I have a nasty feeling Iris is pretending to be me…

A young girl wearing a dark coat with a red scarf is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor displaying a Library and Information Service webpage.

Grabbed the opportunity for a quick beach walk this afternoon. The beach is very much in winter mode, biding its time before it bursts into spring colour in a few months.

A pebble-covered beach with some green plants in the foreground and buildings, including a distinctively styled house, in the background under a cloudy sky.

Catchy as the headline is, the real story is a government agency trying to frustrate a legitimate journalistic investigation. Ministry Of Justice Staff Called A BuzzFeed Journalist “Crazy” And A “Bitch” After She Published A Leaked Report

Facebook wants us to know that it’s the real victim here.

I see Zuck has learned his lesson and is dealing with things with all due humility now… Mark Zuckerberg vs. the Times

Warrior robots in a coffee shop.

A person is sitting at a counter in front of a brick wall painted with a large mural of a robot resembling a cassette player.

Grrrr.

A screenshot of a newsletter titled NewsWhip's Top Ten Blogs and Reports of 2018 with handwritten red annotations correcting the word Blogs to Posts.

Controversial: Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule.

Another interesting bit of analysis of the Apple revenue miss:

Apple Lowers Revenue Guidance Due To iPhone Sales Weakness

Drinking coffee in Brighton’s Ship Street. It’s been five years since I did this with any frequency. I really need to spend more time in Brighton.