Time to test micro.blog’s video hosting…

Ah, my weekend reading is here.

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 Tools has been used internally at Automattic to grow our company.”

Revenue play, at the expense of focus? Hmm.

May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…

My coffee mug being knocked by my film scanner

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 that social networks lead inevitably to nazis.

This must be the most 2019 thing ever.

Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the site…

One Man & His Blog in 2011

Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.

Something my daughters will never do…

A negative packet, with promos for Boots' reprints service

Bittersweet memories of 1999

Scanning colour negatives in Vuescan on a Mac.

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 in my life - and 20 years ago, almost exactly.

The first few photographs are of the woman who was soon to be my ex-girlfriend in the flat we shared (and, honestly, the coming storm was written all over her face in those images), while the next batch were of a party at the flat of the woman who is now my wife.

Those really were a few months that changed my life forever, and in ways that were only good.

However, the deep sadness is that one person in those images is no longer with us, passing too, too young.

Plenty of pain in those images and the memories they evoke - but also joy. I wouldn’t surrender either.

Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.

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10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.

Thought for the day:

Sign sayin that coffee and denial are coping strategies some days, outside Ginger & Dobbs in Shoreham-by-Sea

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 they did, too.

The Southwark Room at The Bridge after a day's training.

Hello.

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Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?

Beachscape with fisherman and detectorist

Sunday afternoon on Shoreham Beach

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 macOS after Mojave and converts them to a compatible format”

My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I love them, but sometimes they are very sinister.