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: Doing my bit for the City St George’s undergraduate open day - persuading potential students that we’re the best place in the country to do …
: Doc Searls: At this point, however, Medium is the pioneer that got Substack’s arrows in its back. And frankly, I don’t like either one of them, …
: Anna Wintour leaving Vogue: Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour will step down after the magazine’s next cover …
: Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers: At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art …
: The iPad is already my preferred video editor for most tasks. It looks like that’s only going to get better with iPad OS26 later this year. I’m …
: Something it’s important to get sorted…
: Forcing all prospective students to make all their social media profiles public is chilling. This will make it much harder for US universities to …
: Yesterday, I went to the Worthing Dome with my daughters as a (late) Father’s Day treat. What a beautiful cinema. I can’t believe I haven’t been …
: A beer in a church - an under-appreciated combo.
: Gorgeous afternoon down on the beach. 🏖️
: Walking the tightrope between AI and audiences. I get the feeling that a lot of business are gonna take a tumble into a dangerous canyon…
: What happened to student Rag and Rag Weeks?
: Just corrected a 15-year-old typo on my blog. Hurrah. That typo was older than my oldest child. Some of my students were still in nursery when I made …
: Here’s @ayjay pointing out the major flaw in one of the weaker arguments for AI: A useful mental exercise: when people say “AI isn’t going anywhere” …
: Oh, Dr Beeching. A tribute to an infamous moment in UK rail history. #mbjune Day 10: Rail 📷 All the images from the challenge.
: A new look for One Man & His Blog. The old theme was feeling dated, and isn’t being updated for new Ghost features, as far as I can tell. So, for now, …
: Oh, yikes. The home office iMac won’t get macOS 26. Somehow it’s still “my new iMac”, but it’s five years old now… Time to start putting the money …
: Wow, Midjourney really struggles with the idea of scissors.
: #mbjune Day 9: Wood 📷 All the images from the challenge.
: Escaping email hell with a beach walk before school pickup.
: When did you last reply to someone on social media? As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more conversation, a little less promotion please.
: The downside of falling behind with your email: “Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I must book. Let’s see, when is it…? Oh. Two weeks ago.”
: I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to take the idea of community-building around its …
: #mbjune Day 8: Travel 📷 All the images from the challenge.
: I can’t find the list of #mbjune prompts for today onwards. Anyone seen it?
: #mbjune Day 7: Switch 📷 All the images from the challenge.
: My daughter clearly likes hanging around in our local Warhammer shop too much. This was her latest procrastination technique in face of my “Ready to …
: Grabbing a coffee, some Aeropress filters and a vegan croissant at Small Batch Coffee. And catching up on my feeds in NetNewsWire. The weekend!
: #mbjune Day 6: Contrast 📷 All the images from the challenge.
: Replacing scrolling with microjournaling: Microjournaling is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of setting aside 15 minutes to write in your …
: Ghost 6.0 coming “in the next few weeks”. Another step towards mainstreaming ActivityPub.
: The leaked script for the Apple WWDC keynote… 10:35: “Here at Apple,” Federighi continues, “we believe in honesty, in accountability, in holding …
: My wife’s first book is released later this month. I’m in awe of how much work a textbook takes compared to the books I’ve written.
: Original 1980s #warhammer40k Space Marines, a relic of my long-ago teenage years. #mbjune Day 4: Nostalgia 📷
: This is brilliant – a piece told in screenshots (which is probably an accessibility nightmare…) showing how ChatGPT’s confident tone can make complete …
: Shadows fall, but light remains. #mbjune day 3: Shadow 📷
: Peter Bihr: There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop that is custom-tailored for recommender AI systems to …
: Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers Are Not OK. We’re staring down a future where …
: Well, I loved that season of Doctor Who, and hope we get a renewal soon. I refuse to let the wave on online negativity around this show rob me of the …
: Preparing to do birthday sleep-over s’mores for my daughter and friends.
: Honestly, the fact that they haven’t released Dugga Doo as a single to streaming is just leaving money on the table.
: Mozilla is killing Pocket. Dammit. Time to see how well micro.blog imports laaaaaarge Pocket libraries…
: 2005: the internet is amazing! This will transform our culture! 2025: Michael Bay is making a Skibidi Toilet movie.
: Seriously proud of my year two journalism undergrads. They’ve shown both a real commitment to core journalism skills, but also finding new and …
: 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 …
: Down at the Tooting campus to do some social media training. This is a weird feeling. It’s where my wife did her postdoc…
: 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 …
: 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?
: Some traditional bothiers feel their world, the sacrosanct inner circle, is under threat in an age of Instagram posts and online blogs. — From …
: The dawn chorus up on the downs for #InternationalDawnChorusDay 🐦⬛🎶 Transcript
: Started reading: Fringed With Mud and Pearls by Ian Crofton 📚
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Enjoying a morning coffee under the watchful eye of this fella.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Ah, a gift from Paramount to meme-wranglers everywhere.
: A fox snoozes the afternoon away in our back garden. (Photo by my nine year old daughter…)
: Sunrise service, Easter Sunday, Shoreham Beach
: Digital Camera World: After announcing a 15 percent reduction in staff last year, GoPro is continuing its cost-cutting measures into 2025 as CEO …
: Might have hung on to this past its useful life…
: 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 …
: Decided to put the fire pit back into service.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Spring is bursting with colour today.
: This is the end. Embrace it.
: Hassocks Station. 📍 Testing the new check-in feature in Micro Social…
: This is a lovely piece of artistic graffiti, but it’s the “official” notice next to it that really makes it.
: Layoffs at Automattic: This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction. Ouch. Sympathies to those impacted.
: Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it. I know how he feels.
: ChatGPT has remade me in Studio Ghibli style:
: Listening to an interesting talk by Professor Nick Couldry, who pointing out that we legislate to stop companies filling our rivers and land with …
: Taking advantage of micro.blog’s new EU hosting option to move adders.blog’s hosting to the EU. For obvious reasons.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Finished reading: Lucius: The Faultless Blade by Ian St. Martin 📚 Interesting dipping back into Warhammer fiction after 30 years. Surprisingly good …
: 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.
: Bit on the nose… (From a recent issue of the Avengers Academy digital comic.)
: Betteridge’s Law applies: Will big AI save the world?
: 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 …
: The Ghost ActivityPub Public Beta is here! (Well, for ghost(pro) users…)
: 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 …
: Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Started reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
: 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 …
: Everything we’ve learnt about technology is upended by AI: we’re used to digital technology being frustratingly literal — but AIs make shit up. …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Ryan Sholin is sticking with WordPress — but leaving behind Automatic hosting and services. Seems a sensible response to the recent behaviour of the …
: Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming: Phoenix. I can’t wait.
: 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 …
: I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
: Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a “return to the office” survey of journalism workplaces - using Substack. But it requires you to have a …
: Making space elf Fire Dragons with my youngest in the Warhammer store.
: It’s a landmark day for beavers: Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the announcement today allowing licensed releases of Beavers into the wild in …
: 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 …
: That is… not a small number.
: We have entered the age of goatse as government. IYKYK (I’m unreasonably proud of that phrase.)
: 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 …
: Terrible Tudors time from Horrible Histories at the Worthing Pavillion with my youngest.
: The Open Rights Group: The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. As a result, British citizens …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: What are the best RSS readers on Android and Windows these days?
: 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 …
: Seth Godin: Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and addictive.
: 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.
: I sometimes find it depressing how rarely I actually see people in their gardens.
: Laptop stickers state of play, Feb 2025. My somewhat venerable M1 MacBook Pro this morning.
: Mary E. Dozier: Compared with the general population, participants with hoarding disorder scored almost universally high on altruism. Fascinating.
: Romantasy is here for your attention. Blame TikTok.
: January 2025 was probably the month I’ve taken the fewest photos in years. Possibly in decades. I need to change that.
: Late evening in Brighton station.
: Om Malik: DeepSeek represents more than just a product — it embodies a different way of thinking that challenges the conventional approach to AI. …
: Please don’t ruin it, Apple.
: 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 …
: 😱 Six Colors, Dan Moren: UK orders Apple to implement secret global backdoor for end-to-end encryption the United Kingdom’s government has mandated …
: Charles Arthur: Maybe that’s the real threat of AI: not that it acquires superhuman intelligence, but that it acquires superhuman persuasiveness. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: What a difference an hour makes. 7.30am: 8.30am:
: 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, …
: Beautifully written and conducted interview with James May from Top Gear/The Grand Tour. Love the final line: James May is the eternal combustion …
: At the station a bit early for my train, so enjoying a quite moment before I head to the smoke.
: Bluesky’s passed the 30m user mark.
: Why Ewan is going back, as far as is practical, to the Web 2.0 era.
: 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 …
: Pub dinner with my daughters before a school performance. Monday night really is a dead night for the hospitality business.
: Oh, look, it’s an “update all the Apple things” night.
: 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, …
: This week’s swimming lessons inspiration.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Started reading: Visualizing Nature by Stuart Kestenbaum 📚 Picked it up cheap in an Islington bookshop. Looking forward to it.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I’m not saying AI is Apple’s achilles heel. But…
: 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 …
: Bloomberg: Over the past two years, a set of massively popular podcasters and streamers cemented themselves as the new mainstream source of …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: It’s fascinating watching the ban on links to X spread, virally, from subreddit to subreddit.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Ezra Klein: Silicon Valley and crypto culture’s embrace of Trump has changed his cultural meaning more than Democrats have recognized. In 2016, Trump …
: Great analysis of why the current New Yorker cover is so powerful: 1000 words.
: Oh, flip, I’m out of coffee beans. 😱
: Today is Blue Monday, which is a myth, invented by the marketing team for a travel company. Have a great, productive day! 😉
: Started reading: The Year in the Countryside by Frances Pitt 📚
: Journalism department Christmas lunch (delayed)
: 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 …
: Oh, no. David Lynch is dead. From now on, sadly, the owls will be exactly what they seem. 🏔️ 🏔️
: These are some lovely images of winter.
: Rule #1: Never trust Facebook. It’s been over 20 years. You’d think people would have learned this by now.
: 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 …
: For those playing with Pixelfed, an open standards-based Instagram competitor, I’m there under the usual username.
: Sussex Downs, 8.30am, Sunday 12th January 2025
: Duolingo rather over-estimates how much time I spend interacting with owls, bears and elephants, day-to-day.
: Just another Friday night in Falmer…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I think that today I have comprehensively proven that a man my age should not attempt to understand Skibidi Toilet. That is all.
: 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 …
: Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report — not great news, but not as bad as it could be. The secondhand bookshop world is changing.
: I spend quite a bit of my life feeling like imposter syndrome on legs.
: Too many of us are trapped in a social media-generated bubble of synthetic citizenship, with activism and attention in the digital world substituting …
: 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 …
: “Wits’ end” not “wit’s end”.
: The beach is doing drama today…
: Guess who just took his youngest daughter to school - on an inset day… 🤦🏼
: Summer’s memory lingering in winter.
: 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 …
: Started reading: The Wilderness That Bears Your Name by James A. Pearson 📚
: Shot: Is Matt Mullenweg the mad king of WordPress? Chaser: Inc Hit Piece Where will this end?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My late parents’ old angel is atop our tree. She must be over 60 years old now.
: As a coastal dweller, I do love the Tides app Apple added to the Watch…
: 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.
: 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 …
: Trafalgar Square, December 2024
: WP Engine wins the first round in its battle with Automattic. And the whole WordPress community watches and waits.
: Well, this is very disappointing: PinkNews bosses accused of sexual misconduct.
: Our annual Christmas tree buying trip to Spithandle Nursery. It’s a tradition that really marks the beginning of the Christmas season for us.
: The last magazine I worked for before moving fully into digital is closing. RIP Estates Gazette - after more than a century and a half.
: 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 …
: Billionaires: Bozos or begrovellers?
: This is more than a little bit disturbing: Why The Faroese Whale Slaughter Must End 🐋 WARNING: graphic footage of whale slaughter.
: Just finished my last session with the MA Newspaper journalism students this year. Lively, engaged, questioning, and quite savvy bunch. Some good …
: Do you want cybermen? Because this is how you get cybermen.
: Weird how persistent old ways of thinking are. I saw this headline - Hopes are growing for Bakerloo extension to Lewisham, TfL official says - and …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: Another test, for @index@www.coffeeandcomplexity.com
: What happens if I try to mention Ghost Activity Pub beta users like @index@john.onolan.org or @index@www.coffeeandcomplexity.com or …
: Nice to be quoted in this piece about Bluesky versus Threads by a former student, Hannah Murphy, in the Financial Times today.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: Today the Podcasting MA students are going to learn what RSS is and why it matters — whether they like it or not… :-)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Me, according to Image Playgrounds in the iPadOS 18.2 Beta
: 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. 🦋
: Remembrance Sunday: veterans, volunteers and… Mods?
: 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
: Bluesky is really having a moment. So should journalists be paying attention to it? Almost certainly. We’re approaching the tipping point for the …
: 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…
: Marshmallow challenge action from the #mapodcasting students at City St George’s…
: Remembrance Parade outrider, Southwick
: A yomp around Seven Sisters Country Park to celebrate my birthday.
: According to Google Trends, Americans have suddenly decided they need to know what tariffs are. This could be… interesting.
: My reign is nearly done. But what a reign it has been.
: You know, I think it might be autumn.
: I woke up, looked at the news, and seriously considered adding a shot of whisky to my morning coffee.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This is what happens when hyped tech fads meet game development timescales: Ubisoft quietly releases an NFT game. slow clap
: 1970s child me: “It’s ridiculous that the people of Superman’s planet would ignore signs of an imminent planetary apocalypse. Totally unbelievable!” …
: 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.
: Wow. Apple have acquired Pixelmator. I love Pixelmator’s editing apps — so I’m not sure how I feel about this.
: Our Podcasting MA students are talking creatively about making promotional GIFs without me prompting them. I’m so happy. 😁
: 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 …
: Lancing College playing fields, early morning.
: Tonight is Talisman Adventures night.
: Blimey. The WordPress debacle has made it onto the BBC News website.
: Good ideas versus mediocre teams. Seen this in action, more than once.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Started reading: Groundbreakers by Chantal Lyons 📚 Been eyeing this one up for ages. Just dived in and am loving it already. 🐗
: Sunday morning swimming pool whiteboard wisdom.
: 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 …
: Very proud of my eldest daughter. It’s a seemingly small thing that really matters: she’s choosing well in her friendships.
: The Ghost ActivityPub team being even more spicy than normal in their latest update, talking about choosing their first beta testers: How did we …
: It was a beautifully misty autumnal commute this morning.
: Finishing the (working) week with a round-up of news from the scrum where AI and journalism meet. Technology is great. People are idiots.
: 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 …
: Dashed dreams of better EV batteries are a core disappointment.
: 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 …
: Not gonna lie, it sometimes righteously pisses me off that journalism was going in exactly the right direction with community/audience work 15 years …
: Finally had a much-needed trim.
: Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that it might have been Agatha all along.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: The growing tsunami of AI slop is going to force us towards a new wave of trusted curator. Optimistic? Perhaps. Idealistic? Certainly. But that …
: 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 …
: Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights. Oh, yes.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Late summer rambles at the RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve.
: Nice image from Hamburg a few weeks back.
: 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 …
: Well, this is profoundly worrying: Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, …
: Just made my micro.blog account’s newsletter subscribe page slightly more fancy.
: 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 …
: Why is Substack’s rival Ghost becoming more and more popular? Interesting read.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Bloggers and journalists, 20 years on. Inspired by John Naughton’s Observer column about @dave’s 30 years of blogging…
: Today’s newsletter muses on Meta’s inability to recognise that people are messy, contradictory and contain multitudes. The more it tries to shove …
: A simple way to improve the internet.
: Headline of the day: No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons
: 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.
: A first experiment with Halide’s Process Zero while shooting with my iPhone.
: 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 …
: Cheeky coffee and bap at Edge by the Sea after dropping my youngest at a Brownies day.
: The clash between Sober October and London Cocktail Week feels particularly vexing this year.
: 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 …
: 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: …
: Survived the first day of lecturing this academic year. Just 9½ weeks to go…
: Abandoned shoe on the beach.
: 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 …
: Started reading: Late Light by Michael Malay 📚
: Started reading: Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham 📚
: Brits: Adventurous Ink, a great book club that sends you books on nature, adventure - and reconnecting with each other and reclaiming our attention — …
: Here’s a secret: Fritz Kola is one of the main reasons I love going to Hamburg…
: 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 …
: What the hell is happening at Automattic? It looks like the war for the profits of WordPress has begun…
: 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. …
: The Bell, the first Mill Media local journalism site to be powered by Ghost, is live. Glasgow is getting Ghosted…
: Good news, chums! Coffee is good for you! (Yes, I am avoiding reading the details, lest they undermine the news I want.) ☕️☕️
: 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.
: One of the lovely things about NEXT Conference is that, thanks to it happening alongside the Reeperbahn Festival, we get some great musical opening …
: Liking the aesthetic of this coffee shop.
: Saying goodbye to Hamburg again. Great trip this year, even if BA seemed reluctant to actually fly any of us home…
: That’s how you start a conference… #next24
: Good morning from Hamburg and #next24 on Reeperbahn. Busy day ahead…
: 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 …
: Lovely autumnal moment in the churchyard.
: 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 …
: A spicy panel from yesterday’s Future of Media Technology conference. Those in and around journalistic publishing are very wary indeed of the AI …
: Started reading: Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill 📚
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Jony Ive made a button. So far out of my price range, it’s ludicrous. But so very interesting.
: 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 …
: Back to the early morning swimming lessons. The summer holidays are truly done.
: 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 …
: Agree 100% with @jack about this: I often vigoriously disagree with Freddie deBoer, but I also often love how he puts things.
: 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 …
: Something tells me autumn is on its way.
: Very pracitical newsletter today: Why doomscrolling is boring - and what works better The simple secret of great headlines Plus more… Read on.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: Daily newsletter: go! Today: Comments, Clickbait — and Screen Apnea?
: Some thoughts on how AI could improve the organisation of photo libraries from Mark Braggins.
: The new design for Colossal looks really nice. Web magazine design seems to be going through a resurgence.
: Back from my hols, and back to blogging/newslettering.
: Making the most of the end of the summer hols.
: Opening your work emails after 10 days of holiday is terrifying.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Proud to live in Sussex tonight. The extremists who came to Brighton really came to the wrong town.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Adding or updating some details on Open Library about the slightly obscure books I read is surpringly satisfying.
: Started reading: A Countryman’s Summer Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚— working my way through these four seasonal collections, in the appropriate season…
: Dennis Sellers for Apple World Today: Apple should revive the AirPort line-up with Wi-Fi 6E support Yes, it damn well should.
: 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 …
: Started reading: Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place, edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
: A beautiful example of clickbait that immediately owns up to being clickbait in the first par…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I love the way the MG logo on the front of my EV glows while it’s charging.
: 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 …
: Negative positivity — or why even scanned negatives are worth hanging on to… 📷🎞️
: 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 …
: Surfers Against Sewage: Ofwat have championed that water company plans will cut discharges from storm overflows by 44% by 2030. But, this will still …
: Jodie Whittaker returns to Doctor Who for Big Finish. Oh, brilliant!
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: It’s time to stop caring what journalists think. — @dave, not beating about the bush…
: Does a new government open up the chance to refresh the transparency agenda? A discussion from #ODCamp in Manchester…
: Uploading the first of my photos from #ODCamp to Flickr.
: 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 …
: Here’s the pitches from the #ODcamp 9 unconference in Manchester today.
: Did a democracy. Took my daughters - this will be the first general election that they really remember.
: Blimey. As the other social networks pull away from journalist, Mastodon is embracing it — and even Threads might be warming up to it again. …
: This is a pitch for a Doctor Who episode, not a useful journalism notification…
: 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.
: Escaping tech’s boom/doom cycle requires a nuanced view of risk/reward. And the global south has something to teach us here.
: 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 …
: Things are busy in growing corner.
: This is the week when the UK changes. But we’ve very little idea of what it will become…
: Shoreham Beach, Sunday 30th June
: 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 …
: Not coming to this café again…
: Started reading: Cairn by Kathleen Jamie 📚
: It’s possible that my childhood bedroom was a bit geeky.
: 🚨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 …
: 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 …
: Well, I didn’t have Rushi Sunak versus David Tennant on my bingo card for this election.
: 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 …
: ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather,’ Alfred Wainwright once said. ‘Only unsuitable clothing’ He was right, I suppose. Although possibly also a …
: Cross-posting from micro.blog to Threads via the new API seems to be working perfectly. 👌🏼
: 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 …
: The old lighthouse, Shoreham.
: 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.
: Interesting piece from Suw about how protestors are slowly strangling the funding of literary festivals. Their campaign is full of good intentions, …
: Touching grass, very literally.
: Time to hear about making the vast Sussex Bay better…
: Apple Intelligence = assistive intelligence - with some interesting guardrails. This is a different approach to AI.
: 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 …
: Some good thoughts here from Matt Webb: Observations on Siri, Apple Intelligence, and hiding in plain sight.
: Om Malik: Why Apple Should Support National Parks . /signed
: Photographers Don’t Want Their Negatives Back From the Lab Anymore. Idiots. Physical back up right there.
: 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.
: Typing student feedback, and “the ‘gram” (Instagram) got auto-corrected to “the ‘grim”, and I’m not entirely sure that’s actually wrong.
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Finally, the shot I was destined to take. A wild adder, shot by @adders.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Started reading: A Countryman’s Spring Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚 These little hardback editions from Simply Foxed are just gorgeous.
: 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 …
: Started reading: Wild Service by Nick Hayes 📚
: This is where my eldest is camping with the Guides. I am very jealous.
: Started reading: Light Rains Sometimes Fall by Lev Parikian 📚
: Om Malik with the headline of the day there.
: We need to collapse context collapse in our online communities. Good fences and all that…
: I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a general election quite as much as this one.
: 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 …
: Once, a very long time ago, I turned 12.
: Second update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support: Building ActivityPub: Day 1
: Started reading: Finding Hildasay by Christian Lewis 📚
: 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 …
: Captured for posterity, before I recycle them: photo wallets and negative holders from 1980s photo labs.
: The first update from the Ghost team building out ActivityPub support.
: Wondering how many readers will get the joke that I called @ianbetteridge “lawfully chaotic” in my latest newsletter/post…
: Don’t get sloppy with AI — make sure whatever you do is intentional, and audience-focused.
: When a Guardian journalist asked climate experts what they expect to happen. The results are terrifying: “I expect a semi-dystopian future with …
: Why are so many journalists still wary — or even ashamed — of the word “blog” after 25 years?
: Lovely tribute to CJ Sansom and his quiet faith in the ability of humans who can walk the middle path to improve the world.
: If you go down to the woods today…
: UK Bank Holiday Monday on form: it’s tipping it down.
: 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 …
: John Naughton in The Observer: The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by …
: Good morning from the South Downs.
: 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 …
: Beware! The link controllers don’t want you soiling their pristine websites with your dirty open web linking behaviour. (People are really still …
: There’s never 30 to 50 feral hogs around when you need them.
: 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 …
: Wild garlic growing by my youngest’s school. I love the smell of it.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Piper Haywood: spewing mediocrity is a pretty strong sweet spot for AI
: 📷 #mbApr Day 21 The Cairngorms in early 1989. For day 21 of the April Photoblogging Challenge: mountain, suggested by David, aka @dejus.
: Littlehampton harbour, with gulls.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Day 17: transcendence, suggested by Drew, aka @drewbelf. #mbapr
: A rare image of my long-gone fencing days. I’m the one on the right.
: The political problems around TikTok will only get worse if it keeps behaving like this.
: Advice to make sure you never create anything. I feel very seen by this post from @havn.
: AI is speedrunning the financial boom and bust cycle says John Naughton, in The Observer.
: 📷 #mbApr Day 15: small, suggested by James, aka @jmanes.
: Micro adventures at one of our local nature reserves: an afternoon at RSPB Pulborough Brooks. Birds and trees and bluebells.
: 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 …
: Just found and followed @duncanhart and @ton, thanks to this conversation about micro.blog over at Euan Semple’s blog.
: Started reading: The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century by Jessica Vincent 📚
: OK, why did nobody warn me that Inside Out is such a harrowing watch for a parent?
: Cetacean Corner. Videos of our watery mammal friends. Not for the easily offended.
: Starbucks quietly pretends it never fell for the NFT hype. I think that bubble is well and truly burst now.
: 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” …
: I’m having one of those days where good news in the journalism/tech/publishing space is remarkably hard to find.
: 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 …
: Is Elon Musk getting bored of X/Twitter? With a bold prediction that Xitter will change hands by year end…
: The tale of the credulous publishers and the AI Pied Piper: a cautionary fairy tale for grown-ups everywhere.
: The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.
: Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video? Betteridge’s Law applies…
: 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 …
: A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now shared to everyone.
: Saw an article that looked interesting. Saw that the first subhead was “Synergy”. Bailed on that article.
: Huh. Just discovered that I still had AMP turned on for Coffee & Complexity. Another Google project that went nowhere. It’s off now.
: It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.
: I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.
: Early morning mist over the Adur.
: 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. …
: Yikes. I need to do better than that.
: 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 …
: Ah, who can fail to love one of these?
: Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.
: Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚
: 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 …
: Sad times for Portuguese D&D fans.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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…
: Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: Unknown Exposures
: I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow. Ugh.
: Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.
: One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.
: Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.
: Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.
: 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 …
: My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.
: Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.
: Water level a bit on the high side, then.
: semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation. — Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
: Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!
: 🔗 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, …
: 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?
: Looks like Apple has an image editing Generative AI coming. Quite Apple-y to be task specific.
: Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…
: Want to feel old? Somebody born when Leeroy Jenkins wiped his raid will turn 19 this year. You’re welcome.
: Finding the intro that finally makes the piece you’ve been struggling with work is such a blissful moment.
: 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 …
: Good morning from the Downs.
: Today I will be: a. marking b. learning about DMARC c. getting a hair cut One big party, my life.
: 🔗 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 …
: Finally, some harbingers of spring.
: 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.
: 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 …
: Started reading: Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚
: A quick round-up of podcasting news, derived from my work on the audience strategy module of our new MA in Podcasting.
: Last summer danah boyd was still trying to ignore the Metaverse. It’s only got easier since!
: A compelling argumentment from Om Malik that Google has entered the same stage of decline that, for example, Microsoft saw under Steve Ballmer.
: 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.
: 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 …
: Platformer leaving Substack for Ghost over the “platforming Nazis” issue. That’ll be a substantial hit for Substack.
: This is an insanely long, but very detailed and compelling, telling of the Substack story — and how the platform got into its current mess. …
: I’m getting a lot of traffic from Russia at the moment. Not quite sure what to make of that.
: 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 …
: Dave Winer: It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone. Amen.
: 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 …
: My inability to remember which is the correct spelling – whether or wether – means I accidentally write about castrated rams rather more than anyone …
: Substack launched Notes to steal attention from Twitter. It succeeded. Right now, I bet they’re regretting that.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Oh, marvellous. The UK government is now making policies based on easily disprovable conspiracy theories. They’re either idiots, or they think …
: My companion didn’t stay long…
: Frosty but beautiful beach walk after school drop off this morning. Starting to feel like I’m finally shaking off the Christmas lurgy.
: On the intrigue side, Fieldwork can be relied on to provide the spectacularly weird. Downstream from Richmond we once spotted a polystyrene takeaway …
: 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 …
: Man shocked to discover that two-edged sword does, in fact, have two edges.
: OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.
: 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 …
: I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two bags of beans to go.
: A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.
: Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚
: This is spectacular even by crypto scam standards:Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist.
: The Festive Silence — or how exhaustion, burn-out and COVID conspired to give me an offline Christmas.
: Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚
: 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 …
: Beach life, December 22nd 2023
: Term finished yesterday. Today, I have a cold. Obviously.
: The single biggest thing that would improve my AI prompt writing skills: not making typos.
: Oh, shit. The dolphins have had enough and are coming for us.
: What if the real X/Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone at all?
: When the problem contains the obvious solution: Residential areas are increasingly unaffordable even for the middle classes, while the office …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks My girls will use Keynote, or it’ll a disappointing Christmas. 😉
: Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚
: It’s beginning to look a lot like…
: ”’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 …
: WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is good and holy in web publishing.
: 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 …
: OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼♂️
: Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚 It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.
: 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 …
: 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 👍🏻 …
: The Gawker brand is coming back — but not the archive or the same approach, it appears.
: 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 …
: A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.
: Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.
: 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. …
: Podcast listeners! I’m looking for podcasts with vibrant and well-managed online communities, be they on Reddit, in Facebook groups, Forums, Discord, …
: Started reading: Enchantment by Katherine May 📚 Reminded to do so by this podcast with her.
: This is worrying: publications are using AI generated images of the Gaza conflict from Adobe Stock without declaring that they are AI created. One …
: 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 …
: Put that phone down and go be bored: your creativity depends on it. (And other things worth reading).
: Worth a read: Mastodon Is the Good One
: Greetings from Storm Ciarán…
: Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening… 🤫🤫
: 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 …
: Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to travel in the morning.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Happy Halloween 🎃! Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.
: 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 …
: Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 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 …
: So… blogs are dead are they?
: 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 …
: Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚
: I treated the girls to pancakes to celebrate the first day of half term.
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The next stage in human evolution?
: Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991
: “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 …
: “Since the early 1990s, no country has met the basic needs of its population without overconsuming natural resources.” — Reconnection by Miles …
: “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 …
: Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while outdoors. ☕️
: Started reading: Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚
: This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes me unexpectedly happy.
: I have fought with 301 redirects, and I have won. And now I fact the terror of Google Search console migrations…
: 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: …
: 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 …
: Literal standing room only for the lunchtime talk by BBC News’ Ros Atkins on explainers at City Journalism. That includes me. I am standing…
: Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one
: Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.
: 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 …
: John Gruber: X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off.
: Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have nightmares about that image”.
: Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival. Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to Germany…
: Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the early work I led.
: A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.
: No early morning drive to the pool this morning, as my eldest is unwell. So, I’m drinking coffee and processing photos instead
: Dave Winer: There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media.
: Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) 📚 🎲
: I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN. And that pretty much sums up my day.
: I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.
: Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚
: Spectacular views over London en route to Heathrow.
: Podcast insertion ads are still so laughably primitive. All the British podcasts I downloaded while in Hamburg are full of German ads.
: A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival. #next23
: Late night on the Reeperbahn.
: I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense you get in British airports.
: Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism? Not so much.
: 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” …
: An interesting move from The Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.
: We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.
: 📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glowing.
: TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.
: My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.
: Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚
: Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening. Important security updates out…
: Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…
: 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 …
: These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to bankruptcy.
: Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip cheese.
: Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule looks great this year.
: I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old. Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.
: Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good for journalism and audience work. Honest.
: Currently reading: Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover 📚
: Lovely afternoon for a cycle with my youngest.
: This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.
: Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist. I’m very proud.
: Somebody will be very sad about losing this chap.
: Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚
: Found a lovely place for breakfast in the port yesterday morning.
: It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.
: 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 …
: Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to “X”? 🤔
: Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore? Well, it depends…
: Why people are pulling up their fake lawns. Good.
: Why selfish co-workers stick together: a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s …
: Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress: “The physiological sigh is the fastest hardwired way for us to eliminate a …
: A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.
: The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.
: Back from holiday. What have I missed?
: “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, …
: Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.
: Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.
: This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.
: First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.
: A happy transatlantic delivery.
: 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 …
: Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: the new microblogging ecosystem. 😮💨
: Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚
: 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 …
: Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number of false spam positives recently?
: Oh, my. This is the man who created Clippy. (Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)
: On women who write while lying on their stomachs.
: 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.
: Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified? (Some would argue that it’s already there…)
: 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 …
: Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me. 🤯
: Finally got to spend some time writing in my favourite coffee shop this afternoon.
: Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.
: Oh, dear. So sad. Too bad. Anyway… The Broke Ape Yacht Crash
: Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? [Guardian cartoon.]
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Chances of Threads ever getting an API for general use? I’d imagine they’ll be about 0%.
: My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data grab.
: 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 …
: What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.
: And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…
: Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚
: 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 …
: So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
: 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 …
: These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human relationships. And then they do this.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day. I’m just not looking forward to a hot train ride home…
: Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students' final projects, I miss being a commissioning editor. I love the feeling of working with …
: Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which it differs from and contrasts with workaday …
: Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies cinema trip: The Laughing Dog.
: 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 …
: Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer …
: Beauty right by the front door.
: David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating: “All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but …
: 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:
: This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.
: What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇
: I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There goes that streak.
: 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. 👍
: 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 …
: If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.
: Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR. But I still can’t see myself buying one.
: It may be a common cardinal beetle, but it’s uncommonly beautiful.
: The wind farm has really grown on me over the years.
: The sun going down over micro.camp…
: Wow. Engagement on posts in my Substack Notes feed has collapsed. Only the very biggest newsletter authors are getting any reaction at all.
: 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 …
: There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. — A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
: Started reading: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚
: 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 …
: Final Cut Pro on the iPad — and they’re announcing this before WWDC? This is exciting stuff.
: Penny Mordaunt cosplaying as Britannia. Still, Britain has a bit of a cultural thing about women with swords.
: All the faith leaders coming into the coronation together, and then our Hindu Prime Minister and our Muslim Scottish First Minister, is surprising …
: All this fuss over an impractical new hat. Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.
: 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 …
: 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? …
: Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months away from its demise…
: These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?
: Up on the Downs as the rain hits.
: Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world. [via @baldur]
: micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post: “It’s all another reminder that centralized platforms …
: This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
: Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme. This is the (medieval) way.
: Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚
: “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 …
: Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚
: 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.
: Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for post-school play tomorrow.
: Some notes on Substack Notes.
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: Storm brewing in the deer park.
: Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is taking…
: Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
: Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.
: Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should be thinking about Mastodon right now.
: 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 …
: Like father, like daughters.
: “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 …
: Down by the sea on a blustery day.
: Sunrise over Shoreham Beach, during the Easter Sunday dawn service.
: Back in your in-boxes: season two of Engaged Reading Time starts here.
: 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.)
: This piece from Robin Sloan is looking more prescient by the day: the last decade’s platforms are over.
: Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly? What a fascinating watch.
: 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 …
: I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble. Possibly a beer, too.
: My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.
: My train is running late due to… rain. Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the UK?
: I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential growth in the next few weeks…
: 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 …
: This should chill events businesses: the big games show E3 has been cancelled, in part because publishers announce new games directly to customers via …
: Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.
: Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do I have you sorted.
: 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?
: 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.
: The girls are eating fish fingers and custard. Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.
: Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
: News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.
: I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…
: Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. The Fediverse momentum is growing.
: William Davies on The Reaction Economy: The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the liberal philosophical tradition – as an autonomous …
: Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚
: I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting next year — on the audience development side.
: A general US TikTok ban edges closer…
: This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.
: Iris wanted to watch some Doctor Who. So, we started at the beginning. The very beginning…
: Lots of writing to do today — so lots of coffee will be drunk…
: One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the snowflakes illuminated by the street lights.
: Two damn decades of writing the same blog. Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.
: Your Sunday morning swimming pool white board wisdom.
: 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. …
: Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
: Sometimes solitude is possible, even in the heart of London. #mbmar 📸
: 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 …
: The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon. #mbmar 📸
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.
: A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the Chatham House Rule, alas, so I can’t say any more.
: Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t understand the existing games coverage business.
: Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure. #mbmar 📸
: I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.
: Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.
: 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.
: 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…
: Just corrected a typo in a blog post published… 10 years and 20 days ago. Ooops.
: Plausible Analytics providing both Search Console integration AND Google Analytics import is making me very happy.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This is one hell of a story: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
: Free speech absolutism excludes China, it seems.
: 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 …
: Started reading: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 📚
: 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 …
: I’ve just revamped the look of my Ghost blog One Man & His Blog, and am very happy with the results:
: 14 years ago, someone registered a domain name for the local church. Nobody remembers who. Somebody is still paying for it. Tracking down the …
: 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. …
: 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.
: 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.
: Ah, the sweet satisfaction of landing one of the free EV charge parking spaces in the morning.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Beware: killer clowns and hangry bears.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.
: This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of depression after all.
: 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.)
: Home learning on teachers’ strike day, thanks to BBC Bitesize.
: Took me too many years - but I finally got that last elusive micro.blog badge…
: Lovely sunrise over Hassocks station this morning.
: This morning’s wisdom from the crack-of-dawn trip to the pool for my daughter:
: 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 …
: I know their days are numbered, but nothing quite beats a free charge at the station while you’re up in London.
: Lovely to see some blue sky again today. It’s been a hard January, and this was the lift I needed this afternoon.
: Ivory has won promotion to my iPad dock…
: 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 …
: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in, just around the corner from my house.
: HomePod and AppleTV updates are out this evening.
: Ivory from Tapbots is now on the App Store. Trying it out now for my Mastodon needs…
: 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 …
: iOS, macOS and watchOS updates all ready for you in Software Update.
: The tide was far enough out today that we actually had something approximating sand! -
: Interesting set of links from Alex Roddie.
: “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 …
: Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
: Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.
: Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚
: On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes. Harsh, but fair.
: 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 …
: 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.
: Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.
: 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 …
: Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.
: A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,
: Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.
: Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down for most people across the Beach.
: Frost on the roof, sun on the river.
: Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.
: Quite the sunset this evening.
: Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…
: 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 …
: Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.
: 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 …
: Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.
: ”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.” — …
: Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it. And sometimes it’s really true.
: Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼
: My weekend reading has arrived. 📚
: It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.
: Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.
: Metal cover of the A-Team theme. Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.
: 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 …
: What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just frictionlessly disappearing when they shut down the …
: 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 …
: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in just around the corner.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This looks worryingly like the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The sea is bringing in some big bits of jetsam right now.
: The sea was putting on an impressive show earlier.
: Walkers and shingle shifters on the beach this afternoon.
: Up on the Downs this morning.
: Nice wooden boat coming ashore on the slipway.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: From the library towards the church.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Yup, just walking home through the graveyard. 😨
: Twelfth night, so saying farewell to our mighty wee tree.
: 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. 😮💨
: 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 …
: Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.
: 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…)
: New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.
: Happy New Year from (a house in) London!
: The wisdom of @patrickrhone spreads.
: “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 …
: Matt Buck compiled some great links and videos to mark the passing of satirist John Bird.
: Home from midnight Mass: 12.30am Girls up: 6.30am 😴
: Midnight Mass, Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach.
: Crib service in 15 minutes… My daughters will be playing the roles of “Magus” and “innkeeper”.
: Newsletter delivery via RSS has a name. It’s called blogging. This is literally what we were doing in 2005.
: Started reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚
: London very on brand this morning.
: Started reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚
: Off to London for work. The last commute of the year!
: 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.
: Blimey. Musk has disbanded Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council. He’s not even pretending to listen to others now.
: 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 …
: A quick video of the Shoreham-by-Sea Santa SUP this morning:
: Oh, that is dangerously tempting.
: Bottomed out at -2.5°C last night. Pretty cold for these parts.
: Artificial grass is evil: “Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in short-termism and a distaste and disrespect for …
: Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
: Worthing Pier from Shoreham Beach, 8/12/22, 4.10pm
: Cold enough that I’ve actually put on my rarely-used woolly hat for the commute this morning.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: First night we’ve gone below zero this winter. Plenty more to come, I’m sure.
: Heavy Metal x Indian Singing This is just brilliant: [via Boing Boing]
: Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.
: I wonder what microposts look like on WordPress.
: MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is my first post using it.
: People have a long and inglorious tradition of mangling my surname, but this is a new one for me…
: Thesis: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made.
: Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is dead.
: Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Started reading: The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent 📚
: 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 …
: 🎲 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚 Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.
: Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.
: Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.
: That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.
: It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, perhaps
: Working with people who show a real commitment to what they do is an absolute blessing.
: Good morning from a crisp, Autumnal but delayed commute.
: I retain the determination to complete the November micro.blog challenge this year. Less than a week to go!
: 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.
: 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 …
: “Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.” — Robert Macfarlane, Underland 📚
: Sunset approaches. Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.
: I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the UK.
: Some interesting nature reads to kick off your week.
: 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 …
: How culture changes: ”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could be called Sirens, in no complimentary sense.” …
: Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊♂️
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life. It’s nice to be home in Sussex.
: Weather like this almost makes the early start worth it.
: 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 — …
: I’m just not ready for this…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: aluminium aluminium aluminium
: Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating.
: Weird. My #mbnov post from yesterday didn’t make the “all posts” Discover timeline. I wonder why.
: A good pub is one you don’t want to leave.
: Life doesn’t always go to plan. The secret to resilience is to just adjust and forge new paths forwards. And that’s fine.
: Really not used to singing “God save the King” yet.
: Youth organisations and veterans together on Southwick Green, marking Remembrance Sunday.
: 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.
: Oh, great. Screw in the tyre.
: 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 …
: The evening light was putting in a wonderful display earlier.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: We’re not even half way through November, and I’ve seen my first Christmas tree. 🎄
: There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station was spectacular.
: OK. So, I just set up a Mastodon Instance. 🤓
: 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 …
: 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.
: Well, I think we all now have more insight into how hard it is to run a social network well…
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Gah. Great website. No RSS. No newsletter. Protected Twitter account. How am I meant to know when you write something new?
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 🤔 I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to ”enjoy”…
: 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 …
: Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night. A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in good company.
: Has anyone seen any news outlets doing anything interesting on Mastodon?
: This is a great resource for people thinking of starting a blog: Get Blogging! [via @manton]
: London being London in its charming way.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.
: A few moments of tranquility while the girls play.
: Lovely bit of sulphur tuft, there.
: 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. 👴🏻
: 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 …
: This is a good look back at She-Hulk Attorney at Law. Insightful about how it played with audience expectations.
: 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 …
: Words of wisdom at the 7.30am swim.
: A lovely little discovery – an acorn cup fallen into another plant.
: I’m really enjoying all the photos from around the world making up the Day in the Life of the micro.blog community.
: Breakfast at the Talking Hands café, after my train was cancelled. Hassocks, Sussex, in the UK. 8.30am.
: Started reading: The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon 📚
: Sometimes getting up early for my daughter’s 7.30am swimming class is totally worth it.
: Home to find, happily, that my eldest has survived her year 6 residential mostly intact…
: An image from a time, a place and a life far away. And long gone.
: 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.
: Well, this is not at all what I was aiming for when I prompted Midjourney, but it’s very dramatic, and rather lovely…
: Undergraduate student me, early 1990s…
: A photo from a promotional photo-booth for a long-dead social network at a long-dead conference…
: 7.20am Lancing College. Another nice, relaxing Sunday. 🙄
: Just a family of swans out for a Saturday stroll…
: Happiness is getting one of the few free charging spaces at the railway station.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Finally got my hands on a copy of the new book I co-authored…
: One of my favourite parts of coming to Germany.
: The stage is set. Ready to go! #next22 #hugthesystem
: Most people still wearing masks on the S-Bahn in Hamburg.
: Compulsory facemasks on the flight to Hamburg. #next22 #hugthesystem
: Waiting at Heathrow for my first flight in three years. I haven’t missed airports.
: 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 …
: Local family out on the river.
: 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 …
: Yikes. This is going to hit a lot of people very fast: Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using WPGateway Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability
: 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 …
: 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 …
: They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…
: Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.
: Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️
: 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 …
: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
: 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 …
: Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent
: I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent
: 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 …
: This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.
: Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search of inspiration for walks to tire out small people. …
: Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.
: Campfire reading. Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚
: 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 …
: Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.
: Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.
: A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.
: The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.
: 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.
: 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. …
: Took me a while to adjust to vegan burgers, but I’m really enjoying them now. A fine example from the pub this evening.
: Summer’s not over while the sunflowers still look this good.
: My eldest, playing an iPad game: “10pm is about the time a grown-up goes to sleep.” My wife and I: “In our dreams.”
: Looks like there’s urgent security updates out for all the major Apple platforms this evening. Updateapaloza ahead.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I think it would be fair to say that my teenage record buying was not cool.
: My youngest is enjoying a trip to the local Lidl far too much.
: 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 …
: Last early morning trip to the swimming pool before the Autumn. Rewarded with some lovely views.
: Lovely still afternoon on the river.
: What’s the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated with experiential social media?
: Well, fibre to the premises certainly makes a difference…
: Coastal blessings - the warmest it got yesterday was 33.5° in the back garden. Everywhere in the house stayed sub-30°.
: Instagram is dead. Or, at least, it’s no longer recognisable as a photography app.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: It’s been a long time since I walked over this bridge.
: 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 …
: Yesterday morning in Crewe and this morning in Winnersh.
: Doing a lot of this over these few days of work…
: Finally done on a client report that’s been hanging over me for a while. Treating myself to a celebratory whisky before bed. 🥃
: Lovely brunch prepared by my daughter!
: Fascinating seeing Shoreham Beach from the other side of the harbour entrance for once.
: And there we have it: Elon Musk Moves to End $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter
: 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 …
: This feature is going to have to work hard to convince me of its thesis… (From the latest Standart Magazine.)
: 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 …
: Cosmopolitan place, Shoreham.
: Meanwhile, down by the lifeboat station.…
: 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…
: 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?
: So, turns out your keyboard works better if you turn it on. 🤦🏼♂️
: 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 …
: Sitting, working, on the balcony, and wondering why I don’t do this more.
: I’ve got a feeling we’re being watched here in the churchyard…
: All ready to see my youngest get a Gold Award at the Funky Friday assembly…
: The beach, late this afternoon.
: 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 …
: I love this light. Wouldn’t fit in our house, but looks great in this pub.
: Does the glamour never stop?
: Choosing Peter Capaldi to narrate a nature documentary builds in a vague irritation at humanity’s stupidity…
: Leaving behind the #wwdc22 keynote to watch something more important…
: My big lesson from yesterday’s Platinum Jubilee street party is that I’m now officially too old for afternoon drinking.
: My most common typo for “metaverse” is “meat verse” which is ironic, given that it’s pretty much the exact opposite…
: Good grief - 5G in central London is quite something…
: So, by botching a Spotlight search for Teams, I accidentally opened a search for “teacup puppies”. I win the internet today.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 Photoblogging Day 16: Time All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
: Not one of my better looks… On the Suffolk coast, circa 1993.
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 15: Clouds All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
: I might get used to these “swimming pool by 7.30am” Sunday starts. Today is not the day that happens.
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 14: Fence All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
: 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 Photoblogging Day 13: Community All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
: 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!
: Was slightly thrown to see @maique out of context — in the Fastmail newsletter.
: 📷 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 Photoblogging Day 11: Maroon All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge
: Thanks to today’s theme from @challenges, I find myself debating whether my hoodie is, in fact, maroon or not.
: 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 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 …
: Can anyone point me to the master list of May Photoblogging prompts? My attempts to locate it have failed…
: 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) …
: I have no idea what differentiates a badge and a brooch. Anyone?
: 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 Photoblogging Day 9: Bloom
: 📷 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 …
: Nobody warns you about the “getting your daughter to swimming lessons for 7.30am on a Sunday” part of parenthood. 😴
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 7: Park
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 6: Silhouette
: I’ve given the May photoblogging posts their own category. It’s a good incentive to keep up with it…
: 📷 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 …
: Obligatory democratic selfie.
: This may be the best ever typo-driven page: Welcome to the Meatverse. (I particularly like “Cryptographic hache”)
: 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 Photoblogging Day 4: Thorny
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 3: Experimental Who doesn’t love pond dipping? A fun science experiment for the girls.
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 2: Photo
: The more I look at this, the more disturbing it is.
: Bank holiday breakfast in a wee café deep in the Sussex countryside.
: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 1: Switch
: 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 …
: Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie: Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk
: It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories…. (And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)
: 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 …
: Nice new paint job on one of our local pubs.
: “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.” …
: Down on the river, SUP-style.
: Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an extremely poor life choice.
: Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.
: More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.
: A tiny escape on Good Friday.
: 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 …
: New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - instructs the brain to produce the neurons needed to …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Some beautiful prints of British wildlife, signed by nature presenters and celebrities. 50% of the proceeds go to nature charities. Which to pick… 🤔
: My Mark 2 is finally here – only a year after Studio Neat planned. Still, worth waiting for.
: Apparently students these days buy their clothes by the kilo…
: I suspect I have written more words this week than any other week so far in my life. And it’s still only Thursday.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: This is a fascinating tale of a man who enjoyed taking photos more then developing the, creating a huge recovery and archiving challenge: …
: 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 …
: Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change at work again.
: I have survived six hours of lectures via Zoom with my sanity largely intact. (My wife suggests there is evidence to the contrary.)
: Iris loves her piano lessons, but I suspect she enjoys playing with Snufkin more…
: 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 …
: Chillin' by the harbour arm.
: I love this time on a Wednesday.
: “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 …
: 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…
: So did you know it was World Rewilding Day? I didn’t until just now… Pity. This is such an important and misunderstood issue.
: An unusual beach find today.
: Oh, hurrah. Discord is finally Apple Silicon native.
: It was a great sunset yesterday. 🌅
: Yikes. Mystery mummified body found in convention centre walls…
: Just playing around with Glass. Anyone out there using it? Here’s my profile.
: Best hag stone discovery in a while.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Well, I suppose it was inevitable that Substack would do this. But it changes the dynamics of the market significantly, if it takes off:
: 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 …
: Continuing my obsession with Apple Watch fitness challenges, I just got the International Women’s Day challenge badge with my #AppleWatch. …
: Let me distract you from the geopolitical horror of the moment with some good nature reads…
: 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.
: A protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Shoreham’s East Street yesterday. 🇺🇦
: A Seaford seafront walk this afternoon.
: This is officially my new favourite warning sign.
: Up and out for a self-defence class for the girls.
: Coffee and chat with my youngest at Tom Foolery.
: This piece in the most recent Standart takes on a whole different tone given what’s happening in Ukraine right now.
: First time this year that I have finished a day’s lecturing at City, and it’s still been light when I left.
: Weather like this makes isolation easier…
: 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 …
: Stuck inside and desperately missing the outdoors… 🤞🏻for a negative lateral flow soon.
: Images from Ukraine as they prepare for possible invasion. How powerful photography can be in showing the human impact of politics.
: A time lapse from the height of Storm Eunice earlier.
: Our house has apparently had enough of those Donny Downer negative lateral flow tests, and are going to be positive, positive, positive instead!
: Morning beach walk #2: cold, grey and a wee bit bleak. Still, was home before the rain hit.
: Two Apple Fitness Awards day:
: Morning beach walk #1: Valentine’s Day Lovely sun, but a cold wind, and plenty of spray in the air.
: 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 …
: Another day’s lecturing done.
: The person sitting in front of me on the train has a coffee that smells so good it’s almost torture. ☕️
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Second screenbreak of the day: cleaning and refilling the bird feeders.
: 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 …
: Today’s edition of “spot the raptor”.
: We made a friend in the churchyard this afternoon. 🐿
: Currently reading: Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 📚 This is an engrossing read. To write with such honesty and directness about the depression that …
: 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 …
: A morning long black in relaxed surroundings.
: 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.
: Finished reading: The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚 Excellent book — and timely. Full review at the weekend.
: Nice to have a bit of company while I was chilling out down by the harbour arm.
: “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 …
: This is just joyful. 🎵Worries for another day🎶
: 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 …
: Martin Belam: “I also saw someone else describe NFTs as “content-free DRM” and reader, I howled.”
: Enjoying a walk by the harbour arm, while my youngest has a piano lesson.
: It was frosty on the beach again, this morning.
: Well, that arrived quicker than I expected…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Respect to the people having a morning sea swim at 0°C this morning.
: A frosty morning on Shoreham Beach.
: Sunset from the harbour arm.
: A fond farewell to a long-serving car. I had the Fire Engine (as we called it) for over 12 years.
: John Naughton: “Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; but it’s not a way of solving a problem.”
: “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, …
: Just put some petrol in the car for what could well be the last time ever. Changes…
: Good morning from Shoreham Beach.
: Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.
: Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic: “The acceptance and fellowship that online communities bring, be they subreddits and Facebook groups or …
: This is a rather nice one. Trafalgar Square, early summer 1994.
: More West End candids from 1994.
: 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 …
: Here’s the posts that caught your attention on my site in 2021. Happy New Year to you all!
: Finding a stolen and burnt out motorcycle near their grandma’s house was an education for the girls…
: A very merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it!
: Somebody’s not enjoying the festive season.
: Night boat to nowhere, Worthing.
: “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 …
: “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 …
: This rather elderly angel used to top my late parents’ Christmas tree. And now she tops ours.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Two jabs in one session: Covid: 💉💉💉 Flu: 💉
: The iPad Pro is the best coffee shop computer yet invented. Thank you. I will not be taking questions.
: Time to slay the iPhone tabs monster…
: One for GoPro folks: New firmware for the Hero 10 Black, including more 24fps modes.
: 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.
: Some useful trends amongst the Web 3.0 / Metaverse hype picked out here.
: Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter by Nigel Slater 📚 Well, it’s the right time of year. …
: Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.
: Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.
: When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.
: 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 …
: The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.
: These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad. A 15 mile walk. In December. In their swimming costumes. 🥶
: A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.
: This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a negative educational impact from the pandemic.
: 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.
: 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.
: I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.
: 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 …
: A frosty morning down on the beach.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: Castlehill, Edinburgh, Spring 1994.
: About time: Discord working on macOS app that runs natively on M1
: 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
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: Dramatic light over the sea today.
: Chilly beach walk with the girls.
: 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.
: We’ve got a goshawk lunching in our back garden.
: Not sure I could rock this look, 29 years later…
: Spending an enjoyable evening looking at journalist-created newsletters from India and surrounding countries. I know how to live it up on a Friday …
: I love writing. I hate getting started on writing.
: Blimey. I think Substack is down.
: Do I have the mental bandwidth left to update a theme on one of my Ghost blogs? Hmmm.
: Cory Doctorow is not pulling his punches on NFTs.
: 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 …
: 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
: Today, I turn 50. Please respect the privacy of my family and I at this difficult time. Thank you.
: 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 …
: Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥
: While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time meandering through this: A Year Unfolding 📚
: 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 – …
: 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 …
: Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?
: 🚨 Important discourse. 🚨 Will the Metaverse save journalism?
: It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the costs of managing that scale: How Facebook Failed …
: Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly occupied, though.
: One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching. Today is not that day.
: Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log straight back off.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
: Doc Searls on supply chains: “But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources …
: Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.
: 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. …
: Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with their laptops, wasn’t it?
: Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.
: Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.
: 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 …
: Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.
: 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 …
: First commute to London in 18 months. It’s… quieter.
: Zoom fatigue hits women and new hires disproportionally.
: We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.
: Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…
: 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 …
: Slightly perturbed to discover that my daughters think that I’m basically Izzy Moonbow…
: The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.
: Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct
: 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.
: Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the Artisans' Market. #mboct
: I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…
: 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 …
: A dramatic evening beach walk.
: 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.
: A first play with the iPhone 13 Pro’s cinematic video mode.
: 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 …
: Macro mode on the new iPhone is pretty impressive.
: Helloooo </Terry Thomas voice>
: I wonder what would happen if I just started posting on a neglected blog, and saw what happened?
: Selfie shot with the new GoPro Hero 10.
: Journalistic clichés to avoid like the plague. Note to self: rewrite before posting.
: The text recognition in photos that’s part of iOS15 is pretty damn impressive.
: Gotta say, shipping the new GoPro in a plastic bag somewhat undermines the “plastic free packaging” messaging…
: I’m really leaning into the Dad joke thing right now.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: New iPad Mini? That’s my wife’s Christmas present sorted, then.
: Only Apple can get me to watch an hour-long advert.
: 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 …
: Huh. Weird. My pre-M1 iMac has the MacOS 11.6 update, but not my M1 MacBook Pro.
: Quite a sunset over the river tonight.
: Oh, gosh. An I about to buy a new phone gimbal? I am, aren’t I?
: And yes, that includes washing it.
: Today’s exciting lunch break: cleaning the tent post-camping trips.
: Just booked my first evening out in Brighton since the pandemic began. I shouldn’t be — but I do feel slightly nervous…
: 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 …
: My classy, elegant meeting space this morning…
: 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.
: 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…
: The seductive lure of cognitive bias. Don’t look too hard, or the story might melt away…
: Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.
: The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit Has Been Banned
: 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.
: Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog posts coming next.
: Thoughtful piece on the tenor of social media interactions by Roxane Gay.
: Twitter Social Distancing — why I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month.
: “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 …
: So, about the Doctor Who news…
: Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions of you from earlier in your life?
: Is it even social media if you don’t occasionally post photos of your lunch?
: Not something you see every day in Shoreham…
: I much prefer the feel of matt dust jackets when reading a hardback book to glossy ones.
: 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 …
: The absence of iPadOS 14.7 from last night’s round of updates is curious…
: Schmigadoon! is an intensely joyful slice of TV.
: 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 …
: I have coffee and a piece on supply chains to finish. Wish me luck.
: Self-solving tech problems are my favourite kind.
: Last night I had intense dreams about Swedish third wave coffee shops. That’s about as on-brand for me as it gets.
: 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…
: Today is my “Max Vax" day — two weeks since my second dose. 💉💉🎉
: 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…)
: UK schoolchildren faking positive lateral flow COVID tests to get two weeks off school — using orange juice. 🤯
: 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.
: A good reason for a drizzly beach picnic last weekend…
: 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, …
: Up at stupid o’clock for a podcast guest appearance…
: Concert time down near the Beach.
: Having a coffee in Tom Foolery with my daughters. It almost feels like the old days again. ☕️
: 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 …
: Coffee date with my youngest.
: 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? …
: 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. …
: Today, in a career first, I received a press release about a toilet brush. Not any old toilet brush, mind. A crowdfunded toilet brush.
: This plan to make Oxford Circus a car-free pedestrian piazza absolutely needs to happen.
: If you ask me, this is nothing but a pile of junk.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Fathers Day gifts from my girls.
: Another afternoon’s remote training ahead…
: This is a really, really interesting podcast on how to reverse polarisation in society. Thought-provoking.
: 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 …
: See you, open rates. It was good while it lasted. Apple closes down open rate tracking
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Friendly wee chap in the churchyard this morning.
: First library visit since the first lockdown! 📚
: 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 …
: Online culture is now just culture: Dominic Cummings References Spider-Man-Pointing Meme To Parliament
: Well, now. Amazon Makes Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion
: Amen to this: If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry
: I will never cease to be amazed by the speed with which my daughters can make our living room chaotic.
: Watching last week’s Countryfile has me thinking about drones again. There’s some fantastic drone-driven storytelling shots, rather than the normal …
: 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.
: Gosh. Gee whizz. What a surprise.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Dear Substack writers, Crossheads massively enhance the readability of your precious multi-thousand word hot takes. They are fully supported by the …
: Birthday party in progress: pin the tail on the Gnasher…
: 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… …
: I’ll be honest — editing these photos is making me hungry.
: 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 …
: Nature really doesn’t understand the rules of storytelling…
: This week I have more good old-fashioned phone calls than Zoom or Teams meetings. It’s such a relief.
: Lovely afternoon down on the beach.
: Look at me, updating node.js from the command line like I have the first clue what I’m doing.
: 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 …
: For creativity to thrive, digital needs to learn its place…
: “Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are Extremely Online have Substack.” Source: How …
: 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: …
: I just managed to lose a cup of coffee in the living room. How’s your Monday going?
: 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 …
: It turns out that our local church uses some rather dated tech…
: 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 …
: Always worth taking time out to feed our feathered friends.
: 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 …
: Want: Hexagonal garden office on stilts.
: The beach is going for drama this afternoon.
: 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. …
: It’s lovely to see the vegetation sprouting again on the beach — a sure sign that summer is on its way.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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.
: This is genius: Paddington in Film
: Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might actually be a good thing…
: The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life improvements for Apple Watch users.
: 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 …
: 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, …
: So happy to see Apple go back to colour in the post-Ive era.
: From our trip to Wakehurst last week:
: 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 …
: Finally, I’ve had my post-lockdown haircut.
: 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 …
: Six thoughts about the Substack local initiative.
: Are we losing the fight on content moderation? If so, what should we do instead?
: Hazel, Dora and the leaf skeleton
: My first jab booked for Friday! 💉
: I think the obsession with newsletters is obscuring the bigger story: that the growing prevalence of publishing platforms with built-in member support …
: 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 …
: Anyone else using a Mac found that their rate of genuine emails filtered to spam has shot up in recent months?
: Hiking dates are a thing? Seems like a good way to destruction test your relationship…
: I think my daughters might be prematurely middle-aged:
: I am HERE for headline puns that combine Doctor Who and typography: Time’s New Roman
: Sometimes it’s amply clear that these are chalk downs:
: There’s a metaphor here about nature and technology…
: Medium introduces the blogroll. Wait — have I somehow slipped back 20 years to 2001?
: Up and at ‘em early this morning for a last pass on a really interesting research report I’m editing.
: OK. This doesn’t feel like good news: Getty Images is acquiring Unsplash.
: Spring really came to Shoreham-by-Sea, yesterday. I took advantage of the lockdown easing to have a bonus lunchtime walk.
: 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.”
: I do like to get down and dirty with a server once in a while:
: 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 …
: The very old and the very new in a port town.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: It’s World Osprey Week, as European ospreys start returning to their nests for the breeding season.
: Now, can I post to micro.blog from Ulysses OK?
: A digest of nature-centric reading (and viewing) to round out your weekend.
: Last night, we finished the last of the Christmas mead — just in time for spring.
: This is not the real view from my house - but neither is it a Zoom background…
: On the Harry & Meghan interview and the UK media.
: The Shoreham Harbour pilots' boat coming back in after meeting a container ship offshore.
: The Ernst Hagedorn coming into Shoreham Harbour this afternoon.
: The uncomplicated way year ones express their joy in seeing their school friends over Teams is something we could all stand to learn from.
: They really want the train to stop #worldbookday
: It’s very much a Gray Day today.
: 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 …
: Taken this afternoon. Spring is coming.
: Some weekend nature-centric reading and viewing for you.
: Cooking “last day of half term” pancakes for my daughters.
: New fancy coffee brewing method to kick off the weekend right.
: 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 …
: First take-out coffee of the year.
: I do like the geometry and colours of this image.
: This sign has met a premature end, but I look forward to the day when its ilk are no longer needed.
: I’ve seen how this movie ends — and it’s not pretty…
: 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 …
: 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…
: 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 …
: It may be cold, but the beach is the beach.
: I think they’re plotting something.
: I’m not saying it’s cold — but here’s a frozen boat we found.
: I think we were making him nervous.
: 9 days until we need to homeschool again. Bliss.
: 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 …
: 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?
: 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 …
: Not the morning conference(s) I expected to be attending at this point in my career, but it is what it is…
: Ouch. This Big Sur upgrade nightmare is exactly what has happened to my sister-in-law. Looks like I have bad news for her.
: Team Tinworth lockdown work and homeschooling station for the day.
: Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday. I’ve been on the beta. It’s interesting - but really needs the network …
: Well, I suppose it counts as snow.
: 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 …
: We found a great hagstone yesterday.
: 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 …
: Description of the day: “Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all her congressional committees on Thursday.”
: TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.
: Shoreham-by-Sea fishing boats.
: 😱 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
: Another day done. Goodnight, friends.
: This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s vaguely horrifying…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but feels productive.
: Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.
: Scenes from homeschool: 👧 “What does ‘dour’ mean?” 👱🏻♂️ “If only there was some sort of book that listed words alphabetically alongside their …
: Plenty of people enjoying the waves down at the Beach today.
: 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 …
: Fascination read about Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat
: Repeatedly misspelling “audience” is probably not good, when you’re running a new module called “Audience Strategy”. And I just misspelled “strategy” …
: Emails from luggage companies are getting ever more desperate.
: Lockdown isn’t easy. I’m having a rough day. It’s OK if you are, too.
: Podcasting is 20 years old today. Here’s the story of the first podcast feed.
: Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities — some thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead.
: I’m not sure this is going to work.
: Hard to argue with this message.
: Brighton by night. Shot on Shoreham Beach, at dusk
: Some ocean-based learning resources for parents struggling with homeschooling.
: Oh, this is just perfect: Wondermark #1523; In which Hot Takes are Served Fresh
: 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 …
: Socially-distanced beach walk.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A cold and frosty morning on the Beach, and it’s not lifting.
: This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of assaults on facts.
: Ryan Broderick: I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, at least right now, they are.
: Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.
: 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 …
: I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.
: Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard (gard,gard,gard)
: My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously very cute and mildly creepy.
: Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…
: 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, …
: How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.
: Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?
: Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.
: Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.
: Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.
: 🙀 What real estate agents are finding in empty offices right now
: 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 🏴
: 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.
: Love a bit of garden office porn.
: 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 …
: I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, upgrading them and correcting problems left over from various …
: 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 …
: We really need to talk about trust in journalism.
: This eco cabins are just irresistible to me. One day. One day.
: These two things can both be true: Herd immunity is a real, valid scientific concept. Attempting to achieve it for COVID19 without vaccinations would …
: 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 …
: And now COVID19 is [hitting the coffee supply chain]sprudge.com/covid-19-…). Enjoy that cup of joe while you can…
: This is interesting, and ties in with what immunologists I know have been saying for a while: disinfecting surfaces is basically COVID theatre, and …
: There’s plenty of discussion of journalism business models. There’s some discussion about emergent journalistic forms. There’s rarely any deep …
: 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.
: A quick digest of some worthwhile or interesting nature and outdoors reading.
: 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 …
: A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas. And go to restaurants.
: Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so.
: Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders.
: 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 …
: Conspiracy theories: making the gullible feel insightful in your Facebook feed right now.
: So… this is my first post from a Mac powered by Apple Silicon.
: Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the pandemic.
: 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 …
: Blogging is a discipline: it’s a practice of expressing your thoughts in writing, routinely, and with focus. Writing a post every day for …
: It was a gorgeously foggy morning this morning:
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 - …
: 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 …
: Lovely day for a beach walk.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Today’s lesson: do not record your Zoom sessions locally, if you have multiple incoming streams. It seems to strain the connection too much.
: Revamped online lecturing and training setup working well. 👍🏻
: 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 …
: As someone who spent my entire childhood north of the border, the increasing likelihood that Scotland will soon be an independent country is troubling …
: 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 …
: Burn out or fade away? Tonight, it’s a bit of both.
: It’s just possible I’ve found a solution to something that’s been bugging me all year. 🤞🏻
: 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.
: As I child, I railed against my dependence on sleep. As an adult, I embrace it. Night, all.
: Wake. Take children to school. Train people via Zoom. Collect children. Feed children. Read bedtime story. Edit training videos. Sleep. Wake. Take…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re altogether ooky, They’re Adam’s family. 😎
: The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes my deep loyalty to the medium feel completely …
: Media artisans and their tools…
: One thing from the before times I really miss: just grabbing my laptop or iPad and heading to a coffee shop to work for an hour or two. If home …
: 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 …
: Hello, Big Sur. (That sounds like something from a really bad prison movie: “Jim, if you want to survive in here, you need to keep Big Sur happy…”)
: The balance of my wardrobe has changed during the eight months of lockdowns and remote working. I wear far fewer smart jackets, shirts and jumpers, …
: 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 …
: Charles Arthur: […] classical orchestras are just tribute bands for old music 🤯
: Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…
: I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life. But it would be a lie.
: ”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places without really putting down roots in any one. …
: Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…
: The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook Pro — but perhaps I should hang on until next year. It …
: 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 …
: There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms curtailed. But last time, it helped bind communities …
: Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to Amazon.
: Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Birthday beach walk with my daughters.
: 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 …
: This is strangely delightful in the twilight world of an uncertain presidential result: Neon Trump comes to Hackney (It’s guerrilla art)
: 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 …
: Have to say - I wasn’t expecting to be spending time in A&E on the first day of lockdown.
: 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.
: My family continue to astonish me. I’m a lucky man to have these people in difficult times.
: Things that have become a routine part of my life since the first lockdown began: moving around Gigabytes of video recordings every week.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: TIL: never try to shove a 1080p stream down a 720p pipe.
: Misty, dreich morning in Sussex.
: How the year 2000 web reacted to the tense election standoff between Bush and Gore. Useful historical context for the coming week…
: Just spent 30 minutes catching up on newsletters. My, do some well-known journalists suffer without subs and editing. Witticisms that aren’t witty, …
: 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 …
: Today is a Zoom-free day. That is a good day.
: Lovely walk with the girls, despite the dreich weather.
: Should you turn on your video camera during online training?
: Another day in front of the ring light…
: Ah, the BBC’s Autumnwatch. Balm for the soul.
: Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and editing them for later reference by trainees, I …
: Wellies was the right decision.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Telling the stories of our wild places (by way of another childhood reminiscence).
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Handy guidance here for leading journalists and authors: How to Avoid ‘Zoom Dick’ Incidents During Zoom Calls at Work
: 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. 😤
: 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…
: 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.
: Interesting piece. The start of a shift from “proximity to work” to “proximity to lifestyle amenities” as a major determining factor in residential …
: I’m trying an experiment. I’ve switched my default search engine on my iPhone to DuckDuckGo, and will see how I get on.
: Lo! There comes a Toast Cat!
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Apple ProRaw actually looks quite interesting. Be interested to see how quickly the major editing apps support it, though.
: Lisa on the roof, talking environmental stuff amongst the solar panels is cool.
: I’d be more excited by 5G coming to the iPhone if I thought I’d be going anywhere in the next six months 🤷🏼♂️
: “Something only Apple can do” is going to get really annoying really fast.
: On the sofa for the Apple announcements, and my daughters have joined me…
: Shaping up to be a nice Autumn day down by the river.
: Just rewatched Frozen 2 with my daughters. Anna is clearly the most thirsty of Disney heroines. 🍿
: 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 …
: 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. 🐦
: 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.
: This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – the ‘lab conditions’ in question include in the …
: Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.
: Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢
: Fear my mighty traybake powers.
: Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media (Or why your spicy hot takes are making everything worse.)
: Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance
: Why we need a new framework for discussing powerful women — and it’s all the fault of the Greeks
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Spending my evening editing the videos of yesterday’s lectures. I know how to live.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Lecturing kit, COVID-19 style.
: Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of an iMac Zooming, rather than gamboling, …
: Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.
: And finally, we have the app.
: Oh, sweet joy. iOS14 has brought emoji search to the iPhone. 🙌🏼
: That URL looks completely legit and I shall be claiming straight away. 🙄
: A nice early autumn surprise in the garden.
: Interesting. You can now find Substacks written by people you follow on Twitter.
: 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 …
: As a palate cleanser after that last post, here’s Martin’s enjoyable ramblings about classic Doctor Who story The Invasion.
: Everything wrong with both Facebook and internet fandom in one screencap.
: Percentage chance I would use smart glasses from Facebook: 0%
: 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 …
: 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 …
: What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard and Pencil 2?
: Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while its citizens are encouraged to report their …
: This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish
: John O’Nolan: ”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.” Not completely true, but uncomfortably close to it…
: Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.
: Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓
: Pubs 👍🏻 Offices 👍🏻 7 people in the park. 👎🏻 Yup. That all seems logical. 👀
: Autumn comes when the ospreys leave. 🍂
: Working like this might actually tempt me back into a proper job. Probably not, mind. But it could.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A buzzard, drifting lazily over the Woods Mill car park.
: This “shed” is basically pornography for writers.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Rainbow over Shoreham Beach yesterday.
: My July in one second every day.
: Sitting by the sea while my daughter has a socially distanced outdoors Rainbows meeting.
: Some interesting thoughts on the future of newsletters. I certainly think many newsletters resemble blogs - but many are nothing like them, too.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Beach cleaning after (Storm) Ellen.
: Managed a little time on the beach before the rain hit.
: I couldn’t figure out why my mouse wasn’t working this morning, until I turned it over. Well played, daughters of mine.
: Fiddling around with a side project while my daughters do their martial arts class via Zoom.
: So much “nope” in this vision of a home office cubicle.
: The faceless mob of Twitter accelerants.
: Sea swim with my tiny limpet. 🌊
: Trying a small productivity hack today: doing half hour bursts of email, and then closing the app for a couple of hours. 🤞🏻
: 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 …
: The “aircraft engine housing and car wash brushes” look for garden gates is in, in, in, this summer.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The over-50s are coming for your TikTok. And they’re taking no style prisoners.
: As soon as the sun goes in, we get the beach back to ourselves. This was absolutely heaving a few days ago.
: There are worse places to catch up on a few emails.
: Upgrade for our Zoom future.
: 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 …
: Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures. What fantastic news.
: Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, why they confuse even other biologists and what …
: Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚
: Stunning skies yesterday evening.
: This was a very long time ago in the Cairngorms.
: Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱
: 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 …
: Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more directly the relationship between what you write …
: 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.
: 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%.
: Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people
: A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.
: Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings. Sometimes they way we write something can do more harm than good.
: Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.
: Typo of the day: “toe-hugging”. Less green than tree-hugging, and just possibly a bit more kinky.
: Trump just used a massive dead cat to distract from appalling US economic news.
: A devastating consequence of the pandemic and lockdown: the National Trust are making over 1000 people redundant.
: The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one critical element.
: 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 …
: The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.
: An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.
: We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.
: 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 …
: A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.
: It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…
: 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.
: 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.
: Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.
: Hand-writing this post using Scribble and my Apple Pencil in iOS 14. That was easier than I expected!
: Exploring the idea of the blogletter. What differentiates it from a more traditional newsletter?
: 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: …
: Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics. 🤦🏼♂️
: A wee visitor to our garden at night…
: Homeschooling break in the garden.
: Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, Facebook is just an arms dealer.
: Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.
: Maltese boats. Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.
: The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago. Photo by my late mother.
: Looking back at locked-down May in 1 second every day.
: The news we need, if not the news we deserve: Dogmatix to Get His Own Asterix Comic Book
: Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts. Time to get the Keep Cup out again.
: 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.
: It is just possible that 1989 Adam was trying a bit too hard.
: This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others: How to engage with life when you feel down
: 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 …
: More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but it all comes together in the end!
: My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!” BRB - exploding with pride.
: 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 …
: I am middle-aged enough that I really am very excited about my new compost bin. 🌱
: 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 …
: This is lovely: The Archers Theme as you’ve never heard it - with the cast at home !
: 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, …
: Today’s Social & Digital lunchbreak digs deep on narcissism, toxic communities — and Nazi My Little Pony fans. Really.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: MacOS Big Sur: love the new design, but feel like they’re just trolling us with the name now.
: Automatic hand-washing detection and timing on Apple Watch! That’s as Covid-y as it gets.
: Controversial opinion: I prefer this keynote format.
: Dance workouts on Apple Watch. Oh, yes. 💃 ⌚️ (Watch-based cycling navigation seem vital in a Covid-world, too.)
: I can barely read my own handwriting. Good luck to iPad OS in figuring it out.
: So… if your phone runs out of battery, your car won’t start or open?
: Cycling directions in iOS maps in iOS 14 🚴♂️ 🎉
: They have a real aversion to static shots in this pre-recorded WWDC keynote, don’t they?
: The new iOS 14 widgets just announced at WWDC are going to be amazing on iPad.
: Wow. Empty Steve Jobs Theatre. Striking way to acknowledge the unusual times.
: 👀 Heavy Coffee Drinkers Want Coffee A Lot More Than They Actually Like It ☕️
: 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.
: The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement - and the piece highlights the two key things that went wrong.
: Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: What’s collective noun for a group of SUPpers?
: 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.
: Kitesurfers on Shoreham Beach
: 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 …
: This lockdown concert by Madness is a real balm to the soul. Nicely done.
: Turns out it’s easier to say “world-beating” than actually deliver it. Who knew? (Everybody else.)
: Has the meaning of the word “blog” changed? Sadly, I think the answer is “yes”.
: Blimey. Plurk. The microblogging service where I was [marginally more popular than …
: 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 …
: 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)
: Home schooling parents: a nature documentary on Disney+ is a perfectly valid natural history lesson, right? RIGHT?
: 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 …
: We’re still weeks away from re-opening swimming pools in the UK. We’re so lucky to live near the sea.
: My talented sister-in-law talking about Hogarth’s The Madhouse at Sir John Soane’s Museum
: Hit a million views on Unsplash.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Better broadband please. kthxbai
: After some thought, I put today’s social & digital lunchbreak outside the reg wall, because the lead story is important for everyone in online …
: How to foster ‘shoshin’ - the beginner’s mind. Such a good discipline.
: Finally getting back to the beach. It’s amazing the difference removing the feeling that the clock is ticking on your trip out makes.
: 30 seconds of Shoreham Beach for you:
: Shoreham Beach is a rare vegetated shingle habitat. And it’s just coming into bloom now. Stunning.
: 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 …
: First sea swim of the year. 🏊♀️
: Kite surfers off Shoreham Beach.
: Photographer friends: can you recommend a good hand strap?
: “You’re muted” has been uttered more often in the last two months than in all the rest of human history combined.
: Ingenious - forces social distancing on trains, while making it easier to commute by cycle: Increased bike storage proposed for socially distanced …
: I want a kilt version of this social distancing ‘petticoat dress’.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Om Malik: Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook? “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Facebook!”
: The Cambridge University decision seems sensible - push the low-hanging fruit online, work on how you handle the rest. Better to plan for strict …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My wife is making two cups of tea - for herself. This is going to be an interesting day…
: 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 …
: The time finally arrived. The lockdown haircut had to happen.
: A little beach calm for you.
: Actually made it to the beach for the first time this week.
: 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.
: 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 …
: Oh, the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival is going virtual. That looks like a fun distraction.
: I have won the viral apocalypse. Please send tribute.
: Lockdown bank holiday camping. Yes, that’s our back garden. ⛺️
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A stunning late afternoon down on Shoreham Beach.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 - …
: 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 …
: That’s about as socially distanced as it gets.
: Lockdown reasons to be cheerful… Some folks here on Shoreham Beach are being a lot more creative with lockdown than I’m managing…
: Me pre-lockdown: Do we even need a printer at home any more? Me in lockdown, and homeschooling: We need a better printer!
: This fella dropped by while I was lounging in the garden.
: Our family lockdown exercise. I love these three so very much.
: If you give your article a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” I will not read it.
: I’ve got the perfect background for the next few Zoom meetings. Very professional, I think.
: When lockdown eases, which approach do you think companies will choose? Allow more remote working? Up their office space to allow for social …
: Consequences, consequences: WarnerMedia Is Rethinking Theatrical Release Model Huge TVs with good sound systems at home. Hard to socially distance in …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Rough day - two bad pieces of news about two different projects means things are looking financially pretty precarious for me. Just about enough …
: Ballet class via Facebook Live.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Spectacular caterpillar nest in a tree.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Tonight I am transcoding an Easter Service video, produced remotely by multiple local households, for best playback on Facebook. It’s already on …
: Prepping a video for the local church. Not how I expected to be using this kit…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Lovely 13th Doctor short story from ex-Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat: The Terror of the Umpty Ums. He nails her voice perfectly.
: 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…
: Socially distanced martial arts classes begin…
: 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…
: The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom has re-emerged with a blog and It is all about coronavirus and maths. Uh-oh.
: 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.
: 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 …
: The speed with which some local folk have started demanding that martial law be imposed is quite, quite terrifying.
: I’m gonna be really good at these motionlapses by the end of 🔒⬇️
: Life blossoming in the espalier trees.
: Nearly 14 years ago, then-French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy talked to the attendees at LeWeb 3, a digital conference. It seems like …
: I’m really enjoying the process of pulling together my daily distractions newsletter. Finding three things to link is great fun. Today’s issue …
: And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.
: Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.
: Shooting random time lapses, because why not?
: Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home
: April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, Lies and Spammers
: One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs standing idle.
: 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 …
: Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?
: Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty much everyone leading our response has the novel …
: 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 …
: Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.
: 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 …
: We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists could make that easier to find.
: How BBC Radio 4 is going to keep The Archers going during Coronavirus lockdown.
: Here I am in the Stockport Advertiser in July 8th 1976:
: Blossom in the garden. Nature’s beauty continues, oblivious to our anxiety. And it is a balm for it, too.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Clapping for the NHS in Shoreham-by-Sea.
: A new take on my Engaged Reading Time newsletter. 3 links a day. None of them about the coronavirus. What do you think?
: 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 …
: Consequences a’coming. Any way back from this? The Cornish revolt against second-home owners.
: 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)
: This morning: teacher Now: cook Afternoon: back to working Evening: 🥃 Repeat for an indefinite number of weeks.
: Perfect timing for the quasi-lockdown: Disney+ is live in the uk
: 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 …
: There are times when I think one of the fastest ways to stop coronavirus misinformation spreading would be to shut down Medium.
: A quick history of technology lesson - now the girls understand why the return key is called the return key.
: Computing lessons with Mr Tinworth. The pupils are learning that there’s more to iPads than games.
: Currently staring at a newly-arrived “while you were out" card from a delivery company. I mean, WTF?
: 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 …
: Well played, Beach Deli. Well played.
: Highly socially distanced beach walk. Hoping the idiots who are carrying on as normal don’t take that from us as well.
: 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 …
: That’s one way of social distancing.
: Not one of my better timed recent purchases…
: “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 …
: Looks like the whiteboard has arrived - ready to start delivering courses remotely.
: 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 …
: Every gamer who is now working from home and video conferencing is feeling very smug about their microphone quality…
: Just saw my daughters off to school for the last time for the foreseeable future. Homeschooling from Monday. Strange times.
: 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 …
: All respect to the Debenhams marketing team for giving it everything they’ve got in this moment…
: ‘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 …
: Has anyone seen any reporting on how the anti-vaxxer communities are reacting to the pandemic?
: So, I’d like to apologise for wishing to spend more time with my family, whilst holding the monkey paw. My bad, everyone.
: Why Coronavirus social distancing is negatively impacting social media content moderation.
: Facebook’s moderation problems last night - what you need to know.
: This is a sobering, but thoughtful, read: We’re not going back to normal. No, I don’t think we are.
: Twitter’s role in a time of global pandemic,
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Video from my wife of Victoria Station this morning at around 10am. She estimates it was 80% quieter than normal…
: 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 …
: Hard to disagree with the last line of this, although I hope we’ll see better behaviour, too.
: Behaviour change is hard. But if we don’t evolve - we suffer the consequences.
: Social distancing at my local coffee shop.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Good day on the hagstone front.
: My January in one second everyday. (I always seem to be playing catch-up with these.)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Reporting on COVID-19. Trying to amplify signal, not noise.
: Let this destress you in the midst of the current mess: A Joyful Flash Mob Plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
: So, based on what is emerging from my scanner as I work, I was quite a cute toddler. Unexpected.
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: I worry that coffee shops (and elsewhere) now refusing to let customers use reusable cups because of Coronavirus concerns will kill the momentum built …
: A London hairdresser marketing its way through Coronavirus.
: Om Malik on how social networks lose our trust.. Thought-provoking.
: Cleaning up negative scans in Photoshop on my iPad is quite soothing.
: Rather concerning, if not surprising piece: Russia ‘hired network of Britons to go after enemies of Putin’. Some very careful wording in there…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Hard to disagree with this one: Quote of the Day
: Well, the panic buying is clearly still happening. This is Waitrose in Worthing a few hours ago - toilet paper and paracetamol sold out.
: Post-Nature Tots babychino from the Woods Mill café.
: Oh, fabulous. Coronavirus means we’re back to disposable coffee cups: Starbucks Will No Longer Fill Your Reusable Cup Because Of COVID-19
: 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
: It’s fun looking back on my old “blogiversary" posts - like this one from 11 years ago, when my blog was 6.
: 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 …
: Oil consumption just fell off a cliff…
: Could the coronavirus be a globalisation inflection point? Maybe. If we want it to be.
: 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, …
: Children in school. Bird food topped up. Dishwasher on. Coffee made. Dammit. It’s time to do some work.
: 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 …
: David Allen Green’s characterisation of us entering “Brexit: Season 2" is a useful one, I think: Brexit: the end of the beginning
: Actual interview with actual scientist for those who are overwhelmed by inexpert hot takes on COVID-19: Coronavirus’s Genetics Reveal Its Global …
: Spectacular sunset as storm clouds approached this evening.
: Sea still lively in the wake of the storm.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: A day of exploring with my girls. Making progress on a long walk.
: 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 …
: Brexit consequences: Google moving UK data to the US - where data protections are weaker.
: Polarisation wears an unexpected face in today’s Engaged Reading Digest.
: Iris is having an artistic moment.
: Kinda struggling to believe that Facebook can’t afford enough developers to do an iPad app.
: Looks like Storm Dennis has abated enough that the kite surfers are heading out again.
: This is a fascinating, and troubling, German investigation into the way corporations are funnelling funds into climate change deniers: The Heartland …
: The girls appear unimpressed by my efforts to get them to go for a walk in the face of Storm Dennis
: 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 …
: Podcasting the great outdoors - one of the ways I try to disconnect from work over the weekend.
: Spotify is trying to become podcasting’s gatekeeper. We musn’t let them.
: I’m pleased with this one, winding up our VUCA series for NEXT Conference: Embrace ambiguity and forge our quantum future.
: My major lesson this year so far is that the right new coat can do wonders for your self-image. Good night.
: Watching the boats on the Adur rise as high tide approaches.
: 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, …
: This video might challenge your ideas of what you can do with an iPad: Editing Podcasts with Ferrite and Apple Pencil
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The information ecosystem is badly polluted — and journalism is playing its part. We need to clean up our act, and depollute the information …
: Great newsletter from David Mattin on the creation of the technocratic elite. This is shaping up to be an essential weekly read.
: The (brief) time we decided to share the beach with Storm Ciara yesterday…
: Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety Not a surprise. I nearly joked that it could prove …
: Actually getting out of the house to work – it’s far too rare at the moment.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Gotta say, it’s a bit breezy out today…
: A letter of recommendation. Great as ever.
: Mac photo editor Luminar 4 Sends Data to Facebook in the Background by Default. I’m glad I stopped using their products about a year ago now.
: Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for sale for £100
: Beach plant. One of the nice things about Shoreham Beach is that, as a protected and rare habitat, we get a good range of plant life, even in winter.
: Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked…
: The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of Apple’s services offerings.
: A new report on UK news consumption during the general election shows that many of the things we think about the media and politics are false - and …
: Reading some embargoed research - and it is basically 😱. Huge shift to the way I think about .
: Spot the children’s beginning reading book.
: TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.
: Y’know, normally I mourn layoffs at a content website. But I’ll make an exception for The Daily Stormer. The wages of hate cannot make payroll…
: Russell Davies always does such creative One Second Everydays: January 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 …
: Unsplash’s Year in Review makes for fascinating reading - and the images are stunning.
: Well, this is one way of dealing with it: The Daily Dot, Nahila Bonfiglio: Influencer gets revenge on her male trolls with Instagram account
: 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, …
: The great unsolved mystery of the last 22 years: we still don’t know what she gonna look like with a chimney on her.
: I don’t tend to procrastinate on difficult tasks. It’s the boring, repetitive ones I put off too long.
: Finally started watching Halt and Catch Fire. I now want to listen to a lot of 80s music. 📺
: Took a riverside walk today. It’s a good reminder that Shoreham-by-Sea is still very much a working port.
: This is rather lovely, too. Classic on the outside, modern on the inside: John Pawson designs his own Home Farm in the Cotswolds
: This is an excellent set of suggestion of how to write a better newsletter.
: Good Lord, this is a lovely house: Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water
: Lovely hagstone find on the beach just now.
: Hagstones - the sea’s beautiful gift for the mindful.
: What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands' videos Sometimes, it almost feels like humanity deserves to …
: 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 …
: Brighton, from Shoreham Beach.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Oh, Lord. I just tried to swipe to scroll a print magazine. 🤦🏼♂️
: I’m pleased with this for 49p.
: I feel seen: Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again
: What’s the best thing you’ve read online this week?
: Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, claims laid off staffer.
: Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create
: 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 …
: OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a different person
: 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 …
: Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
: 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 …
: Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons
: 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 …
: Dry January? I’ll drink to that… 🥃
: This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic Cummings’ blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Oooooh, Matron… Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) on digital media you’ll enjoy for the year ahead.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about trees. 📚
: Found on the beach this morning. Someone’s feeling patriotic, clearly.
: Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
: I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very calming.
: 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 …
: My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in… …2 days before they go back to school. 🙄
: I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.
: Is it me, or is Gruber a bit pissed (in the British sense) in the latest Talk Show? 🥴
: My December in one second every day.
: Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020
: Happy New Year, you. Yes, you.
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Interesting thoughts on flow in blogging apps (the same applies to all CMSes, I think): Scripting News: Flow in WordPress for writers
: If you still believe that there’s a discernible formula to a successful podcast: Text adventures make Best Podcasts list
: Germany Has Created Dedicated Work Visas For Esports. (I’m fascinated by how few countries are taking this seriously given how much money is …
: Somebody’s turned down the contrast on Sussex.
: Plenty of drama in the sky off Shoreham Beach today.
: Are we sleepwalking into a dystopia? The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act? by John Naughton
: Headline of the day: Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono
: Perfect weather for trying out my Christmas coat…
: Practice ‘scruffy hospitality’ : Your home doesn’t need to be picture-perfect to invite people over.
: Merry Christmas from one man (and his blog).
: Just an intimate dinner for a few chums, wot.
: A very Victorian Christmas at Tyntsfield.
: Why we need to feel the photos
: I think this bauble crop is nearly ready for harvesting.
: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better at instagram - and the power of visual journalism. All …
: Oooh, my sister-in-law is in Vouge.
: 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…
: As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre initially, creating a final submission that is …
: 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.
: This is a really interesting view from inside the BBC: GE19 - from the presenter’s chair.
: I found my parents’ old tree angel, so she’s back in service after a decade off.
: This is a useful read: What does the future hold for progressive politics after the Conservative victory?
: 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 …
: Great analysis from the FT data team: last night, Labour lost the working class.
: Three questions about the UK’s journalism and social media landscape after the General Election result.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: Hard to disagree with this. If only he’d been on the ballot…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Here’s an inspiring fella: The beach clean-up crusader
: A round-up of some of the big misinformation stories surrounding the general election.
: Lovely morning down by the Adur.
: Worrying side-effect of the internet ban there: people’s social media accounts are dropping to inactive status, with consequences for connections: As …
: Paint the whole world with a 🌈
: My November in one second everyday.
: Making the most of a blustery day on the beach.
: My daughter won the school limerick competition. I’m trying not to literally explode with pride - but it’s touch-and-go.
: Revolution Games, David Vaughan-Jackson: Beyond a Steel Sky – Release Update Always disappointing when a game I’m looking forward to is delayed - but …
: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest is all about the memes - but not in a fun way. (Bonus Baby Yoda content, tho’)
: A pretty brutal examination of cancel culture, the psychological motivators, and its inherently polarising nature. And it’s from Psychology Today.
: Chilling tale of how an ordinary teenager can be progressively radicalised by… memes. And people wonder why I devote an entire lecture to mimetic …
: Compelling — and troubling — dive into the weaponisation of memes.
: After school beach trips - not just for the summer!
: Yesterday, the Reuters Institute published some research into podcasting and journalism. Here’s my thoughts on it: News podcasts: profitable and …
: Frost hit last night. I think autumn is done and winter is here. ❄️
: My Podcast playlist for Sundays has the best episode names.
: Finally, the coveted micro.blog 30 day pin is mine.
: There’s nothing better than a nice, fussy way of making your coffee…
: Satisfaction is Always Available
: Shoreham’s looking festive tonight.
: I back the Contract for the Web because the vast potential of it for humanity is being undermined by corporate greed and irresponsibility, political …
: Abstaining From Social Media Doesn’t Improve Well-Being, Experimental Study Finds - a relief for those of us who have to use it professionally.
: Now, that was a tiring couple of days.
: Canary Wharf was starting to look festive earlier.
: The mere existence of deepfakes is eroding our sense of shared reality - even if we’ve never encountered one in the wild.
: 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 …
: (Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the audience engagement mines.
: 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 …
: There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on procrastination mode is not one of them.
: Lovely Autumn day in Shoreham-by-Sea - between the rain, at least.
: Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under” 🤯
: Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts.
: A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: opens Twitter reads for 2 minutes goes to bed despairing of humanity 🛌💤
: 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 - …
: 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 …
: This may be the most perfect Star Wars image ever.
: 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 …
: Honestly, the British retro gaming scene appears to be one big old cesspool.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Memex 1.1, John Naughton: Foresight, ignored — the founders of Google foresaw the possiblity of surveillance capitalism - but went ahead anyway.
: 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 …
: Computational photography raises some serious questions about the nature of reality, and how we represent it.
: 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 …
: What’s the go-to iOS Mastadon client these days?
: Some links that are worth your time - from the psychology of social media outrage, to a celebration of RSS…
: My top artists on Apple Music in 2019. I’m not a raging brony. It’s my daughters. Honest.
: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 16” MacBook Pro - and they appear to have fixed the keyboard - by reverting to an older approach.
: An interesting read for those interested in the psychology of social media: BPS Research Digest: The Paradox Of Viral Outrage: Public Shaming Inspires …
: 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 …
: For those of you on devices that support it, and are in the right time zone, One Man & His Blog now supports dark mode…
: Yo dawg we heard you like Moodle so we put some Moodle in your Moodle so you can Moodle while you Moodle.
: How to fix your Twitter timeline using this one clever trick…
: This is kind of awesome: turning old VHS cassettes into clothes…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Beautiful Remembrance service at Church of the Good Shepherd this morning. The two minutes’ silence with the waves crashing on the beach is always …
: Today at Woods Mill. The dirty secret? This was four adults…
: 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 …
: If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it poses: Coffee Transaction Guide ☕️
: 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 …
: Imagination Unbound (video) This is an interesting watch, and visually inspiring in its own right:
: I did not know this: Why Saying “Namaste” is Culturally Insensitive and NOT Just a Yoga Term.
: 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 …
: 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.
: Possibly the least surprising thing Dave could write about JsonFeed. And the fact I remember the Atom kerfuffle is making me feel very old…
: Nothing suspicious about this at all. Nope: No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after election
: Well, hello Photoshop on iPad.
: Lordy. Pac-Man Gets An Official Theme Song for 40th Anniversary It’s called - wait for it - Join The Pac.
: Such a beautiful crisp, autumn morning, with a lovely “after the storm” feel.
: Beautifully peaceful with plenty of birdsong at the station this morning.
: Spending the day liveblogging Open Data Camp 7 in London.
: Early start to London. Not what you’d call busy at the station.
: Pretty much her idea of heaven.
: Four witches, a cat and a vampire just left my house, to demand sweets with menaces. 🎃
: The digital is inescapably political. It’s time to accept that.
: Hello flamingo! 🦩 (New emoji in iOS 13.2)
: Lovely sight to start the morning.
: Weird. My big iPad Pro took much, much longer than any other device to update to 13.2.
: Oh, hello. iOS 13.2 is here. Time to update ALL THE THINGS again. (Including HomePods and AppleTV.)
: Still a few traces of summer in an autumnal morning.
: Gotta say, my old school friend the artist is pretty fancy these days…
: Nice to have company for my daughters’ martial arts class.
: 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 …
: I apologise to the affront to your ears, but I’m on a podcast: [Micro Monday - 70: Adam Tinworth aka …
: Well, now, what say you people of micro.blog? Scott asked: Although, does anyone use feed readers anymore?!?!
: 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 …
: Crikey. I wrote this 11 years ago - and it’s still as relevant now: “Interesting” is the basis of blogging
: Not only is 8chan struggling to get back online — its co-founder is actively working to keep it that way. Fascinating.
: Either this gentleman doesn’t understand One Man & His Blog’s audience - or I don’t…
: Autumn mist Distinctly misty and autumnal at Lancing College this morning.
: I think it’s fair to say that today’s weather has been changeable…
: Inktober is one of my favourite “internet challenges”. It fills my feeds with such interesting and varied images.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Oh, this is so cool: Grad student defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection letters
: These are absolutely stunning. Well worth checking out: John James Audubon’s Birds of America
: 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 …
: Take some time to listen to Birdsong Radio today - and consider how much poorer we’ll all be if we lose it. #LetNatureSing
: I know it’s fashionable to diss HomePods, but they are hugely popular in the Tinworth household.
: Oh, good work to whomever wrote that headline: Government scraps online ‘porn block’ plans after law hits kinks 👏
: Yahoo Groups is shutting down. Wow. The history of a lot of great early online communities is about to be erased from the web.
: 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 …
: Oh, look. Yet another round of iOS updates.
: RIP Meetup. $2 per RSVP will kill the platform stone dead.
: Good Lord, I suspect that this is only going to increase the determination of the rebels: Police ban Extinction Rebellion protests from whole of …
: This was a fantastic session by Eliza Filby from NEXT conference last month, looking at the characteristics of the generations, and how we should …
: 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.
: Not something I’d considered before - but accurate: The Delicate Nature of Comparing Smartphone Cameras and a Dash of False Equivalence
: Fascinating bit of tech nostalgia: This is How Film Cameras Added Dates to Your Photos:
: Why blogging still matters, even after 25 years:: “The furore over social media and its impact on democracy has obscured the fact that the …
: “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.
: A round-up of some of the research: Social media and depression
: 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 …
: Finally caught up: August in one second everyday.
: I think, after seven years, I might finally be getting the hang of Moodle.
: 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: …
: 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 …
: The new Catalyst-based Twitter for Mac is out.
: Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina. Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop because the hard drive is throwing SMART errors. …
: 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 …
: What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.
: 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 …
: Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go. And remember: Ceiling Cat is watching you.
: 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.
: Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?
: Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?
: Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this photo.
: Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.
: Here we go again: Amazon Prime Video disappears from iOS App Store and Apple TV
: Who knew that The Wurzels covered Pulp’s Common People?
: Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.
: Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted. Musk’s a bit of an arse, isn’t he?
: Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work: Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App Extension
: This is a sobering watch. The plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you.
: “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
: Last month in one second per day.
: 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.
: This morning’s fun game: where has my wife hidden my aeropress?
: Interesting academic analysis of the bizarre, disproportionate response some men have to her: Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe …
: I am surprised by how quiet this university is at 9am compared to later in the day. I shouldn’t be. But I am.
: Well, I’m very tempted by this: Gizmodo, Andrew Couts: GoPro’s Hero8 Black Is Boring—and That’s What Makes It Great
: Not often I look back on conference food with affection - but the NEXT conference lunch bowls were epic:
: Seriously high tides here yesterday. How much higher will they go today?
: A tense moment at fairy hospital: will Vidia fly again?
: Super high tide again today.
: I think this is my favourite of the new watch faces in WatchOS 6.
: Portrait mode on the iPhone X: still a winner.
: Back to the 80s Very much today’s mood:
: 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 …
: Om Malik: Headline hyperbole & article without info
: Happy news for me and the other blog platform I routinely use: iPadOS and Ghost
: 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.
: My perfect travel companion Oh, Lordy. I need this: Luckily my birthday is coming up soon… [via Boing Boing]
: A week ago, I saw a badger on my way to the airport. Thinking about it is still making me happy.
: Yes, iOS13.1 is out (including iPadOS). Go get it, brave folks…
: A little editing on the sofa, using LumaFusion and my iPad Pro. Soooo nice.
: 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 …
: This is utterly glorious film photography geekery: New Website Sets the Record Straight: There is No Such Thing as 120mm Film
: Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza: Disney almost bought Twitter but backed off because “the nastiness is extraordinary” 🤷🏼♂️
: My spirit animal is Benton Fraser from Due South. Thank you kindly.
: I often think that the most dangerous phrase in the English language is “it’s simple”.
: Today’s workspace at #next19
: This end of Reeperbahn is a bit whiffy at 8am.
: 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.
: The first 20 minutes of #NEXT19 in 20 seconds
: What’s outside our universe? A thought-provoking talk to kick off #NEXT19
: Lovely sunny day today - but Wednesday was a different story.
: Such a fungi to spend the morning with. 🍄
: Fabulous day for Nature Tots.
: Fascinating. I didn’t realise Pinterest did monthly updates on trends across the platform.
: What you need to know about yesterday’s Google algorithm news (if you’re a journalist).
: I think that was the first newsletter to my paying members I was really, really happy with. Now to keep repeating that.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: That trade-in price for my iPhone X makes that tempting.
: Wasn’t expecting the always on Apple Watch. Nice upgrade.
: 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.
: Here’s one great reason to love the DJi Osmo Mobile 3 if you’re involved in social video production:
: Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.
: Treating myself to a nice aeropress coffee after my wet and windy walk. ☕️
: 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”, …
: 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 …
: Politicians love presenting us with apparently simple solutions to complex problems. It’s where the votes are. But journalists need to stop aiding and …
: Does journalism have an understanding problem? (tl;dr - yes!)
: 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 …
: Trying something new: Walking With Daddy
: 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?
: Some stunning flowers at Nymans today.
: In a Pub in Fowey Eating dinner by the sea - how very civilised. In a Pub in Fowey
: “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 …
: “Of course you can wear whatever you want to my wedding, sister”. And she did.
: I have no idea what to make of this: Tinworth Iced Tea
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: The traditional camera bloodbath is here, it appears. On my Om, Om Malik: PhotoRealism
: Wow. Fell behind on these. Here’s July - over a months ago - in 1 Second Everyday.
: Look at this. A blog post with actual comments. That takes me back…
: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest - chat apps in protests, how the internet is changing our language and influencer reverse psychology.
: This is why I carry on blogging.
: Understatement of the day: ”It’s almost seven years, now, since David Cameron decided that an EU referendum would reunite the Conservative party. I …
: 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 …
: Unintended consequence of the day: Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand
: My lunch meeting has arrived.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: It’s been a long time since these two shared a spot in my dock together.
: Spending a lot of time in spreadsheets today. Not something that happens a lot in my work, but weirdly satisfying when it does.
: Don’t look now folks, but I think autumn might be here…
: A nice reminder that blogging was always a complicated and often unpleasant community. Shakesville’s unravelling and the not-so-golden age of blogging …
: Does anyone else use FeedBin? Considering trialing a switch from Feedly - but would like some informed experience before I make the jump.
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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, …
: I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think? Feedback gratefully received.
: 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
: This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.
: 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, …
: A wee update on life, work and blog. Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid burning out again.
: A day when I find a new pretentious coffee shop is always a good day.
: 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 …
: Possibly the most manly thing I’ve done all year…
: Back from holiday to a dull, rainy Sussex. Ho-hum.
: A Circle of Words: emails to blogs to newsletters
: Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
: Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her boyfriend ‘hates’ on Instagram
: It’s just been that kind of a day.
: Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the selfies…)
: Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…
: The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.
: The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare. Sweet dreams. :-)
: I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.
: 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 …
: Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power two Scotlands
: Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the social web.
: 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 …
: Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a blog post this morning.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: There is a particular danger zone for bad sleep decisions. And I am right in it now. 💤
: Beautiful sunny day in Shoreham by Sea.
: Flipping ‘eck. I can’t wait to use this. Pixelmator Pro update integrates its entire app inside Apple Photos as a Photos extension
: If you use the Speedtest app on your iPhone, press and hold on the Go button. After a while… …something happens.
: I see it’s “update all the Apple devices” night.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I think this photo pretty much sums up my life.
: Practicing the art of productive procrastination, by tidying up my Ulysses app.
: 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 …
: In other news, today I met a ferret.
: Today has been rather posher than normal…
: We be rollin’, they be hatin’
: My eldest on holiday last year.
: The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded tech from the big companies in “smart” devices.
: This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos: Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing …
: 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 …
: I think my authorised app connections to Flickr need some updating… (iPhoto 2??)
: 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 …
: Well now. I did a vlog from Scotland. Vlogging is really not my thing. What do you think?
: ln defence of selfies - an interesting take on the social context of photography and sharing.
: More catching up - February in 1 second everyday
: The Decline of Historical Perspective - Neil hits the nail on the head here. And yes, it’s worrying.
: Catching up - this is January in 1 Second Everyday.
: 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.
: I do love the feel of the new “grove” style Apple Stores.
: Listening to Andy’s 20 year journey at the Flock event in Shoreham-by-Sea.
: My June in 1 second everyday.
: Settled up my second payment on account with the taxman. Slowly, but surely, breaking the habit of doing everything at the last minute.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: ‘We’re anti-influencer’: ice-cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay double 🤣
: 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 …
: Oh, DJI. I’m not sure encouraging non-consensual voyerism is the right way to sell your products…
: Breaking: social media verification processes still suck.
: How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement.
: 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 …
: Teaching 4 year olds to use saws. 👌🏻
: 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
: Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake…
: Many PostIts died to bring us this strategy…
: The philistines in this hotel have turned the coffee machine off for the night. HOW VERY DARE THEY.
: It’s all glamour in the consultancy business, I can tell you…
: Looking lovely in the evening sun… 🌻
: Getting a bit dry round here…
: 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, …
: Blimey. Ive leaving Apple to form his own firm - but Apple will be one of his first clients.
: This really was not the plan for this afternoon.
: I have a suspicion that a child may have used this seat before me…
: 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.
: 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 …
: Finished drafting tomorrow’s newsletter for my paying subscribers. Feeling good about it (although slightly guilty that this is not going on the open …
: Is messenger app interoperability feasible without destroying encryption?
: 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 - …
: Interesting discovery while booking a trip: it’s no longer safe to assume budget hotel chains are substantially cheaper than more upmarket offerings.
: Online community dynamics change as the membership grows. In particular, most networks require increasing attention-seeking behaviour in order to get …
: Busted the macro lens out, too…
: Crafting time chez Tinworth.
: Lovely morning down by the Adur as I walked home this morning.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Here’s a soothing 20 seconds of beach life for you…
: 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 …
: Great Micro Monday @hollyhoneychurch and @macgenie (catching up on a commute). Thanks. Thinking a lot about the time period challenges.
: 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 …
: Relax - digital is efficient, so we don’t need to be…
: MG Siegler: ”Facebook, an app where people share baby photos and conspiracy theories…” 🔥
: 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.
: I find upgrading firmware on devices a surprisingly satisfying process.
: Weather could be better, though.
: Nice to be heading up London late enough to drop a bag off at the charity shop and get a coffee from Tom Foolery.
: Of all the things to find, a shopping list from my Mum, who has been gone over a decade:
: Go on. Guess which option I picked.
: It’s 2019, and, yes, you still need to own your content.
: MailOnline’s traffic absolutely brutalised by Google algorithm update. Let the jokes commence.
: So, um, the answer to “Fake News" might have been available the whole time… in Finland?
: 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
: Working on a Friday, unusually, due to a day swap with my wife. Throughly dreich out there today, so working seems better…
: What’s bringing you joy this morning, people of micro.blog?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more feasible.
: Thank you, micro.blog folks. I enjoyed sharing the keynote with you!
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I knew nothing about Minecraft before this demo. And I know nothing about it after this demo.
: Twitter for Mac is coming back…
: Marzipan is now officially Project Catalyst.
: Well, that Pro pricing did NOT go down well…
: Nice to see the iMac G4’s best feature back in the new Pro Display XDR.
: Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous as heck, but still.
: And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight into a particular app.
: iPadOS!!! FINALLY! Snoopy happy dance
: 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 …
: Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.
: 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.
: Beauty influencers. From the internet. Ah-ha.
: 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 …
: I do enjoy Craig’s dad jokes, but then, I am very much a Dad.
: Focus on iOS speed two years running? Nice.
: And my eldest is just going to love that lyrics feature.
: OK, Tim Cook just won in our household. Multi-user support in tvOS will be so handy for the Tinworth clan.
: Forest and soul I agree with every word of this:
: 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 …
: This is both a chilling read - and a surprisingly hopeful one: The Undercover Fascist
: This starts off as road crash viewing of a middle-aged meme warrior - but actually goes somewhere interesting. My dad, the Facebook addict
: 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 …
: Ugh. @danielpunkass can’t get his patch into WordPress. Open Source in theory rather than practice?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: It’s been so long since I used the Underground regularly that I’ve reverted to being a Tube N00b.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Nice view as I crossed the bridge this evening.
: Today, I have made all the fritters.
: 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 …
: Shoreham Beach, two years ago.
: 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 …
: Wow. DJI are going head to head with GoPro with the DJI Osmo Action Camera. The Hero 8 had better be great.
: 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.
: Politics warning: right-wing comics activists are abusing Twitter’s policies on transphobia to silence their critics. This behaviour pattern will …
: I see it’s an “update all the Apple things” day again.
: Extinction Rebellion die in at the Shoreham by Sea farmers market.
: 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% …
: 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 …
: Self-employment is basically a years-long oscillation between being stressed about money and being stressed about volume of work.
: My notes from the RSA event Schools Without Walls might be of interest to the education-minded amongst you.
: The rain, it raineth every day ☔️
: 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 …
: It was windy yesterday at Woods Mill, but the sound is just lovey.
: I love this photo of Iris in the woods from yesterday.
: Here’s something I don’t often do: a review. It’s of Freewell’s All Day Filters for the Osmo Pocket.
: What’s good in your world today?
: Shaping up to be a lovely day.
: Wow. This video of an osprey female protecting her eggs in the heart of Storm Hannah is quite something.
: 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 …
: Never bet against the phone…
: 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 …
: Fascinating how much cars date photos, even after “just” 15 years.
: Big fan of the Extinction Rebellion art style.
: Yikes. An RPG book I contributed to being offered for £115 on eBay!
: 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.
: The guest WiFi at Twitter UK’s pretty good…
: Thanks to my daughters, my iPad Smart Keyboard is looking particularly fabulous today…
: And here’s the final image of Adam, a sculpture at the Eden Project, shot back in Spring 2004.
: Enjoying working in Pixelmator Photo to clean up some old negative scans:
: 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. …
: Eden Project, 14th April 2004
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: The Wind in What's Left of the Willows… Time for a #wilderfuture. Yes, I am an old tree-hugger and proud.
: The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: And there we are: ”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response”
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Whatever you think about Assange and Wikileaks, his arrest this morning will do nothing to stop the repercussions his actions have had on journalism, …
: 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 …
: Making a (small) splash on Unsplash.
: 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 …
: Time to test micro.blog’s video hosting…
: Don’t expect free stuff just because you have 2,000 Instagram followers. The “marketing via influencer bashing” trend has a while to run…
: Ooh, live ospreys nesting webcam from Scotland: LIVE: Loch Arkaig osprey cam
: Ah, my weekend reading is here.
: 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 …
: Fascinating talk about personal responsibility and social media on the State of the net podcast.
: Woe betide any pony that fails to perform to the expectations of Iris.
: 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 …
: This is how hyper-partisan sites die: Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites
: May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: AirDrop is such a handy feature of Apple devices. It doesn’t get enough kudos.
: It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead. Never a good sign.
: 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 …
: Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the site…
: Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.
: Something my daughters will never do…
: 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 …
: Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it looks fascinating.
: 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 …
: On the ERG: ”Nobody deserves the ERG, though, which is to politics what food poisoning is to dinner parties.” Fabulously precise.
: Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.
: 10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.
: Literally the most CoE thing ever: Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties
: Apple cancels AirPower: “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project.” That’s …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Want to be an influencer? There’s a bot for that: A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated
: 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. 🤦🏼♂️
: WIRED on how Google warped the hyperlinks - with quotes from me!
: 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.
: Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?
: Beachscape with fisherman and detectorist
: 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 …
: 😱 🌊 Tourist Posing for Photo Gets Blasted Off Rock by Huge Crashing Wave
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I love them, but sometimes they are very sinister.
: Oh, dear. When did I enter that demographic? Thanks, Facebook.
: The “Revoke Article 50" petition is closing in on ¾ of a million, and gaining about 3k signatures per minute.
: Joining the rest of my family in marking World Down Syndrome day:
: Yay. My micro.blog Kickstarter stickers are here!
: 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 …
: This makes me very nostalgic for an earlier era of Apple.
: This is terrifying: England could run short of water within 25 years
: The spread of footage from the Christchurch terrorists attack is clearly unacceptable. To curtail this we need three responses: technological, social …
: Happy news of the day: my Essential Analytics for Media Professionals course is sold out.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Blimey: Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’
: Computational photography and videography is just fascinating: Researchers Found a Way to Extract Detailed Slo-Mo Videos From a Single Blurry Photo
: This is a serious and useful look at the digital context around today’s horrible terrorist atrocity: Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the …
: This sounds like a fascinating read. Preordered: Homesick: Why I live in a shed 📚
: I had awesome wallpaper as a child. (That’s not me - it’s a school friend).
: Oooooh. A kernel panic. How retro.
: How little we change: Ancient Britons Traveled Hundreds of Miles to Attend Pork Fests at Stonehenge
: 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 …
: Mum & I, outside Stirling Castle, in the early 80s.
: 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 …
: You can catch up on all my posts from last week’s useful news:rewired conference here. Lots to think about there.
: Fun down on the beach today…
: Love the cover of the latest @standartmag by @grigorybabich. Stunning work.
: Journalism clearly needs new business models. Yesterday’s panel discussion at news:rewired had some interesting ideas.
: The Adventures of Rapunzel and Mildred Hubble. #worldbookday #worldbookday2019
: Today I learnt that Engagdget is nearly a. year younger than OM&HB and I feel like such an under-achiever… :-)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My coat still smells of woodsmoke from Nature Tots at the weekend. This is keeping me happy on a busy train…
: Time for tech to get out of its difficult teenage years, and grow the fuck up.
: Utterly self-indulgent blog post of the day: What the heck is GoPro doing producing a limited edition colour of its flagship camera?
: 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 …
: Bit of a token clean today as the girls were in danger of being blown off the beach by storm Freya. #2minutebeachclean
: Iris made a nest at #naturetots #sussexwildlifetrust
: My goodness, but these are appealing to me.
: Today’s Iris obsession: liferings
: Reporting on the Momo Challenge has not been journalism’s finest hour. It’s a failure of basic fact-checking.
: 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 …
: I preserve the secrets of @nextconf by making my notes basically illegible to anyone but me.
: Stunning evening down by the Adur.
: Once again, Facebook is trying to avoid the costs of its scale - but the human cost of its content moderation is appalling.
: Shoreham by Sea’s sign game is 💯 this morning:
: Drinking today: Edgecumbe’s AA Kisii Peaberry ☕️
: Some Ghostly resources for independent publishers. Nice combination of a newsletter and a site full of resource links.
: I am procrastinating. And I am procrastinating because I am scared. Bad adders.
: Beware the beach #illuminati
: Totemic discovery on today’s #2minutebeachclean
: Own up. Who left the window open last night?
: Either it’s foggy - or I need new glasses.
: Word of the day, courtesy of an @ernestjournal back issue… slubberdegullion is official part of my word hoard now.
: Inconsiderata - an ode to digital technology and influencers: Override quiet and thoughtful people, they are impediments. Compare yourself with …
: Fog is making the Adur impressionistic today.
: I have a Brydge keyboard for my trusty old 9.7 inch iPad Pro and I suddenly have my perfect on-the-go device.
: I have a suspicion that there would be a decent market for adult Hula Hoops, that fit on adult-sized fingers…
: Some useful thoughts on the appeal of newsletters — and the appropriate tone for writing them.
: With Assistant update, Google says Nest has secret microphone 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ I still can’t believe that people are voluntarily filling their houses …
: 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…
: Today in poor ratios: I will spend between five and six hours travelling to do one two hour lecture. 🚂
: Why blogs still matter even in the resurgent newsletter age. (h/t @cdevroe for the original link)
: Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter. It’s all about the basics.
: 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 …
: I call this piece “the entitlement of SEO spammers”. 🖼
: Winchester does ruins magnificently.
: 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 …
: This is not at all disconcerting.
: Beautiful sky over Winchester this evening.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 🔥 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: An article designed for @ismh… The joy of collecting old tech
: 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: …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Productivity in the home office this morning: could be better.
: First signs of spring. (Which means it’ll be snowing within the month…)
: TIL: Apple proposed the forthcoming set of emoji covering people in wheelchairs, with service dogs, etc. Cool. (via Download)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This is totally bodacious: Captain Marvel: Official Movie Site
: To give you some sense of how unwell I’ve been - it’s now 60 hours since I had a coffee. 60 hours.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: A translation of Zuckerberg’s “15 years of #facebook” post from Zuck to English. (Now with corrected link - thanks @smokey)
: Those are both creepy and beautiful: witch of the farm
: 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. 😇
: 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 …
: A reminder for long-term Flickr users: deletions start on free accounts tomorrow.
: Scared but excited right now.
: OK. Let’s talk about that bloody egg — and why it does matter. Yes, it’s come to that.
: Now, that’s my kind of article.
: Despite the cold, it’s a really lovely day here on the coast.
: Even a little snow makes a three year old joyful.
: The mighty thaw is well underway on the Sussex Coast.
: That’s looking more like snow.
: Apple kills Google’s internal apps as well.
: 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 …
: Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.
: 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 …
: Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage And yes, that includes 4K.
: If you squint, you can see the snow. Just.
: Apple News has more users than you might expect.
: 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 …
: There’s far too much truth in this: How digital media killed itself
: I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention economy. I love the impact of it significantly less.
: Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.
: A calmer moment in a stormy day by the sea:
: Shoreham may be blessed with one of the best library views out there.
: Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it…
: Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose. Zuckerberg speeds up assimilation of Instagram and WhatsApp into …
: 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 …
: The latest issue of @anxymag is here - all about masculinity. Time for a coffee and a read.
: One that required a bit of focus, but not too much. Bring on next month’s #AppleWatch challenge.
: I just had a really, really bad idea. I should do nothing about this idea. 👀
: 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 …
: 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 …
: No wonder my chair was uncomfortable - I’ve been sitting on this for the last hour:
: Thingification: “All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools being rendered safe by assimilation into the old.” …
: 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 …
: January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.
: 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 …
: Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.
: This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular communities can breed toxicity: How Pick-Up Artists …
: A cold and frosty morning on my way to London.
: Gorgeous day on Shoreham Beach. The sun is counteracting the cold nicely.
: 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.
: This interview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is… painful.
: I wrote a very long thing about Facebook, WordPress, CMSes and local journalism. I cater to a very niche market…
: Take a deep breath, bibliophiles. Marie Kondo of Netflix’s Tidying Up: she’s not coming for your books
: It’s been a stressful week, but the view from my office window is incredibly calming today.
: My hard working film scanner doing its thing.
: 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 …
: Sadly, this is probably accurate: Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You
: 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 …
: Sharing photos of yourself 10 years apart is a completely harmless social media meme. Right? Uh, maybe.
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Fresh out of the film scanner: my late father and I in the mid-90s. Still miss him.
: Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.
: 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.
: Guide’s badges in the 21st century: vlogging
: Your regular Internet of creepy things update.
: Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report that launched this morning. Media Trends 2019: an …
: Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is where we do innovation. Nowhere else, mind. Just here.”
: 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 …
: Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of friends down to around Dunbar’s number?
: I have finally learned to write algorithm without having to look up the spelling. Yay.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.
: This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders for my traffic…
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s hindering its attempts to combat misinformation.
: China is making podcasts pay - big time. And it’s not based on advertising.
: 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…
: Nice morning down by the river.
: I have tidied up and modernised every post on my blog tagged Doctor Who in a burst of pointless busy work. :-)
: Iris: “Daddy, chair are for sitting in, not putting laptops on.” Busted by a 3 year old.
: The culture wars in one tweet.
: 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 …
: First proper day back at my desk since mid-December. The email is soul-crushing.
: Playing with the 4k option on the DJI Osmo Pocket:
: Moody day in the beach. (Can you spot the Iris?)
: I have a nasty feeling Iris is pretending to be me…
: 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 …
: Catchy as the headline is, the real story is a government agency trying to frustrate a legitimate journalistic investigation. Ministry Of Justice …
: Facebook wants us to know that it’s the real victim here.
: I see Zuck has learned his lesson and is dealing with things with all due humility now… Mark Zuckerberg vs. the Times
: Warrior robots in a coffee shop.
: Controversial: Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule.
: Another interesting bit of analysis of the Apple revenue miss: Apple Lowers Revenue Guidance Due To iPhone Sales Weakness
: 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.
: 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
: Interesting take from Om Malik about the bad Apple trading news: Appleocalypse: An unfashionable view
: A pre-New Year party for the little ones with some wonderful neighbours. Perfect way to end the year.
: Well, this year was all about the Shoreham-by-Sea landscapes… #topnine2018 #topnine #bestnine2018
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: 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(!).
: 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 …
: Facebook apologists are real – they really are.
: 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 …
: Crime in progress, but the lookout is on watch…
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Beautiful moomin show. Iris loved it.
: Moomin magic is about to begin.
: Moomin magic (and mischief) about to occur…
: Look, someone 😇 has made our local heros more festive.
: Beach walk, ‘cos it’s Boxing Day innit?
: 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 …
: Down by the Adur. (Boxing Day walk)
: 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 …
: The children are less enthused by this stage of the meal preparation…
: Prepping Christmas Dinner while watching the Countryfile Christmas Special. Because, yes, I am middle aged and middle class.
: A very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!
: The way my hair’s going, I figure I’m about 10 years and a beard from making a decent Santa.
: Today has challenged my understanding of the word “elf”.
: Number of open tabs on my iPad: 0. Days since this was last the case: 3,130.
: 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 …
: The great pre-Christmas tab purge is underway. Wish me luck.
: Hello. @manton delivers Christmas three days early!
: 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.
: Strong and stable. Spoiled for stabilised filming right now - working in some tests for my blog.
: Five influencers influencing…
: Oh, look - one of my photos is on Devon Life: www.devonlife.co.uk/devon-chr…
: 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 …
: I have a gimbal in my pocket. The miniaturisation of video continues, and the results are impressive.
: Early Christmas present to myself. Uh, I mean to my work. Uh, yes, my work. That’s it. cough.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The man who pioneered modern tech journalism no longer feels he can justify using Facebook-owned products. This is quite something.
: Today was the sort of day when having a GoPro was what made getting any footage feasible.
: ⚠️ Warning - photobomb in progress…
: 21st century life: I spent a while last night updating the software on my lightbulbs… 💡
: My sister-in-law has a PacMan coat. 👌🏻
: Morning coffee feels very festive today.
: 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 …
: New coffee shop, new part of London. Oh, the consultancy life.
: Not what you want to see outside your favourite coffee shop in the morning…
: Just booked a night in a budget hotel in Milton Keynes. Will this endless glamour never cease?
: Time to choose a Christmas Tree 🎄
: The angel of cheekiness descends…
: Somebody just tried to explain what Likes are for to me. 🤔😂
: I’d be happy if this happened: Canon To Get A Stake In GoPro’s Future?
: This morning I am catching the OMGEarly train to London.
: The new @blogosphere_magazine is here, so I’ve done a tasteful #influencer style shot to celebrate. 😇 #blogospheremagazine #bloggers
: On the upside, Tumblr’s bandwidth costs are about to drop precipitously, I suspect.
: 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 …
: Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence. Cripes.
: 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 …
: My downtime on ghost(pro) last month… …didn’t exist. For the third month running. Nice work, @tryghost team.
: And let's not forget October… (yes, playing catchup) October 2018 in one second everyday from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.
: November in 30(ish) seconds This was our November:
: Apple’s new group FaceTime ad is awesome:
: First Ghost with Koenig and now WordPress with Gutenberg. Publishing platforms are changing fast. I suspect in the medium to long term Medium’s …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 🤦🏼♂️ Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
: DJI leak reveals teeny-tiny Osmo Pocket gimbal Oh, this looks exciting for #mojo folks.
: Looking good on the way back, too.
: Different view for my “commute” this morning.
: 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.
: So, I’ve done the photos thing. Thanks @cleverdevil - looks good!
: Success - new belt! #soobahkdo
: Testing times for Iris… #soobahkdo
: I feel this e-mail subject line is unlikely to be bettered today:
: Iris wants you to know that she has pizza 🍕
: 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.
: 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 …
: Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. (Prince Charming, Prince Charming)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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…
: Just topped up the bird food. Minor avian riot in progress in the back garden.
: 5 degrees, rainy and grey. British autumn is here at last.
: 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 …
: I had my first proper (but quick) play with Adobe Premier Rush - and I’m tentatively impressed.
: So, I wrote about the unintended consequences of partisan satire (based on the excellent WaPo story from yesterday) - and upset the partisan satirist. …
: MediaGazer is really good at inflating my ego in a really unearned way, by putting me in some amazing company:
: Just cleaned the en suite toilet so yes, obviously, I’m procrastinating.
: 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 …
: Touching. I feel very special…
: Stunning autumn morning in #shorehambysea
: I need to have words with my teenage self about keeping negatives clean.
: 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 …
: Only seven months between episodes…
: 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 …
: Here’s my incredibly sophisticated micro casting set-up, using Wavelength on my phone…
: 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.
: 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 …
: Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting typos…
: Really nice, measured take on the state of the iPad Pro from Charles Arthur.
: I really recommend listening to this talk by Indy Johar from NEXT conference. Challenging and eye-opening.
: 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.
: This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Medium’s UI and on-boarding experience - published on Medium. 🔥🔥🔥
: Despite my previous post, I do enjoy binging on @Monday I find immersing myself in the community for a hour to be fun.
: 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.
: Over a decade since my first download from the App Store. Not much use now.
: This is super-handy: a Google web tool to optimise images for the web.
: 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, …
: A caravan of bots and other updates from the misinformation wars.
: Stan Lee has gone to the great bullpen in the sky. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the hyperbole and superheroics.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Fantastic issue of The Discourse, looking at the dynamics of online hostility - you really should be subscribed to this.
: 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.
: 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
: 11/11/18 - we shall remember them
: 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 …
: Headline of the day: Satanic Temple Sues Netflix, Warner Over Sabrina Statue Copyright
: I still find the idea that Apple has in-house metallurgists oddly cool.
: Aberdeen, I am in you. #odcamp
: 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, …
: Turns out friction might be good in social sharing.
: 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…
: Flickr makes some smart changes to its account structure while throwing some serious shade on Yahoo’s stewardship of the site.
: Missed Halloween with my girls, but based on the evidence they had a great night. 🎃
: Some good updates to Flickr. Now there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be writing.
: Me, during today's Apple event Me during the first half of the Apple event: Me during the second half of the Apple event:
: Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 years ago.
: Watching the new iPad Pro stuff, I’m becoming increasing convinced that my current MacBook Pro will be my last.
: OK, this is why Tim is so excited. He’s an iPad Pro man.
: Blimey. Rare stage appearance from Angela Ahrendts.
: Oh, hello Mac Mini. Welcome back.
: Yeah, the 100% recycled aluminium thing is cool. Nice work, Apple. Long-lasting devices made from recycled materials is much lighter on the planet.
: Ooooh. TouchID without the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Air.
: Tim Cook really does seem unusually enthusiastic today.
: “Influencers” — cheapening the web one post at a time.
: Vogue says “bonjour” to Hong Kong and “au revoir" to Snapchat.
: Y’know, if Twitter really does pull Likes from its platform, it really validates one of the design decisions @manton made for micro.blog.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Now, this is an old pen. #sixapart #movabletype
: Our back garden tree is handling the daily countdown to winter admirably.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Oh, Google. This is shameful. How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New York Times
: My contribution to the digital fix debate is out in print… …in German.
: Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!
: Many #interhacktives hands make…
: It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…
: The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.
: 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 …
: Blogging is dead… …unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear in marketing emails.
: How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.
: Government needs to break the tech roach motels. Data portability FTW.
: Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy media settings.
: Queen of the whole damn forest
: Bloody hell: Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs Still, he has a consistent pattern of bad partnerships…
: I, for one, welcome our new Swedish Queen and a return to farcical aquatic ceremonies as a justification for executive power.
: This is interesting - despite some of the recent backlash, podcasts are still big enough business that the iTunes rankings are worth manipulating: …
: Having a very Brighton morning.
: I never knew there was an Autumn emoji. 🍂
: Autumn is well and truly here.
: My brain is a ridiculous place. I have an enforced day off because my youngest is unwell - but I’m still feeling guilty.
: I have co-authored books with Chuck. Chuck is a good person. This makes me very cross.
: This is an eye-opening read about the biggest issue of the next 15 years: How to deal with despair over climate change - Vox
: 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 …
: Now, that’s what I call release notes. 💯 👌🏻
: 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!
: I backed this film on Kickstarter, and can’t wait to finally see it: Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop
: Feeling guilty about accidentally leaving my reusable coffee cup behind.
: If you’re a Brit who remembers the 70s, this album is a joy: Matt Berry - TV Themes
: Such a lovely, simple concept: Technology is no longer scarce, our attention is. Technology is breaking our attention. Tech should consume as little …
: 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 …
: Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure I’ll skip the obvious jokes and just say “oh, what could have been”. #interhacktives
: This is a whole bag of “nope” from me: Facebook announces Portal, its new video chatting hardware
: 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
: The weekend finishing on a high note.
: The new raincoat passes muster.
: Stunning weather up on the South Downs today.
: Selfies Have Led to 259+ Deaths Since 2011 🤦🏼♂️
: I’ve run out of Aeropress filters 😱
: Hello, micro.blog. Show me nice things to remind me why I like social media…
: The two basics of digital #journalism that too many people forget: Attention and Atomisation
: 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 …
: 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.
: “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?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Andrew Keen’s five point plan for fixing digital, from #next18.
: New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: Star Wars: Russian Bots May Have Derailed The Last …
: My September in 32 seconds… Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…
: September in one second every day. #1seme
: Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. 🤔🙄
: 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 …
: Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is why:
: Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012: Can Instagram live on if its founders leave? The best advice Systrom read was that …
: Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. Insta’s semi-autonomy from the rest of the Big Blue …
: Working in MacOS Mohave’s dark mode. Interesting - will take a while to get used to (if I stick with it).
: This is a beautiful little poem: Woodsmoke: A Poem
: This talk about human higher order needs and tech was just fascinating… David Mattin: New technologies and the search for meaning | NEXT Conference
: Lots of failure you can learn from here - including the spray-on condom. Yes, really.
: Rolled up foam for chairs. Interesting. (Haven’t dared try one yet.)
: The #next18 live-blogging station set and ready.
: Apparently hotel Wi-fi doesn’t always have to suck.
: All wristbanded up for @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival #next18
: I have a desk mate for the afternoon…
: Well. I’m glad the horrible turbulence was at the start of the trip…
: Leaving behind a grey London for Hamburg and @nextconf and #next18
: Having one of those days that remind me why I’m self-employed. How did I put up with corporate stuff fo so long?
: Hard to disagree with this: Bring Back the Shadows: The Case Against HDR
: 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.
: What could possibly go wrong? Camping Tent Raft
: The babychino basked in the afternoon sun, blissfully unaware that a predator was about to pounce…
: Apple invents way more than Samsung or Google in phones - but “borrows” more, too. New iPhones, new Galaxies: Who’s the bigger copycat?
: I’d love to see more cities do this: The entire city of Paris will be car-free for a day
: I’m pleased to say that The Guardian are now acknowledging their earlier daily podcasts — but my point about lack of institutional knowledge retention …
: Goodness. Some of the Apple Watch Series 4 variants have slipped back 10 days in shipping already.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: Fabulous reminiscences of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton which starts with an attack by the book burners.
: Some interesting thoughts about the lack of distinctive richness in our online social profiles: Social networks & the online reality of identity
: snigger ‘I Let Everyone Down’: A Blogger Apologizes For Not Posting In A While
: Wishing I’d brought a cot to the school “gate”.
: “Spray and Pray” is not a viable social media strategy for newsrooms. It’s worrying how often it is the default, though.
: 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 …
: Starting on this as soon as the girls get home: I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter
: Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) for email newsletters on Substack’s platform
: Nice to see them cracking on with the flood defence work.
: One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing “send” you often lose subscribers, as your lists …
: That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a second newsletter TBH.
: Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up for linky goodness in your inbox.
: A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Hardback) - Routledge
: 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 …
: Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his e-mail first thing in the morning.
: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? I found Zuckerberg straining, not always coherently, to grasp problems for which he was …
: 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: …
: The Imperious Imposters of Journalism Innovation
: 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 …
: Just for my microblog chums, this is the piece I was referring to: Don’t be an influencer, by a grumpy old blogger.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A little thinking on the serious violence and murders in India that follow WhatsApp-spread misinformation. Is our knee-jerk reaction of blaming the …
: This is a fascinating read: UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440
: Perfect day for a walk on Shoreham Beach
: I spent ages earlier looking for my green screen cleaning cloth. I just found it.
: 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 …
: Testing a new mobile working set-up, with the iPad Pro 12.9 and the new Mark II Brydge keyboard…
: Could the way we read online be contributing to the polarisation of politics? Quite possibly.
: My goodness. An update to Flickr!: All new Flickr galleries
: Homework time. #backtoschool
: Amazon is losing out to Google in the in-house spy…I mean “smart speaker”… market. This is probably Google’s game now
: On the psychological impact of social media: ‘I had trained my mind to flit like a nervous sparrow’
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: RIP Jacqueline Pearce Servalan was a defining character of Blake’s 7, and hence of TV culture for a while…
: Pre-school shoe fitting. Hazel needs new school and casual shoes. 💰🙄 (grumpy Dad mode in full effect.) 😂
: Deploying the @fabsilofficial to renovate an old #tent
: 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 …
: Testing the waterproofing on a 22 year old tent.
: Camp life. #camping #newforest #campingintheforest #ashurst #outwell
: Apples. (Doing a first pass on the photos from our camping holiday).
: Cycle racks in place. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
: Perfect day for a beach walk!
: Watching the babychinos being made in @tomfoolery.coffee
: OMG. Too much cute… We Didn’t Start The Fire (Harry Potter Parody)
: Amazing weather for a day at @springbarnfarm - not too hot, not too cold and some dramatic skies!
: One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0
: 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 …
: In severe danger of going full brony.
: I’m cringing now to beat the rush. The BBC is doing a new drama about journalism.
: Do I deserve a beer tonight?
: I suspect that the context collapse created by retweeting may be the single biggest mistake Twitter has ever made.
: Hacking your SIM card to hack your Instagram. There’s Bitcoin in them there account names.
: 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.
: The new Doctor Who writing and directing team. It’s a lot more diverse than in the past.
: Doing tab archeology. The current wave of tabs I’m working through seem to be from May(!).
: The web shouldn’t all be about recency - we stand to lose too much valuable information if we think that way.
: This talk by @kevinmarks nearly five years ago is still painfully relevant now.
: 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.
: 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 …
: Calm Technology knows it is useful – but also knows its place
: I’m getting more verbose as I age. Set out to write 600 to 700 words. Currently sitting at 1,200.
: 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 …
: Coffee and the latest issue of Standart. Perfect.
: Enjoying my copy of @standartmag #nobodybuysbooks and my @aero.press winner collectors card
: Exploring the babychino options in town. This one, from Ginger & Dobschütz, got full marks from Hazel.
: This is a sobering read about the dehumanisation deep in the psychology of some Silicon Valley coders. History repeats itself - this mirror the abuses …
: 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 …
: I love “less is more" journalism models. This one is from India: The Ken raises $1.5M in its Series A Round
: Some rather curious - and possibly co-ordinated - Instagram hacking going on. Worth watching.
: I just realised what you get if you spell my youngest’s name backwards. Hey, Iris…
: Steyning Adventure A school holidays adventure day exploring a neighbouring town.
: The mask slips, just a little: Facebook traffic to publishers is gone - and Campbell Brown just erected its tombstone
: How Facebook distorted human interactions on the altar of engagement.
: Nice contextualisation: How to get human time back from technology
: 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 …
: Someone who self-describes as “brutally honest” is probably either a delusional bully or just plain rude.
: Once upon a time, I was generally excellent.
: Not getting on the wrong side of Iris if I can help it…
: Gotta say - I’m proud of my wee girl.
: 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 …
: Bluetooth keyboard for an iPhone? Sure!
: Love a bit of skyscraper porn: This week, images of Europe’s tallest skyscraper were revealed
: Interesting - Slack has shifted their blog off Medium to WordPress. Now at: slackhq.com
: Lovely piece about both the incredible potential of computational photography - and the romance of film.
: My goodness, this makes me want to visit Sweden. (Especially the cabin/boat thing. Want.)
: You have to wonder if anyone at Facebook has ever heard the phrase “when in a hole, stop digging”.
: Watching your partner fall in love with someone else - on Strava. Leaky public data and unintended consequences…
: The worst typo when you meant “general"
: 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
: “Civility always; servility never”: In this grim age of Trump and Brexit, online fury is a dead end for the left
: 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 …
: Sunday morning is coffee time!
: 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
: Hazel’s getting really good now.
: Under 50 e-mails in my inbox. 🙌🏻
: This is a really good listen on the social problems of the social web Ellen Pao on Ezra Kelin’s podcast.
: Greta piece by Om Malik on follower counts and the dangers of seeing social media as a broadcast channel: “Fake Followers” are “Social Spam”
: This is a fascinating read on the need for context to properly frame historic photos and their meaning.
: My little ninja’s successful first test. New belt!
: This really is another step towards the iPad becoming the default creative tool for many: Adobe to Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift
: Is Apple doing away with its in-built book printing services? Did I miss an announcement?
: Tactical approached to combatting misinformation only get us so far - and people are dying now. Time to start thinking about this strategically at a …
: 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 …
: A place in the shade, an espresso, an iPad and my daughter’s Rainbows troop in the distance. Good living. 👌🏻
: Now, this is how a cartoonist takes his revenge…
: 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 …
: This is a compelling story charting the rise of a toxic online male culture that led to incel violence.
: This is a thoughtful and useful piece: You don’t have to live in public
: That was a long time ago. The book is browning at the edges…
: 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…
: For focused writing, Markdown is your best friend. Tru dat.
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Good morning. Hard at work in my favourite coffee shop.
: 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, …
: 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?)
: Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.
: 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 …
: Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?
: This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was writing about this nearly 20 years ago for Estates …
: Oh, GoPro, you make great cameras, but your marketing is so dumb
: The sheer hell of living here on a day like today… 😇
: These boats need some TLC, though.
: Down by the coast is the best place to be in this heat.
: 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 …
: 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.
: Ugh. I have unanswered email going back six weeks. I really did lose control of my diary.
: OK - about to nuke the newer of the two accounts. Hopefully I’ll still be able to post afterwards…
: 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 …
: Nearly done writing several thousand words for an actual book. How delightlyful old-school, in-depth and focused.
: Overheard in my local coffee shop: “Oh, dear, we’re out of avocadoes.” OMG THE MILLENIALS ARE HERE.
: How this for slow blogging? I just published a post I wrote in 2008. Going online: be brave
: Facebook to small publishers: no Instant Articles for you.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for what looks like a great book.)
: Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally outsourcing relationship management to an uncaring …
: iOS’s in-built screen recorder is an absolute Godsend for supporting family members.
: A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other things.
: Why do I find it easier to network to find my former students work, than to get myself more gigs? 🤔
: 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.
: I’m really happy with that WWDC keynote. Nothing that costs me money, and lots of quality of life improvements to my existing devices.
: I’m enjoying the not-so-subtle shade being thrown at Facebook and its products in the screenshots here. #wwdc18
: Astonishing to think this space tech is 19 years old now…
: Not sure this is a great message for the future of the journalism business…
: Just when you thought you were safe from GDPR - the app updates begin.
: 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
: 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 …
: Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.
: Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak
: Reading this post by a former colleague makes me realise that I’ve really lost the skill of personal blogging over the last decade.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Finishing the day right: wine, iPad and RSS feeds
: So, it turns out that Storyful journalists could see which videos their newsroom clients were watching… Not the social media verification company’s …
: “I am about to lecture you about…” is always a more accurate description of articles headlined “We need to talk about…”
: I’m ready for the flood defence works to be finished now. (I’m grateful and all, but…)
: I’m up to date on my invoicing. This is an unfamiliar feeling for me.
: 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…
: 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. …
: One of those days when I thought I’d knocked it out of the park with a post — and everyone goes “meh”. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
: Facebook’s approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling.
: Sometimes wasted time is not wasted… On wasting time and triggering new discoveries
: This is insanely cool - customised Westwood, using Newton’s own Star Wars figure collection: Thandie Newton Wears a Fabulous Homage to Her Star Wars …
: I should have a blogroll again.
: The man who coined the term blog has been blogging for 20 years.
: Five years of blog platform Ghost - a podcast
: Life lesson from the last week: potty training and illness co-inciding in the same child is not a great situation.
: This post makes me both deeply nostalgic and deeply, deeply sad.
: The Stories format matters - because it tells us something about what the smartphone is doing to media.
: Got a new look for those people who subscribe to my blog by e-mail.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace the rubber seal.
: Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace the rubber seal.
: And on the way home… <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/e3c094fd91.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: That was worth the walk. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f209b428f4.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: Medium: destroyer of journalism
: Medium: destroyer of journalism
: Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.
: Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.
: Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.
: Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.
: In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend it on stage at LeWeb.
: In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend it on stage at LeWeb.
: We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.
: We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.
: The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook.
: The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook.
: Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.
: Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.
: Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/93fca046c0.jpg" …
: Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there.
: What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)
: What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)
: Medium goes all in on being a social network for content
: Medium goes all in on being a social network for content
: 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.
: First water shoes day of the year. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/11ec96082d.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
: First water shoes day of the year.
: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.
: A shellfull on the beach today. 🐚 🐚 🐚
: 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” />
: And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18 <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/631e2e80b3.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18
: Hello, Belinda Carlisle #ifswoco18 <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/fa668ddeba.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: Hello, Belinda Carlisle #ifswoco18
: Mr Rick Astley working it tonight.
: Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.
: Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.
: A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?
: A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?
: Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/bedcc68e31.jpg" width=“600” …
: Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month.
: Here we go again. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/4dc56245c3.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Sunday morning beach walk. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/39bd6d1143.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
: Sailing under stormy skies on #shorehambeach
: Calm out today. #shorehambysea
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the problems with digital.
: Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the problems with digital.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Not hard to guess where I am today…
: I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite special. <img …
: I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite special.
: Worthing #worthless campaign.
: 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 …
: Home made protest signs are the best protest signs.
: Get in. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Get in. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
: Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
: Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/9936404bac.jpg" width=“600” …
: Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/5c1d4012f7.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram:
: Well, that does look like we’re having a heatwave, doesn’t it?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This one’s growing up terrifyingly fast.
: Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…
: Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…
: First pub garden opportunity of the year. ☀️ 🍺
: 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 …
: 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 …
: British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/b5d75d466f.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home.
: Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/092e9772b1.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister:
: Today’s office view: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/06a4232187.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Today’s office view: <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/06a4232187.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: On a @british_airways @boeing 787 from Abu Dhabi. Premium economy for the night flight.
: 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.
: 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.
: You can’t beat moody lighting and flowers in a hotel reception, can you?
: Nice to have a hotel right next door to the client.
: Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤 <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/b6fcef8449.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
: Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤
: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.
: First Microcast Just a first attempt at using Wavelength.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: This feels pretty much like any mildly controversial conversation on Twitter these days.
: Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t wait to try it.
: Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t wait to try it. <img …
: 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 …
: This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader
: This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader
: Farewell, Maastricht. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/af5e282ef7.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: I love this piece of art in the courtyard at the University of Maastricht.
: Maastricht station is quite impressive.
: Fourth country of the day: UK, France, Belgium and now the Netherlands. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇳🇱
: This chap does not look happy.
: Maastricht station is quite something.
: 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 …
: Heading for the continent on the Eurostar.
: A decade since I last celebrated her birthday with my Mum. It does get easier, but never easy.
: 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 …
: Flood defences going in behind Riverside Road. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
: Easter holiday forced route march with Daddy.
: As long as Twitter rewards hoaxing with attention, it’s going to get ever less useful for breaking news.
: 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 …
: I ain’t afraid of no dentist…
: Change is upon us. One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost - and I couldn’t be happier.
: 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 …
: Finally. #spring <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8e2ee981bd.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: I suspect this is a particularly British thing - and especially Radio 4 listeners - but I really want this print.
: March in 1 second every day.
: Got the wok out and did a stir fry for the first time in an age. Thankfully, the girls ate it…
: Open RSS reader. First screen is mainly obvious April Fools. Close RSS reader.
: Flood defences looking good.
: Editing photos from last summer is making me excited for this summer’s return to France.
: The first one is the spookiest: iPhone in a 1937 painting - and in an 1860 painting. And 1918.
: Over the next six weeks work is taking me to Maastricht, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta and… …Milton Keynes.
: Reading stage 8 celebration cake 👏🏻
: End of a long day. Tom Foolery pit stop on the way home. ☕️
: The App Store appears to be quite unwell this evening.
: I feel like a traitor to my generation for quite liking avocado toast, and not resenting the fact that younger folks do, too.
: Interesting post from @Stephtara about how Facebook seduced her away from blogging - but the “heaviness” and pressure of some approaches to blogging …
: I find cooking the traditional Sunday roast a meditative experience. It really helps me unwind.
: 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 …
: Upping our feeding game here in team 10, @zgarbz 😛
: Haze bounced back enough to go to her class - and the first step towards her green belt:
: Two sick children = little time for anything else.
: First step towards her green belt.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I’d like to be able to say I enjoyed Zuckerberg’s cover of “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”, but…
: The First Shoreham Flock Tom Foolery Coffee Company. First gathering of Shoreham-by-Sea digital and entrepreneurial people. A few dozen people here!
: 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 …
: Talking of change l finally found the time for a much-needed haircut this morning…
: The tracks that will make life hard for Southern commuters tomorrow.
: Very festive. Just a bit late.
: 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 …
: Sometimes, I forget how lucky I am to live somewhere where I can take photos like this from my home office window.
: It’s technically spring here. ❄️ 🙄
: The @TryGhost team are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer: blog.ghost.org
: Another, more positive, HomePod thought: since its arrival my daughters now see any speaker without Siri in it as inherently broken.
: Well, how about that. Facebook bans Britain First: Taking Action Against Britain First
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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…
: 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 …
: Oh, a lovely, tiny kickstarted type nerd joy has arrived:
: Nice sight waiting for me in my local coffee shop.
: Quick Coffee between sessions with students 80 Stone Coffee.
: Bad instagrammer leaves it a bit late to photograph his coffee.
: Rain does not interrupt play.
: Still missing you Mum, even after all these years.
: Oh, my. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/c364967954.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: Serious signs of #spring in #shorehambysea
: 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.
: 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” …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: I wonder how many sites are publishing RSS feeds but are blissfully unaware of it, just because they use WordPress.
: I really like the ideas in this: Take your time: the seven pillars of a Slow Thought manifesto
: Presented without comment: The shop that buys your dead uncle’s porn collection (It’s a surprisingly interesting read)
: Getting Sunlit… <a href=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8ee84ba852.jpg"><img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8ee84ba852.jpg" width=“326” height=“311” …
: Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
: Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.
: 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 …
: Seven years ago publishers were dying because they trusted Google for all their traffic. Now the same is happening with Facebook.
: Another warning about the ease with which moral certainty can lead to us to slip into stereotyping in our reporting.
: 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 …
: Wikipedia is a bit like a sausage: the more you look at how it is made, the less appetising you find it.
: I cannot even articulate how wrong this is…
: Listening to a 2003 playlist on Apple Music. This was the music of the year I started my blog. God, I feel old.
: My blog is 15 years old today. I’m not sure if that’s an achievement, or just sheer bloody-mindedness at work…
: Are GAFA coming for the news business? I hope not - but then, who would have seen them getting into TV?
: 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 …
: Digital artist in the making
: A post-mortem on Typed.com, a crowdfunded blogging platform that never really built up any momentum.
: 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.
: 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 …
: The snow’s back, but not really settling too badly.
: Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives. @manton is quoted within…
: This is me, basically: Dads hold candlelight vigil for Maplin
: Signs that I’m on a deadline: I’m descaling the kettle.
: Doing our bit for the birds. Poor blighters.
: World Book Day. Off goes Tinkerbell to school in the snow. 🙄
: Just snow dusted here this morning.
: Just snow dusted here this morning. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/48aa8c01a0.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Nice to see Nosy Crow featured in the App Store today - I spoke at their conference a few years ago.
: I love the fact my @fieldnotesbrand notebooks are always a mix of my work notes and my daughter’s writing practice.
: Tinkerbell prepares for school… #worldbookday
: Snow joke. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/e0ff5a29f4.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Ends and Means > Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call the preferential treatment of Google-hosted …
: Ends and Means Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call the preferential treatment of Google-hosted …
: On my way to a London on a cold, snowy morning.
: 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.
: It was a chilly, snowy sunrise at #shorehambysea station this morning.
: Today is the annual “Gosh, cameras routinely under-expose snow, don’t they?” day in the UK.
: Looks like the inevitable bursting of the Facebook Live bubble is upon us. Good. What a waste of effort.
: This was a nice surprise on our doorstep
: School run looking a bit different this morning.
: Church looking snowy. #shorehambysea
: That looks chilly. #shorehambysea
: The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.
: The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.
: Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic shitshow”.
: Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic shitshow”.
: Snow’s reached Shoreham-by-Sea, then…
: A painfully good take-down of the various proposed solutions to disinformation on Facebook
: 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 …
: Typical commuter trying to exert dominance by progressively pushing his MacBook Pro forwards.
: I’d love to see this funded: a book of nature writing by women.
: 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 …
: East Street in the snow. #shorehambysea
: Blogs are digital thought spaces
: That’ll be settling snow then.
: 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 …
: The dangerous downsides of perfectionism
: Learning to let things go may be one of the hardest lessons to learn in life.
: Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now.
: Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/cd30ddff04.jpg" …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Is the dream of the good digital citizen dead?
: Nice spot for lunch. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/c00a8cf2c0.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Dramatic sunset this evening.
: The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues…
: Dramatic sunset in #shorehambysea
: The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues.
: Updates out for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Looks like just a patch for the character crashing bug.
: Even in the depths of the social media backlash, there’s reason for hope
: Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.
: Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.
: Cute artisanal coffee shops make dreary London days better.
: Iris is having a happy morning.
: Beach adventures for the girls earlier.
: Twitter users: “Get rid of the abuse and Nazis”. Twitter: “We’re killing the Mac app.” Twitter users: “…”
: Seems legit. 🤔 #mylittlepony #myhappyhorse
: Gorgeous day to spend at @springbarnfarm
: Nice example of a mag using digital to boost print.
: Fancy a little AR in your news?
: It’s not just journalism, politics has a Facebook problem, too.
: 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
: 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, …
: Our long international nightmare of Emoji Frgmentation might be over…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye.
: Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/a1f18421f3.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Freaky - Twitter appears to be blocking posting of blogspot.co.uk domains (but not blogspot.com):
: If I ever write a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” you have my full consent to give me a good slapping.
: Pretty sure this ridiculous display of journalistic pettiness and arrogance is symptomatic of the reasons people don’t trust journalism.
: Had a little play with the DJI Osmo Mobile 2. Nice little gimbal. Here’s a little footage shot with it
: All you need is… #love #valentines #valentinesday
: Gimbal time. #djiosmomobile2
: 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.
: 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.
: Just switched to listening to some gentle, evening-friendly classical on the HomePod, and clarity of the sound, the degree to which you isolate …
: 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 …
: As a middle-aged dad of daughters, falling to the dark side has taken on a new and terrible name: going full brony.
: 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 …
: New flood defences in place. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: I really was lucky to grow up in such a breathtaking place…
: However well-intentioned it might be, I fear that “best practice" all to often means “systemic mediocrity”.
: The growing visual homogeneity of Instagram (This is my grumpy old man post of the day…)
: These photos of the abandoned Coventry Evening Telegraph building are amazing.
: It saddens me how lacking in green the UK is in this map of European tree cover.
: I’ve finally written about how much I’m enjoying micro.blog on my macro blog…
: I love what The Atlantic is doing with its comment section
: Up, awake and updating WordPress sites.
: It looks like we got ourselves a reader…
: Instapaper is a decade old? Wow. That makes me feel old.
: Cleaning up some scans of old, damaged slides. This is a mid-80s fencing competition in Scotland.
: Saturday morning in the coffee shop.
: Another view of Shoreham by Sea, one that might disappear soon.
: Dinner on the go. Busy life when you’re five!
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The NYT fake followers piece is having some interesting consequences. Much needed sunlight in dark social media places.
: Here’s an unusual view of #shorehambeach from #shorehambysea
: Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like follower counts or favourite numbers publicly.
: Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like follower counts or favourite numbers publicly.
: Some thoughts on fake followers and cargo cult influence
: Going old school on music today…
: You could basically replace this article about Brexit with an infinite number of Picard facepalm Gifs.
: What a stunning morning here in Shoreham-by-Sea
: What a morning. #shorehambysea #riveradur
: Surprisingly fun lecture today - possibly because had a lower turnout than normal - but really engaged, enthusiastic students.
: Yorkshire puddings in progress…
: Yorkshire puddings in progress…
: Cold. Rainy. January. Rioja time. 🍷
: One White HomePod ordered for day one delivery - looking forward to experimenting with it.
: Daddy/daughter lunch… <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/166cbe8bd6.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: How do we build an education system fit for the 21st century?
: Twilight in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #sussex #churches #churchyard
: Good morning. #amblogging (h/t to @danblank for doing his version of this every day…)
: I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.
: Sign that I’ve been flying more than travelling on trains of late: just hunted for my boarding pass as the train pulled in…
: I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.
: With Google no longer indexing older pages, and deletionists removing great swathes of human endeavour from Wikipedia, it feels like the web is …
: Oh, Monday. Recommendation time. Micro Monday recommendation: @tibz - Thibault is a friend from his Brighton days. After a year’s global …
: 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 …
: Stop. Coffee time. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/b2194620e4.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: 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.
: Pretty impressive departure lounges at CDG
: That moment when you realise the only music you have downloaded to your phone before a 14 hour flight is… Sofia the First 😱
: Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/d4d8b5fa91.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG
: Rain and traffic. It’s Friday night in Singapore. 🇸🇬
: The rather deadly looking meeting rooom art that’s been hanging over @nchanglin’s head all day.
: Nice casual working spaces here.
: Not a filter. Anti-solar gain dots on the windows of the building.
: Rain and newspapers in Singapore.
: Great space for a day’s training.
: Pushing back. See you in 12 hours… ✈️
: Remembered it! (KLM doesn’t allow Bluetooth headphones)
: 🍿 Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller’s Russia Investigation
: Crucial long-haul detail sorted.
: Economy face. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f30375719e.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Long haul economy face. #longhaulflight with @klm
: 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 …
: That was a day well spent. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/6538e08c0e.jpg" width=“600” height=“450” />
: Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?
: Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?
: Beach Life part 3678 #shorehambeach
: Let’s see where journalism Twitter is on the five stages of grief about the Facebook newsfeed changes.
: A brief translation of today’s Facebook newsfeed news into English.
: The Facebook traffic apocalypse every smart publisher has been dreading is here: News Feed FYI: Bringing People Closer Together
: Apparently I’m an academic now. Who knew?
: 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 …
: Resolved: this morning I shall do nothing else until I have caught up on my invoicing.
: Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, thoughtful and shocking. Great mid-season return. 📺
: Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, thoughtful and shocking. Great mid-season return. 📺
: If I wasn’t professionally obligated to keep track of Facebook, I would be very tempted to do this.
: Good lord, this Le Web panel has not aged well. Scoble and Milo sharing a stage…
: Iris modelling for me. Want to know what this is about? Link in bio! 😇
: We’re all vintage around here today.
: We’re having a vintage moment. #oillamp #victoriana
: 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.
: 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 …
: Well, crap. GoPro is getting out of the drone business. Does DJi actually have any competition?
: Danger: man at knowledge work…
: My irregular curated reads newsletter is going out shortly. Bag yourself a copy.
: If Facebook is the big out-of-town big out-of-town supermarket of the web, it’s time to browse local.
: This is a nice idea to make HomeKit a bit more accessible to the phone-control resistant: Eve Button
: Life comes at you fast, Mr Cameron.
: Looks like Facebook is ceding the referral crown to Google. This is not a sudden SEO surge, more Facebook becoming ambivalent about publishers and …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Bored Panda lives or dies at Facebook’s whim - this is a horrible way to run a business.
: Will journalists feed the tech backlash - or help explain it? Oh, I think I know the answer.
: Crafting with Hazel. This is fun.
: Daddy/daughter crafting morning.
: 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 …
: 😢 Watch Peter Capaldi’s TARDIS Console Room Get Deconstructed For One Last Time
: Well, this sounds cool: Germany has come up with the best solution to single-use coffee cups
: December in one second every day
: Walker on the beach. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach #beachlife #beachwalk
: Out playing with their Christmas brollies in the British weather…
: Here’s my #2017bestnine - India, Ilé de Re, branding, a watch strap, Hazel in @tomfoolery.coffee and lots of #shorehambysea landscapes
: Giving the Christmas Brollies a workout…. ☔️
: Me rocking the denim leisure suit. #muchlatergram
: Down the pub with Pinkie Pie
: Despite appearances, not actually a parody, alas.
: An angel prepares… nativity night.
: Beginning to think I should do something about my dandruff…
: Posting from MarsEdit So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!
: Posting from MarsEdit So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking.
: Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/f176c208ca.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” /><img …
: Target word count: 1,000 words. Current word count: 1,700 words. Still, they’re 1700 good, passionate words…
: Popped downstairs from my home office to see tree decoration in progress…
: Ena is watching you. #enasharples #shorehambysea
: Tree time 🌲 <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/29153df977.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: Deep in the downs, there is a farm…
: Hazel is rocking a hipster vibe here…
: It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.
: Today’s office view <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/5e9ca611c2.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: Stunning morning, despite the sub-zero temperatures.
: It only took three attempts to get the headline typo free on this. Bring back the subs.
: 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 …
: Disturbing but not surprising news of the day. That LinkedIn connection request could be a Chinese intelligence agent.
: Not a bad sunset, all things considered.
: I fear Iris may have inherited the mad scientist gene from her mother…
: Christingle night: children and fire, always a popular combo… 🔥
: More evidence that Christmas is coming.
: I think Iris is enjoying the season…
: How BuzzFeed UK handles cutting 1/3 of its workforce will tell us a lot about the future of the business.
: Coffee shop office kind of a day.
: Great Quartz Obsession e-mail about the hashtag
: 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.
: Somehow I’ve ended up on PornHub’s PR mailing list. I am not sure how I feel about this.
: 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 …
: Another day, another training course.
: Today, I am mainly training.
: Any time my work intersects slightly with social media marketing “experts”, I end up feeling slightly dirty. And not in a good way.
: Flood defences coming along nicely.
: Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.
: Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.
: Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.
: Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.
: The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors.
: 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” …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: First portrait mode pic from my shiney new iPhone X
: Hazel PoP. iPhone X in portrait mode
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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” …
: So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook:
: Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of the’s UK’s democracy
: Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of the’s UK’s democracy
: Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace Reading
: Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace Reading
: 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 …
: Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes… <img …
: Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes…
: Hazel and Iris stalking their natural prey: a bride
: It’s that time of the #Interhacktives year again… (h/t to @neilperkin for introducing me to this…)
: Terrible things happen to pumpkins around here…
: 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 …
: This may be the reddest pub I’ve ever been in…
: Storm tossed seaweed floating upriver in the Adur.
: Found a clue as to why Condé Nast is closing the print Glamour…
: Well, #autumn has most certainly come to #shorehambysea
: Iris “enjoying” a pub lunch…
: Orange belt celebratory cheesecake.
: Lively crowd for a 60th… 🎈 🎈 🎈
: Farewell, Hamburg. It’s been fun. #next17 is done. Can’t wait for #next18
: Post #next17 coffee tour stop 2
: Found a fancy coffee shop for post #next17 chill out.
: Top quality sci-fi dome for a tech conference… #next17
: Ah. @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival - two great tastes that go together so well… #next17
: Looks like the right place… #next17
: Today is a taunt @paulbradshawuk day.
: Sussex Scenes [gallery ids=“7969,7970” type=“slideshow”] It’s a pretty damn good place to live.
: Fair to say that Iris is pleased with her @svahausa dress!
: Bellingmug for being part of the #bellingcat crowdfunding. #journalism
: Precious thing - and memory #doctorwho
: Not bad as a #sunflower goes.
: In a tree. Doesn’t want to go home.
: Ice cream and adventure; it’s what the summer holidays are all about.
: Not 100% sure I have their attention…
: I love living here. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/43e8d5b984.jpg" width=“600” height=“599” />
: Reading challenge and babychino #animalagents
: Stop. Sticker time. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/04c1b7889b.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/77a3afdf6d.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” />
: I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony
: I feel Hazel is pleased with this #mylittlepony poster
: Nice to be home and enjoying ☕️ at @tomfoolery.coffee
: Privée. #France #laflotte #door #sign #îlederé #iledere #latergram #travel #travelblog
: Juice and deep thoughts from a little thinker.
: This may be the worst sign in the world. #coffee #latergram #îlederé
: Social video training for @journalismnews’s @newsrewired + package… 🎥
: Beach Dreamin' - ready to take my girls on the @beachdreamsfestival parade…
: Some fun bits of history on a client’s walls…
: 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 …
: 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: …
: Supporting #pride in a subtle way today. The limited edition #applewatch Pride band is just lovely.
: Feeding the beasties <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/20c2a13fe6.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
: However will I cope with the endless misery of business trips?
: Non-training, non-travel day - so a chance for a leisurely #breakfast.
: Just possibly not in Shoreham any more…
: That was April 2017 youtu.be/sZk9c4Ogp…
: Always good to start the day with a little light adulting: <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/0dfb1edb1b.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” …
: Always good to start the day with a little light adulting:
: One of our @insectlore butterflies stopping to say goodbye to Iris as it leaves.
: 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 …
: New evidence emerges of the real reason for the dinosaurs' extinction… 🍺
: This really is a beautiful beach. People under-estimate the beauty of a shingle beach.
: Sometimes, London, you’re unexpectedly weird.
: Hazel is here, and would like to discuss kicking your butt. 🙂
: Best start to the working week.
: @tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?
: @tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?
: Bloomin' lovely. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/248a295dfe.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
: Played out. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/cf27a8db6d.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
: Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.
: Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.
: Links: https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2017/04/sddeutsche-zeitung-selling-agile-paywall-right-content.html
: Images? <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/018243ee7a.jpg" width=“600” height=“600” style=“height: auto” />
: Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.
: Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.
: Just setting up my micro.blog
: Just setting up my micro.blog
: Really enjoyed #DME17 - link in bio for coverage
: World’s worst boy band member #dme17
: Sign of the (connected) times…
: Enjoying @tomfoolery.coffee’s @horshamcoffee in the woods…
: Hard at work at @tomfoolery.coffee
: Nothing like a well-mown lawn to remind you that you're a middle-aged man now. [gallery size=full columns=1]
: 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” …
: Easter weekend [gallery size=full columns=1]
: Just call me Easter 🐣Craft Master
: #PCKeithPalmer #pckeithpalmerrip
: Do you like my hat? [caption width=“2576” id=“attachment_6626” align=“aligncenter”] A gentleman can be judged by his headwear. [/caption]
: That's a new approach to flower arranging… [caption width=“4032” id=“attachment_6624” align=“aligncenter”] Iris and the bird bath[/caption]
: A single sign that’ll make you glad you’re a grown-up.
: Reboot New address. New theme. Time to get going again.
: Foreman of the sandpit at work… 🚧
: Lunch in the park @gardencafehove
: 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. 😉☀️ 🐑
: Hipster Instagramming in progress.
: -6c in the hotel car park this morning. Nice ice effect on the car, though. ❄️
: Chilly morning down by the Adur in Shoreham #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: End of the weekend. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: Big thoughts from a little person.
: I have been permitted entry to my brother’s hallowed wine cellar…
: Apparently it’s all about the landscapes. And me, when I was young, centuries ago. #2016bestnine #best92016
: #cold and #frosty. #leaves #winter #ice
: Aldgate East is not what I remember. Admittedly, that was 20 years ago.
: That’s a nice, festive reception.
: Counting the marshmallow haul @tomfoolery.coffee
: We really have to do something about the #pokemon infestation in this house.
: Something different about Hazel today. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
: High on the Dyke in the Downs
: Portrait of the man as a young student magazine editor
: 2nd Autumn for Iris. The first where she can really enjoy leaves.
: City lights of old London Town.
: I think she might be a bit weary after school.
: THE place to be in Shoreham on a Friday night - if you’re four.
: Last of the summer #sunflowers
: Stunning morning light in the living room this morning.
: Post-school Daddy/Daughter treat.
: At a gig. Like a young person.
: I detect evidence of workshopping…
: This man designs for Facebook.
: Hanging out in nightclubs. During the day. For work. Uh-huh.
: The flower displays here are quite something.
: Not exactly the mamil dream…
: I feel a sudden pain in my future wallet.
: German supermarkets are more exciting than British ones. Apparently.
: Variety is the Steiff of life…
: This holiday is not going to plan.
: Suffering the standard Southern Rail thwarted anticipation. #southernfail
: The city, never sleeping. #newyork #manhattan #latergram
: View from the office. #newyork #prisma
: I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in New York…
: I’m looking forwards to hearing Pidgey’s thoughts on social video at #newsrw
: A celebration cake, abstracted.
: There’s no escape from baby jail.
: Mini coffee fiend (via Pixma app)
: Yes, yes, I am compensating. Thanks for asking.
: Suited and booted on my way to the @solarteamgb launch.
: Nothing like gravy with home-grown rosemary and thyme. #cooking #sundayroast
: This week’s reading is here…
: And so it begins… #mylittlepony
: Too cool for the paddling pool.
: It’s the #octonauts early 90s #Bitcam edition…
: Dramatic skies over the church. #shorehambysea
: Tom Foolin' (and posting this using the new iOS share sheet, not the app…)
: Friday night, down the pub with these two reprobates.
: “You are a good blade. I shall bathe you in the blood of my enemies.”
: Beach bloom #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: There are eight different ways I can kill you with this, Daddy, unless you provide chocolate cake.
: Evening light #shorehambysea
: Bridge to nowhere. #shorehambysea #misty
: Morning conference with my office mates. #homeoffice #legominifigures #smurf
: Unashamedly Instagramming my #breakfast.
: A little catchup reading… #blogging #bloggers #ukbloggers #ukblogger #blogospheremagazine
: Reach for the sky. #cranes #construction #building #architecture
: Adventure Team Tinworth… Go!
: Beach life. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: Hmmm. Cover lines of @blogosphere_magazine #blogging #bloggers
: Newly-minted yellow belt little ninja…
: Not a popular decision, it seems.
: Things I don’t miss about living in London #521
: Iris and I partied out on Christmas Day. (Photo from my sister-in-law.)
: Misty morning. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: Oh, yeah. That’s why I live here. #shorehambysea
: Our en suite is looking dead glamorous right now.
: My room in Lewisham circa 1994. #MacLCII #applemac #lewisham #1990s
: Howzat? A piece of #cricket history.
: Always nice to carry a touch of Shoreham into London with me.
: The clouds doing drama again… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: Buying a print newspaper? With my reputation?
: That’s what I call an evening… #shorehambysea #shoreham #sunset #twilight
: Finishing the day with coffee and cake…
: A little night #blogging listening to Simple Minds on #applemusic
: Hazel prepares to face Storm Imogen (or Immy, as it’s known in this house)
: Kicking off something rather cool… #britishsolarchallenge
: Backstreet #brighton #latergram #red #night #instagood
: Adur afternoon #shorehambysea
: Finishing the day with an espresso @tomfoolery.coffee #dorasdaysout
: Dora on the train. #dorasdaysout
: Dora doing some digital strategy at @brilliantnoise #dorasdaysout
: Another day of adventures for Dora. #dorasdaysout
: Who is this girl of mystery?
: The #woods await. #misty #sussex #devilsdyke #forest #latergram
: Another tag on the white belt for Hazel.
: Top quality views at the Devils Dyke today
: On my way to teach the #interhacktives. It is (a) too early and (b) too cold
: Daddy legs proving useful in avoiding bumps for a new sitter…
: In case there was any doubt…
: Deep in the downs, @springbarnfarm
: There’s always something to look at in Brighton…
: Surprisingly lovely morning.
: New headshot, from @icreatelife_ 📷
: Can we talk about these ears, Dad?
: Not sure about this parking strategy.
: Gorgeous light after the rain this morning. #latergram #shorehambysea #shoreham
: New mobile #blogging setup on test. Liking it so far…
: Coffee and a new Apple Watch strap. A very satisfactory Christmas so far…
: Sneaky coffee with slumbering Iris.
: Looking lovely and Christmassy in my favourite coffee shop, @tomfoolery.coffee
: Party dress for the festive period…
: Somewhere out there, the sun is shining
: Last London commute of the year.
: Mistimed leaving @tomfoolery.coffee this morning…
: Some sort of subtle message here. Not sure I’m getting it…
: London feeling almost Holmsian tonight.
: Those glorious 15 minutes between finishing your chores in town and collecting your daughter from nursery.
: The moment you realise you’ve been wearing this sticker all through a day-long training course.
: Artic winds do not deter Hazel the Explorer.
: Commuter breakfast. Sheer glamour.
: Not sure the spirit measures are seeing as much use as they should…
: Possibly the worst drawing I have ever done on a whiteboard.
: Headcorn. The name shouldn’t make me laugh - but it does. 🌚
: Finishing the day very acceptably at @tomfoolery.coffee
: A brief visit to Brighton, concluded. I can’t believe how little time I spend here at the moment. Need to fix that.
: Beyond decadent and into bourgeois with my train this morning.
: Here’s a coffee shop that knows how to treat its customers right…
: Where has the great fiery sky ball gone?
: iPhone 6S doing a good job in tricky light…
: 14 liveblogs from #next15 - I think I’ve earned this.
: I’m at a music festival. Is this my mid-life crisis hitting?
: Epic flying weather this morning…
: Hello, old friend. #ipod1 #ipod1stgen #ipod
: Day 4: starting to look like a Brighton creative. #selfie
: Not quite Cordon Bleu. But tasty none the less.
: Damn but filling these rings is addictive. #applewatch
: Candles from the Bridge of Lights, remembering the dead of the Shoreham Aircrash
: Bringing the cute. And a silly hat.
: “Morning, Daddy. I saved some cute for you.”
: Lovely patterns in the sky this evening.
: Back in the UK, and heading off to see my girls,
: This is what a journalism department looks like in Singapore…
: This part of the day inspired by @neilperkin 😎
: Human resource excellence: that’s me.
: I have new glasses. Did I mention?
: Swapping SIMs - because the idea of being offline is unsustainable. 😎
: Friday night is fine for flying.
: Iris is leaf-watching again.
: Iris is gripped by my sparkling conversation…
: Turns out that the airport café is a distracting place…
: A small army of original #lego space figures…
: Just hanging around #olympus #camera
: Ladies and gentlemen, the design stylings of Mr @dnhydn - devoted to the service of two nearly 3 year olds…
: Enjoying the view from Devil’s Dyke.
: 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.
: Just time for a cheeky #espresso before collecting Hazel. #shorehambysea
: Evening on #Shorehambeach #shorehambysea
: Mighty sky giraffe judges your sin…. #beachdreams #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: Warning: Canard hookers #beachdreams #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
: Beach life. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea
: Not a bad place to start a working day.
: The Langham and the Beeb… #London
: 11 year old iPod mini - still working. #iPod #ipodmini #apple
: Tell me, friends. Would I make a good hipster?
: Polling station #selfie #ge2015
: Afternoon light and a coffee
: Evening beach walk #shorehambeach #shorehambysea #beach #boardwalk #latergram #twilight
: 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 …
: Evening in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #trees #shadow
: Still and misty this morning on the bridge, as I head up to London for the second last time pre-baby.
: Breakfast A working breakfast at Tom Foolery.
: Doing a big, scary technical thing. With coffee.
: Easter baking [gallery link=“none” columns=“2” ids=“6486,6487”] Enjoying Easter time in the kitchen with my little girl.
: Faded flag. #shorehambysea #shorehamhouseboats
: My TV isn’t enjoying #leadersdebate
: 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)
: Life in plastic, it's fantastic Morning in the Cotswolds
: Hazel is doing Instagram, while we wait for Sammy the Seahorse. This is her photo.
: Oh, dear. #commuting #thameslink
: Finally, a candidate I can get behind. #doge #votedoge
: The five essential ingredients of a good event (at #odcamp)
: Getting ready for #odcamp day 2 - by mainlining #coffee (art by @drawnalism)
: Morning #commute, #ominous #cloud edition
: pre-#dawn #commuting #shorehambysea
: Beth talking to her #interhacktives successors
: Ladybird cake. On a stick. Oh, yes.
: 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 …
: City Newspaper MAs via the wand of Narcissus… #cityoj
: 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”.
: Made with @instaweatherpro Free App! #instaweather #instaweatherpro #weather #wx #shorehambysea #unitedkingdom #day #winter #cold #gb
: Sometimes toddler play looks indistinguishable from a horror movie.
: Been a while since I did a #haircutselfie.
: Hazel missed the Princess memo… 😊
: My nephew has been bitten by the #lego #ninjago bug
: Morning on the bridge. #shorehambysea #light #dawn #sussex
: Winning awards for coffee, not modesty, in #shorehambysea #coffee #tomfoolery
: Inspired by @masakepic, here’s dawn light over #emeraldquay in #shorehambysea on #tuesday. #lookup
: Some improvement needed… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach
: Lovely #sunset on the #Adur with #shoreham in the background.
: Dora in position for the afternoon session at #meaningconf
: Dora auditioning for a speaker slot at the next #meaningconf
: Dora the Explorer… (Hazel’s toy has come to work with me today)
: This looks like a job for… BatSpoon! #batman #comics #dc
: Oops. #boat #sunk #adur #shoreham
: After the thunder storm, yesterday #latergram
: Everything’s better with a stick…
: 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 …
: Workspace, from on high #selfiestick #picstick
: Sunlight in the trees #nofilter
: Evening over the Adur #nofilter #sussex #shoreham
: Getting my Yosemite beta on today…
: Obligatory social media lunch shot
: Cheating on @smallbatchcc and feeling dirty. #whathappensinlondonstaysinlondon #beancheat
: #cloudporn from this morning… #latergram
: It’s work, I tell you, work!
: 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 …
: I confess: the code for Poitiers airport always makes me snigger…
: #harvest #fruit #blackberries
: Morning coffee Enjoying a Tom Foolery coffee while catching up on e-mail and feeds on this beautiful morning…
: Standing on the beach… #latergram
: Oh, sweet bliss of in-flight charging. 😊
: Missing you, Dad. Still missing you Dad, over a decade since you passed.
: Overheard at Waitrose "Why's this place so quiet?" “Oh, the football’s on…” (Panic) “Which match, which match…?” laughter
: 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 …
: Lunchtime treat now my toddler is sleeping…
: Self quantification ahead… #jawboneup
: Beach Blooms The beginning of summer beings blooms into life on Shoreham Beach’s shingle beach habitat.
: Wrong on so many levels. #marmite
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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.
: Finally got a decent coffee in NYC
: 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 …
: Hazel’s getting the hang of this coffee grinding malarkey…
: 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 …
: IKEA does cosplay [youtube www.youtube.com/watch IKEA does cosplay. The mainstreaming of geek culture continues…
: 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 …
: High Tide High tide on the Adur from Emerald Quay
: Hazel’s breakfast (first course) #fruit #food #breakfast
: Sunrise over the Adur - #sunrise #river
: Yum. #burger #newyork #fries #latergram
: Afternoon coffee at @trufflesbakeryltd at Shoreham Airport
: I’ve nicked something from @neilperkin to use with the #interhacktives :-)
: Today, I train. For learning is good.
: Nice afternoon in London Town
: 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 …
: Two #coffee mugs. One for each hand. #thatkindaday
: 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 …
: 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 …
: That’s a win… @smallbatchcc in #shoreham-by-sea
: 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 …
: #leweb bloggers - serious business
: Strangest #hotel corridors ever…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: OK, seriously excited now… [youtube www.youtube.com/watch
: Strange ducks they breed in these parts…
: Ah. #london #architecture - that’s better.
: It’s before 9am and I’m taking photos of a #pub. What does this say about my life?
: That @neilperkin draws a mean skull and crossbones…
: Tunes station while Hazel sleeps in the car seat.
: I may have a battery “problem”.
: Night flight to Venus. No, wait, it’s Gatwick. Never mind. #easyjet
: Waiting for my flight to Berlin…
: #kingscross #architecture #roof
: Sweaty, slightly drunk ma’n who keeps bashing his Thinkpad against my MacBook Pro in an aggressive way…
: 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 …
: How to do interesting things at boring conferences at #bcsmu
: Coffee and calls #starbucks #phone #mobile #bluedress #landcam
: Looking up. #tree #leaves #summer #sun #blueskies
: Finally found a use for my #hellokitty pen (a joke birthday present) #analogcamera
: Bad teddie. #brighton #graffiti
: Another day in baby jail… ;-)
: 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 …
: Towering, not revolving #analogcamera
: In the Kebab & Calculator for dinner… #youngones
: About as British as it gets… #fishandchips
: 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.
: Keynote speaker @peterjamesuk talking peers, queers and racketeers at #brightonsummit
: Mr @steveinbrighton kicking off #brightonsummit
: 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…
: 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 …
: Coffee with my mother-in-law
: Weirdest. Sleeping. Position. EVER.
: #3 Dramatic light on Shoreham Beach
: #1 New Year tranquility on Wandsworth Common
: Pretty good writing for five months…
: Space/time tree #tardis #christmastree
: 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 …
: Playing with the new version of Instagram
: Wireless charging in progress… #lumia920
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Dealing with some unfinished business.
: The day begins… #dawn #railway #train #sky #shorehambysea
: Two great drinks, together at last … #coffee #beer #coffeebeer
: Keeping warm… #stove #winter #Hipstamatic #Americana #BlankoFreedom13 #RedEyeGel
: 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 …
: First birthday card from my daughter…. :-)
: I must have had this a long time…
: Two trains to #brighton and none to #shorehambysea - figures
: I think this is meant to be reassuring, but it comes across as a touch sinister…
: Keeping my students on the clock… #evillecturer
: The sinister squash plots your doom…
: So, is Christmas coming, then?
: Not sure that word means what you think it means.… ;-)
: The #interhacktives - digital journalism’s future…
: I am not impressed by my surroundings, Daddy.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Almost certainly not. #skyfall
: Wow - three years on FourSquare…
: Room with a green roof view #hotellife (in response to @lloydadavis)
: The people of NEXT Service Design #sd12
: Interesting stuff about disruption at #sd12
: Danger: liveblogger at work #sd12
: When did the bed get so big, Daddy?
: At a fantastic #LikeMinds discussion about the connected culture and its consequences…
: Never noticed this gate before
: 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 …
: Ready for adventure (take 2)
: I suspect the post-lunch audience may be “relaxed” for @cpev’s #bdmf12 session
: Preparing for worship at the church of marketing #bdmf12
: Token lunch-on-Twitter tweet
: Looks like baby Hazel gets something from #bdmf schwag bag…
: The tower has fallen. Flee! Flee for your lives!
: Eggs - stir - men -ate #dalek #doctorwho #bmmf
: Cameras in a coffee shop - how very #Brighton.
: Fussy coffee making methods FT #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel
: Old #canon #camera #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40
: Storage upon storage… #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel
: Chilling in the living room, with a cool breeze in from the balcony.
: I have fallen in live with a #coffee…
: 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 …
: Popular organ music is a thing? Who knew?
: 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 …
: #coffee break at the Ropetackle in #shorehambysea
: "I prefer Fred" I wrote a thing about the sad death of 1970s Doctor Who companion, Mary Tamm - the first Romana.
: Some people say that waiting is the sensible thing. Not I. #mountainlion
: Moored in the #quay - #boats #sailing #adur #shoreham-by-sea
: Display screen at #Microsoft’s London HQ:
: Come with me and watch the waves…
: Swamped #boats in #shoreham-by-sea
: The stickers improve it, I think
: Obligatory wifi on the underground instagram
: The clouds are doing drama well this morning
: 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 …
: Mr @amayfield’s 40th birthday cake
: 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 …
: I guess I haven’t worn this jacket since Berlin…
: #leweb - @jamieoliver and @kevin
: Tasty, tasty Canon pancake via theonlinephotographer.typepad.com Quite possibly my next photographic purchase…
: Down at the yacht club #boat #prow #yacht #green #instagood
: 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 …
: Back when I lived in the East End 20 years ago, this was unimaginable…
: Batter begins… #sunday #roast #cooking #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1969
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Saturday morning reading #ipad #instacrt
: #instacrt #forgotten #tv #attic
: ‘ere, Barry, think we got enough flags? #london #jubilee #flag #flags #unionjack #unionflag #coventgarden #instagood
: Still obsessed with #instacrt
: #instacrt - what a mad, wonderful idea.
: This is the bit of coming to #london I hate - #commuting
: Financial Times iPad case - from #ftmobile gift bag
: Lunch with @nevillehobson and @gabriellenyc
: That looks like a cool way to camp… via www.toxel.com Not sure high winds would add to the experience, though…
: This week’s #starbucks #itunes freebie
: New toy…uh…piece of professional equipment.
: 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 …
: Design echoes #architecture #buildings #london #shard
: #gc5 in #moleskine | games don’t tell stories, people do #gc5
: #gc5 in #moleskine | gamesmanship
: #gc5 in #moleskine | story in games: vital or bs?
: #gc5 in #moleskine | tabletop RPGs informing video games
: Talking desktop RPGs at #gc5
: #gc5 in #moleskine | games at work:
: #gc5 in #moleskine - women in gaming:
: Sitting at the back is “in” at #gc4
: 3D printed #shoes at #next12
: Blimey - I remember these… #next12
: I have a suspicion that the answer is “kittens”… #next12
: Does what it says on the badge…
: #coffee and #woodgrain #filterfree
: The sad pile of no show badges at #odcc…
: I think I might be early for #likemind Brighton…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: #protest #shoreham #shorehambeach #rampion #windfarm #sign
: 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, …
: A #bench on the #beach - #seaside #shore #pebbles
: On the Barbados shore [gallery ids=“1171,1173,1175”]
: Sailing the Caribbean [gallery ids=“1177,1179”]
: A taste of history #kodak #slidefilm #film #transparancy
: 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 …
: 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.
: The only Infographic that matters via blog.thedaily.com
: 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 …
: Nice looking new offices for them
: 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 …
: Sneaky half… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
: Yum… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
: Market day in #cirencester #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935
: Travellers #Hipstamatic #RobotoGlitter #Pistil
: Simming the City Oh, I lost way too much time to this back in the early 90s. The new version looks scarily compelling: [youtube …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Pity - I was looking for a large…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My morning office, after #likemindbrighton
: 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 …
: Wild packs of coppers roam the streets of Brighton…
: 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]
: Here lies #london - I love these old city boundaries markers.
: Future of TV panel at #ftmedia12
: David Abraham of Channel 4 at #ftmedia12
: #ftmedia12 - investment panel
: #ftmedia12 - the future of digital journalism and news panel
: Jimmy Wales and Richard Waters at #ftmedia12
: #ftmedia12 liveblogging station
: Has #spring sprung? #daffodils #garden #flowers
: Charlie Higson reading from The Enemy: Geeks vrs Zombies
: Bathed in the first #light of #spring
: #coffee in #reflection #iphoneonly
: Time for a #coffee break on #nofilterfriday
: Mmmm… donuts ;-) #brighton #publicart
: #lostglove Queens Road, Brighton
: 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…
: Clearly, your bag is more deserving of a seat than all those people standing.
: The panel - @jobsworth, @jangles et al…
: I suspect @euan has grabbed an opportunity…
: Sometimes the first coffee of the day is the best
: #lostglove on Riverside Road, Shoreham Beach
: By the banks of the #adur #river #sussex
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Where the wealthy Tinworth brother works…
: Underneath the seat of power
: Sitting room only at #newsrw SMO session
: Listening to @artistsmakers talking at #popuppeople
: #Chichester mean time #clock #sussex
: Sheer Appeal [caption id=“attachment_6448” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] Diane Kruger - sheer confidence[/caption] The HuffPo wants to characterise this dress …
: Two #hearts #love #iphoneography
: Above the covers #architecture #building #construction #afternoonlight #hoarding #london #abovethestreets
: Gherkin city #london #offices #architecture #30stmaryaxe
: #espresso yourself #coffee #cup #iphoneography #starbucks
: Possibly the most ugly tech hub in the world…
: The news... it's so predictable these days via www.facebook.com via www.badnima.com Do I really want to return to journalism? ;-)
: St Mary’s #church #shoreham-by-sea
: 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…
: Left behind unwanted goods at #likemindbri #likemind. Anyone want?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Hello, old friend. I’ve missed you. #coffee
: 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 …
: Christmas Dinner in progress…
: 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 …
: I am Captain Scrumpy: official @newsmary @adders Bonus points AND 'Captain Scrumpy' ranking! — The Wurzels (@TheWurzels) December 24, 2011 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
: 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 …
: Centre of attention at @likemind
: Legacy Macs on the streets of Brighton
: A Bajan Lunch In the last few days of my holiday. Should be back and posting soon…
: Only the finest financial journalism…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Mobile office - #ipad on a #train
: 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 …
: This week’s Starbucks #itunes freebie in the UK:
: Sneaky pleasure #coffee #starbucks #espresso
: Reuse - #eco #sign #note #mugs
: #sunset - it comes to early now.
: Night #commute #train #station
: Window dressing #fashion #shop #clothes #dummy
: Night out at the #theatre - #hamlet at the #youngvic
: Sale of the century ( #carboot #fleamarket )
: 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 …
: Yum! Pre- #likeminds dindins
: Fire alarmed But I found a bench, so I win…
: Middle class perfection achieved…
: PvP on Jobs Absolutely pitch-perfect tribute to Steve Jobs from PvP, as the cast's resident Apple fanboy deals with the sad news.
: I think #cauliflower is seriously under-rated…
: Whisking the Yorkshire batter #food #cooking #roast
: A Pixar Goodbye via www.tauntr.com The other great achievement of that guy who died…
: 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 …
: Catching up with #apple #iPhone news on my #ipad
: Buy one ticket for @ropetackleart
: A Summer's Autumn Day… Fantastically unseasonal sun in Shoreham over the weekend:
: What, exactly, are you trying to say, iTunes? Bing Crosby and Marlene Dietich…?
: Getting my laptop bag sorted out…
: Working essentials #coffee #grinder
: #coffee #americano #coffeeshop
: Works in progress. #scaffolding #construction
: This is my weekend #moving #removals
: WANT #2: the affordable version via thegirloutdoors.co.uk The whole Baggins thing in in, in, in this year…
: Not going to miss this place…
: WANT: Treehouse office via www.shedworking.co.uk I want to work here so badly that it hurts…
: Where bookmarklets go to die… Vox? Tweetie? FriendFeed? I need to empty out that folder more often.
: The root of all… #futureofmobile
: Bangers and mash FTW #futureofmobile #lunch #sausages
: Workshopping app store selection at #futureofmobile
: the @ubelly tshirts at #futureofmobile
: Kevin Systrom at #futureofmobile
: Kevin Systrom cofounder of #instagram at #futureofmobile
: Karin Robinson #media140 #unethicalweb
: #Media140: the #unethicalweb
: 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. ;-)
: 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 …
: Near Pavillions #brighton #brightonpavillion
: Minimalism. Not. #brighton #folly
: Under the bridge #structure #bridge #metal
: Waiting boats #Adur #shoreham #ropetackle #boats #river
: Summer’s End #sunflower #flower #decay
: Adur by night It's the walk home that keeps on giving.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Nice sticker from @ubelly at #dconstruct
: On stage: @gotogirl at #dconstruct
: Olympian countdown #Olympics #london
: 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 …
: Art Deco Aviation #airport #shoreham #artdeco
: Hedge harvest #blackberries #fruit #wild
: Orders #sign #beach #shoreham #swimming
: Sailing by #boat #sea #shoreham
: 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 …
: #guinness is good for you… #pub #beer
: Festive #arundel #bunting #festival
: Rapidly joining “have your say” as a phrase I hate when applied to social media.
: 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 …
: OK Muppets, Go via www.youtube.com Joy. Promoting this, which is great.
: First conker fall of the year…
: There’s probably a good explanation for this…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Don’t ever leave me, Restaurant…
: Google playing the photo app game
: 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 …
: Beautiful morning in Shoreham Beach
: Nothing more important than the views of communters…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Abandoned underwear. Bet there’s a story there…
: Sunday on the Beach [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26844743](http://www.vimeo.com/26844743) w=525&h=295]
: Bridge over quite calm really waters
: Lots of #likeminds breakfasting
: 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" …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Ready for @noodlepie (but not mid-morning)
: Shoreham-by-sea Farmers Market
: The conference attendee’s friend
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: We know how to party on Saturday night…
: 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.
: 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 …
: Yes, I'm the one who buys them...
: Entertainment on a rainy Sunday
: 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 …
: I appear to have arrived in Narnia
: 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? …
: 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 …
: I'm not sure if this is the funniest WC sign I've ever seen… …but it's certainly the most graphic.
: Tiptoe through the bluebells… Just to get you through the last few hours until the weekend1: [youtube …
: Spoilers Gonna Spoil Spoilers are called “spoilers” for a reason, people: when leaked too early, they spoil. via www.kasterborous.com Amen.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A very French way of advertising a camera Oh, la la…
: 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 …
: La France: Day One Just chillin' at my brother’s place in France.
: 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 …
: Portrait of the gardener, with ear buds.
: Attack of the White Screen of Death Pleasingly minimalist. And kinda restful. Not actually much use, though…
: I'm amazed I haven't got this until now…
: 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 …
: Presentation from @redstarkim for #ricssm
: 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?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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…
: Do you think my RSS reader is trying to tell me something?
: QH canteen to Procter Street in an hour. Not bad.
: Daily Vignette #2: Beach Life [vimeo 21343360 w=500 h=375] A quiet moment to destress your afternoon.
: Netbooks and Custard Creams at #Bfong
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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.
: 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, …
: More evidence of Spring… Pity it's about to get cold and rainy again.
: The Unbearable Joy of Commuting
: 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 …
: 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 …
: They never get it right, dammit
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Florida: the state of the beach Gathered on a 10 minute walk down the Fort Lauderdale beach. Frightening.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The Ironic Inverted Commas Strike Shoreham Farmers Market, this morning
: I fought the week (and the week won) Time for a weekend, I think…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Dear Facebook... Not only are you exactly six months out on my insurance renewal cycle, but yellow just isn't my colour…
: At the theatre with @revstan. Shakespeare, daaaahlings…
: Today’s view from #hotdesking - gritty and #urban
: Office afternoon #officelife
: 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: …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Jetlag... via dailybooth.com …is kicking my ass. And it's beginning to show…
: 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 …
: Dressed up for my last dinner of my holiday
: 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 …
: Written in the sand Happy New Year. :-)
: RBI Achievement Awards Night Big show this year…
: This is our Christmas day out...?
: I'm on a (Parisian) Boat Somehow, I feel that I deserve more than the usual Foursquare badge for getting this one in Paris:
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Evening Standard catches mood if Lindon for once:
: 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 …
: Christmas Time (Lord) Oh! Oh! How could I have missed this? Genuinely excited. :)
: Christmas comes to Covent Garden
: Bored and waiting at the Apple Temple
: Rainbow over Shoreham A photo from yesterday, the result of being caught in the rain, in lieu of an actual post…
: 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 …
: From 1999, without explanation There are certain old photos that work better when no explanation is offered: Scanned earlier today. Draw your own conclusions…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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. …
: Another stupid flipchart sketch by me
: 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 …
: I love the #likeminds avatar stickers
: #likeminds publishing immersive is packed out
: Most important meal of the day pre-#likeminds
: Watching a movie on the iPad
: Trust Adobe… …to have an installer that finished before the progress bar does:
: Brunch: the finest meal of the weekend
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Work. Laptop. And a hint of iPhone
: 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?
: Shoreham Farmers Market A glorious day, accompanied by some glorious shopping…
: 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 …
: Adur, Evening Adur, Evening, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. You know, I could just get used to living here…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Maggie Philbin is.... Somewhere, my inner seven year old, a Swap Shop fanatic, is squealing with delight. (and yes, it's the same one)
: 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:
: Sunny Morning in Shoreham Beach
: Another Glorious British Summer All set for the Bank Holiday?
: 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 …
: An Urban Garden Our back garden in Lewisham, lit for a summer evening.
: Foragers' Harvest We've been foraging for fruit in the trees that grow adjacent to the flat in Lewisham: Elderberries for jam…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Uh-Oh That’s just a few minutes’ walk from one of the office I work out of. Bad wallet news.
: 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 …
: Doctor Who Theme (with didgeridoo) [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Somehow melancholy - and somewhat Sherlock Holmsian…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Why the UK needs more Trees via www.youtube.com I love trees, me.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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:
: A Little Summer Preparation Camping time is coming…
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Caucasian blondes are usually slightly higher in oestrogen than brunettes and are likely to exhibit other infantile sexually selected traits …
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: 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 …
: 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 …
: Scenes from a home hunt Still trying to figure out where to live next…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: More on the new Routemaster [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via jamescleverly.blogspot.com
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Chicks Dig Time Lords via scyfilove.com This ScyFi Love post is as good a followup to this as I could hope.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: "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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Americans: Don't Buy Yourself An iPad Buy ME one and get it shipped over here ASAP. kthxbai :-)
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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?
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Journey to Hamburg Random iPhone photographs from my journey last night:
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: What The Internet is Made Of... (Spoiler: cats)
: 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... …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Deforestation Because I'm a tree-hugging hippy at heart: …
: 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 …
: No Entry (Snow) Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Adam's posterous
: 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 …
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: 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
: Night, Snow and QH Posted via email from Adam's posterous
: Snowy Sutton Posted via email from Adam's posterous
: Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?
: Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?
: When a Canon Boy Meets a Nikon Girl Possibly not safe for work, depending on your office environment… [via the EOS Magazinenewsletter]
: 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 …
: 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 …
: First 11th Doctor Trailer http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My Christmas Creation Dickie the Snowman Like it?
: Christmas in the Country Colaton Raleigh Christmas
: Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't helping...
: Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't helping…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Acoustic Serenity From the series that was cancelled too soon…
: 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 …
: 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 …
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: A Culinary Inspiration to Us All Alie and Georgia Present: The McNuggetini
: Officially, My Favourite Variety of Rose If only for the name: IMG_1474
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The Good, The Bad & The Uke Some gratuitous Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain to see me through the afternoon:
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Autumn is in the air And the trees… The Edge of Autumn
: Remains of the Leaf Remains of the Leaf The skeleton of an autumn leaf, spotted in Holborn
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: BananaramaBack Bananarama - Love ComesBlimey. Bananarama. It's bringing back memories of fetid teenage years and desperate crushes. Shame about the song.
: 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 …
: 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...
: 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..
: 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..
: When is a fruit not a fruit? Most of the time, it seems.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Autumn's Harbinger The first conker of 2009, found on my walk from the car park to the office today. Autumn begins...
: Autumn's Harbinger The first conker of 2009, found on my walk from the car park to the office today. Autumn begins…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Allotments, Cars and camping Camping and Allotments A wee panorama built on the iPhone, from the site we were at over the weekend.
: 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.
: 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.
: It's Me, Kinda Adders, Distorted
: Lo! Kittehs! Martyn & Sophie have, well, kittens:
: Alice in HD Wonderland This looks like seven kinds of wonderful:
: 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]
: Born to be... Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin Hood?)
: Born to be... Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin Hood?)
: Beware of...uh, me? Adders is my username on most sites… Erosion & Adders
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Kite flying Steve flies a kite
: Down by the Sea Cornish Coast
: He Sleeps Standing Up Me in Cornwall
: Portrait of the Blogger, Unshaven I love this photo of me Lorna grabbed earlier.
: Portrait of the Blogger, Unshaven I love this photo of me Lorna grabbed earlier.
: 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, …
: 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, …
: London, I'm So Proud For a capital city, we don't show much pride in ourselves.
: London, I'm So Proud For a capital city, we don't show much pride in ourselves.
: Holborn Freebies One of the nice things about working in Holborn again is fun urban moments like this:
: 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, …
: Your Son is Rather Rotund... Not my Mum's finest photographic moment...
: Your Son is Rather Rotund... Not my Mum's finest photographic moment…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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: …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: What's that wierd mobile on the left? Mobiles on Monday Morning
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Self-Portrait, in a mirror DSCF1187 I rather like this shot, which I grabbed in a mirror at my mother-in-law's.
: 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 …
: Brown in the Bunker Oh, I just knew that there would be European Elections / Gordon Brown / Downfall mashups kicking around:
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Reflux Oh, God. Advertisers have spotted that I'm middle-aged, haven't they?
: 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!
: Pub Quiz Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.
: Pub Quiz Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.
: 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 …
: Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.
: Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.
: Mr Timworth, I Presume? They never get it right... [moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]
: Mr Timworth, I Presume? They never get it right… [moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]
: 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.
: The Improvement Society The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.
: The Improvement Society The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.
: Where are the bees? DSCF0972 Where indeed?
: 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.
: I've been to Brean Can't say as I recommend it. photo.jpg
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Video Show-and-Tell Share the last video you took. …
: Sutton's Urban Renewal Continues... photo.jpg
: 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 …
: Sutton Station Starbucks When did Sutton station get a Starbucks? photo.jpg
: The Black Swans of Dawlish The Black Swans of Dawlish A curious sight from a weekend's house-hunting
: The Busy Life of Focus Ladies and gentlemen, we present Rev Stan in her starring role: Friday Afternoon Focus
: My Beautiful Neighbourhood Space - NeighbourhoodHow it feels to live in Lewisham quite a lot of the time...
: Walking with the in-laws photo.jpg
: 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, …
: Friday Afternoon Culture Habanera
: 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…
: 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 …
: Wishing I Was Still on Holiday The trees of CenterParcs Longleat But that video makes me feel good.
: This Afternoon's Fun photo.jpg
: Our Hungry Wee Friend The Robin A cheeky wee robin redbreast who keep hopping after us, chirping for food…
: Guessing Game IMG_0178 Anyone care to guess what this is a picture of? :)
: 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 …
: New Year's Eve at the Moulin Rouge (Blackheath) DSCF0585
: Blackheath, New Year's Eve photo.jpg
: Port Grapes Scan-081230-0008 Another one from the Portugal trip
: Winter Sunshine, Brighton Road Winter Sunshine
: 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 …
: Christmas Eve @ my brother's His new house has four ovens. Four! photo.jpg
: A Paris Christmas Grabbed yesterday afternoon, near the Champs d'Elysee in Paris photo.jpg
: Suffolk Morning Winter Morning, Wenhaston
: 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 …
: First Icy Car Morning photo.jpg
: Real Life Rickroll This is just full of win: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade RickRoll (No idea what I'm talking about? Rickrolling explained.)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Lamps in the bath Fairly sure this isn't normal styling for a hotel… photo.jpg
: They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard For Rev Stan who could probably do with a laugh: taking the hobbits to isengard
: 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 …
: Sunday Sainsbury's Hell photo.jpg
: Orinocho Flow, interpreted through dance [via The Medium is Not Enough]
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Living Room Living Room Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. Experimenting with iSight self-portraiture…
: Parts of my Past Bric-a-brac
: 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 …
: Home(ish) Marischal Road, Night
: Vox Hunt: Peace and Quiet Show us your favorite place to relax. Lee Abbey, through the gate
: 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 …
: Dinner Halesworth Fish & Chips
: 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 …
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: Halesworth Nightlife photo.jpg
: An Abstemious Night Out photo.jpg
: Alan at The Shaftesbury photo.jpg
: Gaming Night Behold Sophie's finger of doom photo.jpg
: Whitchurch Car Boot Sale photo.jpg
: Church Light IMG_0004 Light playing on a bench in the church where Mum & Dad are buried. Quite took my breath away this afternoon.
: Afternoon in the Pub photo.jpg
: 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 …
: Owl Army [flickr video=2670280403 secret=0fdc9af20d w=500 h=375]
: 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 …
: Who says social networks are all about sex? Facebook 69
: A Moment of Peace DSCF0281 Taking time out from funeral plans and house clearing.
: Goodbye, Mum DSCF0189 Ann Patricia Tinworth 1939 - 2008
: Waiting The Patrick Stead Hospital
: 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" …
: The New Resident of Mum's Garden Mum's garden visitor Not doubt my brother will be around to shoot it momentarily…
: Rural Enterprise at its best photo.jpg
: Wonder if they have any vacancies? photo.jpg
: This is the life... photo.jpg
: Sanified? Is that a word? photo.jpg
: Best iChat Evar Secret & Mysterious
: A lovely, traditional British suburban Saturday afternoon photo.jpg
: The In-House Starbucks Because some of my Twitter friends didn't believe it existed... photo.jpg
: Vox Hunt: Wedding Bells Show us a photograph from a wedding.<br /><span style="font-size:.8em;">Submitted by <a class="enclosure-inline-user" …
: 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" …
: 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" …
: Charity Ball Night photo.jpg
: Abandon hope all ye who enter here... photo.jpg
: From Facebook to Vox Giving Six Apart's new Facebook app a quick spin. Will this post magically jump from Facebook to Vox?
: 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 …
: 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, …
: Down Wif Da Kids We're hip here in Business Development photo.jpg
: 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. :)
: Leaving lunch for Piers at Mama Dumplings photo.jpg
: About the Apprentice About the Apprentice
: She is, clearly, bovvered Doctor Who Cinema Trailer **Best Quality**
: The Great Wall of Hancock photo.jpg
: The Triple Plea Pub lunch on the way back to Mum's photo.jpg
: Lunch in the Chapel(field) Grabbing a bite to eat in Norwich after Mum's chemo. photo.jpg
: Norwich Street Scene photo.jpg
: Planning a Movable Type upgrade photo.jpg
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The QH Truck Arriving at the office gets stranger every day… Big Digger at QH
: If Saul Bass had done the Star Wars intro Star Wars vs. Saul Bass
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Three Word Review: Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain [2005] Pretty. Dull. Depressing.
: Winter Morning, Suffolk It was gorgeous as I set off for my drive to Sutton early this morning. photo.jpg
: Whatever Lola Wants Stumbled across this while researching posts for another blog. Rather liked it: Tigrita Project - Whatever Lola Wants
: 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 …
: Suffolk Frost Looking lovely this morning... photo.jpg
: Social Media Cafe, London photo.jpg
: New Year in Chinatown photo.jpg
: 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 …
: Urgent ToDo List of Doom photo.jpg
: Hidden Past Doorway from the Past A cracking, mysterious image from July 1966, taken by my parents on holiday. What a find!
: Amazing What You Find While Tidying Up Robert Kilroy-Silk
: 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...
: 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 …
: The LARP Nativity This made my inner geek snigger: IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR
: Suffolk Melancholy ...there undoubtedly is something unnerving about East Anglia. Whether it's those huge skies, that almost aggressively flat landscape -- or the …
: The Trees of Halesworth photo.jpg
: 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 …
: Oh, Christmas Tree The tree at my mother-in-law's. photo.jpg
: Our Christmas Bash BizDev at Christmas We're so very grown up…
: 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 & …
: The Lights Go On... http://llnw.jibjab.com/content/player.swfDon't send a lame Holiday eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!The Christmas Light
: 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 …
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: iPhone Test Andrew on the South Bank photo.jpg
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Voce 'e Notte Voce 'e NotteA lovely piece of music played with style by alan.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Mum & Dad's Wedding Day Mum & Dad's Wedding I've been playing with the scanner again…
: 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...
: Waiting in the dayroom Another visit to hospital with Mum Waiting in the dayroom
: Real Life Forum Discussion We should probably show this to all our community managers as part of their training: …
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: The Good Doctor Show us your favorite doctor. The Fifth and Tenth Doctor Duh.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Man of Destiny (and his Mum) Man of Destiny (and his Mum)
: Charity Fundraising in Halesworth Ironically, it's for cancer research Charity Fundraising in Halesworth
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: /dance With apologies to the non-WoWers out there: Slashdance - Live Action WoW Night Elf Dance
: How I'm Starting To Feel About Facebook Facebook2
: 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 …
: Looks like Autumn I think the days of driving home in the daylight are done for this year. Looks like Autumn
: A Gentleman's Duel A Gentlemen Duel[via James]
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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)
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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: …
: Lunch and papers in Halesworth Lunch and papers in Halesworth
: Everyone's a critic... Everyone's a critic...
: Serious Business Journalism (Again) Nothing but serious business blogs for us, oh yes.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out. First Dance
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Photography - Frame It Show us one of your photos that you’d like to print out and frame. Lee Bay
: Scenes from Sophie's Party Toby & Anita Allie & Chris & Pint
: Enter Disco Stu Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....
: 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 …
: The Simpsons Star Wars The Simpsons Star WarsNicked from here.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My Tragic Addiction 95%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? [Via Adriana]
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: The MMOvie One of the things I love about online games is the spin-off creativity that develops around them: MMOvie
: 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
: Baby Pandas! Whole Lotta Baby Pandas
: Waiting for the AA …And watching video podcasts. Waiting for the AA
: 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. …
: 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 …
: The Thief of Summer OK. Own up. Trees Overhead Who stole summer and left us Autumn in its place?
: 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 …
: Testing Crossposting Just testing a Movable Type plugin to cross-post to Vox.
: 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 …
: 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… …
: 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)
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Today's Beverage Show us what you're drinking. Drink Coffee Follow the bean.
: Rural Weddings Who says romance is dead?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My Sad, Lamentable Taste in Music Oh, look. iTunes has …
: Vox Hunt: And All The Colors Show us a rainbow. Submitted by Amy - Sister Brown Hair Surprise. Rainbow over Sandown Park
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My Great-Grandma Another one from the family archives, shot in October 1983: Great Grandma
: Saturday Afternoon in Multicultural Lewisham LHR Street Celebration
: 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, …
: Two Great 70s Tastes - That Taste Better Together! Keith Chegwin and The Wurzels! Wurzels - "The Tractor Song"
: Drivin' Along in my (cardboard) Automobile Cardboard cars
: Christopher Walken cooks Chicken with Pears Chicken with PearsThe mind boggles.Still, the man's a good cook.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: The Old Manor My old offices on Wardour Street, all refurbished and lovely. The Old Manor
: Ah, Charing Cross This is what used to greet me off the train for nine years. No more. Ah, Charing Cross
: Where I Want To Be Right Now Boat near Fowey
: They Broke The Internets! In honour of the power outage in San Fransisco last night which too down numerous sites, including …
: 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? …
: 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, …
: Happy Birthday, Dave Birthday Cake A very happy birthday to Dave for today!
: Climate Change: Making Choices http://embed.break.com/MzExODA1 Interesting Argument About Global Warming - Watch more free videosInteresting Argument About Global Warming
: 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 …
: 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…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: On The Rails With RBI BizDev Snap Snap 04072007040 Travelling Home
: The Old Neptune The Old Neptune, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
: BizDev in Whitstable Watchers on the shore Pictures from our team day out in Whitstable are now on Flickr.
: Razor Clams Razor Clams Yummy seafood from our prize day out to Whitstable last week. These were really, really excellent
: 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 …
: Toy Scarecrows Toy Scarecrows
: Shopping in Whitstable Shopping in Whitstable
: On Whitstable Beach 04/07/07
: Flowery Decisions Flowery Decisions
: After the rain After the rain
: Duck! 23/06/07 The Halesworth ducks like to explore. This chap was in the car park, a fair way from the river.
: 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...
: Oh, so cute Just for Andrew Orange: It's oh so Cute! Cats of YouTube Music Video Stolen from Melinda
: 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 …
: Truro Cathedral Truro Cathedral, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
: 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 …
: Rusted Rusted, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Summer's Coming... …and with it some colourful fashions, according to the windows on the King's Road. About time, too…
: Hospital Sculpture I do like this. Hospital Sculpture
: 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
: When Advertising Becomes Art …or something like it at least. When Advertising Becomes Art
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: My Voxiversary I just realised: I've been on Vox for one year now. My, but a lot has changed in that year…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Happy Holiday Memories Cornish Cream Tea It all seems so long ago now…
: Coffee Forecast: Monday 11th June Today, I forecast three cups of coffee, because I'm a little tired.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: We can rebuild her Because Lindsay and Karl were asking: Bionic Woman – Coming to NBC
: 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 …
: More Serious Rural Journalism from Farmers Weekly Young farmers and gratuitous nakedness... Farmers Weekly - Full Monty
: Focus HQ Nadia and Stan hard at work at Estates Gazette. Focus HQ
: Team Lunch Because, sometimes you need to go out for a Chinese… 05/06/07
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Who's That Spoiler? Jack's Back Preview clip of Captain Jack returning to Doctor Who: Doctor Who - Utopia! Clip ( Captain Jacks Return )
: The Secret of Fox The Simpsons - Fox News and the Liberal Media
: 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 …
: 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
: Suffolk again Start the day in Suffolk - finish it in Dublin… Suffolk again
: 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 …
: Alanis and Her Humps Alanis Moristette covers "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas in her traditional style: Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video Genius.
: 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 …
: Birthday Beads It's Rev Stan's birthday! Birthday Beads
: Video share fair in progress Video share fair in progress
: Oops Heading back to London but stuck in a M25 nightmare. Oops
: When Snow Comes to London Some footage I shot back in February but have only just got around to editing: Snow!
: 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 …
: New Wurzels Release Oh, yes. It's on iTunes, too.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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…
: Vox Hunt: Here's Some Stuff Show us a pile of stuff. Submitted by The Eugene. A pile of stuff
: 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 …
: Gilbert & Sullivan's Baby Got Back Baby Got Back - Gilbert and Sullivan Style
: Respect My Authoritaaaah! Respectmyauthoritah Convincingly broke the Technorati top 40,000 blogs with my main blog this morning. 30,000 here I come!
: 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 …
: Checking Out The tattered remains of a wedding… Checking Out
: Lewisham blogging drinks Lewisham blogging drinks
: New haircut time again What do you think? New haircut time again
: Still They Come! General Waste
: St George A statue at St George's Hospital, created by one of the staff. St George
: Sinister Bins First Andrew captured them massing. Now they ATTACK Is there no escape for any of us? 19/04/0719/04/07
: 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
: Commute On the train today. It reminds me of how lucky I am to drive most days. Commute
: 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 …
: Tea at the Crazy Bear Tea at the Crazy Bear
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: Messin' With Mark's MacBook MyPicture
: 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 …
: In Trafalgar Square Sitting with a drunk friend. Nice view. In Trafalgar Square
: Karl: style guru Karl: style guru
: Good Weather Ahead Despite Piers' concerns: Easter Bank Holiday Good times ahead!
: Liveblogging is thirsty work Liveblogging is thirsty work Lloyd Davis of Perfect Path taking a Liveblogging break.
: At Blogging4Business But where is the wireless? At Blogging4Business
: Sunday afternoon in the back garden Sunday afternoon in the back garden
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Today Jet lag is kicking my arse. And now I have to fly to Ireland. That is all.
: Droid Mail Just for Anthony: R2-UPS It was right outside the Apple Store on 5th Avenue.
: Back Good flight back. Shame that the time difference means that I've lost the whole day travelling. Back
: Apple Store, 5th Avenue Because I can't get enough of Apple product or beautiful glass-based urban design. Apple Store 5th Avenue
: Keeping Busy Last night: dinner with Six Apart folks Today: Blogher Blogher Business Keeping myself out of trouble…
: I've Heard of Roach Motels but… This is on the same street as my hotel: New York's special services
: Just for Karl… Shop on 25th Street
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Mark's Active Saturday Just lazing around at my brother's place. Mark's Active Saturday
: 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 …
: 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
: Another Busy Afternoon in Business Development Anthony, Andrew and Piers cracking on with the serious stuff: Wii Movie
: Vox Hunt: It Takes Two Audio: Share a great duet. kylie & kermit!Especially for you, my Vox readers. An Aussie. And a frog.
: Coffee update Had coffee. Even the video below hasn't dented my improved mood: Travel Weekly does Wham! for Comic Relief
: Office Departure Time: 18:55 Today, it's 25 minutes later than my self-imposed deadline. I will get better at this, oh yes.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Mum & Dad - Spanish Beach 1963 Another one from the growing digital archives Mum & Dad in Spain, 1963
: 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 …
: Human Beatbox in the Kitchen Last one for now, as e-mailed around by Karl: Kitchen diaries
: 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 …
: Beware The Baby Panda! Stolen without shame from Jay Allen: Sneezing Panda
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Candlelit Show us a candle burning. Candles
: 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
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Book Tech Support Another bit of e-mailed video humour, this time from Karl: Introducing the book
: 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 …
: 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)
: Vox Hunt: Time To Make The Donuts Show us how your work week begins. Monday, monday Inspiring, isn't it?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Lunch abstract Lunch abstract
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: Mobile Self-portrait Mobile Self-portrait
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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: …
: 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 …
: Done It's 2am and the bedroom is done. The carpet fitters arrive in 6 hours… Done
: Balloons at the SCC Balloons at the SCC
: Doctor Who and the French Dalek Another Sci-Fi/Python mashup: Doctor Who and the French Dalek
: This is what we do... Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
: Why I hate decorating Most parts of decorating I like. This is what I hate. Why I hate decorating
: 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 …
: Symphony in White Symphony in White
: View from the steps Painting again View from the steps
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Up the Junction Quick pub visit after moving duty Up the Junction
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Traffic. Again Spent too much time like this over the last week Traffic. Again
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Life on Mars series two is on its way... Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green And that's a great piece of viral video…
: Traffic terrible But the views make up for it Traffic terrible
: The snow doth fall... The snow doth fall...
: 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
: At least the living room looks good At least the living room looks good
: David, Pat and Lorna At the Shaftesbury today David, Pat and Lorna
: This is our kitchen right now Things are getting a bit strange as we decorate the bedroom. This is our kitchen right now
: Silent Star Wars Silent Star Wars
: Storm Damage Signs down in Sutton Storm Damage
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: Two great geek flavours that taste better together... Python's Camelot interlude, by Kirk and crew Very, very silly.
: Alive Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I'm back at work. More when things get quieter again.
: 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 …
: Who's that Girl? Because I'm a sad geek, this pleases me immensely: Martha & The Doctor Roll on series 3!
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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
: A room at Moonrakers 02/01/07
: Happy New Year New Year can be such a drag… Happy New Year More pics to follow in a day or so.
: Stan in Salcombe Stan in Salcombe
: Mum's new haircut Mum's new haircut
: Books, Glorious Books This year's literary haul from my family: Reviews to follow as I work my way through them.
: Vox Hunt: Great Giftwrapping Show us some great giftwrapping. The Pressie Pile
: Worst day of fog yet Worst day of fog yet
: Complete Babes… Oxfam Mastercard You're Gorgeous Christmas ad
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Foggy Lewisham Foggy Lewisham
: Foggy Sutton (night edition) Foggy Sutton (night edition)
: 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 …
: Work Christmas Lunch The Business Development Christmas Lunch Clink on the ones below to see three secret santa gifts being opened:
: The Six Apart Holiday Movie Six Apart Holiday Movie 2006
: British Martial Arts Training British Fight School
: On the Eurostar I seem to be surrounded by sleepy French women on today's journey. On the Eurostar
: 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 …
: Blogging from Le Web 3 11122006005 I'm blogging the Le Web 3 confrenece in France, over on my other blog.
: Vox Hunt: 'Tis the Season Show us something seasonal. The Festive Queue Nothing says the Christmas season like massive queues at the Post Office.
: Testing video uploads Behold! The spider hand! Testing video uploads
: 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 …
: The QEII Bridge Another image from my sloooow journey yesterday. 07/12/06
: Pondering I'm wondering if the bridge is shut because of the high winds...
: Stuck on the M25 This is taking too long. Stuck on the M25
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: QotD: Tasty Thanksgiving Treat What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? Submitted by Brennan. Thanksgiving? Bloody Americans.
: Cheering up a grumpy Friday... Sweet Tired Cat
: Open mouse Grabbed on my phone. Open mouse
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: The photographer at work The photographer at work
: 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...
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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", …
: 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
: Friday Afternoon Fun WoW The internet is for PornSong from Avenue Q, graphics from World of Warcraft.
: 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 …
: 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: …
: 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 …
: Just a quick tipple Something I spotted on the way into the office the other day: Sutton's little problem…
: QotD: Weekend Plans What are your plans for the weekend? I'm spending time with Mum before her operation on Tuesday.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Torchwood -5 Five days until this: Torchwood - First proper trailerTorchwoodExcited? Me?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Things To Do Show us your to-do list. Today's ToDo Not very informative, I'll grant you…
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: Phone Video Test La Taupanne's Drive The video quality from my mobile phone is not great…
: 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 …
: Bird song I really don't stop and listen to bird song often enough. I should do more of that.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Remember Jigsaw? UK kids' TV got very strange during the 1980s. Very strange indeed: Noseybonk
: 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 …
: Vox Hunt: Tastes great Show us something that tastes great. From the QH Starbuck's Mmm. Afternoon break.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Stingray involvement… Apologies to anyone easily offended: BBC News questions Stingray
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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: …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: Back We're back in the Uk. Horrible journey. More later.
: 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.
: and we are off Tunnel time! Image(004).jpg
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: From 'umble acorns For those in need of a laugh: Young, young adders
: QotD: Baby Love How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics! Adam-playing-dress-up
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: BBQ night begins The BBQ, alight
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Where I'm Spending The Day Wotton House, near Dorking Work is hell, sometimes.
: Human Space Invaders Human Space Invaders
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: Name in Place That's My Name! The hand-painted place-setting at the wedding.
: Last Night, Party Night A brief bit of video from last night's wedding reception: Dancing at Adam & Clair's wedding
: 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, …
: 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. …
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: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: New View This is the view from my new office: View from the 8th floor
: Commuting Candid Commute - Thursday night
: Starting Again New challenges, a new location and at least six months to make something of blogging within this publisher. Woohoo!
: Watching the match Folks from my church watching the end of the Portugal vrs France game on my iBook. Thanks, BBC!
: 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 …
: New for Who: new companion announced New companion announced
: Rubber goldfish have feelings too Making good use of promotional tat in the office
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: The stream at Wotten House Oh, to have something like this in the garden: The Stream
: Sainsbury's Stripes Silly phone grab while out shopping 02072006.jpg
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
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: Something afoot at mansion house 23062006.jpg
: 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 …
: My desk, Monday afternoon My desk.jpg
: Duck! Test! A quick test of Vox's new Flickr intergration.
: 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.
: Over the bridge A quick movie, captured on my camera on London’s Millennium Bridge last Thursday.
: From my walk home St Paul's.jpg
: In my head tonight ManeaterNelly Furtado Seriously stuck in my head right now.
: World cup in the office Watching England Play
: England vrs Trinidad & Tobago My brother's showing off by texting me this picture from the match… Live from the Franken-Stadion
: 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, …
: Piers One of my fellow hacks.
: 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 …
: 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
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Test Nothing to see here. Move along please.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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. …
: It isn't easy being green Want to see some stupid pictures of this Livejournaler? homepage.mac.com/adders/Ph… Enjoy!
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: DeBagged This is a bloody good idea, and what’s more, it came from Ireland. Let’s recycle those bags!
: And for the American audience This is a better site for people in the US.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Middle Age Another university friend has just become a proud and slightly deviant father. Truly, middle age approaches.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 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.
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: London is developing a tradition of May Day Riots. Anti-capitalism protesters take to the streets in great numbers and generally cause a certain …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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, …
: 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 …
: Incidentally, I’m right in the middle of a multiple deadline crisis pile-up. This might explain my sudden return to the LiveJournal.
: 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 …
: Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel. Make what you will of that. Proper entry to follow shortly.
: which "monty python and the holy grail" character are you? this quiz was made by colleen
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Remember those party pics from last week I promised? Well, you can find them here!
: As you will note from the previous post, I had the wrong time zone setting on my iMac. This should be better now.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Ah, as everyone else is doing it... Adam’s RPG credits
: 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 …
: 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. …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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.
: 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?
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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”.
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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, …
: 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 …
: 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.
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Eavesdropping is fun. The Prince of Wales' press team are giving a pre-conference speech briefing to some pet journalists. I, a random business …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Found it! You may all stop holding your breath and return to your regularly scheduled activities.
: 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…
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …