Looks like the Big Sur update is in the process of completely hosing Apple’s online services.

The company normally handles these peaks of demand much better. I wonder what went wrong?


Should I?


Charles Arthur:

[…] classical orchestras are just tribute bands for old music

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Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…


I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life.

But it would be a lie.


”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places without really putting down roots in any one. Ramsbury made me a somewhere person.”

— Peter Marren, The Consolation of Nature

This is true of myself and Shoreham Beach.


Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos


The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook Pro — but perhaps I should hang on until next year.

It might not be all Zoom, all the time, by next summer…


The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is much, much less of a threat, and that makes me wonder: will we see a struggle between those who want to embrace a new normal, and those who want to force us back into the old ways?


There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms curtailed. But last time, it helped bind communities and families.

Will this one do the same?