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 that I was still in Big Sur.
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 embrace our then-new century’s big idea: the abstraction of our physical life into the digital domain.
And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.
“But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than braided rivers spreading outward from many sources through countless deltas) is impossible to reduce to any one formal cause.”
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.
Maybe this year’s the year? 🤷
What stocking fillers would be appropriate for journalists, anyway?