second every day.
Jan 1, 2020: Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020
Jan 1, 2020: Happy New Year, you. Yes, you.
Dec 31, 2019: The year is done — so it’s time from my annual round-up of One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of 2019. And there are some genuine surprises in there.
Dec 31, 2019: I have reached the point in coffee fussiness where, after being disappointed with a coffee when brewed with Aeropress, I switched to a different brew …
Dec 31, 2019: The people’s web could be so much more interesting than the big F Anil Dash on the people’s web: If we’re going to build a new web, and a new internet, that respects our privacy and security, that doesn’t amplify …
Dec 31, 2019: Quite a sunset yesterday.
Dec 30, 2019: Interesting thoughts on flow in blogging apps (the same applies to all CMSes, I think): Scripting News: Flow in WordPress for writers
Dec 30, 2019: If you still believe that there’s a discernible formula to a successful podcast: Text adventures make Best Podcasts list
Dec 30, 2019: Germany Has Created Dedicated Work Visas For Esports. (I’m fascinated by how few countries are taking this seriously given how much money is …
Dec 30, 2019: Somebody’s turned down the contrast on Sussex.
Dec 29, 2019: Plenty of drama in the sky off Shoreham Beach today.
Dec 29, 2019: Are we sleepwalking into a dystopia? The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act? by John Naughton
Dec 26, 2019: Headline of the day: Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono
Dec 26, 2019: Perfect weather for trying out my Christmas coat…
Dec 25, 2019: Practice ‘scruffy hospitality’ : Your home doesn’t need to be picture-perfect to invite people over.
Dec 25, 2019: Merry Christmas from one man (and his blog).
Dec 24, 2019: Just an intimate dinner for a few chums, wot.
Dec 24, 2019: A very Victorian Christmas at Tyntsfield.
Dec 23, 2019: Why we need to feel the photos
Dec 21, 2019: I think this bauble crop is nearly ready for harvesting.
Dec 20, 2019: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better at instagram - and the power of visual journalism. All …
Dec 19, 2019: Oooh, my sister-in-law is in Vouge.
Dec 19, 2019: Heh. One unforeseen side-effect of having a newsletter - you get to see who is already on their Christmas break by their out-of-office updates…
Dec 17, 2019: As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre initially, creating a final submission that is …
Dec 16, 2019: Newsletters are beginning to over-whelm my in-box. Time to try out Feedbin’s ability to aggregate them in my RSS reader, I think.
Dec 16, 2019: This is a really interesting view from inside the BBC: GE19 - from the presenter’s chair.
Dec 15, 2019: I found my parents’ old tree angel, so she’s back in service after a decade off.
Dec 14, 2019: This is a useful read: What does the future hold for progressive politics after the Conservative victory?
Dec 13, 2019: Andrew Sullivan’s profile of the newly-elected PM from last week is worth revisiting in light of today’s news: The Blundering Brilliance of Prime …
Dec 13, 2019: Great analysis from the FT data team: last night, Labour lost the working class.
Dec 13, 2019: Three questions about the UK’s journalism and social media landscape after the General Election result.
Dec 13, 2019: I think this is an interesting read. To hold the seats they took this election, the Tories will have to operate in a very different way: Boris …
Dec 13, 2019: God, there are times when I hate being right. This really is one of them. Everyone blames algorithms for creating filter bubbles - but people are way …
Dec 12, 2019: Tonight I will be staying up for the exit poll and no longer. I want to face whatever tomorrow brings with a full night’s sleep behind me.
Dec 12, 2019: Hard to disagree with this. If only he’d been on the ballot…
Dec 12, 2019: Toxic It says something about the toxic state of British politics that I recorded a podcast about my voting thoughts and decided not to publish it. Why? My …
Dec 12, 2019: I have a nasty feeling that in 20 years’ time, our children will be asking why we wasted so much time, energy and passion on something like Brexit …
Dec 11, 2019: Here’s an inspiring fella: The beach clean-up crusader
Dec 11, 2019: A round-up of some of the big misinformation stories surrounding the general election.
Dec 11, 2019: Lovely morning down by the Adur.
Dec 9, 2019: Worrying side-effect of the internet ban there: people’s social media accounts are dropping to inactive status, with consequences for connections: As …
Dec 8, 2019: Winter beach.
Dec 8, 2019: Paint the whole world with a 🌈
Dec 8, 2019: Beach walk.
Dec 7, 2019: My November in one second everyday.
Dec 6, 2019: Making the most of a blustery day on the beach.
Dec 5, 2019: Making nature routine.
Dec 5, 2019: My daughter won the school limerick competition. I’m trying not to literally explode with pride - but it’s touch-and-go.
Dec 5, 2019: Revolution Games, David Vaughan-Jackson: Beyond a Steel Sky – Release Update Always disappointing when a game I’m looking forward to is delayed - but …
Dec 5, 2019: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest is all about the memes - but not in a fun way. (Bonus Baby Yoda content, tho’)
Dec 5, 2019: A pretty brutal examination of cancel culture, the psychological motivators, and its inherently polarising nature. And it’s from Psychology Today.
Dec 5, 2019: Chilling tale of how an ordinary teenager can be progressively radicalised by… memes. And people wonder why I devote an entire lecture to mimetic …
Dec 4, 2019: Compelling — and troubling — dive into the weaponisation of memes.
Dec 4, 2019: After school beach trips - not just for the summer!
Dec 4, 2019: Yesterday, the Reuters Institute published some research into podcasting and journalism. Here’s my thoughts on it: News podcasts: profitable and …
Dec 2, 2019: Frost hit last night. I think autumn is done and winter is here. ❄️
Dec 1, 2019: Festive holly.
Dec 1, 2019: My Podcast playlist for Sundays has the best episode names.
Nov 30, 2019: Finally, the coveted micro.blog 30 day pin is mine.
Nov 30, 2019: There’s nothing better than a nice, fussy way of making your coffee…
Nov 30, 2019: Satisfaction is Always Available
Nov 30, 2019: Shoreham’s looking festive tonight.
Nov 29, 2019: I back the Contract for the Web because the vast potential of it for humanity is being undermined by corporate greed and irresponsibility, political …
Nov 28, 2019: Abstaining From Social Media Doesn’t Improve Well-Being, Experimental Study Finds - a relief for those of us who have to use it professionally.
Nov 28, 2019: Spam of the Beast
Nov 27, 2019: Now, that was a tiring couple of days.
Nov 27, 2019: Canary Wharf was starting to look festive earlier.
Nov 25, 2019: The mere existence of deepfakes is eroding our sense of shared reality - even if we’ve never encountered one in the wild.
Nov 25, 2019: The need for deliberative digital spaces Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020 - Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian: Facebook, Twitter and Google are designed to motivate …
Nov 25, 2019: (Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the audience engagement mines.
Nov 25, 2019: Fascinating interview with a Mastadon founder. A little glimpse of how the internet could have been if the social platforms had stuck to open web …
Nov 25, 2019: There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on procrastination mode is not one of them.
Nov 24, 2019: Autumn mist.
Nov 23, 2019: Lovely Autumn day in Shoreham-by-Sea - between the rain, at least.
Nov 22, 2019: Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under” 🤯
Nov 22, 2019: Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts.
Nov 22, 2019: A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.
Nov 22, 2019: Wow. Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert. I am happy to say I appear to have lost weight since then… (This was all …
Nov 22, 2019: This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is huge - and might well be part of a Chinese propaganda …
Nov 21, 2019: opens Twitter reads for 2 minutes goes to bed despairing of humanity 🛌💤
Nov 21, 2019: It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody convinced that this is the most important post on my blog in ages - …
Nov 21, 2019: Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I made the right choice to use Ghost for OM&HBg. It make …
Nov 21, 2019: This may be the most perfect Star Wars image ever.
Nov 20, 2019: Do you want Hulks, universe? Because this is how you get Hulks: Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded Are Illuminating the Universe’s Most Powerful …
Nov 19, 2019: Honestly, the British retro gaming scene appears to be one big old cesspool.
Nov 19, 2019: New iOS and iPadOS bug fix update hit last night, if you missed it: MacUser, Jason Cross: Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2.3 with fixes for system …
Nov 18, 2019: Fingers crossed that I am on the final stage of a difficult evening, and will be home for a whisky and bed within the hour. Literally my entire …
Nov 17, 2019: Memex 1.1, John Naughton: Foresight, ignored — the founders of Google foresaw the possiblity of surveillance capitalism - but went ahead anyway.
Nov 16, 2019: I was initially excited when I found this site for Sussex bloggers, because it felt very like the sort of thing we did in the early 2000s. And then I …
Nov 15, 2019: Computational photography raises some serious questions about the nature of reality, and how we represent it.
Nov 15, 2019: Phones and Tablets are killing the PC Steve Jobs Was Right: Smartphones and Tablets Killed the P.C.: Apple’s latest iPads are different. Not only can you get work done on them; in many …
Nov 14, 2019: What’s the go-to iOS Mastadon client these days?
Nov 13, 2019: Some links that are worth your time - from the psychology of social media outrage, to a celebration of RSS…
Nov 13, 2019: My top artists on Apple Music in 2019. I’m not a raging brony. It’s my daughters. Honest.
Nov 13, 2019: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 16” MacBook Pro - and they appear to have fixed the keyboard - by reverting to an older approach.
Nov 13, 2019: An interesting read for those interested in the psychology of social media: BPS Research Digest: The Paradox Of Viral Outrage: Public Shaming Inspires …
Nov 12, 2019: I’ll be very sad if this proves to be true. I started becoming serious about photography once I had a Trip 35 as a schoolboy: Rumor Claims Olympus …
Nov 12, 2019: For those of you on devices that support it, and are in the right time zone, One Man & His Blog now supports dark mode…
Nov 12, 2019: Yo dawg we heard you like Moodle so we put some Moodle in your Moodle so you can Moodle while you Moodle.
Nov 12, 2019: How to fix your Twitter timeline using this one clever trick…
Nov 12, 2019: This is kind of awesome: turning old VHS cassettes into clothes…
Nov 11, 2019: I’ve been fiddling around with my Ghost templates, and now fixed it so that comments only show on members-only and subscribers-only posts once you are …
Nov 11, 2019: This is a wonderful read from a couple of years ago: What Richard Dawkins could learn from Goldilocks and the Three Bears As relevant as ever, I’d …
Nov 10, 2019: Beautiful Remembrance service at Church of the Good Shepherd this morning. The two minutes’ silence with the waves crashing on the beach is always …
Nov 10, 2019: Naked trees.
Nov 9, 2019: Funghi at Woods Mill.
Nov 9, 2019: Today at Woods Mill. The dirty secret? This was four adults…
Nov 8, 2019: Adur sunset
Nov 7, 2019: Before and after.
Nov 6, 2019: Well, that was possibly the lowest key birthday I’ve had in my 40-something years on the planet. Not a bad thing - the family celebration of it has …
Nov 6, 2019: If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it poses: Coffee Transaction Guide ☕️
Nov 6, 2019: Nice piece from the BBC breaking down how a fact became misinformation through omitted context, and how it then spread: How a misleading story about …
Nov 5, 2019: Imagination Unbound (video) This is an interesting watch, and visually inspiring in its own right:
Nov 5, 2019: I did not know this: Why Saying “Namaste” is Culturally Insensitive and NOT Just a Yoga Term.
Nov 5, 2019: Mean Yes, I know that this was yesterday’s prompt, but I didn’t get to it (even though I posted other things) and I did have something I wanted to say: One …
Nov 5, 2019: OK, the app became garbage, but I do miss having something called iTunes on my Mac. It was such an iconic piece of software in its time.
Nov 4, 2019: Possibly the least surprising thing Dave could write about JsonFeed. And the fact I remember the Atom kerfuffle is making me feel very old…
Nov 4, 2019: Nothing suspicious about this at all. Nope: No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after election
Nov 4, 2019: Well, hello Photoshop on iPad.
Nov 3, 2019: “Media style” 🤔
Nov 3, 2019: Lordy. Pac-Man Gets An Official Theme Song for 40th Anniversary It’s called - wait for it - Join The Pac.
Nov 3, 2019: Such a beautiful crisp, autumn morning, with a lovely “after the storm” feel.
Nov 3, 2019: Beautifully peaceful with plenty of birdsong at the station this morning.
Nov 2, 2019: Spending the day liveblogging Open Data Camp 7 in London.
Nov 2, 2019: Stickered up for the day.
Nov 2, 2019: Early start to London. Not what you’d call busy at the station.
Nov 1, 2019: Pretty much her idea of heaven.
Oct 31, 2019: Four witches, a cat and a vampire just left my house, to demand sweets with menaces. 🎃
Oct 31, 2019: Happy Halloween!
Oct 31, 2019: The digital is inescapably political. It’s time to accept that.
Oct 30, 2019: Breakfast of champions
Oct 29, 2019: OMG. Otter emoji. 🦦
Oct 29, 2019: Hello flamingo! 🦩 (New emoji in iOS 13.2)
Oct 29, 2019: Lovely sight to start the morning.
Oct 28, 2019: Weird. My big iPad Pro took much, much longer than any other device to update to 13.2.
Oct 28, 2019: Oh, hello. iOS 13.2 is here. Time to update ALL THE THINGS again. (Including HomePods and AppleTV.)
Oct 27, 2019: Still a few traces of summer in an autumnal morning.
Oct 26, 2019: Through the library window.
Oct 26, 2019: Gotta say, my old school friend the artist is pretty fancy these days…
Oct 25, 2019: Nice to have company for my daughters’ martial arts class.
Oct 22, 2019: Ghost 3.0 has just launched - and it’s got built in tools for building a membership site for news. This makes subscription businesses way more …
Oct 21, 2019: I apologise to the affront to your ears, but I’m on a podcast: [Micro Monday - 70: Adam Tinworth aka …
Oct 21, 2019: Well, now, what say you people of micro.blog? Scott asked: Although, does anyone use feed readers anymore?!?!
Oct 21, 2019: This is an engrosssing podcast about the early days of raptor reintroduction in Scotland. We’ve come a long way in 40 years - but astonishing to hear …
Oct 21, 2019: Crikey. I wrote this 11 years ago - and it’s still as relevant now: “Interesting” is the basis of blogging
Oct 21, 2019: Not only is 8chan struggling to get back online — its co-founder is actively working to keep it that way. Fascinating.
Oct 21, 2019: Either this gentleman doesn’t understand One Man & His Blog’s audience - or I don’t…
Oct 20, 2019: Autumn mist Distinctly misty and autumnal at Lancing College this morning.
Oct 18, 2019: I think it’s fair to say that today’s weather has been changeable…
Oct 18, 2019: Inktober is one of my favourite “internet challenges”. It fills my feeds with such interesting and varied images.
Oct 18, 2019: This is the sort of thing that happened more often in the pre-platform days of the internet: A Free Font Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Handwriting Nice …
Oct 18, 2019: Biorecycling plastics with enzymes Carbios' new factory will use enzymes to biorecycle plastic: In a matter of hours, the enzymes decompose the plastic into the material’s basic …
Oct 18, 2019: Oh, this is so cool: Grad student defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection letters
Oct 18, 2019: These are absolutely stunning. Well worth checking out: John James Audubon’s Birds of America
Oct 18, 2019: The reason to study Latin Report: Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life:: “According to our data, children who studied Latin in grade …
Oct 17, 2019: Take some time to listen to Birdsong Radio today - and consider how much poorer we’ll all be if we lose it. #LetNatureSing
Oct 16, 2019: I know it’s fashionable to diss HomePods, but they are hugely popular in the Tinworth household.
Oct 16, 2019: Oh, good work to whomever wrote that headline: Government scraps online ‘porn block’ plans after law hits kinks 👏
Oct 16, 2019: Yahoo Groups is shutting down. Wow. The history of a lot of great early online communities is about to be erased from the web.
Oct 15, 2019: Marvel Shocker: Kevin Feige Takes Over Comics as New Chief Creative Officer. Wow. The movies guy is now in charge of the whole operation - including …
Oct 15, 2019: Oh, look. Yet another round of iOS updates.
Oct 15, 2019: RIP Meetup. $2 per RSVP will kill the platform stone dead.
Oct 15, 2019: Good Lord, I suspect that this is only going to increase the determination of the rebels: Police ban Extinction Rebellion protests from whole of …
Oct 15, 2019: New GoPro day…
Oct 15, 2019: This was a fantastic session by Eliza Filby from NEXT conference last month, looking at the characteristics of the generations, and how we should …
Oct 15, 2019: One positive thing about Catalina: I can open the Music app without it bringing my Mac to its knees. That wasn’t the case with iTunes.
Oct 15, 2019: Not something I’d considered before - but accurate: The Delicate Nature of Comparing Smartphone Cameras and a Dash of False Equivalence
Oct 14, 2019: Fascinating bit of tech nostalgia: This is How Film Cameras Added Dates to Your Photos:
Oct 13, 2019: Now, that’s a sunset.
Oct 13, 2019: Why blogging still matters, even after 25 years:: “The furore over social media and its impact on democracy has obscured the fact that the …
Oct 12, 2019: O RLY?
Oct 12, 2019: “Oh, God, don’t upgrade to Catalaina if you want to keep using our software” has been a recurring motif in my inbox for the last week.
Oct 11, 2019: A round-up of some of the research: Social media and depression
Oct 11, 2019: YouTubers: more influential than newspapers What Does PewDiePie Really Believe? A few weeks after the Poway shooting, Kjellberg’s publicist called me. Kjellberg hadn’t given an interview in …
Oct 11, 2019: Finally caught up: August in one second everyday.
Oct 11, 2019: I think, after seven years, I might finally be getting the hang of Moodle.
Oct 11, 2019: Today's link to make you snort coffee out of your nose Crazy Apple Rumors Site, John Moltz: Apple Revokes Panic Developer License: Gesturing to a video of Untitled Goose Game gameplay, Cheung explained: …
Oct 11, 2019: Facebook builds the wall Manton Reece: Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting/ Facebook is walling its properties ever further off from the rest of the web. They are the …
Oct 11, 2019: The new Catalyst-based Twitter for Mac is out.
Oct 10, 2019: Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina. Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop because the hard drive is throwing SMART errors. …
Oct 9, 2019: Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one: “Regardless, the newly minted Bin will always be known as Trash …
Oct 9, 2019: What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.
Oct 8, 2019: Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the guilty party. It ate over ⅓ of the battery on my …
Oct 8, 2019: Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go. And remember: Ceiling Cat is watching you.
Oct 8, 2019: Someone set us up the bomb.
Oct 7, 2019: After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the beach not very far away. Bliss.
Oct 7, 2019: Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?
Oct 6, 2019: Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?
Oct 5, 2019: Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this photo.
Oct 4, 2019: Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.
Oct 4, 2019: Here we go again: Amazon Prime Video disappears from iOS App Store and Apple TV
Oct 4, 2019: Who knew that The Wurzels covered Pulp’s Common People?
Oct 4, 2019: Oh, my…
Oct 4, 2019: Ah, the 70s.
Oct 4, 2019: Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.
Oct 4, 2019: Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted. Musk’s a bit of an arse, isn’t he?
Oct 4, 2019: Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work: Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App Extension
Oct 4, 2019: This is a sobering watch. The plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you.
Oct 4, 2019: “What’s the angle we should take on this Facebook story?” “I know! Agism!” 🙄 You Are Probably Too Old for Instagram’s New Threads App
Oct 3, 2019: Last month in one second per day.
Oct 3, 2019: Hey, there’s an IndieWebCamp in Brighton later in the month. Need to see if I can arrange to go, if my wife can have the girls.
Oct 3, 2019: This morning’s fun game: where has my wife hidden my aeropress?
Oct 2, 2019: Interesting academic analysis of the bizarre, disproportionate response some men have to her: Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe …
Oct 2, 2019: I am surprised by how quiet this university is at 9am compared to later in the day. I shouldn’t be. But I am.
Oct 1, 2019: Well, I’m very tempted by this: Gizmodo, Andrew Couts: GoPro’s Hero8 Black Is Boring—and That’s What Makes It Great
Oct 1, 2019: Not often I look back on conference food with affection - but the NEXT conference lunch bowls were epic:
Sep 30, 2019: Seriously high tides here yesterday. How much higher will they go today?
Sep 29, 2019: A tense moment at fairy hospital: will Vidia fly again?
Sep 29, 2019: Super high tide again today.
Sep 29, 2019: I think this is my favourite of the new watch faces in WatchOS 6.
Sep 28, 2019: Portrait mode on the iPhone X: still a winner.
Sep 27, 2019: Back to the 80s Very much today’s mood:
Sep 26, 2019: Protecting yourself from social media jealousy Julia Buckley: Most of the advice I’ve seen on the issue of comparisons has been around the fact that social media can present an unrealistic image …
Sep 26, 2019: Om Malik: Headline hyperbole & article without info
Sep 26, 2019: Happy news for me and the other blog platform I routinely use: iPadOS and Ghost
Sep 26, 2019: Early days yet - but iPadOS 13.1 may well have ensured that my MacBook Pro doesn’t get replaced. I think I’m an iPad Pro man here on out.
Sep 26, 2019: My perfect travel companion Oh, Lordy. I need this: Luckily my birthday is coming up soon… [via Boing Boing]
Sep 26, 2019: A week ago, I saw a badger on my way to the airport. Thinking about it is still making me happy.
Sep 24, 2019: Yes, iOS13.1 is out (including iPadOS). Go get it, brave folks…
Sep 24, 2019: Deep breath…
Sep 23, 2019: A little editing on the sofa, using LumaFusion and my iPad Pro. Soooo nice.
Sep 23, 2019: This is one of the features of iOS13 I’m really looking forwards to having. But I’m still waiting for iOS13.1… Six Colors, Dan Moren: 13 Features of …
Sep 23, 2019: This is utterly glorious film photography geekery: New Website Sets the Record Straight: There is No Such Thing as 120mm Film
Sep 23, 2019: Saving this to read later.
Sep 23, 2019: Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza: Disney almost bought Twitter but backed off because “the nastiness is extraordinary” 🤷🏼♂️
Sep 21, 2019: My spirit animal is Benton Fraser from Due South. Thank you kindly.
Sep 21, 2019: Normal for Next. :-)
Sep 21, 2019: Okay.
Sep 21, 2019: I often think that the most dangerous phrase in the English language is “it’s simple”.
Sep 20, 2019: Current status: 🍷 🛋 🇩🇪
Sep 20, 2019: Today’s workspace at #next19
Sep 20, 2019: This end of Reeperbahn is a bit whiffy at 8am.
Sep 19, 2019: Feeling very much like waiting for iOS13.1 next week, rather than risking my phone on iOS13 right in the middle of a working overseas trip.
Sep 19, 2019: Current status:
Sep 19, 2019: The first 20 minutes of #NEXT19 in 20 seconds
Sep 19, 2019: What’s outside our universe? A thought-provoking talk to kick off #NEXT19
Sep 15, 2019: Lovely sunny day today - but Wednesday was a different story.
Sep 14, 2019: Such a fungi to spend the morning with. 🍄
Sep 14, 2019: Fabulous day for Nature Tots.
Sep 13, 2019: Fascinating. I didn’t realise Pinterest did monthly updates on trends across the platform.
Sep 13, 2019: What you need to know about yesterday’s Google algorithm news (if you’re a journalist).
Sep 12, 2019: I think that was the first newsletter to my paying members I was really, really happy with. Now to keep repeating that.
Sep 12, 2019: Nature: How social networks can be used to bias votes This is rapidly becoming an existential issue for our democracies. If you’re serious about …
Sep 12, 2019: This is quite a big point too many journalists miss: Media Literacy will not create trust in journalism It just tends to reinforce those who already …
Sep 10, 2019: The only thing from that keynote I’m 100% getting: Apple Arcade. Might get a new watch… strap. Might get the iPhone 11 Pro, but will hang on to my …
Sep 10, 2019: That trade-in price for my iPhone X makes that tempting.
Sep 10, 2019: Wasn’t expecting the always on Apple Watch. Nice upgrade.
Sep 10, 2019: I have two very excited little girls who have just seen the Apple Arcade trailer. Good price for the whole family. We’ll be signing up.
Sep 10, 2019: Here’s one great reason to love the DJi Osmo Mobile 3 if you’re involved in social video production:
Sep 10, 2019: Scrummy blue skies today.
Sep 10, 2019: Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.
Sep 9, 2019: Treating myself to a nice aeropress coffee after my wet and windy walk. ☕️
Sep 9, 2019: Oops.
Sep 9, 2019: Jane Manchum Wong ”It appears to me that Medium wants to double as a Reader app in an experiment. This unreleased feature is called “Save to Medium”, …
Sep 9, 2019: Having the sort of day where I write what I thought were two thoughtful and useful posts, and the world just shrugs its shoulders at me. It’s the …
Sep 9, 2019: Politicians love presenting us with apparently simple solutions to complex problems. It’s where the votes are. But journalists need to stop aiding and …
Sep 9, 2019: Does journalism have an understanding problem? (tl;dr - yes!)
Sep 9, 2019: Since the end of my days as RBI’s head of blogging, I don’t really get much change to spend time fiddling around with the technical stuff at the back …
Sep 8, 2019: Trying something new: Walking With Daddy
Sep 8, 2019: A year or so back I won an XBox One S. What games would you recommend for me, as a very lapsed gamer? What are the real classics on the platform?
Sep 7, 2019: Some stunning flowers at Nymans today.
Sep 7, 2019: I made this!
Sep 7, 2019: Messy drinker.
Sep 6, 2019: In a Pub in Fowey Eating dinner by the sea - how very civilised. In a Pub in Fowey
Sep 6, 2019: Not what it looks like
Sep 6, 2019: “If it bleeds, it leads" as a central organising principle for news reporting might be one of our biggest problems as an industry. BPS Research …
Sep 5, 2019: “Of course you can wear whatever you want to my wedding, sister”. And she did.
Sep 5, 2019: I have no idea what to make of this: Tinworth Iced Tea
Sep 5, 2019: Six Colors, Jason Snell: The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that. Agreed. I would love to have seen the Kindle evolve into a more …
Sep 4, 2019: A walk through the blogging graveyard Moving from Feedly to @NetNewsWire via Feedbin has been largely a positive experience. The one oddity, though, has been the sudden reanimation of a …
Sep 4, 2019: This looks spectacularly lovely - but is waaaaay out of my price range: Bang 8 Olufsen unveils premium AirPlay 2 and Chromecast soundbar ahead of IFA
Sep 4, 2019: The traditional camera bloodbath is here, it appears. On my Om, Om Malik: PhotoRealism
Sep 4, 2019: Wow. Fell behind on these. Here’s July - over a months ago - in 1 Second Everyday.
Sep 4, 2019: Look at this. A blog post with actual comments. That takes me back…
Sep 4, 2019: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest - chat apps in protests, how the internet is changing our language and influencer reverse psychology.
Sep 4, 2019: This is why I carry on blogging.
Sep 4, 2019: Understatement of the day: ”It’s almost seven years, now, since David Cameron decided that an EU referendum would reunite the Conservative party. I …
Sep 3, 2019: Interesting, but not transformative. It’ll help with the mental heath issues around social media. Be interesting to see what the lack of social proof …
Sep 3, 2019: Unintended consequence of the day: Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand
Sep 3, 2019: My lunch meeting has arrived.
Sep 3, 2019: Working in the M&S Café while my wife and daughter do some final school shopping. I am getting the evil eye from pensioners, whose regular spot I have …
Sep 3, 2019: The slow erosion of the democratic norm Rachel Sylvester makes an important point in The Times: Democracy is about persuasion rather than obliteration and there are rules underpinning …
Sep 2, 2019: It’s been a long time since these two shared a spot in my dock together.
Sep 2, 2019: Spending a lot of time in spreadsheets today. Not something that happens a lot in my work, but weirdly satisfying when it does.
Aug 31, 2019: Don’t look now folks, but I think autumn might be here…
Aug 30, 2019: A nice reminder that blogging was always a complicated and often unpleasant community. Shakesville’s unravelling and the not-so-golden age of blogging …
Aug 30, 2019: Does anyone else use FeedBin? Considering trialing a switch from Feedly - but would like some informed experience before I make the jump.
Aug 29, 2019: This is a fascinating theory (based on a source) on why Apple’s sudden change in beta releases happened: iOS 13’s beta split is down to Trump’s …
Aug 28, 2019: Prorogue — or prorogation?
Aug 28, 2019: Well the good news is that a lot of people have a much deeper understanding of how our parliamentary democracy functions than they did yesterday.
Aug 26, 2019: Serfing USA Jeremiah Owyang : Chances are, you’re probably a serf.: To modernize the last word of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin’s famed quote; “In antiquity, …
Aug 26, 2019: I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think? Feedback gratefully received.
Aug 26, 2019: This is a massive dose of nostalgia - I was on a lot of these networks. But, thankfully, not all: Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
Aug 26, 2019: This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.
Aug 26, 2019: The art of pseudo-science in politics This sums up how many articles and books cloak nonsense claims in a thin skin of scientific respectability: Inconvenient Facts claims, over and over, …
Aug 26, 2019: A wee update on life, work and blog. Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid burning out again.
Aug 24, 2019: Shades weather, innit.
Aug 22, 2019: A day when I find a new pretentious coffee shop is always a good day.
Aug 19, 2019: So, the reason for my silence here over the last couple of weeks was that I was holidaying in a nearly bandwidth-free place. And it was lovely. Just …
Aug 18, 2019: A fruitful garden
Aug 18, 2019: Possibly the most manly thing I’ve done all year…
Aug 18, 2019: Garden harvest.
Aug 17, 2019: Back from holiday to a dull, rainy Sussex. Ho-hum.
Aug 11, 2019: A Circle of Words: emails to blogs to newsletters
Aug 6, 2019: Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
Aug 6, 2019: Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her boyfriend ‘hates’ on Instagram
Aug 4, 2019: It’s just been that kind of a day.
Aug 1, 2019: Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the selfies…)
Jul 31, 2019: Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…
Jul 29, 2019: The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.
Jul 28, 2019: The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare. Sweet dreams. :-)
Jul 28, 2019: Bit blowy today.
Jul 27, 2019: I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.
Jul 27, 2019: I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with utterly different cultures, and I can’t see Vice adapting its culture to …
Jul 27, 2019: Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power two Scotlands
Jul 27, 2019: Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the social web.
Jul 27, 2019: The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news operations, and grab the URLs. This could impact the …
Jul 27, 2019: Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a blog post this morning.
Jul 27, 2019: Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a zombie-like shell - and a gap for places where young …
Jul 26, 2019: This one still works.
Jul 26, 2019: Found some ancient history…
Jul 26, 2019: Nothing is more stupid for a country than not educating its children On recent British politics: ”For sensible people, it raised the question: what kind of society doesn’t fund its school? What kind of country wants …
Jul 26, 2019: This is a worthwhile project: Preserve & digitize 30,000 historic New Orleans newspapers 28% funded - and 10 days to go. Can we get some journalists …
Jul 25, 2019: There is a particular danger zone for bad sleep decisions. And I am right in it now. 💤
Jul 24, 2019: Sea kitty.
Jul 23, 2019: Beautiful sunny day in Shoreham by Sea.
Jul 23, 2019: Today’s status:
Jul 23, 2019: Flipping ‘eck. I can’t wait to use this. Pixelmator Pro update integrates its entire app inside Apple Photos as a Photos extension
Jul 22, 2019: If you use the Speedtest app on your iPhone, press and hold on the Go button. After a while… …something happens.
Jul 22, 2019: Fading into twilight
Jul 22, 2019: I see it’s “update all the Apple devices” night.
Jul 22, 2019: One thing I’ve learnt about myself in recent years is that things like Apple Watch straps and GoPro sleeves (like this one) make me disproportionately …
Jul 22, 2019: Social media fatigue — and its rememdy This is from a post by a former colleague. It resonates deeply with me: I’m so freaking tired of social media. Everything is terrible and I feel like …
Jul 22, 2019: The screen time "problem" We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?: However, in a world witnessing ecological destruction, political …
Jul 22, 2019: The underlying price of digital-only friendship To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome: This withering of primate familiarity in the face of technology prompts us to mistake an acquaintance …
Jul 22, 2019: Remembering the weird internet that was A couple of great quotes from a piece by Owen Williams on Medium (shudder): But when we lose the weird internet, we don’t just lose a space where …
Jul 22, 2019: I think this photo pretty much sums up my life.
Jul 22, 2019: Practicing the art of productive procrastination, by tidying up my Ulysses app.
Jul 21, 2019: One of the better spur-of-the-moment decisions I’ve made in recent years was the creation of a Sunday Sunday playlist of podcasts. It’s all …
Jul 20, 2019: In other news, today I met a ferret.
Jul 20, 2019: Today has been rather posher than normal…
Jul 20, 2019: We be rollin’, they be hatin’
Jul 19, 2019: My eldest on holiday last year.
Jul 18, 2019: The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded tech from the big companies in “smart” devices.
Jul 17, 2019: This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos: Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing …
Jul 16, 2019: Random discoveries via navigation apps Lovely, random experience this evening. Apple Maps brought me an unexpected route home, showing me a bunch of villages and towns a short drive from …
Jul 16, 2019: I think my authorised app connections to Flickr need some updating… (iPhoto 2??)
Jul 16, 2019: I’m with Om on this. I’ve replaced our Alexa device with a HomePod as I’m no longer willing to give Google or Amazon audio access to our home: Hello …
Jul 15, 2019: Well now. I did a vlog from Scotland. Vlogging is really not my thing. What do you think?
Jul 14, 2019: ln defence of selfies - an interesting take on the social context of photography and sharing.
Jul 14, 2019: More catching up - February in 1 second everyday
Jul 12, 2019: The Decline of Historical Perspective - Neil hits the nail on the head here. And yes, it’s worrying.
Jul 12, 2019: Catching up - this is January in 1 Second Everyday.
Jul 11, 2019: New Microsoft Store at Oxford Circus Microsoft opening a new store right on Oxford Circus in London today. Nice clean lines - but it feels terribly generic.
Jul 11, 2019: I do love the feel of the new “grove” style Apple Stores.
Jul 10, 2019: Listening to Andy’s 20 year journey at the Flock event in Shoreham-by-Sea.
Jul 10, 2019: My June in 1 second everyday.
Jul 10, 2019: Settled up my second payment on account with the taxman. Slowly, but surely, breaking the habit of doing everything at the last minute.
Jul 10, 2019: Why innovation fails.
Jul 9, 2019: Catching up with the MacBook news. Prices finally getting down to where they need to be, but a new keyboard would be the icing on the cake. However, …
Jul 9, 2019: Trapped in the attention farm Dave Winer: Ever notice that mostly what people post on Twitter is designed to get attention for the author. I think that’s due to the award …
Jul 8, 2019: After a productive day in front of a screen (or three), I have just treated myself to 40 minutes with a real, paper hardback — Tom Cox’s 21st Century …
Jul 8, 2019: This is a compelling account of life in a (failing) digital content startup: The Rise and Fall of Babe.Net and The Aziz Ansari Story The end is …
Jul 8, 2019: ‘We’re anti-influencer’: ice-cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay double 🤣
Jul 8, 2019: So, when everybody’s in-boxes are cluttered with newsletters in about 18 months' time - will we see the grand blog and RSS revival, as history cycles …
Jul 8, 2019: Oh, DJI. I’m not sure encouraging non-consensual voyerism is the right way to sell your products…
Jul 8, 2019: Breaking: social media verification processes still suck.
Jul 8, 2019: How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement.
Jul 8, 2019: Your data is the fuel for parties you're not invited to The Global Economy Runs on Parties You’re Not Invited To: As went the ad business, so will go the rest of the economy: The robots may take over — but …
Jul 6, 2019: Teaching 4 year olds to use saws. 👌🏻
Jul 5, 2019: I find this troubling. We can no longer rely on Google being a gateway to the older parts of the web. How to Find Old Websites That Google Won’t Show
Jul 5, 2019: Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake…
Jul 5, 2019: Yesterday’s view…
Jul 4, 2019: Pride-ful.
Jul 4, 2019: Many PostIts died to bring us this strategy…
Jul 4, 2019: The philistines in this hotel have turned the coffee machine off for the night. HOW VERY DARE THEY.
Jul 4, 2019: It’s all glamour in the consultancy business, I can tell you…
Jul 1, 2019: Looking lovely in the evening sun… 🌻
Jun 29, 2019: Getting a bit dry round here…
Jun 28, 2019: Tide’s out…
Jun 28, 2019: This will probably get me into trouble, but I’m quite excited by Jony Ive leaving Apple. He’d clearly run out of things to say about computer design, …
Jun 27, 2019: Blimey. Ive leaving Apple to form his own firm - but Apple will be one of his first clients.
Jun 23, 2019: This really was not the plan for this afternoon.
Jun 22, 2019: The street where I grew up.
Jun 22, 2019: Hello, Edinburgh.
Jun 22, 2019: I have a suspicion that a child may have used this seat before me…
Jun 20, 2019: I have got to bring my tab habit under control. There’s no point opening all these damn things, unless I’m going to sit and read them.
Jun 20, 2019: The New Wilderness No two companies have done more to drag private life into the algorithmic eye than Google and Facebook. Together, they operate the world’s most …
Jun 20, 2019: Finished drafting tomorrow’s newsletter for my paying subscribers. Feeling good about it (although slightly guilty that this is not going on the open …
Jun 20, 2019: Morning office:
Jun 19, 2019: Is messenger app interoperability feasible without destroying encryption?
Jun 17, 2019: Warning for highly polarising politics… I poked into why #notjewish was trending on Twitter, and why an account I had no awareness of had blocked me - …
Jun 17, 2019: Interesting discovery while booking a trip: it’s no longer safe to assume budget hotel chains are substantially cheaper than more upmarket offerings.
Jun 17, 2019: Online community dynamics change as the membership grows. In particular, most networks require increasing attention-seeking behaviour in order to get …
Jun 16, 2019: Busted the macro lens out, too…
Jun 16, 2019: Teeny, tiny frog.
Jun 16, 2019: Tree-mendous Fathers’ Day.
Jun 15, 2019: Crafting time chez Tinworth.
Jun 15, 2019: New toy…
Jun 15, 2019: Lovely morning down by the Adur as I walked home this morning.
Jun 14, 2019: Here’s one from the archives - that’s me on the left, taking a photo of the chief scout, during the 75th anniversary of scouting celebrations in 1982. …
Jun 14, 2019: Seeing this magazine on sale in my local newsagent is odd. I associate it so strongly with my Mum and my childhood, it seems almost incomprehensible …
Jun 13, 2019: Boats on the Adur
Jun 12, 2019: Bit more perhaps?
Jun 12, 2019: Here’s a soothing 20 seconds of beach life for you…
Jun 12, 2019: Got up at stupid o’clock this morning to catch a train and attend the launch of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report this morning. It was worth …
Jun 12, 2019: Great Micro Monday @hollyhoneychurch and @macgenie (catching up on a commute). Thanks. Thinking a lot about the time period challenges.
Jun 12, 2019: Just preparing my notes from this morning’s Digital News Report 2019 launch event for publication - how refreshing to have an all-female panel at a …
Jun 11, 2019: Relax - digital is efficient, so we don’t need to be…
Jun 10, 2019: MG Siegler: ”Facebook, an app where people share baby photos and conspiracy theories…” 🔥
Jun 10, 2019: Passing though Croydon. It’s almost 22 years since I worked here. Not far off half my life ago… and I think I’ve only been back twice.
Jun 10, 2019: I find upgrading firmware on devices a surprisingly satisfying process.
Jun 10, 2019: Weather could be better, though.
Jun 10, 2019: Nice to be heading up London late enough to drop a bag off at the charity shop and get a coffee from Tom Foolery.
Jun 8, 2019: Of all the things to find, a shopping list from my Mum, who has been gone over a decade:
Jun 8, 2019: Go on. Guess which option I picked.
Jun 8, 2019: It’s 2019, and, yes, you still need to own your content.
Jun 7, 2019: MailOnline’s traffic absolutely brutalised by Google algorithm update. Let the jokes commence.
Jun 7, 2019: So, um, the answer to “Fake News" might have been available the whole time… in Finland?
Jun 7, 2019: Further evidence that I’m turning into a grumpy old man of the interwebs: Writing about the internet is no excuse for not doing your research
Jun 7, 2019: Working on a Friday, unusually, due to a day swap with my wife. Throughly dreich out there today, so working seems better…
Jun 6, 2019: What’s bringing you joy this morning, people of micro.blog?
Jun 5, 2019: Craig Federighi on iPadOS: “It’s become a truly distinct experience. It’s not an iPhone experience. It’s not a Mac experience. The name is a …
Jun 4, 2019: Jason Snell (@jsnell) on why Catalyst apps might be good for… …the iPad. ”Basically, the better the iPad app, the better the Mac app. This has some …
Jun 3, 2019: Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more feasible.
Jun 3, 2019: Thank you, micro.blog folks. I enjoyed sharing the keynote with you!
Jun 3, 2019: My favourite sort of Apple keynote: I have no strong desire to buy anything new as a result of it, but I know all my devices will get better in the …
Jun 3, 2019: All in all, that feels like Apple worked its way through a big old list of things people have been complaining about for years, and got pretty much …
Jun 3, 2019: iOS13 supported devices: “New software features will be available this fall as a free software update for iPhone 6s and later, and will be available …
Jun 3, 2019: I love it when they do these developer-specific sections in the WWDC keynotes. I mean, they mean nothing to journalists like me, but there’s something …
Jun 3, 2019: I knew nothing about Minecraft before this demo. And I know nothing about it after this demo.
Jun 3, 2019: Twitter for Mac is coming back…
Jun 3, 2019: Marzipan is now officially Project Catalyst.
Jun 3, 2019: Well, that Pro pricing did NOT go down well…
Jun 3, 2019: Nice to see the iMac G4’s best feature back in the new Pro Display XDR.
Jun 3, 2019: Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous as heck, but still.
Jun 3, 2019: And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight into a particular app.
Jun 3, 2019: iPadOS!!! FINALLY! Snoopy happy dance
Jun 3, 2019: Oh, fabulous. Multi-user support for HomePods is great news. Our living room HomePods get a huge amount of use - and it’ll be great to have my Apple …
Jun 3, 2019: Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.
Jun 3, 2019: Oh, wow. That’s a big upgrade on iOS photo editing. But that video editing is even more exciting. That’ll make the #mojo people very happy.
Jun 3, 2019: Beauty influencers. From the internet. Ah-ha.
Jun 3, 2019: Wow. Sign-in with Apple. It makes perfect sense as an extension of Apple’s privacy policy. It’ll be interesting to see who adopts it… and even more …
Jun 3, 2019: I do enjoy Craig’s dad jokes, but then, I am very much a Dad.
Jun 3, 2019: Focus on iOS speed two years running? Nice.
Jun 3, 2019: 📺 🐟 👍🏻
Jun 3, 2019: And my eldest is just going to love that lyrics feature.
Jun 3, 2019: OK, Tim Cook just won in our household. Multi-user support in tvOS will be so handy for the Tinworth clan.
Jun 3, 2019: Screen break beach walk.
Jun 3, 2019: Forest and soul I agree with every word of this:
Jun 3, 2019: Forest restoration via doggo What an amazing way of reseeding a forest: Border collies Das, Summer and Olivia were outfitted with special backpacks brimming with seeds. Then they …
Jun 3, 2019: This is both a chilling read - and a surprisingly hopeful one: The Undercover Fascist
May 25, 2019: This starts off as road crash viewing of a middle-aged meme warrior - but actually goes somewhere interesting. My dad, the Facebook addict
May 25, 2019: Parents spending thousands on YouTube Camp. “Per a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, parents are spending nearly $1,000 dollars a week for …
May 25, 2019: Ugh. @danielpunkass can’t get his patch into WordPress. Open Source in theory rather than practice?
May 24, 2019: The only positive thing I can find to say about May’s premiership is this: I’m glad it happened while my daughters were old enough to register a woman …
May 23, 2019: River life
May 23, 2019: The Trouble with AMP
May 22, 2019: Right. This is a good as my liveblogged notes from Hacks/Hackers London this evening at Twitter UK are getting. I’ll give them a good sub in the …
May 22, 2019: It’s been so long since I used the Underground regularly that I’ve reverted to being a Tube N00b.
May 22, 2019: There’s a man on my train wearing a hat with a crown over it, an imitation smart glass HUD, a cape, and a sword and shield. Gotta say, I’m a bit …
May 21, 2019: How we Dooced blogging — and its community This Vox profile of Heather Armstrong — Dooce — is a deeply melancholy read: In the time that Armstrong had been absent from her site, bloggers had …
May 19, 2019: Nice view as I crossed the bridge this evening.
May 18, 2019: Current view.
May 18, 2019: Today, I have made all the fritters.
May 17, 2019: This is a sobering read by James Kirkup: The truth about David Cameron and the ‘mad, swivel-eyed loons’ “Under Cameron and the person who called at …
May 17, 2019: Shoreham Beach, two years ago.
May 17, 2019: Inner voice: “This keyboard is filthy. I should clean it before I write any more.” Deep inner voice: “Wow. Your procrastination game is ON FIRE …
May 15, 2019: Wow. DJI are going head to head with GoPro with the DJI Osmo Action Camera. The Hero 8 had better be great.
May 14, 2019: Probably my most self-aggravating work habit is composing emails in my head - and then never getting arournd to typing them out and sending them.
May 14, 2019: Politics warning: right-wing comics activists are abusing Twitter’s policies on transphobia to silence their critics. This behaviour pattern will …
May 13, 2019: I see it’s an “update all the Apple things” day again.
May 12, 2019: Today’s beach life:
May 11, 2019: Extinction Rebellion die in at the Shoreham by Sea farmers market.
May 9, 2019: What’s that sound? Oh, it’s the influencer bubble popping: ”Most global internet users lack confidence in what they see and read online, with only 8% …
May 9, 2019: Finally got around to adding another of my key services to my site: Live Event Capture - where I create rapid posts from event content, working in …
May 9, 2019: Self-employment is basically a years-long oscillation between being stressed about money and being stressed about volume of work.
May 8, 2019: My notes from the RSA event Schools Without Walls might be of interest to the education-minded amongst you.
May 8, 2019: The rain, it raineth every day ☔️
May 6, 2019: Iris amongst the irises.
May 6, 2019: Loving nature is a political act It seems impossible to me to be, now, passionate about nature and not be also both political and ethical about nature. We no longer have the luxury …
May 5, 2019: It was windy yesterday at Woods Mill, but the sound is just lovey.
May 5, 2019: I love this photo of Iris in the woods from yesterday.
May 4, 2019: Nesting…
May 2, 2019: Here’s something I don’t often do: a review. It’s of Freewell’s All Day Filters for the Osmo Pocket.
May 2, 2019: What’s good in your world today?
May 2, 2019: Shaping up to be a lovely day.
May 1, 2019: Today’s workplace.
Apr 30, 2019: Wow. This video of an osprey female protecting her eggs in the heart of Storm Hannah is quite something.
Apr 29, 2019: This is a compelling read about life in the outer circles of Silicon Valley: ”A film of pseudoscience sticks to everything we touch. We don’t just …
Apr 29, 2019: Never bet against the phone…
Apr 28, 2019: Working on old negative scans does make me miss the grain and texture of film photography - but I really don’t have the time to indulge in it any …
Apr 28, 2019: Sunday adulting. 🌷
Apr 28, 2019: Fascinating how much cars date photos, even after “just” 15 years.
Apr 27, 2019: Big fan of the Extinction Rebellion art style.
Apr 26, 2019: Yikes. An RPG book I contributed to being offered for £115 on eBay!
Apr 25, 2019: I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning… …because my daughters brought some horrible virus home for me. This is a weird one. I am feeling very strange.
Apr 24, 2019: The guest WiFi at Twitter UK’s pretty good…
Apr 24, 2019: Thanks to my daughters, my iPad Smart Keyboard is looking particularly fabulous today…
Apr 21, 2019: Easter egg hunt 🐣
Apr 20, 2019: And here’s the final image of Adam, a sculpture at the Eden Project, shot back in Spring 2004.
Apr 20, 2019: Enjoying working in Pixelmator Photo to clean up some old negative scans:
Apr 20, 2019: There was a lot of construction work still happened at the Eden Project back in 2004. I loved these art plants that part screened the construction. …
Apr 20, 2019: Eden Project, 14th April 2004
Apr 19, 2019: Talented investigative journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead in Derry last night. I knew her, and was always in awe of her work. RIP, Lyra. And thank …
Apr 18, 2019: Exciting times on the Woodland Trust Osprey Cam. Aila (the female) has been in the nest for most of the day. She’s there right now.
Apr 18, 2019: Facebook has finally banned a swathe of far-right hate groups, including the BNP, EDL and Britain First. Not before time. Particularly glad to see …
Apr 18, 2019: The Wind in What's Left of the Willows… Time for a #wilderfuture. Yes, I am an old tree-hugger and proud.
Apr 18, 2019: The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella…
Apr 18, 2019: Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts without permission. Just as well Facebook has behaved impeccably up until now, so we can give them …
Apr 17, 2019: This is a telling piece of reporting from the Irish Times. It’s clear that members of the ERG are starting to concoct conspiracy theories to deal with …
Apr 17, 2019: Interesting that Facebook saw Apple News as a competitive issue: ”The company discussed setting up a new section on the app entirely for news and …
Apr 17, 2019: Wow, this is a telling quote: ”But he brightened when he turned to one of the topics that, according to people close to him, truly engaged his …
Apr 17, 2019: And there we are: ”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response”
Apr 17, 2019: Engineers versus investigative journalists From the WIRED piece everyone is talking about: ”Investigative journalists are like pit bulls. Kick them once and they’ll never trust you again.” I …
Apr 15, 2019: I’m a journalist, and one deeply interested in the future of journalism, and its business models. And I balk at paying £250 a year for Tortoise. So, …
Apr 15, 2019: The platforms are not the internet John Naughton: In reality, the problem we have is not the internet so much as those corporations that ride on it and allow some unacceptable …
Apr 11, 2019: Good piece by James here, pointing out that Assange is a pretty horrible person - but that journalists should probably be defending him against the US …
Apr 11, 2019: Whatever you think about Assange and Wikileaks, his arrest this morning will do nothing to stop the repercussions his actions have had on journalism, …
Apr 10, 2019: I really need to stop letting my blogging slip as soon as my life gets busy. It’s such an intellectually rewarding exercise for me that my life is …
Apr 10, 2019: Making a (small) splash on Unsplash.
Apr 10, 2019: I’m really passionate about this: the journalism business should be unlocking the incredible value to be found in its archives. There are so many …
Apr 7, 2019: Time to test micro.blog’s video hosting…
Apr 5, 2019: Don’t expect free stuff just because you have 2,000 Instagram followers. The “marketing via influencer bashing” trend has a while to run…
Apr 5, 2019: Ooh, live ospreys nesting webcam from Scotland: LIVE: Loch Arkaig osprey cam
Apr 5, 2019: Ah, my weekend reading is here.
Apr 3, 2019: Yet another Facebook developer leaks private data An insanely large Facebook data breach: The Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva and an app called “At the Pool” used their access to their users …
Apr 3, 2019: Fascinating talk about personal responsibility and social media on the State of the net podcast.
Apr 3, 2019: Woe betide any pony that fails to perform to the expectations of Iris.
Apr 3, 2019: Weird flex for a CMS company, but OK: ”Today Automattic is announcing Happy Tools, a suite of products for the future of work. Each product in Happy …
Apr 3, 2019: This is how hyper-partisan sites die: Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites
Apr 3, 2019: May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…
Apr 3, 2019: My wife: ”My lifelong career love affair has only ever been with bioscience but what a huge, fascinating, awesome world that is. I am so grateful to …
Apr 3, 2019: One of the interesting things about the current MacBook Pro keyboard problems is that it’s proving to me that a five year old machine is pretty …
Apr 2, 2019: AirDrop is such a handy feature of Apple devices. It doesn’t get enough kudos.
Apr 2, 2019: It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead. Never a good sign.
Apr 2, 2019: So, here’s a video from a defunct satire site, about a defunct social network, found via a defunct VC-backed news site, which concludes with the fact …
Apr 2, 2019: Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the site…
Apr 2, 2019: Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.
Apr 1, 2019: Something my daughters will never do…
Apr 1, 2019: Bittersweet memories of 1999 Wow. The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. They must be from 1999, one of the more significant years …
Apr 1, 2019: Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it looks fascinating.
Apr 1, 2019: The Traditional Photograph Versus The Social Photograph I like this distinction a great deal: Jurgenson told me that he draws a distinction between the traditional photograph as a permanent documentary …
Apr 1, 2019: On the ERG: ”Nobody deserves the ERG, though, which is to politics what food poisoning is to dinner parties.” Fabulously precise.
Mar 31, 2019: Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.
Mar 31, 2019: 10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.
Mar 30, 2019: Thought for the day:
Mar 29, 2019: Literally the most CoE thing ever: Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties
Mar 29, 2019: Apple cancels AirPower: “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project.” That’s …
Mar 29, 2019: This is an unusually good idea from Twitter: “Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive tweets that break its rules but remain in the public …
Mar 29, 2019: Learning from Mueller Andrew Sullivan: Mueller Summary Is a Big Win for America Mueller is someone we should study if we want to see how to oppose this president …
Mar 29, 2019: Democracy has a price, and you can’t stop paying it. Democracy has a price, and it’s not an easy price to pay. Nothing is ever completely settled under a democracy. Any decision that can be made by a …
Mar 27, 2019: Just spent 8 hours in this room with a great bunch of journalists and communication pros, talking editorial analytics. I really enjoyed it. I hope …
Mar 27, 2019: Want to be an influencer? There’s a bot for that: A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated
Mar 26, 2019: Everything you need to know about me can be summed up thus: I used to write RPGs professionally, but gave up just before they became cool. 🤦🏼♂️
Mar 26, 2019: Hello.
Mar 26, 2019: WIRED on how Google warped the hyperlinks - with quotes from me!
Mar 25, 2019: Got to say, I’m most excited for Apple Arcade. There’s some games I want to play in there, starting with Beyond a Steel Sky.
Mar 25, 2019: Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?
Mar 24, 2019: Beachscape with fisherman and detectorist
Mar 21, 2019: Worth remembering that “reduce” and “reuse” both beat “recycle” in the sustainability hierarchy: Here are the 7 best apps to sell and buy your clothes …
Mar 21, 2019: 😱 🌊 Tourist Posing for Photo Gets Blasted Off Rock by Huge Crashing Wave
Mar 21, 2019: By their fans you shall know them… PewDiePie fan unleashes ransomware that encrypts hard drives until he gets 100M subscribers One of the ransomware strains also warned victims that …
Mar 21, 2019: Apple’s Final Cut Pro X upgraded to version 10.4.6 - and this is interesting: “Detects media files that may be incompatible with future versions of …
Mar 21, 2019: Like many people, I suspect, I signed the petition not because I think there’s a realistic chance of Article 50 being revoked, but instead to remind …
Mar 21, 2019: My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I love them, but sometimes they are very sinister.
Mar 21, 2019: Oh, dear. When did I enter that demographic? Thanks, Facebook.
Mar 21, 2019: The “Revoke Article 50" petition is closing in on ¾ of a million, and gaining about 3k signatures per minute.
Mar 21, 2019: Joining the rest of my family in marking World Down Syndrome day:
Mar 21, 2019: Yay. My micro.blog Kickstarter stickers are here!
Mar 21, 2019: The speed with which this is gaining signatures is quite something. 100s of extra signitories every few seconds: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the …
Mar 20, 2019: This makes me very nostalgic for an earlier era of Apple.
Mar 20, 2019: This is terrifying: England could run short of water within 25 years
Mar 19, 2019: The spread of footage from the Christchurch terrorists attack is clearly unacceptable. To curtail this we need three responses: technological, social …
Mar 19, 2019: Happy news of the day: my Essential Analytics for Media Professionals course is sold out.
Mar 18, 2019: I’ve come across a number of blogs in recent weeks that have “moved to Instagram”. One thing is for sure: they will eventually regret that decisions. …
Mar 17, 2019: My new pride and joy This is my new pride and joy. A year or so a switch flipped in my head. The more I watched vegetable trimmings, teabags and coffee grounds go into our …
Mar 16, 2019: Deconstructed.
Mar 15, 2019: Blimey: Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’
Mar 15, 2019: Computational photography and videography is just fascinating: Researchers Found a Way to Extract Detailed Slo-Mo Videos From a Single Blurry Photo
Mar 15, 2019: This is a serious and useful look at the digital context around today’s horrible terrorist atrocity: Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the …
Mar 15, 2019: This sounds like a fascinating read. Preordered: Homesick: Why I live in a shed 📚
Mar 15, 2019: I had awesome wallpaper as a child. (That’s not me - it’s a school friend).
Mar 14, 2019: Oooooh. A kernel panic. How retro.
Mar 13, 2019: How little we change: Ancient Britons Traveled Hundreds of Miles to Attend Pork Fests at Stonehenge
Mar 13, 2019: The kids are revolting ”Theresa May said they are wasting teachers time – the response was that while this may be true, governments have wasted 30 …
Mar 12, 2019: Mum & I, outside Stirling Castle, in the early 80s.
Mar 12, 2019: I remember, as a child, learning about the great fallen civilisations of the past - and wondering what it felt like to live in a time when your …
Mar 12, 2019: You can catch up on all my posts from last week’s useful news:rewired conference here. Lots to think about there.
Mar 10, 2019: Storm sisters
Mar 10, 2019: Fun down on the beach today…
Mar 8, 2019: New shoes!
Mar 8, 2019: Love the cover of the latest @standartmag by @grigorybabich. Stunning work.
Mar 8, 2019: Coffee with Eevee!
Mar 7, 2019: Journalism clearly needs new business models. Yesterday’s panel discussion at news:rewired had some interesting ideas.
Mar 7, 2019: The Adventures of Rapunzel and Mildred Hubble. #worldbookday #worldbookday2019
Mar 4, 2019: Today I learnt that Engagdget is nearly a. year younger than OM&HB and I feel like such an under-achiever… :-)
Mar 4, 2019: How Influencer Language Is Killing Instagram ”As with any social network, there comes a point of over-saturation where the cool kids who were there …
Mar 4, 2019: Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid: ”Orwell must be turning in his grave when he hears politicians say in all seriousness …
Mar 4, 2019: My coat still smells of woodsmoke from Nature Tots at the weekend. This is keeping me happy on a busy train…
Mar 3, 2019: Time for tech to get out of its difficult teenage years, and grow the fuck up.
Mar 3, 2019: Utterly self-indulgent blog post of the day: What the heck is GoPro doing producing a limited edition colour of its flagship camera?
Mar 3, 2019: We really didn’t spend long on our customary Sunday beach walk today. Storm Freya is battering the UK and, while we’re on the edge of it, my three …
Mar 3, 2019: Bit of a token clean today as the girls were in danger of being blown off the beach by storm Freya. #2minutebeachclean
Mar 2, 2019: Iris made a nest at #naturetots #sussexwildlifetrust
Mar 1, 2019: My goodness, but these are appealing to me.
Mar 1, 2019: Today’s Iris obsession: liferings
Feb 28, 2019: Reporting on the Momo Challenge has not been journalism’s finest hour. It’s a failure of basic fact-checking.
Feb 28, 2019: Interesting that Pinterest is leading the way on this. People do not pay nearly enough attention to it. Pinterest takes the lead in the fight against …
Feb 27, 2019: I preserve the secrets of @nextconf by making my notes basically illegible to anyone but me.
Feb 26, 2019: Stunning evening down by the Adur.
Feb 26, 2019: Once again, Facebook is trying to avoid the costs of its scale - but the human cost of its content moderation is appalling.
Feb 26, 2019: Shoreham by Sea’s sign game is 💯 this morning:
Feb 26, 2019: Drinking today: Edgecumbe’s AA Kisii Peaberry ☕️
Feb 25, 2019: Some Ghostly resources for independent publishers. Nice combination of a newsletter and a site full of resource links.
Feb 25, 2019: I am procrastinating. And I am procrastinating because I am scared. Bad adders.
Feb 24, 2019: The fam at @nymansnt
Feb 24, 2019: Beware the beach #illuminati
Feb 24, 2019: Totemic discovery on today’s #2minutebeachclean
Feb 24, 2019: Sunday beach walk
Feb 24, 2019: Own up. Who left the window open last night?
Feb 22, 2019: Either it’s foggy - or I need new glasses.
Feb 22, 2019: Word of the day, courtesy of an @ernestjournal back issue… slubberdegullion is official part of my word hoard now.
Feb 22, 2019: Inconsiderata - an ode to digital technology and influencers: Override quiet and thoughtful people, they are impediments. Compare yourself with …
Feb 22, 2019: Fog is making the Adur impressionistic today.
Feb 22, 2019: I have a Brydge keyboard for my trusty old 9.7 inch iPad Pro and I suddenly have my perfect on-the-go device.
Feb 22, 2019: I have a suspicion that there would be a decent market for adult Hula Hoops, that fit on adult-sized fingers…
Feb 20, 2019: Some useful thoughts on the appeal of newsletters — and the appropriate tone for writing them.
Feb 20, 2019: With Assistant update, Google says Nest has secret microphone 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ I still can’t believe that people are voluntarily filling their houses …
Feb 20, 2019: Fascinating: A week of podcasting with only an iPad Pro. More and more of the things “you can’t use an iPad for” are falling…
Feb 20, 2019: Today in poor ratios: I will spend between five and six hours travelling to do one two hour lecture. 🚂
Feb 19, 2019: Why blogs still matter even in the resurgent newsletter age. (h/t @cdevroe for the original link)
Feb 19, 2019: Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter. It’s all about the basics.
Feb 19, 2019: The rest of the “information wants to be free” quote (because I’m annoyed at how often people quote it in a way that makes it clear that they don’t …
Feb 19, 2019: I call this piece “the entitlement of SEO spammers”. 🖼
Feb 18, 2019: Winchester does ruins magnificently.
Feb 18, 2019: Coffee Break Edgcumbes Coffee Roasters & Tea Blenders. A coffee break in a great wee coffee place on the outskirts of Arundel. There’s some great coffee in …
Feb 18, 2019: This is not at all disconcerting.
Feb 18, 2019: Beautiful sky over Winchester this evening.
Feb 18, 2019: Cracking edition of my newly-renamed newsletter going out in the morning (if I do say so myself). It should be of particular interest to those in …
Feb 17, 2019: It seems increasingly clear to me that the societal stress we’re experiencing right now was well predicted in the 1970 book Future Shock. Our …
Feb 17, 2019: Dave Winer: Discourse is not Twitter’s strength, not because of the thread structure, rather that it’s a write-only community of attention seekers 🔥 …
Feb 17, 2019: Even "green" wealthy people consume impact the climate disproportionately Well, this is depressing: And even fairly radical lifestyle changes are meaningless at the level of global emissions unless they are multiplied by …
Feb 17, 2019: Lessons from two months of #2minutebeachclean For the last couple of months, my daughters and I have been doing a #2minutebeachclean pretty much every Sunday - concentrating on the same small …
Feb 16, 2019: I know all the hip joints!
Feb 14, 2019: Still can’t quite believe that I turned down the chance to work on this beauty - but it was the right decision at that time of my life.
Feb 14, 2019: An article designed for @ismh… The joy of collecting old tech
Feb 14, 2019: The Zuckerberg Obfuscation
Feb 14, 2019: News that will fill my daughters with joy in the morning - but which is filling me with dread, because I’m going to end up watching it 9,732 times: …
Feb 13, 2019: Optimism is cool: Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is …
Feb 13, 2019: The Freelancer Mindset: it's a trap! The Psychological Trap of Freelancing People who attach dollar signs to their time — or “value time like money” — tend to be overwhelmingly less …
Feb 13, 2019: Dangerous shop.
Feb 13, 2019: Wow, Blogger really is being neglected isn’t it? The last substantive update I can find is from nearly a year ago - and it’s mainly about removing …
Feb 13, 2019: Productivity in the home office this morning: could be better.
Feb 12, 2019: First signs of spring. (Which means it’ll be snowing within the month…)
Feb 11, 2019: Fin.
Feb 10, 2019: Late night London.
Feb 10, 2019: Scenes from a beach walk.
Feb 10, 2019: TIL: Apple proposed the forthcoming set of emoji covering people in wheelchairs, with service dogs, etc. Cool. (via Download)
Feb 9, 2019: The victorious defeat of the open web It just occurred to me that the prevalent idea that apps killed the open web is completely and utterly wrong. The open web is still there, it still …
Feb 9, 2019: Just tried to explain 70s/80s linear TV to my children, in all its pre-daytime TV, pre-streaming “glory”. They can’t get past the idea it was …
Feb 9, 2019: This is totally bodacious: Captain Marvel: Official Movie Site
Feb 8, 2019: To give you some sense of how unwell I’ve been - it’s now 60 hours since I had a coffee. 60 hours.
Feb 5, 2019: And here’s your depressing reminder that Brits using .eu domain names will probably lose them. For UK Residents Facing Brexit: Alternatives to the .EU …
Feb 5, 2019: The problem with being a one-man band is that you handle your own DNS faff. Back when I had a Real Job (TM) there were people to handle that for me …
Feb 5, 2019: I love Uses This. Such a simple idea: short profiles of various people and the tools they use to get their work done. But endlessly interesting.
Feb 5, 2019: A translation of Zuckerberg’s “15 years of #facebook” post from Zuck to English. (Now with corrected link - thanks @smokey)
Feb 5, 2019: Those are both creepy and beautiful: witch of the farm
Feb 4, 2019: A translation of elements of Mark Zuckerberg’s 15th Facebook anniversary post from Zuck to English. Never say I don’t try to be helpful. 😇
Feb 4, 2019: It’s stuff like this that makes me realise that I’ve been writing about digital media and audience development for 15 years now. I’m in danger of …
Feb 4, 2019: A reminder for long-term Flickr users: deletions start on free accounts tomorrow.
Feb 4, 2019: Scared but excited right now.
Feb 4, 2019: OK. Let’s talk about that bloody egg — and why it does matter. Yes, it’s come to that.
Feb 3, 2019: Now, that’s my kind of article.
Feb 1, 2019: Despite the cold, it’s a really lovely day here on the coast.
Feb 1, 2019: Even a little snow makes a three year old joyful.
Feb 1, 2019: The mighty thaw is well underway on the Sussex Coast.
Feb 1, 2019: That’s looking more like snow.
Jan 31, 2019: Apple kills Google’s internal apps as well.
Jan 31, 2019: If you want to convert me to a viewpoint, you’ll succeed much more often by highlighting the virtues of your position rather than by denigrating …
Jan 31, 2019: Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.
Jan 30, 2019: If you come up with a business idea, and multiple ways of expressing that idea - and then fabulous domain name for an element of that - and that …
Jan 30, 2019: I like the ceiling in here.
Jan 30, 2019: Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage And yes, that includes 4K.
Jan 30, 2019: If you squint, you can see the snow. Just.
Jan 30, 2019: Apple News has more users than you might expect.
Jan 30, 2019: Crikey - my blog had more mobile and tablet viewers than desktop ones for the first time ever. I know I’m on the trailing edge of the switch, but …
Jan 29, 2019: There’s far too much truth in this: How digital media killed itself
Jan 28, 2019: I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention economy. I love the impact of it significantly less.
Jan 28, 2019: Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.
Jan 27, 2019: A calmer moment in a stormy day by the sea:
Jan 26, 2019: Shoreham may be blessed with one of the best library views out there.
Jan 26, 2019: Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it…
Jan 25, 2019: Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose. Zuckerberg speeds up assimilation of Instagram and WhatsApp into …
Jan 25, 2019: Upscale NYC restaurant bans lone women from sitting at the bar This is… extraordinary: “I perched at my favourite seat at the bar and started to respond to all the emails that had arrived on the flight over,” she …
Jan 25, 2019: Daddy/daughter baking day.
Jan 25, 2019: The latest issue of @anxymag is here - all about masculinity. Time for a coffee and a read.
Jan 25, 2019: One that required a bit of focus, but not too much. Bring on next month’s #AppleWatch challenge.
Jan 25, 2019: I just had a really, really bad idea. I should do nothing about this idea. 👀
Jan 24, 2019: Apple News Expands to Canada in iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 - Apple’s rolling this out very slowly for them. But taking the time to get the right …
Jan 24, 2019: Ugh. Buzzfeed is laying off over 200 people. They do great work, and they have some fantastic journalists - but that VC investment burden was always …
Jan 24, 2019: No wonder my chair was uncomfortable - I’ve been sitting on this for the last hour:
Jan 23, 2019: Thingification: “All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools being rendered safe by assimilation into the old.” …
Jan 22, 2019: An epitath for Livejournal Ars Technica: Such is the nature of the erosion of our once-beloved digital spaces: there’s none of the collapsed majesty of a physical space like an …
Jan 22, 2019: January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.
Jan 22, 2019: The one thing that disappoints me about most “links" newsletters I follow is that they rarely give me links outside a very narrow circle of obvious …
Jan 22, 2019: Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.
Jan 21, 2019: This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular communities can breed toxicity: How Pick-Up Artists …
Jan 21, 2019: A cold and frosty morning on my way to London.
Jan 20, 2019: Gorgeous day on Shoreham Beach. The sun is counteracting the cold nicely.
Jan 19, 2019: Suffolk coast, January 2001
Jan 18, 2019: MG Siegler: ”That is to say, I think this new iTunes announcement finally signals the end of iTunes as we know it.” I bloody well hope so.
Jan 18, 2019: This interview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is… painful.
Jan 17, 2019: I wrote a very long thing about Facebook, WordPress, CMSes and local journalism. I cater to a very niche market…
Jan 17, 2019: Take a deep breath, bibliophiles. Marie Kondo of Netflix’s Tidying Up: she’s not coming for your books
Jan 17, 2019: It’s been a stressful week, but the view from my office window is incredibly calming today.
Jan 17, 2019: My hard working film scanner doing its thing.
Jan 17, 2019: One of the reasons I enjoy scanning my old negatives is that when a photo of my parents emerges, it almost feels new to me. I see it with a new …
Jan 17, 2019: Sadly, this is probably accurate: Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You
Jan 16, 2019: Study: Dark-roast coffee protects human DNA from damage: This led the scientists to believe that regular consumption of a dark-roast coffee has “a …
Jan 16, 2019: Sharing photos of yourself 10 years apart is a completely harmless social media meme. Right? Uh, maybe.
Jan 15, 2019: I can also see a meaningful boat out of the window. There may be a meaningful oat on the floor, after my daughter dropped her porridge this morning.
Jan 15, 2019: So… the US president is serving people fast food burgers, the British political class are imploding, and men don’t like being told not to be …
Jan 15, 2019: Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from stolen images: Bonkers Post Making Up Stuff About …
Jan 15, 2019: It’s just light streaming from glass… Euan Semple: So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our lives staring at and responding to, we would do well …
Jan 15, 2019: I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they misunderstand how long it took for them to notice the most …
Jan 14, 2019: Fresh out of the film scanner: my late father and I in the mid-90s. Still miss him.
Jan 14, 2019: Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
Jan 14, 2019: On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters Institute’s 2019 journalism trends and predictions report.
Jan 13, 2019: Guide’s badges in the 21st century: vlogging
Jan 11, 2019: Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
Jan 10, 2019: Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report that launched this morning. Media Trends 2019: an …
Jan 10, 2019: Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is where we do innovation. Nowhere else, mind. Just here.”
Jan 9, 2019: Joe Manganiello and D&D in the 80s. From Joe Manganiello, Super Geek: Owns Dungeon, Dead Guy’s Dice: Those of us that have been around long enough remember all too well the panicked …
Jan 9, 2019: Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of friends down to around Dunbar’s number?
Jan 9, 2019: I have finally learned to write algorithm without having to look up the spelling. Yay.
Jan 9, 2019: The internet has opened up whole new avenues of psychological and sociological research hasn’t it? What makes men send dick pics? (It’s an interesting …
Jan 8, 2019: I admit this might be a sign that parenthood has rotted my brain - but I believe Babs Seed from My Little Pony is a slice of perfect bubblegum pop. …
Jan 8, 2019: Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.
Jan 8, 2019: This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders for my traffic…
Jan 8, 2019: One day I will come across an example of “MSM won’t report on this!!!!" which I can’t disprove with 20 seconds of Googling. But today is not that day. …
Jan 8, 2019: Well, I’ve been enjoying great battery life on my MacBook Pro since it came back from a battery replacement, but now I have to open Chrome, so I …
Jan 8, 2019: Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s hindering its attempts to combat misinformation.
Jan 8, 2019: China is making podcasts pay - big time. And it’s not based on advertising.
Jan 8, 2019: Today, I forgot the cardinal rule of marriage: I let my wife know that something annoyed me, and now she’s doing it whenever she can…
Jan 8, 2019: Nice morning down by the river.
Jan 7, 2019: I have tidied up and modernised every post on my blog tagged Doctor Who in a burst of pointless busy work. :-)
Jan 7, 2019: Iris: “Daddy, chair are for sitting in, not putting laptops on.” Busted by a 3 year old.
Jan 7, 2019: The culture wars in one tweet.
Jan 7, 2019: I’m not sure that, even seven years on, that I’ve really adjusted to being self-employed. I don’t have to put in a full working week if I don’t need …
Jan 7, 2019: First proper day back at my desk since mid-December. The email is soul-crushing.
Jan 6, 2019: Playing with the 4k option on the DJI Osmo Pocket:
Jan 6, 2019: Bedrock rock beds.
Jan 6, 2019: Moody day in the beach. (Can you spot the Iris?)
Jan 5, 2019: I have a nasty feeling Iris is pretending to be me…
Jan 5, 2019: Grabbed the opportunity for a quick beach walk this afternoon. The beach is very much in winter mode, biding its time before it bursts into spring …
Jan 5, 2019: Catchy as the headline is, the real story is a government agency trying to frustrate a legitimate journalistic investigation. Ministry Of Justice …
Jan 4, 2019: Facebook wants us to know that it’s the real victim here.
Jan 4, 2019: I see Zuck has learned his lesson and is dealing with things with all due humility now… Mark Zuckerberg vs. the Times
Jan 4, 2019: Warrior robots in a coffee shop.
Jan 4, 2019: Grrrr.
Jan 4, 2019: Controversial: Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule.
Jan 3, 2019: Another interesting bit of analysis of the Apple revenue miss: Apple Lowers Revenue Guidance Due To iPhone Sales Weakness
Jan 3, 2019: Drinking coffee in Brighton’s Ship Street. It’s been five years since I did this with any frequency. I really need to spend more time in Brighton.
Jan 3, 2019: Happy about this - I have at least one new Ghost-hosted project in the works, and I may well start with one of these. All New Free Ghost Themes
Jan 3, 2019: Interesting take from Om Malik about the bad Apple trading news: Appleocalypse: An unfashionable view
Jan 2, 2019: Watching.
Jan 1, 2019: Lovely day at Nymans.
Jan 1, 2019: 😂
Dec 31, 2018: A pre-New Year party for the little ones with some wonderful neighbours. Perfect way to end the year.
Dec 31, 2018: Well, this year was all about the Shoreham-by-Sea landscapes… #topnine2018 #topnine #bestnine2018
Dec 31, 2018: Issue #25 of my curated reads newsletter goes out in about five minutes. Sign up while you can!
Dec 31, 2018: Here we go: the top 10 posts on the NEXT Conference blog in 2018. One of them was the very first post I wrote, back in 2012(!).
Dec 31, 2018: Digging through the top posts on the Next Conference blog, I found this 2017 piece from Martin Recke - What is Digital Humanism?. This feels like a …
Dec 30, 2018: Shoreham Fort
Dec 30, 2018: More #beachlife
Dec 29, 2018: Vlogging?
Dec 29, 2018: Beach Life.
Dec 29, 2018: Beach life.
Dec 29, 2018: Facebook apologists are real – they really are.
Dec 28, 2018: Beaver Bombers at work? Today I learnt of the existence of Beavers Bombers: While one theory suggests they escaped from a nearby nature reserve, it’s far more likely they …
Dec 28, 2018: Crime in progress, but the lookout is on watch…
Dec 28, 2018: The Danger of Medium Dave Winer The danger of Medium is two-fold. Without competition, and right now they don’t have any, we’re right back where we were before the web, …
Dec 28, 2018: On the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite Blogger Here’s the thing - support comes in all shapes and sizes and doesn’t necessarily mean $$$$. This is …
Dec 27, 2018: Lady who lunches.
Dec 27, 2018: Beautiful moomin show. Iris loved it.
Dec 27, 2018: Current status:
Dec 27, 2018: Moomin magic is about to begin.
Dec 27, 2018: Moomin magic (and mischief) about to occur…
Dec 27, 2018: Iris at the Box Office.
Dec 26, 2018: Look, someone 😇 has made our local heros more festive.
Dec 26, 2018: Beach walk, ‘cos it’s Boxing Day innit?
Dec 26, 2018: Things I am doing without this festive periods #1: my MacBook Pro. I’m spending the Christmas period without my MacBook Pro. On Christmas Eve it went to Apple hospital to get a new battery, and this seemed to be the …
Dec 26, 2018: Down by the Adur. (Boxing Day walk)
Dec 26, 2018: Imagine my surprise to discover that an “influencer” who had vaguely intersected with the area I live has managed to lose a wife and three children on …
Dec 25, 2018: The children are less enthused by this stage of the meal preparation…
Dec 25, 2018: Prepping Christmas Dinner while watching the Countryfile Christmas Special. Because, yes, I am middle aged and middle class.
Dec 25, 2018: Time to get the turkey in.
Dec 25, 2018: A very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!
Dec 25, 2018: The way my hair’s going, I figure I’m about 10 years and a beard from making a decent Santa.
Dec 23, 2018: Today has challenged my understanding of the word “elf”.
Dec 22, 2018: Number of open tabs on my iPad: 0. Days since this was last the case: 3,130.
Dec 22, 2018: Free audiobooks from Apple Well, this is a great Christmas gift: Apple Books has published six exclusive audiobooks this week, showcasing six great first listen titles read by …
Dec 22, 2018: The great pre-Christmas tab purge is underway. Wish me luck.
Dec 22, 2018: Hello. @manton delivers Christmas three days early!
Dec 20, 2018: Honestly, what the hell is happening at Medium? Its latest moves seem to suggest it is becoming 2008-era Huffington Post - with a soft paywall.
Dec 19, 2018: Strong and stable. Spoiled for stabilised filming right now - working in some tests for my blog.
Dec 19, 2018: Five influencers influencing…
Dec 19, 2018: Oh, the irony.
Dec 19, 2018: Oh, look - one of my photos is on Devon Life: www.devonlife.co.uk/devon-chr…
Dec 19, 2018: I might need to take a vow of silence for the rest of the year, given how badly I appear to be communicating this week. I’ve spent too much of the …
Dec 19, 2018: I have a gimbal in my pocket. The miniaturisation of video continues, and the results are impressive.
Dec 19, 2018: Early Christmas present to myself. Uh, I mean to my work. Uh, yes, my work. That’s it. cough.
Dec 19, 2018: I am ridiculously happy to finally have the time to get a post up on One Man & His Blog - even if it’s only month notes for Nov/Dec. Back on the …
Dec 17, 2018: To misquote Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand the ethical problems with Facebook, when his salary depends on his not …
Dec 17, 2018: The man who pioneered modern tech journalism no longer feels he can justify using Facebook-owned products. This is quite something.
Dec 16, 2018: Today was the sort of day when having a GoPro was what made getting any footage feasible.
Dec 14, 2018: ⚠️ Warning - photobomb in progress…
Dec 14, 2018: New green belt
Dec 14, 2018: 21st century life: I spent a while last night updating the software on my lightbulbs… 💡
Dec 14, 2018: Barbados, November 2011
Dec 13, 2018: My sister-in-law has a PacMan coat. 👌🏻
Dec 13, 2018: Morning coffee feels very festive today.
Dec 12, 2018: Smashing Avocado while the world burns These are the final days of the startup world: At a recent Lyft event, the brand decided not to hand out the usual swag. You know, the frisbees or …
Dec 12, 2018: New coffee shop, new part of London. Oh, the consultancy life.
Dec 11, 2018: Five years ago today:
Dec 11, 2018: 10 years ago today.
Dec 11, 2018: Not what you want to see outside your favourite coffee shop in the morning…
Dec 10, 2018: Open.
Dec 8, 2018: Just booked a night in a budget hotel in Milton Keynes. Will this endless glamour never cease?
Dec 8, 2018: Peak hipster.
Dec 8, 2018: Time to choose a Christmas Tree 🎄
Dec 8, 2018: The angel of cheekiness descends…
Dec 7, 2018: Somebody just tried to explain what Likes are for to me. 🤔😂
Dec 7, 2018: I’d be happy if this happened: Canon To Get A Stake In GoPro’s Future?
Dec 5, 2018: This morning I am catching the OMGEarly train to London.
Dec 4, 2018: The new @blogosphere_magazine is here, so I’ve done a tasteful #influencer style shot to celebrate. 😇 #blogospheremagazine #bloggers
Dec 4, 2018: On the upside, Tumblr’s bandwidth costs are about to drop precipitously, I suspect.
Dec 4, 2018: Stunning Autumn morning Walking Iris to nursery was a genuine pleasure this morning - it’s just an incredible day. Cold, but clear and bright, with a wonderful quality of …
Dec 4, 2018: Morning view.
Dec 4, 2018: Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence. Cripes.
Dec 3, 2018: Ready to Webinar…
Dec 3, 2018: One of the interesting aspects of consultancy life is getting small spells in a whole range of offices. You assume that all offices are basically the …
Dec 3, 2018: My downtime on ghost(pro) last month… …didn’t exist. For the third month running. Nice work, @tryghost team.
Dec 3, 2018: Night time.
Dec 1, 2018: And let's not forget October… (yes, playing catchup) October 2018 in one second everyday from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.
Dec 1, 2018: November in 30(ish) seconds This was our November:
Nov 30, 2018: Apple’s new group FaceTime ad is awesome:
Nov 30, 2018: First Ghost with Koenig and now WordPress with Gutenberg. Publishing platforms are changing fast. I suspect in the medium to long term Medium’s …
Nov 30, 2018: Xeni Jardin on the Sandberg/Soros mess: If she was willing to do this over a mere billionaire, imagine what Facebook might have done in researching …
Nov 30, 2018: This is how credit card details were harvested from BA. I bet you use one of the sites on the list. Oh, and The Guardian is one of them. Major sites …
Nov 30, 2018: 🤦🏼♂️ Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
Nov 28, 2018: DJI leak reveals teeny-tiny Osmo Pocket gimbal Oh, this looks exciting for #mojo folks.
Nov 26, 2018: Looking good on the way back, too.
Nov 26, 2018: Different view for my “commute” this morning.
Nov 25, 2018: Beach life.
Nov 24, 2018: Hello.
Nov 24, 2018: Dr Pancakes is IN.
Nov 24, 2018: Last night I dreamt I was interviewing Jony Ive at Apple Park. Never gonna happen, but my goodness, that’s a conversation I’d like to have.
Nov 23, 2018: So, I’ve done the photos thing. Thanks @cleverdevil - looks good!
Nov 23, 2018: Success - new belt! #soobahkdo
Nov 23, 2018: Testing times for Iris… #soobahkdo
Nov 23, 2018: I feel this e-mail subject line is unlikely to be bettered today:
Nov 23, 2018: Iris wants you to know that she has pizza 🍕
Nov 22, 2018: While I do still love a good paper book, there are times that digital books are just so much more useful, especially in non-fiction.
Nov 22, 2018: After the social network, the new bloggers are coming… One of the things that I’m most angry with the social networks about is the way they deprived me of so many interesting voices. How many bloggers …
Nov 22, 2018: Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. (Prince Charming, Prince Charming)
Nov 22, 2018: Post-social network community building needed Warren Ellis I feel like I want to see some more thought around getting the fuck off social networks but being able to maintain lines of connection …
Nov 22, 2018: Time to kill off follower counts on social networks: As we increase the time we spend online, we also expose ourselves to the danger of measuring …
Nov 21, 2018: There’s no place like gnome
Nov 20, 2018: I was baffled and slightly depressed in what I was seeing in the analytics I was looking at. And then I realised I was looking at the wrong site’s …
Nov 20, 2018: Looks like Instagram’s down for a good chunk of the world. Average mental health of the population is improving slightly every second this continues…
Nov 20, 2018: Just topped up the bird food. Minor avian riot in progress in the back garden.
Nov 20, 2018: 5 degrees, rainy and grey. British autumn is here at last.
Nov 20, 2018: Old Toys I’m slightly concerned that I appear to have grown up in the last few years. Despite the exciting and shiny new iPad Pros released last week, I’m …
Nov 19, 2018: Build that web
Nov 19, 2018: I had my first proper (but quick) play with Adobe Premier Rush - and I’m tentatively impressed.
Nov 19, 2018: So, I wrote about the unintended consequences of partisan satire (based on the excellent WaPo story from yesterday) - and upset the partisan satirist. …
Nov 19, 2018: MediaGazer is really good at inflating my ego in a really unearned way, by putting me in some amazing company:
Nov 19, 2018: Just cleaned the en suite toilet so yes, obviously, I’m procrastinating.
Nov 18, 2018: Here’s a horrible insight into how digital tools and age-old psychology can turn satire into conspiracy theories. This is why the “fake news" of …
Nov 18, 2018: Touching. I feel very special…
Nov 17, 2018: Coffee date.
Nov 17, 2018: Stunning autumn morning in #shorehambysea
Nov 16, 2018: I need to have words with my teenage self about keeping negatives clean.
Nov 16, 2018: It’s amusing to see just how badly timed Zuckerberg’s decision to flip off a bunch of world governments was: Mark Zuckerberg to the governments of …
Nov 15, 2018: Only seven months between episodes…
Nov 15, 2018: The Ides of May There are times when I almost feel sorry for Theresa May. She is clearly trying her best to deliver something impossible, while being shot by both …
Nov 15, 2018: Here’s my incredibly sophisticated micro casting set-up, using Wavelength on my phone…
Nov 15, 2018: The Toxicity At The Top Of Facebook - And How We Need To Move The Social Media Conversation Forward Some (rambling) thoughts based on yesterday’s NYT piece on Facebook’s senior management and the appalling reaction to the revelations about the site.
Nov 15, 2018: There’s some new research out on smart speakers and news - and it’s a mixed bag. Use is growing fast, but people are unenthused by the current news …
Nov 15, 2018: Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting typos…
Nov 15, 2018: Really nice, measured take on the state of the iPad Pro from Charles Arthur.
Nov 15, 2018: I really recommend listening to this talk by Indy Johar from NEXT conference. Challenging and eye-opening.
Nov 15, 2018: Writing something to an embargo deadline for the first time in as long as I can remember. I almost feel like a real journalist again.
Nov 14, 2018: This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Medium’s UI and on-boarding experience - published on Medium. 🔥🔥🔥
Nov 14, 2018: Despite my previous post, I do enjoy binging on @Monday I find immersing myself in the community for a hour to be fun.
Nov 14, 2018: Catching up with a backlog of @monday posts is an odd experience - Just been through a run with a couple of people who have essentially left since.
Nov 13, 2018: Over a decade since my first download from the App Store. Not much use now.
Nov 13, 2018: This is super-handy: a Google web tool to optimise images for the web.
Nov 13, 2018: It bothers me that people think that Apple’s green initiatives are just “marketing”. It is possible for them to be both genuine, and good marketing, …
Nov 12, 2018: A caravan of bots and other updates from the misinformation wars.
Nov 12, 2018: Stan Lee has gone to the great bullpen in the sky. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the hyperbole and superheroics.
Nov 12, 2018: Y’know. I just realised - reading blogs used to - and often still does - make me happy, curious and energised. Reading social media rarely does any of …
Nov 12, 2018: The problem with not working between Thursday evening and late Monday afternoon is that your in-box ends up a place of misery and horror. But my …
Nov 12, 2018: Remember that Roman thing of having a slave whispering “remember you are mortal" to a triumphing general? We need that for every single person reading …
Nov 12, 2018: Fantastic issue of The Discourse, looking at the dynamics of online hostility - you really should be subscribed to this.
Nov 12, 2018: Things I am not going to do: take marriage advice from a never-married 23-year old “top writer in love, psychology, and relationships” on Medium.
Nov 11, 2018: I feel like those last two books are less likely than ever to get written… George R.R. Martin Developing Even More Shows For HBO
Nov 11, 2018: 11/11/18 - we shall remember them
Nov 10, 2018: Thou shalt not pass
Nov 9, 2018: If Apple could push iOS on iPad forward as fast and as thoughtfully as it’s developing the iPad Pro hardware, they’d be devouring this space. But …
Nov 8, 2018: Headline of the day: Satanic Temple Sues Netflix, Warner Over Sabrina Statue Copyright
Nov 8, 2018: I still find the idea that Apple has in-house metallurgists oddly cool.
Nov 3, 2018: Aberdeen, I am in you. #odcamp
Nov 1, 2018: My school helped shape key Bodyguard character… This is about The Bodyguard and the school I attended… Bowman, born in Dundee, told how he drew on his experience at Dollar Academy, near Stirling, …
Nov 1, 2018: Turns out friction might be good in social sharing.
Nov 1, 2018: Wikipedia has a paid editing problem — and it might be getting worse. I was approached by a paid editor a few weeks ago, offering to get me in…
Nov 1, 2018: Flickr makes some smart changes to its account structure while throwing some serious shade on Yahoo’s stewardship of the site.
Oct 31, 2018: Missed Halloween with my girls, but based on the evidence they had a great night. 🎃
Oct 31, 2018: Some good updates to Flickr. Now there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be writing.
Oct 30, 2018: Me, during today's Apple event Me during the first half of the Apple event: Me during the second half of the Apple event:
Oct 30, 2018: Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 years ago.
Oct 30, 2018: Watching the new iPad Pro stuff, I’m becoming increasing convinced that my current MacBook Pro will be my last.
Oct 30, 2018: OK, this is why Tim is so excited. He’s an iPad Pro man.
Oct 30, 2018: Blimey. Rare stage appearance from Angela Ahrendts.
Oct 30, 2018: Oh, hello Mac Mini. Welcome back.
Oct 30, 2018: Yeah, the 100% recycled aluminium thing is cool. Nice work, Apple. Long-lasting devices made from recycled materials is much lighter on the planet.
Oct 30, 2018: Ooooh. TouchID without the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Air.
Oct 30, 2018: Tim Cook really does seem unusually enthusiastic today.
Oct 29, 2018: Getting spooky around here.
Oct 29, 2018: “Influencers” — cheapening the web one post at a time.
Oct 29, 2018: Vogue says “bonjour” to Hong Kong and “au revoir" to Snapchat.
Oct 29, 2018: Y’know, if Twitter really does pull Likes from its platform, it really validates one of the design decisions @manton made for micro.blog.
Oct 29, 2018: Twitter to UnLike Likes?
Oct 28, 2018: It’s useful to remember that social media can be tremendously helpful at times, even in the current climate: Social media’s not all bad – it’s saving …
Oct 28, 2018: It seems clear that Zuckerberg has a more total control over Facebook than, say, Jobs ever did over Apple: Facebook’s Flawed DNA Makes It Unable to …
Oct 28, 2018: Now, this is an old pen. #sixapart #movabletype
Oct 28, 2018: Our back garden tree is handling the daily countdown to winter admirably.
Oct 28, 2018: Case in point: my two most used blog platforms - ghost and micro.blog - are both new(ish) and have very different ideas of what publishing could look …
Oct 28, 2018: A non-obituary for blogging The “blogging is dead” meme that seems to have settled into the consciousness of swathes of media is both patently wrong - glance at fashion or travel …
Oct 27, 2018: Hey, you, the library crew.
Oct 25, 2018: Oh, Google. This is shameful. How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New York Times
Oct 25, 2018: Epic skies!
Oct 25, 2018: My contribution to the digital fix debate is out in print… …in German.
Oct 25, 2018: Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!
Oct 24, 2018: Many #interhacktives hands make…
Oct 24, 2018: It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…
Oct 22, 2018: The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.
Oct 22, 2018: The conclusion of today’s experiments: my 5 year old MacBook Pro is still good for 4k video editing (with proxy media). But the desktop really isn’t …
Oct 22, 2018: Blogging is dead… …unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear in marketing emails.
Oct 22, 2018: How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.
Oct 22, 2018: Government needs to break the tech roach motels. Data portability FTW.
Oct 22, 2018: Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy media settings.
Oct 21, 2018: Queen of the whole damn forest
Oct 19, 2018: Dusk feeders
Oct 19, 2018: Bloody hell: Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs Still, he has a consistent pattern of bad partnerships…
Oct 19, 2018: I, for one, welcome our new Swedish Queen and a return to farcical aquatic ceremonies as a justification for executive power.
Oct 18, 2018: Just a fungi to be with.
Oct 18, 2018: This is interesting - despite some of the recent backlash, podcasts are still big enough business that the iTunes rankings are worth manipulating: …
Oct 18, 2018: Having a very Brighton morning.
Oct 18, 2018: Brighton, I am in you.
Oct 18, 2018: I never knew there was an Autumn emoji. 🍂
Oct 16, 2018: Autumn is well and truly here.
Oct 16, 2018: My brain is a ridiculous place. I have an enforced day off because my youngest is unwell - but I’m still feeling guilty.
Oct 12, 2018: I have co-authored books with Chuck. Chuck is a good person. This makes me very cross.
Oct 12, 2018: This is an eye-opening read about the biggest issue of the next 15 years: How to deal with despair over climate change - Vox
Oct 11, 2018: Barbados, late 2011 I’ve just been pottering around editing some old photos, from our last pre-children holiday. Two days after I got back, my life changed forever in two …
Oct 11, 2018: Now, that’s what I call release notes. 💯 👌🏻
Oct 11, 2018: Finally writing the three new training course descriptions I’ve been itching to launch for months. Let’s hope people are itching to go on them, too!
Oct 10, 2018: I backed this film on Kickstarter, and can’t wait to finally see it: Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop
Oct 10, 2018: Feeling guilty about accidentally leaving my reusable coffee cup behind.
Oct 9, 2018: If you’re a Brit who remembers the 70s, this album is a joy: Matt Berry - TV Themes
Oct 9, 2018: Such a lovely, simple concept: Technology is no longer scarce, our attention is. Technology is breaking our attention. Tech should consume as little …
Oct 9, 2018: Just been editing and adding links to this #next18 piece, and David Mattin’s framework for viewing new technologies is both useful and a little …
Oct 8, 2018: Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure I’ll skip the obvious jokes and just say “oh, what could have been”. #interhacktives
Oct 8, 2018: This is a whole bag of “nope” from me: Facebook announces Portal, its new video chatting hardware
Oct 8, 2018: This, right here, is why men need feminism, too. Clichéd gender roles are harming both sexes. How Men Get Penalized for Straying from Masculine Norms
Oct 7, 2018: The weekend finishing on a high note.
Oct 6, 2018: The new raincoat passes muster.
Oct 6, 2018: Friday’s End
Oct 5, 2018: Stunning weather up on the South Downs today.
Oct 5, 2018: Selfies Have Led to 259+ Deaths Since 2011 🤦🏼♂️
Oct 5, 2018: I’ve run out of Aeropress filters 😱
Oct 5, 2018: What a stunning morning,
Oct 4, 2018: Hello, micro.blog. Show me nice things to remind me why I like social media…
Oct 4, 2018: The two basics of digital #journalism that too many people forget: Attention and Atomisation
Oct 4, 2018: Much as I love Wikipedia, its process for assessing the notability of people is seriously flawed, and far too depended on coverage in the mainstream …
Oct 2, 2018: Oh, hello.
Oct 2, 2018: The best single feature in Safari is its ability to search all the open tabs on any device tied to your iCloud account. I use that every single day.
Oct 2, 2018: “Hey, Siri. Play something I’ll like.” “OK. Let’s press play. Here’s the Corrs.” Oh, we’re going straight to the dark place are we, Siri?
Oct 2, 2018: What I loved about this #next18 talk by @ecomoliterno — apart from the energy of the delivery — was the focus on digital solving local problems with …
Oct 2, 2018: My family is actively trying to reduce our use of Amazon. This talk from @t3killer at #NEXT18 was an inspiring look at a possible future for local …
Oct 2, 2018: Andrew Keen’s five point plan for fixing digital, from #next18.
Oct 2, 2018: New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: Star Wars: Russian Bots May Have Derailed The Last …
Oct 1, 2018: My September in 32 seconds… Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…
Oct 1, 2018: September in one second every day. #1seme
Oct 1, 2018: Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. 🤔🙄
Sep 30, 2018: Current status:
Sep 30, 2018: I’m reminded today that what I read has a huge impact on my stress levels. Stuff about social media, and publishing and new tech: surprisingly …
Sep 27, 2018: Stunning day.
Sep 26, 2018: Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is why:
Sep 25, 2018: Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012: Can Instagram live on if its founders leave? The best advice Systrom read was that …
Sep 25, 2018: Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. Insta’s semi-autonomy from the rest of the Big Blue …
Sep 25, 2018: Working in MacOS Mohave’s dark mode. Interesting - will take a while to get used to (if I stick with it).
Sep 23, 2018: This is a beautiful little poem: Woodsmoke: A Poem
Sep 22, 2018: Hamburg, this afternoon:
Sep 21, 2018: Current status:
Sep 21, 2018: My kind of place.
Sep 21, 2018: This talk about human higher order needs and tech was just fascinating… David Mattin: New technologies and the search for meaning | NEXT Conference
Sep 20, 2018: Lots of failure you can learn from here - including the spray-on condom. Yes, really.
Sep 20, 2018: Rolled up foam for chairs. Interesting. (Haven’t dared try one yet.)
Sep 20, 2018: The #next18 live-blogging station set and ready.
Sep 20, 2018: Apparently hotel Wi-fi doesn’t always have to suck.
Sep 19, 2018: Badged. #next18
Sep 19, 2018: All wristbanded up for @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival #next18
Sep 19, 2018: I have a desk mate for the afternoon…
Sep 19, 2018: Well. I’m glad the horrible turbulence was at the start of the trip…
Sep 19, 2018: Leaving behind a grey London for Hamburg and @nextconf and #next18
Sep 18, 2018: Having one of those days that remind me why I’m self-employed. How did I put up with corporate stuff fo so long?
Sep 17, 2018: Tonight’s agenda:
Sep 17, 2018: Hard to disagree with this: Bring Back the Shadows: The Case Against HDR
Sep 16, 2018: Beach picnic
Sep 16, 2018: Just blew some reward points on a Heathrow hotel the night before my flight to Hamburg on Wednesday morning. Take the stress off, a little.
Sep 16, 2018: Beach Life, September 16th
Sep 15, 2018: What could possibly go wrong? Camping Tent Raft
Sep 14, 2018: The babychino basked in the afternoon sun, blissfully unaware that a predator was about to pounce…
Sep 14, 2018: Apple invents way more than Samsung or Google in phones - but “borrows” more, too. New iPhones, new Galaxies: Who’s the bigger copycat?
Sep 14, 2018: I’d love to see more cities do this: The entire city of Paris will be car-free for a day
Sep 14, 2018: I’m pleased to say that The Guardian are now acknowledging their earlier daily podcasts — but my point about lack of institutional knowledge retention …
Sep 14, 2018: Goodness. Some of the Apple Watch Series 4 variants have slipped back 10 days in shipping already.
Sep 13, 2018: Decided that I’m not going to upgrade my Series 2 Apple Watch to a Series 4. It still works great, so why not get another year out of it? This piece …
Sep 12, 2018: Catching up on the Apple news after the journalism event I’ve been at. Don’t need to upgrade my iPhone X, and not super excited by the new one. …
Sep 12, 2018: Final proof that I love journalism more than I love Apple: I’ll be in the launch of some research into journalism and social media while the Apple …
Sep 12, 2018: I’d love to see this book funded: Parkinson’s and the Tango Effect by Kate Swindlehurst: Unbound Please consider backing it if you’re interested in …
Sep 12, 2018: This makes me sad. The Guardian was once a genuine innovator in the field of podcasts - and it both abandoned that and then forgot it ever happened. …
Sep 12, 2018: Reading about the floods in Kerala and the clean up afterwards has been sobering. A year ago I visited the region to work with Malayala Manorama the …
Sep 11, 2018: Fabulous reminiscences of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton which starts with an attack by the book burners.
Sep 11, 2018: Some interesting thoughts about the lack of distinctive richness in our online social profiles: Social networks & the online reality of identity
Sep 11, 2018: snigger ‘I Let Everyone Down’: A Blogger Apologizes For Not Posting In A While
Sep 11, 2018: Wishing I’d brought a cot to the school “gate”.
Sep 11, 2018: “Spray and Pray” is not a viable social media strategy for newsrooms. It’s worrying how often it is the default, though.
Sep 11, 2018: Interesting piece on what’s shaping up to be GamerGate’s sibling,a dn another example of the extreme right’s cultural playbook: Figuring Out …
Sep 11, 2018: Starting on this as soon as the girls get home: I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter
Sep 11, 2018: Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) for email newsletters on Substack’s platform
Sep 11, 2018: Nice to see them cracking on with the flood defence work.
Sep 11, 2018: One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing “send” you often lose subscribers, as your lists …
Sep 11, 2018: That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a second newsletter TBH.
Sep 11, 2018: Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up for linky goodness in your inbox.
Sep 11, 2018: A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Hardback) - Routledge
Sep 11, 2018: I was podding about on Twitter last night and was about to do a comment retweet on something when I realised that doing so wouldn’t really benefit …
Sep 11, 2018: Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his e-mail first thing in the morning.
Sep 10, 2018: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? I found Zuckerberg straining, not always coherently, to grasp problems for which he was …
Sep 10, 2018: The internet is basically a stroppy teenager, getting in trouble with the authorities, and making us all wish it would just hurry up and grow up: …
Sep 10, 2018: The Imperious Imposters of Journalism Innovation
Sep 10, 2018: I love blogging. I really do. But it does feel like getting traffic to OM&HB is harder then ever. I can’t recall a time in past 15 years that …
Sep 10, 2018: Just for my microblog chums, this is the piece I was referring to: Don’t be an influencer, by a grumpy old blogger.
Sep 10, 2018: Just spent a couple of hours writing a blog post, which pretty much guarantees nobody will ever read it. Why is traffic so often inversely …
Sep 10, 2018: Gah. Just spend a while constructing a post around a new feature of the CMS I use for One Man & His Blog - and realised that I have to wait for my …
Sep 10, 2018: A little thinking on the serious violence and murders in India that follow WhatsApp-spread misinformation. Is our knee-jerk reaction of blaming the …
Sep 10, 2018: This is a fascinating read: UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440
Sep 9, 2018: Perfect day for a walk on Shoreham Beach
Sep 8, 2018: I spent ages earlier looking for my green screen cleaning cloth. I just found it.
Sep 8, 2018: Villiers Street, London - 1994 I’ve been scanning some old negatives in a pretty random way - just grab a packet and scan whatever’s in there. This particular film was shot in late …
Sep 6, 2018: Gone to seed.
Sep 6, 2018: Testing a new mobile working set-up, with the iPad Pro 12.9 and the new Mark II Brydge keyboard…
Sep 5, 2018: Could the way we read online be contributing to the polarisation of politics? Quite possibly.
Sep 5, 2018: My goodness. An update to Flickr!: All new Flickr galleries
Sep 4, 2018: Homework time. #backtoschool
Sep 4, 2018: Amazon is losing out to Google in the in-house spy…I mean “smart speaker”… market. This is probably Google’s game now
Sep 4, 2018: On the psychological impact of social media: ‘I had trained my mind to flit like a nervous sparrow’
Sep 4, 2018: While Mastadon is interesting - the fact it so closely replicated the Twitter experience means it’s just as likely to become toxic in the long term. …
Sep 4, 2018: Parenting, Twitter-style I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter Instead of family meetings where everyone has an equal voice, and where feelings and concerns …
Sep 4, 2018: Abusive tweets to MPs ‘more than double’ between elections — given that Twitter’s user numbers were pretty close to flat over that period, this really …
Sep 3, 2018: RIP Jacqueline Pearce Servalan was a defining character of Blake’s 7, and hence of TV culture for a while…
Sep 3, 2018: Pre-school shoe fitting. Hazel needs new school and casual shoes. 💰🙄 (grumpy Dad mode in full effect.) 😂
Sep 2, 2018: Dusk.
Sep 2, 2018: Deploying the @fabsilofficial to renovate an old #tent
Sep 2, 2018: Testing my original tent from 22 years ago! It’s not been used for 8 years, but is still in good nick. Need a little re-waterproofing of the fly, and …
Sep 2, 2018: Testing the waterproofing on a 22 year old tent.
Sep 1, 2018: More of nature’s bounty
Sep 1, 2018: Fallen bounty.
Sep 1, 2018: Camp life. #camping #newforest #campingintheforest #ashurst #outwell
Sep 1, 2018: Apples. (Doing a first pass on the photos from our camping holiday).
Aug 28, 2018: Cycle racks in place. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
Aug 26, 2018: Perfect day for a beach walk!
Aug 25, 2018: Watching the babychinos being made in @tomfoolery.coffee
Aug 24, 2018: OMG. Too much cute… We Didn’t Start The Fire (Harry Potter Parody)
Aug 24, 2018: Wands: serious business.
Aug 24, 2018: Amazing weather for a day at @springbarnfarm - not too hot, not too cold and some dramatic skies!
Aug 23, 2018: One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0
Aug 22, 2018: I’m excited to say that I’m a contributor to a new book on fixing our digital life, to be published in German and English. My fellow authors are a …
Aug 22, 2018: In severe danger of going full brony.
Aug 21, 2018: I’m cringing now to beat the rush. The BBC is doing a new drama about journalism.
Aug 20, 2018: I have earned this today.
Aug 20, 2018: Do I deserve a beer tonight?
Aug 20, 2018: I suspect that the context collapse created by retweeting may be the single biggest mistake Twitter has ever made.
Aug 20, 2018: Hacking your SIM card to hack your Instagram. There’s Bitcoin in them there account names.
Aug 20, 2018: Reasons I’m glad I cleared up my study before starting work: I was able to grab my macro lens for a blog post photo in seconds. This is… rare.
Aug 20, 2018: The new Doctor Who writing and directing team. It’s a lot more diverse than in the past.
Aug 20, 2018: Doing tab archeology. The current wave of tabs I’m working through seem to be from May(!).
Aug 20, 2018: @adders on Instagram
Aug 20, 2018: The web shouldn’t all be about recency - we stand to lose too much valuable information if we think that way.
Aug 20, 2018: This talk by @kevinmarks nearly five years ago is still painfully relevant now.
Aug 20, 2018: “sports luxe”? 🤔
Aug 20, 2018: After the rain…
Aug 20, 2018: Poked at Mastadon for the first time in a while. Great idea, but the UX still needs work. I’m quite good at this stuff and still found it confusing.
Aug 18, 2018: inessential: No Ill Effects: Twitter from the outside now looks like a massive world-wide frenzy for no reason. It’s the illusion of something …
Aug 18, 2018: Calm Technology knows it is useful – but also knows its place
Aug 18, 2018: Thanks for that, Netflix.
Aug 18, 2018: I’m getting more verbose as I age. Set out to write 600 to 700 words. Currently sitting at 1,200.
Aug 18, 2018: Do you what I like about smart speakers? They just sit quietly, waiting to be called upon, while mobile phones behave like noisy, annoying insecure …
Aug 16, 2018: Heavyweight reading.
Aug 16, 2018: Coffee and the latest issue of Standart. Perfect.
Aug 16, 2018: Enjoying my copy of @standartmag #nobodybuysbooks and my @aero.press winner collectors card
Aug 16, 2018: Exploring the babychino options in town. This one, from Ginger & Dobschütz, got full marks from Hazel.
Aug 15, 2018: Um, OK.
Aug 15, 2018: This is a sobering read about the dehumanisation deep in the psychology of some Silicon Valley coders. History repeats itself - this mirror the abuses …
Aug 15, 2018: Maybe writing about CMSes isn’t a path to viral content success - but it matters to me. 😎 Content Management Systems: could Vox Media make build a …
Aug 15, 2018: I love “less is more" journalism models. This one is from India: The Ken raises $1.5M in its Series A Round
Aug 15, 2018: Some rather curious - and possibly co-ordinated - Instagram hacking going on. Worth watching.
Aug 14, 2018: I just realised what you get if you spell my youngest’s name backwards. Hey, Iris…
Aug 14, 2018: Steyning Adventure A school holidays adventure day exploring a neighbouring town.
Aug 14, 2018: A basket full of soft toys
Aug 13, 2018: The mask slips, just a little: Facebook traffic to publishers is gone - and Campbell Brown just erected its tombstone
Aug 13, 2018: How Facebook distorted human interactions on the altar of engagement.
Aug 13, 2018: Nice contextualisation: How to get human time back from technology
Aug 13, 2018: Really enjoyed editing and prepping for publication a guest post for the Next Conference blog. However, it did remind me yet again how often we …
Aug 12, 2018: Sunday afternoon crafting.
Aug 12, 2018: #huji #selfie
Aug 11, 2018: Someone who self-describes as “brutally honest” is probably either a delusional bully or just plain rude.
Aug 11, 2018: Once upon a time, I was generally excellent.
Aug 10, 2018: Not getting on the wrong side of Iris if I can help it…
Aug 10, 2018: Gotta say - I’m proud of my wee girl.
Aug 9, 2018: The time has come…
Aug 8, 2018: The interesting thing not really explored by the article, is that the rating the author puts himself through is just a more extreme version of what …
Aug 4, 2018: Bluetooth keyboard for an iPhone? Sure!
Aug 4, 2018: Happy post-holiday reading.
Aug 4, 2018: Love a bit of skyscraper porn: This week, images of Europe’s tallest skyscraper were revealed
Jul 25, 2018: Interesting - Slack has shifted their blog off Medium to WordPress. Now at: slackhq.com
Jul 24, 2018: Lovely piece about both the incredible potential of computational photography - and the romance of film.
Jul 24, 2018: My goodness, this makes me want to visit Sweden. (Especially the cabin/boat thing. Want.)
Jul 24, 2018: You have to wonder if anyone at Facebook has ever heard the phrase “when in a hole, stop digging”.
Jul 23, 2018: Watching your partner fall in love with someone else - on Strava. Leaky public data and unintended consequences…
Jul 23, 2018: The worst typo when you meant “general"
Jul 23, 2018: I’ve been largely absent from Twitter for months. I’ve been giving a little thought as to why: Twitter’s “them and us" problem
Jul 23, 2018: “Civility always; servility never”: In this grim age of Trump and Brexit, online fury is a dead end for the left
Jul 22, 2018: It’s getting to the point when I find a corporate or organisation “blog” that actually has an RSS feed, I’m surprised. We’ve fallen a long way on …
Jul 22, 2018: Sunday morning is coffee time!
Jul 22, 2018: This is not the Beano of my youth - and that’s a good thing: Beano Launches New Comic Strip Focused On Mobile Phones And Kids' Mental Health
Jul 20, 2018: Hazel’s getting really good now.
Jul 20, 2018: New belt for Iris.
Jul 19, 2018: Under 50 e-mails in my inbox. 🙌🏻
Jul 17, 2018: This is a really good listen on the social problems of the social web Ellen Pao on Ezra Kelin’s podcast.
Jul 17, 2018: Greta piece by Om Malik on follower counts and the dangers of seeing social media as a broadcast channel: “Fake Followers” are “Social Spam”
Jul 17, 2018: This is a fascinating read on the need for context to properly frame historic photos and their meaning.
Jul 17, 2018: Nope Nope Nope Nope
Jul 13, 2018: My little ninja’s successful first test. New belt!
Jul 13, 2018: This really is another step towards the iPad becoming the default creative tool for many: Adobe to Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift
Jul 12, 2018: Is Apple doing away with its in-built book printing services? Did I miss an announcement?
Jul 10, 2018: Tactical approached to combatting misinformation only get us so far - and people are dying now. Time to start thinking about this strategically at a …
Jul 9, 2018: I have to say, this is not the sort of story you hope to read about a former student: The Times Has Sacked An Award-Winning Reporter For Running A …
Jul 7, 2018: A place in the shade, an espresso, an iPad and my daughter’s Rainbows troop in the distance. Good living. 👌🏻
Jul 7, 2018: Now, this is how a cartoonist takes his revenge…
Jul 7, 2018: Busy pulling together my curated reads newsletter for the first time in over three months (!). If you want it hot and fresh in your in-box, you can …
Jul 6, 2018: Result.
Jul 6, 2018: This is a compelling story charting the rise of a toxic online male culture that led to incel violence.
Jul 6, 2018: This is a thoughtful and useful piece: You don’t have to live in public
Jul 6, 2018: That was a long time ago. The book is browning at the edges…
Jul 5, 2018: These are my notes from a talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at LeWeb back in 2014. He was starting to say things we weren’t ready to hear back then…
Jul 5, 2018: For focused writing, Markdown is your best friend. Tru dat.
Jul 5, 2018: Goodness. Who know that my old pro gaming work might open the door to a new career? Digital companies are using after work D&D games to boost morale. …
Jul 5, 2018: Bless Blizzard and the Overwatch team for doing something that allows me to write “a teeny tiny digital murder rodent" in a Serious Piece I am writing …
Jul 5, 2018: The creator of the World Wide Web is fighting to reclaim it from the Duopoly - if you don’t care about re-decentralising the web, you don’t understand …
Jul 5, 2018: Good morning. Hard at work in my favourite coffee shop.
Jul 5, 2018: The Web has become anti-human Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t mince his words: “We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, …
Jul 4, 2018: Beer, beer, beer… what?
Jul 4, 2018: Note to self: never try to analyse the physics of PAW Patrol. (But where does the water for Marshall’s backpack water jets come from?)
Jul 4, 2018: Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.
Jul 4, 2018: Psychologists have looked into why “phubbing” is so harmful to our social lives - no big surprises, but it confirms what you might guess. It’s the …
Jul 4, 2018: Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?
Jul 3, 2018: This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was writing about this nearly 20 years ago for Estates …
Jul 3, 2018: Oh, GoPro, you make great cameras, but your marketing is so dumb
Jul 3, 2018: The sheer hell of living here on a day like today… 😇
Jul 3, 2018: These boats need some TLC, though.
Jul 3, 2018: Down by the coast is the best place to be in this heat.
Jul 3, 2018: This looks like a good hire - hopefully Apple’s streaming video offering won’t be US-centric by a year or two in: Apple hires BBC Films veteran for …
Jul 3, 2018: My inbox is down to 10% of where I started - at 50 e-mails. Coffee time, and then I start catching up on invoices and diary management.
Jul 3, 2018: Ugh. I have unanswered email going back six weeks. I really did lose control of my diary.
Jul 2, 2018: Now, can I still post?
Jul 2, 2018: OK - about to nuke the newer of the two accounts. Hopefully I’ll still be able to post afterwards…
Jul 2, 2018: One micro-blog account, twice. A seemingly irresolvable issue. I’m a bit at a loss as to what to do with my account here. Due to some weirdness, I’m paying for it twice, once as a blog only account, once as a …
Jun 28, 2018: Nearly done writing several thousand words for an actual book. How delightlyful old-school, in-depth and focused.
Jun 28, 2018: Overheard in my local coffee shop: “Oh, dear, we’re out of avocadoes.” OMG THE MILLENIALS ARE HERE.
Jun 20, 2018: How this for slow blogging? I just published a post I wrote in 2008. Going online: be brave
Jun 19, 2018: Facebook to small publishers: no Instant Articles for you.
Jun 19, 2018: 21st century communication: not only am I desperately behind on my correspondence, half the time I an’t remember where it is. Is it Twitter DMs or …
Jun 19, 2018: That felt good. I did something that I thought other people might find interesting - and blogged about it straight well. As I used to teach: “Connect …
Jun 19, 2018: A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for what looks like a great book.)
Jun 18, 2018: Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally outsourcing relationship management to an uncaring …
Jun 14, 2018: iOS’s in-built screen recorder is an absolute Godsend for supporting family members.
Jun 12, 2018: A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other things.
Jun 5, 2018: Why do I find it easier to network to find my former students work, than to get myself more gigs? 🤔
Jun 5, 2018: Gah. The result of being with my children for pretty much all of the last 10 days is that I don’t have my Earpods on me, and I am now annoyed.
Jun 4, 2018: I’m really happy with that WWDC keynote. Nothing that costs me money, and lots of quality of life improvements to my existing devices.
Jun 4, 2018: I’m enjoying the not-so-subtle shade being thrown at Facebook and its products in the screenshots here. #wwdc18
May 26, 2018: Astonishing to think this space tech is 19 years old now…
May 26, 2018: Not sure this is a great message for the future of the journalism business…
May 25, 2018: Just when you thought you were safe from GDPR - the app updates begin.
May 25, 2018: Happy GDPR day!
May 24, 2018: RIP StumbleUpon. Once you were a great way of finding stuff to read in a lunch break. StumbleUpon is calling it quits after 16 years
May 21, 2018: Bitcoin is a massive environmental threat - really Astonishing. Bitcoin may be undoing decades of progress on renewable energy: By late next year, bitcoin could be consuming more electricity than all …
May 21, 2018: Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.
May 21, 2018: Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak
May 21, 2018: Reading this post by a former colleague makes me realise that I’ve really lost the skill of personal blogging over the last decade.
May 19, 2018: I have to confess, I paid basically zero attention to the royal wedding in the build up to it. But seeing the royals give a hearty two fingers to the …
May 18, 2018: Pitch of the day: I am writing because I would like to write an article reviewing the best fleshlights on the market and then discuss whether they …
May 17, 2018: Finishing the day right: wine, iPad and RSS feeds
May 17, 2018: So, it turns out that Storyful journalists could see which videos their newsroom clients were watching… Not the social media verification company’s …
May 17, 2018: “I am about to lecture you about…” is always a more accurate description of articles headlined “We need to talk about…”
May 17, 2018: I’m ready for the flood defence works to be finished now. (I’m grateful and all, but…)
May 17, 2018: I’m up to date on my invoicing. This is an unfamiliar feeling for me.
May 17, 2018: After 5 years, I’m actually getting good at making a note of what fee was agreed for a project. Makes invoicing a lot swifter…
May 17, 2018: New reading matter.
May 17, 2018: Hmm. My mobile sessions have shot up to just over half of traffic. That suggests that I hit an audience outside my normal crowd of desk-based journos. …
May 16, 2018: One of those days when I thought I’d knocked it out of the park with a post — and everyone goes “meh”. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
May 16, 2018: Facebook’s approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling.
May 16, 2018: Sometimes wasted time is not wasted… On wasting time and triggering new discoveries
May 16, 2018: This is insanely cool - customised Westwood, using Newton’s own Star Wars figure collection: Thandie Newton Wears a Fabulous Homage to Her Star Wars …
May 15, 2018: I should have a blogroll again.
May 15, 2018: The man who coined the term blog has been blogging for 20 years.
May 15, 2018: Five years of blog platform Ghost - a podcast
May 15, 2018: Life lesson from the last week: potty training and illness co-inciding in the same child is not a great situation.
May 14, 2018: This post makes me both deeply nostalgic and deeply, deeply sad.
May 14, 2018: The Stories format matters - because it tells us something about what the smartphone is doing to media.
May 14, 2018: Got a new look for those people who subscribe to my blog by e-mail.
May 14, 2018: Having fun doing my homework The last five weeks or so have seen me away from home on business more than I’ve ever been before. I’ve been to Europe, the middle east, America and …
May 14, 2018: Having fun doing my homework The last five weeks or so have seen me away from home on business more than I’ve ever been before. I’ve been to Europe, the middle east, America and …
May 14, 2018: Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace the rubber seal.
May 14, 2018: Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace the rubber seal.
May 12, 2018: And on the way home… <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/e3c094fd91.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
May 12, 2018: And on the way home…
May 12, 2018: That was worth the walk. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f209b428f4.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
May 12, 2018: That was worth the walk.
May 11, 2018: Medium: destroyer of journalism
May 11, 2018: Medium: destroyer of journalism
May 10, 2018: Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.
May 10, 2018: Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.
May 10, 2018: Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.
May 10, 2018: Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.
May 10, 2018: In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend it on stage at LeWeb.
May 10, 2018: In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend it on stage at LeWeb.
May 10, 2018: We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.
May 10, 2018: We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.
May 10, 2018: Pop goes the influencer.
May 10, 2018: Pop goes the influencer.
May 10, 2018: The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook.
May 10, 2018: The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook.
May 10, 2018: Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.
May 10, 2018: Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.
May 8, 2018: Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/93fca046c0.jpg" …
May 8, 2018: Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there.
May 6, 2018: What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)
May 6, 2018: What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)
May 6, 2018: Medium goes all in on being a social network for content
May 6, 2018: Medium goes all in on being a social network for content
May 5, 2018: Beach Life The sun is actually out for a Bank Holiday weekend, so we made the arduous five minutes‘ walk to the beach for a little relaxation.
May 5, 2018: First water shoes day of the year. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/11ec96082d.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
May 5, 2018: First water shoes day of the year.
May 5, 2018: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
May 5, 2018: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
May 5, 2018: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
May 5, 2018: A shellfull on the beach today. 🐚 🐚 🐚
May 4, 2018: And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane? <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/ae6fe35bd3.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
May 4, 2018: And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane?
May 3, 2018: Still struggling with two micro.blog accounts with identical names - and no idea which one each post it going to. I wonder if anyone’s even seeing …
May 3, 2018: Still struggling with two micro.blog accounts with identical names - and no idea which one each post it going to. I wonder if anyone’s even seeing …
May 3, 2018: Olympic dreams.
May 3, 2018: Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18 <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/631e2e80b3.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
May 3, 2018: Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18
May 3, 2018: Hello, Belinda Carlisle #ifswoco18 <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/fa668ddeba.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
May 3, 2018: Hello, Belinda Carlisle #ifswoco18
May 2, 2018: Mr Rick Astley working it tonight.
May 2, 2018: Room not found.
May 1, 2018: Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.
May 1, 2018: Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.
May 1, 2018: A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?
May 1, 2018: A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?
Apr 30, 2018: Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/bedcc68e31.jpg" width=“600” …
Apr 30, 2018: Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month.
Apr 30, 2018: Here we go again. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/4dc56245c3.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 30, 2018: Here we go again.
Apr 29, 2018: Sunday morning beach walk. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/39bd6d1143.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
Apr 29, 2018: Sunday morning beach walk.
Apr 29, 2018: Sailing under stormy skies on #shorehambeach
Apr 28, 2018: Calm out today. #shorehambysea
Apr 26, 2018: This made me laugh slightly too hard: >“I’m pretty sure anyone who has kids knows how hard it is to keep a house clean.” Then he wandered into the …
Apr 26, 2018: This made me laugh slightly too hard: “I’m pretty sure anyone who has kids knows how hard it is to keep a house clean.” Then he wandered into the …
Apr 26, 2018: Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the problems with digital.
Apr 26, 2018: Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the problems with digital.
Apr 26, 2018: Oh, dear. Started looking at a bunch of things and people I thought were interesting advocates for a better digital future - and find a bunch of …
Apr 26, 2018: Oh, dear. Started looking at a bunch of things and people I thought were interesting advocates for a better digital future - and find a bunch of …
Apr 26, 2018: A little help folks? Can you suggest some other people fighting for a better digital world, like @manton with this service, and the indie web …
Apr 26, 2018: A little help folks? Can you suggest some other people fighting for a better digital world, like @manton with this service, and the indie web …
Apr 25, 2018: Not hard to guess where I am today…
Apr 24, 2018: I just ran out of coffee. 😱
Apr 24, 2018: I just ran out of coffee. 😱
Apr 23, 2018: I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite special. <img …
Apr 23, 2018: I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite special.
Apr 23, 2018: Worthing #worthless campaign.
Apr 23, 2018: The thing I loved about Saturday’s education protest is that it wasn’t the normal suspects, but angry parents and children exercising their rights to …
Apr 23, 2018: Home made protest signs are the best protest signs.
Apr 22, 2018: Get in. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 22, 2018: Get in. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 22, 2018: Get in.
Apr 22, 2018: Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
Apr 22, 2018: Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
Apr 22, 2018: Beach life.
Apr 21, 2018: Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/9936404bac.jpg" width=“600” …
Apr 21, 2018: Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts.
Apr 21, 2018: This looks like good news. Flickr is finally back in the hands of a smart, photo-centric company: SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon’s …
Apr 21, 2018: This looks like good news. Flickr is finally back in the hands of a smart, photo-centric company: SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon’s …
Apr 20, 2018: Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/5c1d4012f7.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 20, 2018: Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram:
Apr 20, 2018: Well, that does look like we’re having a heatwave, doesn’t it?
Apr 19, 2018: I’m really excited by the theme of #NEXT18 in Hamburg this September: Digital Fix - because if we can’t give up our digital fix, we need to fix …
Apr 19, 2018: I’m really excited by the theme of #NEXT18 in Hamburg this September: Digital Fix - because if we can’t give up our digital fix, we need to fix …
Apr 19, 2018: This one’s growing up terrifyingly fast.
Apr 19, 2018: Such a shy, retiring girl.
Apr 19, 2018: Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…
Apr 19, 2018: Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…
Apr 19, 2018: First pub garden opportunity of the year. ☀️ 🍺
Apr 18, 2018: Where did all those GDPR Consultants come from? Benjamin Ellis: > Actually, I’m not wearing a hat at all right now. I’ve taken it off to the veritable swarm of newly minted ‘GDPR Consultants’ who …
Apr 18, 2018: Where did all those GDPR Consultants come from? Benjamin Ellis: Actually, I’m not wearing a hat at all right now. I’ve taken it off to the veritable swarm of newly minted ‘GDPR Consultants’ who …
Apr 16, 2018: British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/b5d75d466f.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 16, 2018: British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home.
Apr 16, 2018: Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/092e9772b1.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 16, 2018: Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister:
Apr 16, 2018: Today’s office view: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/06a4232187.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 16, 2018: Today’s office view:
Apr 16, 2018: Today’s office view: <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/06a4232187.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 16, 2018: On a @british_airways @boeing 787 from Abu Dhabi. Premium economy for the night flight.
Apr 16, 2018: Walking the #hotelcorridors
Apr 16, 2018: Today’s office view.
Apr 15, 2018: Now this is a good idea: the UAE is planning day visas for passengers transiting through Dubai. Break that long haul for a day of R’n’R.
Apr 15, 2018: Now this is a good idea: the UAE is planning day visas for passengers transiting through Dubai. Break that long haul for a day of R’n’R.
Apr 15, 2018: You can’t beat moody lighting and flowers in a hotel reception, can you?
Apr 15, 2018: Nice to have a hotel right next door to the client.
Apr 14, 2018: Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤 <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/b6fcef8449.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
Apr 14, 2018: Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤
Apr 14, 2018: Hello, Abu Dhabi.
Apr 14, 2018: Hello, Abu Dhabi.
Apr 13, 2018: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
Apr 13, 2018: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
Apr 13, 2018: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
Apr 13, 2018: First Microcast Just a first attempt at using Wavelength.
Apr 13, 2018: Well, blast. I just tried to add podcasting to my account, to play with Wavelength. I now I appear to have two micro.blogs with the same name. And …
Apr 13, 2018: Well, blast. I just tried to add podcasting to my account, to play with Wavelength. I now I appear to have two micro.blogs with the same name. And …
Apr 13, 2018: This feels pretty much like any mildly controversial conversation on Twitter these days.
Apr 13, 2018: Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t wait to try it.
Apr 13, 2018: Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t wait to try it. <img …
Apr 12, 2018: Addicts don't care what they give up The real technology problem: Trust me, the guy behind the register at the deli where I get my morning coffee knows me a hell of a lot better than …
Apr 11, 2018: This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader
Apr 11, 2018: This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader
Apr 9, 2018: Farewell, Maastricht. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/af5e282ef7.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
Apr 9, 2018: Farewell, Maastricht.
Apr 9, 2018: Rule for life.
Apr 9, 2018: I love this piece of art in the courtyard at the University of Maastricht.
Apr 9, 2018: Seat of learning.
Apr 8, 2018: Not a happy chappie.
Apr 8, 2018: Maastricht station is quite impressive.
Apr 8, 2018: Fourth country of the day: UK, France, Belgium and now the Netherlands. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇳🇱
Apr 8, 2018: This chap does not look happy.
Apr 8, 2018: Maastricht station is quite something.
Apr 8, 2018: All Change Chasing at Liège-Guillemins Railway Station in my way to Maastricht. I love the mix of classic 70s orange on the train, and cool white modernism in …
Apr 8, 2018: Heading for the continent on the Eurostar.
Apr 8, 2018: Quick change…
Apr 7, 2018: A decade since I last celebrated her birthday with my Mum. It does get easier, but never easy.
Apr 7, 2018: Easter Adur-side Pub Walk For the first time in what seems like weeks we had some lovely weather yesterday. I grabbed the opportunity to walk with the girls up the Adur, on …
Apr 7, 2018: Flood defences going in behind Riverside Road. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
Apr 6, 2018: Easter holiday forced route march with Daddy.
Apr 5, 2018: As long as Twitter rewards hoaxing with attention, it’s going to get ever less useful for breaking news.
Apr 5, 2018: With a bit of luck, my Disqus comments should have been moved across to the new URLs on One Man & His Blog. I’m still really excited by the move to …
Apr 5, 2018: I ain’t afraid of no dentist…
Apr 4, 2018: Change is upon us. One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost - and I couldn’t be happier.
Apr 4, 2018: So, here’s today’s interesting thought: I’ve been using FeedPress to track my number of RSS subscribers to OM&HB. However, why am I bothering? What …
Apr 4, 2018: Finally. #spring <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8e2ee981bd.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Apr 4, 2018: Finally. #spring
Apr 4, 2018: Spring has sprung.
Apr 2, 2018: I suspect this is a particularly British thing - and especially Radio 4 listeners - but I really want this print.
Apr 1, 2018: March in 1 second every day.
Apr 1, 2018: I’ve found my band name.
Apr 1, 2018: Got the wok out and did a stir fry for the first time in an age. Thankfully, the girls ate it…
Apr 1, 2018: Open RSS reader. First screen is mainly obvious April Fools. Close RSS reader.
Mar 31, 2018: Flood defences looking good.
Mar 30, 2018: Editing photos from last summer is making me excited for this summer’s return to France.
Mar 29, 2018: The first one is the spookiest: iPhone in a 1937 painting - and in an 1860 painting. And 1918.
Mar 29, 2018: Over the next six weeks work is taking me to Maastricht, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta and… …Milton Keynes.
Mar 29, 2018: I require a coffee robot.
Mar 29, 2018: Blog post of the Beast. 😈
Mar 28, 2018: Reading stage 8 celebration cake 👏🏻
Mar 28, 2018: End of a long day. Tom Foolery pit stop on the way home. ☕️
Mar 27, 2018: The App Store appears to be quite unwell this evening.
Mar 27, 2018: I feel like a traitor to my generation for quite liking avocado toast, and not resenting the fact that younger folks do, too.
Mar 27, 2018: Interesting post from @Stephtara about how Facebook seduced her away from blogging - but the “heaviness” and pressure of some approaches to blogging …
Mar 25, 2018: I find cooking the traditional Sunday roast a meditative experience. It really helps me unwind.
Mar 25, 2018: I really enjoyed this episode of Ramblings about walking in London. Back when I was single and living in London I used to love epic weekend walks …
Mar 24, 2018: Upping our feeding game here in team 10, @zgarbz 😛
Mar 23, 2018: Haze bounced back enough to go to her class - and the first step towards her green belt:
Mar 23, 2018: Two sick children = little time for anything else.
Mar 23, 2018: First step towards her green belt.
Mar 22, 2018: Dave Winer > Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing Google to try to hijack what remains… It’s a depressing …
Mar 22, 2018: Dave Winer Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing Google to try to hijack what remains… It’s a depressing …
Mar 22, 2018: Replacing Facebook. The principal barrier to many people leaving Facebook is a manifestation of the network effect. It may be the only place they can easily keep up with …
Mar 22, 2018: I’d like to be able to say I enjoyed Zuckerberg’s cover of “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”, but…
Mar 21, 2018: The First Shoreham Flock Tom Foolery Coffee Company. First gathering of Shoreham-by-Sea digital and entrepreneurial people. A few dozen people here!
Mar 21, 2018: A Brief History Of Mark Zuckerberg Apologizing (Or Not Apologizing) - the best bit is that literally the first site he built had to be shut down in …
Mar 20, 2018: Talking of change l finally found the time for a much-needed haircut this morning…
Mar 20, 2018: Change is coming…
Mar 18, 2018: The tracks that will make life hard for Southern commuters tomorrow.
Mar 18, 2018: Very festive. Just a bit late.
Mar 18, 2018: This is why I’m in London on a Sunday Evening. Running a course tomorrow, and that looks like enough for Southern to start getting twitchy about …
Mar 17, 2018: Sometimes, I forget how lucky I am to live somewhere where I can take photos like this from my home office window.
Mar 17, 2018: It’s technically spring here. ❄️ 🙄
Mar 17, 2018: Ah, the joys of spring.
Mar 16, 2018: The @TryGhost team are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer: blog.ghost.org
Mar 15, 2018: Another, more positive, HomePod thought: since its arrival my daughters now see any speaker without Siri in it as inherently broken.
Mar 14, 2018: Well, how about that. Facebook bans Britain First: Taking Action Against Britain First
Mar 14, 2018: Apple’s acquisition of Texture (a digital magazine subscription app) means we should probably be paying Apple News more attention than we are. But we …
Mar 14, 2018: My major HomePod Siri annoyance: when my girls ask for “My Little Pony: the Movie”, Siri replies that it can’t handle video, unless they specify …
Mar 14, 2018: I’m old enough to remember when the discussion about “a Spotify for News” was about an “iTunes for News". And it’s still not working…
Mar 13, 2018: My irregular interesting reading newsletter is going out in an hour’s time. Sign up, if you want an inbox full of interesting links, untouched by …
Mar 13, 2018: Oh, a lovely, tiny kickstarted type nerd joy has arrived:
Mar 13, 2018: Nice sight waiting for me in my local coffee shop.
Mar 13, 2018: Daff-a-down Dillies
Mar 12, 2018: Quick Coffee between sessions with students 80 Stone Coffee.
Mar 12, 2018: Bad instagrammer leaves it a bit late to photograph his coffee.
Mar 12, 2018: Rain does not interrupt play.
Mar 12, 2018: Still missing you Mum, even after all these years.
Mar 11, 2018: Rain interrupts play.
Mar 9, 2018: Oh, my. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/c364967954.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
Mar 9, 2018: Oh, my.
Mar 9, 2018: Serious signs of #spring in #shorehambysea
Mar 8, 2018: Uninstalling all social media from my 12 inch iPad Pro - I want to make this my productivity and focus device. Only micro-blog survives - for now.
Mar 8, 2018: For all the creepy, invasive tracking ad companies do, they still can’t figure out that sending me a load of “treat your mother this Mother’s Day” …
Mar 8, 2018: The Adur, 6.45am I was early enough out of the house this morning that I had time to pause on the Adur Ferry Bridge and grab some images. It’s nice to be doing that …
Mar 7, 2018: I have got the insane number of tabs i had open across five device down to under 20, and everything else either acted on, blogged about of filed away …
Mar 7, 2018: I wonder how many sites are publishing RSS feeds but are blissfully unaware of it, just because they use WordPress.
Mar 7, 2018: I really like the ideas in this: Take your time: the seven pillars of a Slow Thought manifesto
Mar 7, 2018: Presented without comment: The shop that buys your dead uncle’s porn collection (It’s a surprisingly interesting read)
Mar 7, 2018: Getting Sunlit… <a href=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8ee84ba852.jpg"><img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8ee84ba852.jpg" width=“326” height=“311” …
Mar 7, 2018: Getting Sunlit…
Mar 7, 2018: Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
Mar 7, 2018: Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
Mar 7, 2018: Not sure why I’m bothering writing on my blog today, when basically my entire audience is either at news:rewired or The Guardian’s Changing Media …
Mar 7, 2018: Seven years ago publishers were dying because they trusted Google for all their traffic. Now the same is happening with Facebook.
Mar 7, 2018: Another warning about the ease with which moral certainty can lead to us to slip into stereotyping in our reporting.
Mar 7, 2018: Listening to Oasis’s Wonderwall always reminds me of commuting by bus to Croydon to work on Hotel & Restaurant mag on the very early days of my …
Mar 6, 2018: Love in the city.
Mar 6, 2018: Wikipedia is a bit like a sausage: the more you look at how it is made, the less appetising you find it.
Mar 5, 2018: I cannot even articulate how wrong this is…
Mar 5, 2018: Listening to a 2003 playlist on Apple Music. This was the music of the year I started my blog. God, I feel old.
Mar 5, 2018: My blog is 15 years old today. I’m not sure if that’s an achievement, or just sheer bloody-mindedness at work…
Mar 5, 2018: Are GAFA coming for the news business? I hope not - but then, who would have seen them getting into TV?
Mar 4, 2018: There’s something very British about seeing a couple of hundred families wrapped up against the cold and wet heading off to clean a beach before 10am …
Mar 3, 2018: Digital artist in the making
Mar 2, 2018: A post-mortem on Typed.com, a crowdfunded blogging platform that never really built up any momentum.
Mar 2, 2018: I’ve transferred this old Typed post over to OM&HB, for archival reasons, really. There are some screenshots in there of the soon-to-die platform.
Mar 2, 2018: Just downloaded the content I had on Typed, a blog platform that dies today. I backed it as a crowdfunder, and don’t regret it. We need innovation in …
Mar 2, 2018: The snow’s back, but not really settling too badly.
Mar 1, 2018: Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives. @manton is quoted within…
Mar 1, 2018: This is me, basically: Dads hold candlelight vigil for Maplin
Mar 1, 2018: Signs that I’m on a deadline: I’m descaling the kettle.
Mar 1, 2018: Doing our bit for the birds. Poor blighters.
Mar 1, 2018: World Book Day. Off goes Tinkerbell to school in the snow. 🙄
Mar 1, 2018: Just snow dusted here this morning.
Mar 1, 2018: Just snow dusted here this morning. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/48aa8c01a0.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Mar 1, 2018: Nice to see Nosy Crow featured in the App Store today - I spoke at their conference a few years ago.
Mar 1, 2018: I love the fact my @fieldnotesbrand notebooks are always a mix of my work notes and my daughter’s writing practice.
Mar 1, 2018: Tinkerbell prepares for school… #worldbookday
Feb 28, 2018: Snow joke. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/e0ff5a29f4.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Feb 28, 2018: Snow joke.
Feb 28, 2018: Ends and Means > Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call the preferential treatment of Google-hosted …
Feb 28, 2018: Ends and Means Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call the preferential treatment of Google-hosted …
Feb 28, 2018: On my way to a London on a cold, snowy morning.
Feb 28, 2018: Got up to London super early today in case of snow problems. Thus I had nearly two hours in a café to catch up on work. Really nice.
Feb 28, 2018: It was a chilly, snowy sunrise at #shorehambysea station this morning.
Feb 27, 2018: Today is the annual “Gosh, cameras routinely under-expose snow, don’t they?” day in the UK.
Feb 27, 2018: New desktop background:
Feb 27, 2018: Looks like the inevitable bursting of the Facebook Live bubble is upon us. Good. What a waste of effort.
Feb 27, 2018: This was a nice surprise on our doorstep
Feb 27, 2018: School run looking a bit different this morning.
Feb 27, 2018: Church looking snowy. #shorehambysea
Feb 27, 2018: That looks chilly. #shorehambysea
Feb 27, 2018: The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.
Feb 27, 2018: The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.
Feb 27, 2018: Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic shitshow”.
Feb 27, 2018: Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic shitshow”.
Feb 26, 2018: Snow’s reached Shoreham-by-Sea, then…
Feb 26, 2018: A painfully good take-down of the various proposed solutions to disinformation on Facebook
Feb 26, 2018: Here’s some game history books funding right now that the gamers amongst you might be interested in backing. Rocket Jump and other games history books …
Feb 26, 2018: Typical commuter trying to exert dominance by progressively pushing his MacBook Pro forwards.
Feb 26, 2018: I’d love to see this funded: a book of nature writing by women.
Feb 26, 2018: Welcome to the Hotel Medium There aren’t enough eye-rolls in the world for this one: The time you spend building your site and trying to use it to find a way to turn a profit …
Feb 26, 2018: East Street in the snow. #shorehambysea
Feb 26, 2018: Blogs are digital thought spaces
Feb 26, 2018: That’ll be settling snow then.
Feb 25, 2018: The online world’s tendency to publicly allow others to assign a numerical value to your creative efforts may be one of the most damaging things we’ve …
Feb 25, 2018: The dangerous downsides of perfectionism
Feb 24, 2018: Learning to let things go may be one of the hardest lessons to learn in life.
Feb 24, 2018: Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now.
Feb 24, 2018: Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/cd30ddff04.jpg" …
Feb 22, 2018: Something rather lovely has just arrived: The Secret History of Mac Gaming. I backed this an age ago on Unbound, and it’s great to have it in my hands …
Feb 22, 2018: Why did the chicken cross the road? DHL couldn’t deliver it. Drop it, Hide it, Lose it: Apparently, DHL isn’t satisfied with simply failing to deliver chickens to their finger lickin' good customer: a report …
Feb 22, 2018: Is the dream of the good digital citizen dead?
Feb 22, 2018: Nice spot for lunch.
Feb 22, 2018: Nice spot for lunch. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/c00a8cf2c0.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Feb 20, 2018: Dramatic sunset this evening.
Feb 20, 2018: The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues…
Feb 20, 2018: Dramatic sunset in #shorehambysea
Feb 20, 2018: The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues.
Feb 19, 2018: Updates out for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Looks like just a patch for the character crashing bug.
Feb 19, 2018: Even in the depths of the social media backlash, there’s reason for hope
Feb 19, 2018: Down by the Thames.
Feb 19, 2018: Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.
Feb 19, 2018: Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.
Feb 19, 2018: Cute artisanal coffee shops make dreary London days better.
Feb 19, 2018: Iris is having a happy morning.
Feb 18, 2018: Beach adventures for the girls earlier.
Feb 17, 2018: Day’s end on the beach.
Feb 17, 2018: More signs of spring
Feb 17, 2018: Twitter users: “Get rid of the abuse and Nazis”. Twitter: “We’re killing the Mac app.” Twitter users: “…”
Feb 16, 2018: Signs of spring.
Feb 16, 2018: Wild builder.
Feb 16, 2018: Seems legit. 🤔 #mylittlepony #myhappyhorse
Feb 16, 2018: Spring lambs.
Feb 16, 2018: Gorgeous day to spend at @springbarnfarm
Feb 15, 2018: Nice example of a mag using digital to boost print.
Feb 15, 2018: Fancy a little AR in your news?
Feb 15, 2018: It’s not just journalism, politics has a Facebook problem, too.
Feb 15, 2018: Tiny, British iPad
Feb 14, 2018: Oh, America. 😥
Feb 14, 2018: A Valentine’s fable of love, heartache and betrayal, more dramatic than anything on screen: Facebook never loved journalism. It’s time to break up
Feb 14, 2018: Anyone shocked by how Facebook is hanging the news industry out to dry is probably forgetting that its founder once called his users dumb fucks, …
Feb 14, 2018: Our long international nightmare of Emoji Frgmentation might be over…
Feb 14, 2018: 6 years ago, I actually proposed this exact idea in an interview. And they mocked it. If nothing else, it told me I didn’t want to work for that …
Feb 14, 2018: It's not our attention that's being monetised, it's our data The Centre for Human Technology doesn’t want your attention: What the Center identifies as the ‘monetization of attention’ is, actually, the …
Feb 14, 2018: I’m beginning to regret moving One Man & His Blog to WordPress. It’s got so “heavy" that posting increasingly feels like a chore. Maybe it’s time to …
Feb 14, 2018: I’m beginning to regret moving One Man & His Blog to WordPress. It’s got so “heavy" that posting increasingly feels like a chore. Maybe it’s time to …
Feb 14, 2018: Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye.
Feb 14, 2018: Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/a1f18421f3.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Feb 14, 2018: Blogging: not dead yet. I find this interview with Kottke to be hard going. I don’t — and possibly can’t — accept the general theme that blogging is “over”. It manifestly …
Feb 14, 2018: Blogging: not dead yet. I find this interview with Kottke to be hard going. I don’t — and possibly can’t — accept the general theme that blogging is “over”. It manifestly …
Feb 13, 2018: Avast there, me lubbers
Feb 12, 2018: Freaky - Twitter appears to be blocking posting of blogspot.co.uk domains (but not blogspot.com):
Feb 12, 2018: If I ever write a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” you have my full consent to give me a good slapping.
Feb 12, 2018: Pretty sure this ridiculous display of journalistic pettiness and arrogance is symptomatic of the reasons people don’t trust journalism.
Feb 11, 2018: Had a little play with the DJI Osmo Mobile 2. Nice little gimbal. Here’s a little footage shot with it
Feb 11, 2018: All you need is… #love #valentines #valentinesday
Feb 10, 2018: Gimbal time. #djiosmomobile2
Feb 10, 2018: HomePod: I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to music and drinking red wine. It’s been a long time since I did that.
Feb 10, 2018: HomePod: I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to music and drinking red wine. It’s been a long time since I did that.
Feb 9, 2018: Just switched to listening to some gentle, evening-friendly classical on the HomePod, and clarity of the sound, the degree to which you isolate …
Feb 9, 2018: HomePod first impressions: really fantastic sound, Siri better than expected, works fine for me and my five year old, but poor old 2 year old Iris is …
Feb 9, 2018: Home is where the Pod is…
Feb 8, 2018: Big sky day.
Feb 8, 2018: As a middle-aged dad of daughters, falling to the dark side has taken on a new and terrible name: going full brony.
Feb 8, 2018: My HomePod has shipped.
Feb 8, 2018: John Perry Barlow thought that the struggle for digital freedom would continue after his death. And he’s right. But I’m grateful he did so much to …
Feb 8, 2018: Big skies in #shorehambysea
Feb 7, 2018: New flood defences in place. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Feb 6, 2018: I really was lucky to grow up in such a breathtaking place…
Feb 6, 2018: However well-intentioned it might be, I fear that “best practice" all to often means “systemic mediocrity”.
Feb 6, 2018: The growing visual homogeneity of Instagram (This is my grumpy old man post of the day…)
Feb 6, 2018: I want a Mac with FaceID.
Feb 6, 2018: These photos of the abandoned Coventry Evening Telegraph building are amazing.
Feb 6, 2018: It saddens me how lacking in green the UK is in this map of European tree cover.
Feb 6, 2018: I’ve finally written about how much I’m enjoying micro.blog on my macro blog…
Feb 6, 2018: I love what The Atlantic is doing with its comment section
Feb 6, 2018: Up, awake and updating WordPress sites.
Feb 5, 2018: It looks like we got ourselves a reader…
Feb 5, 2018: Beach scrap
Feb 4, 2018: Instapaper is a decade old? Wow. That makes me feel old.
Feb 4, 2018: Beach walk selfie 🤳
Feb 3, 2018: Cleaning up some scans of old, damaged slides. This is a mid-80s fencing competition in Scotland.
Feb 3, 2018: Saturday morning in the coffee shop.
Feb 1, 2018: Another view of Shoreham by Sea, one that might disappear soon.
Feb 1, 2018: Dinner on the go. Busy life when you’re five!
Feb 1, 2018: Apple earnings: looking forward, it does look like new lines are starting to contribute growth even as iPhone starts to stagnate. That’s a good sign …
Feb 1, 2018: Just caught up on Star Trek: Discovery. They’ve really pulled it off: a Star Trek that’s true to the original, yet utterly of 21st Century TV. Oh, and …
Feb 1, 2018: The NYT fake followers piece is having some interesting consequences. Much needed sunlight in dark social media places.
Feb 1, 2018: Here’s an unusual view of #shorehambeach from #shorehambysea
Jan 31, 2018: Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like follower counts or favourite numbers publicly.
Jan 31, 2018: Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like follower counts or favourite numbers publicly.
Jan 30, 2018: Some thoughts on fake followers and cargo cult influence
Jan 30, 2018: Going old school on music today…
Jan 30, 2018: You could basically replace this article about Brexit with an infinite number of Picard facepalm Gifs.
Jan 30, 2018: What a stunning morning here in Shoreham-by-Sea
Jan 30, 2018: What a morning. #shorehambysea #riveradur
Jan 29, 2018: Surprisingly fun lecture today - possibly because had a lower turnout than normal - but really engaged, enthusiastic students.
Jan 28, 2018: Yorkshire puddings in progress…
Jan 28, 2018: Yorkshire puddings in progress…
Jan 27, 2018: Cold. Rainy. January. Rioja time. 🍷
Jan 26, 2018: One White HomePod ordered for day one delivery - looking forward to experimenting with it.
Jan 26, 2018: Daddy/daughter lunch… <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/166cbe8bd6.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
Jan 26, 2018: Daddy/daughter lunch…
Jan 26, 2018: How do we build an education system fit for the 21st century?
Jan 25, 2018: Twilight in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #sussex #churches #churchyard
Jan 25, 2018: Good morning. #amblogging (h/t to @danblank for doing his version of this every day…)
Jan 24, 2018: I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.
Jan 24, 2018: Sign that I’ve been flying more than travelling on trains of late: just hunted for my boarding pass as the train pulled in…
Jan 24, 2018: I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.
Jan 23, 2018: With Google no longer indexing older pages, and deletionists removing great swathes of human endeavour from Wikipedia, it feels like the web is …
Jan 22, 2018: Oh, Monday. Recommendation time. Micro Monday recommendation: @tibz - Thibault is a friend from his Brighton days. After a year’s global …
Jan 22, 2018: This is the first year of my self-employment that I’ve been really disciplined about tracking expenses. My goodness, it makes a difference, doesn’t …
Jan 22, 2018: Stop. Coffee time. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/b2194620e4.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Jan 22, 2018: Stop. Coffee time.
Jan 21, 2018: I’m approaching the point where I consider use of the phrase “can’t fault” to be an alarm bell that tells you to run away from that conversation.
Jan 20, 2018: Pretty impressive departure lounges at CDG
Jan 20, 2018: 💕
Jan 19, 2018: That moment when you realise the only music you have downloaded to your phone before a 14 hour flight is… Sofia the First 😱
Jan 19, 2018: Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/d4d8b5fa91.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Jan 19, 2018: Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG
Jan 19, 2018: Rain and traffic. It’s Friday night in Singapore. 🇸🇬
Jan 19, 2018: The rather deadly looking meeting rooom art that’s been hanging over @nchanglin’s head all day.
Jan 18, 2018: Nice casual working spaces here.
Jan 18, 2018: Not a filter. Anti-solar gain dots on the windows of the building.
Jan 18, 2018: Rain and newspapers in Singapore.
Jan 18, 2018: Hello, oh wandering bag.
Jan 17, 2018: Great space for a day’s training.
Jan 16, 2018: Pushing back. See you in 12 hours… ✈️
Jan 16, 2018: Remembered it! (KLM doesn’t allow Bluetooth headphones)
Jan 16, 2018: Long haul economy face…
Jan 16, 2018: 🍿 Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller’s Russia Investigation
Jan 16, 2018: Crucial long-haul detail sorted.
Jan 16, 2018: Economy face. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f30375719e.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Jan 16, 2018: Economy face.
Jan 16, 2018: Off on my travels.
Jan 16, 2018: Long haul economy face. #longhaulflight with @klm
Jan 15, 2018: That feeling when you’ve packed to get all your stuff for two days in Singapore into your carry-ons — and you get an e-mail from the airline basically …
Jan 15, 2018: Back in the smoke.
Jan 15, 2018: That was a day well spent.
Jan 15, 2018: That was a day well spent. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/6538e08c0e.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
Jan 15, 2018: Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?
Jan 15, 2018: Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?
Jan 14, 2018: Beach Life part 3678 #shorehambeach
Jan 12, 2018: Let’s see where journalism Twitter is on the five stages of grief about the Facebook newsfeed changes.
Jan 12, 2018: A brief translation of today’s Facebook newsfeed news into English.
Jan 12, 2018: The Facebook traffic apocalypse every smart publisher has been dreading is here: News Feed FYI: Bringing People Closer Together
Jan 11, 2018: Apparently I’m an academic now. Who knew?
Jan 11, 2018: I loved the recent Quartz email about Victorian newspapers. So interesting, and such a good reminder that journalism doesn’t always have to be about …
Jan 11, 2018: Invoicing done! 🎉 🎈 🎉
Jan 11, 2018: Resolved: this morning I shall do nothing else until I have caught up on my invoicing.
Jan 11, 2018: Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, thoughtful and shocking. Great mid-season return. 📺
Jan 11, 2018: Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, thoughtful and shocking. Great mid-season return. 📺
Jan 10, 2018: If I wasn’t professionally obligated to keep track of Facebook, I would be very tempted to do this.
Jan 10, 2018: Want, basically.
Jan 10, 2018: Want, basically.
Jan 10, 2018: Good lord, this Le Web panel has not aged well. Scoble and Milo sharing a stage…
Jan 10, 2018: Iris modelling for me. Want to know what this is about? Link in bio! 😇
Jan 9, 2018: We’re all vintage around here today.
Jan 9, 2018: We’re having a vintage moment. #oillamp #victoriana
Jan 9, 2018: The big iPad Pro has become my favourite way of working in surprisingly short order. I’m only turning to the laptop when I really need it now.
Jan 8, 2018: I have thoughts about GoPro crashing out of the drone market. They need to let go of their extreme sports obsession. Warning: includes photo of me …
Jan 8, 2018: Well, crap. GoPro is getting out of the drone business. Does DJi actually have any competition?
Jan 8, 2018: Danger: man at knowledge work…
Jan 8, 2018: My irregular curated reads newsletter is going out shortly. Bag yourself a copy.
Jan 8, 2018: If Facebook is the big out-of-town big out-of-town supermarket of the web, it’s time to browse local.
Jan 8, 2018: This is a nice idea to make HomeKit a bit more accessible to the phone-control resistant: Eve Button
Jan 7, 2018: Stop. Hammer time.
Jan 4, 2018: Life comes at you fast, Mr Cameron.
Jan 3, 2018: Looks like Facebook is ceding the referral crown to Google. This is not a sudden SEO surge, more Facebook becoming ambivalent about publishers and …
Jan 3, 2018: I feel surprisingly liberated by the deletion of my Wikipedia page - it makes my blog the first, best source about me online. And that’s just as it …
Jan 3, 2018: Surprisingly good likeness
Jan 3, 2018: Sad day. I just discovered that my wikipedia page got deleted over Christmas. It was massively out-of-date, and featured virtually nothing of the past …
Jan 2, 2018: Bored Panda lives or dies at Facebook’s whim - this is a horrible way to run a business.
Jan 2, 2018: Will journalists feed the tech backlash - or help explain it? Oh, I think I know the answer.
Jan 2, 2018: Crafting with Hazel. This is fun.
Jan 2, 2018: Daddy/daughter crafting morning.
Jan 1, 2018: This may seem obvious, but it took me a while to figure out that it’s better to treat micro.blog as microblogging rather than whatever it is that …
Jan 1, 2018: 😢 Watch Peter Capaldi’s TARDIS Console Room Get Deconstructed For One Last Time
Jan 1, 2018: Well, this sounds cool: Germany has come up with the best solution to single-use coffee cups
Jan 1, 2018: New Year beach walk!
Jan 1, 2018: December in one second every day
Jan 1, 2018: Happy New Year, all!
Jan 1, 2018: Walker on the beach. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach #beachlife #beachwalk
Dec 31, 2017: Out playing with their Christmas brollies in the British weather…
Dec 31, 2017: Christmas razor dodger.
Dec 31, 2017: Here’s my #2017bestnine - India, Ilé de Re, branding, a watch strap, Hazel in @tomfoolery.coffee and lots of #shorehambysea landscapes
Dec 31, 2017: Giving the Christmas Brollies a workout…. ☔️
Dec 31, 2017: Me rocking the denim leisure suit. #muchlatergram
Dec 28, 2017: This feels optimistic.
Dec 28, 2017: Down the pub with Pinkie Pie
Dec 25, 2017: Merry Christmas all! 🎄
Dec 25, 2017: Despite appearances, not actually a parody, alas.
Dec 24, 2017: An angel prepares… nativity night.
Dec 23, 2017: Beginning to think I should do something about my dandruff…
Dec 23, 2017: Posting from MarsEdit So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!
Dec 23, 2017: Posting from MarsEdit So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!
Dec 22, 2017: Hazel Fierce
Dec 21, 2017: After a big chunk of marking, very, very happy with what I see. I was nervous when I took on this module last academic year, but it seems to be …
Dec 21, 2017: After a big chunk of marking, very, very happy with what I see. I was nervous when I took on this module last academic year, but it seems to be …
Dec 20, 2017: Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking.
Dec 20, 2017: Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/f176c208ca.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” /><img …
Dec 19, 2017: Target word count: 1,000 words. Current word count: 1,700 words. Still, they’re 1700 good, passionate words…
Dec 18, 2017: Popped downstairs from my home office to see tree decoration in progress…
Dec 18, 2017: Ena is watching you. #enasharples #shorehambysea
Dec 17, 2017: Tree time 🌲 <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/29153df977.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
Dec 17, 2017: Tree time 🌲
Dec 17, 2017: Just Ridin’
Dec 16, 2017: Deep in the downs, there is a farm…
Dec 16, 2017: Sweets from an elf!
Dec 15, 2017: Hazel is rocking a hipster vibe here…
Dec 14, 2017: It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.
Dec 12, 2017: Today’s office view <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/5e9ca611c2.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Dec 12, 2017: Today’s office view
Dec 12, 2017: Stunning morning, despite the sub-zero temperatures.
Dec 12, 2017: Looking home
Dec 11, 2017: As sunsets go, that’ll do.
Dec 11, 2017: It only took three attempts to get the headline typo free on this. Bring back the subs.
Dec 11, 2017: A quick link post about the problems in digital media businesses is turning into a 1,000 word whopper. This is what happens when your afternoon …
Dec 11, 2017: Disturbing but not surprising news of the day. That LinkedIn connection request could be a Chinese intelligence agent.
Dec 11, 2017: Not a bad sunset, all things considered.
Dec 10, 2017: I fear Iris may have inherited the mad scientist gene from her mother…
Dec 10, 2017: Christingle night: children and fire, always a popular combo… 🔥
Dec 9, 2017: More evidence that Christmas is coming.
Dec 8, 2017: I think Iris is enjoying the season…
Dec 8, 2017: How BuzzFeed UK handles cutting 1/3 of its workforce will tell us a lot about the future of the business.
Dec 7, 2017: Coffee shop office kind of a day.
Dec 7, 2017: Great Quartz Obsession e-mail about the hashtag
Dec 7, 2017: FInally got the time to read Time’s person of the year, and the profiling and photography of the silence breakers is phenomenal. The perfect choice.
Dec 6, 2017: Somehow I’ve ended up on PornHub’s PR mailing list. I am not sure how I feel about this.
Dec 6, 2017: Welcome @thomask !
Dec 6, 2017: Welcome @thomask !
Dec 6, 2017: One of the reasons I love MarsEdit is that when I switched from Movable Type to WordPress, my writing experience barely changed because it was all …
Dec 4, 2017: Another day, another training course.
Dec 4, 2017: Today, I am mainly training.
Dec 3, 2017: Any time my work intersects slightly with social media marketing “experts”, I end up feeling slightly dirty. And not in a good way.
Dec 1, 2017: Iris
Nov 30, 2017: Flood defences coming along nicely.
Nov 29, 2017: It’s not even December yet.
Nov 29, 2017: Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.
Nov 29, 2017: Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.
Nov 29, 2017: Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.
Nov 29, 2017: Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.
Nov 29, 2017: The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors.
Nov 29, 2017: The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/2f28227b43.jpg" width=“600” …
Nov 28, 2017: I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats. I am clearly not old enough yet to be silent without drawing …
Nov 28, 2017: I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats. I am clearly not old enough yet to be silent without drawing …
Nov 28, 2017: First portrait mode pic from my shiney new iPhone X
Nov 28, 2017: Hazel PoP. iPhone X in portrait mode
Nov 27, 2017: Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. There will be some Nazi brains having a good old …
Nov 27, 2017: Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. There will be some Nazi brains having a good old …
Nov 22, 2017: So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook: <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/3a9cbe469f.jpg" width=“600” …
Nov 22, 2017: So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook:
Nov 19, 2017: Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of the’s UK’s democracy
Nov 19, 2017: Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of the’s UK’s democracy
Nov 18, 2017: Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace Reading
Nov 18, 2017: Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace Reading
Nov 18, 2017: The Next dystopian family This morning I was greeted by the above delightful email from Next. Can it be that nobody involved could see how sinister this is? A blandly …
Nov 17, 2017: Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes… <img …
Nov 17, 2017: Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes…
Nov 12, 2017: A symphony in yellow…
Nov 11, 2017: Hazel and Iris stalking their natural prey: a bride
Nov 11, 2017: Fierce
Nov 10, 2017: Adur sunset. 🌅
Nov 8, 2017: It’s that time of the #Interhacktives year again… (h/t to @neilperkin for introducing me to this…)
Nov 8, 2017: IT HAS BEGUN
Oct 27, 2017: Terrible things happen to pumpkins around here…
Oct 24, 2017: That moment when you discover the only reward you get for a bunch of hard volunteer work -credit - has gone to someone else across a year’s worth of …
Oct 21, 2017: This may be the reddest pub I’ve ever been in…
Oct 17, 2017: Storm tossed seaweed floating upriver in the Adur.
Oct 13, 2017: Found a clue as to why Condé Nast is closing the print Glamour…
Oct 8, 2017: Well, #autumn has most certainly come to #shorehambysea
Oct 8, 2017: Iris “enjoying” a pub lunch…
Oct 6, 2017: A babychino symphony.
Oct 1, 2017: Orange belt celebratory cheesecake.
Sep 30, 2017: Lively crowd for a 60th… 🎈 🎈 🎈
Sep 30, 2017: Certified.
Sep 29, 2017: Little shopper
Sep 24, 2017: Unsettling
Sep 23, 2017: Farewell, Hamburg. It’s been fun. #next17 is done. Can’t wait for #next18
Sep 23, 2017: Post #next17 coffee tour stop 2
Sep 23, 2017: Found a fancy coffee shop for post #next17 chill out.
Sep 22, 2017: This is how #next17 ends.
Sep 21, 2017: Top quality sci-fi dome for a tech conference… #next17
Sep 20, 2017: Ah. @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival - two great tastes that go together so well… #next17
Sep 20, 2017: Looks like the right place… #next17
Sep 20, 2017: St Where, you say? @zgarbz
Sep 17, 2017: Beach life part 237 🌊
Sep 12, 2017: Morning trails.
Sep 7, 2017: Today is a taunt @paulbradshawuk day.
Sep 6, 2017: Sussex Scenes [gallery ids=“7969,7970” type=“slideshow”] It’s a pretty damn good place to live.
Sep 2, 2017: Fair to say that Iris is pleased with her @svahausa dress!
Sep 2, 2017: Bellingmug for being part of the #bellingcat crowdfunding. #journalism
Aug 27, 2017: Precious thing - and memory #doctorwho
Aug 26, 2017: Not bad as a #sunflower goes.
Aug 26, 2017: Selfie in the sea
Aug 25, 2017: In a tree. Doesn’t want to go home.
Aug 24, 2017: Ice cream and adventure; it’s what the summer holidays are all about.
Aug 23, 2017: Not 100% sure I have their attention…
Aug 19, 2017: Not jellyfish
Aug 16, 2017: I love living here. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/43e8d5b984.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
Aug 16, 2017: I love living here.
Aug 16, 2017: Rapt. #animalagents
Aug 15, 2017: Reading challenge and babychino #animalagents
Aug 14, 2017: Stop. Sticker time. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/04c1b7889b.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Aug 14, 2017: Stop. Sticker time.
Aug 14, 2017: I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/77a3afdf6d.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
Aug 14, 2017: I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony
Aug 14, 2017: I feel Hazel is pleased with this #mylittlepony poster
Aug 9, 2017: ☕️ time!
Aug 8, 2017: Adur, afternoon
Aug 8, 2017: Piles on the beach
Aug 7, 2017: Nice to be home and enjoying ☕️ at @tomfoolery.coffee
Aug 6, 2017: Privée. #France #laflotte #door #sign #îlederé #iledere #latergram #travel #travelblog
Aug 6, 2017: Juice and deep thoughts from a little thinker.
Aug 6, 2017: Watching, by the beach
Aug 5, 2017: This may be the worst sign in the world. #coffee #latergram #îlederé
Jul 29, 2017: Nom!
Jul 20, 2017: Social video training for @journalismnews’s @newsrewired + package… 🎥
Jul 15, 2017: Butterfly girl 🦋
Jul 15, 2017: Beach Dreamin' - ready to take my girls on the @beachdreamsfestival parade…
Jul 12, 2017: Some fun bits of history on a client’s walls…
Jul 10, 2017: Scilly sands [caption id=“attachment_7965” align=“alignnone” width=“2200”]A beach at Hugh Town[/caption] Honestly, sometimes I just don’t understand why I haven’t …
Jul 10, 2017: Scilly retrospective I’ve been taking a little time out this evening to edit (finally) some photos from a trip to the Isles of Scilly seven years back. Click to embiggen: …
Jul 8, 2017: Baby driver.
Jul 8, 2017: Supporting #pride in a subtle way today. The limited edition #applewatch Pride band is just lovely.
Jul 7, 2017: Feeding the beasties <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/20c2a13fe6.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
Jul 7, 2017: Feeding the beasties
Jul 7, 2017: Play barn life…
Jun 26, 2017: Final sunset in Kerala.
Jun 25, 2017: However will I cope with the endless misery of business trips?
Jun 22, 2017: Non-training, non-travel day - so a chance for a leisurely #breakfast.
Jun 20, 2017: Day 3. #socialmedia
Jun 20, 2017: Starting the day in India.
Jun 18, 2017: Here we go…
Jun 18, 2017: Just possibly not in Shoreham any more…
Jun 12, 2017: Decisions, decisions
Jun 4, 2017: Pentecostal flowers.
Jun 3, 2017: That was April 2017 youtu.be/sZk9c4Ogp…
Jun 2, 2017: Pirate tales!
Jun 1, 2017: Always good to start the day with a little light adulting: <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/0dfb1edb1b.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” …
Jun 1, 2017: Always good to start the day with a little light adulting:
Jun 1, 2017: Adulting
May 29, 2017: iPad artiste at work…
May 26, 2017: One of our @insectlore butterflies stopping to say goodbye to Iris as it leaves.
May 21, 2017: Visiting Tinpot Towers.
May 20, 2017: Shingle beauty on Shoreham Beach I’m lucky enough to live less than five minutes' walk from a stunning beach. I know pebble and shingle beaches get a bad rep, but this sort of shingle …
May 20, 2017: New evidence emerges of the real reason for the dinosaurs' extinction… 🍺
May 20, 2017: This really is a beautiful beach. People under-estimate the beauty of a shingle beach.
May 20, 2017: Stormy beach life
May 19, 2017: Oh the bench, I wait.
May 17, 2017: Just a Foolery for lunch
May 17, 2017: Poker (red hot)
May 15, 2017: Sometimes, London, you’re unexpectedly weird.
May 5, 2017: Hazel is here, and would like to discuss kicking your butt. 🙂
May 4, 2017: Reward babychino
May 4, 2017: The towering burger-erno 🍔
May 2, 2017: Best start to the working week.
Apr 30, 2017: @tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?
Apr 30, 2017: @tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?
Apr 29, 2017: Bloomin' lovely.
Apr 29, 2017: Bloomin' lovely. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/248a295dfe.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
Apr 29, 2017: Played out. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/cf27a8db6d.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
Apr 29, 2017: Played out.
Apr 29, 2017: Bloomin' lovely.
Apr 29, 2017: Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.
Apr 29, 2017: Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.
Apr 28, 2017: Markdown link
Apr 28, 2017: Markdown link
Apr 28, 2017: Links: https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/04/sddeutsche-zeitung-selling-agile-paywall-right-content.html
Apr 28, 2017: Emoji? 🥃
Apr 28, 2017: Emoji? 🥃
Apr 28, 2017: Markdown? yes.
Apr 28, 2017: Markdown? yes.
Apr 28, 2017: Images? <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/018243ee7a.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
Apr 28, 2017: Images?
Apr 28, 2017: Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.
Apr 28, 2017: Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.
Apr 28, 2017: Just setting up my micro.blog
Apr 28, 2017: Just setting up my micro.blog
Apr 27, 2017: Coffee office…
Apr 27, 2017: Really enjoyed #DME17 - link in bio for coverage
Apr 27, 2017: So Copenhagen
Apr 25, 2017: World’s worst boy band member #dme17
Apr 23, 2017: Up, up and away (again).
Apr 21, 2017: Breakfast in the yurt 🍳
Apr 20, 2017: Sign of the (connected) times…
Apr 20, 2017: Enjoying @tomfoolery.coffee’s @horshamcoffee in the woods…
Apr 18, 2017: Hard at work at @tomfoolery.coffee
Apr 17, 2017: Nothing like a well-mown lawn to remind you that you're a middle-aged man now. [gallery size=full columns=1]
Apr 16, 2017: Bloomin' lovely in the garden this weekend Playing with a recent(ish) lens for my Canon M3, and finding incredible beauty lurking in our back garden. [caption width=“6000” id=“attachment_6634” …
Apr 16, 2017: Easter weekend [gallery size=full columns=1]
Apr 16, 2017: Just call me Easter 🐣Craft Master
Apr 15, 2017: H.PoP
Apr 15, 2017: Spring, joys of
Apr 15, 2017: Leaf fall
Apr 14, 2017: Tunnel vision.
Apr 11, 2017: Pony crafts… #mylittlepony
Apr 10, 2017: #PCKeithPalmer #pckeithpalmerrip
Apr 9, 2017: Do you like my hat? [caption width=“2576” id=“attachment_6626” align=“aligncenter”] A gentleman can be judged by his headwear. [/caption]
Apr 9, 2017: That's a new approach to flower arranging… [caption width=“4032” id=“attachment_6624” align=“aligncenter”] Iris and the bird bath[/caption]
Apr 9, 2017: Espalier blossom.
Apr 5, 2017: A single sign that’ll make you glad you’re a grown-up.
Apr 2, 2017: Monkey spotting 🐒
Apr 2, 2017: Meerkat
Mar 27, 2017: Reboot New address. New theme. Time to get going again.
Mar 26, 2017: Foreman of the sandpit at work… 🚧
Mar 25, 2017: Lunch in the park @gardencafehove
Mar 18, 2017: Beach explorer.
Mar 11, 2017: Tumbledown cemetery
Mar 11, 2017: The past and the future…
Mar 8, 2017: #studenthumour
Mar 4, 2017: Beach life. 🌊
Mar 1, 2017: Day’s end
Feb 24, 2017: End of a lovely day at @springbarnfarm. Lambs and bouncy cushions and swings and sandpits and lunch and soft play mean two very tired children. 😉☀️ 🐑
Jan 30, 2017: Stickers!
Jan 25, 2017: Hipster Instagramming in progress.
Jan 22, 2017: -6c in the hotel car park this morning. Nice ice effect on the car, though. ❄️
Jan 19, 2017: Preparations for Spring…
Jan 16, 2017: Pod life. #airpods #apple
Jan 12, 2017: Chilly morning down by the Adur in Shoreham #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Jan 8, 2017: End of the weekend. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Jan 8, 2017: Big thoughts from a little person.
Jan 1, 2017: I have been permitted entry to my brother’s hallowed wine cellar…
Jan 1, 2017: Apparently it’s all about the landscapes. And me, when I was young, centuries ago. #2016bestnine #best92016
Dec 30, 2016: #cold and #frosty. #leaves #winter #ice
Dec 14, 2016: Aldgate East is not what I remember. Admittedly, that was 20 years ago.
Dec 14, 2016: That’s a nice, festive reception.
Dec 6, 2016: Counting the marshmallow haul @tomfoolery.coffee
Dec 6, 2016: Moody morning on the Adur
Dec 5, 2016: Swimming dreams
Dec 4, 2016: We really have to do something about the #pokemon infestation in this house.
Nov 30, 2016: Frost bites.
Nov 13, 2016: #shorehambeach #sunset
Nov 12, 2016: Something different about Hazel today. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
Nov 6, 2016: High on the Dyke in the Downs
Nov 6, 2016: Girls in da wood
Nov 3, 2016: Portrait of the man as a young student magazine editor
Nov 1, 2016: 2nd Autumn for Iris. The first where she can really enjoy leaves.
Oct 27, 2016: City lights of old London Town.
Oct 24, 2016: Off again.
Oct 13, 2016: I think she might be a bit weary after school.
Oct 13, 2016: #babychino awesomeness.
Oct 7, 2016: THE place to be in Shoreham on a Friday night - if you’re four.
Oct 3, 2016: Last of the summer #sunflowers
Oct 2, 2016: She’s getting good at this.
Sep 30, 2016: Stunning morning light in the living room this morning.
Sep 30, 2016: Adur drama.
Sep 28, 2016: Skies
Sep 27, 2016: Post-school Daddy/Daughter treat.
Sep 24, 2016: Land (green and pleasant)
Sep 24, 2016: Preparing to fly
Sep 24, 2016: Homewards bound.
Sep 23, 2016: At a gig. Like a young person.
Sep 22, 2016: I detect evidence of workshopping…
Sep 22, 2016: This man designs for Facebook.
Sep 22, 2016: Hanging out in nightclubs. During the day. For work. Uh-huh.
Sep 7, 2016: I’m in the Excite room. 😏
Sep 7, 2016: The flower displays here are quite something.
Aug 31, 2016: Morning in KL.
Aug 26, 2016: Marshmallow challenging…
Aug 23, 2016: Commuting.
Aug 20, 2016: Party hair.
Aug 18, 2016: Not exactly the mamil dream…
Aug 15, 2016: Work in progress.
Aug 12, 2016: Beach life.
Aug 9, 2016: I feel a sudden pain in my future wallet.
Aug 8, 2016: I went pro. #gopro
Aug 4, 2016: German supermarkets are more exciting than British ones. Apparently.
Aug 4, 2016: Real purty…
Aug 3, 2016: Variety is the Steiff of life…
Aug 2, 2016: Coffee - at last.
Aug 2, 2016: Park life.
Aug 1, 2016: This holiday is not going to plan.
Jul 31, 2016: Suffering the standard Southern Rail thwarted anticipation. #southernfail
Jul 31, 2016: Stylin'
Jul 29, 2016: The city, never sleeping. #newyork #manhattan #latergram
Jul 27, 2016: Down in SoHo…
Jul 26, 2016: View from the office. #newyork #prisma
Jul 25, 2016: I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in New York…
Jul 24, 2016: This evening’s sky chariot…
Jul 21, 2016: Sharded
Jul 21, 2016: Four
Jul 20, 2016: Behind the station.
Jul 20, 2016: I’m looking forwards to hearing Pidgey’s thoughts on social video at #newsrw
Jul 9, 2016: A celebration cake, abstracted.
Jul 8, 2016: There’s no escape from baby jail.
Jul 8, 2016: Mini coffee fiend (via Pixma app)
Jul 7, 2016: Feeding the swans
Jul 5, 2016: Yes, yes, I am compensating. Thanks for asking.
Jul 5, 2016: Suited and booted on my way to the @solarteamgb launch.
Jul 3, 2016: Nothing like gravy with home-grown rosemary and thyme. #cooking #sundayroast
Jul 2, 2016: This week’s reading is here…
Jul 1, 2016: And so it begins… #mylittlepony
Jun 20, 2016: Daisies everywhere.
Jun 12, 2016: Too cool for the paddling pool.
Jun 10, 2016: Pub night. #bitcam
Jun 10, 2016: It’s the #octonauts early 90s #Bitcam edition…
Jun 10, 2016: I’m dithering. #bitcam
Jun 10, 2016: Summer reward!
Jun 8, 2016: Dramatic skies over the church. #shorehambysea
Jun 7, 2016: Tom Foolin' (and posting this using the new iOS share sheet, not the app…)
Jun 5, 2016: Beach life.
Jun 3, 2016: Friday night, down the pub with these two reprobates.
Jun 1, 2016: RSA event time…
May 30, 2016: Any guesses?
May 29, 2016: “You are a good blade. I shall bathe you in the blood of my enemies.”
May 29, 2016: War was waged here…
May 29, 2016: Beach bloom #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
May 27, 2016: There are eight different ways I can kill you with this, Daddy, unless you provide chocolate cake.
May 26, 2016: N-n-n-n-nineteen
May 26, 2016: Those typefaces…
May 16, 2016: Birthday girl
May 15, 2016: Double @Drawnalism #odcamp
May 15, 2016: Selfie McSelfieface
May 15, 2016: Morning commute
May 14, 2016: It’s #odcamp time!
May 12, 2016: Evening light #shorehambysea
May 11, 2016: Bridge to nowhere. #shorehambysea #misty
May 11, 2016: Morning conference with my office mates. #homeoffice #legominifigures #smurf
May 10, 2016: Poser.
May 10, 2016: Unashamedly Instagramming my #breakfast.
May 6, 2016: A little catchup reading… #blogging #bloggers #ukbloggers #ukblogger #blogospheremagazine
May 6, 2016: Pinky Pie. Apparently.
May 5, 2016: Beach vote.
May 4, 2016: Reach for the sky. #cranes #construction #building #architecture
May 1, 2016: Adventure Team Tinworth… Go!
May 1, 2016: Beach life. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Apr 30, 2016: Hmmm. Cover lines of @blogosphere_magazine #blogging #bloggers
Apr 29, 2016: Newly-minted yellow belt little ninja…
Apr 29, 2016: Queen of the coffee shop.
Apr 28, 2016: Not a popular decision, it seems.
Apr 27, 2016: Love a classic looking pub.
Apr 27, 2016: Things I don’t miss about living in London #521
Apr 27, 2016: This afternoon’s office.
Apr 27, 2016: Iris and I partied out on Christmas Day. (Photo from my sister-in-law.)
Apr 23, 2016: Oh, la la
Apr 22, 2016: Friday
Apr 13, 2016: Misty morning. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Apr 12, 2016: Oh, yeah. That’s why I live here. #shorehambysea
Apr 8, 2016: As nosey as they get…
Apr 7, 2016: Tom Foolery does breakfast!
Mar 29, 2016: Our en suite is looking dead glamorous right now.
Mar 28, 2016: My room in Lewisham circa 1994. #MacLCII #applemac #lewisham #1990s
Mar 20, 2016: Howzat? A piece of #cricket history.
Mar 15, 2016: Those eyes, Iris.
Mar 15, 2016: Always nice to carry a touch of Shoreham into London with me.
Mar 5, 2016: The clouds doing drama again… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Mar 1, 2016: Buying a print newspaper? With my reputation?
Feb 28, 2016: Daddy/daughter selfie…
Feb 24, 2016: That’s what I call an evening… #shorehambysea #shoreham #sunset #twilight
Feb 20, 2016: Sunset on #shorehambysea
Feb 14, 2016: Unexpected #snowdrop
Feb 11, 2016: Finishing the day with coffee and cake…
Feb 10, 2016: Spring in Hassocks?
Feb 9, 2016: A little night #blogging listening to Simple Minds on #applemusic
Feb 9, 2016: High tide. #shorehambysea
Feb 8, 2016: Hazel prepares to face Storm Imogen (or Immy, as it’s known in this house)
Feb 7, 2016: Kicking off something rather cool… #britishsolarchallenge
Feb 5, 2016: Beach running girl.
Feb 3, 2016: Sky blends
Feb 3, 2016: Backstreet #brighton #latergram #red #night #instagood
Jan 30, 2016: Adur afternoon #shorehambysea
Jan 26, 2016: Finishing the day with an espresso @tomfoolery.coffee #dorasdaysout
Jan 26, 2016: Dora on the train. #dorasdaysout
Jan 26, 2016: Dora doing some digital strategy at @brilliantnoise #dorasdaysout
Jan 26, 2016: Another day of adventures for Dora. #dorasdaysout
Jan 24, 2016: Who is this girl of mystery?
Jan 23, 2016: The #woods await. #misty #sussex #devilsdyke #forest #latergram
Jan 22, 2016: Another tag on the white belt for Hazel.
Jan 22, 2016: Iris likes a pub.
Jan 22, 2016: Top quality views at the Devils Dyke today
Jan 19, 2016: On my way to teach the #interhacktives. It is (a) too early and (b) too cold
Jan 19, 2016: Morning in #shorehambysea
Jan 16, 2016: Daddy legs proving useful in avoiding bumps for a new sitter…
Jan 15, 2016: In case there was any doubt…
Jan 15, 2016: Deep in the downs, @springbarnfarm
Jan 14, 2016: There’s always something to look at in Brighton…
Jan 14, 2016: That’s no moon…
Jan 14, 2016: Small Batch Brekkie
Jan 14, 2016: Taylor St Brighton RIP
Jan 14, 2016: Surprisingly lovely morning.
Jan 13, 2016: New headshot, from @icreatelife_ 📷
Jan 12, 2016: Can we talk about these ears, Dad?
Jan 8, 2016: Not sure about this parking strategy.
Jan 7, 2016: Gorgeous light after the rain this morning. #latergram #shorehambysea #shoreham
Jan 7, 2016: New mobile #blogging setup on test. Liking it so far…
Jan 2, 2016: Down at Iris level.
Dec 29, 2015: Lunch
Dec 28, 2015: #2015bestnine
Dec 27, 2015: Daddy/daughter selfie.
Dec 25, 2015: MC H.PoP in da house!
Dec 25, 2015: Cousins at play.
Dec 25, 2015: Coffee and a new Apple Watch strap. A very satisfactory Christmas so far…
Dec 21, 2015: Biscuit bear is angry.
Dec 19, 2015: Cliffhanger…
Dec 18, 2015: Waiting for Grandma
Dec 18, 2015: Sneaky coffee with slumbering Iris.
Dec 17, 2015: Looking lovely and Christmassy in my favourite coffee shop, @tomfoolery.coffee
Dec 14, 2015: Party dress for the festive period…
Dec 13, 2015: Patriotic baby
Dec 10, 2015: Breakfast by the coast
Dec 9, 2015: Somewhere out there, the sun is shining
Dec 9, 2015: Last London commute of the year.
Dec 6, 2015: It’s my chair, Dad!
Dec 1, 2015: Mistimed leaving @tomfoolery.coffee this morning…
Nov 30, 2015: Organised.
Nov 28, 2015: Beach walk
Nov 28, 2015: Some sort of subtle message here. Not sure I’m getting it…
Nov 27, 2015: London feeling almost Holmsian tonight.
Nov 26, 2015: Those glorious 15 minutes between finishing your chores in town and collecting your daughter from nursery.
Nov 26, 2015: River life
Nov 24, 2015: The moment you realise you’ve been wearing this sticker all through a day-long training course.
Nov 22, 2015: Surprise!
Nov 22, 2015: Thanks @stuccatora !
Nov 21, 2015: Artic winds do not deter Hazel the Explorer.
Nov 19, 2015: Commuter breakfast. Sheer glamour.
Nov 18, 2015: Morning view…
Nov 11, 2015: The girls Tinworth
Nov 1, 2015: Not sure the spirit measures are seeing as much use as they should…
Oct 27, 2015: Dangerously cute.
Oct 21, 2015: Possibly the worst drawing I have ever done on a whiteboard.
Oct 20, 2015: Calm.
Oct 18, 2015: Sky drama.
Oct 18, 2015: From small #acorns
Oct 17, 2015: Making a break for it…
Oct 15, 2015: Headcorn. The name shouldn’t make me laugh - but it does. 🌚
Oct 15, 2015: Finishing the day very acceptably at @tomfoolery.coffee
Oct 15, 2015: A brief visit to Brighton, concluded. I can’t believe how little time I spend here at the moment. Need to fix that.
Oct 14, 2015: Beyond decadent and into bourgeois with my train this morning.
Oct 12, 2015: On the rails again.
Oct 1, 2015: Here’s a coffee shop that knows how to treat its customers right…
Oct 1, 2015: Where has the great fiery sky ball gone?
Sep 30, 2015: Beach morning.
Sep 29, 2015: iPhone 6S doing a good job in tricky light…
Sep 29, 2015: Umm…
Sep 26, 2015: Home.
Sep 25, 2015: 14 liveblogs from #next15 - I think I’ve earned this.
Sep 25, 2015: Shiny happy German people.
Sep 24, 2015: I’m at a music festival. Is this my mid-life crisis hitting?
Sep 22, 2015: Epic flying weather this morning…
Sep 22, 2015: Off on my travels again…
Sep 22, 2015: Here we go again: #next15
Sep 17, 2015: Hello, old friend. #ipod1 #ipod1stgen #ipod
Sep 7, 2015: For @andypiper
Sep 6, 2015: Day 4: starting to look like a Brighton creative. #selfie
Sep 5, 2015: Camping sisters.
Sep 5, 2015: “Designer” stubble #selfie
Sep 5, 2015: Morning in the tent house
Sep 5, 2015: Not quite Cordon Bleu. But tasty none the less.
Sep 5, 2015: Hazel and her charger…
Sep 4, 2015: Nightfall.
Sep 3, 2015: Home.
Sep 3, 2015: Damn but filling these rings is addictive. #applewatch
Sep 2, 2015: Skies. Also, not square.
Aug 30, 2015: Candles from the Bridge of Lights, remembering the dead of the Shoreham Aircrash
Aug 30, 2015: Bringing the cute. And a silly hat.
Aug 25, 2015: “Morning, Daddy. I saved some cute for you.”
Aug 21, 2015: Lovely patterns in the sky this evening.
Aug 20, 2015: Back in the UK, and heading off to see my girls,
Aug 20, 2015: Well, this is creepy.
Aug 20, 2015: Students at work.
Aug 19, 2015: This is what a journalism department looks like in Singapore…
Aug 17, 2015: This part of the day inspired by @neilperkin 😎
Aug 17, 2015: Human resource excellence: that’s me.
Aug 17, 2015: I have new glasses. Did I mention?
Aug 17, 2015: Art, innit?
Aug 16, 2015: Time to sing for my supper…
Aug 16, 2015: Swapping SIMs - because the idea of being offline is unsustainable. 😎
Aug 16, 2015: It’s pretty here.
Aug 14, 2015: Friday night is fine for flying.
Aug 13, 2015: Iris: just chillin'
Aug 13, 2015: Iris is leaf-watching again.
Aug 10, 2015: Iris is gripped by my sparkling conversation…
Aug 7, 2015: Turns out that the airport café is a distracting place…
Aug 3, 2015: Iris!
Aug 1, 2015: A small army of original #lego space figures…
Aug 1, 2015: The great explorer…
Jul 21, 2015: Sussex from above (ish)
Jul 21, 2015: Dyke (Devil’s)
Jul 10, 2015: Just hanging around #olympus #camera
Jul 9, 2015: Ladies and gentlemen, the design stylings of Mr @dnhydn - devoted to the service of two nearly 3 year olds…
Jul 4, 2015: The woods await…
Jul 3, 2015: Enjoying the view from Devil’s Dyke.
Jul 3, 2015: Cheeky!
Jun 28, 2015: And she did.
Jun 27, 2015: True dat. #shorehambysea
Jun 27, 2015: Heaven is lying next to your sleeping baby daughter on a rug in the garden, under a gazebo and letting a Saturday summer afternoon drift by.
Jun 25, 2015: Just time for a cheeky #espresso before collecting Hazel. #shorehambysea
Jun 23, 2015: Evening on #Shorehambeach #shorehambysea
Jun 20, 2015: Mighty sky giraffe judges your sin…. #beachdreams #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Jun 20, 2015: Warning: Canard hookers #beachdreams #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
Jun 13, 2015: Sisters.
Jun 13, 2015: Beach life. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
Jun 5, 2015: Not a bad place to start a working day.
May 27, 2015: The Langham and the Beeb… #London
May 27, 2015: #London from on high
May 24, 2015: Sunday in the #pub
May 22, 2015: Daddy/daughter treats…
May 21, 2015: Iris.
May 16, 2015: Hello!
May 15, 2015: 11 year old iPod mini - still working. #iPod #ipodmini #apple
May 10, 2015: Tell me, friends. Would I make a good hipster?
May 7, 2015: Polling station #selfie #ge2015
May 5, 2015: Brother and nephew
May 4, 2015: Family
Apr 30, 2015: Afternoon light and a coffee
Apr 30, 2015: Evening beach walk #shorehambeach #shorehambysea #beach #boardwalk #latergram #twilight
Apr 28, 2015: The creeping Starbuckifiction of Sussex [caption id=“attachment_6496” align=“aligncenter” width=“922”] The new Starbucks in worthing town centre[/caption] This part of Sussex has long been a …
Apr 24, 2015: Evening in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #trees #shadow
Apr 24, 2015: Hello, #applewatch
Apr 15, 2015: Wise words.
Apr 15, 2015: Still and misty this morning on the bridge, as I head up to London for the second last time pre-baby.
Apr 14, 2015: Breakfast A working breakfast at Tom Foolery.
Apr 10, 2015: Woollen stripes.
Apr 8, 2015: Photos for Mac is here…
Apr 7, 2015: Doing a big, scary technical thing. With coffee.
Apr 6, 2015: Easter baking [gallery link=“none” columns=“2” ids=“6486,6487”] Enjoying Easter time in the kitchen with my little girl.
Apr 6, 2015: Faded flag. #shorehambysea #shorehamhouseboats
Apr 5, 2015: Playing is hard work
Apr 2, 2015: My TV isn’t enjoying #leadersdebate
Mar 23, 2015: Probably my most honest tweet of the year to date @bjacksonuk @interhacktives Nah. I troll students from my own account. — Adam Tinworth (@adders) January 22, 2015 343444480)
Mar 20, 2015: H.PoP and the seahorse
Mar 20, 2015: Life in plastic, it's fantastic Morning in the Cotswolds
Mar 20, 2015: Hazel is doing Instagram, while we wait for Sammy the Seahorse. This is her photo.
Mar 20, 2015: Morning in the Cotswolds.
Mar 11, 2015: Oh, dear. #commuting #thameslink
Mar 6, 2015: H.PoP
Mar 5, 2015: Big skies!
Feb 26, 2015: Now, that’s a #sunset
Feb 25, 2015: Finally, a candidate I can get behind. #doge #votedoge
Feb 22, 2015: The five essential ingredients of a good event (at #odcamp)
Feb 22, 2015: Getting ready for #odcamp day 2 - by mainlining #coffee (art by @drawnalism)
Feb 19, 2015: Morning #commute, #ominous #cloud edition
Feb 17, 2015: pre-#dawn #commuting #shorehambysea
Feb 16, 2015: #dawn #commuting
Feb 6, 2015: Daddy daughter #selfie
Feb 2, 2015: Beth talking to her #interhacktives successors
Feb 1, 2015: Party girl!
Feb 1, 2015: Ladybird cake. On a stick. Oh, yes.
Jan 29, 2015: Preparing for parental sleep-deprivation Buzzfeed rounds up how horrible being sleep-deprived is for you: When you get consistently bad sleep, your brain suffers. You can experience impaired …
Jan 28, 2015: City Newspaper MAs via the wand of Narcissus… #cityoj
Jan 27, 2015: 06.35 hours. What does the “0” stand for? 0h my God, it’s early. “Early” for me is now “out of the house before Hazel wakes”.
Jan 26, 2015: Shoreham by Night
Jan 24, 2015: Gorgeous blue skies today
Jan 14, 2015: Victorian roof.
Jan 11, 2015: Made with @instaweatherpro Free App! #instaweather #instaweatherpro #weather #wx #shorehambysea #unitedkingdom #day #winter #cold #gb
Jan 11, 2015: Sometimes toddler play looks indistinguishable from a horror movie.
Jan 5, 2015: Been a while since I did a #haircutselfie.
Jan 5, 2015: Hazel missed the Princess memo… 😊
Jan 1, 2015: My nephew has been bitten by the #lego #ninjago bug
Dec 31, 2014: Like father, like daughter…
Dec 23, 2014: Morning on the bridge. #shorehambysea #light #dawn #sussex
Dec 23, 2014: #coffee #firstcupoftheday
Dec 23, 2014: Winning awards for coffee, not modesty, in #shorehambysea #coffee #tomfoolery
Dec 23, 2014: Inspired by @masakepic, here’s dawn light over #emeraldquay in #shorehambysea on #tuesday. #lookup
Dec 22, 2014: Some improvement needed… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
Dec 20, 2014: Lovely #sunset on the #Adur with #shoreham in the background.
Dec 20, 2014: Peter (Blue)
Dec 19, 2014: Festive wood.
Dec 19, 2014: Post-party refreshments
Nov 27, 2014: Exit ahead.
Nov 20, 2014: One job, boat, one job.
Nov 20, 2014: Morning coffee with Dora
Nov 18, 2014: Dora in position for the afternoon session at #meaningconf
Nov 18, 2014: Dora auditioning for a speaker slot at the next #meaningconf
Nov 18, 2014: Dora the Explorer… (Hazel’s toy has come to work with me today)
Nov 15, 2014: This looks like a job for… BatSpoon! #batman #comics #dc
Nov 5, 2014: Oops. #boat #sunk #adur #shoreham
Nov 5, 2014: After the thunder storm, yesterday #latergram
Nov 1, 2014: Everything’s better with a stick…
Oct 27, 2014: Starting Sometimes you just have to start writing. I’ve barely written for over a week now. My blog(s) lie fallow, writing project are stalled - and I’m …
Oct 18, 2014: Remains of the babychino
Oct 11, 2014: Dora.
Oct 7, 2014: Workspace, from on high #selfiestick #picstick
Sep 25, 2014: Bing user group meeting…
Sep 21, 2014: Sunlight in the trees #nofilter
Sep 18, 2014: Evening over the Adur #nofilter #sussex #shoreham
Sep 16, 2014: Getting my Yosemite beta on today…
Sep 13, 2014: The crow, it is nosy.
Sep 13, 2014: Obligatory social media lunch shot
Aug 20, 2014: Cheating on @smallbatchcc and feeling dirty. #whathappensinlondonstaysinlondon #beancheat
Aug 19, 2014: #cloudporn from this morning… #latergram
Aug 19, 2014: It’s work, I tell you, work!
Aug 17, 2014: Into the Auto-Awesome Woods [caption id=“attachment_3396” align=“aligncenter” width=“2250”] The way through the woods[/caption] I’m not long back from a week’s extended family …
Aug 6, 2014: I confess: the code for Poitiers airport always makes me snigger…
Jul 30, 2014: I serve the thirsty fish…
Jul 28, 2014: #harvest #fruit #blackberries
Jul 25, 2014: Sunset.
Jul 24, 2014: Morning coffee Enjoying a Tom Foolery coffee while catching up on e-mail and feeds on this beautiful morning…
Jul 19, 2014: Evening on the Adur
Jul 19, 2014: River life…
Jul 12, 2014: #instacrt
Jul 12, 2014: Under canvas.
Jul 11, 2014: Playing on the Beach
Jul 6, 2014: Standing on the beach… #latergram
Jun 21, 2014: Oh, sweet bliss of in-flight charging. 😊
Jun 21, 2014: Up, up and away…
Jun 15, 2014: Missing you, Dad. Still missing you Dad, over a decade since you passed.
Jun 14, 2014: Overheard at Waitrose "Why's this place so quiet?" “Oh, the football’s on…” (Panic) “Which match, which match…?” laughter
May 19, 2014: Summer's start on the Beach [gallery ids=“3371,3370,3367,3369,3368”] Summer finally hit the south coast over the weekend, and I was fortunate enough to spend a good section of my …
May 18, 2014: Lunchtime treat now my toddler is sleeping…
May 16, 2014: Self quantification ahead… #jawboneup
May 15, 2014: Beach Blooms The beginning of summer beings blooms into life on Shoreham Beach’s shingle beach habitat.
May 15, 2014: The #beach in bloom…
May 15, 2014: Morning #beachlife
May 13, 2014: Wrong on so many levels. #marmite
May 13, 2014: Stormy Adur
May 13, 2014: Smashing!
May 6, 2014: Berlin breakfast
May 4, 2014: Back in #berlin
Apr 20, 2014: Nostalgia, saturation and digital photography One of my projects this year has been to get on top of my digital photograph archive. Up until recently, it was across several libraries on different …
Apr 14, 2014: Taking the iOS WordPress app for a spin This is basically just a quick test to see if I can make the fancy photo display on my theme work from the WordPress iOS app.
Apr 14, 2014: Resolved: time to move my blog For the third time this year, I’m unable to access my blog because of a problem with my web host. Time’s up. I’ve blocked out a section on time in my …
Apr 13, 2014: Spring: sprung Today, the sun was shining, the trees were opening, and children (including my daughter) were playing in the park. Spring is - finally - here.
Apr 9, 2014: Finally got a decent coffee in NYC
Apr 9, 2014: One evening in New York City [gallery ids=“3330,3331,3332,3333,3334,3335,3336,3337”] I’m in New York again, doing some training. It’s another 48 hour quick jaunt - so this evening …
Apr 4, 2014: Hazel’s getting the hang of this coffee grinding malarkey…
Mar 29, 2014: Views from the Adur Ferry Bridge [gallery columns=“1” ids=“3320,3321,3317,3318,3319”] Two mornings a week, I walk over the Adur Ferry Bridge to take my little girl to nursery. And …
Mar 11, 2014: IKEA does cosplay [youtube www.youtube.com/watch IKEA does cosplay. The mainstreaming of geek culture continues…
Mar 9, 2014: Spring commute [gallery ids=“3298,3297,3296,3295,3294”] A series of images I grabbed on my commute to London last Wednesday - the first day that really, really felt …
Mar 9, 2014: High Tide High tide on the Adur from Emerald Quay
Mar 2, 2014: Stormy weather…
Mar 2, 2014: Hazel’s breakfast (first course) #fruit #food #breakfast
Feb 24, 2014: Sunrise over the Adur - #sunrise #river
Feb 23, 2014: Yum. #burger #newyork #fries #latergram
Feb 23, 2014: Afternoon coffee at @trufflesbakeryltd at Shoreham Airport
Feb 20, 2014: Looks like New York to me…
Feb 12, 2014: I’ve nicked something from @neilperkin to use with the #interhacktives :-)
Feb 10, 2014: Today, I train. For learning is good.
Feb 3, 2014: Nice afternoon in London Town
Jan 16, 2014: Demoted by Starbucks [caption id=“attachment_3281” align=“aligncenter” width=“637”] From Gold to Green…[/caption] Ah, the shame, the shame. Starbucks have demoted me. No …
Jan 8, 2014: Two #coffee mugs. One for each hand. #thatkindaday
Jan 7, 2014: Bridge light
Jan 7, 2014: Let them play If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must allow them more time and opportunity to play, not less. Yet policymakers and powerful …
Jan 6, 2014: Time travel Right now I want to invent time travel for the sole purpose of finding my pre-fatherhood younger self and slapping him every time he claims to be …
Dec 20, 2013: #lunch in progress…
Dec 20, 2013: Winter sun on the #beach
Dec 17, 2013: That’s a win… @smallbatchcc in #shoreham-by-sea
Dec 16, 2013: Life as a new parent [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Damn you, Coke, for catching the new parent experience so very, very well. It’s the cut between the pre- and …
Dec 16, 2013: Uh-huh.
Dec 10, 2013: #leweb bloggers - serious business
Nov 10, 2013: Autumn dusk on the Adur
Oct 30, 2013: Strangest #hotel corridors ever…
Oct 26, 2013: Carol Pearson: the big bad wolf of endometriosis Liveblogged notes from a talk at TEDxBrighton 2013 Little Red Riding is a story about womanhood. And by that, Carol means periods. The wolf devoured …
Oct 26, 2013: Carol Pearson: the big bad wolf of endometriosis Liveblogged notes from a talk at TEDxBrighton 2013 Little Red Riding is a story about womanhood. And by that, Carol means periods. The wolf devoured …
Oct 26, 2013: Aral Balkan: can design save us from digital feudalism? Liveblogged notes from a talk given by Aral at TEDxBrighton 2013 Today we stand at a crossroads. One road leads to a digital free land, where we own …
Oct 19, 2013: OK, seriously excited now… [youtube www.youtube.com/watch
Oct 19, 2013: Strange ducks they breed in these parts…
Oct 15, 2013: Hazel and I are making art!
Oct 15, 2013: Ah. #london #architecture - that’s better.
Oct 15, 2013: It’s before 9am and I’m taking photos of a #pub. What does this say about my life?
Oct 14, 2013: That @neilperkin draws a mean skull and crossbones…
Sep 25, 2013: Tunes station while Hazel sleeps in the car seat.
Sep 21, 2013: I may have a battery “problem”.
Sep 18, 2013: Training and thinking…
Sep 16, 2013: Night flight to Venus. No, wait, it’s Gatwick. Never mind. #easyjet
Sep 15, 2013: Mmmm. #Arches.
Sep 15, 2013: Welcome to #berlin
Sep 15, 2013: Waiting for my flight to Berlin…
Sep 12, 2013: #kingscross #architecture #roof
Sep 12, 2013: Sweaty, slightly drunk ma’n who keeps bashing his Thinkpad against my MacBook Pro in an aggressive way…
Sep 7, 2013: If all's going well… …then this blog is finally up and running in WordPress rather than Typepad. Much as I used to love Typepad, the slow pace of development meant I was …
Sep 7, 2013: Look at this pebble, Dad!
Sep 5, 2013: How to do interesting things at boring conferences at #bcsmu
Sep 5, 2013: He’s behind himself… #bcsmu
Aug 29, 2013: Coffee and calls #starbucks #phone #mobile #bluedress #landcam
Jul 18, 2013: Expensive #android
Jul 14, 2013: Looking up. #tree #leaves #summer #sun #blueskies
Jul 14, 2013: On a mission in the garden…
Jul 5, 2013: Finally found a use for my #hellokitty pen (a joke birthday present) #analogcamera
Jun 24, 2013: Bad teddie. #brighton #graffiti
Jun 23, 2013: Another day in baby jail… ;-)
Jun 23, 2013: Sunday tasks… #gardening
Jun 18, 2013: Pod coffee's bad taste for the planet The pod problem: But what bugs me most about pods isn't the marketing. It's the needless waste. Those 186m capsules used in Britain last year all had …
Jun 9, 2013: Find me on #Path!
Jun 2, 2013: Towering, not revolving #analogcamera
May 11, 2013: In the Kebab & Calculator for dinner… #youngones
May 10, 2013: About as British as it gets… #fishandchips
Apr 29, 2013: Summer's tasks begin A homeowner. A dad. Doing the lawn on a Sunday afternoon, while my daughter plays on a blanket. I’m middle-aged. I’m happy.
Apr 19, 2013: Keynote speaker @peterjamesuk talking peers, queers and racketeers at #brightonsummit
Apr 19, 2013: Mr @steveinbrighton kicking off #brightonsummit
Apr 15, 2013: View from London's Cheesegrater… http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=124984 via revstansfilmblog.typepad.com Some fantastic images from RevStan here…
Apr 15, 2013: The Desk Agenda A new plan for new productivity and a tidy workspace. Maybe. Oh, hello, Tripepad. It’s been a while. Turns out that a teeny-tiny baby (no so much any …
Apr 1, 2013: Fading beauty
Mar 26, 2013: Lights
Mar 21, 2013: Coffee with my mother-in-law
Feb 18, 2013: Weirdest. Sleeping. Position. EVER.
Jan 5, 2013: #3 Dramatic light on Shoreham Beach
Jan 5, 2013: #2 Nap Time
Jan 5, 2013: #1 New Year tranquility on Wandsworth Common
Dec 25, 2012: Pretty good writing for five months…
Dec 21, 2012: Space/time tree #tardis #christmastree
Dec 15, 2012: When missing a train is a gift [caption id=“attachment_1133” align=“alignnone” width=“800”] Breakfast at Hector’s Shed[/caption] It comes to something when missing a train feels …
Dec 11, 2012: Hazel pop!
Dec 11, 2012: Up, up and away!
Dec 11, 2012: Playing with the new version of Instagram
Dec 7, 2012: Wireless charging in progress… #lumia920
Nov 30, 2012: First photos with a Lumia 920 So, I have in my posession for a while a Nokia Lumia 920 (I’m involved in a little work for them, via Brilliant Noise). It’s the first non-iPhone …
Nov 20, 2012: The Coffee Chair My dream chair. Oh, yes. People of the interwebs, please arrange for one of these to come into my possession. Your co-operation is appreciated. Mmm. …
Nov 19, 2012: Dealing with some unfinished business.
Nov 19, 2012: The day begins… #dawn #railway #train #sky #shorehambysea
Nov 16, 2012: Two great drinks, together at last … #coffee #beer #coffeebeer
Nov 9, 2012: Keeping warm… #stove #winter #Hipstamatic #Americana #BlankoFreedom13 #RedEyeGel
Nov 6, 2012: Found: Tessa From ScaryGoRound Found, while clearing through old boxes from our storage unit: A sketch of Tessa from the old web comic ScaryGoRound that I must have bought a decade …
Nov 6, 2012: First birthday card from my daughter…. :-)
Nov 6, 2012: I must have had this a long time…
Nov 4, 2012: Just hangin' around
Nov 1, 2012: Two trains to #brighton and none to #shorehambysea - figures
Oct 31, 2012: I think this is meant to be reassuring, but it comes across as a touch sinister…
Oct 31, 2012: Bloggin'
Oct 31, 2012: Keeping my students on the clock… #evillecturer
Oct 31, 2012: Skewered… #leaf #autumn
Oct 30, 2012: The sinister squash plots your doom…
Oct 30, 2012: So, is Christmas coming, then?
Oct 30, 2012: Not sure that word means what you think it means.… ;-)
Oct 30, 2012: The #interhacktives - digital journalism’s future…
Oct 30, 2012: Lines and a circle
Oct 25, 2012: I say, Jeeves…
Oct 25, 2012: I am not impressed by my surroundings, Daddy.
Oct 23, 2012: Berlin, a conker and the oddest of nostalgic moments Berlin! Berlin! A fortnight ago, I was in Berlin. I love that city. Over the last year, it's become my most visited city, and I enjoy every single …
Oct 18, 2012: Eric Carle's Autumn When I was a few years older than Hazel, The Very Hungry Caterpillar was my favourite book. How awesome is it that a few decades later, I can read the …
Oct 16, 2012: Almost certainly not. #skyfall
Oct 9, 2012: When dragons fall…
Oct 9, 2012: Wow - three years on FourSquare…
Oct 9, 2012: Room with a green roof view #hotellife (in response to @lloydadavis)
Oct 8, 2012: The people of NEXT Service Design #sd12
Oct 8, 2012: Interesting stuff about disruption at #sd12
Oct 8, 2012: Danger: liveblogger at work #sd12
Oct 6, 2012: When did the bed get so big, Daddy?
Sep 28, 2012: At a fantastic #LikeMinds discussion about the connected culture and its consequences…
Sep 23, 2012: Never noticed this gate before
Sep 23, 2012: Candle-lit
Sep 19, 2012: Daybreak over commuters…
Sep 17, 2012: The weaponised smile of a baby… If there’s one thing babies do well, it’s living in the moment. No photos, Daddy! Sometimes my daughter is so good at being cute that I suspect …
Sep 17, 2012: Ready for adventure (take 2)
Sep 16, 2012: Sunday afternoon smiles.
Sep 14, 2012: New things…
Sep 13, 2012: I suspect the post-lunch audience may be “relaxed” for @cpev’s #bdmf12 session
Sep 13, 2012: Preparing for worship at the church of marketing #bdmf12
Sep 13, 2012: Token lunch-on-Twitter tweet
Sep 13, 2012: Looks like baby Hazel gets something from #bdmf schwag bag…
Sep 9, 2012: The tower has fallen. Flee! Flee for your lives!
Sep 9, 2012: Ugh. Man gather #wood
Sep 8, 2012: Eggs - stir - men -ate #dalek #doctorwho #bmmf
Sep 7, 2012: Piling the footbridge
Sep 7, 2012: No photos, daddy!
Sep 3, 2012: Ready for adventure…
Sep 3, 2012: Cameras in a coffee shop - how very #Brighton.
Aug 31, 2012: Green and pleasant land?
Aug 31, 2012: Luggage boarding…
Aug 30, 2012: Found it!
Aug 29, 2012: Gotta fly!
Aug 28, 2012: Prey
Aug 25, 2012: Fussy coffee making methods FT #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel
Aug 25, 2012: Old #canon #camera #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40
Aug 24, 2012: Storage upon storage… #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel
Aug 19, 2012: Hazel. Not sleeping. :-)
Aug 19, 2012: Chilling in the living room, with a cool breeze in from the balcony.
Aug 19, 2012: I have fallen in live with a #coffee…
Aug 16, 2012: It's Fnordday, right? Yeah, I think that's it. My sense of time is slipping, sucked away by a baby’s obliviousness to such things. Being self-employed is great. If I was still a corporate type, I'd …
Aug 15, 2012: Popular organ music is a thing? Who knew?
Aug 12, 2012: First dispatch from the nappy trenches I’m a Dad. Here’s my first report from two weeks of nappies, feeds and broken sleep… Nappies: a new life staple So, I'm a Dad. While the rest of the …
Aug 11, 2012: #coffee break at the Ropetackle in #shorehambysea
Aug 9, 2012: Cousins
Jul 26, 2012: "I prefer Fred" I wrote a thing about the sad death of 1970s Doctor Who companion, Mary Tamm - the first Romana.
Jul 25, 2012: Some people say that waiting is the sensible thing. Not I. #mountainlion
Jul 25, 2012: #pebbles on #shorehambeach
Jul 24, 2012: Moored in the #quay - #boats #sailing #adur #shoreham-by-sea
Jul 24, 2012: Morning light
Jul 13, 2012: Display screen at #Microsoft’s London HQ:
Jul 13, 2012: #newsrw goodie bag
Jul 10, 2012: Come with me and watch the waves…
Jul 10, 2012: Swamped #boats in #shoreham-by-sea
Jul 10, 2012: Newly opened!
Jul 3, 2012: The stickers improve it, I think
Jul 2, 2012: Swiss treasure
Jun 28, 2012: And… home
Jun 28, 2012: Obligatory wifi on the underground instagram
Jun 27, 2012: The clouds are doing drama well this morning
Jun 27, 2012: The day begins
Jun 26, 2012: Lewisham: killing you swiftly A man in Lewisham Central, for example, lives for 70.8 years on average. In the Queen’s Gate ward, is in the affluent borough of Kensington and …
Jun 26, 2012: Late lunchin'
Jun 23, 2012: Mr @amayfield’s 40th birthday cake
Jun 22, 2012: Dancin' to Cantina Band [youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WpcmJ28Yg&w=640&h=360]) via www.youtube.com It's a mashup… but YOU CAN DANCE to the …
Jun 22, 2012: I guess I haven’t worn this jacket since Berlin…
Jun 20, 2012: #leweb - finished and freed
Jun 19, 2012: #leweb - @jamieoliver and @kevin
Jun 18, 2012: Here we go again.
Jun 14, 2012: Powering up
Jun 14, 2012: Patterns on the #beach
Jun 12, 2012: Delightful #coffee
Jun 11, 2012: Tasty, tasty Canon pancake via theonlinephotographer.typepad.com Quite possibly my next photographic purchase…
Jun 10, 2012: My thrilling Sunday :-)
Jun 9, 2012: Down at the yacht club #boat #prow #yacht #green #instagood
Jun 7, 2012: Leather dresses - a celebrity trend? Really? Apparently leather is “in” for celebrity ladies looking to make a splash. Jennifer Aniston: Emma Stone: Stone at least gets points for going for the …
Jun 7, 2012: Back when I lived in the East End 20 years ago, this was unimaginable…
Jun 3, 2012: Batter begins… #sunday #roast #cooking #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1969
Jun 2, 2012: Early Morning Adur Stillness I was out of the house at 6am on Tuesday, to hit the FT Mobile event. The Adur was so beautifully stil in the early morning light, that I couldn’t …
Jun 2, 2012: It lives! IT LIVES! I was astonished to see this pop up in my app updates. I thought Typepad had long abandoned this app, after the glory days of announcing it in stage …
Jun 2, 2012: Daisy, daisy
Jun 2, 2012: Saturday morning reading #ipad #instacrt
Jun 1, 2012: #instacrt #forgotten #tv #attic
May 31, 2012: ‘ere, Barry, think we got enough flags? #london #jubilee #flag #flags #unionjack #unionflag #coventgarden #instagood
May 31, 2012: Still obsessed with #instacrt
May 30, 2012: More #instacrt silliness
May 30, 2012: #instacrt - what a mad, wonderful idea.
May 29, 2012: This is the bit of coming to #london I hate - #commuting
May 29, 2012: Financial Times iPad case - from #ftmobile gift bag
May 29, 2012: #ftmobile - Rob Grimshaw
May 25, 2012: Lunch with @nevillehobson and @gabriellenyc
May 22, 2012: Space for a few more…
May 19, 2012: That looks like a cool way to camp… via www.toxel.com Not sure high winds would add to the experience, though…
May 17, 2012: This week’s #starbucks #itunes freebie
May 17, 2012: Underground wit…
May 17, 2012: New toy…uh…piece of professional equipment.
May 15, 2012: The Coffee Ritual I've become a great fan of the process of starting with roasted coffee beans and ending up with a glorious cup of coffee, and I have at least three …
May 15, 2012: Office view, afternoon.
May 12, 2012: Design echoes #architecture #buildings #london #shard
May 12, 2012: #gc5 is done…
May 12, 2012: #gc5 in #moleskine | games don’t tell stories, people do #gc5
May 12, 2012: #gc5 in #moleskine | gamesmanship
May 12, 2012: The Beast in use at #gc5
May 12, 2012: #gc5 in #moleskine | story in games: vital or bs?
May 12, 2012: #gc5 in #moleskine | tabletop RPGs informing video games
May 12, 2012: Talking desktop RPGs at #gc5
May 12, 2012: #gc5 in #moleskine | games at work:
May 12, 2012: #gc5 in #moleskine - women in gaming:
May 12, 2012: Sitting at the back is “in” at #gc4
May 9, 2012: 3D printed #shoes at #next12
May 9, 2012: #fashion track at #next12
May 7, 2012: Blimey - I remember these… #next12
May 7, 2012: I have a suspicion that the answer is “kittens”… #next12
May 7, 2012: Does what it says on the badge…
Apr 23, 2012: #coffee and #woodgrain #filterfree
Apr 21, 2012: New view
Apr 21, 2012: One wing missing
Apr 20, 2012: The sad pile of no show badges at #odcc…
Apr 20, 2012: I think I might be early for #likemind Brighton…
Apr 18, 2012: The joy of Due South It's a programme that can't see a fine line without walking towards it and treading catlike along it until it vanishes over the horizon. It moves …
Apr 16, 2012: Death of a #slinky
Apr 14, 2012: Beware the elephant of intuition Argument: Because the elephant of intuition is more powerful than the rider of deliberation, moral judgements are firstly and mostly intuitive and …
Apr 14, 2012: Confluence
Apr 13, 2012: #protest #shoreham #shorehambeach #rampion #windfarm #sign
Apr 12, 2012: When I'm stressed… Whenever I get stressed about finding work, about the fact that I’m going to be a father soon, about the huge changes that are sweeping over my life, …
Apr 12, 2012: A #bench on the #beach - #seaside #shore #pebbles
Apr 9, 2012: On the Barbados shore [gallery ids=“1171,1173,1175”]
Apr 9, 2012: Bad news, chums!
Apr 8, 2012: Sailing the Caribbean [gallery ids=“1177,1179”]
Apr 8, 2012: A taste of history #kodak #slidefilm #film #transparancy
Apr 5, 2012: Evening light
Apr 4, 2012: 16-bit 11th Doctor http://www.collegehumor.com/e/6749695 via www.kasterborous.com Brilliant satire of the last two seasons - and is it wrong that I want the 16-bit music …
Apr 4, 2012: Gull’s demise
Apr 4, 2012: Lunch break
Apr 2, 2012: Calmness in the Cotswolds [youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURHLyw8ZJY]) Just to remind myself that calmness is out there.
Apr 2, 2012: Sea lemon
Mar 31, 2012: The only Infographic that matters via blog.thedaily.com
Mar 30, 2012: Unemployment & Life Expectancy A worker laid off at age 40 could expect to die at least a year sooner than his peers. via andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com Thanks for the year off …
Mar 30, 2012: Nice looking new offices for them
Mar 29, 2012: Down by old Father Thames
Mar 25, 2012: George Lucas and the failed narrative Because suddenly there is a scene with Jabba himself, and …. nothing. He’s got Boba Fett with him and yet no one tries to kill Han or capture him or …
Mar 23, 2012: Sneaky half… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
Mar 23, 2012: Daffodil time
Mar 23, 2012: Yum… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
Mar 23, 2012: Market day in #cirencester #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
Mar 23, 2012: Travellers #Hipstamatic #RobotoGlitter #Pistil
Mar 22, 2012: Simming the City Oh, I lost way too much time to this back in the early 90s. The new version looks scarily compelling: [youtube …
Mar 22, 2012: Bad news on the Blood & Chrome front Now, the network has passed on the project as a regular series but is looking to do it as a digital one, while airing the already produced pilot on …
Mar 22, 2012: Starbucks wants Nespresso's business… But the star of the meeting was the Verismo machine, which was put on display for the first time since its introduction at the beginning of this …
Mar 22, 2012: Pity - I was looking for a large…
Mar 21, 2012: Full of Blood and Chrome, signifying…? [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via www.majordojo.com Really looking forward to this - and hoping it doesn't disappoint. I loved the reimagined …
Mar 18, 2012: Gardens in the sky via remodelista.com Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair amount. I still find then unutterably inspiring, a …
Mar 18, 2012: Morning paper
Mar 17, 2012: I was born under a wandering' mind A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information …
Mar 17, 2012: Aperture hates Flip This window popped up when I installed the latest update to Aperture 3: Destroy all 3ivx codecs And sure enought, the linked support document tells …
Mar 16, 2012: My morning office, after #likemindbrighton
Mar 13, 2012: Meta
Mar 12, 2012: The #fog of #brighton
Mar 12, 2012: Three images of Fort Lauderdale, Florida I've been playing catch-up with some un-processed photos in Aperture. These three are from our holiday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in late 2010/early …
Mar 11, 2012: My little #android
Mar 10, 2012: Wild packs of coppers roam the streets of Brighton…
Mar 10, 2012: A brief mood movie of Brighton in the winter. I'm testing the repair of the video card of my MacBook Pro… [vimeo www.vimeo.com/38237667 w=500&h=281]
Mar 8, 2012: Here lies #london - I love these old city boundaries markers.
Mar 8, 2012: Lovely space
Mar 8, 2012: #ftmedia12 all done…
Mar 8, 2012: Book men at #ftmedia12
Mar 8, 2012: Future of TV panel at #ftmedia12
Mar 8, 2012: David Abraham of Channel 4 at #ftmedia12
Mar 7, 2012: #ftmedia12 - investment panel
Mar 7, 2012: #ftmedia12 - the future of digital journalism and news panel
Mar 7, 2012: Jimmy Wales and Richard Waters at #ftmedia12
Mar 7, 2012: #ftmedia12 liveblogging station
Mar 5, 2012: iPad at work
Mar 3, 2012: Has #spring sprung? #daffodils #garden #flowers
Mar 3, 2012: Diffraction
Mar 1, 2012: Charlie Higson reading from The Enemy: Geeks vrs Zombies
Mar 1, 2012: Bathed in the first #light of #spring
Mar 1, 2012: Attachment signs
Feb 27, 2012: Stormy day at the #beach
Feb 26, 2012: #coffee in #reflection #iphoneonly
Feb 25, 2012: Evening in the #pub
Feb 25, 2012: #lostgloves #devilsdyke
Feb 24, 2012: Time for a #coffee break on #nofilterfriday
Feb 24, 2012: Having fun…
Feb 24, 2012: Mmmm… donuts ;-) #brighton #publicart
Feb 24, 2012: #lostglove Queens Road, Brighton
Feb 21, 2012: #rsacities
Feb 20, 2012: Beach walkin'
Feb 20, 2012: #coffee #cuddle
Feb 20, 2012: Mix Messages I'm not sure what this "cover" of an iTunes Genius Mix says more about: pop's attitude to women, or my taste in music…
Feb 17, 2012: I am in…
Feb 15, 2012: Clearly, your bag is more deserving of a seat than all those people standing.
Feb 15, 2012: The panel - @jobsworth, @jangles et al…
Feb 15, 2012: I suspect @euan has grabbed an opportunity…
Feb 13, 2012: Sometimes the first coffee of the day is the best
Feb 11, 2012: #lostglove on Riverside Road, Shoreham Beach
Feb 11, 2012: By the banks of the #adur #river #sussex
Feb 9, 2012: My last #kodak camera
Feb 8, 2012: The many people within Emmy Rossum If there’s one thing that make me fall in love with a FashMag photoshoot, it’s when they take one person, and create many people from them. There’s no …
Feb 8, 2012: The melancholy fate of the Shoreham starfish A weekend walk along Shoreham Beach threw up this melancholy sight. Dozens of starfish on the beach, amongst empty mussels shells, and the remains of …
Feb 7, 2012: Station shadows
Feb 6, 2012: Where the wealthy Tinworth brother works…
Feb 6, 2012: Coffee and eyeball remover…
Feb 6, 2012: Underneath the seat of power
Feb 5, 2012: Red in winter
Feb 5, 2012: Snowless Shoreham-by-Sea
Feb 3, 2012: Sitting room only at #newsrw SMO session
Feb 2, 2012: Listening to @artistsmakers talking at #popuppeople
Jan 31, 2012: Heading home
Jan 31, 2012: Dress walking
Jan 31, 2012: The daily grind
Jan 30, 2012: #Chichester mean time #clock #sussex
Jan 29, 2012: Sheer Appeal [caption id=“attachment_6448” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] Diane Kruger - sheer confidence[/caption] The HuffPo wants to characterise this dress …
Jan 28, 2012: Two #hearts #love #iphoneography
Jan 26, 2012: Above the covers #architecture #building #construction #afternoonlight #hoarding #london #abovethestreets
Jan 24, 2012: Gherkin city #london #offices #architecture #30stmaryaxe
Jan 24, 2012: #espresso yourself #coffee #cup #iphoneography #starbucks
Jan 24, 2012: Possibly the most ugly tech hub in the world…
Jan 24, 2012: The news... it's so predictable these days via www.facebook.com via www.badnima.com Do I really want to return to journalism? ;-)
Jan 23, 2012: St Mary’s #church #shoreham-by-sea
Jan 23, 2012: Looking Over, Looking Up Looking over Looking up A couple of images from a stroll around the Wandsworth area of London with my brother and nephew…
Jan 22, 2012: Closed and Hidden
Jan 20, 2012: Left behind unwanted goods at #likemindbri #likemind. Anyone want?
Jan 20, 2012: #coffee and conversation
Jan 18, 2012: Open The Work Pod Bay Door, Hal [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/21463365](http://www.vimeo.com/21463365) w=601&h=338] Immersive Cocoon "2011" | 1080HD from adNAU on Vimeo. via …
Jan 18, 2012: The things you find while scanning… Students: always classy Believe it or not, this is one of the tamer images that's just passed through my scanner. This is, I believe, the QMW …
Jan 16, 2012: A photographic method and a career, in the rear view mirror Portrait of the blogger as a young hack I've been scanning again. One of my redundancy resolutions has been to use my sudden increase in available …
Jan 16, 2012: Mmmmmm #coffee
Jan 15, 2012: Sunday morning reading
Jan 13, 2012: Horny #skulls
Jan 11, 2012: More #coffee
Jan 9, 2012: Hello, old friend. I’ve missed you. #coffee
Dec 26, 2011: Plastic Solar Panels? This is potentially good news: A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their …
Dec 25, 2011: Christmas Dinner in progress…
Dec 25, 2011: My Christmas pants
Dec 25, 2011: Christmas lights
Dec 24, 2011: 2011: you won't be missed… [youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM]) via www.rachelleonard.com Mad, strange year. I'm hoping for a better …
Dec 24, 2011: I am Captain Scrumpy: official @newsmary @adders Bonus points AND 'Captain Scrumpy' ranking! — The Wurzels (@TheWurzels) December 24, 2011 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Dec 24, 2011: Speaking Style's Language Women’s fashion intrigues me, the way small changes can transform an outfit completely. It almost feels like a language that I don’t quite speak. I …
Dec 21, 2011: Farewell
Dec 16, 2011: Karl plays…
Dec 16, 2011: Centre of attention at @likemind
Dec 12, 2011: Legacy Macs on the streets of Brighton
Dec 11, 2011: Rule to live by…
Dec 7, 2011: Foodie.fm dinner
Dec 6, 2011: Sunrise in Ebbsfleet
Dec 5, 2011: Very festive
Dec 2, 2011: Boardwalk on the beach
Dec 2, 2011: Mmmm.
Dec 1, 2011: Digitally noisy
Nov 25, 2011: Waiting…
Nov 25, 2011: A Bajan Lunch In the last few days of my holiday. Should be back and posting soon…
Nov 18, 2011: Here comes the sun
Nov 15, 2011: Only the finest financial journalism…
Nov 14, 2011: Vital packing…
Nov 12, 2011: #foggy #shoreham #beach
Nov 7, 2011: The BBC's wholesale ripping exercise… You may have read in the past week that the BBC is in the process of digitising it's entire radio archive with a view to putting the whole thing …
Nov 7, 2011: The Wedding on the Riverwalk I seem to spend my life perpetually playing catch-up with the photographs I take. I've finally got around to working on my Florida photos from the …
Nov 7, 2011: Birthday lunch with work
Nov 6, 2011: Afternoon tea
Nov 5, 2011: #chichester #cathedral
Nov 4, 2011: Mobile office - #ipad on a #train
Nov 3, 2011: #dellb2b #cupcakes
Nov 2, 2011: This is how a movement dies… We’ve heard rumblings that MTV’s /quotes/zigman/393425/quotes/nls/via VIA -3.99% “Real World“ is scouting people between the ages of 20 and 24 …
Nov 2, 2011: This week’s Starbucks #itunes freebie in the UK:
Nov 2, 2011: Sneaky pleasure #coffee #starbucks #espresso
Nov 1, 2011: Reuse - #eco #sign #note #mugs
Nov 1, 2011: #sunset - it comes to early now.
Oct 31, 2011: Night #commute #train #station
Oct 31, 2011: Window dressing #fashion #shop #clothes #dummy
Oct 31, 2011: Night out at the #theatre - #hamlet at the #youngvic
Oct 31, 2011: 3
Oct 29, 2011: Sale of the century ( #carboot #fleamarket )
Oct 28, 2011: Font of all knowledge
Oct 24, 2011: Karl, master of meetings
Oct 20, 2011: Feel like I’ve earned this…
Oct 20, 2011: Exeter evening
Oct 19, 2011: Glorious sky over Shoreham this morning… It was a glorious sight to start a rather busy day, bouncing from Shoreham to Sutton to Lancing to Exeter… Still, the near four-hour drive along the …
Oct 18, 2011: Yum! Pre- #likeminds dindins
Oct 18, 2011: In Exeter for #likeminds
Oct 14, 2011: #commuting #hell
Oct 12, 2011: Fire alarmed But I found a bench, so I win…
Oct 12, 2011: Middle class perfection achieved…
Oct 11, 2011: PvP on Jobs Absolutely pitch-perfect tribute to Steve Jobs from PvP, as the cast's resident Apple fanboy deals with the sad news.
Oct 10, 2011: Rethinking
Oct 9, 2011: I think #cauliflower is seriously under-rated…
Oct 9, 2011: Whisking the Yorkshire batter #food #cooking #roast
Oct 9, 2011: A Pixar Goodbye via www.tauntr.com The other great achievement of that guy who died…
Oct 8, 2011: Why (phone) size matters One big advantage of a 3.5-inch display: with average-size hands, your thumb can reach any pixel on screen more comfortably while holding the phone …
Oct 7, 2011: Dramatic sky this evening
Oct 6, 2011: Prescient cover line
Oct 5, 2011: Daybreak at the station
Oct 5, 2011: Catching up with #apple #iPhone news on my #ipad
Oct 4, 2011: The local #pub #shoreham
Oct 4, 2011: Buy one ticket for @ropetackleart
Oct 4, 2011: Coffee and RSS
Oct 3, 2011: A Summer's Autumn Day… Fantastically unseasonal sun in Shoreham over the weekend:
Oct 3, 2011: Morning train
Oct 2, 2011: Home
Oct 2, 2011: Post party scrummy
Oct 1, 2011: Good times ahead
Sep 30, 2011: What, exactly, are you trying to say, iTunes? Bing Crosby and Marlene Dietich…?
Sep 30, 2011: Getting my laptop bag sorted out…
Sep 30, 2011: Working essentials #coffee #grinder
Sep 28, 2011: #coffee #americano #coffeeshop
Sep 27, 2011: My kinda place…
Sep 27, 2011: Dinner by the sea
Sep 25, 2011: The jaws of home
Sep 25, 2011: Works in progress. #scaffolding #construction
Sep 25, 2011: This is my weekend #moving #removals
Sep 21, 2011: WANT #2: the affordable version via thegirloutdoors.co.uk The whole Baggins thing in in, in, in this year…
Sep 21, 2011: Not going to miss this place…
Sep 21, 2011: WANT: Treehouse office via www.shedworking.co.uk I want to work here so badly that it hurts…
Sep 21, 2011: Where bookmarklets go to die… Vox? Tweetie? FriendFeed? I need to empty out that folder more often.
Sep 18, 2011: EP
Sep 16, 2011: The root of all… #futureofmobile
Sep 16, 2011: Bangers and mash FTW #futureofmobile #lunch #sausages
Sep 16, 2011: App decision making…
Sep 16, 2011: Workshopping app store selection at #futureofmobile
Sep 16, 2011: the @ubelly tshirts at #futureofmobile
Sep 16, 2011: Kevin Systrom at #futureofmobile
Sep 16, 2011: Kevin Systrom cofounder of #instagram at #futureofmobile
Sep 16, 2011: #futureofmobile
Sep 15, 2011: Karin Robinson #media140 #unethicalweb
Sep 15, 2011: #Media140: the #unethicalweb
Sep 15, 2011: #apple #logo #ipad
Sep 14, 2011: #autumn is here #leaves
Sep 14, 2011: Ifttting
Sep 14, 2011: Random Family Photo: 70s Beach Me. On a beach. Somewhere. In 1973. No idea who the girl is, but she has a real groovy 70s vibe, man. ;-)
Sep 12, 2011: Meetings meetings meetings
Sep 12, 2011: A weekend in Instagram… A touristy weekend, showing my brother-in-law around Shoreham and Brighton: All Instagram pic, because it seems the more people waving big …
Sep 11, 2011: Waiting #Brighton #plaza
Sep 11, 2011: Near Pavillions #brighton #brightonpavillion
Sep 11, 2011: #creamtea
Sep 11, 2011: Minimalism. Not. #brighton #folly
Sep 10, 2011: #anger
Sep 10, 2011: Under the bridge #structure #bridge #metal
Sep 10, 2011: Waiting boats #Adur #shoreham #ropetackle #boats #river
Sep 10, 2011: Market day
Sep 10, 2011: Summer’s End #sunflower #flower #decay
Sep 10, 2011: Adur by night It's the walk home that keeps on giving.
Sep 9, 2011: Through Departure's Eyes It dawned on me as I walked home to the Lewisham flat this evening that I'll only do this a handful of times again - maybe half a dozen times. In …
Sep 9, 2011: End of the line
Sep 7, 2011: Teenage invasion
Sep 7, 2011: Random Family Photo: Hill Snow A random photo from my scanning of old family negatives. This is Dollar, my childhood neighbourhood, in the midst of winter snow. This was taken …
Sep 5, 2011: Sleepy Like Minds I've just noticed that I appear in one of the rotating pics on the Like Minds homepage. That's me, in the window, apparently resting on my hands. I'm …
Sep 5, 2011: Men being jerks about coffee via www.youtube.com When will those crazy gals ever get anything right? via www.cutesexyfunnyawful.com Luckily this problem has been solved in the …
Sep 4, 2011: Evening light over the Adur I spent last Friday at dConstruct, a conference held just down the coast in Brifghton. As I walked home from Shoreham station, the mist was just …
Sep 2, 2011: Nice sticker from @ubelly at #dconstruct
Sep 2, 2011: On stage: @gotogirl at #dconstruct
Sep 2, 2011: #shoreham #rails #railway
Aug 31, 2011: Olympian countdown #Olympics #london
Aug 30, 2011: Everything in the gardens is… [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/28323891](http://www.vimeo.com/28323891) w=530&h=298] Visited Arundel Castle yesterday, but photography and video is strictly …
Aug 29, 2011: Tea and aviation
Aug 29, 2011: Art Deco Aviation #airport #shoreham #artdeco
Aug 29, 2011: Hedge harvest #blackberries #fruit #wild
Aug 29, 2011: Orders #sign #beach #shoreham #swimming
Aug 29, 2011: Sailing by #boat #sea #shoreham
Aug 28, 2011: Red Arrows over Bristol I shot this on my iPhone a couple of weeks ago, but help off posting it because of the tragedy of last weekend. But the more I thought about it, the …
Aug 28, 2011: #guinness is good for you… #pub #beer
Aug 28, 2011: Festive #arundel #bunting #festival
Aug 28, 2011: Dapper chap
Aug 28, 2011: Flowers of the Sun
Aug 28, 2011: #arundel #castle #Sussex
Aug 28, 2011: #arundel #sussex #garden
Aug 27, 2011: Lunch…
Aug 25, 2011: Evening falls
Aug 24, 2011: Nostalgia
Aug 24, 2011: Rapidly joining “have your say” as a phrase I hate when applied to social media.
Aug 23, 2011: Ah, Princess... via superpunch.blogspot.com Ah, Princess from Battle of the Planets. One of my earliest crushes before (a) I knew what a crush was and (b) realised …
Aug 23, 2011: OK Muppets, Go via www.youtube.com Joy. Promoting this, which is great.
Aug 23, 2011: First conker fall of the year…
Aug 23, 2011: There’s probably a good explanation for this…
Aug 22, 2011: Sharing your photos with posterity #1 via www.youtube.com Intriguing idea. I have a whole bunch of family photos - probably three generations worth - to scan and share. This looks like one …
Aug 21, 2011: Saturday's fine for Shoreham flying Despite the dire warnings of rain and general unpleasantness, today dawned bright and fine in Shoreham-by-Sea, which must have been a great relief to …
Aug 20, 2011: A small pleasure of Lion Much like Circles in Google+, I'm having slightly too much fun with creating names for folders in Lion's launchpad app
Aug 19, 2011: Liberalism, business and success Every single person who'd attack Steve Jobs on any of these grounds is, demonstrably, worse at business than Jobs. They're unqualified to assert that …
Aug 19, 2011: On the rise of camera phones, and photo apps Teru Kuwayama, a photojournalist, disagrees: “You could make an analogy to the advent of the electric guitar or electronic music. Much to the …
Aug 19, 2011: Sod's Law at work
Aug 19, 2011: Crossed
Aug 19, 2011: A middle-class delight
Aug 19, 2011: Don’t ever leave me, Restaurant…
Aug 17, 2011: Coffee break over
Aug 17, 2011: Google playing the photo app game
Aug 15, 2011: Silent Sunday
Aug 13, 2011: Rabbit burger (after)
Aug 13, 2011: Arch
Aug 8, 2011: Things the internet has taught me today #1 Friday night was a HellCommute. Terrible traffic from Sutton to the M25, explained by the closure of the slip road onto the M25. After that? A 90 …
Aug 8, 2011: Amongst the fields...
Aug 7, 2011: A-maze-ing Maize
Aug 7, 2011: Sunday by the Cam
Aug 5, 2011: Beautiful morning in Shoreham Beach
Aug 3, 2011: Commute begins
Aug 3, 2011: The mothership
Aug 3, 2011: Floral
Aug 3, 2011: Comment box
Aug 2, 2011: Sinister…
Jul 31, 2011: Nothing more important than the views of communters…
Jul 28, 2011: Beach (plant) Life One of my favourite features of Shoreham Beach is its plant life. As barren as it looks in winter, come the spring it burts into a riot of colour and …
Jul 27, 2011: Dealing with gang social media culture… So this is the challenge to RSA Fellows: As well as wanting to use Fellowship as a way of making the world a better place, you are innovative and many …
Jul 25, 2011: Capturing a Summer's moment by the Thames I'm having one of those days, looking forward to a free hour or so, sandwiched between a day's working on a report for work, and an evening raiding …
Jul 25, 2011: Abandoned underwear. Bet there’s a story there…
Jul 25, 2011: Sunday on the Beach [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26844743](http://www.vimeo.com/26844743) w=525&h=295]
Jul 24, 2011: New TwiT on a new OS
Jul 22, 2011: Bridge over quite calm really waters
Jul 22, 2011: #likeminds the bookmark
Jul 22, 2011: Lots of #likeminds breakfasting
Jul 20, 2011: Should a Snow Lion be preferable... There are also a couple of changes that long time OS X users might find irksome: no indication of what apps are running in the Dock, and "natural" …
Jul 20, 2011: Lion's Roar… When a new iteration of an operating system releases, the wise and prudent thing would be to wait and see what happens when other people install it. I …
Jul 20, 2011: Piegate: the people who rise I'm quietly fascinated by this "piegate" animated Gif of the attack on Rupert Murdoch yesterday: Mostly, I'm fascinated about the fact that the only …
Jul 20, 2011: Reduced circumstances…
Jul 18, 2011: Treat!
Jul 18, 2011: Android is watching you…
Jul 18, 2011: Commuter’s delight
Jul 14, 2011: Ready for @noodlepie (but not mid-morning)
Jul 14, 2011: 4pm lunch
Jul 14, 2011: Keep orf
Jul 9, 2011: Tent shoe
Jul 9, 2011: Shoreham-by-sea Farmers Market
Jul 6, 2011: The conference attendee’s friend
Jul 6, 2011: To the beach!
Jul 1, 2011: Smurfy!
Jun 30, 2011: Behind the Protest Swung by the anti-cuts demo happening in London earlier, to do a post for OM&HB. What really struck me on the way back to the office was how much …
Jun 30, 2011: Surprisingly good…
Jun 29, 2011: Hello Hippo
Jun 27, 2011: Pixar's Brave Trailer via www.youtube.com I'm a sucker for anything Pixar do. I love Scotland (having grown up there). Red heads rock (see: my wife and Amy Pond, amongst …
Jun 27, 2011: Backlogging: Germany Had a rough weekend for reasons I'll blog about when I can bring myself to do so. In the meantime, here's some backlog blogging from my trip to …
Jun 27, 2011: Doctorin' the desk
Jun 19, 2011: Hey, Dad. Still missing you. Hey, Dad. It's been 10 years now since you and I celebrated a father's day together. I wish you were here to celebrate this one. It would be great. …
Jun 18, 2011: Dr T’s winnings…
Jun 18, 2011: We know how to party on Saturday night…
Jun 18, 2011: Walnuts (Pickled)
Jun 18, 2011: Fruit harvest
Jun 17, 2011: A good woman...uh...lizard...uh.... via www.postmodernbarney.com Never have a couple of characters from Doctor Who deserved a spin off series more than these two.
Jun 17, 2011: Getting Shirty
Jun 15, 2011: No Full Series of Doctor Who for 2012 The reputable journalist Lizo Mzimba has reported the following: There will not be a full series of Dr Who in 2012! BBC confirms that BBC One …
Jun 13, 2011: Yes, I'm the one who buys them...
Jun 13, 2011: It grows…
Jun 12, 2011: Entertainment on a rainy Sunday
Jun 10, 2011: Smokin' Hot Superheroing via Project Rooftop One for the comics fans. Lovely set of New Mutants redesigns. I like that the female designs are sexy without being too revealing …
Jun 7, 2011: I appear to have arrived in Narnia
Jun 6, 2011: Presented without comment
Jun 5, 2011: Fest
Jun 4, 2011: Taking a view
Jun 2, 2011: Arrival
Jun 1, 2011: Covent Garden after the rain Shot last week, after sheltering from a sudeen downpour in the Apple Store. I managed not to buy anything. Does this mean that I'm finally an adult? …
May 31, 2011: Christmas with Baggins Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" movies have been given official release dates and titles. The first will open Dec. 14, 2012, as "The Hobbit: An …
May 28, 2011: Old to new
May 21, 2011: Ballooned
May 21, 2011: Birthday Party
May 17, 2011: I'm not sure if this is the funniest WC sign I've ever seen… …but it's certainly the most graphic.
May 17, 2011: Conferencing
May 14, 2011: The beach in bloom
May 13, 2011: Tiptoe through the bluebells… Just to get you through the last few hours until the weekend1: [youtube …
May 13, 2011: Strange Comparisons
May 12, 2011: Spoilers Gonna Spoil Spoilers are called “spoilers” for a reason, people: when leaked too early, they spoil. via www.kasterborous.com Amen.
May 12, 2011: Toy Adelphi
May 11, 2011: RSA: The Core Economy Live blogging an RSA Event, with Dr Edgar Cahn talking about timebanking. Beware: here be typos and inaccuracy Steve Broom, director of research at …
May 11, 2011: Reeder's little design touches I just love the way the latest beta of Reeder for Mac chooses to display the number of unread items in your inbox (right). I fell in love with Reeder …
May 10, 2011: Respecting space, here and abroad But having been away from France for some years, what struck me afresh was the sense of generalised respect in the public realm. When you go into a …
May 8, 2011: Cabled
May 2, 2011: A very French way of advertising a camera Oh, la la…
May 2, 2011: Thanks, TomTom So, before I went on my holiday, I was forced to replace my long-serving iPhone 3GS with a brand-spanking new iPhone 4. Hurrah. Good news, and …
Apr 27, 2011: La France: Day One Just chillin' at my brother’s place in France.
Apr 25, 2011: Arrival
Apr 23, 2011: Green Ball
Apr 23, 2011: Back Garden Beauty I spent much of this afternoon back in the Lewisham flat, straightening out the garden and generally making it ship shape and Bristol fashion, ready …
Apr 22, 2011: Easter
Apr 22, 2011: Portrait of the gardener, with ear buds.
Apr 22, 2011: Daisy, daisy
Apr 21, 2011: Easter
Apr 20, 2011: Looks like leaving drinks…
Apr 17, 2011: God son, with book
Apr 17, 2011: Lunchtime
Apr 16, 2011: Whisky o’clock
Apr 16, 2011: Hen party…
Apr 16, 2011: Morning in the garden
Apr 14, 2011: Attack of the White Screen of Death Pleasingly minimalist. And kinda restful. Not actually much use, though…
Apr 14, 2011: The @grantswhisky is here…
Apr 13, 2011: Potato glove READY!
Apr 12, 2011: I'm amazed I haven't got this until now…
Apr 12, 2011: Zi8
Apr 10, 2011: iPad <3 HDMI
Apr 5, 2011: Life on Lee High Road Top 10 Things To Do In The Borough Of Lewisham I'm busy selling my flat on Lee High Road, because the time has come for us to move on to a different …
Apr 4, 2011: Presentation from @redstarkim for #ricssm
Apr 2, 2011: Fun of the fair
Apr 2, 2011: Pre-loved
Apr 1, 2011: A Fake Royal Wedding in Covent Garden Spotted on the way back from my pilgrimage to the Apple Store: [vimeo 21807492 w=535 h=401] Wonder what that was all about?
Apr 1, 2011: Sharded! via www.flickr.com Been using Camera+ on my iPhone over the last few days, and getting some really great results with it. Really pleased with this one …
Mar 30, 2011: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Warning… Not that I've been watching the trailer obsessively or anything, but look at this: That's the 9th/10th Doctor era TARDIS, not the current one. Much …
Mar 30, 2011: I wear a blog now. Blogs are cool. [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Full trailer for the new series of Doctor Who. Ridiculously over-excited right now…
Mar 30, 2011: Under construction
Mar 30, 2011: Coffee reading
Mar 29, 2011: Time to go home
Mar 29, 2011: Hot desking
Mar 29, 2011: Sharded
Mar 28, 2011: Do you think my RSS reader is trying to tell me something?
Mar 27, 2011: French mats and pub grub
Mar 25, 2011: QH canteen to Procter Street in an hour. Not bad.
Mar 25, 2011: Stop
Mar 24, 2011: They finally got it right!
Mar 24, 2011: Coffee break
Mar 22, 2011: Daily Vignette #2: Beach Life [vimeo 21343360 w=500 h=375] A quiet moment to destress your afternoon.
Mar 21, 2011: Netbooks and Custard Creams at #Bfong
Mar 17, 2011: Tourists at work
Mar 16, 2011: MOAR Archers! I'm one of the two scriptwriters from The Archers team who have been working on a spin-off from the main programme. 'Ambridge Extra' will launch on …
Mar 16, 2011: Encouragement
Mar 14, 2011: Daily Vignette #1: Shoreham Saturday [vimeo 20994464 w=521 h=293]Another little project for myself: shoot short vignettes capturing the feel or an aspect of a day in under 30 seconds. …
Mar 13, 2011: Misty Adur Another photo from the most recent roll of film I shot. The film grain really enhances the effect of this image, I think.
Mar 13, 2011: Carroty Goodness
Mar 13, 2011: Old & New: Film Finis Redux A while ago, I started a project I called Film Finis. The idea was to use up all the remaining photographic film I had, enoy myself while doing so, …
Mar 12, 2011: Beach Pier Sea Sky
Mar 12, 2011: Model Emerald Quay
Mar 11, 2011: More evidence of Spring… Pity it's about to get cold and rainy again.
Mar 9, 2011: The Unbearable Joy of Commuting
Mar 6, 2011: Sunday's made for beach walks… The sun finally struggled out again today, bathing Shoreham-by-sea in a warm light that belied the cold breeze still in the air. Chilly? Yes. But not …
Mar 6, 2011: Danger! Danger!
Mar 6, 2011: Sunday on the beach
Mar 6, 2011: Eight Years on one blog… This is the 2,885th post to this blog - which means I've added 317 posts over the last year. That's slightly below my yearly average of 360.6. But …
Mar 5, 2011: Kitty’s car….
Mar 3, 2011: They never get it right, dammit
Mar 3, 2011: Love Trees
Mar 3, 2011: Clive Aslet at the RSA
Mar 3, 2011: RSA lunchtime talk
Mar 1, 2011: jPod
Feb 26, 2011: Papered
Feb 26, 2011: Out of the mist Dropped the car off for a service this morning, and walked into Shoreham through mist-enshrouded street. Photo opp? Oh, yes.
Feb 25, 2011: St Marys, Hidden
Feb 25, 2011: Misty Morning
Feb 24, 2011: A hint of spring in the air via www.flickr.com This winter has felt far too long, and that's despite spending three weeks in Florida in the middle of it. I'm going to record ever …
Feb 23, 2011: Is there a place for God in education? I'm at the RSA this evening, for a debate over a rather contentious subject: the role of religion in education. I'll be liveblogging it as best I can …
Feb 21, 2011: AA Car Servicing Fail For years, I've bought my cars and had them serviced at the same place - Bramfield Garage - and I've always had great service there. But it was my …
Feb 20, 2011: Florida: the state of the beach Gathered on a 10 minute walk down the Fort Lauderdale beach. Frightening.
Feb 16, 2011: How Vampires Lost Their Fangs Vampires may be popular, but they've paid a terrible price for it. Simply put, they're not scary any more. They're not monsters, at least not in the …
Feb 16, 2011: New start
Feb 14, 2011: Food & Light Spent much of today working on some recent photography. Here's a couple I'm really pleased with: The dinner at my nephew's christening. The …
Feb 13, 2011: The Ironic Inverted Commas Strike Shoreham Farmers Market, this morning
Feb 11, 2011: I fought the week (and the week won) Time for a weekend, I think…
Feb 9, 2011: Broken blogging
Feb 6, 2011: Nephew Freddy
Feb 5, 2011: Birthday boy
Feb 5, 2011: Dalek family outing
Feb 5, 2011: Party food!
Feb 5, 2011: So, wait, politicians aren't allowed to have sex? Britain is a strange place, sometimes. Sally Bercow, wife of the speaker of the House of Commons, has caused outrage - OUTRAGE - for posing in a …
Feb 4, 2011: Comcare cover
Feb 3, 2011: Commuters
Feb 3, 2011: Her #shoes
Feb 2, 2011: Everything is a Remix (Part 2) [vimeo www.vimeo.com/19447662 w=560&h=315]via vimeo.com A really fascinating look into how creativity builds on earlier creative works. More here. And …
Feb 2, 2011: Gallery Gone, Man, Real Gone Many of you have noticed the Widget Gallery is no longer available. Most widgets, however, can be found by performing an online search for the type …
Feb 2, 2011: Listen #ipod #headphone
Feb 1, 2011: Dear Facebook... Not only are you exactly six months out on my insurance renewal cycle, but yellow just isn't my colour…
Feb 1, 2011: At the theatre with @revstan. Shakespeare, daaaahlings…
Feb 1, 2011: Today’s view from #hotdesking - gritty and #urban
Jan 31, 2011: Office afternoon #officelife
Jan 31, 2011: Lunch
Jan 30, 2011: Twilight comes
Jan 29, 2011: Lighted
Jan 28, 2011: Desk #officelife
Jan 26, 2011: New dawn?
Jan 26, 2011: Trees, Stark
Jan 23, 2011: Maybe spring is on its way…
Jan 23, 2011: Roll on, spring
Jan 21, 2011: Stand
Jan 21, 2011: Nightfall
Jan 20, 2011: Typepad gets new boss, says SAY Introducing Jeff Reine, Our New GM of TypePad Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Today we are pleased to announce the latest addition to the SAY Media team: …
Jan 19, 2011: Mum unplugs teens for 6 months. Strangely, isn't murdered... But she encourages families to unplug periodically. "One way to do it is just to have that one screen-free day a week. Not as a punishment — not by …
Jan 19, 2011: Ruins of Exeter I'm back in scanning mode, this time working through some negatives from 2000. These are from the very first weekend away I took with Lorna, and I …
Jan 18, 2011: Snowball
Jan 14, 2011: Jetlag... via dailybooth.com …is kicking my ass. And it's beginning to show…
Jan 14, 2011: Red Eyed and Removed Today is proving to be a struggle. It's now about 25 hours since I had any significant amount of sleep. I took the red-eye back from Florida last …
Jan 14, 2011: Back at work
Jan 12, 2011: Dressed up for my last dinner of my holiday
Jan 12, 2011: PsychoBunny
Jan 9, 2011: Beytiful Twilight
Jan 8, 2011: Palms
Jan 8, 2011: What's your top New Year's resolution this year? Actually, I have only one New Year's resolution this year - to give myself a new resolution each month, and then blog about progress. Expect some more …
Jan 2, 2011: Written in the sand Happy New Year. :-)
Dec 28, 2010: Sun on a “record cold snap”
Dec 28, 2010: Exploring
Dec 25, 2010: Christmas lunch
Dec 25, 2010: Christmas Day
Dec 24, 2010: Christmas Eve Sun
Dec 24, 2010: Adur, Christmas Eve
Dec 22, 2010: Lights
Dec 22, 2010: Snowy Bristol Garden
Dec 15, 2010: Festive Gryphon Hatchling
Dec 14, 2010: RBI Achievement Awards Night Big show this year…
Dec 13, 2010: RBI partying
Dec 10, 2010: This is our Christmas day out...?
Dec 10, 2010: I found treasure!
Dec 10, 2010: In the bleak midwinter…
Dec 10, 2010: Geocaching
Dec 9, 2010: Bloggers blogging at #leweb
Dec 8, 2010: #nespresso time at #leweb
Dec 8, 2010: I'm on a (Parisian) Boat Somehow, I feel that I deserve more than the usual Foursquare badge for getting this one in Paris:
Dec 7, 2010: You by Egobox
Dec 6, 2010: Arrival
Dec 5, 2010: Shadow
Dec 5, 2010: Under the snow: leaves
Dec 3, 2010: Shattered Glass & Phone Photography I had a small accident on Wednesday evening. A small accident that left the glass on the top of my iPhone shattered, the screen non-functional but, as …
Dec 3, 2010: Adur, winter
Dec 3, 2010: Bridge to the Beach
Dec 3, 2010: Snowham-by-Sea It's a snow day. After I made it home last night, the snow really settled in on the South-East, bringing much of the public transport infrastructure …
Dec 1, 2010: ewan teaching
Dec 1, 2010: Finally arrived in Sutton
Dec 1, 2010: I wish
Nov 30, 2010: It's baaaaaack.... Yesterday, somebody confidently announced to me that the snow in London we'd seen for the last couple of years was a rare event, and it wouldn't …
Nov 30, 2010: Evening Standard catches mood if Lindon for once:
Nov 29, 2010: #hhhrbi kicking off
Nov 27, 2010: Afternoon coffee
Nov 27, 2010: Cheaping stars, the stock shot way via www.telegraph.co.uk Talking of the Doctor Who Christmas special, one of the guest stars is Welsh warbler Katherine Jenkins. She's a successful …
Nov 26, 2010: Christmas Time (Lord) Oh! Oh! How could I have missed this? Genuinely excited. :)
Nov 26, 2010: Gizmoded…
Nov 26, 2010: Morning Commute
Nov 25, 2010: Baubles and lights
Nov 25, 2010: Christmas comes to Covent Garden
Nov 25, 2010: Bored and waiting at the Apple Temple
Nov 24, 2010: Wintry morning
Nov 23, 2010: Flipping Elevenses
Nov 22, 2010: Afternoon Coffee
Nov 22, 2010: Thus passes lunch
Nov 21, 2010: Pub time
Nov 21, 2010: Rainbow over Shoreham A photo from yesterday, the result of being caught in the rain, in lieu of an actual post…
Nov 21, 2010: Remains of the Stay
Nov 19, 2010: Archiving and publishing the relationships of the past Scanning photos is fun. It allows you to rediscover images that you'd all but forgotten about. Often you can improve them, and you can certainly …
Nov 19, 2010: From 1999, without explanation There are certain old photos that work better when no explanation is offered: Scanned earlier today. Draw your own conclusions…
Nov 17, 2010: Rush hour, London
Nov 16, 2010: Sunset by the shore So, I finally did something I'd been longing to do since we rented the flat in Shoreham-by-Sea. I donned my warm jacket and walking boots, I grabbed …
Nov 15, 2010: On the beach
Nov 15, 2010: Rock the demo This is rather good, and I have no memory of taking it: City Poly? Before the removal of the University/Polytechnic divide, then. And a band on a …
Nov 15, 2010: Stuff your loans! I'm busy scanning and editing some photos I took on a student demo back in 1989, inspired by this weeks' events. I remember this photo vividly: I am, …
Nov 14, 2010: Shoreham-by-Sea Farmers Market It has, to put it mildly, been a little busy of late. I've been rushing around the country for various events, I've been helping family members move. …
Nov 13, 2010: Beloved, Forgotten
Nov 13, 2010: Friendly Welcome
Nov 12, 2010: And another
Nov 12, 2010: Another stupid flipchart sketch by me
Nov 8, 2010: Commuter Hell
Nov 7, 2010: Crumbled…
Nov 5, 2010: Forgotten World
Oct 30, 2010: Fleur
Oct 30, 2010: Autumn
Oct 30, 2010: Seated
Oct 30, 2010: Vintage
Oct 29, 2010: Au revoir, Exeter
Oct 29, 2010: Meandering down Exeter memory lane Today has been something of a stroll down memory lane. I'm in Exeter for a conference (which I'm busy blogging), but it's taken me to places from one …
Oct 29, 2010: iPad Liveblogging
Oct 28, 2010: …and ye shall receive
Oct 28, 2010: I love the #likeminds avatar stickers
Oct 28, 2010: Like Minded at #likeminds
Oct 28, 2010: #likeminds Publishing
Oct 28, 2010: #likeminds publishing immersive is packed out
Oct 28, 2010: Clarence Hotel, Exeter
Oct 28, 2010: Exeter morning, autumn
Oct 28, 2010: Most important meal of the day pre-#likeminds
Oct 27, 2010: Parker Street
Oct 27, 2010: Shapes in the sun
Oct 26, 2010: Watching a movie on the iPad
Oct 26, 2010: Paper
Oct 26, 2010: i spy…
Oct 23, 2010: Saturday reading
Oct 23, 2010: Beach Cleaning
Oct 22, 2010: Coffee
Oct 22, 2010: Ropetackle
Oct 22, 2010: Stormy
Oct 22, 2010: View from #cogapp
Oct 21, 2010: #media140 panel
Oct 20, 2010: Trust Adobe… …to have an installer that finished before the progress bar does:
Oct 18, 2010: Streets
Oct 18, 2010: Brunch: the finest meal of the weekend
Oct 16, 2010: Agora Window
Oct 15, 2010: Testing the Posterous iPhone app See and download the full gallery on posterous Posterous released a new iPhone app last week, and so I am duty bound to experiment with it.Here, …
Oct 15, 2010: Bored? In the Apple Store?
Oct 15, 2010: Too much coffee?
Oct 13, 2010: Tim Relf has no taste... It shouldn't be this way – some of my best friends are farmers, my girlfriend is a farmer's daughter, I even work for Farmers Weekly. But The Archers …
Oct 12, 2010: The Past, in a Skip via ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com One of my obsessions that I have to keep at bay is a love for found photographs. I find photographs at sale at …
Oct 12, 2010: Work. Laptop. And a hint of iPhone
Oct 11, 2010: Conkered It was just laying there, on the patch from the car park, as I made my way to work this morning. How could I not photograph it?
Oct 10, 2010: Shoreham Farmers Market A glorious day, accompanied by some glorious shopping…
Oct 9, 2010: Walking in the Cairngorms, March 1989 Back in my final year of school, a group of friends invited me on an Easter holiday with them. It wasn't expensive; we took the train from central …
Oct 8, 2010: Adur, Evening Adur, Evening, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. You know, I could just get used to living here…
Oct 6, 2010: Tech, 1988 Style This is my computer desk from the late 80s - probably '88 or '89. Yes, that's a portable TV it's connected to. And yes, that's a tape deck for …
Sep 27, 2010: Amen (or your secular affirmation of choice) So it seems we know too little to commit to strict atheism, and too much to commit to any religion. Given this, I am often surprised by the number of …
Sep 27, 2010: Debenhams Matures… via www.stylelist.com This got a huge thumbs-up from my (fashion-obsessed) mother-in-law over the weekend. Debenhams is using older models in some of …
Sep 24, 2010: Hints of that double dip Our food costs have increased frighteningly since last year. Just to take a few examples from Le Manoir's own provisioning: our blueberries have gone …
Sep 24, 2010: Pre-requisite for modern media? We firmly believe that you can't build a modern media company without having a platform, and TypePad is our platform for doing that. via …
Sep 23, 2010: Living in the UK - not so great The UK and Ireland have been named as the worst places to live in Europe for quality of life, according to research published today. via …
Sep 22, 2010: Where now for Movable Type and Typepad? - a post on my "work" blog about the Say Media news. I suspect several people reading this know way more than …
Sep 21, 2010: Thieves jamming car-locks? Surrey police are exploring the theory that a gang of car thieves are jamming central locking systems to make it easier to steal goods from cars. The …
Sep 12, 2010: This Week in iPhone Pictures: 12th September 2010 Let's be honest. I rarely go anywhere without my iPhone. And, on occasion, I'm so taken by something that I grab a photo and upload it straight to …
Sep 8, 2010: Blog Unleashes Cliché in Headline Katie Holmes unleashes her wild side in leopard print via www.mydaily.co.uk Oh, dear God. Is there no end to the clichés? How long have print media …
Sep 8, 2010: On the death of Vox Last Thursday, I opened Safari, and found a death notice. Vox, a blogging platform I've used for four years, was on death row. At the end of this …
Sep 5, 2010: Enjoying the Downbeat When I was growing up, I remember vividly my Dad choosing to absent himself from the living room when a depressing, downbeat or tragic fils, show or …
Aug 30, 2010: Fishbourne Palace
Aug 29, 2010: Abandoned Guardian While walking down Shoreham Beach yesterday afternoon, we came across a Guardian that appeared to have been abandoned on a bench, and so was blowing …
Aug 29, 2010: Maggie Philbin is.... Somewhere, my inner seven year old, a Swap Shop fanatic, is squealing with delight. (and yes, it's the same one)
Aug 28, 2010: Covent Garden Candids I used to do a lot of wandering around, just snapping pictures of life. I'm trying to get back into the swing of it:
Aug 28, 2010: Sunny Morning in Shoreham Beach
Aug 27, 2010: Another Glorious British Summer All set for the Bank Holiday?
Aug 22, 2010: Study's End The study I've used for the last 12 years or so is dismembered, ready to be turned into a bedroom when we put the flat on the market. An awful lot of …
Aug 18, 2010: An Urban Garden Our back garden in Lewisham, lit for a summer evening.
Aug 17, 2010: Foragers' Harvest We've been foraging for fruit in the trees that grow adjacent to the flat in Lewisham: Elderberries for jam…
Aug 17, 2010: Das Potato An image shot for a student magazine project, back in the early 90s. That's me on the left, oppressing the heroic potato revolutionary, and against …
Aug 16, 2010: The start of something new…
Jul 31, 2010: Work from home? The office? The coffee shop? Although working from home is convenient, sometimes it pays to go to the office. That's what Sheryl Crow discovered when she jettisoned her Nashville …
Jul 30, 2010: Reporting the Obvious: Women in Skimpy Summer Outfits Cause Male Drivers to Crash According to a new survey from UK insurance company Sheilas' Wheels, male drivers are more likely to cause crashes than women in the summer because …
Jul 30, 2010: Uh-Oh That’s just a few minutes’ walk from one of the office I work out of. Bad wallet news.
Jul 30, 2010: Caprica Season 1.5 Preview via www.youtube.com I'm really looking forward to this. Dr T and I really enjoyed Battlestar Galactica, but Caprica is more interesting. It's less …
Jul 29, 2010: Doctor Who Theme (with didgeridoo) [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Somehow melancholy - and somewhat Sherlock Holmsian…
Jul 24, 2010: Tractor Love Starts Young… Just been clearing through my e-mail in-box, aiming for in-box zero sometime before the end of the summer, and I came across this. It's a photo from …
Jul 23, 2010: When Lunch Goes Bad Anyone who knows anything about Twitter knows that it's all about what people had for their lunch. I eschew such conventional wisdom. I blog about my …
Jul 19, 2010: A New Traffic Light Feature? Interesting new road safety feature at the crossing near Holborn station: It counts down the number fo seconds until the traffic starts flowing …
Jul 19, 2010: This Is Where I Live CAMPAIGNERS protesting over cuts to their jobs and services were branded “f**king idiots” and told to “get real” by a mayor last night. Mayor of …
Jul 13, 2010: Dancing to the Productivity Tune Research from University of Windsor in Canada showed the effect of music on the work performance of software developers. According to the study, …
Jul 11, 2010: Feeding Your Doctor Who Addiction For the first time in 13 weeks, no Doctor Who, and there won’t be new episodes on television until Christmas. But if you’re not sure whether you’re …
Jul 11, 2010: Quitting apps in iOS 4 There's actually a much simpler approach for quitting apps, and that's to use your recent app list. Double-click the home button to display the …
Jul 10, 2010: Why the UK needs more Trees via www.youtube.com I love trees, me.
Jun 24, 2010: The Secret Powers of Time [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via comment.rsablogs.org.uk This is a really fascinating look into the psychology of time and the rough grouping people …
Jun 23, 2010: Superhero Sexy-Time Given that superhero comics tend to be about beautiful people in skin-tight outfits engaging in rigorous physical activity, it's only natural that …
Jun 23, 2010: Scenes from Southwold Had a single day off yesterday, and spent it in Suffolk, for various reasons. Here are a few captures from an afternoon by the sea:
Jun 17, 2010: A Little Summer Preparation Camping time is coming…
Jun 14, 2010: Pre-Pandorica Reading (Dr Who linkage) Ah, the Doctor Who season finale two parter looms close. The Pandorica will open and silence will fall... But, lacking a TARDIS, or preview tapes, …
Jun 13, 2010: A View From Childhood This was the view from our back garden in Dollar, around 1987 - September or October, I'd guess. I can't claim any credit for the photo, as it was …
Jun 12, 2010: 80s Brothers I'm spending some time scanning my way through a big bag of negatives, and this morning I was working on a film from the early to mis-80s. This is my …
Jun 10, 2010: Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Caucasian blondes are usually slightly higher in oestrogen than brunettes and are likely to exhibit other infantile sexually selected traits …
Jun 7, 2010: Private Dining < p class=“asset asset-image”>
Jun 2, 2010: The Very Last of the Summer Wine Long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine is to be axed after 37 years, the BBC has announced. via news.bbc.co.uk I've 'fessed up to my deeply …
May 31, 2010: London's Hidden Theatre Treasure The building itself is tucked behind high security fencing around the back of Olympia and looks like it was once a rambling Victorian mental …
May 31, 2010: Scenes from a home hunt Still trying to figure out where to live next…
May 27, 2010: London's Photographic Density (a nerdy ramble) via londonist.com The picture above represents the most photographed areas of London, based on the geotagging data found on images in Flickr and …
May 26, 2010: Fashionably Recessional There was a small debate on Twitter this morning, possibly triggered by Glynn, about the relationship between hemlines and the economic conditions. He …
May 26, 2010: Kids and social networking – at what age is it acceptable to let kids get online with friends? And what are your rules for keeping tabs on it? Never. Darn kids should stay off my virtual lawn. When I was a kid we had to network using a 28.8k baud modem… (etc, etc, etc) <blockquote> Never. …
May 21, 2010: The Value of Tribes I've found the idea of tribalism to be increasingly useful in understanding political behaviour. Faced with the need to make a decision based on …
May 18, 2010: More on the new Routemaster [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via jamescleverly.blogspot.com
May 14, 2010: Donate them to a good cause, recycle them... What do you do with your old computers and phones? My old computers have mainly cascaded down the family, before eventually leaving the family via a gift, or breaking and heading to the recycling …
May 14, 2010: What Adobe is Still Good At I sometimes think Adobe is fighting the wrong fight. The current spat between the two over Flash is well documented (and I rather like Jeff's take on …
May 13, 2010: Telegraph reviews the new Photoshop CS5 has four major improvements that – on paper – jumped out at me. The most exciting is content-aware fill – and when I first used it on one of my …
May 12, 2010: Do you want a 3D TV? Why or why not? And will you ever get one? No. No. No. Also, no. I'm at my limit with TV repurchasing. First it was Dolby Digital Stereo, and then widescreen, and then surround sound, and then …
May 12, 2010: Where Were You When Gordon Brown Resigned? Well, two of the major parties that went into this General Election were promising change, and they have delivered on that promise, but not in a way …
May 11, 2010: Chicks Dig Time Lords via scyfilove.com This ScyFi Love post is as good a followup to this as I could hope.
May 7, 2010: My (Personal) First Reactions to the General Election I've become something of an internal hung parliament myself. The journalist in me is delighted. Think of all the stories that will emerge from this …
May 5, 2010: Baptismal Photos I've been a wee bit busy of late - playing catch-up at work, after a few days off sick, and away for a christening at the weekend. Here's a few photos …
Apr 23, 2010: "Chicks Don't Get Doctor Who"? Chicks don't get it. Unless you are in a relationship where the woman is legally obligated to stay with you or you have possession of her car keys, …
Apr 23, 2010: Liking Me, Liking You (Ah-ha) I've just added the new Facebook Like button to this blog - you can see it to the right, under the search box. If you chose to Like it, you'll get …
Apr 21, 2010: Embodied Energy & Greener Houses http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Thought-provoking (but probably not much use, given how hard …
Apr 17, 2010: Soho Sticker Escapee I associate prostitute adverts with Soho phone boxes, not the post box outside the flat. This is not a change to the neighbourhood that delights me.
Apr 10, 2010: 50mm of Fun So, based on many rave blog posts and articles in magazines, I treated myself to a 50mm f1.8 lens for my Canon DSLR, and I've been having fun out and …
Apr 9, 2010: Film Finis? I promised you an explanation of my current photo project, didn't I? It was inspired (or, more accurately re-inspired) by this post over on …
Apr 9, 2010: HipstaWalk #1 Spring finally seems to have arrived in London, so I took the opportunity to walk a chunk of the distance home this evening. I headed down Kingsway, …
Apr 7, 2010: Labour Goes Keywording This amused me - this is the feed from Boris Johnson's blog in my feed reader. Note the partial feed. Tsk. Also note: the keyword-based feed …
Apr 7, 2010: A New Photo Project Some pictures from the early stages of a little photographic project I've set myself: The observant might be able to make an educated guess as to …
Apr 5, 2010: Too Sexy for Who? via www.dailymail.co.uk You just know that the new Doctor Who production team have got something right when the Daily Mail is complaining about the …
Apr 3, 2010: Americans: Don't Buy Yourself An iPad Buy ME one and get it shipped over here ASAP. kthxbai :-)
Apr 3, 2010: QotD: The Hardest Thing I've Ever Done... What's the hardest thing you've ever done? Telling my dying mother that it was OK for her to go. She'd fought long and hard against her cancer, but …
Apr 3, 2010: QotD: Sweet Treat If you could only indulge in one dessert for the rest of your life, which sweet treat would you choose? Profiterole three high angle Profiteroles. …
Apr 3, 2010: To Commute or Not To Commute We're in the middle of trying to figure out where to live next. It's dawning on us that we're facing a choice between our ideal lifestyle and …
Mar 30, 2010: Hello, New Tardis via www.radiotimes.com I thought they'd save this for a big reveal on Saturday, but no, here it is. Thoughts?
Mar 26, 2010: Holborn's Burning (Briefly) OK, I admit it. the title's a bit of an exaggeration. But we had the excitement of a small fire here at EG towers this afternoon. As best I can tell, …
Mar 25, 2010: Photoshop 5's magical fill tool [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via kottke.org This looks insanely awesome. I have a whole bunch of scanning and cleaning up of old family photos to do …
Mar 24, 2010: Journey to Hamburg Random iPhone photographs from my journey last night:
Mar 23, 2010: Is Le Wei Xiang, Lewisham any good? We flicked through the menu and I was fair jumping up and down at seeing such gems as "Blood Curd, Pig Bowel, Ox Tripe, Ham & Veg boiled with Dried …
Mar 22, 2010: Leaders' Wives via www.dailymail.co.uk This is the wife of one of our political leaders. These photos are a decade old. This was front page news yesterday. I despair …
Mar 21, 2010: Eleventh Doctor trailer 3 w00t! Another trailer for the new series of Doctor Who (thanks, Michael): How awesome is this? Let's enumerate the ways: The Amy-balloon. I want an …
Mar 20, 2010: Selling the Kids on the Eleventh Doctor Last weekend, we went to the cinema with Stacey to see Alice in Wonderland. And very enjoyable it was, too. But that's not what I want to write …
Feb 17, 2010: Reggie Perrin Redux I watched last year's remake of The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin with some trepidation. I loved the original and, while it hasn't aged well, it was …
Jan 31, 2010: What The Internet is Made Of... (Spoiler: cats)
Jan 26, 2010: 25 Years Ago... Just sticking this up here so I can find it again. I love the recreating of the 1980s in this ad - it takes me straight back to my teenage years... …
Jan 21, 2010: Today on the internets... Today I have been: Finally figuring out what body con means. Not knowing had been bothering me for months.Being amused by this: Hearing the sound of …
Jan 21, 2010: QotD: License to Drive Do you consider yourself a good driver? How many tickets have you received? What were they for? I've received a grant total of two tickets in my life …
Jan 21, 2010: London Snow Mini-Retrospective The snow in London passed almost without acknowledgement here. Time to change that a little. My back garden when the snow was at its worst: The …
Jan 21, 2010: Back Down to Mile End Pulp Mile End Music Video Edit With Lyrics Jarvis Cocker Trainspotting LondonYouch. Here's a trip down memory lane, courtesy of Bookmole. This is a …
Jan 12, 2010: Deforestation Because I'm a tree-hugging hippy at heart: …
Jan 12, 2010: QotD: The Name Game Were you named after anyone? If not, how did you get your name? Adam Macey I was, in a way. My parents were struggling to find a name for me, until …
Jan 11, 2010: No Entry (Snow) Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Adam's posterous
Jan 10, 2010: Tags of Christmas Past We had something of an eco-friendly Christmas this year. While we were clearing out Mum's house back in 2008, we found enough unused Christmas cards …
Jan 8, 2010: Snowy Sutton < p style=“font-size: 10px;">Posted via email from Adam's posterous
Jan 8, 2010: Night, Snow and QH Download now or watch on posterousIMG_2202.MOV (6516 KB) Sent from my iPhone < p style=“font-size: 10px;">Posted via email from Adam's posterous
Jan 8, 2010: Night, Snow and QH Posted via email from Adam's posterous
Jan 7, 2010: Snowy Sutton Posted via email from Adam's posterous
Jan 6, 2010: Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?
Jan 6, 2010: Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?
Jan 5, 2010: When a Canon Boy Meets a Nikon Girl Possibly not safe for work, depending on your office environment… [via the EOS Magazinenewsletter]
Jan 5, 2010: On Objects and Memories An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' house: The hardest part of decluttering is …
Jan 5, 2010: On Objects and Memories An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' house: The hardest part of decluttering is …
Jan 2, 2010: First 11th Doctor Trailer http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf
Jan 2, 2010: First 11th Doctor Trailer http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf The first trailer for series five of the new Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. …
Dec 29, 2009: Fair Warning My brother and his wife were kind enough to but me a new standard zoom for Christmas, a lens I've been putting through its paces over the last few …
Dec 29, 2009: Fair Warning My brother and his wife were kind enough to but me a new standard zoom for Christmas, a lens I've been putting through its paces over the last few …
Dec 27, 2009: My Christmas Creation Dickie the Snowman Like it?
Dec 27, 2009: Christmas in the Country Colaton Raleigh Christmas
Dec 27, 2009: Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't helping...
Dec 27, 2009: Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't helping…
Dec 27, 2009: A Home Movie Archive Reelintime.com - an archive of home movies, searchable by decade and location. You can pay them to convert your movies, and then they'll be included …
Dec 27, 2009: A Home Movie Archive Reelintime.com - an archive of home movies, searchable by decade and location. You can pay them to convert your movies, and then they'll be included …
Dec 7, 2009: The Named Famous Face Well, after my ruminations on the last Scarlett Johansson bus advert not being immediately recognisable as her, the winter campaign has her name in …
Nov 9, 2009: Acoustic Serenity From the series that was cancelled too soon…
Nov 9, 2009: Birthday Dinner Three slightly ropey photos from my birthday meal at Jamie's Italian in Guildford. The iPhone doesn't handle low light that well, does it? Fab food …
Nov 8, 2009: Blackheath Farmers Market This morning, I took myself off to Blackheath, to give some more of Mum's old possessions to the Cancer Research charity shop there. It's a slightly …
Nov 6, 2009: The coaster of awesome photo.jpg
Nov 1, 2009: A Culinary Inspiration to Us All Alie and Georgia Present: The McNuggetini
Nov 1, 2009: Officially, My Favourite Variety of Rose If only for the name: IMG_1474
Nov 1, 2009: It's Halloween! photo.jpg
Oct 25, 2009: Random iPhone Photography A wonderful sunset over Sutton: Sutton Sunset The more prosaic reality of Sutton: Autumn Evening, Sutton And the even more horrific reality of my …
Oct 21, 2009: Debenhams Doesn't Want You To Advertise It H&M lets you embed slideshows of its advertising campaigns. Yet Debenhams doesn't allow you to embed its adverts. Opportunity: Missed. Related …
Oct 1, 2009: The Good, The Bad & The Uke Some gratuitous Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain to see me through the afternoon:
Sep 28, 2009: The Anonymous Famous Face I saw this on the side of a bus the other day. It was striking, in a slightly Bet Lynch sort of way... Striking enough, in fact, that I went to the …
Sep 24, 2009: The Anonymous Famous Face I saw this on the side of a bus the other day. It was striking, in a slightly Bet Lynch sort of way... Striking enough, in fact, that I went to the …
Sep 21, 2009: A Comparison I am annoyed. On Saturday night, some lackwit managed to clip my (parked) car, scraping and cracking my front wing. The damage isn't significant, and …
Sep 21, 2009: Autumn is in the air And the trees… The Edge of Autumn
Sep 21, 2009: Remains of the Leaf Remains of the Leaf The skeleton of an autumn leaf, spotted in Holborn
Sep 16, 2009: Mother Courage & Her Children Once upon a time, I had plans to write a review here, but this photo sat as the sole content of the draft post for six months. So, facing up to …
Sep 15, 2009: Charity for Time Travellers I assume whomever donated The Best Bed & Breakfast 1998 to our office charity lending library is under the illusion that we have a couple of time …
Sep 15, 2009: Charity for Time Travellers I assume whomever donated The Best Bed & Breakfast 1998 to the Estates Gazette charity lending library is under the illusion that we have a couple of …
Sep 14, 2009: Back to the 1990s I did a little scanning last night of random photos I had lying around, so I could shred the originals and keep the digital copy. Here's me and an old …
Sep 14, 2009: Freecycle Splits The UK arm of Freecycle, an initiative that allows people to give away things they no longer need thus avoiding landfill, is in the process of …
Sep 14, 2009: Freecycle Splits The UK arm of Freecycle, an initiative that allows people to give away things they no longer need thus avoiding landfill, is in the process of …
Sep 14, 2009: Waterloo Panorama
Sep 14, 2009: Waterloo Panorama
Sep 9, 2009: BananaramaBack Bananarama - Love ComesBlimey. Bananarama. It's bringing back memories of fetid teenage years and desperate crushes. Shame about the song.
Sep 9, 2009: QotD: Happy Labor Day! How are you spending this Labor Day? Bonus points if you show us pictures. At work: Beware - Community Editors at Work It's not a holiday in the …
Sep 9, 2009: QotD: Splurging for My Future What's something you would splurge on this year to improve your future? Presented by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow.Well, ideally, a house...
Sep 7, 2009: Acorn
Sep 7, 2009: Acorn
Sep 6, 2009: New Flats? No Way. Graffiti seen on a derelict site in Totnes. They'll be waiting for the next economic cycle upswing, I'd guess..
Sep 6, 2009: New Flats? No Way. Graffiti seen on a derelict site in Totnes. They'll be waiting for the next economic cycle upswing, I'd guess..
Sep 5, 2009: When is a fruit not a fruit? Most of the time, it seems.
Sep 5, 2009: Men Are Drooling Morons, Say Scientists I love what I call "no sh*t, sherlock research". Scientists proving what we already knew. From The Telegraph : The research shows men who spend even …
Sep 5, 2009: Men Are Drooling Morons, Say Scientists I love what I call "no sh*t, sherlock research". Scientists proving what we already knew. From The Telegraph: The research shows men who spend even a …
Sep 4, 2009: Autumn's Harbinger The first conker of 2009, found on my walk from the car park to the office today. Autumn begins...
Sep 4, 2009: Autumn's Harbinger The first conker of 2009, found on my walk from the car park to the office today. Autumn begins…
Aug 31, 2009: From France to Bristol These plants were brought from Mark & Jo's place in France to my mother-in-law's house in Bristol. They're thriving. Sent from my iPhone < p …
Aug 31, 2009: From France to Bristol These plants were brought from Mark & Jo's place in France to my mother-in-law's house in Bristol. They're thriving. Sent from my iPhone Posted via …
Aug 17, 2009: Allotments, Cars and camping Camping and Allotments A wee panorama built on the iPhone, from the site we were at over the weekend.
Aug 15, 2009: The Tiled Owl My late mother loved owls. And here's one she painted on a tile. We just found it while sorting though some of her old stuff. It's quite lovely.
Aug 15, 2009: The Tiled Owl My late mother loved owls. And here's one she painted on a tile. We just found it while sorting though some of her old stuff. It's quite lovely.
Aug 12, 2009: It's Me, Kinda Adders, Distorted
Aug 1, 2009: No Mobiles photo.jpg
Jul 31, 2009: Lo! Kittehs! Martyn & Sophie have, well, kittens:
Jul 29, 2009: Alice in HD Wonderland This looks like seven kinds of wonderful:
Jul 28, 2009: Focused Photography I wonder if Rev Stan noticed this in my Flickr stream? [flickr video=3734401315 show_info=true secret=4aca4f056f w=500 h=375]
Jul 28, 2009: If Only... Clearance Ale
Jul 24, 2009: Born to be... Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin Hood?)
Jul 24, 2009: Born to be... Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin Hood?)
Jul 24, 2009: Beware of...uh, me? Adders is my username on most sites… Erosion & Adders
Jul 23, 2009: QotD: Houseguest Etiquette What's one thing a houseguest should always do? Leave. Having people to stay is great, great fun. But so is the moment they leave and you have the …
Jul 23, 2009: The Most Fun You Can Have at St Michael's Mount So, we visited St Michael's Mount yesterday, and very enjoyable it was too. And we discovered the most fun you can have there: Wait for the tide to …
Jul 23, 2009: The Most Fun You Can Have at St Michael's Mount So, we visited St Michael's Mount yesterday, and very enjoyable it was too. And we discovered the most fun you can have there: Wait for the tide to …
Jul 22, 2009: QotD: Thirst-Quenching Beverage How do you like to quench your thirst on a hot summer day? This was working rather well for me earlier: A Pint and a Plate Yes, it's beer! In this …
Jul 22, 2009: QotD: Email vs. Telephone If you had to give up either email or the telephone for the rest of your life, which one would your forgo? No contest: the telephone. I barely use my …
Jul 21, 2009: Kite flying Steve flies a kite
Jul 21, 2009: Down by the Sea Cornish Coast
Jul 21, 2009: Who is Archie? photo.jpg
Jul 20, 2009: He Sleeps Standing Up Me in Cornwall
Jul 20, 2009: Portrait of the Blogger, Unshaven I love this photo of me Lorna grabbed earlier.
Jul 20, 2009: Portrait of the Blogger, Unshaven I love this photo of me Lorna grabbed earlier.
Jul 19, 2009: From Comics to Screen I have a long-held theory: that for comics to successfully adapt to the screen, they need to keep the key visual elements of the comic with them, …
Jul 19, 2009: From Comics to Screen I have a long-held theory: that for comics to successfully adapt to the screen, they need to keep the key visual elements of the comic with them, …
Jul 15, 2009: London, I'm So Proud For a capital city, we don't show much pride in ourselves.
Jul 15, 2009: London, I'm So Proud For a capital city, we don't show much pride in ourselves.
Jul 15, 2009: Holborn Freebies One of the nice things about working in Holborn again is fun urban moments like this:
Jul 12, 2009: QotD: Only in My Dreams What life dream or goal have you given up on? GRID issue 1 cover Oooh! Good one. I've given up on my dream of being a magazine editor. Why? Well, …
Jul 12, 2009: Your Son is Rather Rotund... Not my Mum's finest photographic moment...
Jul 12, 2009: Your Son is Rather Rotund... Not my Mum's finest photographic moment…
Jul 12, 2009: Knitted Horrors of 1970 Ah, knitting patterns of the 1970s: I found this "two in one" pattern for his'n'hers ponchos and an attractive beret and scarf combo amongst my …
Jul 12, 2009: Knitted Horrors of 1970 Ah, knitting patterns of the 1970s: I found this "two in one" pattern for his'n'hers ponchos and an attractive beret and scarf combo amongst my …
Jul 12, 2009: Faces From The Past I've been doing some more sorting of old stuff from Mum's and I came across this photo tucked into one of her books: I've no idea who they were, or …
Jul 6, 2009: QotD: One Day. $100,000. If you had one day to spend $100,000 - and you had to spend it totally selfishly - what would you buy? It would be a consumer electronics frenzy, I …
Jul 6, 2009: Life is Short Anniversary Flowers So, last Thursday I went to Suffolk. I haven't felt like writing about it until now, because I was visiting my parents' grave on …
Jul 4, 2009: UnTrendy TV: Last of the Summer Wine It's not cutting-edge, it's not fashionable and it's certainly not innovative, but I'm not afraid to admit that I love Last of the Summer Wine. In a …
Jul 4, 2009: UnTrendy TV: Last of the Summer Wine It's not cutting-edge, it's not fashionable and it's certainly not innovative, but I'm not afraid to admit that I love Last of the Summer Wine. In a …
Jul 4, 2009: Creationists: Their Dirty Secret A scientist visits the Creationism museum in the US: Daryl Domning, professor of anatomy at Howard University, held his chin and shook his head at …
Jul 3, 2009: WTF? Fluffy Mystery
Jul 1, 2009: QotD: RIP MJ What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? Bonus points if you share the video. The Jacksons - Blame it on the boogieToo many sad retro club nights …
Jul 1, 2009: QotD: Everywhere Has Its Problems What prevents your city/town from being the best place in the country to live? Submitted by Cherney. IMG_0712 IMG_0714 Too much of this city is an …
Jun 30, 2009: QotD: Environmental Confession 'Fess up: What do you do that's bad for the environment? Sponsored by One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco. In all honesty: drive. I …
Jun 30, 2009: The Girl in the Lego Earrings Finally met a Vox friend in the flesh at the weekend. CupCate was at TweetCamp over the weekend, and she managed to bag these cool Lego earrings: …
Jun 30, 2009: Tacky Tissues Spotted, to my mingled disbelief and amazement in my local supermarket: Hannah Montana tissues. For the fannish teenage girl... or the teenage boy in …
Jun 30, 2009: Tacky Tissues Spotted, to my mingled disbelief and amazement in my local supermarket: Hannah Montana tissues. For the fannish teenage girl... or the teenage boy in …
Jun 22, 2009: What's that wierd mobile on the left? Mobiles on Monday Morning
Jun 20, 2009: Quick iPhone 3G S Tests Here's a couple of pictures shot with my new iPhone 3G S This was a test of its new macro capability, just shooting the Apple logo on my MacBook …
Jun 18, 2009: Watching Karen Millen find its blogging feet I love watching new blogs develop. I discovered a few months back that high street fashion chain Karen Millen has started blogging started blogging …
Jun 18, 2009: Watching Karen Millen find its blogging feet I love watching new blogs develop. I discovered a few months back that high street fashion chain Karen Millen has started blogging last year, and I've …
Jun 15, 2009: Self-Portrait, in a mirror DSCF1187 I rather like this shot, which I grabbed in a mirror at my mother-in-law's.
Jun 15, 2009: The Default Doctor Who Companion I just blundered across this on a Guardian blog: But the thing about Doctor Who companions, whatever their age, background and ethnicity, is that they …
Jun 10, 2009: Brown in the Bunker Oh, I just knew that there would be European Elections / Gordon Brown / Downfall mashups kicking around:
Jun 7, 2009: Classy Dinner... photo.jpg
Jun 5, 2009: QotD: Why I Blog Why do you blog? Submitted by Syafira. It's my job. Although, to be fair, I also do it because I love it.
Jun 4, 2009: QotD: Emergency Contact Who do you write down as your Emergency Contact? Why did you pick this person? Lorna, my wife. I think it's one of the rites of adulthood, when you …
Jun 4, 2009: Boris Goes Swimming River in Labour-controlled Lewisham attacks Conservative Mayor: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf Boris pratfalls: brightening up …
Jun 3, 2009: Reflux Oh, God. Advertisers have spotted that I'm middle-aged, haven't they?
Jun 3, 2009: Serious Photography [caption id=“attachment_3238” align=“alignnone” width=“500”] A message from Rev Stan[/caption] Here’s Rev Stan having her picture taken. How rude!
Jun 3, 2009: Pub Quiz Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.
Jun 3, 2009: Pub Quiz Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.
May 31, 2009: The 11th Doctor's First Companion So, Karen Gillan is set to be the 11th Doctor's first companion. My initial reaction was a pleasingly blokey "Cool. A cute redhead." I like cute …
May 31, 2009: Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.
May 31, 2009: Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.
May 24, 2009: Oops photo.jpg
May 18, 2009: Mr Timworth, I Presume? They never get it right... [moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]
May 18, 2009: Mr Timworth, I Presume? They never get it right… [moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]
May 5, 2009: Vaulted IMG_0524 The roof of Bristol Cathedral, where we watched a distant relative of Dr T. being collated as a canon at the weekend.
Apr 26, 2009: The Improvement Society The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.
Apr 26, 2009: The Improvement Society The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.
Apr 26, 2009: Where are the bees? DSCF0972 Where indeed?
Apr 25, 2009: Paint Your Fake Coal You have no idea how depressed this makes me: Paint, for the fake coal in your fake fireplace. Such industry around the unashamedly inauthentic.
Apr 24, 2009: I've been to Brean Can't say as I recommend it. photo.jpg
Apr 23, 2009: Thank a Farmer photo.jpg
Apr 21, 2009: Digital Polaroids DSCF0788-pola Been having some ever-so-slightly pointless fun with an application called Poladroid, which allows you to make modern digital photos …
Apr 20, 2009: Vox Hunt: Video Show-and-Tell Share the last video you took. …
Apr 16, 2009: Sutton's Urban Renewal Continues... photo.jpg
Apr 15, 2009: QotD: Life Changes What change have you made in your life that you're most proud of? Sponsored by Nature Made. I've been debt-free since late last year. Sometime later …
Apr 12, 2009: Bristol, morning photo.jpg
Apr 9, 2009: Sutton Station Starbucks When did Sutton station get a Starbucks? photo.jpg
Mar 30, 2009: The Black Swans of Dawlish The Black Swans of Dawlish A curious sight from a weekend's house-hunting
Mar 6, 2009: The Busy Life of Focus Ladies and gentlemen, we present Rev Stan in her starring role: Friday Afternoon Focus
Feb 25, 2009: My Beautiful Neighbourhood Space - NeighbourhoodHow it feels to live in Lewisham quite a lot of the time...
Feb 21, 2009: Walking with the in-laws photo.jpg
Feb 15, 2009: Pictures of an Unknown Past Mystery baby One of the strange things about going through my parents stuff is finding pictures like this. It's a baby, but I have no idea who it is, …
Feb 13, 2009: Friday Afternoon Culture Habanera
Jan 26, 2009: A Small Gate Problem One Man & His Gate And I just couldn't resist sharing this picture of Mr Heape obeying the country code to the letter…
Jan 26, 2009: A True Holiday Wiltshire Field OK, it was only a weekend away. But for the first time in years, Lorna & I had a weekend away with friends, and just chilled out. It …
Jan 23, 2009: Wishing I Was Still on Holiday The trees of CenterParcs Longleat But that video makes me feel good.
Jan 8, 2009: This Afternoon's Fun photo.jpg
Jan 8, 2009: Our Hungry Wee Friend The Robin A cheeky wee robin redbreast who keep hopping after us, chirping for food…
Jan 7, 2009: Icy Waterfall photo.jpg
Jan 6, 2009: Guessing Game IMG_0178 Anyone care to guess what this is a picture of? :)
Jan 3, 2009: The Last Books of 2008 2008 was not a good year for me, book-wise. One way or another, I never seemed to find the time to read. However, in the very last week of the year, I …
Jan 1, 2009: New Year's Eve at the Moulin Rouge (Blackheath) DSCF0585
Dec 31, 2008: Blackheath, New Year's Eve photo.jpg
Dec 31, 2008: Port Grapes Scan-081230-0008 Another one from the Portugal trip
Dec 30, 2008: Winter Sunshine, Brighton Road Winter Sunshine
Dec 30, 2008: Any Port in a… Calem Quinta in the Duro Valley I'm busy scanning some old slides of mine. Right now, I'm working through some pictures of a press visit to the Quinta …
Dec 26, 2008: Clapham, morning photo.jpg
Dec 24, 2008: Christmas Eve @ my brother's His new house has four ovens. Four! photo.jpg
Dec 13, 2008: A Paris Christmas Grabbed yesterday afternoon, near the Champs d'Elysee in Paris photo.jpg
Dec 9, 2008: In Paris DSCF0418
Dec 5, 2008: Suffolk Morning Winter Morning, Wenhaston
Dec 5, 2008: A Brief Return to Suffolk I popped back to Suffolk for the day, for the first time since Mum's house sold a couple of months ago. I visited the grave, made sure all was ready …
Dec 2, 2008: First Icy Car Morning photo.jpg
Dec 2, 2008: QH gets Festive photo.jpg
Nov 28, 2008: Real Life Rickroll This is just full of win: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade RickRoll (No idea what I'm talking about? Rickrolling explained.)
Nov 28, 2008: Recreational Social Gaming for Beginners Frost Nymph Here's a thing: I barely watch any TV any more. And since we picked up a BT Vision box, that TV I do watch I record and watch at my own …
Nov 28, 2008: Of Stags and Baths Brighton Pier So, what have I been up to in recent weeks? Well, last weekend I headed off to Brighton for Martyn's stag weekend. And I can't really …
Nov 24, 2008: Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 trailer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsfpeNURHU&w=425&h=344] There have been two scifi series that have really redefined the genre in TV terms …
Nov 22, 2008: Lamps in the bath Fairly sure this isn't normal styling for a hotel… photo.jpg
Nov 5, 2008: They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard For Rev Stan who could probably do with a laugh: taking the hobbits to isengard
Nov 3, 2008: The (Rotten) Core The Core (2003) - Trailer I seem to have watched some really bad movies of late. Most of my free time has been caught up with trying to get the flat …
Nov 3, 2008: The Apple iMug photo.jpg
Nov 2, 2008: Autumn Leaves photo.jpg
Nov 2, 2008: Sunday Sainsbury's Hell photo.jpg
Oct 9, 2008: Orinocho Flow, interpreted through dance [via The Medium is Not Enough]
Sep 23, 2008: Gosh Andrew and Ola - Strictly Come Dancing 2008 Round 1 - BBC OneThat'll be Strictly Come Dancing back, then. It's a lovely outfit she's nearly wearing, …
Sep 13, 2008: Likin' the People Tree I love People Tree far more than I should do a company I've yet to spend a single penny with for Dr. T or myself (note to self: rectify). Clothes …
Sep 8, 2008: Living Room Living Room Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. Experimenting with iSight self-portraiture…
Sep 8, 2008: Parts of my Past Bric-a-brac
Sep 1, 2008: Vox Hunt: The Forecast Is... Show us the weather you're having today. Well, the weather forecast was for torrential rain and storms. And this is what we got: DSCF0226 I call …
Sep 1, 2008: Home(ish) Marischal Road, Night
Aug 31, 2008: Vox Hunt: Peace and Quiet Show us your favorite place to relax. Lee Abbey, through the gate
Aug 31, 2008: QotD: Sales, Sales, Sales Do you plan on taking advantage of all the holiday sales this weekend? Uh, no. The problem in my life is this: Sorting the Clutter When we're busy …
Aug 31, 2008: Dinner Halesworth Fish & Chips
Aug 28, 2008: Lunch photo.jpg
Aug 28, 2008: By Way of Explanation Why do I need another blog? Well, One Man & His Blog was initially my general purpose blog, covering anything I fancied writing about. Over time, it's …
Aug 28, 2008: Time For A New Start?
Aug 26, 2008: Always Remembering photo.jpg
Aug 25, 2008: 70s Records... photo.jpg
Aug 25, 2008: Halesworth Nightlife photo.jpg
Aug 24, 2008: Goodbye, iMac G4 photo.jpg
Aug 24, 2008: Gardening photo.jpg
Aug 23, 2008: An Abstemious Night Out photo.jpg
Aug 22, 2008: Guardian photo.jpg
Aug 21, 2008: Alan at The Shaftesbury photo.jpg
Aug 20, 2008: Coffee & Mac photo.jpg
Aug 20, 2008: MacMecca photo.jpg
Aug 19, 2008: Gaming Night Behold Sophie's finger of doom photo.jpg
Aug 16, 2008: Whitchurch Car Boot Sale photo.jpg
Aug 13, 2008: I Hate The M25 photo.jpg
Aug 12, 2008: Church Light IMG_0004 Light playing on a bench in the church where Mum & Dad are buried. Quite took my breath away this afternoon.
Aug 10, 2008: Afternoon in the Pub photo.jpg
Jul 28, 2008: Back to 1999 [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“500”] Roy & Ann Tinworth walking on the Suffolk Coast[/caption] As noted on One Man & His Blog earlier, I’ve …
Jul 16, 2008: Owl Army [flickr video=2670280403 secret=0fdc9af20d w=500 h=375]
Jul 16, 2008: Those Jib Jab Folks Do It Again http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/client/zero/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?external_make_id=6bRCmPnkhFj2MwPo&service=sendables.jibjab.comSend a JibJab …
Jul 12, 2008: Who says social networks are all about sex? Facebook 69
Jul 12, 2008: Dr T Attacks
Jul 5, 2008: A Moment of Peace DSCF0281 Taking time out from funeral plans and house clearing.
Jul 3, 2008: Goodbye, Mum DSCF0189 Ann Patricia Tinworth 1939 - 2008
Jul 2, 2008: Waiting The Patrick Stead Hospital
Jun 17, 2008: South Bank Art photo.jpg
Jun 14, 2008: Coffee Break
Jun 13, 2008: Vox Hunt: The Outside World Show us a reason to get off the computer and go outside.<br /><span style="font-size:.8em;">Submitted by <a class="enclosure-inline-user" …
Jun 13, 2008: The New Resident of Mum's Garden Mum's garden visitor Not doubt my brother will be around to shoot it momentarily…
Jun 12, 2008: Rural Enterprise at its best photo.jpg
May 31, 2008: Wonder if they have any vacancies? photo.jpg
May 30, 2008: Quiet Old Chap photo.jpg
May 30, 2008: This is the life... photo.jpg
May 30, 2008: Sanified? Is that a word? photo.jpg
May 24, 2008: Best iChat Evar Secret & Mysterious
May 18, 2008: A lovely, traditional British suburban Saturday afternoon photo.jpg
May 16, 2008: The In-House Starbucks Because some of my Twitter friends didn't believe it existed... photo.jpg
May 16, 2008: Vox Hunt: Wedding Bells Show us a photograph from a wedding.<br /><span style="font-size:.8em;">Submitted by <a class="enclosure-inline-user" …
May 15, 2008: QotD: Top 5 Break-Up Songs What are your top five break-up songs?<br /><span style="font-size:.8em;">Submitted by <a class="enclosure-inline-user" …
May 15, 2008: Vox Hunt: Workin' Hard Show us what you're working on right now.<br /><span style="font-size:.8em;">Submitted by <a class="enclosure-inline-user" …
May 11, 2008: Charity Ball Night photo.jpg
May 3, 2008: Wortham Manor photo.jpg
Apr 25, 2008: Abandon hope all ye who enter here... photo.jpg
Apr 16, 2008: From Facebook to Vox Giving Six Apart's new Facebook app a quick spin. Will this post magically jump from Facebook to Vox?
Apr 14, 2008: The Summer of '66 Another one from Mum's old slides: Dad & Dusky on the beach in the summer of '66: Dad & Dusky on the beach Makes me laugh out loud every time I see …
Apr 12, 2008: Dusky & The Baby Dusky & The Baby Once in a while, while scanning my parents' old transparencies, I come across a photo that works as a piece in its own right, …
Apr 8, 2008: Down Wif Da Kids We're hip here in Business Development photo.jpg
Apr 7, 2008: I Think I Fancy Boris In the US, they have Obama Girl. Here we have: I think I fancy BorisAnd therein lies the difference between the two cultures. :)
Apr 4, 2008: Leaving lunch for Piers at Mama Dumplings photo.jpg
Mar 27, 2008: Video Club Video Club
Mar 27, 2008: About the Apprentice About the Apprentice
Mar 22, 2008: She is, clearly, bovvered Doctor Who Cinema Trailer **Best Quality**
Mar 20, 2008: The Great Wall of Hancock photo.jpg
Mar 14, 2008: The Triple Plea Pub lunch on the way back to Mum's photo.jpg
Mar 11, 2008: Lunch in the Chapel(field) Grabbing a bite to eat in Norwich after Mum's chemo. photo.jpg
Mar 11, 2008: Chemo Ward photo.jpg
Mar 11, 2008: Norwich Street Scene photo.jpg
Mar 10, 2008: Yum Yum photo.jpg
Mar 7, 2008: Planning a Movable Type upgrade photo.jpg
Mar 6, 2008: Ah, Ludvig Today's e-mails have been full of my colleagues swapping bizarre children's cartoons of their youth. I couldn't resist sharing the most bizarre, yet …
Mar 5, 2008: Mourn Enter the ICHC <a Gary Gygax, the guy who invented a hobby, passed on yesterday. I actually exchanged some e-mails with him a few years back, when I …
Mar 5, 2008: The QH Truck Arriving at the office gets stranger every day… Big Digger at QH
Mar 5, 2008: If Saul Bass had done the Star Wars intro Star Wars vs. Saul Bass
Mar 5, 2008: QotD: What's in a Name? How did you create your username for VOX? What influenced your decision? Submitted by Strive2Be. My username is just, well, my name. I almost any web …
Mar 3, 2008: Review: The Tudors The Tudors: Complete BBC Series 1 [2007] So, I went up to Mum's last night, to surprise her for Mother's Day and cook her a roast. Afterwards we …
Mar 3, 2008: Three Word Review: Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain [2005] Pretty. Dull. Depressing.
Mar 3, 2008: Winter Morning, Suffolk It was gorgeous as I set off for my drive to Sutton early this morning. photo.jpg
Feb 28, 2008: Whatever Lola Wants Stumbled across this while researching posts for another blog. Rather liked it: Tigrita Project - Whatever Lola Wants
Feb 21, 2008: The Sea
Feb 21, 2008: Coffee & Computing
Feb 21, 2008: The Week So Far… Frosty Spider Web It's been one of those "feet not touching the ground" kind of weeks. I started it up in Suffolk, at Mum's, doing some stuff for her …
Feb 18, 2008: Suffolk Frost Looking lovely this morning... photo.jpg
Feb 15, 2008: Social Media Cafe, London photo.jpg
Feb 15, 2008: New Year in Chinatown photo.jpg
Feb 4, 2008: Man & Iron Man I haven't been excited by a superhero movies for years now - but this looks like a lot of fun. What a difference a great actor in the lead role …
Feb 4, 2008: Urgent ToDo List of Doom photo.jpg
Feb 3, 2008: Hidden Past Doorway from the Past A cracking, mysterious image from July 1966, taken by my parents on holiday. What a find!
Feb 2, 2008: Amazing What You Find While Tidying Up Robert Kilroy-Silk
Jan 31, 2008: Tonight's the Night Tango Ticket I'm taking Lorna out tonight to celebrate her birthday. We're off to the Peacock Theatre to see Tango por Dos. Should be fun...
Jan 31, 2008: News & Politics QotD: Drop Outs Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards both recently dropped out of the primary race. Does this change how you'll vote? No. Because I'm still British and I …
Jan 8, 2008: Norwich Apartment photo.jpg
Jan 3, 2008: The LARP Nativity This made my inner geek snigger: IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR
Dec 30, 2007: Suffolk Melancholy ...there undoubtedly is something unnerving about East Anglia. Whether it's those huge skies, that almost aggressively flat landscape -- or the …
Dec 28, 2007: The Trees of Halesworth photo.jpg
Dec 25, 2007: Christmas Day: Progress So Far Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak My in-laws run Christmas rather differently to the Tinworth clan. At home, all the present opening is done …
Dec 25, 2007: Egg Nogg Pie photo.jpg
Dec 23, 2007: Oh, Christmas Tree The tree at my mother-in-law's. photo.jpg
Dec 21, 2007: Our Christmas Bash BizDev at Christmas We're so very grown up…
Dec 21, 2007: On The Beach - 1998 I've been putting the scanner through its paces again, this time scanning some film I shot on the beach in Suffolk around October 1998. Here's Mum & …
Dec 20, 2007: Video Share Fair photo.jpg
Dec 18, 2007: The Lights Go On... http://llnw.jibjab.com/content/player.swfDon't send a lame Holiday eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!The Christmas Light
Dec 16, 2007: A Moment of Magic Sometimes something happens to spark off that Christmas feeling, even in the most difficult of times. As I was walking home from my Christmas bash …
Dec 14, 2007: Skating at Somerset House photo.jpg
Dec 14, 2007: Life on a Duck photo.jpg
Dec 14, 2007: iPhone Test Andrew on the South Bank photo.jpg
Dec 8, 2007: Rurally Retreating Again Bramfield, morning I'm back in Suffolk again, providing Mum with some support before she goes into hospital again next week. Luckily my sister-in-law …
Dec 3, 2007: Conference Blogging
Dec 3, 2007: QotD: My Wikipedia Entry Write your own Wikipedia entry for yourself (or share the link if you already have one). I have one already, thankyouverymuchindeed... Adam Tinworth …
Dec 3, 2007: Flooded Back Passage The Back Passage Ah, the trials of living in a Victorian-era building on a Victorian-era street that took some serious abuse during World War II. …
Dec 1, 2007: Voce 'e Notte Voce 'e NotteA lovely piece of music played with style by alan.
Nov 27, 2007: Re: Blogging IMG_0016.JPG So, life. I must getting better at posting to my blogs. I must get better at posting to my blogs. It's a function of being a …
Nov 22, 2007: Margate Promenade Great-great-grandm-grandad-steele This is my great great grandparents on holiday in Margate. Well, that or my great great great grandparents. My …
Nov 22, 2007: Mum & Dad's Wedding Day Mum & Dad's Wedding I've been playing with the scanner again…
Nov 20, 2007: Vox Hunt: Thanksgiving Traditions Show us one of your Thanksgiving traditions. Well, getting annoyed at American-centric Vox Hunt/QotDs is rapidly becoming one of them...
Nov 9, 2007: Waiting in the dayroom Another visit to hospital with Mum Waiting in the dayroom
Oct 27, 2007: Real Life Forum Discussion We should probably show this to all our community managers as part of their training: …
Oct 27, 2007: Liking Leopard Picture 1 So, my copy of the new version of Mac OSX called Leopard (or, rather more prosaically, Mac OSX 10.5) arrived yesterday afternoon, at some …
Oct 22, 2007: Vox Hunt: The Good Doctor Show us your favorite doctor. The Fifth and Tenth Doctor Duh.
Oct 20, 2007: Sojourn in Sunderland Sojourn in Sunderland We're up in Sunderland for the weekend, to attend a christening of the son of an old friend of Lorna's. Tonight we're enjoying …
Oct 15, 2007: Tree Light
Oct 15, 2007: Woody Bay
Oct 14, 2007: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Hack Cubby Adam I've been scanning a random selection of negatives I picked up from Mum's a few weeks back. This is me as a student magazine editor back in …
Oct 13, 2007: Man of Destiny (and his Mum) Man of Destiny (and his Mum)
Oct 13, 2007: Charity Fundraising in Halesworth Ironically, it's for cancer research Charity Fundraising in Halesworth
Oct 12, 2007: Sucky McSuck 1am. Can’t sleep. Not happy. The meeting with Mum’s oncologist did not go well. How badly it went, we won’t know until she’s had a CT scan. Just brain …
Oct 10, 2007: Coffee Moment: the Caffé Nero cup Thanks to a quick visit to Sutton town centre today, I had the rare chance to enjoy my favourite of the chain coffee sellers in the UK - Caffé Nero. …
Oct 10, 2007: Vox Hunt: My Latest Download Audio: Show us a song or album you've recently downloaded. PicturesKatie Melua Because sexy-voiced easy listening is great for writing to. Or …
Oct 10, 2007: /dance With apologies to the non-WoWers out there: Slashdance - Live Action WoW Night Elf Dance
Oct 9, 2007: How I'm Starting To Feel About Facebook Facebook2
Oct 9, 2007: Holidays are Good I'm back from my hols. We stayed in a lovely place: Lee Bay from Lee Abbey And walked to some lovely places: Light on the Valley of the Rocks And now …
Oct 8, 2007: Looks like Autumn I think the days of driving home in the daylight are done for this year. Looks like Autumn
Oct 8, 2007: Changing Season
Oct 8, 2007: Still in the Torrent
Sep 29, 2007: A Gentleman's Duel A Gentlemen Duel[via James]
Sep 29, 2007: Why Your Coffee Sucks - And How To Make It Better Your coffee sucks, apparently, and indeed, much of the coffee we consume does suck. Some years ago, while I was working on a now-defunct magazine for …
Sep 29, 2007: Blast from the Past in my RSS Publicschool I was rather surprised to see the above picture on the Adam Smith Institute blog… It's my old school, Dollar Academy. The fact that the …
Sep 29, 2007: Ladies Love Leather (Apparently) Now, I love a woman in a leather dress as much as the next straight man. So, the news that the above Marks & Spencer dress is flying off the shelves …
Sep 25, 2007: Fleeing to the Country This, or something very much like it, is my dream for the near future: We are moving out of our two-bedroom flat and into a proper house with an …
Sep 24, 2007: Blogathon: the Movie Today was the RBI Charity Blogathon. Here's a quick bit of movie I grabbed on my phone towards the end of the day: RBI Hacks-a-blogging
Sep 23, 2007: Horror of My Youth A while ago, I replaced my few remaining tapes with iTunes downloads to tidy up my music collection a little. Maybe I shoudl have listened to the …
Sep 20, 2007: Steel and Eye Steel and Eye
Sep 19, 2007: Reading Break Reading Break
Sep 15, 2007: The UK's First Log Built House? Another one from the "press releases for my old job, but I'm still interested" file: Look at that - lovely log cabin under construction. Canada? The …
Sep 14, 2007: The Ideal Christmas Gift I've heard a lot about this video, but only just got around to watching it: SNL - Digital Short - A Special Christmas Box *Uncensored Ve It was worth …
Sep 14, 2007: links for 2007-09-14 Blogger vrs Wordpress: Druids vs. PriestsA Wordpress vrs Blogger fight like you've never seen it before…(tags: wordpress blogger blogging)
Sep 14, 2007: Saying Goodbye to a Ragged Era Ragged School 1855 Tonight saw the end of an era. Despite the damage I've done to my back, I dragged myself along to the Shaftesbury Christian …
Sep 13, 2007: Vox Hunt: Music - Ticket Stub Show us a ticket stub from a great concert you saw. Spinal tap ticket Hah! Bet you're jealous now! How many people can say that they have seen Spinal …
Sep 13, 2007: Vox Hunt: Music - I Last Listened To... Show us the last album you listened to. According to iTunes, it was this: SupernatureGoldfrapp I'm faintly disappointed it wasn't something more …
Sep 12, 2007: links for 2007-09-12 First, it was retailers. Then, it was publishers. Now, it's the turn of marketers.Some thoughts on what advertising needs to do to survive.(tags: …
Sep 8, 2007: Lunch and papers in Halesworth Lunch and papers in Halesworth
Sep 7, 2007: Everyone's a critic... Everyone's a critic...
Sep 6, 2007: Serious Business Journalism (Again) Nothing but serious business blogs for us, oh yes.
Sep 4, 2007: Work in Progress: Types of Blog Post I'm in the process of working up some documentation for a blog-related event we're having here at RBI later this month. The documents are going to end …
Sep 3, 2007: Devon: Not As Green As It Thinks? Devon has been advertising itself as the greenest county in Britain. Not so, says the ASA: clipped from www.travelweekly.co.ukDevon County Council …
Sep 3, 2007: Regular is the new small (The Caterer Blog) Regular is the new small (The Caterer Blog)[www.caterersearch.com/blogs/ca....](http://www.caterersearch.com/blogs/ca...)I was in the queue at my …
Sep 3, 2007: Vox Incognita When I started Voxing, waaaaaay back in June of last year, I decided to keep my neighbourhood, as much as possible, to people I actually knew. It was …
Sep 3, 2007: Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out. First Dance
Sep 3, 2007: Vox Hunt: Photography - Allow Me To Explain... Show us a photo that requires an explanation. Two bottles of wine and a loaf of bread This was shot for a friend's Mum, who would always ask her son …
Sep 3, 2007: Vox Hunt: Photography - Frame It Show us one of your photos that you’d like to print out and frame. Lee Bay
Sep 2, 2007: Scenes from Sophie's Party Toby & Anita Allie & Chris & Pint
Aug 31, 2007: Enter Disco Stu Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....
Aug 30, 2007: I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.com I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.comhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...But corporate realities are getting harsh …
Aug 30, 2007: The Simpsons Star Wars The Simpsons Star WarsNicked from here.
Aug 30, 2007: NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excel NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excelhttp://newsbiscuit.com/article/facebo...‘It doesn’t exactly send out the …
Aug 30, 2007: Fair and Balanced Videos So, MainMor posted this:http://www.videojug.com/film/player?id=0428efb6-c039-e254-e478-ff0008c8e85c VideoJug: How To Be The Perfect Girlfriend In the …
Aug 29, 2007: My Tragic Addiction 95%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? [Via Adriana]
Aug 29, 2007: Should Employers Ban Facebook? Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic, one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC radio last week about Facebook. Like so many …
Aug 29, 2007: My Current Favourite LoLCat
Aug 29, 2007: In Which I Venture to East Grinstead The life of an Estates Gazette journalist is an isolated one. You sit in splendid, uhh, isolation in Procter Street, and only ever venture to QH …
Aug 29, 2007: TV Shows on iTunes UK I wake this morning to the exciting news that iTunes has added TV shows to the UK store. Hurrah! So far, it's just a bunch of US shows, from South …
Aug 29, 2007: The MMOvie One of the things I love about online games is the spin-off creativity that develops around them: MMOvie
Aug 26, 2007: Halesworth Street Fair We spent the early afternoon today at the Halesworth Antiques Street Fair. Here's a taste of what it's like: Halesworth Antiques Fair
Aug 23, 2007: Baby Pandas! Whole Lotta Baby Pandas
Aug 22, 2007: Waiting for the AA …And watching video podcasts. Waiting for the AA
Aug 21, 2007: Vox Hunt: Coffee Table Book Book: Show us a great coffee table book. Dictators' Homes: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colourful DespotsPeter York This is just a quality book. …
Aug 21, 2007: QotD: Passing The Drive Time When driving alone, what do you do? Sing along to the radio? Think about your day? Something else? Submitted by carapiccoladiva. iPod Mobile I …
Aug 21, 2007: The Thief of Summer OK. Own up. Trees Overhead Who stole summer and left us Autumn in its place?
Aug 19, 2007: DVD Review: The Mother The Mother [2003] I'm catching up on a backlog of Amazon DVD rentals in Lorna's absence, and first up was The Mother. The heart of the movie is …
Aug 19, 2007: Testing Crossposting Just testing a Movable Type plugin to cross-post to Vox.
Aug 19, 2007: 1960s Builders More scanning, this time of a series of pics of my parents' first home in Hazel Grove. Here's one of the builders, from 1968: Sandown Road Builders …
Aug 19, 2007: QotD: What My Name Means What does your name mean and why did your parents choose it for you? Submitted by mommy2two. Adam "Adam" means red earth. And my parents chose it… …
Aug 19, 2007: More from the 80s I was never terribly keen on A-Ha, but I always though that ths video was genius: A-Ha - Take On Me (Video)
Aug 19, 2007: A Message From the 80s All on my tod this weekend (aaaah), so I'm pottering around the flat catching up on the 1001 tasks that need doing, and getting on with some personal …
Aug 19, 2007: Vox Hunt: Today's Beverage Show us what you're drinking. Drink Coffee Follow the bean.
Aug 14, 2007: Rural Weddings Who says romance is dead?
Aug 14, 2007: Vox Hunt: This One's For The Kids Books: Show us a great children's book. Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame Poop! Poop! You can take your schoolboy wizards and your furry-toed …
Aug 14, 2007: Chocolate Rain: annoying earworm "Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay ZondayI heard about this from a podcast, couldn't figure out why everyone was raving about it.And then, two days …
Aug 13, 2007: QotD: First Crush How old were you when you had your very first boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you still know them now? Submitted by KIM. I was a late starter. I sorta …
Aug 13, 2007: My Sad, Lamentable Taste in Music Oh, look. iTunes has …
Aug 12, 2007: Vox Hunt: And All The Colors Show us a rainbow. Submitted by Amy - Sister Brown Hair Surprise. Rainbow over Sandown Park
Aug 12, 2007: Dr Who: Here Comes Season 4 Ah, we have more news about season 4 of New Who. There's some good casting in there, but the hardcore aren't going to care, because they're still in …
Aug 9, 2007: Vintage QotD: Here Comes The Bride John & AnitaWhat was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding? John & Anita's wedding a few months back. And no, I had no role at all …
Aug 7, 2007: Dad'n'Me A silly pic of Dad and I taken by Mum back in 2001. Dad and me And us in a men of destiny pose: Meanddad
Aug 6, 2007: Photo Friday: Wet Seated Paddling, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. Two senior folks enjoying the feel of water on their feet in Cornwall. Submitted to Photo …
Aug 6, 2007: Burj Dubai - as tall as it gets? Part of the reason behind starting this (shamefully neglected) blog was to write about stuff I no longer feel comfortable babbling about on One Man …
Aug 6, 2007: My Great-Grandma Another one from the family archives, shot in October 1983: Great Grandma
Aug 4, 2007: Saturday Afternoon in Multicultural Lewisham LHR Street Celebration
Aug 3, 2007: The Friday Afternoon Feeling Apparently, British firms are losing £50m, because people are taking Friday afternoons off, on the sly. You'll never catch that happening here, oh, …
Aug 3, 2007: Two Great 70s Tastes - That Taste Better Together! Keith Chegwin and The Wurzels! Wurzels - "The Tractor Song"
Aug 2, 2007: Drivin' Along in my (cardboard) Automobile Cardboard cars
Aug 1, 2007: Christopher Walken cooks Chicken with Pears Chicken with PearsThe mind boggles.Still, the man's a good cook.
Aug 1, 2007: QotD: My Strongest Summer Memory What will you remember most about this summer? August has only just begun! There's at least a month left for making cool summer memories! Really. Vox …
Jul 31, 2007: The Charity Shop Racks Charity Books The staple of any charity shop: romance novels and tatty fantasy series. Why do these two classes of books turn up in these shops with …
Jul 31, 2007: Flower One of a group of photos I shot, while fruitlessly searching for a butterfly, as instructed by a recent Vox Hunt: Flower in Mum's Garden
Jul 31, 2007: QotD: School Sports What were the sports or games you played in high school or college? Submitted by Stephen. Fencing2 I was a serious fencer at school. The picture …
Jul 30, 2007: QotD: Stress Case People do many different things to cope with stress, loss, and "bumps in the road". How do you handle stress and hard times? Submitted by RedlyGal. …
Jul 28, 2007: Cinema Mismanagement Cinema Mismanagement So, on Friday night, Lorna and I went to the cinema. Boy, that was a mistake. The cinema, the Odeon Greenwich, had decided to go …
Jul 27, 2007: The Old Manor My old offices on Wardour Street, all refurbished and lovely. The Old Manor
Jul 27, 2007: Ah, Charing Cross This is what used to greet me off the train for nine years. No more. Ah, Charing Cross
Jul 26, 2007: Where I Want To Be Right Now Boat near Fowey
Jul 25, 2007: They Broke The Internets! In honour of the power outage in San Fransisco last night which too down numerous sites, including …
Jul 24, 2007: Mind The (Culture) Gap OK - can anyone really imagine this happening in the UK? Hott 4 Hill feat. Taryn SouthernDebate '08: Obama Girl vs Giuliani GirlCan you imagine it? …
Jul 24, 2007: QotD: Heartbreaking How many times have you had your heart broken? Submitted by BullDogg. 1.5 times. It seems bizarre to have your heart broken half a time but really, …
Jul 23, 2007: Happy Birthday, Dave Birthday Cake A very happy birthday to Dave for today!
Jul 23, 2007: Climate Change: Making Choices http://embed.break.com/MzExODA1 Interesting Argument About Global Warming - Watch more free videosInteresting Argument About Global Warming
Jul 23, 2007: Random Phone Photography Deptford Clouds A beautiful sky over Deptford last Wednesday evening Lost Shoe Random shoe. This kid's show sat outside the car park in Sutton for …
Jul 23, 2007: Vox Hunt: Cityscape Show us a cityscape. Truro Skyline It's Truro. And it counts as a city because it has a cathedral. You might just be able to spot it in the pic…
Jul 23, 2007: Baking Daleks Raw Dalek Last Saturday, my morning of indolence was disturbed by the unexpected arrival of a parcel. Inside was a kit for baking Dalek biscuits from …
Jul 22, 2007: Graveside Reflections Dad's Grave I visited Dad's grave for the first time in a little while this afternoon. It really doesn't get much more easy with time. It's funny, but …
Jul 22, 2007: A Real-Life Hobbit Hole This is just fabulous - I want one now clipped from www.simondale.netYou are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself …
Jul 13, 2007: In Brighton In Brighton
Jul 9, 2007: On The Rails With RBI BizDev Snap Snap 04072007040 Travelling Home
Jul 9, 2007: The Old Neptune The Old Neptune, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
Jul 9, 2007: BizDev in Whitstable Watchers on the shore Pictures from our team day out in Whitstable are now on Flickr.
Jul 9, 2007: Razor Clams Razor Clams Yummy seafood from our prize day out to Whitstable last week. These were really, really excellent
Jul 9, 2007: Listen While You Work iPod radio This morning, I finally remembered the existence of the iPod radio attachment that I picked up when I was in New York. Why? Well, I wanted …
Jul 7, 2007: Toy Scarecrows Toy Scarecrows
Jul 4, 2007: Shopping in Whitstable Shopping in Whitstable
Jul 4, 2007: 04/07/07 04/07/07
Jul 4, 2007: 04/07/07 04/07/07
Jul 4, 2007: On Whitstable Beach 04/07/07
Jul 4, 2007: Flowery Decisions Flowery Decisions
Jul 4, 2007: After the rain After the rain
Jul 3, 2007: Duck! 23/06/07 The Halesworth ducks like to explore. This chap was in the car park, a fair way from the river.
Jul 3, 2007: QotD: Signed, Sealed, Delivered How do you sign your emails? Submitted by rosemarypepper. In general: "Regards, Adam" For friends: "A" For Lorna: "A xx" Not very exciting...
Jul 3, 2007: Oh, so cute Just for Andrew Orange: It's oh so Cute! Cats of YouTube Music Video Stolen from Melinda
Jul 1, 2007: Last of the Time Lords: intial thoughts My goodness. Doctor Who fans are a miserable bunch, aren't they? [Link now dead] Personally, I rather enjoyed that. Lots of fun, some real, lingering …
Jun 30, 2007: Truro Cathedral Truro Cathedral, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
Jun 27, 2007: In Praise of Lucy Saxon [caption id=“attachment_2708” align=“alignright” width=“288”] Alexandra Moen as Lucy Saxon[/caption] I don’t watch much TV right now. I’m the …
Jun 26, 2007: Rusted Rusted, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
Jun 25, 2007: Faithful Times The Times has launched a new blog about faith. Faith Central, written by Libby Purves, is already proving a good guide to the complicated issues …
Jun 24, 2007: Stormy Weather 23062007039
Jun 24, 2007: Never Underestimate the Power of Bric-a-Brac The Bric-a-Brac Hordes To Halesworth, and the annual cream teas in aid of the local Community Nursing Care Fund. In the past, this has been a big …
Jun 23, 2007: Summer's Coming... …and with it some colourful fashions, according to the windows on the King's Road. About time, too…
Jun 22, 2007: Hospital Sculpture I do like this. Hospital Sculpture
Jun 21, 2007: Farmers Weekly: Rural Porn I'm so proud to work here sometimes. This is the follow-up to the Farmers Weekly video I posted a week or so back: The Full Monty - Full Strip
Jun 17, 2007: When Advertising Becomes Art …or something like it at least. When Advertising Becomes Art
Jun 16, 2007: The Family Album Castle Campbell Another recovery scan - and this one has proved to be rather more tricky to get the colour right. Dad, Mark and Mum are standing in …
Jun 16, 2007: QotD: You'd Never Believe It What story from your wild-and-crazy youth would nobody believe about you today? AdamRocker July 1992. Leytonstone. Nobody today believes that that's …
Jun 16, 2007: New Old Photo Jim, Mark & Joan I've been having fun with the scanner again. This is one of the oldest photos I've ever taken. My models are my great auntie Joan and …
Jun 16, 2007: My Voxiversary I just realised: I've been on Vox for one year now. My, but a lot has changed in that year…
Jun 15, 2007: Tour of Dublin A few weeks back, Karl and I went to Dublin, to visit the offices of Irish Medical Times. Michael, the mag's publisher, took us on a quick walking …
Jun 15, 2007: Cameraphone Letdown Sunny Sutton, Early Evening While the humble mobile phone has all but replaced my digital compact camera for taking snaps on the go, once in a while I …
Jun 15, 2007: Vox Hunt: I Hold It In My Hands Show us what you hold in your hands the most every day. Submitted by lezlee. Somewhat obvious: my Starck-designed mouse. It's a little the worse for …
Jun 12, 2007: A Windows Safari SafariWind Safari on Windows. It feels weird. But a good weird. Oh, and there's a cool benefit for Vox users - the compose window mostly works in …
Jun 11, 2007: Happy Holiday Memories Cornish Cream Tea It all seems so long ago now…
Jun 11, 2007: Coffee Forecast: Monday 11th June Today, I forecast three cups of coffee, because I'm a little tired.
Jun 11, 2007: QotD: In Case Of Emergency Who is your Alert In Case Of Emergency person? Why, the science pixie, Dr Evil herself, Lorna. This isn't just squishy sentimentality, either. I …
Jun 11, 2007: Podcast of The Day: Media Talk I commute for about an hour each way right now, depending on traffic and the time of year, and I use that time productively by catching up on …
Jun 8, 2007: Anti-Ginger Nuts Gingerism: is it racism? - Styledash: According the BBC, red-head hating is still going strong around the world, but especially in the UK. Based on …
Jun 8, 2007: The Mystery Of Food Brits in the dark over food production | Food | Guardian Unlimited Environment: "Farmers produce 60% of all the food consumed in this country, yet …
Jun 7, 2007: We can rebuild her Because Lindsay and Karl were asking: Bionic Woman – Coming to NBC
Jun 7, 2007: Today's Office Nostalgia Terry And June Opening TitlesToday's bit of 1970s TV nostalgia: Terry & June. I used to love this when I was a kid, before I became a teenager and …
Jun 7, 2007: More Serious Rural Journalism from Farmers Weekly Young farmers and gratuitous nakedness... Farmers Weekly - Full Monty
Jun 6, 2007: At Adobe Live At Adobe Live
Jun 6, 2007: Focus HQ Nadia and Stan hard at work at Estates Gazette. Focus HQ
Jun 5, 2007: Team Lunch Because, sometimes you need to go out for a Chinese… 05/06/07
Jun 5, 2007: Explaining Volcanicity About a year ago, Jo (my sister-in-law) had scribbled "explain volcanicity" in her big book of lists as one of her objectives for 2007 in her job. …
Jun 1, 2007: Vox Hunt: Villainous Video: Show us your favorite TV or movie villain. Submitted by Felipe Anuel. Alan-Rickman---Robin-Hood-Photograph-C10103069 Alan Rickman as the …
Jun 1, 2007: QotD: I Turn My Camera On Rebel1What kind of camera(s) do you own? Most of my photography is done with a Canon EOS 300D, which I believe is known as the Digital Rebel in the …
May 30, 2007: Who's That Spoiler? Jack's Back Preview clip of Captain Jack returning to Doctor Who: Doctor Who - Utopia! Clip ( Captain Jacks Return )
May 29, 2007: The Secret of Fox The Simpsons - Fox News and the Liberal Media
May 24, 2007: Commute From Hell The traffic this morning is hell. Locked solid from Beckenham onwards, I've spent more time checking email on my phone than driving. Commute From Hell …
May 24, 2007: Spot the car At Gatwick. Looking for the car in the car park. Note to self: it's the one covered in Cornish mud… Spot the car
May 22, 2007: Suffolk again Start the day in Suffolk - finish it in Dublin… Suffolk again
May 11, 2007: QotD: Search Me How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.) Submitted by Matt Blank. GoogleMe Pretty well, thank you. Mind you, I …
May 8, 2007: Alanis and Her Humps Alanis Moristette covers "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas in her traditional style: Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video Genius.
May 7, 2007: Singing Hexadecimal It's interesting that the biggest tech story of the week in some quarters has been a string of hexadecimal numbers: Digg the Code _ GeekBrief.TV …
May 6, 2007: Birthday Beads It's Rev Stan's birthday! Birthday Beads
May 4, 2007: Video share fair in progress Video share fair in progress
May 4, 2007: Oops Heading back to London but stuck in a M25 nightmare. Oops
May 2, 2007: When Snow Comes to London Some footage I shot back in February but have only just got around to editing: Snow!
Apr 30, 2007: QotD: I Should Make A List What do you always forget to pack? Submitted by quornflour. Cufflinks. I habitually wear double-cuffed shirts for work functions (and anything …
Apr 29, 2007: New Wurzels Release Oh, yes. It's on iTunes, too.
Apr 29, 2007: QotD: What Blogging Means What are the positive and negative associations that you and those around you have with blogging? Have attitudes changed over time? Ah, good …
Apr 26, 2007: A new start So, another blog from me. Why? Well, because One Man & His Blog, which used to be a general interest blog, has evolved into a blog specifically about …
Apr 26, 2007: Vox Hunt: It Came From The 70's Audio: It's 70's music Wednesday. 01 Combine HarvesterThe Wurzels Proof that anything could hit the charts in the 70s…
Apr 25, 2007: Vox Hunt: Here's Some Stuff Show us a pile of stuff. Submitted by The Eugene. A pile of stuff
Apr 24, 2007: Fields of rape Suffolk is yellow this time of year Fields of rape (Although, now I see this from my desk, I can see how lousy colour reproductiosn is from my mobile …
Apr 24, 2007: Gilbert & Sullivan's Baby Got Back Baby Got Back - Gilbert and Sullivan Style
Apr 24, 2007: Respect My Authoritaaaah! Respectmyauthoritah Convincingly broke the Technorati top 40,000 blogs with my main blog this morning. 30,000 here I come!
Apr 24, 2007: All together now: Wince! clipped from news.bbc.co.ukMan cuts off penis in restaurant A man cut off his penis with a knife in a packed London restaurant. Police were forced to …
Apr 22, 2007: Checking Out The tattered remains of a wedding… Checking Out
Apr 21, 2007: Lewisham blogging drinks Lewisham blogging drinks
Apr 20, 2007: New haircut time again What do you think? New haircut time again
Apr 20, 2007: Still They Come! General Waste
Apr 20, 2007: St George A statue at St George's Hospital, created by one of the staff. St George
Apr 19, 2007: Sinister Bins First Andrew captured them massing. Now they ATTACK Is there no escape for any of us? 19/04/0719/04/07
Apr 19, 2007: Sun over Lewisham Station Of course, if I hadn't been commuting by train, I'd have missed this quality of light: Low Sun over Lewisham
Apr 19, 2007: Commute On the train today. It reminds me of how lucky I am to drive most days. Commute
Apr 17, 2007: 10 Ways to know a WoW Addict I'm only guilty of a few of these... clipped from www.www.wowinsider.comTop 10 ways to know you play too much World of Warcraft:10. You try to book a …
Apr 13, 2007: Tea at the Crazy Bear Tea at the Crazy Bear
Apr 12, 2007: My Brother Runs... http://www.justgiving.com/rss/getfundraisingPage2.asp?EventGivingGroupId=722891 As some of you know, I lost my father to cancer five years ago, and …
Apr 11, 2007: Vox Hunt: Is For The Birds Show us some birds. Snapped this little fella grabbing a bite while I was in New York: Bird in Washington Square Park And spotted this chap a couple …
Apr 11, 2007: Rooftop car work Just refilling the screen wash, but it looked impressive with the car all alone on the top floor of the carpark. Rooftop car work
Apr 10, 2007: Exciting Times chez Tinworth Oh, at least, if you're interested in gardening: Fun with a rake Bear having a break For today was the first day we actually got out into the garden …
Apr 8, 2007: Messin' With Mark's MacBook MyPicture
Apr 7, 2007: Bank Holiday Begins Today has been an unexpectedly quiet day. We dragged Nicola back here in the early hours of the morning and let her sleep off her birthday excesses. I …
Apr 6, 2007: In Trafalgar Square Sitting with a drunk friend. Nice view. In Trafalgar Square
Apr 5, 2007: Karl: style guru Karl: style guru
Apr 5, 2007: Leaving Do Leaving Do
Apr 5, 2007: Good Weather Ahead Despite Piers' concerns: Easter Bank Holiday Good times ahead!
Apr 4, 2007: Liveblogging is thirsty work Liveblogging is thirsty work Lloyd Davis of Perfect Path taking a Liveblogging break.
Apr 4, 2007: At Blogging4Business But where is the wireless? At Blogging4Business
Apr 1, 2007: Sunday afternoon in the back garden Sunday afternoon in the back garden
Mar 30, 2007: Who's that (MySpace) Girl? Martha MySpace Martha Jones, the new companion being introduced in the third series of Doctor Who that starts on Saturday is on MySpace. It's not …
Mar 29, 2007: Analysing 300 Great review and analysis of the film 300. clipped from www.storytellersunplugged.com300 is racist. Anyone who is not Spartan, pure-blooded and …
Mar 29, 2007: Things of which I am ashamed #1 Exalted: Savant and Sorcerer (Exalted) (Exalted)Adam TinworthSome of you may know that I had something of a secondary career writing gaming books for …
Mar 28, 2007: Vox Hunt: Have This, Will Travel Show us something you cannot leave home without. Submitted by Quornflour. My Keys Sorry to be so prosaic, but really, if I left home without those, …
Mar 28, 2007: David Manners Done Good One of our bloggers is getting quite a lot of attention in the techie blogosphere with this post: clipped from www.electronicsweekly.comWhat are the …
Mar 27, 2007: What Sort Of a Nerd am I? Nicked from Beth:What Be Your Nerd Type?Your Result: Literature Nerd Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you …
Mar 27, 2007: Upgrading My Day Oh, yeah, nearly forgot, BA gave me an impromptu upgrade to business class on a very quiet flight out this evening. I feel well pleased with today. It …
Mar 27, 2007: Report from Our Man in Dublin So, I'm in my Dublin hotel, and it's rather nice: But the very best bit is this: 26032007240 Yup, an in-room iPod dock/speaker system. Class. The …
Mar 26, 2007: Today Jet lag is kicking my arse. And now I have to fly to Ireland. That is all.
Mar 25, 2007: Droid Mail Just for Anthony: R2-UPS It was right outside the Apple Store on 5th Avenue.
Mar 25, 2007: Back Good flight back. Shame that the time difference means that I've lost the whole day travelling. Back
Mar 24, 2007: Apple Store, 5th Avenue Because I can't get enough of Apple product or beautiful glass-based urban design. Apple Store 5th Avenue
Mar 23, 2007: Keeping Busy Last night: dinner with Six Apart folks Today: Blogher Blogher Business Keeping myself out of trouble…
Mar 22, 2007: I've Heard of Roach Motels but… This is on the same street as my hotel: New York's special services
Mar 22, 2007: Just for Karl… Shop on 25th Street
Mar 22, 2007: Presentation: Done David Jacobs talks I survived. I got up in front of a audience of maybe 60 or 70 people, talked about what we're doing with blogging in RBI for half …
Mar 20, 2007: The City That Never Sleeps 20032007218 So, I'm safely here in New York and, after a 22 hour day yesterday, I'm feeling pretty good. 8 hours sleep and a good breakfast has me on …
Mar 17, 2007: Mark's Active Saturday Just lazing around at my brother's place. Mark's Active Saturday
Mar 16, 2007: Balmy Sutton Days Balmy Sutton Days Today, I finally took an hour out of the office. Not because I wanted to, mind, just because I needed to. And my, the weather's …
Mar 16, 2007: That video again... Testing the new (but in beta) embed functionality in Vox:[vimeo www.vimeo.com/154598 w=400&h=300] Wii Work Hard Here on Vimeo
Mar 16, 2007: Another Busy Afternoon in Business Development Anthony, Andrew and Piers cracking on with the serious stuff: Wii Movie
Mar 15, 2007: Vox Hunt: It Takes Two Audio: Share a great duet. kylie & kermit!Especially for you, my Vox readers. An Aussie. And a frog.
Mar 14, 2007: Coffee update Had coffee. Even the video below hasn't dented my improved mood: Travel Weekly does Wham! for Comic Relief
Mar 13, 2007: Office Departure Time: 18:55 Today, it's 25 minutes later than my self-imposed deadline. I will get better at this, oh yes.
Mar 13, 2007: Vox Hunt: This Gets Me Cooking Book: Show us one of your favorite cookbooks. Chinese CookeryKen Hom This is, without doubt, my favourite and most-used cookbook. I have a very …
Mar 13, 2007: Post in lieu of a Lunch Break Sutton from the 13th floor. So, back in sunny Sutton and back at the blogface after my weekend of indolence, and already the effects are beginning to …
Mar 11, 2007: Has Spring Sprung? 11/03/07 Spring is here? I'm taking a brief break from my weekend of indolance to in shopping for food. And my, isn't it mild? Spring is in the air. …
Mar 11, 2007: Mum & Dad - Spanish Beach 1963 Another one from the growing digital archives Mum & Dad in Spain, 1963
Mar 10, 2007: Climbing the RSS mountain Feeds A couple of weeks back, Karl was complaining about hitting 1,000 unread posts in his RSS readers. As of 9am this morning, this is my unread …
Mar 9, 2007: Human Beatbox in the Kitchen Last one for now, as e-mailed around by Karl: Kitchen diaries
Mar 9, 2007: Vox Hunt: I Miss This Show Video: Show us a clip of a TV show you miss. The Goodies - How to Make Babies by Doing Dirty ThingsGoodies! Goodie, Goodie, Yum, Yum! These three …
Mar 9, 2007: Beware The Baby Panda! Stolen without shame from Jay Allen: Sneezing Panda
Mar 9, 2007: Torn - mimed This came up on the Ravens GuildChat list earlier (which is pretty off-topic for a World of Warcraft guild, but there you go…) and I just couldn't …
Mar 9, 2007: Touched by a Mole You have to wait for the mole, but it's almost worth it… Touched By A Mole - RBI / Kellysearch Customer Care
Mar 8, 2007: QotD: MmmCookies Did you order Girl Scout cookies this year? What kind? Y'know, one day Vox is going to realise that it's an international service... They're called …
Mar 5, 2007: Vox Hunt: Candlelit Show us a candle burning. Candles
Mar 4, 2007: Back to the 50s Here's an even earlier pic: my Dad (far right) with his National Service buddies serving in Suez… Dad in Suez
Mar 3, 2007: QotD: Totally Obsessed What is your current obsession(s)? Submitted by eijsr. Currently, getting some sleep. I seem to be in a semi-perpetual state of sleep deprivation …
Mar 2, 2007: Enter Mechanical March So, March. That's one sixth of the year gone. How the hell did that happen…? Still, moving on, I'm very proud of myself right now. As Lorna will …
Mar 1, 2007: Book Tech Support Another bit of e-mailed video humour, this time from Karl: Introducing the book
Feb 28, 2007: QotD: The Best Blend Office Coffee SupplyWhat's your favorite blend or brand of coffee or tea? Tea-wise, it's jasmine all the way. I find it a wonderful mid-afternoon …
Feb 28, 2007: Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager Michael Targett of Black Sheep e-mailed this around, but it's good enough to share here: Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager (episode 1)
Feb 26, 2007: Vox Hunt: Time To Make The Donuts Show us how your work week begins. Monday, monday Inspiring, isn't it?
Feb 26, 2007: QotD: First Celebrity Crush Who was your first celebrity crush? Submitted by Glory. Leia Ah, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars, no doubt about it. This is long before …
Feb 26, 2007: QotD: Best Day What is your favorite day of the week? I'm really struggling with this one. Friday would be an obvious choice, but I spend so many Friday nights on …
Feb 26, 2007: The Lords of The North (Bernard Cornwell) The Lords of the NorthBernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell's best-known series, the Sharpe books, have never grabbed me. My brother loves 'em, and my Dad …
Feb 25, 2007: Brief Lives: Newton (Peter Ackroyd) Newton (Brief Lives)Peter Ackroyd I'm not sure why I enjoy Peter Ackroyd's writing as much as I do. It's clearly not polished prose; in fact, his …
Feb 23, 2007: In The Beginning...there were Barenaked Ladies The Barenaked Ladies/YouTube video I blogged a couple of days ago, combined with general video-related noodling here in the office this afternoon …
Feb 23, 2007: Vox Hunt: Yeah, About This Thing... Show us something weird that's on your desk. Submitted by Alex. In the most incredibly tardy Vox Hunt entry ever: </a><br /><div …
Feb 23, 2007: Lunch abstract Lunch abstract
Feb 23, 2007: Good Morning, Vox Cozy space Good morning! For the first time in a fortnight, I feel like I've had a good night's sleep and I'm actually facing the world with a …
Feb 21, 2007: Barenaked YouTube Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies, boosters of Google traffic for bloggers everywhere, have pulled together a video for one of their tracks by …
Feb 21, 2007: Report from Adders Central Tired. Very tired. Too many late nights and long drives over the last week. Productive day at work. Bed beckons. More tomorrow. That is all.
Feb 19, 2007: Mobile Self-portrait Mobile Self-portrait
Feb 16, 2007: Vox Hunt: Set Your DVR Video: Show us a clip from your current favorite TV show. Whoever guessed that Daleks and Cybermen were so bitchy? Doctor Who - Doomsday - Daleks vs …
Feb 16, 2007: QotD: The Best Brew What method do you use to prepare your coffee or tea? Submitted by AgentBouche Coffee (drunk) I'm a cafetière man, personally. Tassimo While I'd …
Feb 16, 2007: QotD: Apple For The Teacher Who was your best (or worst) primary school teacher? Submitted by Minnow. (Question edited for the British market) My best was Mrs Simm, who taught …
Feb 16, 2007: Well, it's nearly Friday Night in Sutton... further to Andrew's post about the Fashion Police arriving in Sutton: Fashion police: dog section I can now report that it's the dog section in …
Feb 14, 2007: Hitting The Headlines (on p29) Just over a week ago, Katie Allen of The Guardian came to visit us here at RBI Towers: And today, the results see print: RBI in The Guardian You can …
Feb 13, 2007: Vox Hunt: It's Like This... Audio: Share a song that reminds you of a current or past relationship. Lou BegaThis is Mambo No. 5! Lorna and I learned to dance Rock'n'Roll to it …
Feb 12, 2007: QotD: Pass Me The Style Section Do you read the Sunday paper? Which one(s)? I alternate between The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer, thereby confusing any watching ninjas …
Feb 12, 2007: What I Did On My Weekend Me in the Huntsman & Hounds Thursday: Drove to Suffolk. Arrived Friday, and half asleep. Don't think I killed anyone. Friday: Drove to Norfolk. …
Feb 6, 2007: Vox Hunt: I'm The VJ Video: Show us a great music video. I've loved this video since it first appeared: gorrilaz feel good incAnd this one is immense "feel good" fun: …
Feb 6, 2007: QotD: Pleasepleaseplease! What was the one toy you wanted as a kid that your parents never bought you? Submitted by Princess of Darkness. Palitoy-speeder-boxed The Palitoy …
Feb 5, 2007: Done It's 2am and the bedroom is done. The carpet fitters arrive in 6 hours… Done
Feb 4, 2007: Balloons at the SCC Balloons at the SCC
Feb 4, 2007: Doctor Who and the French Dalek Another Sci-Fi/Python mashup: Doctor Who and the French Dalek
Feb 3, 2007: This is what we do... Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Feb 2, 2007: Why I hate decorating Most parts of decorating I like. This is what I hate. Why I hate decorating
Feb 2, 2007: Fashion's in the Details Project Catwalk: Ladies Day Sometimes telly is rubbish. Not rubbish in a big, over-arching way, but in a small, missing detail sort of way. Lorna and …
Feb 2, 2007: Symphony in White Symphony in White
Feb 1, 2007: View from the steps Painting again View from the steps
Feb 1, 2007: Game night Game night
Jan 31, 2007: Gates has encountered an error... So, Bill "Kermit the Geek" Gates has been doing the media rounds promoting Windows OSX, or whatever it's called. Unfortunately, things went wrong on …
Jan 29, 2007: DVD review group I've just set up a DVD review group, not unlike Piers' Book Club. Join up and share your reviews at What Should I Watch Tonight? (And please promote …
Jan 29, 2007: DVD night: The Odd Couple Friday night's viewing from our Amazon DVD rental account was this old classic: The Odd Couple [1967] It was one of Lorna's choices, even though she …
Jan 29, 2007: Get a UK Mac Over in the US, Apple has been running the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads for a year or so. Some of them are painfully funny. Now, Apple UK has remade some …
Jan 28, 2007: Up the Junction Quick pub visit after moving duty Up the Junction
Jan 26, 2007: Commenting Geeky Fun Thanks to a discussion in the office yesterday, and a little bit of research, you can now sign-in to comment on my main blog using either your Vox …
Jan 26, 2007: Blog Me Once, Blog Me Twice Here's a little experiment. I hope it will solve a little problem. You see, my number of blogs has been proliferating rather stupidly of late, but …
Jan 26, 2007: Traffic. Again Spent too much time like this over the last week Traffic. Again
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Jan 25, 2007: QotD: Take That, Writer's Block! How do you beat writer's block? Submitted by marvel is my pen name. Generally, I find I need three things: A pressing deadlineToo much coffeeSleep …
Jan 25, 2007: Vox Hunt: Rocked My World Audio: Show us cover art or share a track from the first band or solo artist you flipped for. Submitted by Red Pen. Bridge of SpiesT'pau So 80s it …
Jan 24, 2007: Life on Mars series two is on its way... Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green And that's a great piece of viral video…
Jan 24, 2007: Traffic terrible But the views make up for it Traffic terrible
Jan 24, 2007: The snow doth fall... The snow doth fall...
Jan 23, 2007: Girl with a one track deal While killing time before a meeting, I spotted this. A reminder of where popular blogs can lead Girl with a one track deal
Jan 22, 2007: At least the living room looks good At least the living room looks good
Jan 22, 2007: David, Pat and Lorna At the Shaftesbury today David, Pat and Lorna
Jan 21, 2007: This is our kitchen right now Things are getting a bit strange as we decorate the bedroom. This is our kitchen right now
Jan 20, 2007: Silent Star Wars Silent Star Wars
Jan 19, 2007: Storm Damage Signs down in Sutton Storm Damage
Jan 19, 2007: QotD: Your Cheatin' Heart Have you ever been cheated on? Ever cheated? Submitted by Joe. Technically, I've never been cheated on (that I'm aware of at least). However, I did …
Jan 18, 2007: Vox Hunt: It Better Be Good What's the first image that comes up when you Google your name? Adamtinworth Well, it's me. It's the pic that was taken for my editor's comment in …
Jan 18, 2007: The Wind Blows Storms lashing the UK again: Trees from the Sutton car park I've just had my second miserable commute into work in as many days. Yesterday it was …
Jan 18, 2007: Dartmouth by Night Dartmouth Harbour by Night Gratuitous pretty shot from New Year. And yes, Rev Stan and nadia, I'll have the rest of the pics up by the end of the …
Jan 17, 2007: QotD: It Was Kismet How did you meet your current, or most recent, significant other? I met her at the front door of a flat she shared with nicola in New Cross. My …
Jan 17, 2007: QotD: Forward My Mail In which fictional world/universe/land/city would you most like to live? Submitted by glenn is the new chuck. None of them. Why? Well, think about …
Jan 17, 2007: Group Hug! So... While I've been insanely busy getting corporate blogging going, Vox got around to launching their groups feature. And very interesting it is, …
Jan 15, 2007: Two great geek flavours that taste better together... Python's Camelot interlude, by Kirk and crew Very, very silly.
Jan 15, 2007: Alive Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I'm back at work. More when things get quieter again.
Jan 11, 2007: Sick. Sick as a dog. I am feeling exceptionally sorry for myself this morning. I'm curled up in bed with every duvet and blanket I can find on top of me, because I just …
Jan 5, 2007: Who's that Girl? Because I'm a sad geek, this pleases me immensely: Martha & The Doctor Roll on series 3!
Jan 4, 2007: Wet, Wild & Walking So, I'm not long back from Devon, where we were staying as guests of Rev Stan and Mosh, and am now busy working through my photos. The really juicy …
Jan 3, 2007: From the iPod #1 Songs of Distant EarthMike Oldfield Today's stress-reduction listening is Mike Oldfield's Songs of Distant Earth. This is one of my earliest CDs, …
Jan 3, 2007: Back at the Coal Face Ruined Coffee Cup After an entertaining 20 minutes prising my wife out of bed with a crowbar this morning (she wanted to be up at a reasonable hour …
Jan 2, 2007: Break for lunch The long slog home has not proved too bad so far. Finally found an open pub for a spot of lunch. Break for lunch
Jan 2, 2007: A room at Moonrakers 02/01/07
Jan 1, 2007: Coffee time Coffee time
Jan 1, 2007: Happy New Year New Year can be such a drag… Happy New Year More pics to follow in a day or so.
Dec 31, 2006: Stan in Salcombe Stan in Salcombe
Dec 29, 2006: Mum's new haircut Mum's new haircut
Dec 25, 2006: Books, Glorious Books This year's literary haul from my family: Reviews to follow as I work my way through them.
Dec 24, 2006: Vox Hunt: Great Giftwrapping Show us some great giftwrapping. The Pressie Pile
Dec 22, 2006: Worst day of fog yet Worst day of fog yet
Dec 22, 2006: Complete Babes… Oxfam Mastercard You're Gorgeous Christmas ad
Dec 22, 2006: Getting Down and Dirty with Natalie For all the gentlemen of Business Development who expressed their admiration of Miss Natalie Portman at our Christmas Lunch: Natalie Portman Gangsta …
Dec 22, 2006: QotD: One Lump or Two? How do you take your tea or coffee? Submitted by Vasquez. I take my coffee as dark as night and as bitter as the heart of a woman scorned. I take my …
Dec 21, 2006: Foggy commute Foggy commute
Dec 21, 2006: Foggy Lewisham Foggy Lewisham
Dec 21, 2006: Foggy Sutton (night edition) Foggy Sutton (night edition)
Dec 20, 2006: When D&D Goes Bad I was forced to steal this from MainMor, due to extreme hilarity. This will mean nothing, if you didn't have a geeky childhood: Reno911 clip… D&D …
Dec 20, 2006: Work Christmas Lunch The Business Development Christmas Lunch Clink on the ones below to see three secret santa gifts being opened:
Dec 20, 2006: The Six Apart Holiday Movie Six Apart Holiday Movie 2006
Dec 20, 2006: Foggy Sutton Foggy Sutton
Dec 14, 2006: British Martial Arts Training British Fight School
Dec 13, 2006: On the Eurostar I seem to be surrounded by sleepy French women on today's journey. On the Eurostar
Dec 13, 2006: Le Web 3. C'est fini… The conference is done. I'm pretty much done. Just staggered up from the bar , where I was drinking with Ross Mayfield of SocialText, Hugh MacLeod of …
Dec 11, 2006: Blogging from Le Web 3 11122006005 I'm blogging the Le Web 3 confrenece in France, over on my other blog.
Dec 9, 2006: Vox Hunt: 'Tis the Season Show us something seasonal. The Festive Queue Nothing says the Christmas season like massive queues at the Post Office.
Dec 8, 2006: Testing video uploads Behold! The spider hand! Testing video uploads
Dec 8, 2006: Test post from Vox Mobile I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a handy-dandy Vox posting client for your mobile phone called, wait for it, Vox Mobile. And I'm playing …
Dec 8, 2006: The QEII Bridge Another image from my sloooow journey yesterday. 07/12/06
Dec 7, 2006: Pondering I'm wondering if the bridge is shut because of the high winds...
Dec 7, 2006: Stuck on the M25 This is taking too long. Stuck on the M25
Dec 6, 2006: Voxy Stuff and Family Stuff Oooh. New look Vox... Some nice new features, including the ability to import posts from other systems and media from its existing url. That should be …
Dec 4, 2006: QotD: This Song Makes Me Festive Break Like the WindSpinal TapWhat song gives you the most holiday cheer? Submitted by Roxy. Christmas With The Devil, which I first heard on Spinal …
Nov 24, 2006: QotD: Holiday Shopping When do you start your holiday shopping? Submitted by Murphy. As late as humanly possible. I'm a bit rubbish at this sort of thing, and tend to …
Nov 24, 2006: QotD: Tasty Thanksgiving Treat What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? Submitted by Brennan. Thanksgiving? Bloody Americans.
Nov 24, 2006: Cheering up a grumpy Friday... Sweet Tired Cat
Nov 24, 2006: Open mouse Grabbed on my phone. Open mouse
Nov 23, 2006: QotD: Childhood Frights What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now? Submitted by navelgazer. Tron [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) There was a single scene in …
Nov 22, 2006: QotD: Heartbreaker What's your favorite heartbreak song? Submitted by esta86. Here's Where the Story EndsTin Tin Out I Quit My favourite is probably Here's Where the …
Nov 20, 2006: The Car Takes a Hit This is what some charmer did to my car overnight: Wing clipped? Thanks. Oh, and thanks for not leaving your insurance details.
Nov 17, 2006: Eva Green's Premiere Style Eva Green 2 Talking of Casino Royale, did anyone see the Premiere pictures from early in the week? Eva Green, who plays the love interest in the …
Nov 16, 2006: Off to the pictures... Off to see Casino Royale tonight. I'm more excited about this than any Bond film I've seen in years. 007 James Bond - Casino Royale Trailer
Nov 16, 2006: Back in LJ land (sorta) You may have noticed that my Livejournal posts have dropped to almost nothing since Vox launched. I'm finding posting there a more satisfying …
Nov 16, 2006: QotD: I Rock The Mic What song makes you rock the karaoke mic? Submitted by Ann. No song does that. I last did karaoke about 14 years ago, and am in no hurry to do it …
Nov 15, 2006: Mum at Sutton Hoo. Mum has wanted to go to Sutton Hoo for years. On Sunday we finally went. More pics to follow… Mum at Sutton Hoo.
Nov 15, 2006: The photographer at work The photographer at work
Nov 15, 2006: How to tell you're in the countryside... The only business mag in the local supermarket is Farmer's Weekly. How to tell you're in the countryside...
Nov 10, 2006: The RBI Brighton Experience We had our annual Editors Conference in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping to pull together some video of the event, but I had precious …
Nov 9, 2006: QotD: OS Preference Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why? Submitted by ramblingsbymark. I'm pretty much a Mac man and it's pretty much because they're …
Nov 9, 2006: QotD: My Dream Career What's your dream career? Submitted by Something. Oh, probably as a multi-media reporter given the freedom to travel, and cover stories with words, …
Nov 9, 2006: QotD: They Play My Jams What's your favorite radio station, past or present? Rather sadly, I'm pretty much a Radio 4 man these days, althought I have had period swhere Radio …
Nov 3, 2006: QotD: My Vox Name How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? Submitted by LeendaDLL. Uh, well, Adam is my first name, so… Actually, I was just …
Oct 31, 2006: QotD: Ghost Story Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen a ghost? Submitted by Nancy. In the sense of "restless spirits of the dead still walking the world", …
Oct 31, 2006: When pigeons attack I was walking through Trafalgar Square earlier when this happened. Wasn't Ken meant to be getting rid of them? When pigeons attack
Oct 27, 2006: Friday Afternoon Fun WoW The internet is for PornSong from Avenue Q, graphics from World of Warcraft.
Oct 27, 2006: This is work, honest So, I've been testing a new phone with digital camera for work purposes. Here's some pictures of the merry Business Development gang: And here's a …
Oct 26, 2006: QotD: What I Love About Vox In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox? I just love the ability to pluck media into Vox from other sources: …
Oct 24, 2006: QotD: All My Computers How many computers do you have in your house? Submitted by Foomper. Usually, just two: the iMac and the iBook. Currently we have an old Performa …
Oct 22, 2006: Just a quick tipple Something I spotted on the way into the office the other day: Sutton's little problem…
Oct 22, 2006: QotD: Weekend Plans What are your plans for the weekend? I'm spending time with Mum before her operation on Tuesday.
Oct 19, 2006: QotD: My First Kiss Tell us about your first kiss. Who was it with? How old were you? I was a late starter with girls. I was 19, and it was with an American girl …
Oct 17, 2006: QotD: How To Kick A Cold What do you do to get rid of a cold or flu? Submitted by ashenflowers. Stay in bed, drink plenty of fluids, and then knock yourself unconcious with …
Oct 17, 2006: Torchwood -5 Five days until this: Torchwood - First proper trailerTorchwoodExcited? Me?
Oct 14, 2006: What the Adders has been doing So, what have I been working on, that's keeping me so quiet? Well, as of tomorrow, HJi will be live, with a blog. For hairdressers. And I get to spend …
Oct 9, 2006: QotD: My Favorite Sense Which of your five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, or smell) do you value the most? Submitted by Elisheva. Probably sight. I'm an intensely …
Oct 7, 2006: Vox Hunt: Can't Live Without Show us something you can't live without. Submitted by awkwardidity. Bear in a boat While I hate to be cliched, the only thing I genuinely couldn't …
Oct 6, 2006: QotD: The Day I Met My BFF(s) How did you meet your best friend(s)? The best friends I have are either people I used to hang out with at university, or people I've met through …
Oct 3, 2006: Vox Hunt: Counting The Days Show us your desk or wall calendar. My calendar at work Sorry about the incorrect rotation. Flickr's playing silly buggers tonight and not letting me …
Oct 2, 2006: QotD: Strike Up The Band Do you play any musical instruments? </p></blockquote><p> I can still play a handful of bars of the Skye Boat Song on a recorder. And, uh, that's …
Sep 28, 2006: QotD: All My Pets How many pets have you owned in your lifetime? Tell us about them. Submitted by jennajellopy.vox.com. I've not been much of a pet owner. My parents …
Sep 25, 2006: Vox Hunt: Things To Do Show us your to-do list. Today's ToDo Not very informative, I'll grant you…
Sep 25, 2006: QotD: Set Your DVR What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why? Submitted by ducnly.vox.com. Well, I throughly enjoyed the start of the BBC's adaptation of …
Sep 25, 2006: One from the archives… Here's a movie I found while tidying up my iMac. It's from one of Rev Stan's parties in 2004: Party Battle
Sep 25, 2006: QotD: Reach Out Is there a friend who you owe a phonecall or email? What's stopping you? Well, I owe one to Rev Stan, but then, I'm just about to pick up the phone …
Sep 23, 2006: Phone Video Test La Taupanne's Drive The video quality from my mobile phone is not great…
Sep 22, 2006: QotD: I'm Crafty What's the last thing you crafted, constructed or created yourself? Most of the things I create are not really "crafty" - I've made DVDs of a …
Sep 20, 2006: Bird song I really don't stop and listen to bird song often enough. I should do more of that.
Sep 18, 2006: QotD: Let's Go There SalcombeWhat's your favorite vacation destination? I've not often visited the same area twice, but the West Country is rapidly becoming a favourite, …
Sep 18, 2006: Revising My Opinions of Conventions X-23 Y'know, I always associated costumes at conventions with overweight, middle-aged men in deeply, deeply inappropriate costumes. And then I find …
Sep 16, 2006: QotD: Collector's Item What do you collect? I don't really collect anything any more. I've been through phases of trying to collect things, but I always find the process of …
Sep 15, 2006: Remember Jigsaw? UK kids' TV got very strange during the 1980s. Very strange indeed: Noseybonk
Sep 14, 2006: QotD: Speak To Me In... How many languages can you speak? Which languages can you read or understand? Only English (it being my native language and all…) and a smattering …
Sep 11, 2006: Vox Hunt: Tastes great Show us something that tastes great. From the QH Starbuck's Mmm. Afternoon break.
Sep 11, 2006: QotD: I Get Around How many places have you lived in your life? I've called 12 places "home" 2 houses in Manchester2 houses in Scotland2 student halls3 student-era flat …
Sep 10, 2006: Scenes from Bristol's Open Doors It's an in-laws weekend, with Lorna and I down in Bristol visiting my mother-in-law and brother-in-law, Jesse. It's also the Bristol Open Doors …
Sep 7, 2006: QotD: Middle Name What's your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it? I have two: Matthew John. The first is what my parents were originally going to call …
Sep 5, 2006: Stingray involvement… Apologies to anyone easily offended: BBC News questions Stingray
Sep 3, 2006: QotD: Three-Day Weekend! What are your plans for the holiday weekend? Dear Voxters, The wonderful thing about the internet is that it lack boundaries. It is, in a ward, …
Sep 2, 2006: QotD: Less Stress, Please What is your favorite way to relieve stress? Ravens in Maraudon Quite honestly, I think I unwind most by playing World of Warcraft. DVD-watching is …
Aug 29, 2006: QotD: Home Sweet Home What is your browser's default home page set to? Submitted by Kelev T. Cat. It's set to the Vox homepage, so I can answer the question of the day, …
Aug 28, 2006: A Handy Weekend The finer points of gardening Tonight feels odd. It's the end of the weekend, but not the Bank Holiday Weekend. I've got tomorrow off, but Lorna …
Aug 28, 2006: QotD: I'm reading (or about to read)... What books are on your nightstand? Bit of a mixed bag at the moment. The first two are books extracted from my massive "to be read" pile. The …
Aug 25, 2006: QotD: I Just Made That Up Remember sniglets? Do you have any favorites? Have you ever made up your own word? (Now's as good a time as any.) OK, this is probably not …
Aug 24, 2006: Vox Hunt: That Rules Show us some rules. Bombthreat This is a pretty standard set of bomb threat rules, which I suspect date from the IRA era. Today's terrorists don't …
Aug 24, 2006: Today's Productivity Destroyer Absolutely no thanks at all to AndyB for sending me this and thus costing RBI 10 minutes of my valuable time: Robot Chicken - Junk in the Trunk …
Aug 24, 2006: I'm such a nerd because... What's the nerdiest thing about you? Lucifer's Shadow: Tales of Fallen AngelsMichael Lee, Adam Tinworth, Greg Stolze Werewolf: the Forsaken Demon: …
Aug 23, 2006: QotD: Teacher's Pet What was (or is) your favorite subject in school? Oh, thank you for this. This is one of those questions that makes everyboy hate me. You see, I …
Aug 20, 2006: QotD: Here Comes The Bride What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding? The last wedding we went to was Adam & Clair Rochester's wedding about a month ago. …
Aug 20, 2006: Back We're back in the Uk. Horrible journey. More later.
Aug 14, 2006: Long lunch So, here I am, sat with the family, having lunch in a French restaurant. It was worth driving through the torrential rain yesterday.
Aug 13, 2006: and we are off Tunnel time! Image(004).jpg
Aug 13, 2006: QotD: My Intro to the Big Screen What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater? Question submitted by mainmor. Bambi (Disney Special Platinum Edition) It was …
Aug 13, 2006: Not There Yet La Taupanne in the trees and fields I should be in the house in the picture above tonight, but thanks to having our flights cancelled from under us, …
Aug 13, 2006: The Snip I've not had a lot of luck with haircuts of late. The place I'd been going for half a decade closed down earlier the year, the place I tried in …
Aug 12, 2006: Planes, Trains and Automobiles At 3.30pm today, I am due to be taking off for Poitiers. This will not be happening. The flight was cancelled, thanks to the current situation, and …
Aug 10, 2006: One day, I'll fly away So, I'm due to fly to France on Saturday. Ah ha. Ha ha. Ha. Ha. Bugger. I wonder how much the ferries cost.
Aug 10, 2006: From 'umble acorns For those in need of a laugh: Young, young adders
Aug 10, 2006: QotD: Baby Love How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics! Adam-playing-dress-up
Aug 4, 2006: QotD: Reality TV Star If you could be on any reality TV show, which one would you pick and why? I wouldn't. I really, really wouldn't.
Aug 3, 2006: QotD: Desktop Show and Tell What is your current computer desktop image? Let's see it! I like my desktop images fairly plain and uncluttered. I often have Apple's own images …
Aug 2, 2006: Weekend Movies Memoirs of a Geisha Jarhead (Widescreen Edition) I got the chance to watch a couple of movies over the weekend. Jarhead, directed by Sam Mendes, was a …
Aug 2, 2006: QotD: Can you hear me now? What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it? It's one of the deafult Nokia ones that came with the phone. It sounds much like an old …
Jul 31, 2006: Sir Bob entertains My friend alan is here on Vox. He's a musician who plays in Bob Geldof's band. He's posted a couple of YouTube videos of performances on his blog …
Jul 31, 2006: QotD: You've got to blog! If you could get someone in your life to start a blog, who would it be and why? All three people I'd really like to get blogging are already signed …
Jul 27, 2006: QotD: Your fantasy restaurant If you could open any sort of restaurant, what would it be like? The Huntsman & Hounds I have a small, quiet desire to run a food-led country pub. My …
Jul 27, 2006: QotD: I wish I could... Play any instrument or speak any language, which do you choose? Question submitted by cruftbox.vox.com. Honest answer: if I really wanted to learn a …
Jul 25, 2006: QotD: Back where I'm from... Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional words that set you apart? Question submitted by Gladys. "Coke" or "fizzy drinks" or, more …
Jul 24, 2006: QotD: It's hot in here... What's the most extreme weather you've been in? A memorable storm? Heat wave? Or something else? Some years ago - maybe 18 - I was walking with …
Jul 22, 2006: BBQ night begins The BBQ, alight
Jul 22, 2006: QotD: Shaken not stirred What's your favorite drink or cocktail? What's in it? Question submitted by charm.vox.com Whisky. With nothing in it. Ok, I might be prepared to put …
Jul 21, 2006: QotD: Midway Through What's one thing that you hope to do or accomplish before the end of this year? Finish redeveloping the flat, sell it and be living outside the M25 …
Jul 21, 2006: Where I'm Spending The Day Wotton House, near Dorking Work is hell, sometimes.
Jul 20, 2006: Human Space Invaders Human Space Invaders
Jul 20, 2006: Science and Faith I don't often blog about my faith any more, but with all the hoo-hah about Bush and stem cells, I would just like to repeat a quote I think is central …
Jul 20, 2006: Bit Warm Hot today! As I was driving to Heathrow last night to pick up a couple of friends, my car indicated that the temperature had hit 36°C. Ouch. The …
Jul 20, 2006: QotD: Celebrational Muppetational! Who is your favorite Muppet? Why? QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com. Kermit the Frog It has to be Kermit the Frog. Waaaay back in the early 90s, …
Jul 18, 2006: Away from the centre Sutton Post Office It's the little, subtle things that tell you that you've moved away from the centre of London. Today, for example, I popped to …
Jul 18, 2006: Join Vox (part deux) I've just received an invitation to join Vox. It must be from when I signed up as "interested" months ago. Heh.
Jul 17, 2006: QotD: Weekend Wrap-Up What did you do this weekend? That was one busy weekend. Friday night saw us doing some frantic flat-tidying, before we headed to Mum's place in …
Jul 16, 2006: Name in Place That's My Name! The hand-painted place-setting at the wedding.
Jul 16, 2006: Last Night, Party Night A brief bit of video from last night's wedding reception: Dancing at Adam & Clair's wedding
Jul 12, 2006: Qotd: Have a Question? We're going meta today: What questions would you'd like to see become QoTDs? This is slightly random, but I'd like to see more picture challenges, …
Jul 12, 2006: Desk clearing (still) in progress Quill & Inkwell 1 Another busy day's desk clearing at EG today. One more day, and I should be free to take up residence at RBI central full time. …
Jul 10, 2006: the 80's live on 10072006.jpg
Jul 10, 2006: You've been playing too much WoW when... I popped into Procter Street this afternoon to sort through some stuff, and found a letter from a firm called UBS. My mind immediatly read that as …
Jul 10, 2006: QotD: Dream a little Dream What's the most recent vivid dream or nightmare that you remember? Most of the most vivid dreams I've had have been, uh, rude. And I forget my …
Jul 10, 2006: One weekend, one man, one woman, many paintbrushes Decorating the hall As my father might have said, tonight, I have wanker's cramp. Not, you understand, for the activities the name suggests. No, it's …
Jul 8, 2006: Digital Photo Relics What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it! Happy Mum I dug through iPhoto, and this is the …
Jul 7, 2006: Friday end of play I'm heading home this evening with a to-do list as long as your arm. The remarkable thing is that I'm looking forward to every single task on the …
Jul 7, 2006: New View This is the view from my new office: View from the 8th floor
Jul 7, 2006: Commuting Candid Commute - Thursday night
Jul 6, 2006: Starting Again New challenges, a new location and at least six months to make something of blogging within this publisher. Woohoo!
Jul 6, 2006: Watching the match Folks from my church watching the end of the Portugal vrs France game on my iBook. Thanks, BBC!
Jul 6, 2006: QotD: Brush with Celebrity About a decade ago, I was a restaurant journalist, working for a now defunct magazine. During the couple of years I worked there I had the opportunity …
Jul 4, 2006: New for Who: new companion announced New companion announced
Jul 3, 2006: Rubber goldfish have feelings too Making good use of promotional tat in the office
Jul 3, 2006: Best. Fireworks. Ever. I suspect that memory cheats with fireworks. Objectively speaking, the year 2000 fireworks over the Thames was probably the most impressive display …
Jul 3, 2006: Winding Down at EG It's been something of a strange day here at EG towers. The business of the magazine is going on all around me, but I'm seperate from it. I'm busy …
Jul 3, 2006: Anatomy of a Weekend Friday night was Conspiracy of Ravens night (that's Friday night, ellefurtle), a gathering of our WoW guild. I lured lornabear along under false …
Jul 3, 2006: It's too damn hot I am clearly a warm-blooded adders, as all this hot weather is not making me happy. Or letting me sleep. Grrr.
Jul 2, 2006: The stream at Wotten House Oh, to have something like this in the garden: The Stream
Jul 2, 2006: Sainsbury's Stripes Silly phone grab while out shopping 02072006.jpg
Jul 1, 2006: Beware: Doctor in Distress Who Cares - Doctor In DistressWarning: here be the worst of the 80s. This is a music video calling for the return of Dr Who after it was put on …
Jun 30, 2006: More quarters please... World Of Warcraft The Roleplaying Game (Warcraft) The only video games that stick in my mind from my childhood were The Hobbit and Stargate, on the …
Jun 28, 2006: Number one with a bullet When I was born, Rod Stewart's Maggie May was Top of the Pops (ho ho). It's a pretty good song, and certainly beats the Slade track that replaced it …
Jun 26, 2006: Weekend Plans This weekend, I went to sell books at a charity fund-raising event in Suffolk. I spent Sunday browsing a food fair. More on my other blog.
Jun 24, 2006: Commute Train, Friday night.jpg
Jun 23, 2006: Something afoot at mansion house 23062006.jpg
Jun 20, 2006: The soundtrack to my life In all likelyhood an odd, unpredictable selection of mainly mainstream stuff, that would all clash really badly with each other and make the …
Jun 20, 2006: My desk, Monday afternoon My desk.jpg
Jun 18, 2006: Mother-in-law
Jun 18, 2006: Duck! Test! A quick test of Vox's new Flickr intergration.
Jun 18, 2006: My weekend plans... This weekend, I shall mainly be painting the kitchen, doing some writing and generally tidying up the flat. I'm so dynamic.
Jun 18, 2006: Over the bridge A quick movie, captured on my camera on London’s Millennium Bridge last Thursday.
Jun 16, 2006: From my walk home St Paul's.jpg
Jun 15, 2006: In my head tonight ManeaterNelly Furtado Seriously stuck in my head right now.
Jun 15, 2006: World cup in the office Watching England Play
Jun 15, 2006: England vrs Trinidad & Tobago My brother's showing off by texting me this picture from the match… Live from the Franken-Stadion
Jun 15, 2006: Review: A Hunger Like Fire A Hunger Like Fire (Vampire the Requiem)Greg Stolze I finally got around to reading this book over the weekend. In common with so many books I own, …
Jun 15, 2006: Piers One of my fellow hacks.
Jun 15, 2006: Vox Off Finally, my login problems have been solved and, I discover, not only can I login, but I can now post. How very exciting. The posting interface is …
Aug 13, 2002: Animation Corner A stupid, yet fun, cartoon for anyone who has ever used AOL or been called by a parent about a computer problem: Dad vrs AOL
Aug 12, 2002: Duck Some people have asked if the “rubber duck” mentioned in my description of my stay in Edinburgh was, in fact, a real rubber duck. Some even suggested …
Aug 8, 2002: Conclusion My trip is all but done. I’m sat in the departures lounge of Edinburgh airport, enjoying a nice, chilled Diet Coke and preparing for the flight home. …
Aug 8, 2002: Redemption OK. The Apex European Hotel wins back a little respect. That was one of the best breakfasts I’ve had in a hotel in a long while. Mmm. Haggis.
Aug 8, 2002: Aggravation The adders, on the whole, is a placid beast, not much given to anger or annoyance. He sails through life, letting idiots and their actions wash over …
Jul 22, 2002: Pretty Pictures There’s a few new sets of pictures in my Photo Album, if anyone’s interested. And yes, Mac geeks, this does mean that I’ve paid for .mac. I think it’s …
Jul 22, 2002: The Grim Reaper I’d like, if I may, to talk about death. Right, for both of you that are still reading after that little announcement, I’ll explain why I’m broaching …
Jul 8, 2002: Fighting for wakefulness. Well here I am, stuck in a press conference, desperatly trying to stay awake. The speaker is a man of unrelenting tedium. It’s a hot, warm room and I …
Jul 8, 2002: The Sound of Silence... …will not be heard anywhere near my keyboard. I’m going to be flat out this week, so don’t be expecting regular updates from me. Ha. Like you do …
Jul 6, 2002: By way of an explanation For those of you who were wondering about my previous and rather mysterious entry, I was testing out a way of posting to Livejournal from AvantGo on …
Jul 5, 2002: Test Nothing to see here. Move along please.
Jul 5, 2002: We Are Sailing Management here at the UK’s Leading Property Magazine (First Choice For Property Information) have decreed that tonight, we socialise. And where are …
Jul 4, 2002: Colour me amused that Sinfest’s July 4th strip has lyrics written by a pair of Brits as its core message. Irony at its best. Happy 4th of July to the …
Jul 4, 2002: A Day of Much Randomness Me again. Back in electronic form, free of charge and with no prospect of a subscription to access my archive. I’m free, baby, so come and take me. …
Jun 30, 2002: It isn't easy being green Want to see some stupid pictures of this Livejournaler? homepage.mac.com/adders/Ph… Enjoy!
Jun 18, 2002: Back, yet away Been a little while since I posted. Why? I got sick. I spent three or four days with the world falling out of my bottom and it was no fun at all. I …
May 28, 2002: Calming Americans Down I found a fascinating article written by an American living in Europe that sums up where I stand pretty well. My only criticism of it is that the …
May 28, 2002: In Turkey, the keyboards fall silent. What is “lying news”? How do you fancy the idea of submitting your website for Government approval before you can upload an update? Those are dilemmas …
May 28, 2002: In case anyone didn’t catch this in ’s journal, Holywood is up to some rather worrying legal moves that could profoundly cripple the way technology …
May 28, 2002: How To Make Myself Unpoular Amongst Americans (Part 1) There’s often an assumption, usually found amongst the residents of the United States of America, that the UK and the US share a broadly similar frame …
May 27, 2002: Monday Afternoon Doldrums While the Americans that make up the majority of my readership (with apologies to jackslack, ladyjestyr and eyebeams) are busy enjoying Dead American …
May 26, 2002: Hurray for Latvia! Lativa have won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with a rather upbeat Latin number. Hurrah for them. Britain came in a respectable third equal with …
May 24, 2002: Friday afternoon in the office You know, there’s only really two important bits of tech a journalist needs: the PC and the phone. We’ve been without our office phones for four hours …
May 22, 2002: A very brief word on Attack of the Clones The new Star Wars movie? Tremendous fun. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. That’s all I have to say on the subject. It’s just a mass market movie. It’s …
May 17, 2002: Attack of the Mobile Phone Thieves I wish it noted that there are good day in life and there are bad days in life. A day which starts with your mobile phone being nicked from your bad …
May 14, 2002: False alarm, of sorts After four hours in Ipswich hospital, we have learned that Mum does not have a problem with her retina. She merely has Posterior Vitreous Detachment, …
May 14, 2002: Home, sweet home After a two hour drive through the driving rain, I’m here in Suffolk. It’s odd to be here on a weekday evening again, but not unpleasant. Mum’s gone …
May 13, 2002: Oh, what fun Looks like I have an impromptu trip to Suffolk ahead of me tonight. Mum has a problem with a partially detached retina. She may need operating on, so …
May 11, 2002: DeBagged This is a bloody good idea, and what’s more, it came from Ireland. Let’s recycle those bags!
May 10, 2002: And for the American audience This is a better site for people in the US.
May 10, 2002: Corrupt CDs redux Those of you who recall my rant about CDs which won’t play in PCs or Macs might want to check out this site, which has more information about what I’m …
May 9, 2002: Grrr There’s a guy who can’t be older than 21 or 22, thin and geeky looking, snoring like a complete bastard. Concentration slipping…. Time to turn up the …
May 9, 2002: To York and back I’m on the road today, paying a visit to York to interview the chief executive of a software and web firm specialising in the property industry. It’s …
May 8, 2002: Middle Age Another university friend has just become a proud and slightly deviant father. Truly, middle age approaches.
May 8, 2002: Sssssh A few of you may have noticed that I’ve been rather quiet on here of late. One or two of you might have even cared. There’s a reason for this, which …
May 7, 2002: Here endeth the Bank Holiday weekend I’ve been silent a little while, but that’s to be expected when a long weekend with my girlfriend and my garden has kept me from my computers. …
May 3, 2002: It's just a lurch to the right Normally, I like Fridays. This Friday in particular should be a good one, because Lorna is returning from a week away in Majorca with her family. …
May 1, 2002: May Day: and so it begins We’ve had trouble in Australia and Germany already. I’m heading into the West End now. Wish me luck.
May 1, 2002: If I was a rich, famous and successful author I could blow deadlines out of the water in a spectacular display of special effects and then wait for …
Apr 30, 2002: Watching an industry commit suicide, slowly Of late, I’ve been doing something with increasing frequency. No, it’s nothing immoral or furtively sexual. In a way, it’s more not doing something. …
Apr 30, 2002: Getting political For the first time in my life I feel strongly enough about certain political issues that I intend to write to my MP. The reasons? Well, there are …
Apr 30, 2002: London is developing a tradition of May Day Riots. Anti-capitalism protesters take to the streets in great numbers and generally cause a certain …
Apr 28, 2002: Sunday = day of rest? Well, the cold is easing. Looks like staying in out of the rain and writing all weekend was the right call. I might be healthy in time to go back to …
Apr 27, 2002: Meanwhile, in the self-pity corner Well, after experiments with cold drugs and anti-hestimines, I’m fairly sure I’m suffering from a mix of hayfever and a cold. So much for everything I …
Apr 27, 2002: Chat, chat, chat Hurrah! Finally got all the Instant Messaging protocols up and running in Fire. All the accounts in my user info page should be up and running.
Apr 27, 2002: Morning breaks I’m feeling odd this morning. Have I got a really bad attack of hayfever, or am I suffering from a cold? It’s so hard to tell sometimes. No matter, …
Apr 26, 2002: I find myself waiting for a fax. I haven’t done this for two years or so now. Haven’t they heard of e-mail? Waiting for e-mail is much better. It …
Apr 26, 2002: Incidentally, I’m right in the middle of a multiple deadline crisis pile-up. This might explain my sudden return to the LiveJournal.
Apr 26, 2002: LJ Crisis What the hell should I be doing with this journal? That question has been bouncing around my head for a couple of weeks now. There were some good …
Apr 22, 2002: Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel. Make what you will of that. Proper entry to follow shortly.
Apr 9, 2002: which "monty python and the holy grail" character are you? this quiz was made by colleen
Apr 9, 2002: OK, if you say so... Test Results You think of yourself as being bold, firm, understated, and friendly.Others think of you as being inquisitive, independent, playful, and …
Apr 4, 2002: Random Thoughts My coffee addiction made itself manifest today. I felt absolutely terrible until about 11.30am, when I had my first cup of coffee. After that. I …
Apr 1, 2002: Remember those party pics from last week I promised? Well, you can find them here!
Mar 31, 2002: As you will note from the previous post, I had the wrong time zone setting on my iMac. This should be better now.
Mar 31, 2002: No Time Lord Day three of the Easter break has not started well. I missed church this morning, not through oversleeping, but through forgetting about the hour …
Mar 30, 2002: New Boy Hey, I’ve used the first of my LiveJournal invites. So, welcome semichrist. I don’t know him personally, but he’s been pulling together the very …
Mar 30, 2002: Well, the media is beginning to return to normal. Only one TV station is still showing Queen Mother material, but radio’s still patchy. One thing made …
Mar 30, 2002: RIP Well, the Queen Mother is dead. All the radio stations I’ve tried are playing mournful music, or continuous discussions of her life and the impact of …
Mar 29, 2002: Ah, as everyone else is doing it... Adam’s RPG credits
Mar 29, 2002: Spring Cleaning The Easter holidays are here, I’m alone in London and it’s time to do my spring cleaning! Four days to get my life in order - let’s see if I can …
Mar 27, 2002: ITMA Well, my deadline crunch has passed and I seem to be in one piece, more or less. One set of redlines are back and the developer seems largely happy. …
Mar 19, 2002: Today was always going to suck. That much was a given. It’s six months to the day since Dad passed on and dates bring back memories, as I’m sure you …
Mar 12, 2002: Ruminations on dealing with the big D. Hi there. Long time no see. Sorry about that, but been kinda busy, you know? Lots of writing on at the minute. Took a special project that was close …
Mar 4, 2002: Worth a thousand words Well, I’ve been busy sorting out an accessible photo album. Adam’s Photo Album Feel free to go have a peek into my life.
Mar 1, 2002: Fool to myself. Typical. I’ve started a rash of Hitchikers quiz posts. I can’t even be consistent in my whining. Now, I’ve got that deadline to hit.
Mar 1, 2002: Hypocrite, that's what I am, oh yes. Which Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy character are you? I’m feeling rather confused, you see. Anyone know where I can get a nice cup of tea?
Feb 28, 2002: Getting testy Am I allowed to whine that my friends page seems to be filling up with people’s tests, rather than them actually writing something interesting? Or …
Feb 22, 2002: Doing the right thing OK, I’ve been using LiveJournal long enough that I’ve decided it was time I stumped up some cash. I’m a great believer in supporting web services that …
Feb 22, 2002: Well, we're both Brits Find out which Buffy villian you are most like! By I’m sure that’s not how you speall “reaking”.
Feb 19, 2002: Breaking Contact There’s nothing quite as frightening as a doctor holding your eyelids open and saying “nurse, fetch the orange needle, would you?” This was how I …
Feb 15, 2002: Today I realised that I am now 5 years too old to ever present a show on MTV. I feel strangely depressed by this thought.
Feb 6, 2002: Just give me the electrons Why do PRs still persist in sending me press releases on paper this far into the 21st Century. I look at my desk, and see umpteen items that could …
Feb 2, 2002: Well, the dinner was worth waiting for. Good food, good company and amazing deviancy, as Jim both revealed that he had semi-naked pictures of an …
Feb 1, 2002: Settling In When you take a rural holiday in early February, you take risks. We lost. From the moment we arrived in Penrith it has been pouring with rain. It’s …
Jan 31, 2002: OK. I’ve found a problem with this train travel lark. This carriage is bloody freezing and mt fellow travellers have been comlaining about it …
Jan 31, 2002: This is the age of the train Well, we’re not even out of the first month of 2002 and here I am on my first trip away. I’m writing this on a Virgin Train from London Euston to …
Jan 28, 2002: I’ve lapsed into online silence for a while, I note. Ah, well, real life must get a look in once in a while. Just in case you’ve been feeling a …
Jan 19, 2002: Wisdom As you go through life, you discover pieces of wisdom that you never suspected you needed to know. The latest piece of wisdom that I’ve discovered is …
Jan 15, 2002: More updates on previous entries: The mice remain ravenous, eating four trays of poison last night. Mum remains disturbed by them. The car was fixed, …
Jan 14, 2002: Mouse update: My mum does indeed have mice. The local council’s pest control people are coming to sort them out in the next couple of days. I think …
Jan 14, 2002: I am a wuss. Oxford Street was quiet, the bank was fast and efficient and I have a lovely sandwich for my lunch. Mmmm..mmmm.
Jan 14, 2002: I really should be at the bank about now. Slept terribly last night. After a quiet, relaxed weekend with Lorna, my brother threw my life into chaos by …
Jan 9, 2002: An Unusual Situation - with an explanation Well, as I mentioned in my last entry today - well, yesterday now given that it’s after midnight, marked two years of Lorna and I being together. We …
Jan 7, 2002: Monday morning. With a sense of dramatic appropriateness, the world has decided to furnish us with a dull, grey day after a night of rain. London came …
Jan 5, 2002: Hurrah! A 17k piece of writing filed comfortably on time. Actually, concentrating on the last section of writing and a general revision of the whole …
Jan 5, 2002: My Mum is scared. She’s heard sounds coming from the loft, and she thinks that it’s mice. She lives in a rural area and mice, rats and other vermin …
Jan 4, 2002: If there’s one thing I hate, it’s a persistent misery guts, so I’m going to start this entry with something good. I awoke this morning to the …
Jan 2, 2002: 2002 was going to be the year things got better. Admittedly, 2001 was only really bad in one big and very specific way, but 2002 was going to be …
Dec 25, 2001: Christmas is Here! Just back from Midnight Mass, and what a lovely service it was. Andrew gave a fantastic (and brief) sermon on fear - “The first thing you learn at …
Dec 24, 2001: Christmas is coming This is going to be a strange old Christmas, for all the obvious reasons. There’s an underlying tension in the air at home, as the void in all our …
Dec 11, 2001: Well, the speech is done, and Prince Charles turned out to be witty, thoughtful and not a little controversial. I’ve bashed out a story on the speech …
Dec 11, 2001: Eavesdropping is fun. The Prince of Wales' press team are giving a pre-conference speech briefing to some pet journalists. I, a random business …
Dec 11, 2001: I Remember I remember… Coming back from a work lunch to see the whole office clustered around the TV watching footage of planes hitting the World Trade Centre. A …
Nov 28, 2001: For any and all who care, the pictures from my Scotland trip can be found here: I’ll take the low road… Everything from The Academy to the museum pics …
Nov 26, 2001: Found it! You may all stop holding your breath and return to your regularly scheduled activities.
Nov 26, 2001: Oh no. I’m rushing to get a feature finished for the magazine, and I’ve lost the notebook I used during the interview. It has to be here somewhere…
Nov 24, 2001: Powered up and ready to go Just over a week ago, I went home to visit my Mum. This was a good deed, given her current situation, and like all good deeds it did not go …
Nov 16, 2001: Adders - Online Bride of Christ This is amusing. I don’t normally post the results of Online Quizzes here, but seeing as this result seems to go against the general trends, I …
Nov 16, 2001: Fraternal Housing Well, last night I took some time to visit my brother’s new house in Clapham. He and his wife have stretched themselves to buy an expensive house in a …
Nov 15, 2001: Back in Business I can hardly believe that just under three days ago I was happily walking by the shores of Loch Lomond. A week may be a long time in politics but it’s …
Nov 12, 2001: Thought of Homes Past and Future Today, Lorna and I explored Dollar, if one can truly explore a place where you spent the majority of your childhood. The last 12 years have done …
Nov 11, 2001: Onwards and Upwards Our luck seems to be holding. After an interesting day doing some of the sights of Glasgow, including the Lighthouse (more of which later) and the St …
Nov 10, 2001: Shocks at the Shack Glasgow clubbing, or at least the part of it that we saw last night, is something else. For a start, it’s just about the first time in my life that …
Nov 9, 2001: Highland Holidays Well, I’m in Glasgow and it’s damn good to be back in Scotland. There’s a crispness to the cold up here that just feels right to my system and I …
Nov 7, 2001: It’s my birthday and I’m drunk. It’s my 30th birthday and I’m coping. Alas, alas, there was no cake, though. What’s a birthday without a cake? Do I …
Nov 5, 2001: Attack of the Moans Am I the only person left who is still excited by the idea of a new Star Wars film? The teaser for Attack of the Clones is up on Apple’s web site, and …
Nov 5, 2001: Cold thoughts Oh, great. I can feel the beginnings of a cold working its way into my system. Lorna got this a week or so back, and I was feeling all smug because I …