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.

A charging station is situated along a pathway with parked cars and a person walking in the background.A row of electric cars is parked at a charging station beside a white building.

2025-02-17


Seth Godin:

Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and addictive.

2025-02-19


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 play into that.

2025-02-19


What are the best RSS readers on Android and Windows these days?

2025-02-19


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 Amish performance of a better life. Oh except that it does work as well as those other platforms, if that’s what you want, that’s the magic. Also all the good people are here.

He's hit his 25 years of blogging. For me… that's next year. Blimey.

2025-02-19


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 security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.

The BBC's Zoe Kleinman has the details of what's happening to Advanced Data Protection in the UK.

2025-02-21


The Open Rights Group:

The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. As a result, British citizens will be at higher risk of their personal data and family photos falling into the hands of criminals and predators.

Exactly. They made us less safe to make their life easier.

2025-02-21


Terrible Tudors time from Horrible Histories at the Worthing Pavillion with my youngest.

A crowd of people is gathered in front of a stage set for a "Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors" performance.

2025-02-22