Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.

Family lightsabre action.

A man and a yoing girl fighting with toy lightsabres.

A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it would come from big-in-Japan Six Apart these days…)

A “We Love Blog” sticker from Six Apart in 2010.

New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.

Tinworths walking on Wandsworth Common

Happy New Year from (a house in) London!

The wisdom of @patrickrhone spreads.

“Hello, I’ve got a burning desire to go somewhere online where groups of people will complete to tell me how I should think and behave, while judging me for every little transgression.”

“Have I got great news for you! Have you ever heard of a little app called…

…Twitter?”

Matt Buck compiled some great links and videos to mark the passing of satirist John Bird.

Home from midnight Mass: 12.30am

Girls up: 6.30am

😴

Midnight Mass, Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach.

The altar at the Church of the Good Shepherd.

Crib service in 15 minutes…

My daughters will be playing the roles of “Magus” and “innkeeper”.

Newsletter delivery via RSS has a name.

It’s called blogging.

This is literally what we were doing in 2005.

Yes. Yes, I do.

Started reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚

Presented without comment.

Tower Bridge by night.

Tower Bridge in London on a rainy night.

London very on brand this morning.

Started reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚

Off to London for work. The last commute of the year!

The inside of a Thameslink train carriage.

It’s “update all the Apple things” evening!

iOS/iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 are out, along with accompanying HomePod and AppleTV updates.