Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home as well as abroad, and he who has a little may use it to as good advantage as he who has much. As a search for perception, the recreational stampede is footless and unnecessary.

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚


Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically impaired thereby, nor does any other resource suffer when the rate increases to a hundred. The camera industry is one of the few innocuous parasites on wild nature.

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚


Beauty right by the front door.

Margarita roses in bloom

David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating:

“All these advantages meant that the process was heavily biased: but heavily biased in Johnson’s favour.}

“And somehow, Johnson still lost.”


When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I can think about is this photo:

The Zuck Borg.

This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.


What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇


I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

There goes that streak.


That’s the sort of keynote I like from Apple. Lots of new features for devices I already own, no temptation to spend any money. 👍


Ah, crap. I just got it.

The two big “secret” Apple projects: the headset and the car.

They’re basically the same project: spatial computing.

Low latency real time computing integrated into the physical world. Their spacial computing tech is the real story here.


If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.


Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR.

But I still can’t see myself buying one.


Dragonflies at Woods Mill.

Two dragonflies in the Sussex woods.

It may be a common cardinal beetle, but it’s uncommonly beautiful.

A common cardinal beetle on a leaf.

Beach flower.

A flower in the shingle on Shoreham Beach.

The wind farm has really grown on me over the years.

Rampion wind farm off the Sussex coast.

The gull parade.

Seagulls following a fishing boat into port.

Oh, nuts.

A nut and bolt in close-up.

Squee.

Mariner and Boimler on the USS Enterprise. IN LIVE ACTION!

Having an 80s moment.

Adam Tinworth wearing 80s glasses. &10;