Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina.

Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop because the hard drive is throwing SMART errors. Uh-oh.


Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one:

“Regardless, the newly minted Bin will always be known as Trash in the hearts of UK Mac users.”

Well, apart from those of us old enough to remember when it was “wastebasket” in classic Mac OS.


What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.


Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the guilty party.

It ate over ⅓ of the battery on my devices in a matter of hours.


Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go.

And remember:

Ceiling Cat is watching you.


Someone set us up the bomb.


After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the beach not very far away.

Bliss.


Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?

A man with gray hair is taking a selfie in front of a dark blue door with white window panes, resembling the TARDIS from Doctor Who.

Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?


Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this photo.

A calm pond is surrounded by lush green foliage and trees, with their reflections visible on the water's surface.