When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.

I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting married in, not the ”metaverse”:

Getting Married in the Metaverse

The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.

A red car is parked in an empty lot at night, illuminated by streetlights with trees and fences surrounding the area.A black road bicycle with drop handlebars and a green and gray saddlebag is parked against a tall metal fence at night.A quiet street at night is illuminated by streetlights, with buildings and parked cars visible on either side.

These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad.

A 15 mile walk. In December. In their swimming costumes. 🥶

A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.

A QR code is displayed with the instruction to scan for launch news.

This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a negative educational impact from the pandemic.

At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside.

I’m off to have a celebratory coffee, while the editor goes to work on it.

13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated.

I suppose I’d had digital cameras for half a decade at that point.

I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.

I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no longer online. I’m slowly starting to reconstruct them from the Wayback Machine and republish them here. Just one so far, but I will work steadily through them in down moments.