”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.”

— From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚
2023-01-15

Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.


2023-01-15

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 something we’ve lost.

Finished reading: Silence by Erling Kagge 📚
2023-01-16

Home, from the bridge.

Emerald Quay, as seen from the Adur Ferry Bridge.
2023-01-16

Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.
2023-01-17

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 an endpoint.”

In other words, it’s time to build ActivityPub clients, not just Mastodon ones.
2023-01-17

Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…

Shoots pushing through the earth in our back garden.
2023-01-17

Quite the sunset this evening.

Sunset over the Adur.
2023-01-17

Ah, it's Winterwatch week. That's a pleasant surprise.
2023-01-17

Frost on the roof, sun on the river.

A frosty roof with the sunlit river Adur in the background.
2023-01-18

Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down for most people across the Beach.
2023-01-18

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 newsletter evolution.

RIP Revue. 🫡

The landing page for the shuttered Revue newsletter service.
2023-01-18

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, a whole household device that will last half a decade or more, is not.
2023-01-18

Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.

Shoreham Beach on a frosty morning.
2023-01-18

Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.
2023-01-19

A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,

The Adur Ferry Bridge covered in frost.
2023-01-19

Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.

Oxford Street at night

2023-01-19

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 developers, some of whom have been working with you for 15 years.

2023-01-19

Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.
2023-01-19

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.

The approach to the O2.
2023-01-20

Somewhere in all that is my eldest, preparing to sing her heart out.

The Young Voices choir at the O2 Arena

I first came here 23 years ago, and saw Peter Gabriel’s OVO as part of the millennium dome exhibition.
2023-01-20

Quite a show.

2023-01-20

On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes.

Harsh, but fair.

A sign on a door reading "no stupid people".
2023-01-21

Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚
2023-01-21

Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.

Trees and college vans just pre-dawn at Lancing College.
2023-01-22

Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
2023-01-22

“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 collaborators rather than conquerors.”

— from The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
2023-01-22