A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for what looks like a great book.)


A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other things.


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…


Happy GDPR day!


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 the world’s solar panels currently produce — about 1.8 percent of global electricity, according to a simple extrapolation of the study’s predictions. That would effectively erase decades of progress on renewable energy.


Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.


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 racists we’ve seen rise post-Brexit?


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 are worth it. I feel the readers of onemanandhisblog.com may find this of interest.

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