A new look for One Man & His Blog.

The old theme was feeling dated, and isn’t being updated for new Ghost features, as far as I can tell. So, for now, one of the default Ghost themes has take its place. Some tweaking is likely in the coming weeks…

The homepage design of One Man & His Blog, hosted on ghost(pro).

Oh, yikes. The home office iMac won’t get macOS 26. Somehow it’s still “my new iMac”, but it’s five years old now…

Time to start putting the money aside for a Mac Mini and a decent 5k screen.


Wow, Midjourney really struggles with the idea of scissors.

A high-angle shot shows a person's hands holding an old pair of metal scissors, cutting out a square from a newspaper spread open on a table. Another piece of newspaper, already cut, is held in the person's other hand. The newspaper appears to be in a foreign language.

#mbjune Day 9: Wood 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A wooden birdhouse is attached to the trunk of a large tree with leafy branches extending into the scene.

Escaping email hell with a beach walk before school pickup.

A pebble beach stretches along the coastline with two people and a dog walking near the water's edge under a clear sky.

When did you last reply to someone on social media?

As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more conversation, a little less promotion please.


The downside of falling behind with your email:

“Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I must book. Let’s see, when is it…? Oh. Two weeks ago.”


I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to take the idea of community-building around its journalism seriously.

Now it’s finally, finally happening I should feel vindicated and celebratory. But largely I just feel tired.


#mbjune Day 8: Travel 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A Snapchat advertisement on a London Underground platform features a collage of photos, including people and a dog, with overlayed text and the Snapchat logo.

I can’t find the list of #mbjune prompts for today onwards. Anyone seen it?