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2024-03-18: It’s really hard to find a theme for most of the big blogging platforms that supports the …

2024-03-18: I’m having one of those days where good news in the journalism/tech/publishing space is …

2024-03-18: OK, the experiment is done. Let’s just shut down the internet now: The “Young Indian Method” …

2024-03-18: Is Elon Musk getting bored of X/Twitter? With a bold prediction that Xitter will change hands by …

2024-03-18: The tale of the credulous publishers and the AI Pied Piper: a cautionary fairy tale for grown-ups …

2024-03-16: The Burnside, Dollar, Scotland, early 1989.

2024-03-15: Can young audiences be recaptured by broadcast from social video? Betteridge’s Law applies…

2024-03-14: AI is going down great at SXSW: “The incredibly pro-AI sizzle reel today at SXSW being loudly …

2024-03-07: A quick round-up of #podcasting news, initially gathered for our MA Podcasting students, but now …

2024-03-06: Saw an article that looked interesting. Saw that the first subhead was “Synergy”. Bailed …

2024-03-05: Huh. Just discovered that I still had AMP turned on for Coffee & Complexity. Another Google …

2024-03-04: It must be an utterly thankless life being an Apple rumour-monger, even a Bloomberg-employed one.

2024-03-03: Time Travel, via scanner.

2024-03-03: I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.

2024-03-03: Early morning mist over the Adur.

2024-03-01: The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983. Even these ruins are …

2024-02-29: Mum, March 1983.

2024-02-29: Yikes. I need to do better than that.

2024-02-28: Well, who doesn’t?

2024-02-27: Today I have been moving over 30Gb of videos around my network, archiving footage from livestreams …

2024-02-25: Ah, who can fail to love one of these?

2024-02-25: Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.

2024-02-25: Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚

2024-02-24: A sign of spring.

2024-02-24: Living at the coast takes a special kind of stoicism and hardiness. And a readiness to make hay …

2024-02-23: Sad times for Portuguese D&D fans.

2024-02-23: Turns out I can’t spell phoenix to save my life. I have a complete mental block over how to …

2024-02-22: So, just starting to get my head around micro.blog’s new premium offer. It took me a while to twig …

2024-02-22: So, Reddit is selling all the free labour of its users to an AI company to train its model. Well, …

2024-02-22: Setting up my second blog on micro.blog: Unknown Exposures

2024-02-22: I hate chasing invoices. But it looks like I’m going to need to do it today or tomorrow. Ugh.

2024-02-21: Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.

2024-02-20: One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.

2024-02-20: This duck is stylin’.

2024-02-17: Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.

2024-02-17: Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.

2024-02-17: Bit of a “grab bag” protest in town. They’re against: Cashless payments Vaccines Ultra low …

2024-02-13: My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.

2024-02-11: Friendly wee chaps.

2024-02-11: Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

2024-02-11: Water level a bit on the high side, then.

2024-02-11: semicolons are a suitably catlike, noncommittal form of punctuation. — Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt …

2024-02-11: Gosh, my daughters love the days out I pick for them!

2024-02-10: Love a bit of crema

2024-02-10: 🔗 Hunter-Gathering For Wimps: Making a conscious decision to shut the f@&£ up, not cause the …

2024-02-09: We’ve just had the world’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit. What’s it going to take …

2024-02-07: Looks like Apple has an image editing Generative AI coming. Quite Apple-y to be task specific.

2024-02-07: Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…

2024-02-06: Want to feel old? Somebody born when Leeroy Jenkins wiped his raid will turn 19 this year. …

2024-02-06: Finding the intro that finally makes the piece you’ve been struggling with work is such a …

2024-02-06: Let’s get phygital… Apple’s Vision Pro is a tentative first step towards building a …

2024-02-04: Good morning from the Downs.

2024-02-03: Haircut achieved.

2024-02-03: Today I will be: a. marking b. learning about DMARC c. getting a hair cut One big party, my life.

2024-02-03: 🔗 Return-to-office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study says: Now, new research …

2024-02-02: Finally, some harbingers of spring.

2024-02-01: After nearly a month battling a respiratory virus, today is the first day I’ve woken up and …

2024-01-30: Why are publishers making fools of themselves by deploying generative AI that clearly isn’t …

2024-01-27: Started reading: Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 📚

2024-01-24: A quick round-up of podcasting news, derived from my work on the audience strategy module of our new …

2024-01-23: Last summer danah boyd was still trying to ignore the Metaverse. It’s only got easier since!

2024-01-22: A compelling argumentment from Om Malik that Google has entered the same stage of decline that, for …

2024-01-16: I have to say, I’m a little bored of being ill now. I’ve had one illness or another …

2024-01-12: Whether or not Substack ever had a significant Nazi problem is now a moot point. It undoubtedly has …

2024-01-12: Platformer leaving Substack for Ghost over the “platforming Nazis” issue. That’ll be a substantial …

2024-01-11: This is an insanely long, but very detailed and compelling, telling of the Substack story — and how …

2024-01-11: I’m getting a lot of traffic from Russia at the moment. Not quite sure what to make of that.

2024-01-11: My annual look at the most popular posts on my journalism site, One Man & His Blog. The clearest …

2024-01-10: Dave Winer: It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone. …

2024-01-10: One of the (very) small ironies of the “Substackers against Nazis” ruckus is that …

2024-01-10: My inability to remember which is the correct spelling – whether or wether – means I accidentally …

2024-01-10: Substack launched Notes to steal attention from Twitter. It succeeded. Right now, I bet they’re …

2024-01-10: This was very interesting to write. It does feel like some models of society and lifepaths have …

2024-01-10: These cactus leather iPhone cases look nice. Still a natural material, but without the environmental …

2024-01-10: Oh, marvellous. The UK government is now making policies based on easily disprovable conspiracy …

2024-01-10: My companion didn’t stay long…

2024-01-10: Frosty but beautiful beach walk after school drop off this morning. Starting to feel like I’m …

2024-01-09: On the intrigue side, Fieldwork can be relied on to provide the spectacularly weird. Downstream from …

2024-01-09: This, and the piece it’s based on, are well worth a read: Dorothy Thompson On Who Goes Nazi …

2024-01-08: Man shocked to discover that two-edged sword does, in fact, have two edges.

2024-01-08: OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.

2024-01-08: Futurism: After a storm and flash flooding knocked out the power in south-east Queensland, …

2024-01-08: I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two …

2024-01-08: A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.

2024-01-06: Sunset on Old Fort Road.

2024-01-06: Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚

2024-01-04: This is spectacular even by crypto scam standards:Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund …

2024-01-03: The Festive Silence — or how exhaustion, burn-out and COVID conspired to give me an offline …

2024-01-01: Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚

2024-01-01: Took a New Year’s Day beach walk with my eldest, and found somebody’s lost glasses on the strand …

2023-12-22: Beach life, December 22nd 2023

2023-12-16: Term finished yesterday. Today, I have a cold. Obviously.

2023-12-15: The single biggest thing that would improve my AI prompt writing skills: not making typos.

2023-12-13: Oh, shit. The dolphins have had enough and are coming for us.

2023-12-05: Fog on the Adur.

2023-12-05: What if the real X/Twitter replacement isn’t a Twitter clone at all?

2023-12-04: When the problem contains the obvious solution: Residential areas are increasingly unaffordable …

2023-12-02: Ah, the horror on my daughter’s face was only matched by the delight on mine when Siri delivered The …

2023-12-01: Sad to see TinyLetter closing down. It was ahead of the curve on newsletters, but got bought by …

2023-12-01: It’s easy to claim you have ethical supply chains. It’s much harder to actually monitor them to …

2023-11-30: OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks My girls will use Keynote, or …

2023-11-28: Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚

2023-11-24: It’s beginning to look a lot like…

2023-11-24: ”’Was your world once wild?' a distant intelligence might ask. Yes, we’d say. Till it went …

2023-11-23: WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is …

2023-11-21: The problem with WordPress’s 100 year plan. I would absolutely pay for a service to keep my …

2023-11-21: OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼‍♂️

2023-11-17: Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚 It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.

2023-11-17: Interesting update from Bluesky: They’ve hit 2m users, despite still being invite-only A web …

2023-11-17: I’m really happy with this little quality of life improvement from the Ghost folks. As a …

2023-11-17: The Gawker brand is coming back — but not the archive or the same approach, it appears.

2023-11-16: For years, Twitter was second only to to Google as a source of traffic to my blog. This month, it’s …

2023-11-11: A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.

2023-11-11: Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.

2023-11-11: Lovely to see someone whom I got started in blogging (I ran the network of businessss blogs he …

2023-11-07: Podcast listeners! I’m looking for podcasts with vibrant and well-managed online communities, be …

2023-11-05: Started reading: Enchantment by Katherine May 📚 Reminded to do so by this podcast with her.

2023-11-03: This is worrying: publications are using AI generated images of the Gaza conflict from Adobe Stock …

2023-11-03: I’ve spent a lot of time on alt text for presentations over the past five weeks, and more than …

2023-11-03: Put that phone down and go be bored: your creativity depends on it. (And other things worth …

2023-11-03: Worth a read: Mastodon Is the Good One

2023-11-02: Greetings from Storm Ciarán…

2023-11-02: Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening… 🤫🤫

2023-11-02: Sad times: Canon formally discontinues the last EOS-M cameras, saying goodbye to EF-M I used EOS M …

2023-11-01: Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to …

2023-11-01: Me: I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a geek; I’m a journalist! Also Me: Just finished updating …

2023-11-01: Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically …

2023-11-01: Huh. Movable Type 8 is out. Once upon a time I’d have been really excited by that - but at $499 a …

2023-10-31: Happy Halloween 🎃! Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.

2023-10-30: I posted to my Substack for the first time in, um, two years, 10 months and 28 days. Hell of a …

2023-10-29: Having a gourd day. 🎃

2023-10-28: Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 2023.

2023-10-28: I’ve just bought my youngest the dry robe reviewed in this article. It’s great for our 7.30 am …

2023-10-26: So… blogs are dead are they?

2023-10-24: The first would-be competitor to X/Twitter to fail? Stand up, Pebble (formerly t2). Maxed out at …

2023-10-22: Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚

2023-10-21: I treated the girls to pancakes to celebrate the first day of half term.

2023-10-20: I know Ahsoka has not gone down well with a lot of adult Star Wars fans, but watching it with two …

2023-10-20: Jack Baty: The only way I’d pay Musk $1 to join Twitter (X) is if I could mail him a check. …

2023-10-20: Om Malik: Yes, teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media — just not as much on what we …

2023-10-19: The nice thing about X (formerly known as Twitter) being in a death spiral is I feel so much freer …

2023-10-18: Amazing how many people who have been happily driving around with a large container of highly …

2023-10-17: The next stage in human evolution?

2023-10-16: Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991

2023-10-15: “Those who had a close relationship with nature used their phones half as much each day, took 90% …

2023-10-15: “Since the early 1990s, no country has met the basic needs of its population without overconsuming …

2023-10-15: “When 16,000 people across 18 nations were surveyed, it was found that the British people visit …

2023-10-15: Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while …

2023-10-15: Started reading: Reconnection by Miles Richardson 📚

2023-10-13: This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes me unexpectedly happy.

2023-10-13: I have fought with 301 redirects, and I have won. And now I fact the terror of Google Search console …

2023-10-13: So, if I’ve done everything correctly, my micro.blog no longer sits in the shadow of my “main blog” …

2023-10-13: And I’m back in the timeline. I didn’t realise that changing the URL of my blog would essentially …

2023-10-13: Literal standing room only for the lunchtime talk by BBC News’ Ros Atkins on explainers at City …

2023-10-11: Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one

2023-10-10: Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.

2023-10-08: Turns out that if you go to bed super early on Saturday night, because you’re exhausted thanks to …

2023-10-07: John Gruber: X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off.

2023-10-05: Fair point.

2023-10-04: I feel judged by my iPad.

2023-10-03: Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have …

2023-10-03: Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival. Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to …

2023-10-03: Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the …

2023-10-01: A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.

2023-10-01: No early morning drive to the pool this morning, as my eldest is unwell. So, I’m drinking coffee and …

2023-09-30: It has begun. 🎄

2023-09-30: Dave Winer: There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media.

2023-09-30: Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) 📚 …

2023-09-27: I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN. And that pretty …

2023-09-26: I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.

2023-09-24: Gen X erasure is real.

2023-09-24: Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚

2023-09-22: Spectacular views over London en route to Heathrow.

2023-09-22: Podcast insertion ads are still so laughably primitive. All the British podcasts I downloaded while …

2023-09-21: A bar on stage feels very on point for a digital conference in the Reeperbahn Festival. #next23

2023-09-20: Late night on the Reeperbahn.

2023-09-20: I love the fact Hamburg Airport has an art gallery, rather than all the normal overpriced nonsense …

2023-09-15: Remember all those sessions about how voice and smart speakers would be the future of journalism? …

2023-09-15: It’s nice seeing the number of serious video recording apps for iPhone proliferating. The …

2023-09-13: An interesting move from The Economist, adding a new subscription tier for podcasts.

2023-09-13: We appear to have gone from the height of summer to autumn in four days.

2023-09-13: 📷 September Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: glowing.

2023-09-13: TIL that you can screenshot CarPlay.

2023-09-12: My wallet is safe from Tim Cook this time.

2023-09-08: Currently reading: Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett 📚

2023-09-08: Breakfast of champions.

2023-09-07: Looks like it’s an “update all the Apple things” evening. Important security updates out…

2023-09-07: Listening to my boss’s inaugural lecture…

2023-09-07: I spent yesterday at a journalism innovation conference. If you want to know what the news …

2023-09-07: These seem like a more plausible scenario as time goes on: The case for Musk driving Twitter to …

2023-09-07: Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary people, I present for you the 21st Century, where we microchip …

2023-09-05: Just realised that in just over two weeks I’ll be in Hamburg again for NEXT23. The schedule …

2023-09-04: I’m officially old. Badgers is 20 years old. Mushroom. Mushroom. Snake.

2023-09-04: Begone, miserable doom merchants! Traditional social media’s stumble could actually be good …

2023-09-01: Currently reading: Rewilding the Sea by Charles Clover 📚

2023-08-29: This will do.

2023-08-27: Lovely afternoon for a cycle with my youngest.

2023-08-23: This is good news - a new Broken Sword game is coming.

2023-08-21: Two of my former students have been added to Russia’s journalist blacklist. I’m very proud.

2023-08-20: Somebody will be very sad about losing this chap.

2023-08-20: Starting my assault on the Wainwright Prize shortlist with A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors 📚

2023-08-16: Found a lovely place for breakfast in the port yesterday morning.

2023-08-16: It’s almost delightful that Trump’s Twitter addiction might be the cause of his eventual downfall.

2023-08-15: One unexpected surprise in upgrading from a 2006 car to a 2020 car: it got two software updates when …

2023-08-15: Hmm. Should I rename the “Twitter” category on One Man & His Blog to …

2023-08-15: Most publications needed a Twitter strategy. But is making an X strategy a good use of time anymore? …

2023-08-12: Why people are pulling up their fake lawns. Good.

2023-08-12: Why selfish co-workers stick together: a Cognitive Science paper published Monday by psychologists …

2023-08-12: Stanford neuroscientist demonstrates the quickest way to eliminate stress: “The physiological …

2023-08-11: A wet but enjoyable bike ride with the offspring this afternoon.

2023-08-11: The worst part of coming back from a good holiday.

2023-08-10: Back from holiday. What have I missed?

2023-08-07: Aaaaaaar!

2023-08-02: “Solastalgia is a neologism that is becoming commonplace. It describes a feeling of homesickness …

2023-07-28: Oh.

2023-07-26: Ugh. New inner needed at the very least.

2023-07-24: Breakfast with the scrap, now the schools are on holiday.

2023-07-23: This morning I shall mainly be monitoring streaming bandwidth.

2023-07-22: First day of the school summer holiday, obviously.

2023-07-19: A happy transatlantic delivery.

2023-07-19: I just read an attempt at a scathing take-down of Caitlin Moran’s new book on men. Guess the …

2023-07-18: Here’s my epic attempt to categorise and explain the microblogging landscape in Twitter’s twilight: …

2023-07-18: Currently reading: Corduroy by Adrian Bell 📚

2023-07-12: In the process of consolidating my personal blogging (going back to 2001) here on micro.blog. …

2023-07-12: Has anyone found Apple Mail, and iCloud accounts in particular, to have really shot up in the number …

2023-07-11: Oh, my. This is the man who created Clippy. (Ask your parents who Clippy was, kids.)

2023-07-11: On women who write while lying on their stomachs.

2023-07-08: There’s a takeaway near us that looks like it went out of business years ago. But no, it’s still …

2023-07-08: Is LinkedIn about to be enshittified? (Some would argue that it’s already there…)

2023-07-08: I just looked at my Facebook feed for the first time in a wee while. How many posts from the first …

2023-07-07: Today I learned that Ethernet is only 18 months younger than me. 🤯

2023-07-07: Finally got to spend some time writing in my favourite coffee shop this afternoon.

2023-07-07: Hard to disagree with this: Threads not launching in Europe is pure gold.

2023-07-07: Oh, dear. So sad. Too bad. Anyway… The Broke Ape Yacht Crash

2023-07-07: Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? …

2023-07-07: Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of …

2023-07-07: Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product: Substack has it, via Notes Instagram has it, …

2023-07-07: Chances of Threads ever getting an API for general use? I’d imagine they’ll be about 0%.

2023-07-07: My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data …

2023-07-07: I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle …

2023-07-06: What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.

2023-07-06: And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…

2023-07-05: Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚

2023-06-25: Adrian Bell on newspaper experts: I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a …

2023-06-24: So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?

2023-06-24: Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry: Also, there’s no point …

2023-06-24: Utterly brazen.

2023-06-23: These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human …

2023-06-20: The phrase “deeply unserious” is becoming a thing, isn’t it? One of those meme-like phrases that …

2023-06-16: Nice work of the day goes to the cyclist who literally rode into me while I was trying to shepherd …

2023-06-14: That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day. I’m just not looking forward to a hot …

2023-06-12: Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students' final projects, I miss being a …

2023-06-11: Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which …

2023-06-11: Winning at Wordle…

2023-06-11: Found a nice coffee shop to while away the hours while my daughters are on a Guides and Brownies …

2023-06-11: Perception, in short, cannot be purchased with either learned degrees or dollars; it grows at home …

2023-06-11: Broadly speaking, a piece of scenery snapped by a dozen tourist cameras daily is not physically …

2023-06-11: Beauty right by the front door.

2023-06-10: David Allen Green’s examination of Boris Johnson’s actions is excoriating: “All these advantages …

2023-06-09: When Zuck says that the Apple Vision Pro isn’t the vision of the future of computing he wants, all I …

2023-06-08: This might be interesting to the mobile journalism types: a shotgun mic with built-in wireless.

2023-06-07: What Apple Vision Pro means for journalism… 😇

2023-06-05: I bought the first iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There goes that streak.

2023-06-05: That’s the sort of keynote I like from Apple. Lots of new features for devices I already own, no …

2023-06-05: Ah, crap. I just got it. The two big “secret” Apple projects: the headset and the car. They’re …

2023-06-05: If I was on the Meta Quest team, I would not be looking forward to the next team meeting with Zuck.

2023-06-05: Ok. Apple Vision Pro looks really interesting. AR first, not VR. But I still can’t see myself buying …

2023-06-01: Dragonflies at Woods Mill.

2023-06-01: It may be a common cardinal beetle, but it’s uncommonly beautiful.

2023-05-29: Beach flower.

2023-05-28: The wind farm has really grown on me over the years.

2023-05-28: The gull parade.

2023-05-28: Oh, nuts.

2023-05-24: Squee.

2023-05-20: Having an 80s moment.

2023-05-20: Saturday morning pancakes.

2023-05-19: The sun going down over micro.camp…

2023-05-19: Micro camping.

2023-05-18: Wow. Engagement on posts in my Substack Notes feed has collapsed. Only the very biggest newsletter …

2023-05-17: Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with …

2023-05-17: There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. — A Sand County Almanac by …

2023-05-17: Started reading: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚

2023-05-11: Hello there.

2023-05-11: RIP Dooce. One of the true blogging pioneers. I worry that the history of those early days is being …

2023-05-09: Final Cut Pro on the iPad — and they’re announcing this before WWDC? This is exciting stuff.

2023-05-06: Penny Mordaunt cosplaying as Britannia. Still, Britain has a bit of a cultural thing about women …

2023-05-06: All the faith leaders coming into the coronation together, and then our Hindu Prime Minister and our …

2023-05-06: All this fuss over an impractical new hat. Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.

2023-05-04: Bunting is occurring.

2023-05-04: Don’t let Bluesky become a 💩 like Twitter Wow. @dave is not impressed with Bluesky: I definitely want Blue Sky to just go away. I don’t …

2023-05-04: Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web: “That means two major driving forces of the …

2023-05-04: Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months …

2023-05-04: May the Fourth be with you.

2023-05-03: These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?

2023-05-01: Up on the Downs as the rain hits.

2023-05-01: Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world. …

2023-05-01: micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post: …

2023-05-01: This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current …

2023-05-01: This is the way.

2023-04-30: I needed this.

2023-04-26: Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme. This is …

2023-04-23: Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚

2023-04-23: “But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed …

2023-04-22: Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚

2023-04-21: Never really got into Picard Series 1 & 2, but I have loved every moment of series 3. My Friday …

2023-04-19: Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for …

2023-04-18: Scenes from a commute.

2023-04-17: Some notes on Substack Notes.

2023-04-17: I’ve been called “Tim” twice in emails already today, and it’s not even 10am …

2023-04-16: I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, …

2023-04-15: An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people …

2023-04-15: Storm brewing in the deer park.

2023-04-15: Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is …

2023-04-14: Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.

2023-04-14: Blimey. Over 16 year of Twitter use has generated a near 1Gb data file.

2023-04-13: Reach for the sky.

2023-04-13: Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should …

2023-04-12: 20 years ago today.

2023-04-12: Substack Notes: first impressions Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter …

2023-04-11: Like father, like daughters.

2023-04-11: “Dad, I forgot to add Frozen songs to my playlist. Can I have more iPad time to sort it?” “Hazel, …

2023-04-10: Down by the sea on a blustery day.

2023-04-09: Sunrise over Shoreham Beach, during the Easter Sunday dawn service.

2023-04-08: Beach life.

2023-04-08: Back in your in-boxes: season two of Engaged Reading Time starts here.

2023-04-08: 358 tabs open on my iPad Pro. I suspect my Easter project should be cleaning them down. (It was over …

2023-04-08: This piece from Robin Sloan is looking more prescient by the day: the last decade’s platforms are …

2023-04-08: Yes, the Inuit have dozens of words for snow – but what does each one mean exactly? What a …

2023-04-07: On GM swapping CarPlay for subscription services. Jason Snell: The arrogance in believing that GM should force people to bend their digital lives in …

2023-04-07: I might need more popcorn for the current Twitter versus Substack squabble. Possibly a beer, too.

2023-04-01: My annual subscriber patch is here from Outdoor Swimmer magazine. I love these.

2023-03-31: My train is running late due to… rain. Completely understandable. I mean, who expects rain in the …

2023-03-31: I suspect the percentage of the population who know what an owl bear is will go through exponential …

2023-03-31: Bit of a shocker: gal-dem magazine is closing. It had a passionate following - I’m genuinely …

2023-03-31: This should chill events businesses: the big games show E3 has been cancelled, in part because …

2023-03-30: Ooof. Brutal take on the Substack crowd-funder.

2023-03-25: Morning, troops. If you’re looking for things to read over your morning coffee this Saturday, boy do …

2023-03-24: Hey, @help, am I missing something, or is the only way to trigger a webmention send manually adding …

2023-03-24: In the couple of days since I wrote this post, the chances of TikTok getting banned in the US have …

2023-03-21: The girls are eating fish fingers and custard. Yes, they’ve just watched The Eleventh Hour.

2023-03-18: Interesting legal analysis of the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.

2023-03-17: News about our beaches like this makes me ashamed to be British.

2023-03-16: I sometimes think the local birds eat better than we do…

2023-03-13: Interesting to see that Automattic have acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. The Fediverse …

2023-03-12: William Davies on The Reaction Economy: The individual is not conceived in the same way as in the …

2023-03-11: Currently reading: Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk 📚

2023-03-09: I’m still stupidly excited that I’ll be teaching on City’s new MA in Podcasting …

2023-03-07: A general US TikTok ban edges closer…

2023-03-07: This is absolutely stunning drone footage of the Matterhorn.

2023-03-06: Iris wanted to watch some Doctor Who. So, we started at the beginning. The very beginning…

2023-03-06: Lots of writing to do today — so lots of coffee will be drunk…

2023-03-06: One thing I miss about growing up in Scotland: walking home after dark in the snow, and seeing the …

2023-03-05: Two damn decades of writing the same blog. Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.

2023-03-05: Wood and tile. #mbmar 📸

2023-03-05: Your Sunday morning swimming pool white board wisdom.

2023-03-04: After spending most of the winter feeling cold when out and about, I bought myself a new coat in the …

2023-03-04: Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚

2023-03-03: I want that sticker.

2023-03-03: Sometimes solitude is possible, even in the heart of London. #mbmar 📸

2023-03-03: The Good Apple and the Bad Apple John Gruber: “Putting the legality of Apple’s anti-steering rules aside, I think they make the …

2023-03-02: The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon. #mbmar 📸

2023-03-02: A rather lovely hagstone - and a deep one - found on a quick beach walk this afternoon, trying to …

2023-03-02: Trust in me, just in me… I really need to learn to trust myself. Yesterday, I opened the slides for week two of my social …

2023-03-02: Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.

2023-03-02: A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the …

2023-03-01: Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t …

2023-03-01: Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure. #mbmar 📸

2023-03-01: I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.

2023-03-01: Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.

2023-02-26: What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The sun is up for our early morning pool run. The views …

2023-02-22: A walk down memory lane to 1994, when this young chap (me) had his view of journalism shifted by the …

2023-02-22: We did the thing yesterday.

2023-02-22: Just corrected a typo in a blog post published… 10 years and 20 days ago. Ooops.

2023-02-19: Adventure time.

2023-02-15: Plausible Analytics providing both Search Console integration AND Google Analytics import is making …

2023-02-15: Finally got my (consulting/training) work inbox down to double digits. Plenty of people will be …

2023-02-15: That’s one way of making a politician’s life suddenly more complex From today’s eye opening story about a global disinformation team: “Much of their strategy appeared …

2023-02-15: This is one hell of a story: Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

2023-02-15: Free speech absolutism excludes China, it seems.

2023-02-15: I enjoyed the conversation between @manton and @danielpunkass on Core Intuition about the shifting …

2023-02-12: Started reading: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby 📚

2023-02-10: Holy flip, that’s a lot:

2023-02-10: Good to see that the Musk rat is experiencing the same as the rest of us: cratering Twitter …

2023-02-09: I’ve just revamped the look of my Ghost blog One Man & His Blog, and am very happy with …

2023-02-09: 14 years ago, someone registered a domain name for the local church. Nobody remembers who. Somebody …

2023-02-09: This pen is a blast from the past. Early 2000s blogging, when Movable Type and Typepad seemed like …

2023-02-07: First time using my iPhone as a webcam for my training course this morning. It worked great. One of …

2023-02-07: Google’s Bard is singing a whole new song. Could this be the start of a whole new age of …

2023-02-06: Ah, the sweet satisfaction of landing one of the free EV charge parking spaces in the morning.

2023-02-05: And, really, nothing is more political than the way we engage with the world around us. We have an …

2023-02-05: The origin of the phrase “up sticks”: ”Instead they used Gypsy tents of the traditional style, a …

2023-02-05: We’re coming back into the light. The sun was rising as we drove to the pool this morning, after …

2023-02-04: Beware: killer clowns and hangry bears.

2023-02-03: My kind of diversion.

2023-02-03: I declared RSS bankruptcy last night, marked the 5,000+ articles which were unread in NetNewsWire as …

2023-02-03: Great post by Matt Genmell on why we should give ourselves permission to write shorter, less weighty …

2023-02-02: Visiting.

2023-02-02: I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.

2023-02-02: This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of …

2023-02-01: I have 300 open tabs on my iPad. Tonight, I wage war on them. (By “wage war” I mean “read and decide …

2023-02-01: Home learning on teachers’ strike day, thanks to BBC Bitesize.

2023-01-30: Took me too many years - but I finally got that last elusive micro.blog badge…

2023-01-30: Lovely sunrise over Hassocks station this morning.

2023-01-29: This morning’s wisdom from the crack-of-dawn trip to the pool for my daughter:

2023-01-28: SUPpers and swans.

2023-01-28: On the D&D OGL mess: “This is a community that literally invented the term “rules lawyer.” WotC …

2023-01-27: I know their days are numbered, but nothing quite beats a free charge at the station while you’re up …

2023-01-26: Lovely to see some blue sky again today. It’s been a hard January, and this was the lift I …

2023-01-25: Ivory has won promotion to my iPad dock…

2023-01-25: So, this post proved more controversial than I expected. I expected pushback on my warning about …

2023-01-25:

2023-01-24: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in, just around the corner from my house.

2023-01-24: HomePod and AppleTV updates are out this evening.

2023-01-24: Ivory from Tapbots is now on the App Store. Trying it out now for my Mastodon needs…

2023-01-24: I can’t quite bring myself to delete my last copy of Twitterific. I’ll do it soon, but …

2023-01-23: iOS, macOS and watchOS updates all ready for you in Software Update.

2023-01-23: The tide was far enough out today that we actually had something approximating sand! -

2023-01-22: Touching.

2023-01-22: Interesting set of links from Alex Roddie.

2023-01-22: “We need somehow to press the reset button, and completely rethink how we see our relationship with …

2023-01-22: Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚

2023-01-22: Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.

2023-01-21: Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚

2023-01-21: On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes. Harsh, but fair.

2023-01-20: Quite a show.

2023-01-20: Somewhere in all that is my eldest, preparing to sing her heart out. I first came here 23 years ago, …

2023-01-20: My first time back at the Dome in maybe 15 years. Last time I was here, it was to see Pink as a …

2023-01-19: Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.

2023-01-19: It’s official. Third party Twitter apps are dead. Not a surprise given the events of the last week — …

2023-01-19: Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.

2023-01-19: A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,

2023-01-19: Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.

2023-01-18: Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.

2023-01-18: I just don’t understand why people think £250 for Airpods Pro - single user devices, with a lifespan …

2023-01-18: That’s it. Revue is gone, killed off by the new “management” of Twitter. Once a great service, …

2023-01-18: Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down …

2023-01-18: Frost on the roof, sun on the river.

2023-01-17: Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.

2023-01-17: Quite the sunset this evening.

2023-01-17: Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…

2023-01-17: Craig Hockenberry: “It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion …

2023-01-17: Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.

2023-01-16: Home, from the bridge.

2023-01-16: If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really …

2023-01-15: Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.

2023-01-15: ”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to …

2023-01-15: Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it. And sometimes it’s really true.

2023-01-14: Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼

2023-01-13: My weekend reading has arrived. 📚

2023-01-13: It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.

2023-01-13: Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.

2023-01-13: Metal cover of the A-Team theme. Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.

2023-01-13: Twitter’s API appears to be down, breaking any third party client access to the service. And …

2023-01-13: What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just …

2023-01-12: Looks like Hasbro is learning that you can create a community, play host to a community, but never, …

2023-01-12: Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in just around the corner.

2023-01-12: The courage and talent of Laura Price, whom I had the privilege of teaching a few years ago, …

2023-01-12: D&D’s OGL was a corporate con job Cory Doctorow on the Hasbo D&D OGL rugpull: If you’re a game designer who was pissed off …

2023-01-11: There’s a guy down the river collecting old boats. He seems to be working on them. It annoys some …

2023-01-11: This looks worryingly like the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack.

2023-01-11: The science of stupidity Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right …

2023-01-11: It’s interesting how many publications do “predictions for the year ahead” posts - and how few of …

2023-01-10: The sea is bringing in some big bits of jetsam right now.

2023-01-10: The sea was putting on an impressive show earlier.

2023-01-09: Walkers and shingle shifters on the beach this afternoon.

2023-01-08: Up on the Downs this morning.

2023-01-08: Nice wooden boat coming ashore on the slipway.

2023-01-08: I love it when a book randomly mentions where I live: ”I was also looking forward to experiencing …

2023-01-08: Back into the “7.30am swimming lesson for my eldest” routine for Sundays. As ever, a flask of great …

2023-01-07: From the library towards the church.

2023-01-07: From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚: “Deep down in the ocean, below the waves and ripples, you can find …

2023-01-07: From Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚: “A seam of bullying ran unchecked through the school, …

2023-01-06: Yup, just walking home through the graveyard. 😨

2023-01-06: The time has come to…

2023-01-05: Twelfth night, so saying farewell to our mighty wee tree.

2023-01-05: Just survived the slightly nerve-wracking process of upgrading my Mastodon server to 4.0.2. All went …

2023-01-04: That kind of a day.

2023-01-04: Here’s my top 10 posts of 2022 from my work blog. Interesting that the journalism world is really …

2023-01-03: Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.

2023-01-02: Family lightsabre action.

2023-01-02: A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it …

2023-01-01: New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.

2023-01-01: Happy New Year from (a house in) London!

2022-12-31: The wisdom of @patrickrhone spreads.

2022-12-30: “Hello, I’ve got a burning desire to go somewhere online where groups of people will …

2022-12-30: Matt Buck compiled some great links and videos to mark the passing of satirist John Bird.

2022-12-25: Home from midnight Mass: 12.30am Girls up: 6.30am 😴

2022-12-25: Midnight Mass, Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach.

2022-12-24: Crib service in 15 minutes… My daughters will be playing the roles of “Magus” and “innkeeper”.

2022-12-24: Newsletter delivery via RSS has a name. It’s called blogging. This is literally what we were doing …

2022-12-22: Yes. Yes, I do.

2022-12-22: Started reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell 📚

2022-12-20: Presented without comment.

2022-12-19: Tower Bridge by night.

2022-12-19: London very on brand this morning.

2022-12-19: Started reading: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📚

2022-12-19: Off to London for work. The last commute of the year!

2022-12-13: It’s “update all the Apple things” evening! iOS/iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1 are …

2022-12-13: Blimey. Musk has disbanded Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council. He’s not even pretending …

2022-12-12: Euan Semple on the importance of doing fuck all: “We feel driven to achieve more, to …

2022-12-12: Potential album cover.

2022-12-12: Ice Ice Baby

2022-12-10: This is a nice one:

2022-12-10: A quick video of the Shoreham-by-Sea Santa SUP this morning:

2022-12-10: More SUPping Santas!

2022-12-10: Oh, that is dangerously tempting.

2022-12-10: What’s SUP, Santa?

2022-12-10: Bottomed out at -2.5°C last night. Pretty cold for these parts.

2022-12-09: Artificial grass is evil: “Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in …

2022-12-09: Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚

2022-12-09: Worthing Pier from Shoreham Beach, 8/12/22, 4.10pm

2022-12-09: Cold enough that I’ve actually put on my rarely-used woolly hat for the commute this morning.

2022-12-08: My beloved Canon M50 is back from the camera doctor and working once more: And here’s one of …

2022-12-08: Another wave of angst over Musk fiddling with the blue tick systems, I see. And all because Old …

2022-12-08: First night we’ve gone below zero this winter. Plenty more to come, I’m sure.

2022-12-07: Heavy Metal x Indian Singing This is just brilliant: [via Boing Boing]

2022-12-07: Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.

2022-12-07: I wonder what microposts look like on WordPress.

2022-12-07: MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is …

2022-12-06: People have a long and inglorious tradition of mangling my surname, but this is a new one for me…

2022-12-06: Thesis: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made.

2022-12-06: Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is …

2022-12-06: Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…

2022-12-05: In Brighton on business for the first time in years. When I started out in business for myself …

2022-12-04: D&D drops the word “race” Dungeons & Dragons announcement: we understand “race” is a problematic term that …

2022-12-03: Started reading: The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent 📚

2022-11-28: Seeing “Tom Baker” and “Death of the Doctor” trend together on Twitter was a scary moment, but …

2022-11-28: 🎲 Me in #7TTRPGs Ordered by “amount written for”, to the best of my memory: Hunter: the Reckoning Demon: …

2022-11-27: Hitting the sack early (for me, at least) as I’ll need all the energy and motivation I can manage to …

2022-11-27: This is a lovely reflection on the joy of the old, the analogue and the enduring: Personal …

2022-11-27: Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚 Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.

2022-11-27: Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.

2022-11-27: Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.

2022-11-26: That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.

2022-11-26: Hello, Saturday.

2022-11-25: It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, …

2022-11-25: Working with people who show a real commitment to what they do is an absolute blessing.

2022-11-25: Good morning from a crisp, Autumnal but delayed commute.

2022-11-24: I retain the determination to complete the November micro.blog challenge this year. Less than a week …

2022-11-23: I get more wary of applying a software update the older I get. I miss the old devil-may-care …

2022-11-22: One unintentionally positive outcome of the cost of living crisis is that we have less food …

2022-11-21: “Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.” — Robert Macfarlane, …

2022-11-21: Sunset approaches. Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.

2022-11-21: I have earned this today.

2022-11-21: I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the …

2022-11-21: Some interesting nature reads to kick off your week.

2022-11-21: Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning: “Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst …

2022-11-20: How culture changes: ”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could …

2022-11-20: Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊‍♂️

2022-11-20: Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with …

2022-11-20: I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in …

2022-11-19: After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this …

2022-11-18: It turn out that one can tire of London without tiring of life. It’s nice to be home in Sussex.

2022-11-18: Weather like this almost makes the early start worth it.

2022-11-17: I know that the phone has the advantage of being the camera you always have with you, but I do enjoy …

2022-11-17: I’m just not ready for this…

2022-11-16: I try to avoid spending too much money in franchise chains, but when your small, indie coffee shop …

2022-11-15: This may have been one of the first music videos I watched on a computer: It was included as an …

2022-11-15: aluminium aluminium aluminium

2022-11-15: Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating.

2022-11-14: Weird. My #mbnov post from yesterday didn’t make the “all posts” Discover timeline. I wonder why.

2022-11-14: A good pub is one you don’t want to leave.

2022-11-13: Life doesn’t always go to plan. The secret to resilience is to just adjust and forge new paths …

2022-11-13: Really not used to singing “God save the King” yet.

2022-11-13: Youth organisations and veterans together on Southwick Green, marking Remembrance Sunday.

2022-11-12: Well, dealing with the flat tyre put pay to our planned afternoon out. But, given how tired the …

2022-11-12: Oh, great. Screw in the tyre.

2022-11-12: Matt Birchler: “I heard someone recently describe Twitter as a social network where the users hate …

2022-11-11: The evening light was putting in a wonderful display earlier.

2022-11-11: Right, I’m now using my own Mastodon instance for work-style stuff. Anyone interested in …

2022-11-11: Finally solved the email problem, and my personal Mastodon instance is working. A few more tweaks, …

2022-11-10: I just discovered that the minister from my childhood home carried on working well into his 80s. …

2022-11-09: We’re not even half way through November, and I’ve seen my first Christmas tree. 🎄

2022-11-09: There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station …

2022-11-09: OK. So, I just set up a Mastodon Instance. 🤓

2022-11-08: Amazing news for non-iOS mobile journalists and filmmakers - Lumafusion is now on Android and …

2022-11-08: I’m just an ordinary guy, looking at the weather, and asking it to stop pissing it down before …

2022-11-07: Well, I think we all now have more insight into how hard it is to run a social network well…

2022-11-06: Well, I’d completely forgotten just how much noise the echo of 30-odd primary school children and a …

2022-11-05: I’m having an idiot evening. I was just about to build a special page for Microblogvember and then I …

2022-11-05: It is very odd and sad to see the life and death of a young journalist you used to chat with at …

2022-11-05: Gah. Great website. No RSS. No newsletter. Protected Twitter account. How am I meant to know when …

2022-11-05: Sadly, a birthday weekend doesn’t make me exempt from the business of being Daddy taxi for most of …

2022-11-05: Reading everyone’s “admiration” posts made me realise that, at this point of my life, I rarely …

2022-11-04: 🤔 I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.

2022-11-04: It’s a rough morning, watching friends and former students getting fired from Twitter. …

2022-11-03: Well, I suppose the good thing about the reports that Revue (owned by Twitter) will be gone by the …

2022-11-02: Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to …

2022-11-01: Well, it might have been chucking it down all day, and the wind has thrown things around the garden, …

2022-10-31: Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night. A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in …

2022-10-31: Has anyone seen any news outlets doing anything interesting on Mastodon?

2022-10-30: This is a great resource for people thinking of starting a blog: Get Blogging! [via @manton]

2022-10-29: London being London in its charming way.

2022-10-28: So, it looks like the deal is done, and Elon Musk has acquired Twitter. It’s certainly the end of …

2022-10-23: I think this is spot on. British politics — or, at least, the Tory party version of it — is now …

2022-10-23: More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.

2022-10-22: Autumn sun through the oak.

2022-10-22: A few moments of tranquility while the girls play.

2022-10-22: Lovely bit of sulphur tuft, there.

2022-10-22: Caption competition…

2022-10-20: I asked Siri to “play something I’ll like”, and it’s been back to back 80s …

2022-10-18: This is fascinating. I’ve noted students doing this despite the slides being available for them to …

2022-10-17: Quite the sunset tonight.

2022-10-17: This is a good look back at She-Hulk Attorney at Law. Insightful about how it played with audience …

2022-10-17: I sincerely hope that the focus Long Covid has brought to post-viral syndromes will be extended much …

2022-10-16: Words of wisdom at the 7.30am swim.

2022-10-15: A lovely little discovery – an acorn cup fallen into another plant.

2022-10-15: The path through the woods.

2022-10-14: I’m really enjoying all the photos from around the world making up the Day in the Life of the …

2022-10-14: Breakfast at the Talking Hands café, after my train was cancelled. Hassocks, Sussex, in the UK. …

2022-10-09: Started reading: The Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon 📚

2022-10-09: Sometimes getting up early for my daughter’s 7.30am swimming class is totally worth it.

2022-10-07: Home to find, happily, that my eldest has survived her year 6 residential mostly intact…

2022-10-07: Morning commute.

2022-10-06: An image from a time, a place and a life far away. And long gone.

2022-10-06: A terrifying photo of me as a pimply teenager has just emerged from the film scanner. I will not be …

2022-10-06: Well, this is not at all what I was aiming for when I prompted Midjourney, but it’s very …

2022-10-02: Undergraduate student me, early 1990s…

2022-10-02: A photo from a promotional photo-booth for a long-dead social network at a long-dead conference…

2022-10-02: 7.20am Lancing College. Another nice, relaxing Sunday. 🙄

2022-10-01: Just a family of swans out for a Saturday stroll…

2022-09-30: Happiness is getting one of the few free charging spaces at the railway station.

2022-09-29: Just over three years ago, I flew back from Hamburg, little suspecting that it would be so long …

2022-09-28: All the evidence – with more reported this morning - is that hydrogen won’t be a good path to …

2022-09-23: The crazy battery life of Apple Silicon Macs and iPads really makes days of live event coverage in a …

2022-09-22: Finally got my hands on a copy of the new book I co-authored…

2022-09-22: One of my favourite parts of coming to Germany.

2022-09-22: The stage is set. Ready to go! #next22 #hugthesystem

2022-09-21: Hamburg by night.

2022-09-21: Most people still wearing masks on the S-Bahn in Hamburg.

2022-09-21: Compulsory facemasks on the flight to Hamburg. #next22 #hugthesystem

2022-09-21: Waiting at Heathrow for my first flight in three years. I haven’t missed airports.

2022-09-18: Quick Review: Coasting Finished reading: Coasting by ELISE. DOWNING 📚 I enjoyed this more than I expected. On the surface, …

2022-09-16: Local family out on the river.

2022-09-16: The problem with studying and lecturing around online communities is that you don’t only get …

2022-09-14: Yikes. This is going to hit a lot of people very fast: Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using …

2022-09-13: On the road again 25 years ago, I worked near Oxford Street in London. One lunchtime, I popped into the HMV store …

2022-09-12: Back in my favourite sneaky reading spot, after the summer break. Daughter learning piano, I’m on …

2022-09-12: They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…

2022-09-11: Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.

2022-09-10: Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️

2022-09-08: Weird. I just realised that after singing “God save the Queen” every now and then my whole life, …

2022-09-08: The Queen is dead. Long live the King.

2022-09-07: The outdoors rescue/location features of the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 are an impressive …

2022-09-07: Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent

2022-09-07: I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent

2022-09-05: This is a really good defence of RSS as the basis of podcasting. If you’re involved with podcasting, …

2022-09-05: Evening on the beach. 

2022-09-05: This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.

2022-08-30: Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search …

2022-08-30: Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.

2022-08-30: Campfire reading. Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚

2022-08-29: Night in the woods.

2022-08-24: Currently reading: Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis 📚 Such a melancholy book. It’s absolutely bursting …

2022-08-24: Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.

2022-08-24: Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.

2022-08-24: A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.

2022-08-23: The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.

2022-08-23: A long dive into the current and future fortunes of the tarnished newsletter platform Substack. The …

2022-08-23: Wow. Tinder’s a decade old. It’s been two decades since I dated, (happily married!) and …

2022-08-22: Took me a while to adjust to vegan burgers, but I’m really enjoying them now. A fine example from …

2022-08-22: Summer’s not over while the sunflowers still look this good.

2022-08-19: My eldest, playing an iPad game: “10pm is about the time a grown-up goes to sleep.” My …

2022-08-17: Looks like there’s urgent security updates out for all the major Apple platforms this evening. …

2022-08-13: A few images from the beginning of our holiday two weeks ago: Wightlink to the Isle of Wight, and …

2022-08-12: I am faintly baffled as to why anyone would think that I’d like to run a piece about going …

2022-08-11: Hwæt!

2022-08-11: I think it would be fair to say that my teenage record buying was not cool.

2022-07-27: My youngest is enjoying a trip to the local Lidl far too much.

2022-07-24: Finished reading: The Earth Beneath My Feet by Andrew Terrill 📚 Quite a remarkable book. It takes …

2022-07-24: Last early morning trip to the swimming pool before the Autumn. Rewarded with some lovely views.

2022-07-22: Lovely still afternoon on the river.

2022-07-21: What’s the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated with experiential social …

2022-07-20: Well, fibre to the premises certainly makes a difference…

2022-07-19: Coastal blessings - the warmest it got yesterday was 33.5° in the back garden. Everywhere in the …

2022-07-19: Instagram is dead. Or, at least, it’s no longer recognisable as a photography app.

2022-07-18: The back garden’s hit 29℃, closing in on our predicted high of 31℃ today. Windows all shut and …

2022-07-17: I’m not quite sure when and how it happened, but I’ve slowly become a mornings person. I was always …

2022-07-15: It’s been a long time since I walked over this bridge.

2022-07-15: Winnersh Triangle Station is pretty small for a station right by a big office park. It’s barely more …

2022-07-15: Yesterday morning in Crewe and this morning in Winnersh.

2022-07-14: Doing a lot of this over these few days of work…

2022-07-11: Finally done on a client report that’s been hanging over me for a while. Treating myself to a …

2022-07-10: Lovely brunch prepared by my daughter!

2022-07-10: Fascinating seeing Shoreham Beach from the other side of the harbour entrance for once.

2022-07-08: And there we have it: Elon Musk Moves to End $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter

2022-07-06: And… breathe.

2022-07-02: OK. I admit it. This is absolutely my kind of feature: “Memes can be thought of as a form of …

2022-07-02: This feature is going to have to work hard to convince me of its thesis… (From the latest Standart …

2022-07-01: Sugar rush incoming.

2022-06-30: Booked in to get fibre to the house, rather than just fibre to the cabinet, next month. Really …

2022-06-26: Cosmopolitan place, Shoreham.

2022-06-26: Meanwhile, down by the lifeboat station.…

2022-06-23: Calling Michael Gove the Levelling Up Minister does make it sound awfully like he spends all day in …

2022-06-23: I told a student I would give her piece a “tense check”. And I’m still giggling …

2022-06-23: So, turns out your keyboard works better if you turn it on. 🤦🏼‍♂️

2022-06-21: Tough economic times are already hitting eco charities and sustainable businesses just at the time …

2022-06-21: Sitting, working, on the balcony, and wondering why I don’t do this more.

2022-06-19: Best badge ever.

2022-06-18: I’ve got a feeling we’re being watched here in the churchyard…

2022-06-17: All ready to see my youngest get a Gold Award at the Funky Friday assembly…

2022-06-12: The beach, late this afternoon.

2022-06-10: Oh, no. Julee Cruise Has Died, Aged 65. The Twin Peaks soundtrack was the backdrop to my uni years, …

2022-06-07: I love this light. Wouldn’t fit in our house, but looks great in this pub.

2022-06-07: Does the glamour never stop?

2022-06-06: Choosing Peter Capaldi to narrate a nature documentary builds in a vague irritation at humanity’s …

2022-06-06: Leaving behind the #wwdc22 keynote to watch something more important…

2022-06-06: My big lesson from yesterday’s Platinum Jubilee street party is that I’m now officially …

2022-06-01: My most common typo for “metaverse” is “meat verse” which is ironic, given …

2022-05-27: Good grief - 5G in central London is quite something…

2022-05-25: So, by botching a Spotlight search for Teams, I accidentally opened a search for “teacup …

2022-05-23: 👻5️⃣ Ghost 5.0 is here…

2022-05-21: Finished reading: From the Mull to the Cape by Richard Guise 📚 A pleasant enough read. Entertaining …

2022-05-20: Whoops.

2022-05-19: I found out today that one of my good university / student magazine buddies passed away some weeks …

2022-05-18: Netflix’s itchy cancellation finger has made me less and less likely to start watching a new …

2022-05-16: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 16: Time All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge

2022-05-16: Not one of my better looks… On the Suffolk coast, circa 1993.

2022-05-15: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 15: Clouds All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge

2022-05-15: I might get used to these “swimming pool by 7.30am” Sunday starts. Today is not the day that …

2022-05-14: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 14: Fence All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge

2022-05-14: Well, yes, you need to protect your magazine brand. But maaaaaybe check that the business hasn’t …

2022-05-14: These are my people.

2022-05-13: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 13: Community All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the …

2022-05-13: I was completely unaware that today was Friday the 13th until I read John Naughton’s daily post. Two …

2022-05-13: Was slightly thrown to see @maique out of context — in the Fastmail newsletter.

2022-05-12: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 12: Tranquility Down by the harbour arm, sharing half an hour and hot drinks …

2022-05-11: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 11: Maroon  All my photos from this challenge | All photos in the challenge

2022-05-11: Thanks to today’s theme from @challenges, I find myself debating whether my hoodie is, in …

2022-05-11: After years of doing digital work, editing a (print) book can be a challenge. “Oh, I’ll pop a …

2022-05-10: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 10: Pot I’m fond of this pot. And yes, I know that the pot inside the pot is …

2022-05-10: Can anyone point me to the master list of May Photoblogging prompts? My attempts to locate it have …

2022-05-09: This is very good. And no, it’s not what you’re assuming… BBC Reveals Secret “Woke …

2022-05-09: I have no idea what differentiates a badge and a brooch. Anyone?

2022-05-09: We’ll see more of this: Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office …

2022-05-09: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 9: Bloom

2022-05-08: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 8: Union The union of car and house. I’ll eventually get used to the …

2022-05-08: Nobody warns you about the “getting your daughter to swimming lessons for 7.30am on a Sunday” part …

2022-05-07: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 7: Park

2022-05-06: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 6: Silhouette

2022-05-05: I’ve given the May photoblogging posts their own category. It’s a good incentive to keep …

2022-05-05: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 5: Earth When we moved in, our garden was full of rubble from the old boat …

2022-05-05: Obligatory democratic selfie.

2022-05-05: This may be the best ever typo-driven page: Welcome to the Meatverse. (I particularly like …

2022-05-05: Due to poor typing on my part. auto-correct just turned “evangelists” into “Eva …

2022-05-04: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 4: Thorny

2022-05-03: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 3: Experimental Who doesn’t love pond dipping? A fun science experiment for …

2022-05-02: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 2: Photo

2022-05-02: The more I look at this, the more disturbing it is.

2022-05-02: Bank holiday breakfast in a wee café deep in the Sussex countryside.

2022-05-01: 📷 May Photoblogging Day 1: Switch

2022-04-29: I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment …

2022-04-25: Auntie Beeb says it’s true, and I believe Auntie: Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon …

2022-04-25: It’s time to stop embedding Tweets in news stories…. (And it’s nothing to do with Musk…)

2022-04-25: The odds of anyone with a blue tick and a very substantial following actually, truly deleting their …

2022-04-23: Nice new paint job on one of our local pubs.

2022-04-21: “Because here’s the thing about comfort, ease, security - it can topple into insipid inertia …

2022-04-19: Down on the river, SUP-style.

2022-04-18: Being a persistent shit-poster on Twitter and rather thin-skinned about criticism strikes me as an …

2022-04-18: Quayside ladder, high tide.

2022-04-17: Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.

2022-04-17: More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.

2022-04-17: Sunrise on Easter Sunday.

2022-04-16: A tiny escape on Good Friday.

2022-04-16: My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful …

2022-04-15: What’s SUP, Doc?

2022-04-15: New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - …

2022-04-15: Such a beautiful morning.

2022-04-15: Morning coffee by the sea.

2022-04-13: One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher …

2022-04-13: Jonathan Haidt: “A mean tweet doesn’t kill anyone; it is an attempt to shame or punish someone …

2022-04-13: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid “Once social-media platforms had …

2022-04-12: Some beautiful prints of British wildlife, signed by nature presenters and celebrities. 50% of the …

2022-04-09: My Mark 2 is finally here – only a year after Studio Neat planned. Still, worth waiting for.

2022-04-09: Apparently students these days buy their clothes by the kilo…

2022-04-07: I suspect I have written more words this week than any other week so far in my life. And it’s …

2022-04-05: The couple of years since the allegations about Warren Ellis came to light have been on long …

2022-04-04: It may be bitterly cold here in Sussex, but the beach knows it’s spring. The first of the plants …

2022-04-03: Weekend Nature Reads: the Good News, Bad News edition… Sometime’s it’s hard not to …

2022-04-02: I do wonder if one of the triggers of moving from independent consultant to small agency is that …

2022-04-02: This is a fascinating tale of a man who enjoyed taking photos more then developing the, creating a …

2022-04-02: Finished reading: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell 📚 Took me quite a while to get through this …

2022-04-02: Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change …

2022-04-01: Online lecture mode.

2022-04-01: I have survived six hours of lectures via Zoom with my sanity largely intact. (My wife suggests …

2022-03-31: Iris loves her piano lessons, but I suspect she enjoys playing with Snufkin more…

2022-03-31: Half an hour by the sea Chose a different spot down by the harbour arm today. I’m tucked into a wee hollow, with the …

2022-03-26: Chillin' by the harbour arm.

2022-03-23: I love this time on a Wednesday.

2022-03-23: “People claim they enjoy winter, but what they really mean is they enjoy winter as a livener, a …

2022-03-22: I suspect that this is the first time I’ve worn this gilet since the autumn, given that I just found …

2022-03-20: So did you know it was World Rewilding Day? I didn’t until just now… Pity. This is such an …

2022-03-20: An unusual beach find today.

2022-03-19: Watcher on the bridge.

2022-03-18: Perfect commuting reading…

2022-03-17: Oh, hurrah. Discord is finally Apple Silicon native.

2022-03-17: The house in the woods…

2022-03-15: Gmail of the Beast

2022-03-15: It was a great sunset yesterday. 🌅

2022-03-10: Yikes. Mystery mummified body found in convention centre walls…

2022-03-10: Just playing around with Glass. Anyone out there using it? Here’s my profile.

2022-03-10: Best hag stone discovery in a while.

2022-03-09: Very mixed feelings about the new edition of Hunter: the Reckoning. I’m glad it’s back, …

2022-03-09: I’ve always been very aware that Substack is heavily VC-backed, and that creates pressure to …

2022-03-09: Well, I suppose it was inevitable that Substack would do this. But it changes the dynamics of the …

2022-03-09: Listening to Apple-centric podcasts the day after an Apple event is a good reminder that pretty much …

2022-03-08: Continuing my obsession with Apple Watch fitness challenges, I just got the International Women’s …

2022-03-06: Let me distract you from the geopolitical horror of the moment with some good nature reads…

2022-03-06: Selfie in shadow and wood.

2022-03-06: Car Play is one of those things that you don’t understand the value of until you’ve used it. And, …

2022-03-06: A protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Shoreham’s East Street yesterday. 🇺🇦

2022-03-03: Dreich.

2022-02-27: A Seaford seafront walk this afternoon.

2022-02-27: This is officially my new favourite warning sign.

2022-02-27: Up and out for a self-defence class for the girls.

2022-02-26: Coffee and chat with my youngest at Tom Foolery.

2022-02-26: This piece in the most recent Standart takes on a whole different tone given what’s happening in …

2022-02-25: First time this year that I have finished a day’s lecturing at City, and it’s still been light when …

2022-02-20: Weather like this makes isolation easier…

2022-02-20: Some good reading (and viewing/listening) about nature and the great outdoors. Some of it will make …

2022-02-20: Stuck inside and desperately missing the outdoors… 🤞🏻for a negative lateral flow soon.

2022-02-19: Images from Ukraine as they prepare for possible invasion. How powerful photography can be in …

2022-02-18: A time lapse from the height of Storm Eunice earlier.

2022-02-17: Our house has apparently had enough of those Donny Downer negative lateral flow tests, and are going …

2022-02-15: Morning beach walk #2: cold, grey and a wee bit bleak. Still, was home before the rain hit.

2022-02-14: Two Apple Fitness Awards day:

2022-02-14: Morning beach walk #1: Valentine’s Day Lovely sun, but a cold wind, and plenty of spray in the …

2022-02-12: Tony Blair in The Times: “All social media has taught us is that there are a lot crazier people out …

2022-02-11: Another day’s lecturing done.

2022-02-11: The person sitting in front of me on the train has a coffee that smells so good it’s almost torture. …

2022-02-09: The reality of Partygate Martin Fletcher in the New Statesman: Partygate is not about left versus right, or Remainers versus …

2022-02-07: Some waves for you.

2022-02-07: Why political activists spend so much time fighting their own side Ian Leslie: Note that Ataöv suggests that differences don’t cause conflicts; conflicts create …

2022-02-07: Second screenbreak of the day: cleaning and refilling the bird feeders.

2022-02-07: Giving myself a commute One of the clichés of working for ourself is that, when you’re self-employed, your boss is an …

2022-02-06: Today’s edition of “spot the raptor”.

2022-02-05: We made a friend in the churchyard this afternoon. 🐿

2022-02-05: Currently reading: Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 📚 This is an engrossing read. To write with such …

2022-01-30: Getting up early on a Sunday t9 take the girls to their swimming classes is challenging, but this …

2022-01-29: A morning long black in relaxed surroundings.

2022-01-28: Just started: Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs 📚 I’ve been looking forward to this …

2022-01-27: Finished reading: The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie 📚 Excellent book — and timely. Full review at …

2022-01-26: Nice to have a bit of company while I was chilling out down by the harbour arm.

2022-01-25: “To be very online is to be in a toxic collective solitude where everyone is battling their own …

2022-01-24: This is just joyful. 🎵Worries for another day🎶

2022-01-24: While enjoying Winterwatch on the BBC, I got to wondering why summer is the only season that doesn’t …

2022-01-21: Martin Belam: “I also saw someone else describe NFTs as “content-free DRM” and reader, …

2022-01-19: Enjoying a walk by the harbour arm, while my youngest has a piano lesson.

2022-01-14: Charge!

2022-01-14: It was frosty on the beach again, this morning.

2022-01-14: Well, that arrived quicker than I expected…

2022-01-13: This is one of the more thoughtful takes I’ve seem on dealing with the problem of online anonymity …

2022-01-13: The Undeath of the Author (With apologies to Barthes.) “But social media has tilted things so that books by …

2022-01-13: The masocism of social media “When was the last time you were out in public and felt actively rejected by someone you felt …

2022-01-13: Respect to the people having a morning sea swim at 0°C this morning.

2022-01-13: A frosty morning on Shoreham Beach.

2022-01-12: Sunset from the harbour arm.

2022-01-12: A fond farewell to a long-serving car. I had the Fire Engine (as we called it) for over 12 years.

2022-01-12: John Naughton: “Polarised thinking may make people feel comfortable in their righteousness; …

2022-01-10: “If you climb a mountain but don’t Instagram the view from the summit, have you even climbed …

2022-01-09: Tiny thespians at work…

2022-01-09: Just put some petrol in the car for what could well be the last time ever. Changes…

2022-01-07: Good morning from Shoreham Beach.

2022-01-04: Lovely profile of the people behind LumaFusion, my go-to video editor - and an iPad app.

2022-01-04: Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic: “The acceptance and fellowship that online …

2022-01-02: This is a rather nice one. Trafalgar Square, early summer 1994.

2022-01-02: More West End candids from 1994.

2022-01-02: A few candids shot around London’s West End in early summer 1994. Sure, the fashions date them …

2021-12-31: Here’s the posts that caught your attention on my site in 2021. Happy New Year to you all!

2021-12-29: Finding a stolen and burnt out motorcycle near their grandma’s house was an education for the girls…

2021-12-25: A very merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it!

2021-12-22: Somebody’s not enjoying the festive season.

2021-12-22: Night boat to nowhere, Worthing.

2021-12-22: “Organisers are people who have noticed what is happening and want to do something about it. …

2021-12-22: “The way nature brings peace to my busy mind feels like one of the most abandoned parts of who I am. …

2021-12-21: This rather elderly angel used to top my late parents’ Christmas tree. And now she tops ours.

2021-12-21: So, after having two vaccinations on Saturday (flu and COVID booster): Sunday I spent barely able …

2021-12-18: I suspect that the best use of my evening would be ensuring that there’s enough good coffee …

2021-12-18: Two jabs in one session: Covid: 💉💉💉 Flu: 💉

2021-12-18: The iPad Pro is the best coffee shop computer yet invented. Thank you. I will not be taking …

2021-12-16: Time to slay the iPhone tabs monster…

2021-12-15: One for GoPro folks: New firmware for the Hero 10 Black, including more 24fps modes.

2021-12-15: Down by the harbour arm again. It’s cold and grey, so I had the beach to myself, apart from a …

2021-12-15: Some useful trends amongst the Web 3.0 / Metaverse hype picked out here.

2021-12-12: Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for …

2021-12-11: We have our Christmas tree.

2021-12-10: Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.

2021-12-10: Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.

2021-12-10: When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.

2021-12-09: I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting …

2021-12-09: The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.

2021-12-09: These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad. A 15 mile walk. In December. In their …

2021-12-07: A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.

2021-12-07: This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a …

2021-12-07: At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside. I’m off to have a …

2021-12-07: 13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated. I suppose I’d had …

2021-12-06: I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.

2021-12-06: I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no …

2021-11-29: Shoreham sunset.

2021-11-29: A frosty morning down on the beach.

2021-11-29: If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the more British politicians say that …

2021-11-29: A lot of a individual creator newsletters are basically a week’s worth of old-style blogging (lots …

2021-11-28: This is a lovely wee story of how a camera was lost in the Highlands, but found and reconnected with …

2021-11-27: Castlehill, Edinburgh, Spring 1994.

2021-11-27: About time: Discord working on macOS app that runs natively on M1

2021-11-24: Proof-of-work crypto comes with a substantial climate cost: Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit …

2021-11-22: Playing detective on my own past I’m busy scanning some negatives from nearly 30 years ago. Now, it’s not uncommon to find things in …

2021-11-22: This is probably a symptom of getting old, but I find getting Black Friday emails (a) in the UK and …

2021-11-22: Some thoughts about Doctor Who, present and future 📺 Flux This series feels like the format Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who should always have been. It’s the …

2021-11-21: Dramatic light over the sea today.

2021-11-21: Chilly beach walk with the girls.

2021-11-21: A newsletter that is half about NFTs and crypto and half about decarbonisation is an uneasy mix, …

2021-11-20: We’ve got a goshawk lunching in our back garden.

2021-11-20: Not sure I could rock this look, 29 years later…

2021-11-19: I now know what a lakh is.

2021-11-19: Spending an enjoyable evening looking at journalist-created newsletters from India and surrounding …

2021-11-18: I love writing. I hate getting started on writing.

2021-11-14: Night in the Quay.

2021-11-13: Always sound advice.

2021-11-10: Blimey. I think Substack is down.

2021-11-08: Do I have the mental bandwidth left to update a theme on one of my Ghost blogs? Hmmm.

2021-11-08: Cory Doctorow is not pulling his punches on NFTs.

2021-11-08: Are you an outdoor or wild swimmer? Then fill in the 2021 Trends in Outdoor Swimming Survey to help …

2021-11-06: One of those headlines that takes on a whole new level of “ick” if you’re a Brit: …

2021-11-06: Today, I turn 50. Please respect the privacy of my family and I at this difficult time. Thank you.

2021-11-06: UK has “no intention” to deliver COP26 pledges says Cambridge scientist: “The …

2021-11-05: Gunpowder, treason and plot. 💥

2021-11-04: While my frantic week isn’t yet done, my reward has arrived. Looking forward to spending time …

2021-11-04: One of the great moral panics of the last few decades debunked: Massive Study Finds No Link Between …

2021-11-03: Today, it’s exactly 20 years since I wrote my first blog post. I’ll write more about this tomorrow. …

2021-11-02: Evening walk at Woods Mill.

2021-11-01: Interesting. Is anyone else unable to access Quora with iCloud Private Relay on?

2021-10-29: 🚨 Important discourse. 🚨 Will the Metaverse save journalism?

2021-10-27: It’s very clear that Facebook corporately wants the profits of global scale, without incurring the …

2021-10-27: Commuting mask watch: down to about 10% of people wearing masks on this Southern train. Very thinly …

2021-10-26: One day I will manage to swab myself for a lateral flow test without retching. Today is not that …

2021-10-26: Today has been the sort of day when I log onto Twitter, see the trending topic list, and log …

2021-10-25: MacOS Monterey is a weirdly bland update — having been using it for a couple of hours, you could …

2021-10-25: Om Malik on the iPod 20 years on: Maybe knowingly (but more likely unknowingly), Apple had made a …

2021-10-25: Let’s do this…

2021-10-22: And so ends a blog I’ve been reading since 2003 (ish). Sad news.

2021-10-22: Doc Searls on supply chains: “But the worldwide supply chain (which is less a single chain than …

2021-10-22: Really positive feedback from TL;DR issue 1 on my blog. That’s a nice thing to start a Friday with.

2021-10-21: The “Christmas Stocking Fillers” PR emails have started arriving, despite the fact I’ve never once …

2021-10-18: Well, that was a pretty clear admission that Apple had spend five years going the wrong way with …

2021-10-12: Climate journalism needs both fixing and expanding. This is a great step in the right direction.

2021-10-12: Here we go again: Premature Blogging Death Notice #357.

2021-10-08: Today, I had managed the sort of productivity that if I managed every day, my life would be a lot …

2021-10-07: Shell game.

2021-10-06: Yikes. You might want to change your Twitch passwords — there’s been a huge data leak.

2021-10-06: Back at City, ready to teach journalism again. 18 months ago, I walked out of here during one of the …

2021-10-06: Officially back in London.

2021-10-06: First commute to London in 18 months. It’s… quieter.

2021-10-05: Zoom fatigue hits women and new hires disproportionally.

2021-10-04: We’ve turned Facebook into a single point of failure - and now we’re paying the price.

2021-10-04: Let’s all hope @manton knows what he’s doing with border gateway protocol…

2021-10-04: Facebook being down might actually ease the petrol crisis, now that there’s no way for people …

2021-10-04: Slightly perturbed to discover that my daughters think that I’m basically Izzy Moonbow…

2021-10-03: The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.

2021-10-02: Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct

2021-10-02: There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about …

2021-10-01: Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the …

2021-10-01: I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…

2021-10-01: It feels like a crunch is coming in the UK petrol crisis in my part of the country, at least. Those …

2021-09-28: A dramatic evening beach walk.

2021-09-28: The deadlines of my working life used to be defined by when the presses needed to roll. Now, …

2021-09-28: A first play with the iPhone 13 Pro’s cinematic video mode.

2021-09-26: Well, I wasn’t expecting My Little Pony: A New Generation to deliver some of the most on-point …

2021-09-26: Macro mode on the new iPhone is pretty impressive.

2021-09-24: Helloooo </Terry Thomas voice>

2021-09-23: I wonder what would happen if I just started posting on a neglected blog, and saw what happened?

2021-09-23: Selfie shot with the new GoPro Hero 10.

2021-09-21: Journalistic clichés to avoid like the plague. Note to self: rewrite before posting.

2021-09-21: The text recognition in photos that’s part of iOS15 is pretty damn impressive.

2021-09-21: Gotta say, shipping the new GoPro in a plastic bag somewhat undermines the “plastic free packaging” …

2021-09-21: I’m really leaning into the Dad joke thing right now.

2021-09-21: Life is too short to gift attention to unpleasant people Something I should have worked out 30 years ago: If someone whose work you like and enjoy turns out …

2021-09-20: The new Netflix CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the kid-friendly reboot not the Kevin …

2021-09-20: In less than two weeks, we’ve gone from “so hot in my study, I had seat beading on my …

2021-09-17: Just ordered a new iPhone for the first time in four years. That’s the longest I’ve held …

2021-09-14: New iPad Mini? That’s my wife’s Christmas present sorted, then.

2021-09-14: Only Apple can get me to watch an hour-long advert.

2021-09-13: Ah-ha. Big Sur 11.6 finally shows up for M1 Macs. Apparently today’s wave of Apple updates …

2021-09-13: Huh. Weird. My pre-M1 iMac has the MacOS 11.6 update, but not my M1 MacBook Pro.

2021-09-10: Well, hello.

2021-09-08: Quite a sunset over the river tonight.

2021-09-08: Oh, gosh. An I about to buy a new phone gimbal? I am, aren’t I?

2021-09-08: And yes, that includes washing it.

2021-09-08: Today’s exciting lunch break: cleaning the tent post-camping trips.

2021-09-06: Just booked my first evening out in Brighton since the pandemic began. I shouldn’t be — but I …

2021-09-06: When I had a Real Job (™), I used to routinely ignore work email when on holiday, and come back to a …

2021-08-27: My classy, elegant meeting space this morning…

2021-08-23: Just spent a happy couple of hours revamping a neglected blog, ready to start posting on it again …

2021-08-14: One of the things I love about visiting Woods Mill is that you can get beautiful images before …

2021-08-06: The seductive lure of cognitive bias. Don’t look too hard, or the story might melt away…

2021-08-05: Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.

2021-08-05: Spiked beauty.

2021-08-05: The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit …

2021-08-05: It is slightly terrifying to realise that, as of this autumn, I will be in a position to do …

2021-08-03: Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog …

2021-08-02: By the river’s edge.

2021-08-02: Thoughtful piece on the tenor of social media interactions by Roxane Gay.

2021-08-02: Receipts:

2021-08-02: Twitter Social Distancing — why I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month.

2021-08-01: The inverted man.

2021-08-01: “I do not demand a gin palace at every corner, merely that it is written into the constitution of …

2021-07-31: So, about the Doctor Who news…

2021-07-28: Merely a meerkat.

2021-07-25: Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions …

2021-07-24: Is it even social media if you don’t occasionally post photos of your lunch?

2021-07-24: Not something you see every day in Shoreham…

2021-07-23: I much prefer the feel of matt dust jackets when reading a hardback book to glossy ones.

2021-07-22: John Naughton’s review of An Ugly Truth, a new book about Facebook, makes it sound like …

2021-07-20: How can you not?

2021-07-20: The absence of iPadOS 14.7 from last night’s round of updates is curious…

2021-07-19: Evening on the Adur.

2021-07-19: Schmigadoon! is an intensely joyful slice of TV.

2021-07-17: Beach flora.

2021-07-15: Ha ha. No, no and more no to this terrifying idea. There’s absolutely no way I want Facebook to have …

2021-07-15: I have coffee and a piece on supply chains to finish. Wish me luck.

2021-07-15: Beach break.

2021-07-15: Self-solving tech problems are my favourite kind.

2021-07-11: Last night I had intense dreams about Swedish third wave coffee shops. That’s about as on-brand for …

2021-07-09: The problem with working on a MacBook Pro and an iPad Pro side-by-side is that I keep trying to …

2021-07-09: Today is my “Max Vax" day — two weeks since my second dose. 💉💉🎉

2021-07-03: I am happy to report that, as of this weekend, all adults in my household are fully vaccinated. 💉💉 …

2021-07-03: UK schoolchildren faking positive lateral flow COVID tests to get two weeks off school — using …

2021-07-01: Just had a depressing email about the planned final withdrawal of the .eu domain name I used to own, …

2021-06-30: A good reason for a drizzly beach picnic last weekend…

2021-06-30: Steve Leighton has left HasBean, and now I don’t know what to do My favourite coffee buyer and roaster is no longer running the company he founded. The most recent …

2021-06-27: Up at stupid o’clock for a podcast guest appearance…

2021-06-26: Concert time down near the Beach.

2021-06-26: The Bear on the Adur.

2021-06-26: Having a coffee in Tom Foolery with my daughters. It almost feels like the old days again. ☕️

2021-06-25: Mr Hancock and his rules People died alone, not even able to hold the hands of loved ones, because they followed rules Matt …

2021-06-25: I’ve done the double! 💉💉

2021-06-24: Coffee date with my youngest.

2021-06-24: Although I no longer live anywhere near Deptford, I’m pleased to hear that the local swimming pool, …

2021-06-24: This is a great piece about the mixed blessings of being a Doctor Who fan. I suspect it will …

2021-06-24: Today, in a career first, I received a press release about a toilet brush. Not any old toilet brush, …

2021-06-23: This plan to make Oxford Circus a car-free pedestrian piazza absolutely needs to happen.

2021-06-23: Beach walk selfie.

2021-06-23: If you ask me, this is nothing but a pile of junk.

2021-06-22: It’s easy to forget that long before Vox was the site we know now, there was a blogging …

2021-06-20: Luca, the new Pixar movie on Disney+, proved a perfect Father’s Day watch with my girls. It’s a …

2021-06-20: Fathers Day gifts from my girls.

2021-06-17: Another afternoon’s remote training ahead…

2021-06-12: This is a really, really interesting podcast on how to reverse polarisation in society. …

2021-06-11: This week it has become abundantly clear to me that some tasks are better done on a big screen, and …

2021-06-08: See you, open rates. It was good while it lasted. Apple closes down open rate tracking

2021-06-07: Missed the live WWDC keynote stream, so here’s the plan: Read the previews on Apple.com Scan the …

2021-06-07: An engaged newsletter audience is better than a big one. (And I managed to write it without making a …

2021-06-05: Friendly wee chap in the churchyard this morning.

2021-06-05: First library visit since the first lockdown! 📚

2021-05-31: Nostalgia.

2021-05-29: Walking.

2021-05-28: Genomics and pandemics and the avoidable crisis Zeynep Tufecki: The latest news from the United Kingdom, which has better genomic surveillance than …

2021-05-26: Online culture is now just culture: Dominic Cummings References Spider-Man-Pointing Meme To …

2021-05-26: Well, now. Amazon Makes Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion

2021-05-23: Amen to this: If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time …

2021-05-23: I will never cease to be amazed by the speed with which my daughters can make our living room …

2021-05-23: Watching last week’s Countryfile has me thinking about drones again. There’s some fantastic …

2021-05-23: Now, that’s better.

2021-05-21: I know I should move on from being annoyed when people use “blog" when they mean “blog post”. …

2021-05-21: Gosh. Gee whizz. What a surprise.

2021-05-21: This is a fascinating story of how and why aerosol spread of COVID-19 was discounted for far too …

2021-05-19: There is not enough side-eye in the world for this: Google revives RSS. Google, some of us remember …

2021-05-19: Dear Substack writers, Crossheads massively enhance the readability of your precious multi-thousand …

2021-05-18: Birthday party in progress: pin the tail on the Gnasher…

2021-05-17: This was the very first piece I wrote in my self-employed life, back in 2012: What is post digital? …

2021-05-15: I’ll be honest — editing these photos is making me hungry.

2021-05-15: Macarons anyone?

2021-05-15: Strawberry feast.

2021-05-14: This is a good read (ha,ha) in light of @manton’s new trial bookshelf feature here: Why …

2021-05-13: Nature really doesn’t understand the rules of storytelling…

2021-05-13: This week I have more good old-fashioned phone calls than Zoom or Teams meetings. It’s such a …

2021-05-11: Lovely afternoon down on the beach.

2021-05-11: Look at me, updating node.js from the command line like I have the first clue what I’m doing.

2021-05-11: I think I’ve found a way to articulate the discomfort I’m feeling in my work: I’m …

2021-05-10: Current status:

2021-05-10: For creativity to thrive, digital needs to learn its place…

2021-05-10: “Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are …

2021-05-10: Millennials are hated for being defiantly uncool “From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s young …

2021-05-10: I just managed to lose a cup of coffee in the living room. How’s your Monday going?

2021-05-10: Wow. Just found a classic example of misusing “proof links”. A writer on Medium making certain …

2021-05-10: It turns out that our local church uses some rather dated tech…

2021-05-07: Hmmm. Does anyone have any idea why my micro.blog site wouldn’t pick up an analytics code put in the …

2021-05-07: Always worth taking time out to feed our feathered friends.

2021-05-07: Bottoming out On Wednesday morning, I hit a low. My family has been lucky during the pandemic — none of us have …

2021-05-07: Zero for two so far on ATT

2021-05-06: Want: Hexagonal garden office on stilts.

2021-05-06: The beach is going for drama this afternoon.

2021-05-06: I have done a democracy. 🇬🇧

2021-05-05: Having one of those days where I wonder why I bother with the stress of being self-employed. …

2021-05-04: It’s lovely to see the vegetation sprouting again on the beach — a sure sign that summer is on …

2021-05-04: Dear Substack writers, It is not compulsory to have an opinion on the Basecamp mess. Yours, Adam …

2021-05-04: Looks like there are security updates for Apple things out — urgent ones, too. Looks like I’ll be …

2021-05-02: 🎵 You’re driftwood… 🎵

2021-05-01: This is an absolute shocker: last night someone cut down an osprey nest at Llyn Brenig in Wales, …

2021-04-30: Just replaced the Cat 5 on the wired elements of our home network with Cat 7 cables. Boy, I know how …

2021-04-29: This is genius: Paddington in Film

2021-04-29: Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might …

2021-04-27: The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life …

2021-04-21: I know everyone’s talking about the “paid podcasts” bit of yesterday’s Apple Event, but …

2021-04-20: So, if M1 Macs can run some iOS apps as well as Mac apps, and the iPad Pro now uses an M1 chip… …

2021-04-20: So happy to see Apple go back to colour in the post-Ive era.

2021-04-20: From our trip to Wakehurst last week:

2021-04-20: So, 100 hours on from my first vaccination jab, the side-effects have been negligible. My arm was …

2021-04-20: Finally, I’ve had my post-lockdown haircut.

2021-04-18: So, it turns out that the downside of being married to a woman with a PhD in Immunology is that I …

2021-04-16: 💉 #1

2021-04-15: Six thoughts about the Substack local initiative.

2021-04-14: Are we losing the fight on content moderation? If so, what should we do instead?

2021-04-13: Hazel, Dora and the leaf skeleton

2021-04-13: My first jab booked for Friday! 💉

2021-04-12: I think the obsession with newsletters is obscuring the bigger story: that the growing prevalence of …

2021-04-11: While pulling together this list of weekend reading I remember thinking how often I was linking to …

2021-04-11: Anyone else using a Mac found that their rate of genuine emails filtered to spam has shot up in …

2021-04-11: Hiking dates are a thing? Seems like a good way to destruction test your relationship…

2021-04-09: I think my daughters might be prematurely middle-aged:

2021-04-08: I am HERE for headline puns that combine Doctor Who and typography: Time’s New Roman

2021-04-08: Sometimes it’s amply clear that these are chalk downs:

2021-04-06: Easter walk at Woods Mill.

2021-04-06: There’s a metaphor here about nature and technology…

2021-04-06: Medium introduces the blogroll. Wait — have I somehow slipped back 20 years to 2001?

2021-04-01: Up and at ‘em early this morning for a last pass on a really interesting research report I’m …

2021-03-30: OK. This doesn’t feel like good news: Getty Images is acquiring Unsplash.

2021-03-30: Spring really came to Shoreham-by-Sea, yesterday. I took advantage of the lockdown easing to have a …

2021-03-29: Bat kerb.

2021-03-28: M1 MBPro life: “Right, I’ll just send this video over to Compressor to render out while I make a cup …

2021-03-24: I do like to get down and dirty with a server once in a while:

2021-03-24: Today seems to be a 5/10/15 years ago day: Medium pivots and seeks to reduce editorial staff? 2016! …

2021-03-23: The very old and the very new in a port town.

2021-03-23: This, from @colinwalker, is what so many people miss about blogging at its best: There is no truly …

2021-03-22: A rare moment Yesterday morning, I did something I’ve never had the chance to do in the last eight years: I lay in …

2021-03-22: It’s World Osprey Week, as European ospreys start returning to their nests for the breeding season.

2021-03-22: Now, can I post to micro.blog from Ulysses OK?

2021-03-21: A digest of nature-centric reading (and viewing) to round out your weekend.

2021-03-21: Last night, we finished the last of the Christmas mead — just in time for spring.

2021-03-13: New boats in the Adur.

2021-03-13: Beach fishermen.

2021-03-13: Not this way, apparently.

2021-03-13: Sea chains.

2021-03-13: Beach finds.

2021-03-13: Down by the harbour wall.

2021-03-09: This is not the real view from my house - but neither is it a Zoom background…

2021-03-09: On the Harry & Meghan interview and the UK media.

2021-03-07: The Shoreham Harbour pilots' boat coming back in after meeting a container ship offshore.

2021-03-07: Spring is here!

2021-03-06: The Ernst Hagedorn coming into Shoreham Harbour this afternoon.

2021-03-05: The uncomplicated way year ones express their joy in seeing their school friends over Teams is …

2021-03-04: They really want the train to stop #worldbookday

2021-02-25: It’s very much a Gray Day today.

2021-02-25: I’ve just realised what I miss most about face-to-face lecturing: the after lecture chats. Nobody …

2021-02-21: Taken this afternoon. Spring is coming.

2021-02-21: Some weekend nature-centric reading and viewing for you.

2021-02-21: Cooking “last day of half term” pancakes for my daughters.

2021-02-20: New fancy coffee brewing method to kick off the weekend right.

2021-02-19: Mask upgrade.

2021-02-18: The combination of stupidly fast yet silent when dealing with lots of video and other tasks is still …

2021-02-18: First take-out coffee of the year.

2021-02-15: I do like the geometry and colours of this image.

2021-02-15: This sign has met a premature end, but I look forward to the day when its ilk are no longer needed.

2021-02-15: I’ve seen how this movie ends — and it’s not pretty…

2021-02-15: Finally got a flexible boom arm for my Mevo streaming cam. I’ll have my home training studio just …

2021-02-15: I do miss the days when my home office was my home office (as a self-employed person), rather than …

2021-02-15: This is quite an important intervention from Nature: Coronavirus is in the air — there’s too much …

2021-02-14: It may be cold, but the beach is the beach.

2021-02-14: I think they’re plotting something.

2021-02-13: I’m not saying it’s cold — but here’s a frozen boat we found.

2021-02-13: I think we were making him nervous.

2021-02-13: New hat!

2021-02-13: 9 days until we need to homeschool again. Bliss.

2021-02-13: New Year, New Lens One of my joys during this year of lockdowns and restrictions has been rediscovering photography …

2021-02-12: Well, this morning I had to reset my router to factory settings and rebuild my network to get …

2021-02-11: One thing that being married to someone with a PhD in immunology has taught me: take any …

2021-02-11: Not the morning conference(s) I expected to be attending at this point in my career, but it is what …

2021-02-10: Ouch. This Big Sur upgrade nightmare is exactly what has happened to my sister-in-law. Looks like I …

2021-02-09: Team Tinworth lockdown work and homeschooling station for the day.

2021-02-09: Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday. I’ve been on the …

2021-02-08: I would read this.

2021-02-08: Well, I suppose it counts as snow.

2021-02-07: When you head towards the beach, it’s easy to forget that Shoreham is still very much a …

2021-02-07: We found a great hagstone yesterday.

2021-02-06: More low tide discoveries.

2021-02-06: Low tide adventures.

2021-02-06: The “staycation” semantic drift is complete, isn’t it? The accepted usage now seems to be “a holiday …

2021-02-06: Description of the day: “Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all …

2021-02-05: TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.

2021-02-02: Shoreham-by-Sea fishing boats.

2021-02-02: 😱 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real

2021-02-02: Another day done. Goodnight, friends.

2021-02-01: Evening

2021-01-31: This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s …

2021-01-30: Beach walk views

2021-01-30: Low tide on the Adur.

2021-01-29: Oh, Wix websites are a pain. They have a “blog” section, they even publish RSS feeds - …

2021-01-27: Something new.

2021-01-26: An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID …

2021-01-26: Oh, marvellous. Well done.

2021-01-26: Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but …

2021-01-26: Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.

2021-01-26: Scenes from homeschool: 👧 “What does ‘dour’ mean?” 👱🏻‍♂️ “If only there was some sort of book that …

2021-01-24: Plenty of people enjoying the waves down at the Beach today.

2021-01-24: Be a fox, not a hedgehog One interesting idea in Matthew Syed’s Sunday Times piece on how social media sound bite …

2021-01-24: Evening on the beach.

2021-01-24: Fascination read about Mar-a-Lago: the secret history of Trump’s Florida retreat

2021-01-23: On the shore.

2021-01-22: Repeatedly misspelling “audience” is probably not good, when you’re running a new …

2021-01-22: Emails from luggage companies are getting ever more desperate.

2021-01-22: Lockdown isn’t easy. I’m having a rough day. It’s OK if you are, too.

2021-01-20: Podcasting is 20 years old today. Here’s the story of the first podcast feed.

2021-01-20: Trump, QAnon and the limits of the “viral” metaphor to describe online communities — some thoughts …

2021-01-19: I’m not sure this is going to work.

2021-01-18: Hard to argue with this message.

2021-01-16: Bit wet out today.

2021-01-16: Dusk on the boardwalk.

2021-01-16: Brighton by night. Shot on Shoreham Beach, at dusk

2021-01-14: Some ocean-based learning resources for parents struggling with homeschooling.

2021-01-13: Oh, this is just perfect: Wondermark #1523; In which Hot Takes are Served Fresh

2021-01-11: It deeply bothers me that on-going access to a whole load of important and significant writing from …

2021-01-11: Socially-distanced beach walk.

2021-01-11: Well, it took less than a week of lockdown before I saw someone in a local Facebook group calling …

2021-01-11: Shout out to fellow working parents who are trying to navigate both earning a living and …

2021-01-10: A cold and frosty morning on the Beach, and it’s not lifting.

2021-01-08: This is an interesting call for focus on libraries and archives in the digital age, in the face of …

2021-01-05: Ryan Broderick: I did not expect email newsletters to be a life raft for digital expression, but, …

2021-01-05: Some particularly interesting links in Martin Belam’s Friday reading from last week.

2021-01-05: Anyone who thinks Bill Gates can create a vaccine-delivered microchip that controls people has …

2021-01-03: I sometimes think that winter beach is the best beach.

2021-01-02: Saturday night internet culture nostalgia: In 2006 they were taking the hobbits to Isengard …

2021-01-02: My daughters’ rendition of “We wish you a Merry Lockdown and a Happy New Tier” is simultaneously …

2021-01-02: Workin’.

2020-12-31: Less than 12 hours to finish a book and meet my reading challenge goal…

2020-12-30: I just learnt that Jackie Cassada, an acquaintance from my old White Wolf/RPG writing days, has …

2020-12-28: How I’m embracing a life in Tier 4 lockdown.

2020-12-28: Beach life in Tier 4: where better to take your permitted exercise?

2020-12-27: Evening on the beach.

2020-12-27: Storm Bella has passed, but it’s still very blowy down on the beach.

2020-12-24: Maybe just regretting a little that I offered to handle the live-streaming of midnight mass tonight.

2020-12-24: Lovely weather for a Christmas Eve beach walk.

2020-12-24: Oh, elf. How I hate you.

2020-12-20: 🙀 What real estate agents are finding in empty offices right now

2020-12-20: I can vouch for the accuracy of this feature: Six things only people who were forced to do social …

2020-12-20: Oh, do you remember when we used to go to “coffee shops” and other people would make coffee for us? …

2020-12-20: Love a bit of garden office porn.

2020-12-20: Oh, my. A year before the Brexit vote and the Trump election, I linked to reporting about how …

2020-12-20: I suppose that I should be working systematically through One Man & His Blog’s archives, …

2020-12-18: Archive spelunking Managed to resurrect all but one of the broken links on this 14 year old post. (The reason why is a …

2020-12-17: We really need to talk about trust in journalism.

2020-12-17: Breakfast of champions.

2020-12-16: This eco cabins are just irresistible to me. One day. One day.

2020-12-15: These two things can both be true: Herd immunity is a real, valid scientific concept. Attempting to …

2020-12-15: Listening to my daughter’s Zoom singing lesson is making me very proud and a bit emotional. As …

2020-12-15: And now COVID19 is [hitting the coffee supply chain]sprudge.com/covid-19-…). Enjoy that cup …

2020-12-15: This is interesting, and ties in with what immunologists I know have been saying for a while: …

2020-12-15: There’s plenty of discussion of journalism business models. There’s some discussion …

2020-12-14: I’m not saying we’re deep in middle age, but there is considerable excitement in this …

2020-12-11: A quick digest of some worthwhile or interesting nature and outdoors reading.

2020-12-11: There’s a good reason we should temper the current Substack enthusiasm in journalism circles …

2020-12-08: A restaurant in Île de Ré, from back when I used to travel overseas. And go to restaurants.

2020-12-07: Frost on the roofs this morning. The girls were very excited. The adults, less so.

2020-12-06: Didn’t take them long to find the refilled feeders.

2020-12-06: I used my new MacBook Pro for an hour this morning to monitor a livestream I was running, dived into …

2020-12-02: Conspiracy theories: making the gullible feel insightful in your Facebook feed right now.

2020-12-02: So… this is my first post from a Mac powered by Apple Silicon.

2020-12-01: Spending far too long looking at video of myself has been one of the major downsides of the …

2020-12-01: This is a good piece: I found the wall-to-wall COVID coverage very hard to cope with back in the …

2020-11-30: Blogging is a discipline: it’s a practice of expressing your thoughts in writing, routinely, …

2020-11-30: It was a gorgeously foggy morning this morning:

2020-11-29: I am, and have been for as long as I can remember, a pedestrian by preference. Walking is my …

2020-11-28: Has anyone else come to quite enjoy wearing a mask? I like seeing the fashion choices people make …

2020-11-27: Last night, I faced the dilemma of going to bed early, or staying up and having some quiet time to …

2020-11-26: After years of having the house to myself for several days a week, it’s hard to adjust to …

2020-11-25: Much as I hate to admit it, structure and focus make a huge difference to a client Zoom call. But …

2020-11-25: Lovely day for a beach walk.

2020-11-25: Requiem for a lamp I’m saying “goodbye” to an old friend this morning. For the last 23 years, whenever I’ve …

2020-11-24: Eight months ago I was forced into delivering online training by the pandemic. Even after mass …

2020-11-24: Chris Cook in this morning’s Tortoise email: “The challenge is how we all get to the finish …

2020-11-24: Today’s lesson: do not record your Zoom sessions locally, if you have multiple incoming streams. It …

2020-11-24: Revamped online lecturing and training setup working well. 👍🏻

2020-11-23: The power of disinformation to capture people’s minds is terrifying. Watching a friend’s …

2020-11-22: As someone who spent my entire childhood north of the border, the increasing likelihood that …

2020-11-21: Today’s beach walk did not feel autumnal at all. Between the waves and the overcast skies, not …

2020-11-20: Burn out or fade away? Tonight, it’s a bit of both.

2020-11-19: It’s just possible I’ve found a solution to something that’s been bugging me all year. 🤞🏻

2020-11-19: OK. A week in I am prepared to say this: Big Sur is bloody lovely and it has completely reignited my …

2020-11-18: As I child, I railed against my dependence on sleep. As an adult, I embrace it. Night, all.

2020-11-18: New, chez Tinworth.

2020-11-17: Wake. Take children to school. Train people via Zoom. Collect children. Feed children. Read bedtime …

2020-11-16: I regret I didn’t take more notes in the early days of the first lockdown. It was an unusual, but …

2020-11-15: I need to remind myself more often that it doesn’t actually matter how far I am from my goals, as …

2020-11-14: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They’re altogether ooky, …

2020-11-14: Facing the sea.

2020-11-13: The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes …

2020-11-13: Media artisans and their tools…

2020-11-13: Quite proud of this:

2020-11-13: One thing from the before times I really miss: just grabbing my laptop or iPad and heading to a …

2020-11-13: First impressions of Big Sur: amazingly fast on my ancient 2013 MacBook Pro. The visual refresh …

2020-11-13: Hello, Big Sur. (That sounds like something from a really bad prison movie: “Jim, if you want to …

2020-11-12: The balance of my wardrobe has changed during the eight months of lockdowns and remote working. I …

2020-11-12: Looks like the Big Sur update is in the process of completely hosing Apple’s online services. …

2020-11-12: Should I?

2020-11-12: Charles Arthur: […] classical orchestras are just tribute bands for old music 🤯

2020-11-12: Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…

2020-11-11: I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life. But it would be …

2020-11-11: ”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places …

2020-11-11: Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…

2020-11-10: The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook …

2020-11-09: The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is …

2020-11-08: There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms …

2020-11-08: Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to …

2020-11-08: Shell.

2020-11-07: Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative.

2020-11-07: Today’s news about the US presidential election gives me a little hope for the first time …

2020-11-06: It’s not exactly puzzling why we chose to live here, is it? There’s something utterly magical to me …

2020-11-06: Birthday beach walk with my daughters.

2020-11-06: I’ve slipped out of the habit of using my 9.7 iPad Pro, and that means I’d forgotten what a lovely …

2020-11-06: This is strangely delightful in the twilight world of an uncertain presidential result: Neon Trump …

2020-11-05: Hospital visit concluded. My youngest’s head wound cleaned and glued together. And I didn’t have to …

2020-11-05: Have to say - I wasn’t expecting to be spending time in A&E on the first day of lockdown.

2020-11-04: So, lockdown it is, from tonight. I’m very lucky to be living very near to these places. It’s …

2020-11-03: My family continue to astonish me. I’m a lucky man to have these people in difficult times.

2020-11-02: Things that have become a routine part of my life since the first lockdown began: moving around …

2020-11-02: Sometimes you have to get something out of your head before you can concentrate on the other things …

2020-11-02: Thoughts in the face of Lockdown 2.0 On Friday, I drove my mother-in-law home, and passed through many towns on the journey. We were …

2020-11-02: How’s the UK Covid app doing? Oh: “The “world-beating” NHS Covid app, downloaded by 19 million …

2020-11-01: Today, had the makings of a dreary, dreich day. But time with good friends helped me recover from …

2020-11-01: Autumn roof, from below.

2020-11-01: TIL: never try to shove a 1080p stream down a 720p pipe.

2020-11-01: Misty, dreich morning in Sussex.

2020-10-31: How the year 2000 web reacted to the tense election standoff between Bush and Gore. Useful …

2020-10-31: Just spent 30 minutes catching up on newsletters. My, do some well-known journalists suffer without …

2020-10-30: Parole by election John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK: …

2020-10-30: Today is a Zoom-free day. That is a good day.

2020-10-29: Lovely walk with the girls, despite the dreich weather.

2020-10-29: Should you turn on your video camera during online training?

2020-10-28: Another day in front of the ring light…

2020-10-27: Ah, the BBC’s Autumnwatch. Balm for the soul.

2020-10-26: Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and …

2020-10-26: Half term adventures.

2020-10-26: Wellies was the right decision.

2020-10-24: I walked up into Old Shoreham yesterday, to pick up some things. It’s interesting seeing the traces …

2020-10-24: Interesting opinion piece on the hijacking of the word “freedom” and why we need to push back with a …

2020-10-21: Telling the stories of our wild places (by way of another childhood reminiscence).

2020-10-21: Well now. Substack is adding custom domains for everyone (which is good), but is changing $50 to do …

2020-10-21: I just started looking for some data for a lecture, and the third result was one of my own …

2020-10-21: Handy guidance here for leading journalists and authors: How to Avoid ‘Zoom Dick’ …

2020-10-21: If you’re going to write 500 words summarising a report, you could at least do the reader the …

2020-10-21: The garden office as ‘sanity shed’ is a nice idea for those privileged enough to have …

2020-10-21: I know it’s a thing some SEOs like to recommend, but I do find webpages with no publication date on …

2020-10-21: Interesting piece. The start of a shift from “proximity to work” to “proximity to lifestyle …

2020-10-21: I’m trying an experiment. I’ve switched my default search engine on my iPhone to DuckDuckGo, and …

2020-10-20: Shoreham Beach, 8.55am

2020-10-17: Lo! There comes a Toast Cat!

2020-10-15: So, I thought I had the whole 20 seconds hand washing things sorted. And then the Apple Watch update …

2020-10-14: Beach silhouettes.

2020-10-14: Shoreham Beach, UK / 2020-10-14 / 8.49am Walking home around the quay after dropping my children at …

2020-10-13: Apple ProRaw actually looks quite interesting. Be interested to see how quickly the major editing …

2020-10-13: Lisa on the roof, talking environmental stuff amongst the solar panels is cool.

2020-10-13: I’d be more excited by 5G coming to the iPhone if I thought I’d be going anywhere in the next six …

2020-10-13: “Something only Apple can do” is going to get really annoying really fast.

2020-10-13: On the sofa for the Apple announcements, and my daughters have joined me…

2020-10-13: Shaping up to be a nice Autumn day down by the river.

2020-10-13: Morning beach walk.

2020-10-12: Just rewatched Frozen 2 with my daughters. Anna is clearly the most thirsty of Disney heroines. 🍿

2020-10-12: Uggh. One of those days where I’ve been working solidly since 9am, bar 10 minutes in the …

2020-10-12: Well, you can tell I just topped up the suet ball feeder, because it sounds like there’s an …

2020-10-12: I just betrayed my principles and did a rant as a Twitter thread not a blog post. I shall say 3 …

2020-10-11: This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – …

2020-10-11: I love our beach.

2020-10-11: Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.

2020-10-09: Current status:

2020-10-09: Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢

2020-10-08: That’s quite a sunset.

2020-10-08: Fear my mighty traybake powers.

2020-10-07: Mackerel skies.

2020-10-05: Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media (Or why your spicy hot …

2020-10-05: Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance

2020-10-05: Why we need a new framework for discussing powerful women — and it’s all the fault of the …

2020-10-05: It’s disturbing how easily the California fires slip off our radar, just as the Australian …

2020-10-02: 15 years on, journalists are still talking nonsense about blogs This person has no idea what they are talking about: The reason no one talks about “blogging” …

2020-10-02: Well, I never thought I’d reach a point where the US president announces he’s ill with a potentially …

2020-10-01: I just experienced this when I had to pop out in the car briefly. It’s a big improvement: …

2020-10-01: Spending my evening editing the videos of yesterday’s lectures. I know how to live.

2020-10-01: It’s possible that our HomePods are the most used pieces of digital tech in our house at the moment. …

2020-10-01: This is a fascinating long read. It suggests that COVID-19 is largely spread by a small number of …

2020-10-01: Cygnet.

2020-09-30: Today’s learning: six hours of Zoom feels very different to six hours of in-person lecturing. …

2020-09-30: Lecturing kit, COVID-19 style.

2020-09-30: Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of …

2020-09-27: A promise of new life.

2020-09-26: Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.

2020-09-24: And finally, we have the app.

2020-09-22: Oh, sweet joy. iOS14 has brought emoji search to the iPhone. 🙌🏼

2020-09-22: That URL looks completely legit and I shall be claiming straight away. 🙄

2020-09-19: Weekend cooking. 👌🏻

2020-09-19: A nice early autumn surprise in the garden.

2020-09-18: Interesting. You can now find Substacks written by people you follow on Twitter.

2020-09-18: This one of those rare things, an online quiz actually worth doing. It’s a test to see if you can …

2020-09-17: As a palate cleanser after that last post, here’s Martin’s enjoyable ramblings about classic Doctor …

2020-09-17: Everything wrong with both Facebook and internet fandom in one screencap.

2020-09-17: Percentage chance I would use smart glasses from Facebook: 0%

2020-09-16: Just a reminder to folks (especially journalists) who rely on their iOS devices for work. You REALLY …

2020-09-15: One thing that makes me sad about the Apple Event: a few years back the Fitness+ announcement would …

2020-09-15: What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard …

2020-09-15: Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while …

2020-09-14: This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish

2020-09-14: John O’Nolan: ”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.” Not completely …

2020-09-13: Duck!

2020-09-13: Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.

2020-09-12: And… breathe.

2020-09-12: Finally.

2020-09-10: Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓

2020-09-08: Pubs 👍🏻 Offices 👍🏻 7 people in the park. 👎🏻 Yup. That all seems logical. 👀

2020-09-08: Autumn comes when the ospreys leave. 🍂

2020-09-07: Working like this might actually tempt me back into a proper job. Probably not, mind. But it could.

2020-09-07: Once you know an AI is grading your work — you can game it. The next decade is just going to be a …

2020-09-06: On social media pile-ons Melissa Harrison: Moreover, I’ve learned not to join in with Twitter pile-ons, or insult or …

2020-09-04: Look at this cute fellah.

2020-09-04: A buzzard, drifting lazily over the Woods Mill car park.

2020-09-04: Into the woods.

2020-09-04: Homestead.

2020-09-04: This “shed” is basically pornography for writers.

2020-09-02: The absolute genius of “Black Lives Matter” as a phrase is that its very existence provokes evidence …

2020-08-31: Evening sea swim.

2020-08-31: My procrastination is weird. For example, I’ve nearly finished what will become issue 2 of …

2020-08-29: I’m doing my best to keep the bird feeders topped up today. The sudden cold snap means they’ll be …

2020-08-29: Rainbow over Shoreham Beach yesterday.

2020-08-29: My July in one second every day.

2020-08-29: Sitting by the sea while my daughter has a socially distanced outdoors Rainbows meeting.

2020-08-28: Some interesting thoughts on the future of newsletters. I certainly think many newsletters resemble …

2020-08-25: I’m glad people are starting to talk about this. The coffee cup and plastic bag situation has …

2020-08-25: Uh-oh: Second national lockdown warning as R rate rises ”[…] on Friday the Sage advisory group said …

2020-08-25: Beach cleaning after (Storm) Ellen.

2020-08-24: Managed a little time on the beach before the rain hit.

2020-08-24: I couldn’t figure out why my mouse wasn’t working this morning, until I turned it over. Well played, …

2020-08-21: Fiddling around with a side project while my daughters do their martial arts class via Zoom.

2020-08-19: So much “nope” in this vision of a home office cubicle.

2020-08-17: The faceless mob of Twitter accelerants.

2020-08-17: Sea swim with my tiny limpet. 🌊

2020-08-17: Trying a small productivity hack today: doing half hour bursts of email, and then closing the app …

2020-08-16: Beach life.

2020-08-16: I’m currently reading The Daring Of Della Dupree by Natasha Lowe 📚 to my daughters. They are …

2020-08-15: The “aircraft engine housing and car wash brushes” look for garden gates is in, in, in, this summer.

2020-08-15: John Witherow, editor of The Times, in his morning newsletter: Put simply, Britain is an …

2020-08-14: In praise of the cloudy summer's day After a week of glorious sunshine and sweltering sunshine, it’s a relief to see clouds …

2020-08-14: The over-50s are coming for your TikTok. And they’re taking no style prisoners.

2020-08-14: As soon as the sun goes in, we get the beach back to ourselves. This was absolutely heaving a few …

2020-08-14: There are worse places to catch up on a few emails.

2020-08-13: Tempting.

2020-08-13: Upgrade for our Zoom future.

2020-08-12: Right here. Right now.

2020-08-10: Well, this is not great. I hope this does not survive the beta into release: Apple News+ in iOS 14 …

2020-08-09: Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures. What fantastic …

2020-08-08: Evening in the Quay.

2020-08-08: Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, …

2020-08-08: Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚

2020-08-08: Stunning skies yesterday evening.

2020-08-07: This was a very long time ago in the Cairngorms.

2020-08-07: Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of …

2020-08-06: Poirot after Christie I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot …

2020-08-06: Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more …

2020-08-06: I am embarrassed it has taken me until my late 40s to understand the difference between a good …

2020-08-05: The pandemic lockdowns seem to have kicked the tablet market back into growth. Apple has 38% of the …

2020-08-04: Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people

2020-08-04: A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.

2020-08-04: Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings. Sometimes they way we write …

2020-08-01: Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.

2020-08-01: This is an adorable version of something that every parent who has been working from home the last …

2020-08-01: This sums up pretty nicely why I, as a teenager in the 1980s, completely fell in love with this …

2020-07-31: This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.

2020-07-30: Typo of the day: “toe-hugging”. Less green than tree-hugging, and just possibly a bit more kinky.

2020-07-30: Um. Get your GoPro merch?

2020-07-30: Trump just used a massive dead cat to distract from appalling US economic news.

2020-07-29: A devastating consequence of the pandemic and lockdown: the National Trust are making over 1000 …

2020-07-27: The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one …

2020-07-27: Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored …

2020-07-27: Beach detail.

2020-07-24: The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.

2020-07-24: An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.

2020-07-23: We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.

2020-07-22: Buoyant bird.

2020-07-21: Beach life.

2020-07-19: My eldest daughter loves performing. She never voluntarily passes up the opportunity to be in the …

2020-07-19: Darling buds of July.

2020-07-19: Girls in the wood.

2020-07-19: Window in the canopy.

2020-07-18: A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.

2020-07-18: It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…

2020-07-16: I’m loving the way micro.blog plugins solve a few pain points I have with the platform - but which …

2020-07-15: This is bleak news: Guardian announces plans to cut 180 jobs. 70 are editorial jobs. Best wishes to …

2020-07-15: Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.

2020-07-14: Hand-writing this post using Scribble and my Apple Pencil in iOS 14. That was easier than I …

2020-07-13: Evening swim selfie.

2020-07-13: Exploring the idea of the blogletter. What differentiates it from a more traditional newsletter?

2020-07-12: Current status:

2020-07-11: Evening on the beach.

2020-07-10: Evening in the garden.

2020-07-08: Early evening beach walk.

2020-07-08: After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to …

2020-07-07: Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics. 🤦🏼‍♂️

2020-07-07: A wee visitor to our garden at night…

2020-07-07: Homeschooling break in the garden.

2020-07-07: Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, …

2020-07-07: Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.

2020-07-05: Maltese boats. Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.

2020-07-05: The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago. Photo by my late mother.

2020-07-05: Looking back at locked-down May in 1 second every day.

2020-07-04: Down by the Adur.

2020-07-03: The news we need, if not the news we deserve: Dogmatix to Get His Own Asterix Comic Book

2020-07-03: Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts. Time to get the Keep Cup out again.

2020-07-03: One unexpected - but happy - side effect of lockdown: I’m now wearing jeans of a waist size I …

2020-06-30: It is just possible that 1989 Adam was trying a bit too hard.

2020-06-29: This was a useful read for me - and I suspect might help others: How to engage with life when you …

2020-06-29: Malta in early autumn 2000. While the clothes certainly date it, the complete absence of phones is …

2020-06-27: More lockdown creativity: This is the most unusual version of Tubular Bells I’ve come across - but …

2020-06-27: My daughter just uttered the phrase: “No. You are NOT selling my precious Shakespeare books!” BRB - …

2020-06-27: Clare Foges: Politics can either be a parlour game of ideological point-scoring or it can be the …

2020-06-26: I am middle-aged enough that I really am very excited about my new compost bin. 🌱

2020-06-26: Gaming through the eyes of privilege 20 years ago I was quite involved with the tabletop gaming world, and the fringes of the SFF world, …

2020-06-24: This is lovely: The Archers Theme as you’ve never heard it - with the cast at home !

2020-06-24: Wow. Olympus is selling off its camera division. I first got serious about photography with a Trip …

2020-06-24: Today’s Social & Digital lunchbreak digs deep on narcissism, toxic communities — and Nazi …

2020-06-23: The Fate of the Mac? Jason Snell: Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One: The truth is probably that the future of the Mac is as …

2020-06-23: Phew. My MacBook Pro just scrapes into the Big Sur compatibility list. This time next year I suspect …

2020-06-22: Well, having Adobe and Microsoft both on board already will make the ARM transition for Macs much, …

2020-06-22: MacOS Big Sur: love the new design, but feel like they’re just trolling us with the name now.

2020-06-22: Automatic hand-washing detection and timing on Apple Watch! That’s as Covid-y as it gets.

2020-06-22: Controversial opinion: I prefer this keynote format.

2020-06-22: Dance workouts on Apple Watch. Oh, yes. 💃 ⌚️ (Watch-based cycling navigation seem vital in a …

2020-06-22: I can barely read my own handwriting. Good luck to iPad OS in figuring it out.

2020-06-22: So… if your phone runs out of battery, your car won’t start or open?

2020-06-22: Cycling directions in iOS maps in iOS 14 🚴‍♂️ 🎉

2020-06-22: They have a real aversion to static shots in this pre-recorded WWDC keynote, don’t they?

2020-06-22: The new iOS 14 widgets just announced at WWDC are going to be amazing on iPad.

2020-06-22: Wow. Empty Steve Jobs Theatre. Striking way to acknowledge the unusual times.

2020-06-22: 👀 Heavy Coffee Drinkers Want Coffee A Lot More Than They Actually Like It ☕️

2020-06-22: The Into the Wild bus has been Removed by the Alaska guard. Probably a good thing, but the end of an …

2020-06-22: The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement - and the piece highlights …

2020-06-22: Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed.

2020-06-22: Tech false economy So, today I’m working on a brand new iMac - the first time I’ve bought a new Mac in over …

2020-06-22: I’m actually more interested in how — visually — Apple chooses to do the WWDC keynote later on …

2020-06-21: What’s collective noun for a group of SUPpers?

2020-06-20: When the Rampion Wind Farm was announced, I was worried about its impact on the feel of the beach. A …

2020-06-20: Kitesurfers on Shoreham Beach

2020-06-19: Well, I am deeply disheartened to read this about Warren Ellis. Is it that we as a society rewards …

2020-06-18: This lockdown concert by Madness is a real balm to the soul. Nicely done.

2020-06-18: Turns out it’s easier to say “world-beating” than actually deliver it. Who knew? …

2020-06-18: Has the meaning of the word “blog” changed? Sadly, I think the answer is “yes”.

2020-06-17: Blimey. Plurk. The microblogging service where I was [marginally more popular than …

2020-06-17: This one was a big hit for me back in the day. I can still recall the frustration and anger I was …

2020-06-17: This is remarkable. A 12 year old blog post - and both the links in it are still live: How To Be a …

2020-06-17: Home schooling parents: a nature documentary on Disney+ is a perfectly valid natural history lesson, …

2020-06-16: Beach fun.

2020-06-16: Beach.

2020-06-15: Today’s Social & Digital Lunchbreak is out. Let’s not talk about what happened to it last …

2020-06-13: We’re still weeks away from re-opening swimming pools in the UK. We’re so lucky to live …

2020-06-12: My talented sister-in-law talking about Hogarth’s The Madhouse at Sir John Soane’s …

2020-06-12: Hit a million views on Unsplash.

2020-06-11: An old schoolfriend of mine, Nichol Wheatley, has become an accomplished and talented artist. And …

2020-06-11: Sometimes, you only realise how unwell you’ve actually been when you start feeling better. Today, I …

2020-06-09: Still COVID-free.

2020-06-08: Current status:

2020-06-08: Quite a sky this evening.

2020-06-07: Better broadband please. kthxbai

2020-06-06: A Tender Key of Place.

2020-06-05: Evening on the beach.

2020-06-01: After some thought, I put today’s social & digital lunchbreak outside the reg wall, …

2020-05-31: How to foster ‘shoshin’ - the beginner’s mind. Such a good discipline.

2020-05-31: Fish.

2020-05-28: Finally getting back to the beach. It’s amazing the difference removing the feeling that the …

2020-05-27: Nice evening for a swim…

2020-05-27: 30 seconds of Shoreham Beach for you:

2020-05-26: Shoreham Beach is a rare vegetated shingle habitat. And it’s just coming into bloom now. Stunning.

2020-05-26: What you need to know about Dominic Cummings John Naughton: I’ve been reading Cummings’s blog since long before anyone had ever heard of him. …

2020-05-25: First sea swim of the year. 🏊‍♀️

2020-05-24: Kite surfers off Shoreham Beach.

2020-05-23: Beach life.

2020-05-23: Photographer friends: can you recommend a good hand strap?

2020-05-22: “You’re muted” has been uttered more often in the last two months than in all the rest of human …

2020-05-22: Ingenious - forces social distancing on trains, while making it easier to commute by cycle: …

2020-05-22: I want a kilt version of this social distancing ‘petticoat dress’.

2020-05-22: There are probably a lot of future PhD theses in exploring why masks have become such a polarising …

2020-05-21: An evisceration of Google Classroom Khoi Vinh: Google Classroom’s lackluster design is actually perfectly in line with the way we’ve …

2020-05-21: The pandemic office job needs flexibility Rory Sutherland: I was influenced in this by the work of Nassim Taleb, who argues that a high degree …

2020-05-20: Om Malik: Is Shopify ready to be double-crossed by Facebook? “Curse your sudden but inevitable …

2020-05-20: The Cambridge University decision seems sensible - push the low-hanging fruit online, work on how …

2020-05-20: What will the pandemic do to real estate and the way we live in cities? Here’s a little bit of …

2020-05-19: Your waves for today.

2020-05-19: Blogging in the cramped internet BLDGBLOG, mourning WIRED ending Bruce Sterling’s blog: […] the pull of regular blogging—the …

2020-05-19: My wife is making two cups of tea - for herself. This is going to be an interesting day…

2020-05-18: Beach school this morning.

2020-05-17: I miss cinemas. The longer this goes on, the more I realise what I miss and what I don’t from …

2020-05-17: The time finally arrived. The lockdown haircut had to happen.

2020-05-16: A little beach calm for you.

2020-05-15: Actually made it to the beach for the first time this week.

2020-05-15: So. Our printer just broke. It’s probably the shock of being used more in the last six weeks than in …

2020-05-14: Between home-schooling and trying to sustain a self-employed income, I don’t think I’ve …

2020-05-13: Oh, the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival is going virtual. That looks like a fun distraction.

2020-05-10: I have won the viral apocalypse. Please send tribute.

2020-05-09: Lockdown bank holiday camping. Yes, that’s our back garden. ⛺️

2020-05-08: Caterpillar.

2020-05-08: Fly past.

2020-05-08: Ed Yong’s reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic really is superb, like this piece on the …

2020-05-08: This is new to me, despite being three years old - and is quite lovely, if a little melancholy: The …

2020-05-08: Why a vaccine is unlikely in 2020 Don’t hold your breath for a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020: It is only once researchers have taken …

2020-05-06: A stunning late afternoon down on Shoreham Beach.

2020-05-05: After three mildly stressful days, the results of the PCR jury are in: and I’m clean. (I was asked …

2020-05-04: My four year old daughter has just declared that I am the leader of all journalism in the world, and …

2020-05-04: Listening to the Independent Sage group talking online, once again I’m struck by how willing the …

2020-05-04: Three learning byproducts of the current crisis Things I have learned through reading about Covid-19, which aren’t actually about it: I need to …

2020-05-03: Generally not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but in thinking about social media and how you should behave …

2020-05-01: Oh, dear. Here’s a piece advising SEOs to use fact check markup for marketing purposes. This is why …

2020-05-01: April in 32 seconds and 13 years So. That was April. It lasted just over 13 years, I only drove the car three times, and those were …

2020-05-01: The danger of valuing confidence over humility This is a really key insight in Ed Young’s superb piece The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This …

2020-05-01: That’s about as socially distanced as it gets.

2020-05-01: Lockdown skies.

2020-04-30: Moody sunset last night.

2020-04-28: Lockdown reasons to be cheerful… Some folks here on Shoreham Beach are being a lot more creative with lockdown than I’m …

2020-04-27: Me pre-lockdown: Do we even need a printer at home any more? Me in lockdown, and homeschooling: We …

2020-04-26: This fella dropped by while I was lounging in the garden.

2020-04-26: Current view.

2020-04-25: Our family lockdown exercise. I love these three so very much.

2020-04-25: Bluebells in the garden.

2020-04-25: If you give your article a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” I will not read it.

2020-04-23: I’ve got the perfect background for the next few Zoom meetings. Very professional, I think.

2020-04-23: When lockdown eases, which approach do you think companies will choose? Allow more remote working? …

2020-04-22: Consequences, consequences: WarnerMedia Is Rethinking Theatrical Release Model Huge TVs with good …

2020-04-22: Evidence, I think, that my daughters are handling this lockdown more productively than me. The worst …

2020-04-22: D-Nile Odd, odd 36 hours. It turns out that I was in emotional denial about how much the world has and will …

2020-04-21: Rough day - two bad pieces of news about two different projects means things are looking financially …

2020-04-21: Ballet class via Facebook Live.

2020-04-21: Agenda: Tuesday 21st April Difficult evening last night. I found it hard not to think about all the things that this situation …

2020-04-20: My weekend project was taking a moribund blog, exporting it, migrating it to a new platform and …

2020-04-20: Agenda: Monday 20th April Morning all, With at least three weeks to go before there’s any chance of easing this …

2020-04-19: Spectacular caterpillar nest in a tree.

2020-04-16: This is fascinating. Ash trees most likely to overcome killer disease if they stand alone: The …

2020-04-12: The Goodies helped define my humour and view of the world as a child. This makes me unspeakably sad: …

2020-04-11: Tonight I am transcoding an Easter Service video, produced remotely by multiple local households, …

2020-04-11: Prepping a video for the local church. Not how I expected to be using this kit…

2020-04-10: Here’s the big question on my mind: how does journalism survive the Covid-19 crisis? And I …

2020-04-09: Not walking with daddy.

2020-04-09: Dr Tinworth and I started watching The Mandalorian last night. OK, I now understand the fuss. It …

2020-04-09: Lovely 13th Doctor short story from ex-Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat: The Terror of the Umpty …

2020-04-09: Testing video setups is much harder when you actually have to share your home with the rest of the …

2020-04-08: Socially distanced martial arts classes begin…

2020-04-08: Funny how my plans for the year have now largely boiled down to: Don’t die. Don’t go …

2020-04-07: The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom has re-emerged with a blog and It is all about coronavirus …

2020-04-07: We can’t fight the big hiatus. So, we have to embrace it. Embrace the Pause: time to plan and …

2020-04-06: I have just remembered that once, a very long time ago, I drank whisky, smoked a cigar and chatted …

2020-04-05: Daily exercise.

2020-04-05: The speed with which some local folk have started demanding that martial law be imposed is quite, …

2020-04-04: Mum, Christmas day, 1983.

2020-04-04: Time-lapsing again.

2020-04-03: I’m gonna be really good at these motionlapses by the end of 🔒⬇️

2020-04-03: Life blossoming in the espalier trees.

2020-04-03: Nearly 14 years ago, then-French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy talked to the attendees at …

2020-04-02: I’m really enjoying the process of pulling together my daily distractions newsletter. Finding …

2020-04-02: And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.

2020-04-02: Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.

2020-04-02: Shooting random time lapses, because why not?

2020-04-01: Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home

2020-04-01: April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, …

2020-04-01: One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs …

2020-03-31: John Gruber: How to Open the Emoji Keyboard While Using a Hardware Keyboard on iPadOS But the …

2020-03-31: Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?

2020-03-30: Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty …

2020-03-29: Well, the quasi-lockdown in the UK is really good at showing up who are the selfish people in your …

2020-03-29: Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.

2020-03-29: So, today I corrected one small piece of misinformation about the government’s position, and got …

2020-03-29: We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists …

2020-03-29: How BBC Radio 4 is going to keep The Archers going during Coronavirus lockdown.

2020-03-28: One for the Blake’s 7 fans…

2020-03-28: Here I am in the Stockport Advertiser in July 8th 1976:

2020-03-28: Oh my, oh my.

2020-03-28: Oh, my.

2020-03-28: Blossom in the garden. Nature’s beauty continues, oblivious to our anxiety. And it is a balm for it, …

2020-03-28: Dear fellow journalists, It is not necessary to give every article an intro linking it to the …

2020-03-28: Is it right to be shopping online for non-essential goods right now? A good piece by Rachel Moss for …

2020-03-28: Where is the coronavirus information campaign? This is a good point in an otherwise rather run-of-the-mill “tutting at the tutters” …

2020-03-26: Clapping for the NHS in Shoreham-by-Sea.

2020-03-26: A new take on my Engaged Reading Time newsletter. 3 links a day. None of them about the coronavirus. …

2020-03-26: I’m slightly jealous of people who are dealing with lockdown boredom. Luckily, I still have enough …

2020-03-26: Consequences a’coming. Any way back from this? The Cornish revolt against second-home owners.

2020-03-26: This is a challenging read, that slowly brings me around to a position I never thought I’d hold: We …

2020-03-26: This morning: teacher Now: cook Afternoon: back to working Evening: 🥃 Repeat for an indefinite …

2020-03-24: Perfect timing for the quasi-lockdown: Disney+ is live in the uk

2020-03-24: Tuesday Yesterday was a good day. After a bleak start to the morning, I managed to find my mojo and buckle …

2020-03-23: There are times when I think one of the fastest ways to stop coronavirus misinformation spreading …

2020-03-23: A quick history of technology lesson - now the girls understand why the return key is called the …

2020-03-23: Computing lessons with Mr Tinworth. The pupils are learning that there’s more to iPads than games.

2020-03-23: Currently staring at a newly-arrived “while you were out" card from a delivery company. I mean, …

2020-03-23: Monday I do find myself wondering about the long-term mental health implications of this crisis. …

2020-03-22: Well played, Beach Deli. Well played.

2020-03-22: Highly socially distanced beach walk. Hoping the idiots who are carrying on as normal don’t take …

2020-03-21: A Tory rebellion for the self-employed? 10 Days That Changed Britain: There is a growing Tory backbench rebellion on the lack of measures …

2020-03-21: That’s one way of social distancing.

2020-03-21: Doing Brownies at home.

2020-03-21: Not one of my better timed recent purchases…

2020-03-21: “Does anybody remember the old days, the days before, when we used to have coffee shops and pubs, …

2020-03-20: Looks like the whiteboard has arrived - ready to start delivering courses remotely.

2020-03-20: Look, I know the world doesn’t need more “how to work from home" pieces. But I wrote mine …

2020-03-20: Every gamer who is now working from home and video conferencing is feeling very smug about their …

2020-03-20: Just saw my daughters off to school for the last time for the foreseeable future. Homeschooling from …

2020-03-19: At this difficult time, I would like to reassure everybody that, for the sake of the nation’s — nay, …

2020-03-19: All respect to the Debenhams marketing team for giving it everything they’ve got in this …

2020-03-19: ‘Conan’ To Air New Shows Beginning March 30 – shot in his iPhone: ”The new shows will be shot …

2020-03-18: Has anyone seen any reporting on how the anti-vaxxer communities are reacting to the pandemic?

2020-03-18: So, I’d like to apologise for wishing to spend more time with my family, whilst holding the monkey …

2020-03-18: Why Coronavirus social distancing is negatively impacting social media content moderation.

2020-03-18: Facebook’s moderation problems last night - what you need to know.

2020-03-18: This is a sobering, but thoughtful, read: We’re not going back to normal. No, I don’t …

2020-03-17: Twitter’s role in a time of global pandemic,

2020-03-17: How do you cope with losing half your income in a matter of weeks? I’m struggling tonight, as I read about the people who are looking at this period of social …

2020-03-17: My daughters are currently in the bath pretending to be antibodies attacking a virus as it binds to …

2020-03-17: Video from my wife of Victoria Station this morning at around 10am. She estimates it was 80% quieter …

2020-03-17: Supermarket delivery is being overwhelmed Lewis Dormer: 25% of UK shoppers polled by RetailX have reduced or completely stopped shopping …

2020-03-17: Hard to disagree with the last line of this, although I hope we’ll see better behaviour, too.

2020-03-17: Behaviour change is hard. But if we don’t evolve - we suffer the consequences.

2020-03-17: Social distancing at my local coffee shop.

2020-03-16: I have no words for this: The UK Only Realised “In The Last Few Days” That Its …

2020-03-16: Well, things are getting a little, um, motivating. I’m self-employed, and make the major part …

2020-03-15: Good day on the hagstone front.

2020-03-15: Rustic.

2020-03-14: My January in one second everyday. (I always seem to be playing catch-up with these.)

2020-03-14: Pleased with this one. The print is long gone - it was in display in a photo cube and was bleached …

2020-03-13: So. After supper Iris gets down, grumbling a bit. And then sits in the corner assiduously writing. …

2020-03-13: Reporting on COVID-19. Trying to amplify signal, not noise.

2020-03-12: Let this destress you in the midst of the current mess: A Joyful Flash Mob Plays Beethoven’s …

2020-03-12: So, based on what is emerging from my scanner as I work, I was quite a cute toddler. Unexpected.

2020-03-12: Scanning 126 and 110 format negatives with a Plustek OpticFilm scanner I’ve been taking photographs for a long time. I was a photographer as a primary school child, …

2020-03-12: This is one of the best and most measured pieces I’ve read on Coronavirus (from a scientist): Rupert …

2020-03-11: Hidden in the UK budget - the government will levy an additional 2% tax on social media companies, …

2020-03-11: I worry that coffee shops (and elsewhere) now refusing to let customers use reusable cups because of …

2020-03-11: A London hairdresser marketing its way through Coronavirus.

2020-03-11: Om Malik on how social networks lose our trust.. Thought-provoking.

2020-03-10: Cleaning up negative scans in Photoshop on my iPad is quite soothing.

2020-03-09: Rather concerning, if not surprising piece: Russia ‘hired network of Britons to go after …

2020-03-09: ‪Britain is currently split between those buying every roll of toilet paper in sight, and those who …

2020-03-09: Well, the course I was running today may have been cancelled (yes, Coronavirus-related), but the …

2020-03-09: Hard to disagree with this one: Quote of the Day

2020-03-07: Well, the panic buying is clearly still happening. This is Waitrose in Worthing a few hours ago - …

2020-03-07: Post-Nature Tots babychino from the Woods Mill café.

2020-03-07: Morning in the woods.

2020-03-06: Oh, fabulous. Coronavirus means we’re back to disposable coffee cups: Starbucks Will No Longer …

2020-03-06: This is a rather concerning piece from over the pond: ‘It’s Going to End in Death’: Doctors Say U.K. …

2020-03-05: It’s fun looking back on my old “blogiversary" posts - like this one from 11 years ago, …

2020-03-05: Well, now. One Man & His Blog is 17 years old today. That’s astonishing. It’s …

2020-03-04: Oil consumption just fell off a cliff…

2020-03-03: After school beach club.

2020-03-03: Beach mental health break.

2020-03-03: Could the coronavirus be a globalisation inflection point? Maybe. If we want it to be.

2020-03-03: I have managed quarter of a century as a journalist without hearing the phrase “fronted …

2020-03-03: Children in school. Bird food topped up. Dishwasher on. Coffee made. Dammit. It’s time to do …

2020-03-02: I do wonder if the double-whammy of the climate crisis and the coronavirus might make us think a …

2020-03-02: David Allen Green’s characterisation of us entering “Brexit: Season 2" is a useful one, I …

2020-03-02: Actual interview with actual scientist for those who are overwhelmed by inexpert hot takes on …

2020-03-01: Spectacular sunset as storm clouds approached this evening.

2020-03-01: This made me chuckle:

2020-03-01: Sea still lively in the wake of the storm.

2020-02-29: Craig Mod, in his Roden newsletter: “What I find most dangerous about Twitter is that it can …

2020-02-29: Trees and the climate crisis The trouble with trees: I do worry, however, that a destructively naive view of nature and a rush …

2020-02-27: I was doing some site analysis for a client, when it occurred to me that I’d never registered …

2020-02-27: The government just made us look untrustworthy on the world stage The Law and Policy Blog, David Allen Green: The moral hazard of the United Kingdom casually …

2020-02-26: Interesting piece from The Atlantic suggesting that the coronavirus is likely to join the cold and …

2020-02-26: This is an absolutely fantastic essay on how fragile the cultural works created on the web have …

2020-02-25: Nic Tinworth, Hong Kong trail community legend, dies aged 44. This is sad news. Nic and I were …

2020-02-22: Well, this is troubling. ¼ of all climate crisis tweets appear to be generated by bots - and 95% of …

2020-02-21: A day of exploring with my girls. Making progress on a long walk.

2020-02-21: This post by Euan Semple, which is an expression of moral relativism (or adjacet to it, at least), …

2020-02-20: Brexit consequences: Google moving UK data to the US - where data protections are weaker.

2020-02-18: Polarisation wears an unexpected face in today’s Engaged Reading Digest.

2020-02-18: Iris is having an artistic moment.

2020-02-17: Kinda struggling to believe that Facebook can’t afford enough developers to do an iPad app.

2020-02-16: Looks like Storm Dennis has abated enough that the kite surfers are heading out again.

2020-02-15: This is a fascinating, and troubling, German investigation into the way corporations are funnelling …

2020-02-15: The girls appear unimpressed by my efforts to get them to go for a walk in the face of Storm Dennis

2020-02-15: A new town, alone and on foot Martin Belam, on the joys of travelling to see his team play an away game: I also think there’s …

2020-02-15: Podcasting the great outdoors - one of the ways I try to disconnect from work over the weekend.

2020-02-14: Spotify is trying to become podcasting’s gatekeeper. We musn’t let them.

2020-02-14: I’m pleased with this one, winding up our VUCA series for NEXT Conference: Embrace ambiguity …

2020-02-14: Riders on the shore.

2020-02-13: My major lesson this year so far is that the right new coat can do wonders for your self-image. Good …

2020-02-13: Watching the boats on the Adur rise as high tide approaches.

2020-02-13: Whatever happened to Yahoo’s digital time capsule? Marie Boran asks if everyone has forgotten about Yahoo’s digital time capsule?: This was to be …

2020-02-12: This video might challenge your ideas of what you can do with an iPad: Editing Podcasts with Ferrite …

2020-02-12: The psychology behind Boris's war on the media Nick Cohen on why Boris Johnson is so suspicious of the media: I suspect there is a strong element …

2020-02-12: This is absolutely one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about most newsletter software. It …

2020-02-11: Plain old driftwood.

2020-02-11: The information ecosystem is badly polluted — and journalism is playing its part. We need to clean …

2020-02-11: Great newsletter from David Mattin on the creation of the technocratic elite. This is shaping up to …

2020-02-10: Beach sign

2020-02-10: The (brief) time we decided to share the beach with Storm Ciara yesterday…

2020-02-10: Rob Beschizza: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety …

2020-02-10: Actually getting out of the house to work – it’s far too rare at the moment.

2020-02-10: After Ciara This was the garden at 8am this morning, after the worst of Storm Ciara had passed: Not too bad, …

2020-02-10: Typical Medium post: “I’ve never been married, but I’ve spend 20 minutes with a search engine, and …

2020-02-09: Gotta say, it’s a bit breezy out today…

2020-02-08: A letter of recommendation. Great as ever.

2020-02-08: Mac photo editor Luminar 4 Sends Data to Facebook in the Background by Default. I’m glad I stopped …

2020-02-07: Laterns above the Adur

2020-02-07: Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for …

2020-02-06: Beach plant. One of the nice things about Shoreham Beach is that, as a protected and rare habitat, …

2020-02-05: Gnome Hide

2020-02-05: Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked…

2020-02-05: The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of …

2020-02-05: A new report on UK news consumption during the general election shows that many of the things we …

2020-02-04: Reading some embargoed research - and it is basically 😱. Huge shift to the way I think about .

2020-02-04: Spot the children’s beginning reading book.

2020-02-04: Volunteers needed.

2020-02-04: TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.

2020-02-04: Y’know, normally I mourn layoffs at a content website. But I’ll make an exception for The Daily …

2020-02-03: Reflect.

2020-02-03: Russell Davies always does such creative One Second Everydays: January 2020

2020-02-02: Sight.

2020-02-01: Open.

2020-01-31: I’ve never come across any device that’s better for writing on than an iPad. There might be a big …

2020-01-30: Unsplash’s Year in Review makes for fascinating reading - and the images are stunning.

2020-01-29: Well, this is one way of dealing with it: The Daily Dot, Nahila Bonfiglio: Influencer gets revenge …

2020-01-27: On my Om, Om Malik: iPad at 10. An affair forever: ”And after so many years, I can confidently say …

2020-01-26: The great unsolved mystery of the last 22 years: we still don’t know what she gonna look like with a …

2020-01-23: I don’t tend to procrastinate on difficult tasks. It’s the boring, repetitive ones I put off …

2020-01-22: Finally started watching Halt and Catch Fire. I now want to listen to a lot of 80s music. 📺

2020-01-21: Took a riverside walk today. It’s a good reminder that Shoreham-by-Sea is still very much a working …

2020-01-20: Sunset silhouettes.

2020-01-20: This is rather lovely, too. Classic on the outside, modern on the inside: John Pawson designs his …

2020-01-20: This is an excellent set of suggestion of how to write a better newsletter.

2020-01-20: Good Lord, this is a lovely house: Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water

2020-01-19: Shell game.

2020-01-19: Lovely hagstone find on the beach just now.

2020-01-19: Hagstones - the sea’s beautiful gift for the mindful.

2020-01-18: 💕

2020-01-18: Flickr’s goals for 2020.

2020-01-16: What the actual f***?: Well-heeled climate deniers are buying Youtube ads on major brands' videos …

2020-01-16: I’m not a great one for making too much of New Year, but it is a great marker for doing some …

2020-01-15: Brighton, from Shoreham Beach.

2020-01-15: Quite a day, down on the beach… <img …

2020-01-13: My old employer — RBI — has all but completed its exit from journalism. Its answer to the problem of …

2020-01-12: Guess how this ended…

2020-01-12: The house in the woods.

2020-01-11: Oh, Lord. I just tried to swipe to scroll a print magazine. 🤦🏼‍♂️

2020-01-11: I’m pleased with this for 49p.

2020-01-10: I feel seen: Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again

2020-01-10: What’s the best thing you’ve read online this week?

2020-01-09: Lies, damn lies and Facebook metrics. The network’s inflated video views killed College Humour, …

2020-01-09: Vimeo appears to have a new social video creation tool in beta: vimeo.com/create

2020-01-09: Just occasionally, bad things happen to bad people in an amusing enough manner to give you faith in …

2020-01-08: OK. This is… quite a story: The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a …

2020-01-08: Newsletters are a particularly brutal medium. You put in the work, craft something you are proud of …

2020-01-08: Yes, please: A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)

2020-01-08: I’m trying something new - triggered because I couldn’t get this stuff in my usual links digest if …

2020-01-08: Headline of the day: It’s Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons

2020-01-08: There’s a slug on the kitchen window this morning. Our kitchen is in the first floor. I can’t decide …

2020-01-07: Dry January? I’ll drink to that… 🥃

2020-01-07: This week has given us a rather ominous look into the future of political #journalism: Dominic …

2020-01-07: Why aren't we taking Australia's bushfire apocalypse more seriously? David Wallace-Wells: But the response to what’s transpired in Australia — again, over a period that …

2020-01-07: If you haven’t been paying attention to just how massive the bushfire crisis is in Australia, …

2020-01-07: Oooooh, Matron… Operio collection by Dead Lotus Couture aims to put latex “in every wardrobe”.

2020-01-07: Good morning waves.

2020-01-06: Journalism's Facebook narrative Dave Winer on journalism’s narrative around Facebook: Saying online is dangerous is like …

2020-01-06: The scam of pseudo-attention metrics Seth Godin: Part of the scam is that the pyramid scheme of attention will somehow pay off for a lot …

2020-01-06: It is quite remarkable that one of the biggest things to happen in UK politics so far this year… is …

2020-01-06: Who broke journalism? Om Malik: ”I would like to add that greedy and short-sighted executives and media company owners …

2020-01-06: Consume Better — recommendations from the team at Hamburg’s NEXT conference (including myself) …

2020-01-06: It’s well-known that women are under-represented amongst both Wikipedia editors and …

2020-01-05: I’ve reached my daily reading goal on Apple Books. I’m using it to try to push myself to spend …

2020-01-05: Currently reading: Why Willows Weep: Contemporary Tales from the Woods. Enjoyable short fables about …

2020-01-05: Found on the beach this morning. Someone’s feeling patriotic, clearly.

2020-01-04: Bridge.

2020-01-04: Sunset on the Adur.

2020-01-04: Buckle up. Here we go again: Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of …

2020-01-04: I included this photo in my latest Engaged Reading Digest because I like it so much. It’s very …

2020-01-03: Wow. The memory cheats sometimes. I tend to think of my early years in editorial development as …

2020-01-03: My children have finally discovered the ability to sleep in… …2 days before they go back to school. …

2020-01-02: I have learnt more about video encoding and transcoding in the last three months than I expected to.

2020-01-01: Is it me, or is Gruber a bit pissed (in the British sense) in the latest Talk Show? 🥴

2020-01-01: My December in one second every day.

2020-01-01: Starting the year as I mean to go on: The first Engaged Reading Digest of 2020

2019-12-31: Happy New Year, you. Yes, you.

2019-12-31: The year is done — so it’s time from my annual round-up of One Man & His Blog’s top 10 posts of …

2019-12-31: I have reached the point in coffee fussiness where, after being disappointed with a coffee when …

2019-12-31: The people’s web could be so much more interesting than the big F Anil Dash on the people’s web: If we’re going to build a new web, and a new internet, that …

2019-12-31: Quite a sunset yesterday.

2019-12-30: Interesting thoughts on flow in blogging apps (the same applies to all CMSes, I think): Scripting …

2019-12-30: If you still believe that there’s a discernible formula to a successful podcast: Text …

2019-12-30: Germany Has Created Dedicated Work Visas For Esports. (I’m fascinated by how few countries are …

2019-12-30: Somebody’s turned down the contrast on Sussex.

2019-12-29: Plenty of drama in the sky off Shoreham Beach today.

2019-12-29: Are we sleepwalking into a dystopia? The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we …

2019-12-26: Headline of the day: Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono

2019-12-26: Perfect weather for trying out my Christmas coat…

2019-12-25: Practice ‘scruffy hospitality’ : Your home doesn’t need to be picture-perfect to …

2019-12-25: Merry Christmas from one man (and his blog).

2019-12-24: Just an intimate dinner for a few chums, wot.

2019-12-24: A very Victorian Christmas at Tyntsfield.

2019-12-22: Why we need to feel the photos

2019-12-21: I think this bauble crop is nearly ready for harvesting.

2019-12-20: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better …

2019-12-19: Oooh, my sister-in-law is in Vouge.

2019-12-19: Heh. One unforeseen side-effect of having a newsletter - you get to see who is already on their …

2019-12-17: As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre …

2019-12-16: Newsletters are beginning to over-whelm my in-box. Time to try out Feedbin’s ability to …

2019-12-16: This is a really interesting view from inside the BBC: GE19 - from the presenter’s chair.

2019-12-15: I found my parents’ old tree angel, so she’s back in service after a decade off.

2019-12-14: This is a useful read: What does the future hold for progressive politics after the Conservative …

2019-12-13: Andrew Sullivan’s profile of the newly-elected PM from last week is worth revisiting in light of …

2019-12-13: Great analysis from the FT data team: last night, Labour lost the working class.

2019-12-13: Three questions about the UK’s journalism and social media landscape after the General …

2019-12-13: I think this is an interesting read. To hold the seats they took this election, the Tories will have …

2019-12-12: God, there are times when I hate being right. This really is one of them. Everyone blames algorithms …

2019-12-12: Tonight I will be staying up for the exit poll and no longer. I want to face whatever tomorrow …

2019-12-12: Hard to disagree with this. If only he’d been on the ballot…

2019-12-12: Toxic It says something about the toxic state of British politics that I recorded a podcast about my …

2019-12-12: I have a nasty feeling that in 20 years’ time, our children will be asking why we wasted so much …

2019-12-11: Here’s an inspiring fella: The beach clean-up crusader

2019-12-11: A round-up of some of the big misinformation stories surrounding the general election.

2019-12-11: Lovely morning down by the Adur.

2019-12-09: Worrying side-effect of the internet ban there: people’s social media accounts are dropping to …

2019-12-08: Winter beach.

2019-12-08: Paint the whole world with a 🌈

2019-12-08: Beach walk.

2019-12-07: My November in one second everyday.

2019-12-06: Making the most of a blustery day on the beach.

2019-12-05: Making nature routine.

2019-12-05: My daughter won the school limerick competition. I’m trying not to literally explode with pride - …

2019-12-05: Revolution Games, David Vaughan-Jackson: Beyond a Steel Sky – Release Update Always disappointing …

2019-12-05: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest is all about the memes - but not in a fun way. (Bonus Baby Yoda …

2019-12-05: A pretty brutal examination of cancel culture, the psychological motivators, and its inherently …

2019-12-05: Chilling tale of how an ordinary teenager can be progressively radicalised by… memes. And people …

2019-12-04: Compelling — and troubling — dive into the weaponisation of memes.

2019-12-04: After school beach trips - not just for the summer!

2019-12-04: Yesterday, the Reuters Institute published some research into podcasting and journalism. …

2019-12-02: Frost hit last night. I think autumn is done and winter is here. ❄️

2019-12-01: Festive holly.

2019-12-01: My Podcast playlist for Sundays has the best episode names.

2019-11-30: Finally, the coveted micro.blog 30 day pin is mine.

2019-11-30: There’s nothing better than a nice, fussy way of making your coffee…

2019-11-30: Satisfaction is Always Available

2019-11-29: Shoreham’s looking festive tonight.

2019-11-29: I back the Contract for the Web because the vast potential of it for humanity is being undermined by …

2019-11-28: Abstaining From Social Media Doesn’t Improve Well-Being, Experimental Study Finds - a relief for …

2019-11-28: Spam of the Beast

2019-11-27: Now, that was a tiring couple of days.

2019-11-26: Canary Wharf was starting to look festive earlier.

2019-11-25: The mere existence of deepfakes is eroding our sense of shared reality - even if we’ve never …

2019-11-25: The need for deliberative digital spaces Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020 - Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian: Facebook, …

2019-11-25: (Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the …

2019-11-25: Fascinating interview with a Mastadon founder. A little glimpse of how the internet could have been …

2019-11-25: There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on …

2019-11-24: Autumn mist.

2019-11-23: Lovely Autumn day in Shoreham-by-Sea - between the rain, at least.

2019-11-22: Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under” 🤯

2019-11-22: Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts.

2019-11-22: A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.

2019-11-22: Wow. Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert. I am happy to say I …

2019-11-22: This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is …

2019-11-21: opens Twitter reads for 2 minutes goes to bed despairing of humanity 🛌💤

2019-11-21: It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody …

2019-11-21: Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I …

2019-11-21: This may be the most perfect Star Wars image ever.

2019-11-20: Do you want Hulks, universe? Because this is how you get Hulks: Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever …

2019-11-19: Honestly, the British retro gaming scene appears to be one big old cesspool.

2019-11-19: New iOS and iPadOS bug fix update hit last night, if you missed it: MacUser, Jason Cross: Apple …

2019-11-18: Fingers crossed that I am on the final stage of a difficult evening, and will be home for a whisky …

2019-11-17: Memex 1.1, John Naughton: Foresight, ignored — the founders of Google foresaw the possiblity of …

2019-11-16: I was initially excited when I found this site for Sussex bloggers, because it felt very like the …

2019-11-15: Computational photography raises some serious questions about the nature of reality, and how we …

2019-11-15: Phones and Tablets are killing the PC Steve Jobs Was Right: Smartphones and Tablets Killed the P.C.: Apple’s latest iPads are different. …

2019-11-14: What’s the go-to iOS Mastadon client these days?

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2019-11-13: Some links that are worth your time - from the psychology of social media outrage, to a celebration …

2019-11-13: My top artists on Apple Music in 2019. I’m not a raging brony. It’s my daughters. …

2019-11-13: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 16” MacBook Pro - and they appear to have fixed the keyboard - by …

2019-11-13: An interesting read for those interested in the psychology of social media: BPS Research Digest: The …

2019-11-12: I’ll be very sad if this proves to be true. I started becoming serious about photography once I had …

2019-11-12: For those of you on devices that support it, and are in the right time zone, One Man & His Blog …

2019-11-12: Yo dawg we heard you like Moodle so we put some Moodle in your Moodle so you can Moodle while you …

2019-11-12: How to fix your Twitter timeline using this one clever trick…

2019-11-12: This is kind of awesome: turning old VHS cassettes into clothes…

2019-11-11: I’ve been fiddling around with my Ghost templates, and now fixed it so that comments only show on …

2019-11-11: This is a wonderful read from a couple of years ago: What Richard Dawkins could learn from …

2019-11-10: Beautiful Remembrance service at Church of the Good Shepherd this morning. The two minutes’ silence …

2019-11-10: Naked trees.

2019-11-09: Funghi at Woods Mill.

2019-11-09: Today at Woods Mill. The dirty secret? This was four adults…

2019-11-08: Adur sunset

2019-11-07: Before and after.

2019-11-06: Well, that was possibly the lowest key birthday I’ve had in my 40-something years on the …

2019-11-06: If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it …

2019-11-06: Nice piece from the BBC breaking down how a fact became misinformation through omitted context, and …

2019-11-05: Imagination Unbound (video) This is an interesting watch, and visually inspiring in its own right:

2019-11-05: I did not know this: Why Saying “Namaste” is Culturally Insensitive and NOT Just a Yoga Term.

2019-11-05: Mean Yes, I know that this was yesterday’s prompt, but I didn’t get to it (even though I …

2019-11-05: OK, the app became garbage, but I do miss having something called iTunes on my Mac. It was such an …

2019-11-04: Possibly the least surprising thing Dave could write about JsonFeed. And the fact I remember the …

2019-11-04: Nothing suspicious about this at all. Nope: No 10 blocks Russia EU referendum report until after …

2019-11-04: Well, hello Photoshop on iPad.

2019-11-03: “Media style” 🤔

2019-11-03: Lordy. Pac-Man Gets An Official Theme Song for 40th Anniversary It’s called - wait for it - Join The …

2019-11-03: Such a beautiful crisp, autumn morning, with a lovely “after the storm” feel.

2019-11-03: Beautifully peaceful with plenty of birdsong at the station this morning.

2019-11-02: Spending the day liveblogging Open Data Camp 7 in London.

2019-11-02: Stickered up for the day.

2019-11-02: Early start to London. Not what you’d call busy at the station.

2019-11-01: Pretty much her idea of heaven.

2019-10-31: Four witches, a cat and a vampire just left my house, to demand sweets with menaces. 🎃

2019-10-31: Happy Halloween!

2019-10-31: The digital is inescapably political. It’s time to accept that.

2019-10-30: Breakfast of champions

2019-10-29: OMG. Otter emoji. 🦦

2019-10-29: Hello flamingo! 🦩 (New emoji in iOS 13.2)

2019-10-29: Lovely sight to start the morning.

2019-10-28: Weird. My big iPad Pro took much, much longer than any other device to update to 13.2.

2019-10-28: Oh, hello. iOS 13.2 is here. Time to update ALL THE THINGS again. (Including HomePods and AppleTV.)

2019-10-27: Still a few traces of summer in an autumnal morning.

2019-10-26: Through the library window.

2019-10-26: Gotta say, my old school friend the artist is pretty fancy these days…

2019-10-25: Nice to have company for my daughters’ martial arts class.

2019-10-22: Ghost 3.0 has just launched - and it’s got built in tools for building a membership site for …

2019-10-21: I apologise to the affront to your ears, but I’m on a podcast: [Micro Monday - 70: Adam Tinworth aka …

2019-10-21: Well, now, what say you people of micro.blog? Scott asked: Although, does anyone use feed readers …

2019-10-21: This is an engrosssing podcast about the early days of raptor reintroduction in Scotland. We’ve come …

2019-10-21: Crikey. I wrote this 11 years ago - and it’s still as relevant now: “Interesting” is the basis …

2019-10-21: Not only is 8chan struggling to get back online — its co-founder is actively working to keep it that …

2019-10-21: Either this gentleman doesn’t understand One Man & His Blog’s audience - or I don’t…

2019-10-20: Autumn mist Distinctly misty and autumnal at Lancing College this morning.

2019-10-18: I think it’s fair to say that today’s weather has been changeable…

2019-10-18: Inktober is one of my favourite “internet challenges”. It fills my feeds with such interesting …

2019-10-18: This is the sort of thing that happened more often in the pre-platform days of the internet: A Free …

2019-10-18: Biorecycling plastics with enzymes Carbios' new factory will use enzymes to biorecycle plastic: In a matter of hours, the enzymes …

2019-10-18: Oh, this is so cool: Grad student defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection …

2019-10-18: These are absolutely stunning. Well worth checking out: John James Audubon’s Birds of America

2019-10-18: The reason to study Latin Report: Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life:: “According to …

2019-10-17: Take some time to listen to Birdsong Radio today - and consider how much poorer we’ll all be if we …

2019-10-16: I know it’s fashionable to diss HomePods, but they are hugely popular in the Tinworth household.

2019-10-16: Oh, good work to whomever wrote that headline: Government scraps online ‘porn block’ …

2019-10-16: Yahoo Groups is shutting down. Wow. The history of a lot of great early online communities is about …

2019-10-15: Marvel Shocker: Kevin Feige Takes Over Comics as New Chief Creative Officer. Wow. The movies guy is …

2019-10-15: Oh, look. Yet another round of iOS updates.

2019-10-15: RIP Meetup. $2 per RSVP will kill the platform stone dead.

2019-10-15: Good Lord, I suspect that this is only going to increase the determination of the rebels: Police ban …

2019-10-15: New GoPro day…

2019-10-15: This was a fantastic session by Eliza Filby from NEXT conference last month, looking at the …

2019-10-15: One positive thing about Catalina: I can open the Music app without it bringing my Mac to its knees. …

2019-10-15: Not something I’d considered before - but accurate: The Delicate Nature of Comparing Smartphone …

2019-10-14: Fascinating bit of tech nostalgia: This is How Film Cameras Added Dates to Your Photos:

2019-10-13: Now, that’s a sunset.

2019-10-13: Why blogging still matters, even after 25 years:: “The furore over social media and its …

2019-10-12: O RLY?

2019-10-12: “Oh, God, don’t upgrade to Catalaina if you want to keep using our software” has been a recurring …

2019-10-11: A round-up of some of the research: Social media and depression

2019-10-11: YouTubers: more influential than newspapers What Does PewDiePie Really Believe? A few weeks after the Poway shooting, Kjellberg’s publicist …

2019-10-11: Finally caught up: August in one second everyday.

2019-10-11: I think, after seven years, I might finally be getting the hang of Moodle.

2019-10-11: Today's link to make you snort coffee out of your nose Crazy Apple Rumors Site, John Moltz: Apple Revokes Panic Developer License: Gesturing to a video of …

2019-10-11: Facebook builds the wall Manton Reece: Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting/ Facebook is walling its properties ever …

2019-10-11: The new Catalyst-based Twitter for Mac is out.

2019-10-10: Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina. Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop …

2019-10-09: Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one: “Regardless, …

2019-10-09: What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.

2019-10-08: Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the …

2019-10-08: Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go. And remember: Ceiling Cat …

2019-10-08: Someone set us up the bomb.

2019-10-07: After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the …

2019-10-07: Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?

2019-10-06: Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?

2019-10-05: Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this …

2019-10-04: Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.

2019-10-04: Here we go again: Amazon Prime Video disappears from iOS App Store and Apple TV

2019-10-04: Who knew that The Wurzels covered Pulp’s Common People?

2019-10-04: Oh, my…

2019-10-04: Ah, the 70s.

2019-10-04: Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.

2019-10-04: Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted. Musk’s a …

2019-10-04: Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work: Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App …

2019-10-04: This is a sobering watch. The plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you.

2019-10-04: “What’s the angle we should take on this Facebook story?” “I know! Agism!” 🙄 You Are Probably Too …

2019-10-03: Last month in one second per day.

2019-10-03: Hey, there’s an IndieWebCamp in Brighton later in the month. Need to see if I can arrange to …

2019-10-03: This morning’s fun game: where has my wife hidden my aeropress?

2019-10-02: Interesting academic analysis of the bizarre, disproportionate response some men have to her: …

2019-10-02: I am surprised by how quiet this university is at 9am compared to later in the day. I shouldn’t be. …

2019-10-01: Well, I’m very tempted by this: Gizmodo, Andrew Couts: GoPro’s Hero8 Black Is Boring—and …

2019-10-01: Not often I look back on conference food with affection - but the NEXT conference lunch bowls were …

2019-09-30: Seriously high tides here yesterday. How much higher will they go today?

2019-09-29: A tense moment at fairy hospital: will Vidia fly again?

2019-09-29: Super high tide again today.

2019-09-29: I think this is my favourite of the new watch faces in WatchOS 6.

2019-09-28: Portrait mode on the iPhone X: still a winner.

2019-09-27: Back to the 80s Very much today’s mood:

2019-09-26: Protecting yourself from social media jealousy Julia Buckley: Most of the advice I’ve seen on the issue of comparisons has been around the fact …

2019-09-26: Om Malik: Headline hyperbole & article without info

2019-09-26: Happy news for me and the other blog platform I routinely use: iPadOS and Ghost

2019-09-26: Early days yet - but iPadOS 13.1 may well have ensured that my MacBook Pro doesn’t get replaced. I …

2019-09-26: My perfect travel companion Oh, Lordy. I need this: Luckily my birthday is coming up soon… [via Boing Boing]

2019-09-26: A week ago, I saw a badger on my way to the airport. Thinking about it is still making me happy.

2019-09-24: Yes, iOS13.1 is out (including iPadOS). Go get it, brave folks…

2019-09-24: Deep breath…

2019-09-23: A little editing on the sofa, using LumaFusion and my iPad Pro. Soooo nice.

2019-09-23: This is one of the features of iOS13 I’m really looking forwards to having. But I’m …

2019-09-23: This is utterly glorious film photography geekery: New Website Sets the Record Straight: There is No …

2019-09-23: Saving this to read later.

2019-09-23: Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza: Disney almost bought Twitter but backed off because “the nastiness is …

2019-09-21: My spirit animal is Benton Fraser from Due South. Thank you kindly.

2019-09-21: Normal for Next. :-)

2019-09-21: Okay.

2019-09-21: I often think that the most dangerous phrase in the English language is “it’s simple”.

2019-09-20: Current status: 🍷 🛋 🇩🇪

2019-09-20: Today’s workspace at #next19

2019-09-20: This end of Reeperbahn is a bit whiffy at 8am.

2019-09-19: Feeling very much like waiting for iOS13.1 next week, rather than risking my phone on iOS13 right in …

2019-09-19: Current status:

2019-09-19: The first 20 minutes of #NEXT19 in 20 seconds

2019-09-19: What’s outside our universe? A thought-provoking talk to kick off #NEXT19

2019-09-15: Lovely sunny day today - but Wednesday was a different story.

2019-09-14: Such a fungi to spend the morning with. 🍄

2019-09-14: Fabulous day for Nature Tots.

2019-09-13: Fascinating. I didn’t realise Pinterest did monthly updates on trends across the platform.

2019-09-13: What you need to know about yesterday’s Google algorithm news (if you’re a journalist).

2019-09-12: I think that was the first newsletter to my paying members I was really, really happy with. Now to …

2019-09-12: Nature: How social networks can be used to bias votes This is rapidly becoming an existential issue …

2019-09-12: This is quite a big point too many journalists miss: Media Literacy will not create trust in …

2019-09-10: The only thing from that keynote I’m 100% getting: Apple Arcade. Might get a new watch… strap. Might …

2019-09-10: That trade-in price for my iPhone X makes that tempting.

2019-09-10: Wasn’t expecting the always on Apple Watch. Nice upgrade.

2019-09-10: I have two very excited little girls who have just seen the Apple Arcade trailer. Good price for the …

2019-09-10: Here’s one great reason to love the DJi Osmo Mobile 3 if you’re involved in social video production:

2019-09-10: Scrummy blue skies today.

2019-09-10: Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.

2019-09-09: Treating myself to a nice aeropress coffee after my wet and windy walk. ☕️

2019-09-09: Oops.

2019-09-09: Jane Manchum Wong ”It appears to me that Medium wants to double as a Reader app in an experiment. …

2019-09-09: Having the sort of day where I write what I thought were two thoughtful and useful posts, and the …

2019-09-09: Politicians love presenting us with apparently simple solutions to complex problems. It’s …

2019-09-09: Does journalism have an understanding problem? (tl;dr - yes!)

2019-09-09: Since the end of my days as RBI’s head of blogging, I don’t really get much change to …

2019-09-08: Trying something new: Walking With Daddy

2019-09-08: A year or so back I won an XBox One S. What games would you recommend for me, as a very lapsed …

2019-09-07: Some stunning flowers at Nymans today.

2019-09-07: I made this!

2019-09-07: Messy drinker.

2019-09-06: In a Pub in Fowey Eating dinner by the sea - how very civilised. In a Pub in Fowey

2019-09-06: Not what it looks like

2019-09-06: “If it bleeds, it leads" as a central organising principle for news reporting might be one of …

2019-09-05: “Of course you can wear whatever you want to my wedding, sister”. And she did.

2019-09-05: I have no idea what to make of this: Tinworth Iced Tea

2019-09-05: Six Colors, Jason Snell: The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that. Agreed. I …

2019-09-04: A walk through the blogging graveyard Moving from Feedly to @NetNewsWire via Feedbin has been largely a positive experience. The one …

2019-09-04: This looks spectacularly lovely - but is waaaaay out of my price range: Bang 8 Olufsen unveils …

2019-09-04: The traditional camera bloodbath is here, it appears. On my Om, Om Malik: PhotoRealism

2019-09-04: Wow. Fell behind on these. Here’s July - over a months ago - in 1 Second Everyday.

2019-09-04: Look at this. A blog post with actual comments. That takes me back…

2019-09-04: Today’s Engaged Reading Digest - chat apps in protests, how the internet is changing our …

2019-09-04: This is why I carry on blogging.

2019-09-04: Understatement of the day: ”It’s almost seven years, now, since David Cameron decided that an EU …

2019-09-03: Interesting, but not transformative. It’ll help with the mental heath issues around social …

2019-09-03: Unintended consequence of the day: Wild popularity of CBD forces Christian bookseller to rebrand

2019-09-03: My lunch meeting has arrived.

2019-09-03: Working in the M&S Café while my wife and daughter do some final school shopping. I am getting …

2019-09-03: The slow erosion of the democratic norm Rachel Sylvester makes an important point in The Times: Democracy is about persuasion rather than …

2019-09-02: It’s been a long time since these two shared a spot in my dock together.

2019-09-02: Spending a lot of time in spreadsheets today. Not something that happens a lot in my work, but …

2019-08-31: Don’t look now folks, but I think autumn might be here…

2019-08-30: A nice reminder that blogging was always a complicated and often unpleasant community. Shakesville’s …

2019-08-30: Does anyone else use FeedBin? Considering trialing a switch from Feedly - but would like some …

2019-08-29: This is a fascinating theory (based on a source) on why Apple’s sudden change in beta releases …

2019-08-28: Prorogue — or prorogation?

2019-08-28: Well the good news is that a lot of people have a much deeper understanding of how our parliamentary …

2019-08-26: Serfing USA Jeremiah Owyang : Chances are, you’re probably a serf.: To modernize the last word of Mikhail …

2019-08-26: I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think? Feedback …

2019-08-26: This is a massive dose of nostalgia - I was on a lot of these networks. But, thankfully, not all: …

2019-08-26: This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.

2019-08-26: The art of pseudo-science in politics This sums up how many articles and books cloak nonsense claims in a thin skin of scientific …

2019-08-26: A wee update on life, work and blog. Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid …

2019-08-24: Shades weather, innit.

2019-08-22: A day when I find a new pretentious coffee shop is always a good day.

2019-08-19: So, the reason for my silence here over the last couple of weeks was that I was holidaying in a …

2019-08-18: A fruitful garden

2019-08-18: Possibly the most manly thing I’ve done all year…

2019-08-18: Garden harvest.

2019-08-17: Back from holiday to a dull, rainy Sussex. Ho-hum.

2019-08-11: A Circle of Words: emails to blogs to newsletters

2019-08-06: Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial …

2019-08-06: Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her …

2019-08-04: It’s just been that kind of a day.

2019-08-01: Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the …

2019-07-31: Pub sign angles are a surprisingly good guide as to how windy the day is…

2019-07-29: The garden was in fine form today, in the few moments I could steal away from work.

2019-07-28: The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare. Sweet dreams. :-)

2019-07-28: Bit blowy today.

2019-07-27: I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time. Result.

2019-07-27: I’m not sure that this acquisition will “produce value”. These are sites with …

2019-07-27: Unsurprising to anyone who has lived in Scotland: Scotland generating enough wind energy to power …

2019-07-27: Revised and expanded this to try and clarify some point: Zombie Tumblr and the twilight of the …

2019-07-27: The latest Black Hat SEO technique: find articles from defunct sites linked to by major news …

2019-07-27: Reasons I love blogging #3478: I spend several minutes Googling “Ted Danson flossing" for a …

2019-07-27: Tumblr as we know it is dead, as a pile of corporate obfuscation makes clear. What’s left is a …

2019-07-26: This one still works.

2019-07-26: Found some ancient history…

2019-07-26: Nothing is more stupid for a country than not educating its children On recent British politics: ”For sensible people, it raised the question: what kind of society …

2019-07-26: This is a worthwhile project: Preserve & digitize 30,000 historic New Orleans newspapers 28% …

2019-07-25: There is a particular danger zone for bad sleep decisions. And I am right in it now. 💤

2019-07-24: Sea kitty.

2019-07-23: Beautiful sunny day in Shoreham by Sea.

2019-07-23: Today’s status:

2019-07-23: Flipping ‘eck. I can’t wait to use this. Pixelmator Pro update integrates its entire app inside …

2019-07-22: If you use the Speedtest app on your iPhone, press and hold on the Go button. After a while… …

2019-07-22: Fading into twilight

2019-07-22: I see it’s “update all the Apple devices” night.

2019-07-22: One thing I’ve learnt about myself in recent years is that things like Apple Watch straps and GoPro …

2019-07-22: Social media fatigue — and its rememdy This is from a post by a former colleague. It resonates deeply with me: I’m so freaking tired of …

2019-07-22: The screen time "problem" We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence?: However, in a world …

2019-07-22: The underlying price of digital-only friendship To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome: This withering of primate familiarity in the face …

2019-07-22: Remembering the weird internet that was A couple of great quotes from a piece by Owen Williams on Medium (shudder): But when we lose the …

2019-07-22: I think this photo pretty much sums up my life.

2019-07-22: Practicing the art of productive procrastination, by tidying up my Ulysses app.

2019-07-21: One of the better spur-of-the-moment decisions I’ve made in recent years was the creation of a …

2019-07-20: In other news, today I met a ferret.

2019-07-20: Today has been rather posher than normal…

2019-07-20: We be rollin’, they be hatin’

2019-07-19: My eldest on holiday last year.

2019-07-18: The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded …

2019-07-17: This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos: …

2019-07-16: Random discoveries via navigation apps Lovely, random experience this evening. Apple Maps brought me an unexpected route home, showing me a …

2019-07-16: I think my authorised app connections to Flickr need some updating… (iPhoto 2??)

2019-07-16: I’m with Om on this. I’ve replaced our Alexa device with a HomePod as I’m no longer …

2019-07-15: Well now. I did a vlog from Scotland. Vlogging is really not my thing. What do you think?

2019-07-14: ln defence of selfies - an interesting take on the social context of photography and sharing.

2019-07-14: More catching up - February in 1 second everyday

2019-07-12: The Decline of Historical Perspective - Neil hits the nail on the head here. And yes, it’s worrying.

2019-07-12: Catching up - this is January in 1 Second Everyday.

2019-07-11: New Microsoft Store at Oxford Circus Microsoft opening a new store right on Oxford Circus in London today. Nice clean lines - but it …

2019-07-11: I do love the feel of the new “grove” style Apple Stores.

2019-07-10: Listening to Andy’s 20 year journey at the Flock event in Shoreham-by-Sea.

2019-07-10: My June in 1 second everyday.

2019-07-10: Settled up my second payment on account with the taxman. Slowly, but surely, breaking the habit of …

2019-07-10: Why innovation fails.

2019-07-09: Catching up with the MacBook news. Prices finally getting down to where they need to be, but a new …

2019-07-09: Trapped in the attention farm Dave Winer: Ever notice that mostly what people post on Twitter is designed to get attention for …

2019-07-08: After a productive day in front of a screen (or three), I have just treated myself to 40 minutes …

2019-07-08: This is a compelling account of life in a (failing) digital content startup: The Rise and Fall of …

2019-07-08: ‘We’re anti-influencer’: ice-cream truck makes Instagram ‘stars’ pay …

2019-07-08: So, when everybody’s in-boxes are cluttered with newsletters in about 18 months' time - will …

2019-07-08: Oh, DJI. I’m not sure encouraging non-consensual voyerism is the right way to sell your products…

2019-07-08: Breaking: social media verification processes still suck.

2019-07-08: How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement.

2019-07-08: Your data is the fuel for parties you're not invited to The Global Economy Runs on Parties You’re Not Invited To: As went the ad business, so will go the …

2019-07-06: Teaching 4 year olds to use saws. 👌🏻

2019-07-05: I find this troubling. We can no longer rely on Google being a gateway to the older parts of the …

2019-07-05: Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake…

2019-07-05: Yesterday’s view…

2019-07-04: Pride-ful.

2019-07-04: Many PostIts died to bring us this strategy…

2019-07-03: The philistines in this hotel have turned the coffee machine off for the night. HOW VERY DARE THEY.

2019-07-03: It’s all glamour in the consultancy business, I can tell you…

2019-07-01: Looking lovely in the evening sun… 🌻

2019-06-29: Getting a bit dry round here…

2019-06-28: Tide’s out…

2019-06-28: This will probably get me into trouble, but I’m quite excited by Jony Ive leaving Apple. …

2019-06-27: Blimey. Ive leaving Apple to form his own firm - but Apple will be one of his first clients.

2019-06-23: This really was not the plan for this afternoon.

2019-06-22: The street where I grew up.

2019-06-22: Hello, Edinburgh.

2019-06-22: I have a suspicion that a child may have used this seat before me…

2019-06-20: I have got to bring my tab habit under control. There’s no point opening all these damn …

2019-06-20: The New Wilderness No two companies have done more to drag private life into the algorithmic eye than Google and …

2019-06-20: Finished drafting tomorrow’s newsletter for my paying subscribers. Feeling good about it (although …

2019-06-20: Morning office:

2019-06-19: Is messenger app interoperability feasible without destroying encryption?

2019-06-17: Warning for highly polarising politics… I poked into why #notjewish was trending on Twitter, and why …

2019-06-17: Interesting discovery while booking a trip: it’s no longer safe to assume budget hotel chains are …

2019-06-17: Online community dynamics change as the membership grows. In particular, most networks require …

2019-06-16: Busted the macro lens out, too…

2019-06-16: Teeny, tiny frog.

2019-06-16: Tree-mendous Fathers’ Day.

2019-06-15: Crafting time chez Tinworth.

2019-06-15: New toy…

2019-06-15: Lovely morning down by the Adur as I walked home this morning.

2019-06-14: Here’s one from the archives - that’s me on the left, taking a photo of the chief scout, …

2019-06-14: Seeing this magazine on sale in my local newsagent is odd. I associate it so strongly with my Mum …

2019-06-13: Boats on the Adur

2019-06-12: Bit more perhaps?

2019-06-12: Here’s a soothing 20 seconds of beach life for you…

2019-06-12: Got up at stupid o’clock this morning to catch a train and attend the launch of the Reuters …

2019-06-12: Great Micro Monday @hollyhoneychurch and @macgenie (catching up on a commute). Thanks. Thinking a …

2019-06-12: Just preparing my notes from this morning’s Digital News Report 2019 launch event for publication - …

2019-06-11: Relax - digital is efficient, so we don’t need to be…

2019-06-10: MG Siegler: ”Facebook, an app where people share baby photos and conspiracy theories…” 🔥

2019-06-10: Passing though Croydon. It’s almost 22 years since I worked here. Not far off half my life ago… and …

2019-06-10: I find upgrading firmware on devices a surprisingly satisfying process.

2019-06-10: Weather could be better, though.

2019-06-10: Nice to be heading up London late enough to drop a bag off at the charity shop and get a coffee from …

2019-06-08: Of all the things to find, a shopping list from my Mum, who has been gone over a decade:

2019-06-08: Go on. Guess which option I picked.

2019-06-08: It’s 2019, and, yes, you still need to own your content.

2019-06-07: MailOnline’s traffic absolutely brutalised by Google algorithm update. Let the jokes commence.

2019-06-07: So, um, the answer to “Fake News" might have been available the whole time… in Finland?

2019-06-07: Further evidence that I’m turning into a grumpy old man of the interwebs: Writing about the internet …

2019-06-07: Working on a Friday, unusually, due to a day swap with my wife. Throughly dreich out there today, so …

2019-06-06: What’s bringing you joy this morning, people of micro.blog?

2019-06-05: Craig Federighi on iPadOS: “It’s become a truly distinct experience. It’s not an …

2019-06-04: Jason Snell (@jsnell) on why Catalyst apps might be good for… …the iPad. ”Basically, the better the …

2019-06-03: Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more …

2019-06-03: Thank you, micro.blog folks. I enjoyed sharing the keynote with you!

2019-06-03: My favourite sort of Apple keynote: I have no strong desire to buy anything new as a result of it, …

2019-06-03: All in all, that feels like Apple worked its way through a big old list of things people have been …

2019-06-03: iOS13 supported devices: “New software features will be available this fall as a free software …

2019-06-03: I love it when they do these developer-specific sections in the WWDC keynotes. I mean, they mean …

2019-06-03: I knew nothing about Minecraft before this demo. And I know nothing about it after this demo.

2019-06-03: Twitter for Mac is coming back…

2019-06-03: Marzipan is now officially Project Catalyst.

2019-06-03: Well, that Pro pricing did NOT go down well…

2019-06-03: Nice to see the iMac G4’s best feature back in the new Pro Display XDR.

2019-06-03: Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous …

2019-06-03: And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight …

2019-06-03: iPadOS!!! FINALLY! Snoopy happy dance

2019-06-03: Oh, fabulous. Multi-user support for HomePods is great news. Our living room HomePods get a huge …

2019-06-03: Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.

2019-06-03: Oh, wow. That’s a big upgrade on iOS photo editing. But that video editing is even more exciting. …

2019-06-03: Beauty influencers. From the internet. Ah-ha.

2019-06-03: Wow. Sign-in with Apple. It makes perfect sense as an extension of Apple’s privacy policy. It’ll be …

2019-06-03: I do enjoy Craig’s dad jokes, but then, I am very much a Dad.

2019-06-03: Focus on iOS speed two years running? Nice.

2019-06-03: 📺 🐟 👍🏻

2019-06-03: And my eldest is just going to love that lyrics feature.

2019-06-03: OK, Tim Cook just won in our household. Multi-user support in tvOS will be so handy for the Tinworth …

2019-06-03: Screen break beach walk.

2019-06-03: Forest and soul I agree with every word of this:

2019-06-03: Forest restoration via doggo What an amazing way of reseeding a forest: Border collies Das, Summer and Olivia were outfitted …

2019-06-03: This is both a chilling read - and a surprisingly hopeful one: The Undercover Fascist

2019-05-25: This starts off as road crash viewing of a middle-aged meme warrior - but actually goes somewhere …

2019-05-25: Parents spending thousands on YouTube Camp. “Per a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, …

2019-05-25: Ugh. @danielpunkass can’t get his patch into WordPress. Open Source in theory rather than practice?

2019-05-24: The only positive thing I can find to say about May’s premiership is this: I’m glad it …

2019-05-23: River life

2019-05-23: The Trouble with AMP

2019-05-22: Right. This is a good as my liveblogged notes from Hacks/Hackers London this evening at Twitter UK …

2019-05-22: It’s been so long since I used the Underground regularly that I’ve reverted to being a Tube N00b.

2019-05-22: There’s a man on my train wearing a hat with a crown over it, an imitation smart glass HUD, a cape, …

2019-05-21: How we Dooced blogging — and its community This Vox profile of Heather Armstrong — Dooce — is a deeply melancholy read: In the time that …

2019-05-19: Nice view as I crossed the bridge this evening.

2019-05-18: Current view.

2019-05-18: Today, I have made all the fritters.

2019-05-17: This is a sobering read by James Kirkup: The truth about David Cameron and the ‘mad, swivel-eyed …

2019-05-17: Shoreham Beach, two years ago.

2019-05-17: Inner voice: “This keyboard is filthy. I should clean it before I write any more.” Deep inner voice: …

2019-05-15: Wow. DJI are going head to head with GoPro with the DJI Osmo Action Camera. The Hero 8 had better be …

2019-05-14: Probably my most self-aggravating work habit is composing emails in my head - and then never getting …

2019-05-14: Politics warning: right-wing comics activists are abusing Twitter’s policies on transphobia to …

2019-05-13: I see it’s an “update all the Apple things” day again.

2019-05-12: Today’s beach life:

2019-05-11: Extinction Rebellion die in at the Shoreham by Sea farmers market.

2019-05-09: What’s that sound? Oh, it’s the influencer bubble popping: ”Most global internet users …

2019-05-09: Finally got around to adding another of my key services to my site: Live Event Capture - where I …

2019-05-09: Self-employment is basically a years-long oscillation between being stressed about money and being …

2019-05-08: My notes from the RSA event Schools Without Walls might be of interest to the education-minded …

2019-05-08: The rain, it raineth every day ☔️

2019-05-06: Iris amongst the irises.

2019-05-06: Loving nature is a political act It seems impossible to me to be, now, passionate about nature and not be also both political and …

2019-05-05: It was windy yesterday at Woods Mill, but the sound is just lovey.

2019-05-05: I love this photo of Iris in the woods from yesterday.

2019-05-04: Nesting…

2019-05-02: Here’s something I don’t often do: a review. It’s of Freewell’s All Day Filters …

2019-05-02: What’s good in your world today?

2019-05-02: Shaping up to be a lovely day.

2019-05-01: Today’s workplace.

2019-04-30: Wow. This video of an osprey female protecting her eggs in the heart of Storm Hannah is quite …

2019-04-29: This is a compelling read about life in the outer circles of Silicon Valley: ”A film of …

2019-04-29: Never bet against the phone…

2019-04-28: Working on old negative scans does make me miss the grain and texture of film photography - but I …

2019-04-28: Sunday adulting. 🌷

2019-04-28: Fascinating how much cars date photos, even after “just” 15 years.

2019-04-27: Big fan of the Extinction Rebellion art style.

2019-04-26: Yikes. An RPG book I contributed to being offered for £115 on eBay!

2019-04-25: I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning… …because my daughters brought some horrible virus home for …

2019-04-24: The guest WiFi at Twitter UK’s pretty good…

2019-04-24: Thanks to my daughters, my iPad Smart Keyboard is looking particularly fabulous today…

2019-04-21: Easter egg hunt 🐣

2019-04-20: And here’s the final image of Adam, a sculpture at the Eden Project, shot back in Spring 2004.

2019-04-20: Enjoying working in Pixelmator Photo to clean up some old negative scans:

2019-04-20: There was a lot of construction work still happened at the Eden Project back in 2004. I loved these …

2019-04-20: Eden Project, 14th April 2004

2019-04-19: Talented investigative journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead in Derry last night. I knew her, and was …

2019-04-18: Exciting times on the Woodland Trust Osprey Cam. Aila (the female) has been in the nest for most of …

2019-04-18: Facebook has finally banned a swathe of far-right hate groups, including the BNP, EDL and Britain …

2019-04-18: The Wind in What's Left of the Willows… Time for a #wilderfuture. Yes, I am an old tree-hugger and proud.

2019-04-18: The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella…

2019-04-18: Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts without permission. Just as well Facebook has …

2019-04-17: This is a telling piece of reporting from the Irish Times. It’s clear that members of the ERG are …

2019-04-17: Interesting that Facebook saw Apple News as a competitive issue: ”The company discussed setting up …

2019-04-17: Wow, this is a telling quote: ”But he brightened when he turned to one of the topics that, …

2019-04-17: And there we are: ”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response”

2019-04-17: Engineers versus investigative journalists From the WIRED piece everyone is talking about: ”Investigative journalists are like pit bulls. Kick …

2019-04-15: I’m a journalist, and one deeply interested in the future of journalism, and its business …

2019-04-15: The platforms are not the internet John Naughton: In reality, the problem we have is not the internet so much as those corporations …

2019-04-11: Good piece by James here, pointing out that Assange is a pretty horrible person - but that …

2019-04-11: Whatever you think about Assange and Wikileaks, his arrest this morning will do nothing to stop the …

2019-04-10: I really need to stop letting my blogging slip as soon as my life gets busy. It’s such an …

2019-04-10: Making a (small) splash on Unsplash.

2019-04-10: I’m really passionate about this: the journalism business should be unlocking the incredible …

2019-04-07: Time to test micro.blog’s video hosting…

2019-04-05: Don’t expect free stuff just because you have 2,000 Instagram followers. The “marketing via …

2019-04-05: Ooh, live ospreys nesting webcam from Scotland: LIVE: Loch Arkaig osprey cam

2019-04-05: Ah, my weekend reading is here.

2019-04-03: Yet another Facebook developer leaks private data An insanely large Facebook data breach: The Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva and an app …

2019-04-03: Fascinating talk about personal responsibility and social media on the State of the net podcast.

2019-04-03: Woe betide any pony that fails to perform to the expectations of Iris.

2019-04-03: Weird flex for a CMS company, but OK: ”Today Automattic is announcing Happy Tools, a suite of …

2019-04-03: This is how hyper-partisan sites die: Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy …

2019-04-03: May not have thought relative mug and scanner positioning through properly…

2019-04-03: My wife: ”My lifelong career love affair has only ever been with bioscience but what a huge, …

2019-04-03: One of the interesting things about the current MacBook Pro keyboard problems is that it’s …

2019-04-02: AirDrop is such a handy feature of Apple devices. It doesn’t get enough kudos.

2019-04-02: It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead. …

2019-04-02: So, here’s a video from a defunct satire site, about a defunct social network, found via a …

2019-04-02: Wow. Early 2010s-era One Man & His Blog. In many ways, the “classic” era of the …

2019-04-02: Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.

2019-04-01: Something my daughters will never do…

2019-04-01: Bittersweet memories of 1999 Wow. The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. …

2019-04-01: Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it …

2019-04-01: The Traditional Photograph Versus The Social Photograph I like this distinction a great deal: Jurgenson told me that he draws a distinction between the …

2019-04-01: On the ERG: ”Nobody deserves the ERG, though, which is to politics what food poisoning is to dinner …

2019-03-31: Spring appears to have arrived in our garden.

2019-03-31: 10 Mothers’ Day without you, Mum. Still missing you.

2019-03-30: Thought for the day:

2019-03-29: Literally the most CoE thing ever: Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties

2019-03-29: Apple cancels AirPower: “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high …

2019-03-29: This is an unusually good idea from Twitter: “Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive …

2019-03-29: Learning from Mueller Andrew Sullivan: Mueller Summary Is a Big Win for America Mueller is someone we should study if we …

2019-03-29: Democracy has a price, and you can’t stop paying it. Democracy has a price, and it’s not an easy price to pay. Nothing is ever completely settled under a …

2019-03-27: Just spent 8 hours in this room with a great bunch of journalists and communication pros, talking …

2019-03-27: Want to be an influencer? There’s a bot for that: A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media …

2019-03-26: Everything you need to know about me can be summed up thus: I used to write RPGs professionally, but …

2019-03-26: Hello.

2019-03-26: WIRED on how Google warped the hyperlinks - with quotes from me!

2019-03-25: Got to say, I’m most excited for Apple Arcade. There’s some games I want to play in there, starting …

2019-03-25: Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?

2019-03-24: Beachscape with fisherman and detectorist

2019-03-21: Worth remembering that “reduce” and “reuse” both beat “recycle” in the sustainability hierarchy: …

2019-03-21: 😱 🌊 Tourist Posing for Photo Gets Blasted Off Rock by Huge Crashing Wave

2019-03-21: By their fans you shall know them… PewDiePie fan unleashes ransomware that encrypts hard drives until he gets 100M subscribers One of …

2019-03-21: Apple’s Final Cut Pro X upgraded to version 10.4.6 - and this is interesting: “Detects media files …

2019-03-21: Like many people, I suspect, I signed the petition not because I think there’s a realistic chance of …

2019-03-21: My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I …

2019-03-21: Oh, dear. When did I enter that demographic? Thanks, Facebook.

2019-03-21: The “Revoke Article 50" petition is closing in on ¾ of a million, and gaining about 3k …

2019-03-21: Joining the rest of my family in marking World Down Syndrome day:

2019-03-21: Yay. My micro.blog Kickstarter stickers are here!

2019-03-21: The speed with which this is gaining signatures is quite something. 100s of extra signitories every …

2019-03-20: This makes me very nostalgic for an earlier era of Apple.

2019-03-20: This is terrifying: England could run short of water within 25 years

2019-03-19: The spread of footage from the Christchurch terrorists attack is clearly unacceptable. To curtail …

2019-03-19: Happy news of the day: my Essential Analytics for Media Professionals course is sold out.

2019-03-17: I’ve come across a number of blogs in recent weeks that have “moved to Instagram”. One thing is for …

2019-03-17: My new pride and joy This is my new pride and joy. A year or so a switch flipped in my head. The more I watched vegetable …

2019-03-16: Deconstructed.

2019-03-15: Blimey: Disney Reinstates Director James Gunn For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 3’

2019-03-15: Computational photography and videography is just fascinating: Researchers Found a Way to Extract …

2019-03-15: This is a serious and useful look at the digital context around today’s horrible terrorist atrocity: …

2019-03-15: This sounds like a fascinating read. Preordered: Homesick: Why I live in a shed 📚

2019-03-15: I had awesome wallpaper as a child. (That’s not me - it’s a school friend).

2019-03-14: Oooooh. A kernel panic. How retro.

2019-03-13: How little we change: Ancient Britons Traveled Hundreds of Miles to Attend Pork Fests at Stonehenge

2019-03-13: The kids are revolting ”Theresa May said they are wasting teachers time – the response was that …

2019-03-12: Mum & I, outside Stirling Castle, in the early 80s.

2019-03-12: I remember, as a child, learning about the great fallen civilisations of the past - and wondering …

2019-03-12: You can catch up on all my posts from last week’s useful news:rewired conference here. Lots to …

2019-03-10: Storm sisters

2019-03-10: Fun down on the beach today…

2019-03-08: New shoes!

2019-03-08: Love the cover of the latest @standartmag by @grigorybabich. Stunning work.

2019-03-08: Coffee with Eevee!

2019-03-07: Journalism clearly needs new business models. Yesterday’s panel discussion at news:rewired had …

2019-03-07: The Adventures of Rapunzel and Mildred Hubble. #worldbookday #worldbookday2019

2019-03-04: Today I learnt that Engagdget is nearly a. year younger than OM&HB and I feel like such an …

2019-03-04: How Influencer Language Is Killing Instagram ”As with any social network, there comes a point of …

2019-03-04: Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid: ”Orwell must be turning in his grave …

2019-03-04: My coat still smells of woodsmoke from Nature Tots at the weekend. This is keeping me happy on a …

2019-03-03: Time for tech to get out of its difficult teenage years, and grow the fuck up.

2019-03-03: Utterly self-indulgent blog post of the day: What the heck is GoPro doing producing a limited …

2019-03-03: We really didn’t spend long on our customary Sunday beach walk today. Storm Freya is battering the …

2019-03-03: Bit of a token clean today as the girls were in danger of being blown off the beach by storm Freya. …

2019-03-02: Iris made a nest at #naturetots #sussexwildlifetrust

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2019-03-01: My goodness, but these are appealing to me.

2019-03-01: Today’s Iris obsession: liferings

2019-02-28: Reporting on the Momo Challenge has not been journalism’s finest hour. It’s a failure of basic …

2019-02-28: Interesting that Pinterest is leading the way on this. People do not pay nearly enough attention to …

2019-02-27: I preserve the secrets of @nextconf by making my notes basically illegible to anyone but me.

2019-02-26: Stunning evening down by the Adur.

2019-02-26: Once again, Facebook is trying to avoid the costs of its scale - but the human cost of its content …

2019-02-26: Shoreham by Sea’s sign game is 💯 this morning:

2019-02-26: Drinking today: Edgecumbe’s AA Kisii Peaberry ☕️

2019-02-25: Some Ghostly resources for independent publishers. Nice combination of a newsletter and a site full …

2019-02-25: I am procrastinating. And I am procrastinating because I am scared. Bad adders.

2019-02-24: The fam at @nymansnt

2019-02-24: Beware the beach #illuminati

2019-02-24: Totemic discovery on today’s #2minutebeachclean

2019-02-24: Sunday beach walk

2019-02-24: Own up. Who left the window open last night?

2019-02-22: Either it’s foggy - or I need new glasses.

2019-02-22: Word of the day, courtesy of an @ernestjournal back issue… slubberdegullion is official part of my …

2019-02-22: Inconsiderata - an ode to digital technology and influencers: Override quiet and thoughtful people, …

2019-02-22: Fog is making the Adur impressionistic today.

2019-02-22: I have a Brydge keyboard for my trusty old 9.7 inch iPad Pro and I suddenly have my perfect …

2019-02-22: I have a suspicion that there would be a decent market for adult Hula Hoops, that fit on adult-sized …

2019-02-20: Some useful thoughts on the appeal of newsletters — and the appropriate tone for writing them.

2019-02-20: With Assistant update, Google says Nest has secret microphone 🤦🏼‍♂️ 🤦🏼‍♂️ 🤦🏼‍♂️ I still can’t …

2019-02-20: Fascinating: A week of podcasting with only an iPad Pro. More and more of the things “you can’t use …

2019-02-20: Today in poor ratios: I will spend between five and six hours travelling to do one two hour lecture. …

2019-02-19: Why blogs still matter even in the resurgent newsletter age. (h/t @cdevroe for the original link)

2019-02-19: Lessons from 1000 editions of a links newsletter. It’s all about the basics.

2019-02-19: The rest of the “information wants to be free” quote (because I’m annoyed at how often …

2019-02-19: I call this piece “the entitlement of SEO spammers”. 🖼

2019-02-18: Winchester does ruins magnificently.

2019-02-18: Coffee Break Edgcumbes Coffee Roasters & Tea Blenders. A coffee break in a great wee coffee place on the …

2019-02-18: This is not at all disconcerting.

2019-02-18: Beautiful sky over Winchester this evening.

2019-02-17: Cracking edition of my newly-renamed newsletter going out in the morning (if I do say so myself). It …

2019-02-17: It seems increasingly clear to me that the societal stress we’re experiencing right now was …

2019-02-17: Dave Winer: Discourse is not Twitter’s strength, not because of the thread structure, rather …

2019-02-17: Even "green" wealthy people consume impact the climate disproportionately Well, this is depressing: And even fairly radical lifestyle changes are meaningless at the level of …

2019-02-17: Lessons from two months of #2minutebeachclean For the last couple of months, my daughters and I have been doing a #2minutebeachclean pretty much …

2019-02-16: I know all the hip joints!

2019-02-14: Still can’t quite believe that I turned down the chance to work on this beauty - but it was the …

2019-02-14: An article designed for @ismh… The joy of collecting old tech

2019-02-14: The Zuckerberg Obfuscation

2019-02-13: News that will fill my daughters with joy in the morning - but which is filling me with dread, …

2019-02-13: Optimism is cool: Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what …

2019-02-13: The Freelancer Mindset: it's a trap! The Psychological Trap of Freelancing People who attach dollar signs to their time — or “value time …

2019-02-13: Dangerous shop.

2019-02-13: Wow, Blogger really is being neglected isn’t it? The last substantive update I can find is from …

2019-02-13: Productivity in the home office this morning: could be better.

2019-02-12: First signs of spring. (Which means it’ll be snowing within the month…)

2019-02-11: Fin.

2019-02-10: Late night London.

2019-02-10: Scenes from a beach walk.

2019-02-10: TIL: Apple proposed the forthcoming set of emoji covering people in wheelchairs, with service dogs, …

2019-02-09: The victorious defeat of the open web It just occurred to me that the prevalent idea that apps killed the open web is completely and …

2019-02-09: Just tried to explain 70s/80s linear TV to my children, in all its pre-daytime TV, pre-streaming …

2019-02-09: This is totally bodacious: Captain Marvel: Official Movie Site

2019-02-08: To give you some sense of how unwell I’ve been - it’s now 60 hours since I had a coffee. 60 hours.

2019-02-05: And here’s your depressing reminder that Brits using .eu domain names will probably lose them. For …

2019-02-05: The problem with being a one-man band is that you handle your own DNS faff. Back when I had a Real …

2019-02-05: I love Uses This. Such a simple idea: short profiles of various people and the tools they use to get …

2019-02-05: A translation of Zuckerberg’s “15 years of #facebook” post from Zuck to English. (Now with …

2019-02-05: Those are both creepy and beautiful: witch of the farm

2019-02-04: A translation of elements of Mark Zuckerberg’s 15th Facebook anniversary post from Zuck to …

2019-02-04: It’s stuff like this that makes me realise that I’ve been writing about digital media …

2019-02-04: A reminder for long-term Flickr users: deletions start on free accounts tomorrow.

2019-02-04: Scared but excited right now.

2019-02-04: OK. Let’s talk about that bloody egg — and why it does matter. Yes, it’s come to that.

2019-02-03: Now, that’s my kind of article.

2019-02-01: Despite the cold, it’s a really lovely day here on the coast.

2019-02-01: Even a little snow makes a three year old joyful.

2019-02-01: The mighty thaw is well underway on the Sussex Coast.

2019-01-31: That’s looking more like snow.

2019-01-31: Apple kills Google’s internal apps as well.

2019-01-31: If you want to convert me to a viewpoint, you’ll succeed much more often by highlighting the …

2019-01-30: Facebook has officially passed beyond parody.

2019-01-30: If you come up with a business idea, and multiple ways of expressing that idea - and then fabulous …

2019-01-30: I like the ceiling in here.

2019-01-30: Well, this makes me a happy GoPro user: GoPro Plus now offers unlimited uncompressed video storage …

2019-01-30: If you squint, you can see the snow. Just.

2019-01-29: Apple News has more users than you might expect.

2019-01-29: Crikey - my blog had more mobile and tablet viewers than desktop ones for the first time ever. I …

2019-01-29: There’s far too much truth in this: How digital media killed itself

2019-01-28: I love the neologism “memeocracy” to describe the impact of influencer culture in the attention …

2019-01-27: Apple’s mobile journalism porn - I love the way Apple keeps making the #mojo case for us.

2019-01-27: A calmer moment in a stormy day by the sea:

2019-01-26: Shoreham may be blessed with one of the best library views out there.

2019-01-25: Just when you think Facebook can’t go lower — it manages it…

2019-01-25: Well, that’s one way of stopping regulators from breaking up your company, I suppose. …

2019-01-25: Upscale NYC restaurant bans lone women from sitting at the bar This is… extraordinary: “I perched at my favourite seat at the bar and started to respond to …

2019-01-25: Daddy/daughter baking day.

2019-01-25: The latest issue of @anxymag is here - all about masculinity. Time for a coffee and a read.

2019-01-25: One that required a bit of focus, but not too much. Bring on next month’s #AppleWatch challenge.

2019-01-24: I just had a really, really bad idea. I should do nothing about this idea. 👀

2019-01-24: Apple News Expands to Canada in iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 - Apple’s rolling this out very slowly …

2019-01-24: Ugh. Buzzfeed is laying off over 200 people. They do great work, and they have some fantastic …

2019-01-24: No wonder my chair was uncomfortable - I’ve been sitting on this for the last hour:

2019-01-23: Thingification: “All these potentially powerful attempts at building a new world using new tools …

2019-01-22: An epitath for Livejournal Ars Technica: Such is the nature of the erosion of our once-beloved digital spaces: there’s none of …

2019-01-22: January 2018 in photos - looking back at a year ago.

2019-01-22: The one thing that disappoints me about most “links" newsletters I follow is that they rarely …

2019-01-22: Why political posts on Facebook will always be polarising.

2019-01-21: This is fascinating, both in its use of cartooning for storytelling and for the way insular …

2019-01-21: A cold and frosty morning on my way to London.

2019-01-20: Gorgeous day on Shoreham Beach. The sun is counteracting the cold nicely.

2019-01-19: Suffolk coast, January 2001

2019-01-18: MG Siegler: ”That is to say, I think this new iTunes announcement finally signals the end of iTunes …

2019-01-18: This interview with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is… painful.

2019-01-17: I wrote a very long thing about Facebook, WordPress, CMSes and local journalism. I cater to a very …

2019-01-17: Take a deep breath, bibliophiles. Marie Kondo of Netflix’s Tidying Up: she’s not coming for your …

2019-01-17: It’s been a stressful week, but the view from my office window is incredibly calming today.

2019-01-17: My hard working film scanner doing its thing.

2019-01-17: One of the reasons I enjoy scanning my old negatives is that when a photo of my parents emerges, it …

2019-01-17: Sadly, this is probably accurate: Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You

2019-01-16: Study: Dark-roast coffee protects human DNA from damage: This led the scientists to believe that …

2019-01-16: Sharing photos of yourself 10 years apart is a completely harmless social media meme. Right? Uh, …

2019-01-15: I can also see a meaningful boat out of the window. There may be a meaningful oat on the floor, …

2019-01-15: So… the US president is serving people fast food burgers, the British political class are imploding, …

2019-01-15: Strange old story about a social media fantasist making up an entire life of tech influencing from …

2019-01-15: It’s just light streaming from glass… Euan Semple: So to go back to the funny little text boxes that so many of us nowadays spend our …

2019-01-15: I like this: people have got their sense of pace of tech change wrong, simply because they …

2019-01-14: Fresh out of the film scanner: my late father and I in the mid-90s. Still miss him.

2019-01-14: Making your social media more sane - this is actually a great idea.

2019-01-14: On the off chance you missed it - here’s my thoughts on the key findings of the Reuters …

2019-01-13: Guide’s badges in the 21st century: vlogging

2019-01-10: Your regular Internet of creepy things update.

2019-01-10: Here’s my takeaways from the Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019 report …

2019-01-10: Does anyone else find the phrase “innovation hub” faintly depressing? “This - here - is …

2019-01-09: Joe Manganiello and D&D in the 80s. From Joe Manganiello, Super Geek: Owns Dungeon, Dead Guy’s Dice: Those of us that have been …

2019-01-09: Today, I find myself wondering how my Facebook experience would change if I pared my number of …

2019-01-09: I have finally learned to write algorithm without having to look up the spelling. Yay.

2019-01-09: The internet has opened up whole new avenues of psychological and sociological research hasn’t it? …

2019-01-08: I admit this might be a sign that parenthood has rotted my brain - but I believe Babs Seed from My …

2019-01-08: Still a great and apposite piece: How to get human time back from technology.

2019-01-08: This is my regular reminder to myself that actually posting to One Man & His Blog does wonders …

2019-01-08: One day I will come across an example of “MSM won’t report on this!!!!" which I …

2019-01-08: Well, I’ve been enjoying great battery life on my MacBook Pro since it came back from a …

2019-01-08: Facebook is trying to achieve global scale without paying the local price - and that’s …

2019-01-08: China is making podcasts pay - big time. And it’s not based on advertising.

2019-01-08: Today, I forgot the cardinal rule of marriage: I let my wife know that something annoyed me, and now …

2019-01-08: Nice morning down by the river.

2019-01-07: I have tidied up and modernised every post on my blog tagged Doctor Who in a burst of pointless busy …

2019-01-07: Iris: “Daddy, chair are for sitting in, not putting laptops on.” Busted by a 3 year old.

2019-01-07: The culture wars in one tweet.

2019-01-07: I’m not sure that, even seven years on, that I’ve really adjusted to being …

2019-01-07: First proper day back at my desk since mid-December. The email is soul-crushing.

2019-01-06: Playing with the 4k option on the DJI Osmo Pocket:

2019-01-06: Bedrock rock beds.

2019-01-06: Moody day in the beach. (Can you spot the Iris?)

2019-01-05: I have a nasty feeling Iris is pretending to be me…

2019-01-05: Grabbed the opportunity for a quick beach walk this afternoon. The beach is very much in winter …

2019-01-05: Catchy as the headline is, the real story is a government agency trying to frustrate a legitimate …

2019-01-04: Facebook wants us to know that it’s the real victim here.

2019-01-04: I see Zuck has learned his lesson and is dealing with things with all due humility now… Mark …

2019-01-04: Warrior robots in a coffee shop.

2019-01-04: Grrrr.

2019-01-04: Controversial: Italy invented coffee culture. Now it’s a coffee time capsule.

2019-01-03: Another interesting bit of analysis of the Apple revenue miss: Apple Lowers Revenue Guidance Due To …

2019-01-03: Drinking coffee in Brighton’s Ship Street. It’s been five years since I did this with any frequency. …

2019-01-03: Happy about this - I have at least one new Ghost-hosted project in the works, and I may well start …

2019-01-03: Interesting take from Om Malik about the bad Apple trading news: Appleocalypse: An unfashionable …

2019-01-02: Watching.

2019-01-01: Lovely day at Nymans.

2019-01-01: 😂

2018-12-31: A pre-New Year party for the little ones with some wonderful neighbours. Perfect way to end the …

2018-12-31: Well, this year was all about the Shoreham-by-Sea landscapes… #topnine2018 #topnine #bestnine2018

2018-12-31: Issue #25 of my curated reads newsletter goes out in about five minutes. Sign up while you can!

2018-12-31: Here we go: the top 10 posts on the NEXT Conference blog in 2018. One of them was the very first …

2018-12-31: Digging through the top posts on the Next Conference blog, I found this 2017 piece from Martin Recke …

2018-12-30: Shoreham Fort

2018-12-30: More #beachlife

2018-12-29: Vlogging?

2018-12-29: Beach Life.

2018-12-29: Beach life.

2018-12-29: Facebook apologists are real – they really are.

2018-12-28: Beaver Bombers at work? Today I learnt of the existence of Beavers Bombers: While one theory suggests they escaped from a …

2018-12-28: Crime in progress, but the lookout is on watch…

2018-12-28: The Danger of Medium Dave Winer The danger of Medium is two-fold. Without competition, and right now they don’t …

2018-12-28: On the Care and Feeding of Your Favorite Blogger Here’s the thing - support comes in all …

2018-12-27: Lady who lunches.

2018-12-27: Beautiful moomin show. Iris loved it.

2018-12-27: Current status:

2018-12-27: Moomin magic is about to begin.

2018-12-27: Moomin magic (and mischief) about to occur…

2018-12-27: Iris at the Box Office.

2018-12-26: Look, someone 😇 has made our local heros more festive.

2018-12-26: Beach walk, ‘cos it’s Boxing Day innit?

2018-12-26: Things I am doing without this festive periods #1: my MacBook Pro. I’m spending the Christmas period without my MacBook Pro. On Christmas Eve it went to Apple hospital …

2018-12-26: Down by the Adur. (Boxing Day walk)

2018-12-25: Imagine my surprise to discover that an “influencer” who had vaguely intersected with the area I …

2018-12-25: The children are less enthused by this stage of the meal preparation…

2018-12-25: Prepping Christmas Dinner while watching the Countryfile Christmas Special. Because, yes, I am …

2018-12-25: Time to get the turkey in.

2018-12-25: A very merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!

2018-12-24: The way my hair’s going, I figure I’m about 10 years and a beard from making a decent Santa.

2018-12-22: Today has challenged my understanding of the word “elf”.

2018-12-22: Number of open tabs on my iPad: 0. Days since this was last the case: 3,130.

2018-12-22: Free audiobooks from Apple Well, this is a great Christmas gift: Apple Books has published six exclusive audiobooks this week, …

2018-12-22: The great pre-Christmas tab purge is underway. Wish me luck.

2018-12-22: Hello. @manton delivers Christmas three days early!

2018-12-19: Honestly, what the hell is happening at Medium? Its latest moves seem to suggest it is becoming …

2018-12-19: Strong and stable. Spoiled for stabilised filming right now - working in some tests for my blog.

2018-12-19: Five influencers influencing…

2018-12-19: Oh, the irony.

2018-12-19: Oh, look - one of my photos is on Devon Life: www.devonlife.co.uk/devon-chr…

2018-12-19: I might need to take a vow of silence for the rest of the year, given how badly I appear to be …

2018-12-19: I have a gimbal in my pocket. The miniaturisation of video continues, and the results are …

2018-12-19: Early Christmas present to myself. Uh, I mean to my work. Uh, yes, my work. That’s it. cough.

2018-12-19: I am ridiculously happy to finally have the time to get a post up on One Man & His Blog - even …

2018-12-17: To misquote Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand the ethical problems with …

2018-12-17: The man who pioneered modern tech journalism no longer feels he can justify using Facebook-owned …

2018-12-15: Today was the sort of day when having a GoPro was what made getting any footage feasible.

2018-12-14: ⚠️ Warning - photobomb in progress…

2018-12-14: New green belt

2018-12-14: 21st century life: I spent a while last night updating the software on my lightbulbs… 💡

2018-12-13: Barbados, November 2011

2018-12-13: My sister-in-law has a PacMan coat. 👌🏻

2018-12-13: Morning coffee feels very festive today.

2018-12-12: Smashing Avocado while the world burns These are the final days of the startup world: At a recent Lyft event, the brand decided not to …

2018-12-12: New coffee shop, new part of London. Oh, the consultancy life.

2018-12-11: Five years ago today:

2018-12-11: 10 years ago today.

2018-12-11: Not what you want to see outside your favourite coffee shop in the morning…

2018-12-10: Open.

2018-12-08: Just booked a night in a budget hotel in Milton Keynes. Will this endless glamour never cease?

2018-12-08: Peak hipster.

2018-12-08: Time to choose a Christmas Tree 🎄

2018-12-08: The angel of cheekiness descends…

2018-12-07: Somebody just tried to explain what Likes are for to me. 🤔😂

2018-12-07: I’d be happy if this happened: Canon To Get A Stake In GoPro’s Future?

2018-12-05: This morning I am catching the OMGEarly train to London.

2018-12-04: The new @blogosphere_magazine is here, so I’ve done a tasteful #influencer style shot to celebrate. …

2018-12-04: On the upside, Tumblr’s bandwidth costs are about to drop precipitously, I suspect.

2018-12-04: Stunning Autumn morning Walking Iris to nursery was a genuine pleasure this morning - it’s just an incredible day. Cold, but …

2018-12-04: Morning view.

2018-12-04: Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for evidence. …

2018-12-03: Ready to Webinar…

2018-12-03: One of the interesting aspects of consultancy life is getting small spells in a whole range of …

2018-12-03: My downtime on ghost(pro) last month… …didn’t exist. For the third month running. Nice work, …

2018-12-02: Night time.

2018-11-30: And let's not forget October… (yes, playing catchup) October 2018 in one second everyday from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.

2018-11-30: November in 30(ish) seconds This was our November:

2018-11-30: Apple’s new group FaceTime ad is awesome:

2018-11-30: First Ghost with Koenig and now WordPress with Gutenberg. Publishing platforms are changing fast. I …

2018-11-30: Xeni Jardin on the Sandberg/Soros mess: If she was willing to do this over a mere billionaire, …

2018-11-30: This is how credit card details were harvested from BA. I bet you use one of the sites on the list. …

2018-11-30: 🤦🏼‍♂️ Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros

2018-11-28: DJI leak reveals teeny-tiny Osmo Pocket gimbal Oh, this looks exciting for #mojo folks.

2018-11-26: Looking good on the way back, too.

2018-11-26: Different view for my “commute” this morning.

2018-11-25: Beach life.

2018-11-24: Hello.

2018-11-24: Dr Pancakes is IN.

2018-11-24: Last night I dreamt I was interviewing Jony Ive at Apple Park. Never gonna happen, but my goodness, …

2018-11-23: So, I’ve done the photos thing. Thanks @cleverdevil - looks good!

2018-11-23: Success - new belt! #soobahkdo

2018-11-23: Testing times for Iris… #soobahkdo

2018-11-23: I feel this e-mail subject line is unlikely to be bettered today:

2018-11-23: Iris wants you to know that she has pizza 🍕

2018-11-22: While I do still love a good paper book, there are times that digital books are just so much more …

2018-11-22: After the social network, the new bloggers are coming… One of the things that I’m most angry with the social networks about is the way they deprived me of …

2018-11-22: Ridicule is nothing to be scared of. (Prince Charming, Prince Charming)

2018-11-22: Post-social network community building needed Warren Ellis I feel like I want to see some more thought around getting the fuck off social …

2018-11-22: Time to kill off follower counts on social networks: As we increase the time we spend online, we …

2018-11-21: There’s no place like gnome

2018-11-20: I was baffled and slightly depressed in what I was seeing in the analytics I was looking at. And …

2018-11-20: Looks like Instagram’s down for a good chunk of the world. Average mental health of the …

2018-11-20: Just topped up the bird food. Minor avian riot in progress in the back garden.

2018-11-20: 5 degrees, rainy and grey. British autumn is here at last.

2018-11-20: Old Toys I’m slightly concerned that I appear to have grown up in the last few years. Despite the exciting …

2018-11-19: Build that web

2018-11-19: I had my first proper (but quick) play with Adobe Premier Rush - and I’m tentatively impressed.

2018-11-19: So, I wrote about the unintended consequences of partisan satire (based on the excellent WaPo story …

2018-11-19: MediaGazer is really good at inflating my ego in a really unearned way, by putting me in some …

2018-11-19: Just cleaned the en suite toilet so yes, obviously, I’m procrastinating.

2018-11-18: Here’s a horrible insight into how digital tools and age-old psychology can turn satire into …

2018-11-18: Touching. I feel very special…

2018-11-17: Coffee date.

2018-11-17: Stunning autumn morning in #shorehambysea

2018-11-16: I need to have words with my teenage self about keeping negatives clean.

2018-11-16: It’s amusing to see just how badly timed Zuckerberg’s decision to flip off a bunch of …

2018-11-15: Only seven months between episodes…

2018-11-15: The Ides of May There are times when I almost feel sorry for Theresa May. She is clearly trying her best to deliver …

2018-11-15: Here’s my incredibly sophisticated micro casting set-up, using Wavelength on my phone…

2018-11-15: The Toxicity At The Top Of Facebook - And How We Need To Move The Social Media Conversation Forward Some (rambling) thoughts based on yesterday’s NYT piece on Facebook’s senior management and the …

2018-11-15: There’s some new research out on smart speakers and news - and it’s a mixed bag. Use is …

2018-11-15: Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting typos…

2018-11-15: Really nice, measured take on the state of the iPad Pro from Charles Arthur.

2018-11-15: I really recommend listening to this talk by Indy Johar from NEXT conference. Challenging and …

2018-11-14: Writing something to an embargo deadline for the first time in as long as I can remember. I almost …

2018-11-14: This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Medium’s UI and on-boarding experience - published on …

2018-11-14: Despite my previous post, I do enjoy binging on @Monday I find immersing myself in the community for …

2018-11-14: Catching up with a backlog of @monday posts is an odd experience - Just been through a run with a …

2018-11-13: Over a decade since my first download from the App Store. Not much use now.

2018-11-13: This is super-handy: a Google web tool to optimise images for the web.

2018-11-13: It bothers me that people think that Apple’s green initiatives are just “marketing”. It is …

2018-11-12: A caravan of bots and other updates from the misinformation wars.

2018-11-12: Stan Lee has gone to the great bullpen in the sky. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the hyperbole and …

2018-11-12: Y’know. I just realised - reading blogs used to - and often still does - make me happy, curious and …

2018-11-12: The problem with not working between Thursday evening and late Monday afternoon is that your in-box …

2018-11-12: Remember that Roman thing of having a slave whispering “remember you are mortal" to a …

2018-11-12: Fantastic issue of The Discourse, looking at the dynamics of online hostility - you really should be …

2018-11-12: Things I am not going to do: take marriage advice from a never-married 23-year old “top writer in …

2018-11-11: I feel like those last two books are less likely than ever to get written… George R.R. Martin …

2018-11-11: 11/11/18 - we shall remember them

2018-11-10: Thou shalt not pass

2018-11-09: ‪If Apple could push iOS on iPad forward as fast and as thoughtfully as it’s developing the iPad Pro …

2018-11-08: Headline of the day: Satanic Temple Sues Netflix, Warner Over Sabrina Statue Copyright

2018-11-08: I still find the idea that Apple has in-house metallurgists oddly cool.

2018-11-03: Aberdeen, I am in you. #odcamp

2018-11-01: My school helped shape key Bodyguard character… This is about The Bodyguard and the school I attended… Bowman, born in Dundee, told how he drew on …

2018-11-01: Turns out friction might be good in social sharing.

2018-11-01: Wikipedia has a paid editing problem — and it might be getting worse. I was approached by a paid …

2018-11-01: Flickr makes some smart changes to its account structure while throwing some serious shade on …

2018-10-31: Missed Halloween with my girls, but based on the evidence they had a great night. 🎃

2018-10-31: Some good updates to Flickr. Now there’s a phrase I didn’t expect to be writing.

2018-10-30: Me, during today's Apple event Me during the first half of the Apple event: Me during the second half of the Apple event:

2018-10-30: Noting in recent times has made me as old as realising that The Guardian pioneered live-blogging 19 …

2018-10-30: Watching the new iPad Pro stuff, I’m becoming increasing convinced that my current MacBook Pro will …

2018-10-30: OK, this is why Tim is so excited. He’s an iPad Pro man.

2018-10-30: Blimey. Rare stage appearance from Angela Ahrendts.

2018-10-30: Oh, hello Mac Mini. Welcome back.

2018-10-30: Yeah, the 100% recycled aluminium thing is cool. Nice work, Apple. Long-lasting devices made from …

2018-10-30: Ooooh. TouchID without the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Air.

2018-10-30: Tim Cook really does seem unusually enthusiastic today.

2018-10-29: Getting spooky around here.

2018-10-29: “Influencers” — cheapening the web one post at a time.

2018-10-29: Vogue says “bonjour” to Hong Kong and “au revoir" to Snapchat.

2018-10-29: Y’know, if Twitter really does pull Likes from its platform, it really validates one of the design …

2018-10-29: Twitter to UnLike Likes?

2018-10-28: It’s useful to remember that social media can be tremendously helpful at times, even in the current …

2018-10-28: It seems clear that Zuckerberg has a more total control over Facebook than, say, Jobs ever did over …

2018-10-28: Now, this is an old pen. #sixapart #movabletype

2018-10-28: Our back garden tree is handling the daily countdown to winter admirably.

2018-10-28: Case in point: my two most used blog platforms - ghost and micro.blog - are both new(ish) and have …

2018-10-28: A non-obituary for blogging The “blogging is dead” meme that seems to have settled into the consciousness of swathes of media is …

2018-10-27: Hey, you, the library crew.

2018-10-25: Oh, Google. This is shameful. How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New …

2018-10-25: Epic skies!

2018-10-25: My contribution to the digital fix debate is out in print… …in German.

2018-10-25: Revisiting Next Conference, aurally. 🎧 Oh, to be in a Hamburg coffee shop now!

2018-10-24: Many #interhacktives hands make…

2018-10-24: It’s that time of the #interhacktives year…

2018-10-22: The Final Days of Johnston Press - and the parlous state of local journalism in the UK.

2018-10-22: The conclusion of today’s experiments: my 5 year old MacBook Pro is still good for 4k video …

2018-10-22: Blogging is dead… …unless you’re in fashion, where you’re influential enough to appear …

2018-10-22: How people silence each other on social networks - some useful research.

2018-10-22: Government needs to break the tech roach motels. Data portability FTW.

2018-10-22: Firing up Final Cut Pro, and seeing if my aging Mac can actually handle some 4k with decent proxy …

2018-10-21: Queen of the whole damn forest

2018-10-19: Dusk feeders

2018-10-19: Bloody hell: Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs Still, he has a consistent pattern …

2018-10-19: I, for one, welcome our new Swedish Queen and a return to farcical aquatic ceremonies as a …

2018-10-18: Just a fungi to be with.

2018-10-18: This is interesting - despite some of the recent backlash, podcasts are still big enough business …

2018-10-18: Having a very Brighton morning.

2018-10-18: Brighton, I am in you.

2018-10-18: I never knew there was an Autumn emoji. 🍂

2018-10-16: Autumn is well and truly here.

2018-10-16: My brain is a ridiculous place. I have an enforced day off because my youngest is unwell - but I’m …

2018-10-12: I have co-authored books with Chuck. Chuck is a good person. This makes me very cross.

2018-10-12: This is an eye-opening read about the biggest issue of the next 15 years: How to deal with despair …

2018-10-11: Barbados, late 2011 I’ve just been pottering around editing some old photos, from our last pre-children holiday. …

2018-10-11: Now, that’s what I call release notes. 💯 👌🏻

2018-10-11: Finally writing the three new training course descriptions I’ve been itching to launch for …

2018-10-10: I backed this film on Kickstarter, and can’t wait to finally see it: Dieter Rams wants Silicon …

2018-10-10: Feeling guilty about accidentally leaving my reusable coffee cup behind.

2018-10-09: If you’re a Brit who remembers the 70s, this album is a joy: Matt Berry - TV Themes

2018-10-09: Such a lovely, simple concept: Technology is no longer scarce, our attention is. Technology is …

2018-10-09: Just been editing and adding links to this #next18 piece, and David Mattin’s framework for …

2018-10-08: Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure I’ll skip the obvious jokes and just …

2018-10-08: This is a whole bag of “nope” from me: Facebook announces Portal, its new video chatting hardware

2018-10-08: This, right here, is why men need feminism, too. Clichéd gender roles are harming both sexes. How …

2018-10-07: The weekend finishing on a high note.

2018-10-06: The new raincoat passes muster.

2018-10-06: Friday’s End

2018-10-05: Stunning weather up on the South Downs today.

2018-10-05: Selfies Have Led to 259+ Deaths Since 2011 🤦🏼‍♂️

2018-10-05: I’ve run out of Aeropress filters 😱

2018-10-05: What a stunning morning,

2018-10-04: Hello, micro.blog. Show me nice things to remind me why I like social media…

2018-10-04: The two basics of digital #journalism that too many people forget: Attention and Atomisation

2018-10-04: Much as I love Wikipedia, its process for assessing the notability of people is seriously flawed, …

2018-10-02: Oh, hello.

2018-10-02: The best single feature in Safari is its ability to search all the open tabs on any device tied to …

2018-10-02: “Hey, Siri. Play something I’ll like.” “OK. Let’s press play. Here’s the Corrs.” Oh, we’re going …

2018-10-02: What I loved about this #next18 talk by @ecomoliterno — apart from the energy of the delivery — was …

2018-10-02: My family is actively trying to reduce our use of Amazon. This talk from @t3killer at #NEXT18 was an …

2018-10-02: Andrew Keen’s five point plan for fixing digital, from #next18.

2018-10-02: New academic research suggests that automated accounts used the film to stoke cultural conflict: …

2018-10-01: My September in 32 seconds… Here’s what my September looked like, in one second of footage from every day…

2018-10-01: September in one second every day. #1seme

2018-10-01: Just had a PR email suggesting that I write a sponsored post about how I slept while I was pregnant. …

2018-09-30: Current status:

2018-09-30: I’m reminded today that what I read has a huge impact on my stress levels. Stuff about social media, …

2018-09-27: Stunning day.

2018-09-26: Why do I aim to be at the station soon after 7am, when I don’t start lecturing until 11am? This is …

2018-09-25: Interesting interview with Instagram co-founder Systrom in 2012: Can Instagram live on if its …

2018-09-25: Instagram’s founders are leaving, possibly because of increasing interference from Zuckerberg. …

2018-09-25: Working in MacOS Mohave’s dark mode. Interesting - will take a while to get used to (if I …

2018-09-23: This is a beautiful little poem: Woodsmoke: A Poem

2018-09-22: Hamburg, this afternoon:

2018-09-21: Current status:

2018-09-21: My kind of place.

2018-09-21: This talk about human higher order needs and tech was just fascinating… David Mattin: New …

2018-09-20: Lots of failure you can learn from here - including the spray-on condom. Yes, really.

2018-09-20: Rolled up foam for chairs. Interesting. (Haven’t dared try one yet.)

2018-09-20: The #next18 live-blogging station set and ready.

2018-09-20: Apparently hotel Wi-fi doesn’t always have to suck.

2018-09-19: Badged. #next18

2018-09-19: All wristbanded up for @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival #next18

2018-09-19: I have a desk mate for the afternoon…

2018-09-19: Well. I’m glad the horrible turbulence was at the start of the trip…

2018-09-19: Leaving behind a grey London for Hamburg and @nextconf and #next18

2018-09-18: Having one of those days that remind me why I’m self-employed. How did I put up with corporate …

2018-09-17: Tonight’s agenda:

2018-09-17: Hard to disagree with this: Bring Back the Shadows: The Case Against HDR

2018-09-16: Beach picnic

2018-09-16: Just blew some reward points on a Heathrow hotel the night before my flight to Hamburg on Wednesday …

2018-09-16: Beach Life, September 16th

2018-09-15: What could possibly go wrong? Camping Tent Raft

2018-09-14: The babychino basked in the afternoon sun, blissfully unaware that a predator was about to pounce…

2018-09-14: Apple invents way more than Samsung or Google in phones - but “borrows” more, too. New iPhones, new …

2018-09-14: I’d love to see more cities do this: The entire city of Paris will be car-free for a day

2018-09-14: I’m pleased to say that The Guardian are now acknowledging their earlier daily podcasts — but …

2018-09-14: Goodness. Some of the Apple Watch Series 4 variants have slipped back 10 days in shipping already.

2018-09-13: Decided that I’m not going to upgrade my Series 2 Apple Watch to a Series 4. It still works great, …

2018-09-12: Catching up on the Apple news after the journalism event I’ve been at. Don’t need to upgrade my …

2018-09-12: Final proof that I love journalism more than I love Apple: I’ll be in the launch of some research …

2018-09-12: I’d love to see this book funded: Parkinson’s and the Tango Effect by Kate Swindlehurst: …

2018-09-12: This makes me sad. The Guardian was once a genuine innovator in the field of podcasts - and it both …

2018-09-12: Reading about the floods in Kerala and the clean up afterwards has been sobering. A year ago I …

2018-09-11: Fabulous reminiscences of the Public House Bookshop in Brighton which starts with an attack by the …

2018-09-11: Some interesting thoughts about the lack of distinctive richness in our online social profiles: …

2018-09-11: snigger ‘I Let Everyone Down’: A Blogger Apologizes For Not Posting In A While

2018-09-11: Wishing I’d brought a cot to the school “gate”.

2018-09-11: “Spray and Pray” is not a viable social media strategy for newsrooms. It’s worrying how often it is …

2018-09-11: Interesting piece on what’s shaping up to be GamerGate’s sibling,a dn another example of the extreme …

2018-09-11: Starting on this as soon as the girls get home: I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs …

2018-09-11: Provide something valuable, and people will pay: More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) …

2018-09-11: Nice to see them cracking on with the flood defence work.

2018-09-11: One of the faintly depressing things about doing a newsletter is that within moments of pressing …

2018-09-11: That last post nearly had “kinky goodness” instead of “linky goodness” and now I want to launch a …

2018-09-11: Prepping the latest issue of my sporadic interesting reading newsletter Commonplace Reading. Sign up …

2018-09-11: A page that makes me say “thank God for ebook pricing”: The Routledge Handbook of Developments in …

2018-09-11: I was podding about on Twitter last night and was about to do a comment retweet on something when I …

2018-09-11: Nothing makes a self-employed person’s morning happier than the words “remittance advice” in his …

2018-09-10: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? I found Zuckerberg straining, not …

2018-09-10: The internet is basically a stroppy teenager, getting in trouble with the authorities, and making us …

2018-09-10: The Imperious Imposters of Journalism Innovation

2018-09-10: I love blogging. I really do. But it does feel like getting traffic to OM&HB is harder then …

2018-09-10: Just for my microblog chums, this is the piece I was referring to: Don’t be an influencer, by a …

2018-09-10: Just spent a couple of hours writing a blog post, which pretty much guarantees nobody will ever read …

2018-09-10: Gah. Just spend a while constructing a post around a new feature of the CMS I use for One Man & …

2018-09-10: A little thinking on the serious violence and murders in India that follow WhatsApp-spread …

2018-09-10: This is a fascinating read: UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440

2018-09-09: Perfect day for a walk on Shoreham Beach

2018-09-08: I spent ages earlier looking for my green screen cleaning cloth. I just found it.

2018-09-08: Villiers Street, London - 1994 I’ve been scanning some old negatives in a pretty random way - just grab a packet and scan …

2018-09-06: Gone to seed.

2018-09-06: Testing a new mobile working set-up, with the iPad Pro 12.9 and the new Mark II Brydge keyboard…

2018-09-05: Could the way we read online be contributing to the polarisation of politics? Quite possibly.

2018-09-05: My goodness. An update to Flickr!: All new Flickr galleries

2018-09-04: Homework time. #backtoschool

2018-09-04: Amazon is losing out to Google in the in-house spy…I mean “smart speaker”… market. This …

2018-09-04: On the psychological impact of social media: ‘I had trained my mind to flit like a nervous sparrow’

2018-09-04: While Mastadon is interesting - the fact it so closely replicated the Twitter experience means it’s …

2018-09-04: Parenting, Twitter-style I’ve Decided to Parent the Way Jack Dorsey Runs Twitter Instead of family meetings where everyone …

2018-09-04: Abusive tweets to MPs ‘more than double’ between elections — given that Twitter’s user …

2018-09-03: RIP Jacqueline Pearce Servalan was a defining character of Blake’s 7, and hence of TV culture for a …

2018-09-03: Pre-school shoe fitting. Hazel needs new school and casual shoes. 💰🙄 (grumpy Dad mode in full …

2018-09-02: Dusk.

2018-09-02: Deploying the @fabsilofficial to renovate an old #tent

2018-09-02: Testing my original tent from 22 years ago! It’s not been used for 8 years, but is still in good …

2018-09-02: Testing the waterproofing on a 22 year old tent.

2018-09-01: More of nature’s bounty

2018-09-01: Fallen bounty.

2018-09-01: Camp life. #camping #newforest #campingintheforest #ashurst #outwell

2018-09-01: Apples. (Doing a first pass on the photos from our camping holiday).

2018-08-28: Cycle racks in place. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea

2018-08-26: Perfect day for a beach walk!

2018-08-25: Watching the babychinos being made in @tomfoolery.coffee

2018-08-24: OMG. Too much cute… We Didn’t Start The Fire (Harry Potter Parody)

2018-08-24: Wands: serious business.

2018-08-24: Amazing weather for a day at @springbarnfarm - not too hot, not too cold and some dramatic skies!

2018-08-23: One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost 2.0

2018-08-22: I’m excited to say that I’m a contributor to a new book on fixing our digital life, to be published …

2018-08-22: In severe danger of going full brony.

2018-08-21: I’m cringing now to beat the rush. The BBC is doing a new drama about journalism.

2018-08-20: I have earned this today.

2018-08-20: Do I deserve a beer tonight?

2018-08-20: I suspect that the context collapse created by retweeting may be the single biggest mistake Twitter …

2018-08-20: Hacking your SIM card to hack your Instagram. There’s Bitcoin in them there account names.

2018-08-20: Reasons I’m glad I cleared up my study before starting work: I was able to grab my macro lens …

2018-08-20: The new Doctor Who writing and directing team. It’s a lot more diverse than in the past.

2018-08-20: Doing tab archeology. The current wave of tabs I’m working through seem to be from May(!).

2018-08-20: @adders on Instagram

2018-08-20: The web shouldn’t all be about recency - we stand to lose too much valuable information if we …

2018-08-20: This talk by @kevinmarks nearly five years ago is still painfully relevant now.

2018-08-20: “sports luxe”? 🤔

2018-08-20: After the rain…

2018-08-20: Poked at Mastadon for the first time in a while. Great idea, but the UX still needs work. I’m quite …

2018-08-18: inessential: No Ill Effects: Twitter from the outside now looks like a massive world-wide frenzy …

2018-08-18: Calm Technology knows it is useful – but also knows its place

2018-08-18: Thanks for that, Netflix.

2018-08-18: I’m getting more verbose as I age. Set out to write 600 to 700 words. Currently sitting at 1,200.

2018-08-18: Do you what I like about smart speakers? They just sit quietly, waiting to be called upon, while …

2018-08-16: Heavyweight reading.

2018-08-16: Coffee and the latest issue of Standart. Perfect.

2018-08-16: Enjoying my copy of @standartmag #nobodybuysbooks and my @aero.press winner collectors card

2018-08-16: Exploring the babychino options in town. This one, from Ginger & Dobschütz, got full marks from …

2018-08-15: Um, OK.

2018-08-15: This is a sobering read about the dehumanisation deep in the psychology of some Silicon Valley …

2018-08-15: Maybe writing about CMSes isn’t a path to viral content success - but it matters to me. 😎 Content …

2018-08-15: I love “less is more" journalism models. This one is from India: The Ken raises $1.5M in its …

2018-08-15: Some rather curious - and possibly co-ordinated - Instagram hacking going on. Worth watching.

2018-08-14: I just realised what you get if you spell my youngest’s name backwards. Hey, Iris…

2018-08-14: Steyning Adventure A school holidays adventure day exploring a neighbouring town.

2018-08-14: A basket full of soft toys

2018-08-13: The mask slips, just a little: Facebook traffic to publishers is gone - and Campbell Brown just …

2018-08-13: How Facebook distorted human interactions on the altar of engagement.

2018-08-13: Nice contextualisation: How to get human time back from technology

2018-08-13: Really enjoyed editing and prepping for publication a guest post for the Next Conference blog. …

2018-08-12: Sunday afternoon crafting.

2018-08-12: #huji #selfie

2018-08-11: Someone who self-describes as “brutally honest” is probably either a delusional bully or just plain …

2018-08-11: Once upon a time, I was generally excellent.

2018-08-10: Not getting on the wrong side of Iris if I can help it…

2018-08-10: Gotta say - I’m proud of my wee girl.

2018-08-09: The time has come…

2018-08-08: The interesting thing not really explored by the article, is that the rating the author puts himself …

2018-08-04: Bluetooth keyboard for an iPhone? Sure!

2018-08-04: Happy post-holiday reading.

2018-08-04: Love a bit of skyscraper porn: This week, images of Europe’s tallest skyscraper were revealed

2018-07-25: Interesting - Slack has shifted their blog off Medium to WordPress. Now at: slackhq.com

2018-07-24: Lovely piece about both the incredible potential of computational photography - and the romance of …

2018-07-24: My goodness, this makes me want to visit Sweden. (Especially the cabin/boat thing. Want.)

2018-07-24: You have to wonder if anyone at Facebook has ever heard the phrase “when in a hole, stop digging”.

2018-07-23: Watching your partner fall in love with someone else - on Strava. Leaky public data and unintended …

2018-07-23: The worst typo when you meant “general"

2018-07-23: I’ve been largely absent from Twitter for months. I’ve been giving a little thought as …

2018-07-23: “Civility always; servility never”: In this grim age of Trump and Brexit, online fury is a dead end …

2018-07-22: It’s getting to the point when I find a corporate or organisation “blog” that actually has an RSS …

2018-07-22: Sunday morning is coffee time!

2018-07-22: This is not the Beano of my youth - and that’s a good thing: Beano Launches New Comic Strip Focused …

2018-07-20: Hazel’s getting really good now.

2018-07-20: New belt for Iris.

2018-07-19: Under 50 e-mails in my inbox. 🙌🏻

2018-07-17: This is a really good listen on the social problems of the social web Ellen Pao on Ezra Kelin’s …

2018-07-17: Greta piece by Om Malik on follower counts and the dangers of seeing social media as a broadcast …

2018-07-17: This is a fascinating read on the need for context to properly frame historic photos and their …

2018-07-17: Nope Nope Nope Nope

2018-07-13: My little ninja’s successful first test. New belt!

2018-07-13: This really is another step towards the iPad becoming the default creative tool for many: Adobe to …

2018-07-12: Is Apple doing away with its in-built book printing services? Did I miss an announcement?

2018-07-10: Tactical approached to combatting misinformation only get us so far - and people are dying now. Time …

2018-07-09: I have to say, this is not the sort of story you hope to read about a former student: The Times Has …

2018-07-07: A place in the shade, an espresso, an iPad and my daughter’s Rainbows troop in the distance. Good …

2018-07-07: Now, this is how a cartoonist takes his revenge…

2018-07-07: Busy pulling together my curated reads newsletter for the first time in over three months (!). If …

2018-07-06: Result.

2018-07-06: This is a compelling story charting the rise of a toxic online male culture that led to incel …

2018-07-06: This is a thoughtful and useful piece: You don’t have to live in public

2018-07-06: That was a long time ago. The book is browning at the edges…

2018-07-05: These are my notes from a talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at LeWeb back in 2014. He was starting to say …

2018-07-05: For focused writing, Markdown is your best friend. Tru dat.

2018-07-05: Goodness. Who know that my old pro gaming work might open the door to a new career? Digital …

2018-07-05: Bless Blizzard and the Overwatch team for doing something that allows me to write “a teeny tiny …

2018-07-05: The creator of the World Wide Web is fighting to reclaim it from the Duopoly - if you don’t care …

2018-07-05: Good morning. Hard at work in my favourite coffee shop.

2018-07-05: The Web has become anti-human Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t mince his words: “We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of …

2018-07-04: Beer, beer, beer… what?

2018-07-04: Note to self: never try to analyse the physics of PAW Patrol. (But where does the water for …

2018-07-04: Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.

2018-07-04: Psychologists have looked into why “phubbing” is so harmful to our social lives - no big surprises, …

2018-07-04: Why the heck has Star Wars ended up with such a toxic fandom?

2018-07-03: This piece on making retail businesses into experience centres is actually quite depressing. I was …

2018-07-03: Oh, GoPro, you make great cameras, but your marketing is so dumb

2018-07-03: The sheer hell of living here on a day like today… 😇

2018-07-03: These boats need some TLC, though.

2018-07-03: Down by the coast is the best place to be in this heat.

2018-07-03: This looks like a good hire - hopefully Apple’s streaming video offering won’t be US-centric by a …

2018-07-03: My inbox is down to 10% of where I started - at 50 e-mails. Coffee time, and then I start catching …

2018-07-03: Ugh. I have unanswered email going back six weeks. I really did lose control of my diary.

2018-07-02: Now, can I still post?

2018-07-02: OK - about to nuke the newer of the two accounts. Hopefully I’ll still be able to post …

2018-07-02: One micro-blog account, twice. A seemingly irresolvable issue. I’m a bit at a loss as to what to do with my account here. Due to some weirdness, I’m …

2018-06-28: Nearly done writing several thousand words for an actual book. How delightlyful old-school, in-depth …

2018-06-28: Overheard in my local coffee shop: “Oh, dear, we’re out of avocadoes.” OMG THE MILLENIALS ARE HERE.

2018-06-20: How this for slow blogging? I just published a post I wrote in 2008. Going online: be brave

2018-06-19: Facebook to small publishers: no Instant Articles for you.

2018-06-19: 21st century communication: not only am I desperately behind on my correspondence, half the time I …

2018-06-19: That felt good. I did something that I thought other people might find interesting - and blogged …

2018-06-19: A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for …

2018-06-18: Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally …

2018-06-14: iOS’s in-built screen recorder is an absolute Godsend for supporting family members.

2018-06-12: A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other …

2018-06-05: Why do I find it easier to network to find my former students work, than to get myself more gigs? 🤔

2018-06-05: Gah. The result of being with my children for pretty much all of the last 10 days is that I don’t …

2018-06-04: I’m really happy with that WWDC keynote. Nothing that costs me money, and lots of quality of life …

2018-06-04: I’m enjoying the not-so-subtle shade being thrown at Facebook and its products in the screenshots …

2018-05-26: Astonishing to think this space tech is 19 years old now…

2018-05-26: Not sure this is a great message for the future of the journalism business…

2018-05-25: Just when you thought you were safe from GDPR - the app updates begin.

2018-05-25: Happy GDPR day!

2018-05-24: RIP StumbleUpon. Once you were a great way of finding stuff to read in a lunch break. StumbleUpon is …

2018-05-21: Bitcoin is a massive environmental threat - really Astonishing. Bitcoin may be undoing decades of progress on renewable energy: By late next year, …

2018-05-21: Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.

2018-05-21: Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak

2018-05-21: Reading this post by a former colleague makes me realise that I’ve really lost the skill of …

2018-05-19: I have to confess, I paid basically zero attention to the royal wedding in the build up to it. But …

2018-05-18: Pitch of the day: I am writing because I would like to write an article reviewing the best …

2018-05-17: Finishing the day right: wine, iPad and RSS feeds

2018-05-17: So, it turns out that Storyful journalists could see which videos their newsroom clients were …

2018-05-17: “I am about to lecture you about…” is always a more accurate description of articles headlined “We …

2018-05-17: I’m ready for the flood defence works to be finished now. (I’m grateful and all, but…)

2018-05-17: I’m up to date on my invoicing. This is an unfamiliar feeling for me.

2018-05-17: After 5 years, I’m actually getting good at making a note of what fee was agreed for a …

2018-05-17: New reading matter.

2018-05-17: Hmm. My mobile sessions have shot up to just over half of traffic. That suggests that I hit an …

2018-05-16: One of those days when I thought I’d knocked it out of the park with a post — and everyone …

2018-05-16: Facebook’s approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling.

2018-05-16: Sometimes wasted time is not wasted… On wasting time and triggering new discoveries

2018-05-16: This is insanely cool - customised Westwood, using Newton’s own Star Wars figure collection: Thandie …

2018-05-15: I should have a blogroll again.

2018-05-15: The man who coined the term blog has been blogging for 20 years.

2018-05-15: Five years of blog platform Ghost - a podcast

2018-05-15: Life lesson from the last week: potty training and illness co-inciding in the same child is not a …

2018-05-14: This post makes me both deeply nostalgic and deeply, deeply sad.

2018-05-14: The Stories format matters - because it tells us something about what the smartphone is doing to …

2018-05-14: Got a new look for those people who subscribe to my blog by e-mail.

2018-05-14: Having fun doing my homework The last five weeks or so have seen me away from home on business more than I’ve ever been …

2018-05-14: Having fun doing my homework The last five weeks or so have seen me away from home on business more than I’ve ever been …

2018-05-14: Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace …

2018-05-14: Today’s coffee geek lesson: If your aeropress starts making a mess, it’s time to replace …

2018-05-12: And on the way home&#x2026; &lt;img …

2018-05-12: And on the way home…

2018-05-12: That was worth the walk. &lt;img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f209b428f4.jpg" …

2018-05-12: That was worth the walk.

2018-05-11: Medium: destroyer of journalism

2018-05-11: Medium: destroyer of journalism

2018-05-10: Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.

2018-05-10: Wow. Icro is lovely. Really lovely.

2018-05-10: Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.

2018-05-10: Medium drives a final nail in the coffin of its publishing partners. Way to build trust there.

2018-05-10: In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend …

2018-05-10: In memory of the late, unlamented Klout, let’s remember the time its founder failed to defend …

2018-05-10: We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.

2018-05-10: We need to talk about hyperactivity in media - and why it’s a problem.

2018-05-10: Pop goes the influencer.

2018-05-10: Pop goes the influencer.

2018-05-10: The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook.

2018-05-10: The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook.

2018-05-10: Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.

2018-05-10: Interesting Kickstarter for a book about the original emoji and their designer.

2018-05-08: Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook&#x2019;s reorg&#x2026;that aren&#x2019;t there. …

2018-05-08: Gosh, look at all the women in Facebook’s reorg…that aren’t there.

2018-05-06: What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed&#x2026; (satire)

2018-05-06: What’s next for Facebook’s newsfeed… (satire)

2018-05-06: Medium goes all in on being a social network for content

2018-05-06: Medium goes all in on being a social network for content

2018-05-05: Beach Life The sun is actually out for a Bank Holiday weekend, so we made the arduous five minutes‘ walk to the …

2018-05-05: First water shoes day of the year. <img …

2018-05-05: First water shoes day of the year.

2018-05-05: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.

2018-05-05: IMHO, I’m team Humble all the way.

2018-05-05: IMHO, I&#x2019;m team Humble all the way.

2018-05-05: A shellfull on the beach today. 🐚 🐚 🐚

2018-05-04: And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane? <img …

2018-05-04: And exactly how am I meant to do that on a plane?

2018-05-03: Still struggling with two micro.blog accounts with identical names - and no idea which one each post …

2018-05-03: Still struggling with two micro.blog accounts with identical names - and no idea which one each post …

2018-05-03: Olympic dreams.

2018-05-03: Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18 <img …

2018-05-03: Possible epic RickRoll in my near future. #ifswoco18

2018-05-03: Hello, Belinda Carlisle #ifswoco18 <img …

2018-05-03: Hello, Belinda Carlisle #ifswoco18

2018-05-02: Mr Rick Astley working it tonight.

2018-05-02: Room not found.

2018-05-01: Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.

2018-05-01: Turns out, Twitter is a video company now.

2018-05-01: A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?

2018-05-01: A new language for work, hobbies and meaning?

2018-04-30: Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month. <img …

2018-04-30: Probably not worth worrying about on the last day of the month.

2018-04-30: Here we go again. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/4dc56245c3.jpg" …

2018-04-30: Here we go again.

2018-04-29: Sunday morning beach walk. <img …

2018-04-29: Sunday morning beach walk.

2018-04-29: Sailing under stormy skies on #shorehambeach

2018-04-28: Calm out today. #shorehambysea

2018-04-26: This made me laugh slightly too hard: >“I’m pretty sure anyone who has kids knows how hard it is …

2018-04-26: This made me laugh slightly too hard: “I’m pretty sure anyone who has kids knows how hard it is to …

2018-04-26: Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the …

2018-04-26: Not entirely sure that setting yourself up as the purity police is a good approach to fixing the …

2018-04-26: Oh, dear. Started looking at a bunch of things and people I thought were interesting advocates for a …

2018-04-26: Oh, dear. Started looking at a bunch of things and people I thought were interesting advocates for a …

2018-04-26: A little help folks? Can you suggest some other people fighting for a better digital world, like …

2018-04-26: A little help folks? Can you suggest some other people fighting for a better digital world, like …

2018-04-25: Not hard to guess where I am today…

2018-04-24: I just ran out of coffee. 😱

2018-04-24: I just ran out of coffee. 😱

2018-04-23: I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite …

2018-04-23: I really love portrait mode on the iPhone X. It lifts ordinary snapshots into something quite …

2018-04-23:

2018-04-22: Worthing #worthless campaign.

2018-04-22: The thing I loved about Saturday’s education protest is that it wasn’t the normal suspects, but …

2018-04-22: Home made protest signs are the best protest signs.

2018-04-22: Get in. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" …

2018-04-22: Get in. &lt;img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/7d96a7bd43.jpg" …

2018-04-22: Get in.

2018-04-22: Beach life. <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" …

2018-04-22: Beach life. &lt;img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/58d017d7d5.jpg" …

2018-04-22: Beach life.

2018-04-21: Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts. <img …

2018-04-21: Just another Saturday afternoon protesting school funding cuts.

2018-04-21: This looks like good news. Flickr is finally back in the hands of a smart, photo-centric company: …

2018-04-21: This looks like good news. Flickr is finally back in the hands of a smart, photo-centric company: …

2018-04-20: Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram: <img …

2018-04-20: Heatwave evidence discovered on Instagram:

2018-04-19: Well, that does look like we’re having a heatwave, doesn’t it?

2018-04-19: I’m really excited by the theme of #NEXT18 in Hamburg this September: Digital Fix - because if …

2018-04-19: I’m really excited by the theme of #NEXT18 in Hamburg this September: Digital Fix - because if …

2018-04-19: This one’s growing up terrifyingly fast.

2018-04-19: Such a shy, retiring girl.

2018-04-19: Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…

2018-04-19: Everywhere you go, everything you do, Zuckerberg’s tracking you…

2018-04-19: First pub garden opportunity of the year. ☀️ 🍺

2018-04-18: Where did all those GDPR Consultants come from? Benjamin Ellis: > Actually, I’m not wearing a hat at all right now. I’ve taken it off to the …

2018-04-18: Where did all those GDPR Consultants come from? Benjamin Ellis: Actually, I’m not wearing a hat at all right now. I’ve taken it off to the …

2018-04-16: British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home. <img …

2018-04-16: British Airways Boeing 787 for the night flight home.

2018-04-16: Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister: <img …

2018-04-16: Sometimes hotel corridors look marvellously sinister:

2018-04-16: Today’s office view: <img src=“http://adders.micro.blog/uploads/2018/06a4232187.jpg" …

2018-04-16: Today’s office view:

2018-04-16: Today&#x2019;s office view: &lt;img …

2018-04-16: On a @british_airways @boeing 787 from Abu Dhabi. Premium economy for the night flight.

2018-04-16: Walking the #hotelcorridors

2018-04-16: Today’s office view.

2018-04-15: Now this is a good idea: the UAE is planning day visas for passengers transiting through Dubai. …

2018-04-15: Now this is a good idea: the UAE is planning day visas for passengers transiting through Dubai. …

2018-04-15: You can’t beat moody lighting and flowers in a hotel reception, can you?

2018-04-15: Nice to have a hotel right next door to the client.

2018-04-14: Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤 <img …

2018-04-14: Happy with my room. Now to get some 💤

2018-04-14: Hello, Abu Dhabi.

2018-04-14: Hello, Abu Dhabi.

2018-04-13: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.

2018-04-13: Well, hello. That’s my first microcast test published.

2018-04-13: Well, hello. That&#x2019;s my first microcast test published.

2018-04-13: First Microcast Just a first attempt at using Wavelength.

2018-04-13: Well, blast. I just tried to add podcasting to my account, to play with Wavelength. I now I appear …

2018-04-13: Well, blast. I just tried to add podcasting to my account, to play with Wavelength. I now I appear …

2018-04-13: This feels pretty much like any mildly controversial conversation on Twitter these days.

2018-04-12: Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t …

2018-04-12: Oh, cool. iMovie for iOS updated for iPhone X - and now uses Metal for video processing. I can’t …

2018-04-12: Addicts don't care what they give up The real technology problem: Trust me, the guy behind the register at the deli where I get my …

2018-04-11: This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader

2018-04-11: This made me genuinely LoL: 21 Rules for Being a Better Thought Leader

2018-04-09: Farewell, Maastricht. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/af5e282ef7.jpg" …

2018-04-09: Farewell, Maastricht.

2018-04-09: Rule for life.

2018-04-09: I love this piece of art in the courtyard at the University of Maastricht.

2018-04-09: Seat of learning.

2018-04-08: Not a happy chappie.

2018-04-08: Maastricht station is quite impressive.

2018-04-08: Fourth country of the day: UK, France, Belgium and now the Netherlands. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇳🇱

2018-04-08: This chap does not look happy.

2018-04-08: Maastricht station is quite something.

2018-04-08: All Change Chasing at Liège-Guillemins Railway Station in my way to Maastricht. I love the mix of classic 70s …

2018-04-08: Heading for the continent on the Eurostar.

2018-04-08: Quick change…

2018-04-07: A decade since I last celebrated her birthday with my Mum. It does get easier, but never easy.

2018-04-07: Easter Adur-side Pub Walk For the first time in what seems like weeks we had some lovely weather yesterday. I grabbed the …

2018-04-07: Flood defences going in behind Riverside Road. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea

2018-04-06: Easter holiday forced route march with Daddy.

2018-04-05: As long as Twitter rewards hoaxing with attention, it’s going to get ever less useful for …

2018-04-05: With a bit of luck, my Disqus comments should have been moved across to the new URLs on One Man …

2018-04-05: I ain’t afraid of no dentist…

2018-04-04: Change is upon us. One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost - and I couldn’t be happier.

2018-04-04: So, here’s today’s interesting thought: I’ve been using FeedPress to track my number of …

2018-04-04: Finally. #spring <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8e2ee981bd.jpg" …

2018-04-04: Finally. #spring

2018-04-04: Spring has sprung.

2018-04-02: I suspect this is a particularly British thing - and especially Radio 4 listeners - but I really …

2018-04-01: March in 1 second every day.

2018-04-01: I’ve found my band name.

2018-04-01: Got the wok out and did a stir fry for the first time in an age. Thankfully, the girls ate it…

2018-04-01: Open RSS reader. First screen is mainly obvious April Fools. Close RSS reader.

2018-03-31: Flood defences looking good.

2018-03-30: Editing photos from last summer is making me excited for this summer’s return to France.

2018-03-29: The first one is the spookiest: iPhone in a 1937 painting - and in an 1860 painting. And 1918.

2018-03-29: Over the next six weeks work is taking me to Maastricht, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta and… …Milton Keynes.

2018-03-29: I require a coffee robot.

2018-03-29: Blog post of the Beast. 😈

2018-03-28: Reading stage 8 celebration cake 👏🏻

2018-03-28: End of a long day. Tom Foolery pit stop on the way home. ☕️

2018-03-27: The App Store appears to be quite unwell this evening.

2018-03-27: I feel like a traitor to my generation for quite liking avocado toast, and not resenting the fact …

2018-03-27: Interesting post from @Stephtara about how Facebook seduced her away from blogging - but the …

2018-03-25: I find cooking the traditional Sunday roast a meditative experience. It really helps me unwind.

2018-03-25: I really enjoyed this episode of Ramblings about walking in London. Back when I was single and …

2018-03-24: Upping our feeding game here in team 10, @zgarbz 😛

2018-03-23: Haze bounced back enough to go to her class - and the first step towards her green belt:

2018-03-23: Two sick children = little time for anything else.

2018-03-23: First step towards her green belt.

2018-03-22: Dave Winer > Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing …

2018-03-22: Dave Winer Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing Google to …

2018-03-22: Replacing Facebook. The principal barrier to many people leaving Facebook is a manifestation of the network effect. It …

2018-03-22: I’d like to be able to say I enjoyed Zuckerberg’s cover of “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”, …

2018-03-21: The First Shoreham Flock Tom Foolery Coffee Company. First gathering of Shoreham-by-Sea digital and entrepreneurial people. A …

2018-03-21: A Brief History Of Mark Zuckerberg Apologizing (Or Not Apologizing) - the best bit is that literally …

2018-03-20: Talking of change l finally found the time for a much-needed haircut this morning…

2018-03-20: Change is coming…

2018-03-18: The tracks that will make life hard for Southern commuters tomorrow.

2018-03-18: Very festive. Just a bit late.

2018-03-18: This is why I’m in London on a Sunday Evening. Running a course tomorrow, and that looks like enough …

2018-03-17: Sometimes, I forget how lucky I am to live somewhere where I can take photos like this from my home …

2018-03-17: It’s technically spring here. ❄️ 🙄

2018-03-17: Ah, the joys of spring.

2018-03-16: The @TryGhost team are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer: blog.ghost.org

2018-03-15: Another, more positive, HomePod thought: since its arrival my daughters now see any speaker without …

2018-03-14: Well, how about that. Facebook bans Britain First: Taking Action Against Britain First

2018-03-14: Apple’s acquisition of Texture (a digital magazine subscription app) means we should probably …

2018-03-14: My major HomePod Siri annoyance: when my girls ask for “My Little Pony: the Movie”, Siri replies …

2018-03-14: I’m old enough to remember when the discussion about “a Spotify for News” was …

2018-03-13: My irregular interesting reading newsletter is going out in an hour’s time. Sign up, if you …

2018-03-13: Oh, a lovely, tiny kickstarted type nerd joy has arrived:

2018-03-13: Nice sight waiting for me in my local coffee shop.

2018-03-13: Daff-a-down Dillies

2018-03-12: Quick Coffee between sessions with students 80 Stone Coffee.

2018-03-12: Bad instagrammer leaves it a bit late to photograph his coffee.

2018-03-12: Rain does not interrupt play.

2018-03-12: Still missing you Mum, even after all these years.

2018-03-11: Rain interrupts play.

2018-03-09: Oh, my. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/c364967954.jpg" …

2018-03-09: Oh, my.

2018-03-09: Serious signs of #spring in #shorehambysea

2018-03-08: Uninstalling all social media from my 12 inch iPad Pro - I want to make this my productivity and …

2018-03-08: For all the creepy, invasive tracking ad companies do, they still can’t figure out that sending me a …

2018-03-08: The Adur, 6.45am I was early enough out of the house this morning that I had time to pause on the Adur Ferry Bridge …

2018-03-07: I have got the insane number of tabs i had open across five device down to under 20, and everything …

2018-03-07: I wonder how many sites are publishing RSS feeds but are blissfully unaware of it, just because they …

2018-03-07: I really like the ideas in this: Take your time: the seven pillars of a Slow Thought manifesto

2018-03-07: Presented without comment: The shop that buys your dead uncle’s porn collection (It’s a …

2018-03-07: Getting Sunlit&#x2026; <a href=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/8ee84ba852.jpg"&gt;&lt;img …

2018-03-07: Getting Sunlit…

2018-03-07: Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.

2018-03-07: Understanding the meme - because there’s more to this than just funny captions.

2018-03-07: Not sure why I’m bothering writing on my blog today, when basically my entire audience is either at …

2018-03-07: Seven years ago publishers were dying because they trusted Google for all their traffic. Now the …

2018-03-07: Another warning about the ease with which moral certainty can lead to us to slip into stereotyping …

2018-03-07: Listening to Oasis’s Wonderwall always reminds me of commuting by bus to Croydon to work on Hotel …

2018-03-06: Love in the city.

2018-03-06: Wikipedia is a bit like a sausage: the more you look at how it is made, the less appetising you find …

2018-03-05: I cannot even articulate how wrong this is…

2018-03-05: Listening to a 2003 playlist on Apple Music. This was the music of the year I started my blog. God, …

2018-03-05: My blog is 15 years old today. I’m not sure if that’s an achievement, or just sheer …

2018-03-05: Are GAFA coming for the news business? I hope not - but then, who would have seen them getting into …

2018-03-04: There’s something very British about seeing a couple of hundred families wrapped up against the cold …

2018-03-03: Digital artist in the making

2018-03-02: A post-mortem on Typed.com, a crowdfunded blogging platform that never really built up any momentum.

2018-03-02: I’ve transferred this old Typed post over to OM&HB, for archival reasons, really. There …

2018-03-02: Just downloaded the content I had on Typed, a blog platform that dies today. I backed it as a …

2018-03-02: The snow’s back, but not really settling too badly.

2018-03-01: Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives. @manton is …

2018-03-01: This is me, basically: Dads hold candlelight vigil for Maplin

2018-03-01: Signs that I’m on a deadline: I’m descaling the kettle.

2018-03-01: Doing our bit for the birds. Poor blighters.

2018-03-01: World Book Day. Off goes Tinkerbell to school in the snow. 🙄

2018-03-01: Just snow dusted here this morning.

2018-03-01: Just snow dusted here this morning. <img …

2018-03-01: Nice to see Nosy Crow featured in the App Store today - I spoke at their conference a few years ago.

2018-03-01: I love the fact my @fieldnotesbrand notebooks are always a mix of my work notes and my daughter’s …

2018-03-01: Tinkerbell prepares for school… #worldbookday

2018-02-28: Snow joke. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/e0ff5a29f4.jpg" …

2018-02-28: Snow joke.

2018-02-28: Ends and Means > Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call …

2018-02-28: Ends and Means Now I see Google abusing their monopoly again, this time with AMP. They may call the …

2018-02-28: On my way to a London on a cold, snowy morning.

2018-02-28: Got up to London super early today in case of snow problems. Thus I had nearly two hours in a café …

2018-02-28: It was a chilly, snowy sunrise at #shorehambysea station this morning.

2018-02-27: Today is the annual “Gosh, cameras routinely under-expose snow, don’t they?” day in the UK.

2018-02-27: New desktop background:

2018-02-27: Looks like the inevitable bursting of the Facebook Live bubble is upon us. Good. What a waste of …

2018-02-27: This was a nice surprise on our doorstep

2018-02-27: School run looking a bit different this morning.

2018-02-27: Church looking snowy. #shorehambysea

2018-02-27: That looks chilly. #shorehambysea

2018-02-26: The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.

2018-02-26: The beauty of Kerala in India - I was lucky enough to visit on business last year.

2018-02-26: Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic …

2018-02-26: Interesting - Ghost (the blog platform) toying with dropping support for AMP - a “monopolistic …

2018-02-26: Snow’s reached Shoreham-by-Sea, then…

2018-02-26: A painfully good take-down of the various proposed solutions to disinformation on Facebook

2018-02-26: Here’s some game history books funding right now that the gamers amongst you might be interested in …

2018-02-26: Typical commuter trying to exert dominance by progressively pushing his MacBook Pro forwards.

2018-02-26: I’d love to see this funded: a book of nature writing by women.

2018-02-26: Welcome to the Hotel Medium There aren’t enough eye-rolls in the world for this one: The time you spend building your …

2018-02-26: East Street in the snow. #shorehambysea

2018-02-26: Blogs are digital thought spaces

2018-02-26: That’ll be settling snow then.

2018-02-25: The online world’s tendency to publicly allow others to assign a numerical value to your creative …

2018-02-25: The dangerous downsides of perfectionism

2018-02-24: Learning to let things go may be one of the hardest lessons to learn in life.

2018-02-23: Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now.

2018-02-23: Kinda looking forwards to these flood defence works behind the house being done now. <img …

2018-02-22: Something rather lovely has just arrived: The Secret History of Mac Gaming. I backed this an age ago …

2018-02-22: Why did the chicken cross the road? DHL couldn’t deliver it. Drop it, Hide it, Lose it: Apparently, DHL isn’t satisfied with simply failing to deliver …

2018-02-22: Is the dream of the good digital citizen dead?

2018-02-21: Nice spot for lunch.

2018-02-21: Nice spot for lunch. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/c00a8cf2c0.jpg" …

2018-02-20: Dramatic sunset this evening.

2018-02-20: The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues…

2018-02-20: Dramatic sunset in #shorehambysea

2018-02-20: The great KFC crisis of 2018 continues.

2018-02-19: Updates out for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Looks like just a patch for the character crashing …

2018-02-19: Even in the depths of the social media backlash, there’s reason for hope

2018-02-19: Down by the Thames.

2018-02-19: Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.

2018-02-19: Looks like Facebook is playing fast and loose with its definition of news.

2018-02-19: Cute artisanal coffee shops make dreary London days better.

2018-02-19: Iris is having a happy morning.

2018-02-18: Beach adventures for the girls earlier.

2018-02-17: Day’s end on the beach.

2018-02-17: More signs of spring

2018-02-17: Twitter users: “Get rid of the abuse and Nazis”. Twitter: “We’re killing the Mac app.” Twitter …

2018-02-16: Signs of spring.

2018-02-16: Wild builder.

2018-02-16: Seems legit. 🤔 #mylittlepony #myhappyhorse

2018-02-16: Spring lambs.

2018-02-16: Gorgeous day to spend at @springbarnfarm

2018-02-15: Nice example of a mag using digital to boost print.

2018-02-15: Fancy a little AR in your news?

2018-02-15: It’s not just journalism, politics has a Facebook problem, too.

2018-02-15: Tiny, British iPad

2018-02-14: Oh, America. 😥

2018-02-14: A Valentine’s fable of love, heartache and betrayal, more dramatic than anything on screen: Facebook …

2018-02-14: Anyone shocked by how Facebook is hanging the news industry out to dry is probably forgetting that …

2018-02-14: Our long international nightmare of Emoji Frgmentation might be over…

2018-02-14: 6 years ago, I actually proposed this exact idea in an interview. And they mocked it. If nothing …

2018-02-14: It's not our attention that's being monetised, it's our data The Centre for Human Technology doesn’t want your attention: What the Center identifies as …

2018-02-13: I’m beginning to regret moving One Man & His Blog to WordPress. It’s got so “heavy" …

2018-02-13: I’m beginning to regret moving One Man & His Blog to WordPress. It’s got so “heavy" …

2018-02-13: Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye.

2018-02-13: Pretending to be a pirate, but actually fighting a lazy eye. <img …

2018-02-13: Blogging: not dead yet. I find this interview with Kottke to be hard going. I don’t — and possibly can’t — accept the …

2018-02-13: Blogging: not dead yet. I find this interview with Kottke to be hard going. I don’t — and possibly can’t — accept the …

2018-02-13: Avast there, me lubbers

2018-02-12: Freaky - Twitter appears to be blocking posting of blogspot.co.uk domains (but not blogspot.com):

2018-02-12: If I ever write a headline that starts “We need to talk about…” you have my full consent to give me …

2018-02-12: Pretty sure this ridiculous display of journalistic pettiness and arrogance is symptomatic of the …

2018-02-11: Had a little play with the DJI Osmo Mobile 2. Nice little gimbal. Here’s a little footage shot …

2018-02-11: All you need is… #love #valentines #valentinesday

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2018-02-10: Gimbal time. #djiosmomobile2

2018-02-09: HomePod: I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to music and drinking red wine. It’s been a …

2018-02-09: HomePod: I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to music and drinking red wine. It’s been a …

2018-02-09: Just switched to listening to some gentle, evening-friendly classical on the HomePod, and clarity of …

2018-02-09: HomePod first impressions: really fantastic sound, Siri better than expected, works fine for me and …

2018-02-09: Home is where the Pod is…

2018-02-08: Big sky day.

2018-02-08: As a middle-aged dad of daughters, falling to the dark side has taken on a new and terrible name: …

2018-02-08: My HomePod has shipped.

2018-02-08: John Perry Barlow thought that the struggle for digital freedom would continue after his death. And …

2018-02-08: Big skies in #shorehambysea

2018-02-07: New flood defences in place. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2018-02-06: I really was lucky to grow up in such a breathtaking place…

2018-02-06: However well-intentioned it might be, I fear that “best practice" all to often means …

2018-02-06: The growing visual homogeneity of Instagram (This is my grumpy old man post of the day…)

2018-02-06: I want a Mac with FaceID.

2018-02-06: These photos of the abandoned Coventry Evening Telegraph building are amazing.

2018-02-06: It saddens me how lacking in green the UK is in this map of European tree cover.

2018-02-06: I’ve finally written about how much I’m enjoying micro.blog on my macro blog…

2018-02-06: I love what The Atlantic is doing with its comment section

2018-02-06: Up, awake and updating WordPress sites.

2018-02-04: It looks like we got ourselves a reader…

2018-02-04: Beach scrap

2018-02-04: Instapaper is a decade old? Wow. That makes me feel old.

2018-02-04: Beach walk selfie 🤳

2018-02-03: Cleaning up some scans of old, damaged slides. This is a mid-80s fencing competition in Scotland.

2018-02-03: Saturday morning in the coffee shop.

2018-02-01: Another view of Shoreham by Sea, one that might disappear soon.

2018-02-01: Dinner on the go. Busy life when you’re five!

2018-02-01: Apple earnings: looking forward, it does look like new lines are starting to contribute growth even …

2018-02-01: Just caught up on Star Trek: Discovery. They’ve really pulled it off: a Star Trek that’s true to the …

2018-02-01: The NYT fake followers piece is having some interesting consequences. Much needed sunlight in dark …

2018-02-01: Here’s an unusual view of #shorehambeach from #shorehambysea

2018-01-31: Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like …

2018-01-31: Things like this suggest to me that @manton has exactly the right idea in not displaying things like …

2018-01-30: Some thoughts on fake followers and cargo cult influence

2018-01-30: Going old school on music today…

2018-01-30: You could basically replace this article about Brexit with an infinite number of Picard facepalm …

2018-01-30: What a stunning morning here in Shoreham-by-Sea

2018-01-30: What a morning. #shorehambysea #riveradur

2018-01-29: Surprisingly fun lecture today - possibly because had a lower turnout than normal - but really …

2018-01-28: Yorkshire puddings in progress…

2018-01-28: Yorkshire puddings in progress…

2018-01-27: Cold. Rainy. January. Rioja time. 🍷

2018-01-26: One White HomePod ordered for day one delivery - looking forward to experimenting with it.

2018-01-26: Daddy/daughter lunch… <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/166cbe8bd6.jpg" …

2018-01-26: Daddy/daughter lunch…

2018-01-26: How do we build an education system fit for the 21st century?

2018-01-25: Twilight in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #sussex #churches #churchyard

2018-01-25: Good morning. #amblogging (h/t to @danblank for doing his version of this every day…)

2018-01-24: I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.

2018-01-24: Sign that I’ve been flying more than travelling on trains of late: just hunted for my boarding pass …

2018-01-24: I imagine purgatory is much like Hayward’s Heath station at 9pm on a Wednesday.

2018-01-23: With Google no longer indexing older pages, and deletionists removing great swathes of human …

2018-01-22: Oh, Monday. Recommendation time. Micro Monday recommendation: @tibz - Thibault is a friend from his …

2018-01-22: This is the first year of my self-employment that I’ve been really disciplined about tracking …

2018-01-22: Stop. Coffee time. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/b2194620e4.jpg" …

2018-01-22: Stop. Coffee time.

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2018-01-21: I’m approaching the point where I consider use of the phrase “can’t fault” to be …

2018-01-20: Pretty impressive departure lounges at CDG

2018-01-20: 💕

2018-01-19: That moment when you realise the only music you have downloaded to your phone before a 14 hour …

2018-01-19: Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG <img …

2018-01-19: Here we go again… ✈️ SIN to CDG

2018-01-19: Rain and traffic. It’s Friday night in Singapore. 🇸🇬

2018-01-19: The rather deadly looking meeting rooom art that’s been hanging over @nchanglin’s head all day.

2018-01-18: Nice casual working spaces here.

2018-01-18: Not a filter. Anti-solar gain dots on the windows of the building.

2018-01-18: Rain and newspapers in Singapore.

2018-01-18: Hello, oh wandering bag.

2018-01-17: Great space for a day’s training.

2018-01-16: Pushing back. See you in 12 hours… ✈️

2018-01-16: Remembered it! (KLM doesn’t allow Bluetooth headphones)

2018-01-16: Long haul economy face…

2018-01-16: 🍿 Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller’s Russia Investigation

2018-01-16: Crucial long-haul detail sorted.

2018-01-16: Economy face. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/f30375719e.jpg" …

2018-01-16: Economy face.

2018-01-16: Off on my travels.

2018-01-16: Long haul economy face. #longhaulflight with @klm

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2018-01-15: That feeling when you’ve packed to get all your stuff for two days in Singapore into your carry-ons …

2018-01-15: Back in the smoke.

2018-01-14: That was a day well spent.

2018-01-14: That was a day well spent. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2018/6538e08c0e.jpg" …

2018-01-14: Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?

2018-01-14: Oh, Facebook. You have no sense of irony, do you?

2018-01-14: Beach Life part 3678 #shorehambeach

2018-01-12: Let’s see where journalism Twitter is on the five stages of grief about the Facebook newsfeed …

2018-01-12: A brief translation of today’s Facebook newsfeed news into English.

2018-01-12: The Facebook traffic apocalypse every smart publisher has been dreading is here: News Feed FYI: …

2018-01-11: Apparently I’m an academic now. Who knew?

2018-01-11: I loved the recent Quartz email about Victorian newspapers. So interesting, and such a good reminder …

2018-01-11: Invoicing done! 🎉 🎈 🎉

2018-01-11: Resolved: this morning I shall do nothing else until I have caught up on my invoicing.

2018-01-10: Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, …

2018-01-10: Finally caught up with the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Beautiful mix of fun, silly, …

2018-01-10: If I wasn’t professionally obligated to keep track of Facebook, I would be very tempted to do …

2018-01-10: Want, basically.

2018-01-10: Want, basically.

2018-01-10: Good lord, this Le Web panel has not aged well. Scoble and Milo sharing a stage…

2018-01-10: Iris modelling for me. Want to know what this is about? Link in bio! 😇

2018-01-09: We’re all vintage around here today.

2018-01-09: We’re having a vintage moment. #oillamp #victoriana

2018-01-09: The big iPad Pro has become my favourite way of working in surprisingly short order. I’m only …

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2018-01-08: I have thoughts about GoPro crashing out of the drone market. They need to let go of their extreme …

2018-01-08: Well, crap. GoPro is getting out of the drone business. Does DJi actually have any competition?

2018-01-08: Danger: man at knowledge work…

2018-01-08: My irregular curated reads newsletter is going out shortly. Bag yourself a copy.

2018-01-08: If Facebook is the big out-of-town big out-of-town supermarket of the web, it’s time to browse …

2018-01-08: This is a nice idea to make HomeKit a bit more accessible to the phone-control resistant: Eve Button

2018-01-07: Stop. Hammer time.

2018-01-04: Life comes at you fast, Mr Cameron.

2018-01-03: Looks like Facebook is ceding the referral crown to Google. This is not a sudden SEO surge, more …

2018-01-03: I feel surprisingly liberated by the deletion of my Wikipedia page - it makes my blog the first, …

2018-01-03: Surprisingly good likeness

2018-01-03: Sad day. I just discovered that my wikipedia page got deleted over Christmas. It was massively …

2018-01-02: Bored Panda lives or dies at Facebook’s whim - this is a horrible way to run a business.

2018-01-02: Will journalists feed the tech backlash - or help explain it? Oh, I think I know the answer.

2018-01-02: Crafting with Hazel. This is fun.

2018-01-02: Daddy/daughter crafting morning.

2018-01-01: This may seem obvious, but it took me a while to figure out that it’s better to treat micro.blog as …

2018-01-01: 😢 Watch Peter Capaldi’s TARDIS Console Room Get Deconstructed For One Last Time

2018-01-01: Well, this sounds cool: Germany has come up with the best solution to single-use coffee cups

2018-01-01: New Year beach walk!

2018-01-01: December in one second every day

2018-01-01: Happy New Year, all!

2018-01-01: Walker on the beach. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach #beachlife #beachwalk

2017-12-31: Out playing with their Christmas brollies in the British weather…

2017-12-31: Christmas razor dodger.

2017-12-31: Here’s my #2017bestnine - India, Ilé de Re, branding, a watch strap, Hazel in @tomfoolery.coffee and …

2017-12-31: Giving the Christmas Brollies a workout…. ☔️

2017-12-31: Me rocking the denim leisure suit. #muchlatergram

2017-12-28: This feels optimistic.

2017-12-28: Down the pub with Pinkie Pie

2017-12-25: Merry Christmas all! 🎄

2017-12-25: Despite appearances, not actually a parody, alas.

2017-12-24: An angel prepares… nativity night.

2017-12-23: Beginning to think I should do something about my dandruff…

2017-12-22: Posting from MarsEdit So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!

2017-12-22: Posting from MarsEdit So, how does posting from MarsEdit to micro.blog work? Well? I hope so!

2017-12-22: Hazel Fierce

2017-12-20: After a big chunk of marking, very, very happy with what I see. I was nervous when I took on this …

2017-12-20: After a big chunk of marking, very, very happy with what I see. I was nervous when I took on this …

2017-12-19: Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking.

2017-12-19: Lovely winter mornings. Perfect for walking. <img …

2017-12-19: Target word count: 1,000 words. Current word count: 1,700 words. Still, they’re 1700 good, …

2017-12-18: Popped downstairs from my home office to see tree decoration in progress…

2017-12-18: Ena is watching you. #enasharples #shorehambysea

2017-12-17: Tree time 🌲 <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/29153df977.jpg" …

2017-12-17: Tree time 🌲

2017-12-17: Just Ridin’

2017-12-16: Deep in the downs, there is a farm…

2017-12-16: Sweets from an elf!

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2017-12-15: Hazel is rocking a hipster vibe here…

2017-12-14: It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.

2017-12-12: Today’s office view <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/5e9ca611c2.jpg" …

2017-12-12: Today’s office view

2017-12-12: Stunning morning, despite the sub-zero temperatures.

2017-12-12: Looking home

2017-12-11: As sunsets go, that’ll do.

2017-12-11: It only took three attempts to get the headline typo free on this. Bring back the subs.

2017-12-11: A quick link post about the problems in digital media businesses is turning into a 1,000 word …

2017-12-11: Disturbing but not surprising news of the day. That LinkedIn connection request could be a Chinese …

2017-12-11: Not a bad sunset, all things considered.

2017-12-10: I fear Iris may have inherited the mad scientist gene from her mother…

2017-12-10: Christingle night: children and fire, always a popular combo… 🔥

2017-12-09: More evidence that Christmas is coming.

2017-12-08: I think Iris is enjoying the season…

2017-12-08: How BuzzFeed UK handles cutting 1/3 of its workforce will tell us a lot about the future of the …

2017-12-07: Coffee shop office kind of a day.

2017-12-07: Great Quartz Obsession e-mail about the hashtag

2017-12-07: FInally got the time to read Time’s person of the year, and the profiling and photography of the …

2017-12-06: Somehow I’ve ended up on PornHub’s PR mailing list. I am not sure how I feel about this.

2017-12-06: Welcome @thomask !

2017-12-06: Welcome @thomask !

2017-12-06: One of the reasons I love MarsEdit is that when I switched from Movable Type to WordPress, my …

2017-12-04: Another day, another training course.

2017-12-04: Today, I am mainly training.

2017-12-03: Any time my work intersects slightly with social media marketing “experts”, I end up feeling …

2017-12-01: Iris

2017-11-30: Flood defences coming along nicely.

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2017-11-29: It’s not even December yet.

2017-11-29: Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.

2017-11-29: Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.

2017-11-28: Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.

2017-11-28: Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.

2017-11-28: The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors.

2017-11-28: The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors. <img …

2017-11-28: I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats. I am clearly …

2017-11-28: I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats. I am clearly …

2017-11-28: First portrait mode pic from my shiney new iPhone X

2017-11-28: Hazel PoP. iPhone X in portrait mode

2017-11-27: Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. …

2017-11-27: Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. …

2017-11-22: So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook: <img …

2017-11-22: So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook:

2017-11-19: Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of …

2017-11-19: Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of …

2017-11-18: Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace …

2017-11-18: Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace …

2017-11-18: The Next dystopian family This morning I was greeted by the above delightful email from Next. Can it be that nobody involved …

2017-11-17: Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes… …

2017-11-17: Sometimes it feel like nothing changes around here. And sometimes it feels like everything changes…

2017-11-12: A symphony in yellow…

2017-11-11: Hazel and Iris stalking their natural prey: a bride

2017-11-11: Fierce

2017-11-10: Adur sunset. 🌅

2017-11-08: It’s that time of the #Interhacktives year again… (h/t to @neilperkin for introducing me to this…)

2017-11-08: IT HAS BEGUN

2017-10-31:

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2017-10-27: Terrible things happen to pumpkins around here…

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2017-10-24: That moment when you discover the only reward you get for a bunch of hard volunteer work -credit - …

2017-10-21: This may be the reddest pub I’ve ever been in…

2017-10-17: Storm tossed seaweed floating upriver in the Adur.

2017-10-13: Found a clue as to why Condé Nast is closing the print Glamour…

2017-10-08: Well, #autumn has most certainly come to #shorehambysea

2017-10-08: Iris “enjoying” a pub lunch…

2017-10-06: A babychino symphony.

2017-10-01: Orange belt celebratory cheesecake.

2017-09-30: Lively crowd for a 60th… 🎈 🎈 🎈

2017-09-30: Certified.

2017-09-29: Little shopper

2017-09-24: Unsettling

2017-09-23: Farewell, Hamburg. It’s been fun. #next17 is done. Can’t wait for #next18

2017-09-23: Post #next17 coffee tour stop 2

2017-09-23: Found a fancy coffee shop for post #next17 chill out.

2017-09-22: This is how #next17 ends.

2017-09-21: Top quality sci-fi dome for a tech conference… #next17

2017-09-20: Ah. @nextconf and @reeperbahn_festival - two great tastes that go together so well… #next17

2017-09-20: Looks like the right place… #next17

2017-09-20: St Where, you say? @zgarbz

2017-09-17: Beach life part 237 🌊

2017-09-12: Morning trails.

2017-09-07: Today is a taunt @paulbradshawuk day.

2017-09-06: Sussex Scenes [gallery ids=“7969,7970” type=“slideshow”] It’s a pretty damn good …

2017-09-02: Fair to say that Iris is pleased with her @svahausa dress!

2017-09-02: Bellingmug for being part of the #bellingcat crowdfunding. #journalism

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2017-08-27: Precious thing - and memory #doctorwho

2017-08-26: Not bad as a #sunflower goes.

2017-08-26: Selfie in the sea

2017-08-25: In a tree. Doesn’t want to go home.

2017-08-24: Ice cream and adventure; it’s what the summer holidays are all about.

2017-08-23: Not 100% sure I have their attention…

2017-08-19: Not jellyfish

2017-08-16: I love living here. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/43e8d5b984.jpg" …

2017-08-16: I love living here.

2017-08-16: Rapt. #animalagents

2017-08-15: Reading challenge and babychino #animalagents

2017-08-14: Stop. Sticker time. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/04c1b7889b.jpg" …

2017-08-14: Stop. Sticker time.

2017-08-14: I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony <img …

2017-08-14: I think Hazel might be excited. #mylittlepony

2017-08-14: I feel Hazel is pleased with this #mylittlepony poster

2017-08-09: ☕️ time!

2017-08-08: Adur, afternoon

2017-08-08: Piles on the beach

2017-08-07: Nice to be home and enjoying ☕️ at @tomfoolery.coffee

2017-08-06: Privée. #France #laflotte #door #sign #îlederé #iledere #latergram #travel #travelblog

2017-08-06: Juice and deep thoughts from a little thinker.

2017-08-06: Watching, by the beach

2017-08-05: This may be the worst sign in the world. #coffee #latergram #îlederé

2017-07-29: Nom!

2017-07-20: Social video training for @journalismnews’s @newsrewired + package… 🎥

2017-07-15: Butterfly girl 🦋

2017-07-15: Beach Dreamin' - ready to take my girls on the @beachdreamsfestival parade…

2017-07-12: Some fun bits of history on a client’s walls…

2017-07-10: Scilly sands [caption id=“attachment_7965” align=“alignnone” width=“2200”]A …

2017-07-10: Scilly retrospective I’ve been taking a little time out this evening to edit (finally) some photos from a trip to …

2017-07-08: Baby driver.

2017-07-08: Supporting #pride in a subtle way today. The limited edition #applewatch Pride band is just lovely.

2017-07-07: Feeding the beasties <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/20c2a13fe6.jpg" …

2017-07-07: Feeding the beasties

2017-07-07: Play barn life…

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2017-06-26: Final sunset in Kerala.

2017-06-25: However will I cope with the endless misery of business trips?

2017-06-22: Non-training, non-travel day - so a chance for a leisurely #breakfast.

2017-06-20: Day 3. #socialmedia

2017-06-20: Starting the day in India.

2017-06-18: Here we go…

2017-06-18: Just possibly not in Shoreham any more…

2017-06-12: Decisions, decisions

2017-06-04: Pentecostal flowers.

2017-06-03: That was April 2017 youtu.be/sZk9c4Ogp…

2017-06-02: Pirate tales!

2017-06-01: Always good to start the day with a little light adulting: <img …

2017-06-01: Always good to start the day with a little light adulting:

2017-06-01: Adulting

2017-05-29: iPad artiste at work…

2017-05-26: One of our @insectlore butterflies stopping to say goodbye to Iris as it leaves.

2017-05-21: Visiting Tinpot Towers.

2017-05-20: Shingle beauty on Shoreham Beach I’m lucky enough to live less than five minutes' walk from a stunning beach. I know pebble and …

2017-05-20: New evidence emerges of the real reason for the dinosaurs' extinction… 🍺

2017-05-20: This really is a beautiful beach. People under-estimate the beauty of a shingle beach.

2017-05-20: Stormy beach life

2017-05-19: Oh the bench, I wait.

2017-05-17: Just a Foolery for lunch

2017-05-17: Poker (red hot)

2017-05-15: Sometimes, London, you’re unexpectedly weird.

2017-05-05: Hazel is here, and would like to discuss kicking your butt. 🙂

2017-05-04: Reward babychino

2017-05-04: The towering burger-erno 🍔

2017-05-02: Best start to the working week.

2017-04-30: @tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?

2017-04-30: @tibz.micro.blog Now - is this how webmentions work?

2017-04-29: Bloomin' lovely.

2017-04-29: Bloomin' lovely. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/248a295dfe.jpg" …

2017-04-29: Played out. <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/cf27a8db6d.jpg" …

2017-04-29: Played out.

2017-04-29: Bloomin' lovely.

2017-04-29: Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.

2017-04-29: Ah-ha. Now I can follow people in the app.

2017-04-28: Markdown link

2017-04-28: Markdown link

2017-04-28: Links: …

2017-04-28: Emoji? 🥃

2017-04-28: Emoji? 🥃

2017-04-28: Markdown? yes.

2017-04-28: Markdown? yes.

2017-04-28: Images? <img src=“http://adders.blog/uploads/2017/018243ee7a.jpg" …

2017-04-28: Images?

2017-04-28: Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.

2017-04-28: Now, I need to figure out how to find and follow others. Hmm.

2017-04-28: Just setting up my micro.blog

2017-04-28: Just setting up my micro.blog

2017-04-27: Coffee office…

2017-04-27: Really enjoyed #DME17 - link in bio for coverage

2017-04-27: So Copenhagen

2017-04-25: World’s worst boy band member #dme17

2017-04-23: Up, up and away (again).

2017-04-21: Breakfast in the yurt 🍳

2017-04-20: Sign of the (connected) times…

2017-04-20: Enjoying @tomfoolery.coffee’s @horshamcoffee in the woods…

2017-04-18: Hard at work at @tomfoolery.coffee

2017-04-17: Nothing like a well-mown lawn to remind you that you're a middle-aged man now. [gallery size=full columns=1]

2017-04-16: Bloomin' lovely in the garden this weekend Playing with a recent(ish) lens for my Canon M3, and finding incredible beauty lurking in our back …

2017-04-16: Easter weekend [gallery size=full columns=1]

2017-04-16: Just call me Easter 🐣Craft Master

2017-04-15: H.PoP

2017-04-15: Spring, joys of

2017-04-15: Leaf fall

2017-04-14: Tunnel vision.

2017-04-11: Pony crafts… #mylittlepony

2017-04-10: #PCKeithPalmer #pckeithpalmerrip

2017-04-09: Do you like my hat?  [caption width=“2576” id=“attachment_6626” align=“aligncenter”] …

2017-04-09: That's a new approach to flower arranging… [caption width=“4032” id=“attachment_6624” align=“aligncenter”] …

2017-04-09: Espalier blossom.

2017-04-05:

2017-04-05:

2017-04-05: A single sign that’ll make you glad you’re a grown-up.

2017-04-02: Monkey spotting 🐒

2017-04-02: Meerkat

2017-03-27: Reboot New address. New theme. Time to get going again.

2017-03-26: Foreman of the sandpit at work… 🚧

2017-03-25: Lunch in the park @gardencafehove

2017-03-18: Beach explorer.

2017-03-11: Tumbledown cemetery

2017-03-11: The past and the future…

2017-03-08: #studenthumour

2017-03-04: Beach life. 🌊

2017-02-28: Day’s end

2017-02-24: End of a lovely day at @springbarnfarm. Lambs and bouncy cushions and swings and sandpits and lunch …

2017-01-30: Stickers!

2017-01-25: Hipster Instagramming in progress.

2017-01-22: -6c in the hotel car park this morning. Nice ice effect on the car, though. ❄️

2017-01-19: Preparations for Spring…

2017-01-16: Pod life. #airpods #apple

2017-01-12: Chilly morning down by the Adur in Shoreham #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2017-01-08: End of the weekend. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2017-01-08: Big thoughts from a little person.

2017-01-01: I have been permitted entry to my brother’s hallowed wine cellar…

2017-01-01: Apparently it’s all about the landscapes. And me, when I was young, centuries ago. …

2016-12-30: #cold and #frosty. #leaves #winter #ice

2016-12-14: Aldgate East is not what I remember. Admittedly, that was 20 years ago.

2016-12-14: That’s a nice, festive reception.

2016-12-06: Counting the marshmallow haul @tomfoolery.coffee

2016-12-06: Moody morning on the Adur

2016-12-05: Swimming dreams

2016-12-04: We really have to do something about the #pokemon infestation in this house.

2016-11-30: Frost bites.

2016-11-13: #shorehambeach #sunset

2016-11-12: Something different about Hazel today. Can’t quite put my finger on it.

2016-11-06: High on the Dyke in the Downs

2016-11-06: Girls in da wood

2016-11-04:

2016-11-03: Portrait of the man as a young student magazine editor

2016-11-01: 2nd Autumn for Iris. The first where she can really enjoy leaves.

2016-10-27: City lights of old London Town.

2016-10-24: Off again.

2016-10-20:

2016-10-13: I think she might be a bit weary after school.

2016-10-13: #babychino awesomeness.

2016-10-07: THE place to be in Shoreham on a Friday night - if you’re four.

2016-10-03: Last of the summer #sunflowers

2016-10-02: She’s getting good at this.

2016-09-30: Stunning morning light in the living room this morning.

2016-09-30: Adur drama.

2016-09-27: Skies

2016-09-27: Post-school Daddy/Daughter treat.

2016-09-25:

2016-09-24: Land (green and pleasant)

2016-09-24: Preparing to fly

2016-09-24: Homewards bound.

2016-09-23: At a gig. Like a young person.

2016-09-22: I detect evidence of workshopping…

2016-09-22: This man designs for Facebook.

2016-09-22: Hanging out in nightclubs. During the day. For work. Uh-huh.

2016-09-07: I’m in the Excite room. 😏

2016-09-07: The flower displays here are quite something.

2016-08-31: Morning in KL.

2016-08-26:

2016-08-26: Marshmallow challenging…

2016-08-23: Commuting.

2016-08-20: Party hair.

2016-08-18: Not exactly the mamil dream…

2016-08-15: Work in progress.

2016-08-12: Beach life.

2016-08-09: I feel a sudden pain in my future wallet.

2016-08-08: I went pro. #gopro

2016-08-04: German supermarkets are more exciting than British ones. Apparently.

2016-08-04: Real purty…

2016-08-03: Variety is the Steiff of life…

2016-08-02: Coffee - at last.

2016-08-02: Park life.

2016-08-01: This holiday is not going to plan.

2016-07-31: Suffering the standard Southern Rail thwarted anticipation. #southernfail

2016-07-31: Stylin'

2016-07-29: The city, never sleeping. #newyork #manhattan #latergram

2016-07-27: Down in SoHo…

2016-07-26: View from the office. #newyork #prisma

2016-07-25: I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in New York…

2016-07-24: This evening’s sky chariot…

2016-07-21: Sharded

2016-07-21: Four

2016-07-20: Behind the station.

2016-07-20: I’m looking forwards to hearing Pidgey’s thoughts on social video at #newsrw

2016-07-09: A celebration cake, abstracted.

2016-07-08: There’s no escape from baby jail.

2016-07-08: Mini coffee fiend (via Pixma app)

2016-07-07: Feeding the swans

2016-07-05: Yes, yes, I am compensating. Thanks for asking.

2016-07-05: Suited and booted on my way to the @solarteamgb launch.

2016-07-03: Nothing like gravy with home-grown rosemary and thyme. #cooking #sundayroast

2016-07-02: This week’s reading is here…

2016-07-01: And so it begins… #mylittlepony

2016-06-27:

2016-06-20: Daisies everywhere.

2016-06-12: Too cool for the paddling pool.

2016-06-11:

2016-06-10: Pub night. #bitcam

2016-06-10: It’s the #octonauts early 90s #Bitcam edition…

2016-06-10: I’m dithering. #bitcam

2016-06-10: Summer reward!

2016-06-08: Dramatic skies over the church. #shorehambysea

2016-06-07: Tom Foolin' (and posting this using the new iOS share sheet, not the app…)

2016-06-05: Beach life.

2016-06-03: Friday night, down the pub with these two reprobates.

2016-06-01: RSA event time…

2016-05-30: Any guesses?

2016-05-29: “You are a good blade. I shall bathe you in the blood of my enemies.”

2016-05-29: War was waged here…

2016-05-29: Beach bloom #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2016-05-27: There are eight different ways I can kill you with this, Daddy, unless you provide chocolate cake.

2016-05-26: N-n-n-n-nineteen

2016-05-26: Those typefaces…

2016-05-16: Birthday girl

2016-05-15: Double @Drawnalism #odcamp

2016-05-15: Selfie McSelfieface

2016-05-14: Morning commute

2016-05-14: It’s #odcamp time!

2016-05-12: Evening light #shorehambysea

2016-05-11: Bridge to nowhere. #shorehambysea #misty

2016-05-11: Morning conference with my office mates. #homeoffice #legominifigures #smurf

2016-05-10: Poser.

2016-05-10: Unashamedly Instagramming my #breakfast.

2016-05-06: A little catchup reading… #blogging #bloggers #ukbloggers #ukblogger #blogospheremagazine

2016-05-06: Pinky Pie. Apparently.

2016-05-05: Beach vote.

2016-05-04: Reach for the sky. #cranes #construction #building #architecture

2016-05-01: Adventure Team Tinworth… Go!

2016-05-01: Beach life. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2016-04-30: Hmmm. Cover lines of @blogosphere_magazine #blogging #bloggers

2016-04-29: Newly-minted yellow belt little ninja…

2016-04-29: Queen of the coffee shop.

2016-04-28: Not a popular decision, it seems.

2016-04-27: Love a classic looking pub.

2016-04-27: Things I don’t miss about living in London #521

2016-04-27: This afternoon’s office.

2016-04-26: Iris and I partied out on Christmas Day. (Photo from my sister-in-law.)

2016-04-23: Oh, la la

2016-04-22: Friday

2016-04-12: Misty morning. #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2016-04-12: Oh, yeah. That’s why I live here. #shorehambysea

2016-04-08: As nosey as they get…

2016-04-07: Tom Foolery does breakfast!

2016-03-29: Our en suite is looking dead glamorous right now.

2016-03-28: My room in Lewisham circa 1994. #MacLCII #applemac #lewisham #1990s

2016-03-20: Howzat? A piece of #cricket history.

2016-03-15: Those eyes, Iris.

2016-03-15: Always nice to carry a touch of Shoreham into London with me.

2016-03-04: The clouds doing drama again… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2016-03-01: Buying a print newspaper? With my reputation?

2016-02-28: Daddy/daughter selfie…

2016-02-24: That’s what I call an evening… #shorehambysea #shoreham #sunset #twilight

2016-02-20: Sunset on #shorehambysea

2016-02-14: Unexpected #snowdrop

2016-02-11: Finishing the day with coffee and cake…

2016-02-10: Spring in Hassocks?

2016-02-09: A little night #blogging listening to Simple Minds on #applemusic

2016-02-09: High tide. #shorehambysea

2016-02-08: Hazel prepares to face Storm Imogen (or Immy, as it’s known in this house)

2016-02-07: Kicking off something rather cool… #britishsolarchallenge

2016-02-05: Beach running girl.

2016-02-03: Sky blends

2016-02-02: Backstreet #brighton #latergram #red #night #instagood

2016-01-30: Adur afternoon #shorehambysea

2016-01-26: Finishing the day with an espresso @tomfoolery.coffee #dorasdaysout

2016-01-26: Dora on the train. #dorasdaysout

2016-01-26: Dora doing some digital strategy at @brilliantnoise #dorasdaysout

2016-01-26: Another day of adventures for Dora. #dorasdaysout

2016-01-24: Who is this girl of mystery?

2016-01-23:

2016-01-23: The #woods await. #misty #sussex #devilsdyke #forest #latergram

2016-01-22: Another tag on the white belt for Hazel.

2016-01-22: Iris likes a pub.

2016-01-22: Top quality views at the Devils Dyke today

2016-01-19: On my way to teach the #interhacktives. It is (a) too early and (b) too cold

2016-01-19: Morning in #shorehambysea

2016-01-16: Daddy legs proving useful in avoiding bumps for a new sitter…

2016-01-15: In case there was any doubt…

2016-01-15: Deep in the downs, @springbarnfarm

2016-01-14: There’s always something to look at in Brighton…

2016-01-14: That’s no moon…

2016-01-14: Small Batch Brekkie

2016-01-14: Taylor St Brighton RIP

2016-01-14: Surprisingly lovely morning.

2016-01-13: New headshot, from @icreatelife_ 📷

2016-01-12: Can we talk about these ears, Dad?

2016-01-08: Not sure about this parking strategy.

2016-01-07: Gorgeous light after the rain this morning. #latergram #shorehambysea #shoreham

2016-01-07: New mobile #blogging setup on test. Liking it so far…

2016-01-02: Down at Iris level.

2015-12-29: Lunch

2015-12-28: #2015bestnine

2015-12-27: Daddy/daughter selfie.

2015-12-25: MC H.PoP in da house!

2015-12-25: Cousins at play.

2015-12-25: Coffee and a new Apple Watch strap. A very satisfactory Christmas so far…

2015-12-21: Biscuit bear is angry.

2015-12-19: Cliffhanger…

2015-12-18: Waiting for Grandma

2015-12-18: Sneaky coffee with slumbering Iris.

2015-12-17: Looking lovely and Christmassy in my favourite coffee shop, @tomfoolery.coffee

2015-12-14: Party dress for the festive period…

2015-12-13: Patriotic baby

2015-12-10: Breakfast by the coast

2015-12-09: Somewhere out there, the sun is shining

2015-12-08: Last London commute of the year.

2015-12-06: It’s my chair, Dad!

2015-12-01: Mistimed leaving @tomfoolery.coffee this morning…

2015-11-30: Organised.

2015-11-28: Beach walk

2015-11-28: Some sort of subtle message here. Not sure I’m getting it…

2015-11-27: London feeling almost Holmsian tonight.

2015-11-26: Those glorious 15 minutes between finishing your chores in town and collecting your daughter from …

2015-11-26: River life

2015-11-24: The moment you realise you’ve been wearing this sticker all through a day-long training …

2015-11-22: Surprise!

2015-11-22: Thanks @stuccatora !

2015-11-21: Artic winds do not deter Hazel the Explorer.

2015-11-19: Commuter breakfast. Sheer glamour.

2015-11-18: Morning view…

2015-11-11: The girls Tinworth

2015-11-01: Not sure the spirit measures are seeing as much use as they should…

2015-10-27: Dangerously cute.

2015-10-21: Possibly the worst drawing I have ever done on a whiteboard.

2015-10-20: Calm.

2015-10-18:

2015-10-18: Sky drama.

2015-10-18: From small #acorns

2015-10-17: Making a break for it…

2015-10-15: Headcorn. The name shouldn’t make me laugh - but it does. 🌚

2015-10-15: Finishing the day very acceptably at @tomfoolery.coffee

2015-10-15: A brief visit to Brighton, concluded. I can’t believe how little time I spend here at the …

2015-10-13: Beyond decadent and into bourgeois with my train this morning.

2015-10-12: On the rails again.

2015-10-04:

2015-10-03:

2015-10-01: Here’s a coffee shop that knows how to treat its customers right…

2015-10-01: Where has the great fiery sky ball gone?

2015-09-29: Beach morning.

2015-09-29: iPhone 6S doing a good job in tricky light…

2015-09-29: Umm…

2015-09-26: Home.

2015-09-25: 14 liveblogs from #next15 - I think I’ve earned this.

2015-09-25: Shiny happy German people.

2015-09-24: I’m at a music festival. Is this my mid-life crisis hitting?

2015-09-22: Epic flying weather this morning…

2015-09-22: Off on my travels again…

2015-09-21: Here we go again: #next15

2015-09-17: Hello, old friend. #ipod1 #ipod1stgen #ipod

2015-09-07: For @andypiper

2015-09-06: Day 4: starting to look like a Brighton creative. #selfie

2015-09-05: Camping sisters.

2015-09-05: “Designer” stubble #selfie

2015-09-05: Morning in the tent house

2015-09-05: Not quite Cordon Bleu. But tasty none the less.

2015-09-05: Hazel and her charger…

2015-09-04: Nightfall.

2015-09-03: Home.

2015-09-03: Damn but filling these rings is addictive. #applewatch

2015-09-02: Skies. Also, not square.

2015-08-30: Candles from the Bridge of Lights, remembering the dead of the Shoreham Aircrash

2015-08-30: Bringing the cute. And a silly hat.

2015-08-25: “Morning, Daddy. I saved some cute for you.”

2015-08-21: Lovely patterns in the sky this evening.

2015-08-20: Back in the UK, and heading off to see my girls,

2015-08-20: Well, this is creepy.

2015-08-20: Students at work.

2015-08-19: This is what a journalism department looks like in Singapore…

2015-08-17: This part of the day inspired by @neilperkin 😎

2015-08-17: Human resource excellence: that’s me.

2015-08-17: I have new glasses. Did I mention?

2015-08-17: Art, innit?

2015-08-16: Time to sing for my supper…

2015-08-16: Swapping SIMs - because the idea of being offline is unsustainable. 😎

2015-08-16:

2015-08-16: It’s pretty here.

2015-08-14: Friday night is fine for flying.

2015-08-13: Iris: just chillin'

2015-08-13: Iris is leaf-watching again.

2015-08-10: Iris is gripped by my sparkling conversation…

2015-08-07: Turns out that the airport café is a distracting place…

2015-08-03: Iris!

2015-08-01: A small army of original #lego space figures…

2015-08-01: The great explorer…

2015-07-21: Sussex from above (ish)

2015-07-21: Dyke (Devil’s)

2015-07-11:

2015-07-10: Just hanging around #olympus #camera

2015-07-09: Ladies and gentlemen, the design stylings of Mr @dnhydn - devoted to the service of two nearly 3 …

2015-07-04: The woods await…

2015-07-03: Enjoying the view from Devil’s Dyke.

2015-07-03: Cheeky!

2015-06-28: And she did.

2015-06-27: True dat. #shorehambysea

2015-06-27: Heaven is lying next to your sleeping baby daughter on a rug in the garden, under a gazebo and …

2015-06-25: Just time for a cheeky #espresso before collecting Hazel. #shorehambysea

2015-06-23: Evening on #Shorehambeach #shorehambysea

2015-06-20: Mighty sky giraffe judges your sin…. #beachdreams #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2015-06-20: Warning: Canard hookers #beachdreams #shorehambeach #shorehambysea

2015-06-13: Sisters.

2015-06-13: Beach life. #shorehambeach #shorehambysea

2015-06-05: Not a bad place to start a working day.

2015-05-27: The Langham and the Beeb… #London

2015-05-27: #London from on high

2015-05-24: Sunday in the #pub

2015-05-22: Daddy/daughter treats…

2015-05-22:

2015-05-21: Iris.

2015-05-16: Hello!

2015-05-15: 11 year old iPod mini - still working. #iPod #ipodmini #apple

2015-05-09: Tell me, friends. Would I make a good hipster?

2015-05-07: Polling station #selfie #ge2015

2015-05-04: Brother and nephew

2015-05-04: Family

2015-04-30: Afternoon light and a coffee

2015-04-30: Evening beach walk #shorehambeach #shorehambysea #beach #boardwalk #latergram #twilight

2015-04-28: The creeping Starbuckifiction of Sussex [caption id=“attachment_6496” align=“aligncenter” width=“922”] …

2015-04-24: Evening in the churchyard. #shorehambysea #trees #shadow

2015-04-24: Hello, #applewatch

2015-04-22:

2015-04-15: Wise words.

2015-04-14: Still and misty this morning on the bridge, as I head up to London for the second last time …

2015-04-14: Breakfast A working breakfast at Tom Foolery.

2015-04-10: Woollen stripes.

2015-04-08: Photos for Mac is here…

2015-04-07: Doing a big, scary technical thing. With coffee.

2015-04-06: Easter baking [gallery link=“none” columns=“2” ids=“6486,6487”] Enjoying …

2015-04-06: Faded flag. #shorehambysea #shorehamhouseboats

2015-04-05: Playing is hard work

2015-04-02: My TV isn’t enjoying #leadersdebate

2015-03-23: Probably my most honest tweet of the year to date @bjacksonuk @interhacktives Nah. I troll students from my own account. — Adam Tinworth …

2015-03-22:

2015-03-20: H.PoP and the seahorse

2015-03-20: Life in plastic, it's fantastic  Morning in the Cotswolds

2015-03-20: Hazel is doing Instagram, while we wait for Sammy the Seahorse. This is her photo.

2015-03-20: Morning in the Cotswolds.

2015-03-11: Oh, dear. #commuting #thameslink

2015-03-06: H.PoP

2015-03-05: Big skies!

2015-02-26: Now, that’s a #sunset

2015-02-25: Finally, a candidate I can get behind. #doge #votedoge

2015-02-22: The five essential ingredients of a good event (at #odcamp)

2015-02-22: Getting ready for #odcamp day 2 - by mainlining #coffee (art by @drawnalism)

2015-02-19: Morning #commute, #ominous #cloud edition

2015-02-17: pre-#dawn #commuting #shorehambysea

2015-02-16: #dawn #commuting

2015-02-06: Daddy daughter #selfie

2015-02-02: Beth talking to her #interhacktives successors

2015-02-01: Party girl!

2015-02-01: Ladybird cake. On a stick. Oh, yes.

2015-01-29: Preparing for parental sleep-deprivation Buzzfeed rounds up how horrible being sleep-deprived is for you: When you get consistently bad …

2015-01-28: City Newspaper MAs via the wand of Narcissus… #cityoj

2015-01-27: 06.35 hours. What does the “0” stand for? 0h my God, it’s early. …

2015-01-26: Shoreham by Night

2015-01-24: Gorgeous blue skies today

2015-01-14: Victorian roof.

2015-01-11: Made with @instaweatherpro Free App! #instaweather #instaweatherpro #weather #wx #shorehambysea …

2015-01-11: Sometimes toddler play looks indistinguishable from a horror movie.

2015-01-05: Been a while since I did a #haircutselfie.

2015-01-05: Hazel missed the Princess memo… 😊

2015-01-01: My nephew has been bitten by the #lego #ninjago bug

2014-12-31: Like father, like daughter…

2014-12-23: Morning on the bridge. #shorehambysea #light #dawn #sussex

2014-12-23: #coffee #firstcupoftheday

2014-12-23: Winning awards for coffee, not modesty, in #shorehambysea #coffee #tomfoolery

2014-12-22: Inspired by @masakepic, here’s dawn light over #emeraldquay in #shorehambysea on #tuesday. …

2014-12-22: Some improvement needed… #shorehambysea #shorehambeach

2014-12-20: Lovely #sunset on the #Adur with #shoreham in the background.

2014-12-20: Peter (Blue)

2014-12-19: Festive wood.

2014-12-19: Post-party refreshments

2014-11-27: Exit ahead.

2014-11-20: One job, boat, one job.

2014-11-20: Morning coffee with Dora

2014-11-18: Dora in position for the afternoon session at #meaningconf

2014-11-18: Dora auditioning for a speaker slot at the next #meaningconf

2014-11-18: Dora the Explorer… (Hazel’s toy has come to work with me today)

2014-11-15: This looks like a job for… BatSpoon! #batman #comics #dc

2014-11-05: Oops. #boat #sunk #adur #shoreham

2014-11-05: After the thunder storm, yesterday #latergram

2014-11-01: Everything’s better with a stick…

2014-10-27: Starting Sometimes you just have to start writing. I’ve barely written for over a week now. My blog(s) …

2014-10-18: Remains of the babychino

2014-10-11: Dora.

2014-10-07: Workspace, from on high #selfiestick #picstick

2014-09-25: Bing user group meeting…

2014-09-21: Sunlight in the trees #nofilter

2014-09-18: Evening over the Adur #nofilter #sussex #shoreham

2014-09-16: Getting my Yosemite beta on today…

2014-09-13: The crow, it is nosy.

2014-09-13: Obligatory social media lunch shot

2014-08-24:

2014-08-23:

2014-08-20: Cheating on @smallbatchcc and feeling dirty. #whathappensinlondonstaysinlondon #beancheat

2014-08-19: #cloudporn from this morning… #latergram

2014-08-19: It’s work, I tell you, work!

2014-08-17: Into the Auto-Awesome Woods [caption id=“attachment_3396” align=“aligncenter” width=“2250”] …

2014-08-06: I confess: the code for Poitiers airport always makes me snigger…

2014-07-30: I serve the thirsty fish…

2014-07-28: #harvest #fruit #blackberries

2014-07-25: Sunset.

2014-07-24: Morning coffee Enjoying a Tom Foolery coffee while catching up on e-mail and feeds on this beautiful morning…

2014-07-19: Evening on the Adur

2014-07-19: River life…

2014-07-12: #instacrt

2014-07-12: Under canvas.

2014-07-11: Playing on the Beach

2014-07-06: Standing on the beach… #latergram

2014-06-21: Oh, sweet bliss of in-flight charging. 😊

2014-06-21: Up, up and away…

2014-06-15: Missing you, Dad. Still missing you Dad, over a decade since you passed.

2014-06-14: Overheard at Waitrose "Why's this place so quiet?" “Oh, the football’s on…” (Panic) “Which match, …

2014-05-19: Summer's start on the Beach [gallery ids=“3371,3370,3367,3369,3368”] Summer finally hit the south coast over the …

2014-05-18: Lunchtime treat now my toddler is sleeping…

2014-05-16: Self quantification ahead… #jawboneup

2014-05-15: Beach Blooms The beginning of summer beings blooms into life on Shoreham Beach’s shingle beach habitat.

2014-05-15: The #beach in bloom…

2014-05-14: Morning #beachlife

2014-05-13: Wrong on so many levels. #marmite

2014-05-13: Stormy Adur

2014-05-13: Smashing!

2014-05-06: Berlin breakfast

2014-05-04: Back in #berlin

2014-04-20: Nostalgia, saturation and digital photography One of my projects this year has been to get on top of my digital photograph archive. Up until …

2014-04-16:

2014-04-14: Taking the iOS WordPress app for a spin This is basically just a quick test to see if I can make the fancy photo display on my theme work …

2014-04-14: Resolved: time to move my blog For the third time this year, I’m unable to access my blog because of a problem with my web …

2014-04-13: Spring: sprung Today, the sun was shining, the trees were opening, and children (including my daughter) were …

2014-04-09: Finally got a decent coffee in NYC

2014-04-09: One evening in New York City [gallery ids=“3330,3331,3332,3333,3334,3335,3336,3337”] I’m in New York again, …

2014-04-04: Hazel’s getting the hang of this coffee grinding malarkey…

2014-03-29: Views from the Adur Ferry Bridge [gallery columns=“1” ids=“3320,3321,3317,3318,3319”] Two mornings a week, I …

2014-03-11: IKEA does cosplay [youtube www.youtube.com/watch IKEA does cosplay. The mainstreaming of geek culture continues…

2014-03-09: Spring commute [gallery ids=“3298,3297,3296,3295,3294”] A series of images I grabbed on my commute to …

2014-03-09: High Tide High tide on the Adur from Emerald Quay

2014-03-02: Stormy weather…

2014-03-02: Hazel’s breakfast (first course) #fruit #food #breakfast

2014-02-23: Sunrise over the Adur - #sunrise #river

2014-02-23: Yum. #burger #newyork #fries #latergram

2014-02-23: Afternoon coffee at @trufflesbakeryltd at Shoreham Airport

2014-02-20: Looks like New York to me…

2014-02-12: I’ve nicked something from @neilperkin to use with the #interhacktives :-)

2014-02-10: Today, I train. For learning is good.

2014-02-03: Nice afternoon in London Town

2014-01-16: Demoted by Starbucks [caption id=“attachment_3281” align=“aligncenter” width=“637”] …

2014-01-08: Two #coffee mugs. One for each hand. #thatkindaday

2014-01-07: Bridge light

2014-01-07: Let them play If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must allow them more time and opportunity to …

2014-01-06: Time travel Right now I want to invent time travel for the sole purpose of finding my pre-fatherhood younger …

2013-12-20: #lunch in progress…

2013-12-20: Winter sun on the #beach

2013-12-17: That’s a win… @smallbatchcc in #shoreham-by-sea

2013-12-16: Life as a new parent [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Damn you, Coke, for catching the new parent experience so very, very …

2013-12-16: Uh-huh.

2013-12-10: #leweb bloggers - serious business

2013-11-10: Autumn dusk on the Adur

2013-10-29: Strangest #hotel corridors ever…

2013-10-26: Carol Pearson: the big bad wolf of endometriosis Liveblogged notes from a talk at TEDxBrighton 2013 Little Red Riding is a story about womanhood. And …

2013-10-26: Carol Pearson: the big bad wolf of endometriosis Liveblogged notes from a talk at TEDxBrighton 2013 Little Red Riding is a story about womanhood. And …

2013-10-25: Aral Balkan: can design save us from digital feudalism? Liveblogged notes from a talk given by Aral at TEDxBrighton 2013 Today we stand at a crossroads. One …

2013-10-19: OK, seriously excited now… [youtube www.youtube.com/watch

2013-10-19: Strange ducks they breed in these parts…

2013-10-15: Hazel and I are making art!

2013-10-15: Ah. #london #architecture - that’s better.

2013-10-15: It’s before 9am and I’m taking photos of a #pub. What does this say about my life?

2013-10-14: That @neilperkin draws a mean skull and crossbones…

2013-09-25: Tunes station while Hazel sleeps in the car seat.

2013-09-21: I may have a battery “problem”.

2013-09-18: Training and thinking…

2013-09-16: Night flight to Venus. No, wait, it’s Gatwick. Never mind. #easyjet

2013-09-15: Mmmm. #Arches.

2013-09-15: Welcome to #berlin

2013-09-15: Waiting for my flight to Berlin…

2013-09-12: #kingscross #architecture #roof

2013-09-12: Sweaty, slightly drunk ma’n who keeps bashing his Thinkpad against my MacBook Pro in an …

2013-09-07: If all's going well… …then this blog is finally up and running in WordPress rather than Typepad. Much as I used to love …

2013-09-07: Look at this pebble, Dad!

2013-09-05: How to do interesting things at boring conferences at #bcsmu

2013-09-05: He’s behind himself… #bcsmu

2013-08-29: Coffee and calls #starbucks #phone #mobile #bluedress #landcam

2013-07-18: Expensive #android

2013-07-14: Looking up. #tree #leaves #summer #sun #blueskies

2013-07-14: On a mission in the garden…

2013-07-11:

2013-07-05: Finally found a use for my #hellokitty pen (a joke birthday present) #analogcamera

2013-06-24: Bad teddie. #brighton #graffiti

2013-06-23: Another day in baby jail… ;-)

2013-06-23: Sunday tasks… #gardening

2013-06-18: Pod coffee's bad taste for the planet The pod problem: But what bugs me most about pods isn't the marketing. It's the needless waste. …

2013-06-09: Find me on #Path!

2013-06-02: Towering, not revolving #analogcamera

2013-05-29:

2013-05-11: In the Kebab & Calculator for dinner… #youngones

2013-05-10: About as British as it gets… #fishandchips

2013-04-29: Summer's tasks begin A homeowner. A dad. Doing the lawn on a Sunday afternoon, while my daughter plays on a blanket. …

2013-04-19: Keynote speaker @peterjamesuk talking peers, queers and racketeers at #brightonsummit

2013-04-19: Mr @steveinbrighton kicking off #brightonsummit

2013-04-15: View from London's Cheesegrater… http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=124984 via revstansfilmblog.typepad.com Some …

2013-04-15: The Desk Agenda A new plan for new productivity and a tidy workspace. Maybe. Oh, hello, Tripepad. It’s been a …

2013-04-01: Fading beauty

2013-03-26: Lights

2013-03-21: Coffee with my mother-in-law

2013-02-18: Weirdest. Sleeping. Position. EVER.

2013-01-05: #3 Dramatic light on Shoreham Beach

2013-01-05: #2 Nap Time

2013-01-05: #1 New Year tranquility on Wandsworth Common

2012-12-25: Pretty good writing for five months…

2012-12-21: Space/time tree #tardis #christmastree

2012-12-15: When missing a train is a gift [caption id=“attachment_1133” align=“alignnone” width=“800”] …

2012-12-11: Hazel pop!

2012-12-11: Up, up and away!

2012-12-11: Playing with the new version of Instagram

2012-12-07: Wireless charging in progress… #lumia920

2012-11-30: First photos with a Lumia 920 So, I have in my posession for a while a Nokia Lumia 920 (I’m involved in a little work for …

2012-11-20: The Coffee Chair My dream chair. Oh, yes. People of the interwebs, please arrange for one of these to come into my …

2012-11-19: Dealing with some unfinished business.

2012-11-18: The day begins… #dawn #railway #train #sky #shorehambysea

2012-11-16: Two great drinks, together at last … #coffee #beer #coffeebeer

2012-11-09: Keeping warm… #stove #winter #Hipstamatic #Americana #BlankoFreedom13 #RedEyeGel

2012-11-06: Found: Tessa From ScaryGoRound Found, while clearing through old boxes from our storage unit: A sketch of Tessa from the old web …

2012-11-06: First birthday card from my daughter…. :-)

2012-11-06: I must have had this a long time…

2012-11-04: Just hangin' around

2012-11-01: Two trains to #brighton and none to #shorehambysea - figures

2012-10-31: I think this is meant to be reassuring, but it comes across as a touch sinister…

2012-10-31: Bloggin'

2012-10-31: Keeping my students on the clock… #evillecturer

2012-10-31: Skewered… #leaf #autumn

2012-10-30: The sinister squash plots your doom…

2012-10-30: So, is Christmas coming, then?

2012-10-30: Not sure that word means what you think it means.… ;-)

2012-10-30: The #interhacktives - digital journalism’s future…

2012-10-29: Lines and a circle

2012-10-25: I say, Jeeves…

2012-10-25: I am not impressed by my surroundings, Daddy.

2012-10-23: Berlin, a conker and the oddest of nostalgic moments Berlin! Berlin! A fortnight ago, I was in Berlin. I love that city. Over the last year, it's …

2012-10-18: Eric Carle's Autumn When I was a few years older than Hazel, The Very Hungry Caterpillar was my favourite book. How …

2012-10-16: Almost certainly not. #skyfall

2012-10-09: When dragons fall…

2012-10-09: Wow - three years on FourSquare…

2012-10-09: Room with a green roof view #hotellife (in response to @lloydadavis)

2012-10-08: The people of NEXT Service Design #sd12

2012-10-08: Interesting stuff about disruption at #sd12

2012-10-08: Danger: liveblogger at work #sd12

2012-10-06: When did the bed get so big, Daddy?

2012-09-28: At a fantastic #LikeMinds discussion about the connected culture and its consequences…

2012-09-23: Never noticed this gate before

2012-09-23: Candle-lit

2012-09-19: Daybreak over commuters…

2012-09-17: The weaponised smile of a baby… If there’s one thing babies do well, it’s living in the moment. No photos, Daddy! …

2012-09-17: Ready for adventure (take 2)

2012-09-16: Sunday afternoon smiles.

2012-09-14: New things…

2012-09-13: I suspect the post-lunch audience may be “relaxed” for @cpev’s #bdmf12 session

2012-09-13: Preparing for worship at the church of marketing #bdmf12

2012-09-13: Token lunch-on-Twitter tweet

2012-09-13: Looks like baby Hazel gets something from #bdmf schwag bag…

2012-09-09: The tower has fallen. Flee! Flee for your lives!

2012-09-09: Ugh. Man gather #wood

2012-09-08: Eggs - stir - men -ate #dalek #doctorwho #bmmf

2012-09-08:

2012-09-07: Piling the footbridge

2012-09-07: No photos, daddy!

2012-09-03: Ready for adventure…

2012-09-03: Cameras in a coffee shop - how very #Brighton.

2012-08-31: Green and pleasant land?

2012-08-31: Luggage boarding…

2012-08-30: Found it!

2012-08-29: Gotta fly!

2012-08-28: Prey

2012-08-25: Fussy coffee making methods FT #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel

2012-08-25: Old #canon #camera #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40

2012-08-24: Storage upon storage… #Hipstamatic #Wonder #W40 #RedEyeGel

2012-08-19: Hazel. Not sleeping. :-)

2012-08-19: Chilling in the living room, with a cool breeze in from the balcony.

2012-08-19: I have fallen in live with a #coffee…

2012-08-16: It's Fnordday, right? Yeah, I think that's it. My sense of time is slipping, sucked away by a baby’s obliviousness to such things. Being …

2012-08-15: Popular organ music is a thing? Who knew?

2012-08-12: First dispatch from the nappy trenches I’m a Dad. Here’s my first report from two weeks of nappies, feeds and broken sleep… …

2012-08-11: #coffee break at the Ropetackle in #shorehambysea

2012-08-09: Cousins

2012-07-26: "I prefer Fred" I wrote a thing about the sad death of 1970s Doctor Who companion, Mary Tamm - the first …

2012-07-25: Some people say that waiting is the sensible thing. Not I. #mountainlion

2012-07-25: #pebbles on #shorehambeach

2012-07-24: Moored in the #quay - #boats #sailing #adur #shoreham-by-sea

2012-07-24: Morning light

2012-07-13: Display screen at #Microsoft’s London HQ:

2012-07-13: #newsrw goodie bag

2012-07-10: Come with me and watch the waves…

2012-07-10: Swamped #boats in #shoreham-by-sea

2012-07-10: Newly opened!

2012-07-03: The stickers improve it, I think

2012-07-02: Swiss treasure

2012-06-28: And… home

2012-06-28: Obligatory wifi on the underground instagram

2012-06-27: The clouds are doing drama well this morning

2012-06-27: The day begins

2012-06-26: Lewisham: killing you swiftly A man in Lewisham Central, for example, lives for 70.8 years on average. In the Queen’s Gate ward, …

2012-06-26: Late lunchin'

2012-06-23: Mr @amayfield’s 40th birthday cake

2012-06-22: Dancin' to Cantina Band [youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WpcmJ28Yg&w=640&h=360]) via …

2012-06-22: I guess I haven’t worn this jacket since Berlin…

2012-06-20: #leweb - finished and freed

2012-06-19: #leweb - @jamieoliver and @kevin

2012-06-18: Here we go again.

2012-06-14: Powering up

2012-06-14: Patterns on the #beach

2012-06-12: Delightful #coffee

2012-06-11: Tasty, tasty Canon pancake via theonlinephotographer.typepad.com Quite possibly my next photographic purchase…

2012-06-10: My thrilling Sunday :-)

2012-06-09: Down at the yacht club #boat #prow #yacht #green #instagood

2012-06-07: Leather dresses - a celebrity trend? Really? Apparently leather is “in” for celebrity ladies looking to make a splash. Jennifer …

2012-06-07: Back when I lived in the East End 20 years ago, this was unimaginable…

2012-06-03: Batter begins… #sunday #roast #cooking #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1969

2012-06-02: Early Morning Adur Stillness I was out of the house at 6am on Tuesday, to hit the FT Mobile event. The Adur was so beautifully …

2012-06-02: It lives! IT LIVES! I was astonished to see this pop up in my app updates. I thought Typepad had long abandoned this …

2012-06-02: Daisy, daisy

2012-06-02: Saturday morning reading #ipad #instacrt

2012-06-01: #instacrt #forgotten #tv #attic

2012-05-31: ‘ere, Barry, think we got enough flags? #london #jubilee #flag #flags #unionjack #unionflag …

2012-05-31: Still obsessed with #instacrt

2012-05-30: More #instacrt silliness

2012-05-30: #instacrt - what a mad, wonderful idea.

2012-05-29: This is the bit of coming to #london I hate - #commuting

2012-05-29: Financial Times iPad case - from #ftmobile gift bag

2012-05-29: #ftmobile - Rob Grimshaw

2012-05-25: Lunch with @nevillehobson and @gabriellenyc

2012-05-22: Space for a few more…

2012-05-19: That looks like a cool way to camp… via www.toxel.com Not sure high winds would add to the experience, though…

2012-05-17: This week’s #starbucks #itunes freebie

2012-05-17: Underground wit…

2012-05-16: New toy…uh…piece of professional equipment.

2012-05-15: The Coffee Ritual I've become a great fan of the process of starting with roasted coffee beans and ending up with a …

2012-05-15: Office view, afternoon.

2012-05-12: Design echoes #architecture #buildings #london #shard

2012-05-12: #gc5 is done…

2012-05-12: #gc5 in #moleskine | games don’t tell stories, people do #gc5

2012-05-12: #gc5 in #moleskine | gamesmanship

2012-05-12: The Beast in use at #gc5

2012-05-12: #gc5 in #moleskine | story in games: vital or bs?

2012-05-12: #gc5 in #moleskine | tabletop RPGs informing video games

2012-05-12: Talking desktop RPGs at #gc5

2012-05-12: #gc5 in #moleskine | games at work:

2012-05-12: #gc5 in #moleskine - women in gaming:

2012-05-12: Sitting at the back is “in” at #gc4

2012-05-09: 3D printed #shoes at #next12

2012-05-09: #fashion track at #next12

2012-05-07: Blimey - I remember these… #next12

2012-05-07: I have a suspicion that the answer is “kittens”… #next12

2012-05-07: Does what it says on the badge…

2012-04-23: #coffee and #woodgrain #filterfree

2012-04-21: New view

2012-04-21: One wing missing

2012-04-20: The sad pile of no show badges at #odcc…

2012-04-19: I think I might be early for #likemind Brighton…

2012-04-18: The joy of Due South It's a programme that can't see a fine line without walking towards it and treading …

2012-04-16: Death of a #slinky

2012-04-14: Beware the elephant of intuition Argument: Because the elephant of intuition is more powerful than the rider of deliberation, moral …

2012-04-14: Confluence

2012-04-13: #protest #shoreham #shorehambeach #rampion #windfarm #sign

2012-04-12: When I'm stressed… Whenever I get stressed about finding work, about the fact that I’m going to be a father soon, …

2012-04-12: A #bench on the #beach - #seaside #shore #pebbles

2012-04-11:

2012-04-09: On the Barbados shore [gallery ids=“1171,1173,1175”]

2012-04-09: Bad news, chums!

2012-04-08: Sailing the Caribbean [gallery ids=“1177,1179”]

2012-04-08: A taste of history #kodak #slidefilm #film #transparancy

2012-04-05: Evening light

2012-04-04: 16-bit 11th Doctor http://www.collegehumor.com/e/6749695 via www.kasterborous.com Brilliant satire of the last two …

2012-04-04: Gull’s demise

2012-04-04: Lunch break

2012-04-02: Calmness in the Cotswolds [youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURHLyw8ZJY])  Just to remind …

2012-04-02: Sea lemon

2012-03-31: The only Infographic that matters via blog.thedaily.com

2012-03-30: Unemployment &amp; Life Expectancy A worker laid off at age 40 could expect to die at least a year sooner than his peers. via …

2012-03-30: Nice looking new offices for them

2012-03-29: Down by old Father Thames

2012-03-25: George Lucas and the failed narrative Because suddenly there is a scene with Jabba himself, and …. nothing. He’s got Boba Fett with him …

2012-03-23: Sneaky half… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935

2012-03-23: Daffodil time

2012-03-23:

2012-03-23: Yum… #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935

2012-03-23: Market day in #cirencester #Hipstamatic #HelgaViking #Inas1935

2012-03-23: Travellers #Hipstamatic #RobotoGlitter #Pistil

2012-03-22: Simming the City Oh, I lost way too much time to this back in the early 90s. The new version looks scarily …

2012-03-22: Bad news on the Blood &amp; Chrome front Now, the network has passed on the project as a regular series but is looking to do it as a digital …

2012-03-22: Starbucks wants Nespresso's business… But the star of the meeting was the Verismo machine, which was put on display for the first time …

2012-03-22: Pity - I was looking for a large…

2012-03-21: Full of Blood and Chrome, signifying…? [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via www.majordojo.com Really looking forward to this - and hoping it …

2012-03-20:

2012-03-18: Gardens in the sky via remodelista.com Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair …

2012-03-18: Morning paper

2012-03-17: I was born under a wandering' mind A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, …

2012-03-17: Aperture hates Flip This window popped up when I installed the latest update to Aperture 3:   Destroy all 3ivx codecs …

2012-03-16: My morning office, after #likemindbrighton

2012-03-13: Meta

2012-03-12: The #fog of #brighton

2012-03-12: Three images of Fort Lauderdale, Florida I've been playing catch-up with some un-processed photos in Aperture. These three are from our …

2012-03-11: My little #android

2012-03-10: Wild packs of coppers roam the streets of Brighton…

2012-03-10: A brief mood movie of Brighton in the winter. I'm testing the repair of the video card of my MacBook …

2012-03-08: Here lies #london - I love these old city boundaries markers.

2012-03-08: Lovely space

2012-03-08: #ftmedia12 all done…

2012-03-08: Book men at #ftmedia12

2012-03-08: Future of TV panel at #ftmedia12

2012-03-08: David Abraham of Channel 4 at #ftmedia12

2012-03-07: #ftmedia12 - investment panel

2012-03-07: #ftmedia12 - the future of digital journalism and news panel

2012-03-07: Jimmy Wales and Richard Waters at #ftmedia12

2012-03-07: #ftmedia12 liveblogging station

2012-03-05: iPad at work

2012-03-03: Has #spring sprung? #daffodils #garden #flowers

2012-03-03: Diffraction

2012-03-01: Charlie Higson reading from The Enemy: Geeks vrs Zombies

2012-03-01: Bathed in the first #light of #spring

2012-03-01: Attachment signs

2012-02-27: Stormy day at the #beach

2012-02-26: #coffee in #reflection #iphoneonly

2012-02-25: Evening in the #pub

2012-02-25: #lostgloves #devilsdyke

2012-02-25:

2012-02-24: Time for a #coffee break on #nofilterfriday

2012-02-24: Having fun…

2012-02-24: Mmmm… donuts ;-) #brighton #publicart

2012-02-24: #lostglove Queens Road, Brighton

2012-02-21: #rsacities

2012-02-21:

2012-02-20: Beach walkin'

2012-02-20:

2012-02-20: #coffee #cuddle

2012-02-20:

2012-02-19: Mix Messages I'm not sure what this "cover" of an iTunes Genius Mix says more about: pop's attitude to …

2012-02-17: I am in…

2012-02-15: Clearly, your bag is more deserving of a seat than all those people standing.

2012-02-15: The panel - @jobsworth, @jangles et al…

2012-02-15: I suspect @euan has grabbed an opportunity…

2012-02-13: Sometimes the first coffee of the day is the best

2012-02-11: #lostglove on Riverside Road, Shoreham Beach

2012-02-11: By the banks of the #adur #river #sussex

2012-02-09: My last #kodak camera

2012-02-08: The many people within Emmy Rossum If there’s one thing that make me fall in love with a FashMag photoshoot, it’s when they …

2012-02-08: The melancholy fate of the Shoreham starfish A weekend walk along Shoreham Beach threw up this melancholy sight. Dozens of starfish on the beach, …

2012-02-07: Station shadows

2012-02-06: Where the wealthy Tinworth brother works…

2012-02-06: Coffee and eyeball remover…

2012-02-06: Underneath the seat of power

2012-02-05: Red in winter

2012-02-05: Snowless Shoreham-by-Sea

2012-02-03: Sitting room only at #newsrw SMO session

2012-02-02: Listening to @artistsmakers talking at #popuppeople

2012-01-31: Heading home

2012-01-31: Dress walking

2012-01-31: The daily grind

2012-01-30: #Chichester mean time #clock #sussex

2012-01-29: Sheer Appeal [caption id=“attachment_6448” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] …

2012-01-28: Two #hearts #love #iphoneography

2012-01-26: Above the covers #architecture #building #construction #afternoonlight #hoarding #london …

2012-01-24: Gherkin city #london #offices #architecture #30stmaryaxe

2012-01-24: #espresso yourself #coffee #cup #iphoneography #starbucks

2012-01-24: Possibly the most ugly tech hub in the world…

2012-01-24: The news... it's so predictable these days via www.facebook.com via www.badnima.com Do I really want to return to journalism? ;-)

2012-01-23: St Mary’s #church #shoreham-by-sea

2012-01-23: Looking Over, Looking Up Looking over Looking up A couple of images from a stroll around the Wandsworth area of London …

2012-01-22: Closed and Hidden

2012-01-20: Left behind unwanted goods at #likemindbri #likemind. Anyone want?

2012-01-20: #coffee and conversation

2012-01-18: Open The Work Pod Bay Door, Hal [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/21463365](http://www.vimeo.com/21463365) w=601&h=338] Immersive Cocoon …

2012-01-18: The things you find while scanning… Students: always classy Believe it or not, this is one of the tamer images that's just passed …

2012-01-16: A photographic method and a career, in the rear view mirror Portrait of the blogger as a young hack I've been scanning again. One of my redundancy resolutions …

2012-01-16: Mmmmmm #coffee

2012-01-15: Sunday morning reading

2012-01-13: Horny #skulls

2012-01-11: More #coffee

2012-01-09: Hello, old friend. I’ve missed you. #coffee

2011-12-26: Plastic Solar Panels? This is potentially good news: A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin …

2011-12-25: Christmas Dinner in progress…

2011-12-25: My Christmas pants

2011-12-25: Christmas lights

2011-12-24: 2011: you won't be missed… [youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM]) via …

2011-12-24: I am Captain Scrumpy: official @newsmary @adders Bonus points AND 'Captain Scrumpy' ranking! — The Wurzels (@TheWurzels) December …

2011-12-24: Speaking Style's Language Women’s fashion intrigues me, the way small changes can transform an outfit completely. It …

2011-12-21: Farewell

2011-12-16: Karl plays…

2011-12-16: Centre of attention at @likemind

2011-12-12: Legacy Macs on the streets of Brighton

2011-12-11: Rule to live by…

2011-12-07:

2011-12-07: Foodie.fm dinner

2011-12-05: Sunrise in Ebbsfleet

2011-12-05: Very festive

2011-12-02: Boardwalk on the beach

2011-12-02: Mmmm.

2011-12-01: Digitally noisy

2011-11-25: Waiting…

2011-11-25: A Bajan Lunch In the last few days of my holiday. Should be back and posting soon…

2011-11-18: Here comes the sun

2011-11-18:

2011-11-14: Only the finest financial journalism…

2011-11-14: Vital packing…

2011-11-12: #foggy #shoreham #beach

2011-11-07: The BBC's wholesale ripping exercise… You may have read in the past week that the BBC is in the process of digitising it's entire …

2011-11-07: The Wedding on the Riverwalk I seem to spend my life perpetually playing catch-up with the photographs I take. I've finally got …

2011-11-07: Birthday lunch with work

2011-11-06: Afternoon tea

2011-11-05: #chichester #cathedral

2011-11-04: Mobile office - #ipad on a #train

2011-11-03: #dellb2b #cupcakes

2011-11-02: This is how a movement dies… We’ve heard rumblings that MTV’s /quotes/zigman/393425/quotes/nls/via VIA -3.99%  “Real …

2011-11-02: This week’s Starbucks #itunes freebie in the UK:

2011-11-02: Sneaky pleasure #coffee #starbucks #espresso

2011-11-01: Reuse - #eco #sign #note #mugs

2011-11-01: #sunset - it comes to early now.

2011-10-31: Night #commute #train #station

2011-10-31: Window dressing #fashion #shop #clothes #dummy

2011-10-31: Night out at the #theatre - #hamlet at the #youngvic

2011-10-31: 3

2011-10-29: Sale of the century ( #carboot #fleamarket )

2011-10-28: Font of all knowledge

2011-10-24: Karl, master of meetings

2011-10-20: Feel like I’ve earned this…

2011-10-20: Exeter evening

2011-10-19: Glorious sky over Shoreham this morning… It was a glorious sight to start a rather busy day, bouncing from Shoreham to Sutton to Lancing to …

2011-10-18: Yum! Pre- #likeminds dindins

2011-10-18: In Exeter for #likeminds

2011-10-18:

2011-10-14: #commuting #hell

2011-10-14:

2011-10-12: Fire alarmed But I found a bench, so I win…

2011-10-12: Middle class perfection achieved…

2011-10-11: PvP on Jobs Absolutely pitch-perfect tribute to Steve Jobs from PvP, as the cast's resident Apple fanboy deals …

2011-10-10: Rethinking

2011-10-09: I think #cauliflower is seriously under-rated…

2011-10-09: Whisking the Yorkshire batter #food #cooking #roast

2011-10-08: A Pixar Goodbye via www.tauntr.com The other great achievement of that guy who died…

2011-10-08: Why (phone) size matters One big advantage of a 3.5-inch display: with average-size hands, your thumb can reach any pixel on …

2011-10-07: Dramatic sky this evening

2011-10-06: Prescient cover line

2011-10-05: Daybreak at the station

2011-10-05: Catching up with #apple #iPhone news on my #ipad

2011-10-04: The local #pub #shoreham

2011-10-04: Buy one ticket for @ropetackleart

2011-10-04: Coffee and RSS

2011-10-03: A Summer's Autumn Day… Fantastically unseasonal sun in Shoreham over the weekend:

2011-10-02: Morning train

2011-10-02: Home

2011-10-02: Post party scrummy

2011-10-01: Good times ahead

2011-09-30: What, exactly, are you trying to say, iTunes? Bing Crosby and Marlene Dietich…?

2011-09-30: Getting my laptop bag sorted out…

2011-09-30: Working essentials #coffee #grinder

2011-09-28: #coffee #americano #coffeeshop

2011-09-27: My kinda place…

2011-09-26: Dinner by the sea

2011-09-25: The jaws of home

2011-09-25: Works in progress. #scaffolding #construction

2011-09-25: This is my weekend #moving #removals

2011-09-21: WANT #2: the affordable version via thegirloutdoors.co.uk The whole Baggins thing in in, in, in this year…

2011-09-21: Not going to miss this place…

2011-09-21: WANT: Treehouse office via www.shedworking.co.uk I want to work here so badly that it hurts…

2011-09-21: Where bookmarklets go to die… Vox? Tweetie? FriendFeed? I need to empty out that folder more often.

2011-09-18: EP

2011-09-16: The root of all… #futureofmobile

2011-09-16: Bangers and mash FTW #futureofmobile #lunch #sausages

2011-09-16: App decision making…

2011-09-16: Workshopping app store selection at #futureofmobile

2011-09-16: the @ubelly tshirts at #futureofmobile

2011-09-16: Kevin Systrom at #futureofmobile

2011-09-16: Kevin Systrom cofounder of #instagram at #futureofmobile

2011-09-15: #futureofmobile

2011-09-15:

2011-09-15:

2011-09-15: Karin Robinson #media140 #unethicalweb

2011-09-15:

2011-09-15:

2011-09-15: #Media140: the #unethicalweb

2011-09-15: #apple #logo #ipad

2011-09-14: #autumn is here #leaves

2011-09-14: Ifttting

2011-09-14: Random Family Photo: 70s Beach Me. On a beach. Somewhere. In 1973. No idea who the girl is, but she has a real groovy 70s vibe, …

2011-09-12: Meetings meetings meetings

2011-09-12: A weekend in Instagram… A touristy weekend, showing my brother-in-law around Shoreham and Brighton:  All Instagram …

2011-09-11:

2011-09-11: Waiting #Brighton #plaza

2011-09-11: Near Pavillions #brighton #brightonpavillion

2011-09-11: #creamtea

2011-09-11: Minimalism. Not. #brighton #folly

2011-09-10: #anger

2011-09-10: Under the bridge #structure #bridge #metal

2011-09-10: Waiting boats #Adur #shoreham #ropetackle #boats #river

2011-09-10: Market day

2011-09-10: Summer’s End #sunflower #flower #decay

2011-09-10: Adur by night It's the walk home that keeps on giving. 

2011-09-09: Through Departure's Eyes It dawned on me as I walked home to the Lewisham flat this evening that I'll only do this a handful …

2011-09-09: End of the line

2011-09-08:

2011-09-07: Teenage invasion

2011-09-07: Random Family Photo: Hill Snow A random photo from my scanning of old family negatives. This is Dollar, my childhood neighbourhood, …

2011-09-05: Sleepy Like Minds I've just noticed that I appear in one of the rotating pics on the Like Minds homepage. That's me, …

2011-09-05: Men being jerks about coffee via www.youtube.com When will those crazy gals ever get anything right? via …

2011-09-04: Evening light over the Adur I spent last Friday at dConstruct, a conference held just down the coast in Brifghton. As I walked …

2011-09-02: Nice sticker from @ubelly at #dconstruct

2011-09-02: On stage: @gotogirl at #dconstruct

2011-09-02: #shoreham #rails #railway

2011-08-31: Olympian countdown #Olympics #london

2011-08-31:

2011-08-30: Everything in the gardens is… [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/28323891](http://www.vimeo.com/28323891) w=530&h=298]  Visited Arundel …

2011-08-29: Tea and aviation

2011-08-29: Art Deco Aviation #airport #shoreham #artdeco

2011-08-29: Hedge harvest #blackberries #fruit #wild

2011-08-29: Orders #sign #beach #shoreham #swimming

2011-08-29: Sailing by #boat #sea #shoreham

2011-08-28: Red Arrows over Bristol I shot this on my iPhone a couple of weeks ago, but help off posting it because of the tragedy of …

2011-08-28: #guinness is good for you… #pub #beer

2011-08-28: Festive #arundel #bunting #festival

2011-08-28: Dapper chap

2011-08-28: Flowers of the Sun

2011-08-28: #arundel #castle #Sussex

2011-08-28: #arundel #sussex #garden

2011-08-28:

2011-08-27: Lunch…

2011-08-25: Evening falls

2011-08-24: Nostalgia

2011-08-24: Rapidly joining “have your say” as a phrase I hate when applied to social media.

2011-08-23: Ah, Princess... via superpunch.blogspot.com Ah, Princess from Battle of the Planets. One of my earliest crushes …

2011-08-23: OK Muppets, Go via www.youtube.com Joy. Promoting this, which is great.

2011-08-23: First conker fall of the year…

2011-08-23: There’s probably a good explanation for this…

2011-08-21: Sharing your photos with posterity #1 via www.youtube.com Intriguing idea. I have a whole bunch of family photos - probably three …

2011-08-21: Saturday's fine for Shoreham flying Despite the dire warnings of rain and general unpleasantness, today dawned bright and fine in …

2011-08-20: A small pleasure of Lion Much like Circles in Google+, I'm having slightly too much fun with creating names for folders in …

2011-08-20:

2011-08-19: Liberalism, business and success Every single person who'd attack Steve Jobs on any of these grounds is, demonstrably, worse at …

2011-08-19: On the rise of camera phones, and photo apps Teru Kuwayama, a photojournalist, disagrees: “You could make an analogy to the advent of the …

2011-08-19: Sod's Law at work

2011-08-19: Crossed

2011-08-19: A middle-class delight

2011-08-19: Don’t ever leave me, Restaurant…

2011-08-17: Coffee break over

2011-08-17: Google playing the photo app game

2011-08-15: Silent Sunday

2011-08-13:

2011-08-13: Rabbit burger (after)

2011-08-13: Arch

2011-08-13:

2011-08-08: Things the internet has taught me today #1 Friday night was a HellCommute. Terrible traffic from Sutton to the M25, explained by the closure of …

2011-08-08: Amongst the fields...

2011-08-07: A-maze-ing Maize

2011-08-07: Sunday by the Cam

2011-08-04: Beautiful morning in Shoreham Beach

2011-08-03: Commute begins

2011-08-03: The mothership

2011-08-03: Floral

2011-08-03: Comment box

2011-08-02: Sinister…

2011-07-31: Nothing more important than the views of communters…

2011-07-27: Beach (plant) Life One of my favourite features of Shoreham Beach is its plant life. As barren as it looks in winter, …

2011-07-27: Dealing with gang social media culture… So this is the challenge to RSA Fellows: As well as wanting to use Fellowship as a way of making the …

2011-07-25: Capturing a Summer's moment by the Thames I'm having one of those days, looking forward to a free hour or so, sandwiched between a …

2011-07-25: Abandoned underwear. Bet there’s a story there…

2011-07-25: Sunday on the Beach [vimeo [www.vimeo.com/26844743](http://www.vimeo.com/26844743) w=525&h=295]

2011-07-24: New TwiT on a new OS

2011-07-22: Bridge over quite calm really waters

2011-07-22: #likeminds the bookmark

2011-07-21: Lots of #likeminds breakfasting

2011-07-20: Should a Snow Lion be preferable... There are also a couple of changes that long time OS X users might find irksome: no indication of …

2011-07-20: Lion's Roar… When a new iteration of an operating system releases, the wise and prudent thing would be to wait …

2011-07-20: Piegate: the people who rise I'm quietly fascinated by this "piegate" animated Gif of the attack on Rupert Murdoch …

2011-07-20: Reduced circumstances…

2011-07-18: Treat!

2011-07-18: Android is watching you…

2011-07-18: Commuter’s delight

2011-07-14: Ready for @noodlepie (but not mid-morning)

2011-07-14: 4pm lunch

2011-07-14: Keep orf

2011-07-09: Tent shoe

2011-07-09: Shoreham-by-sea Farmers Market

2011-07-06: The conference attendee’s friend

2011-07-06: To the beach!

2011-07-01: Smurfy!

2011-06-30: Behind the Protest Swung by the anti-cuts demo happening in London earlier, to do a post for OM&HB. What really …

2011-06-30: Surprisingly good…

2011-06-29: Hello Hippo

2011-06-27: Pixar's Brave Trailer via www.youtube.com I'm a sucker for anything Pixar do. I love Scotland (having grown up …

2011-06-27: Backlogging: Germany Had a rough weekend for reasons I'll blog about when I can bring myself to do so. In the meantime, …

2011-06-27: Doctorin' the desk

2011-06-19: Hey, Dad. Still missing you. Hey, Dad. It's been 10 years now since you and I celebrated a father's day together. I wish you were …

2011-06-18: Dr T’s winnings…

2011-06-18: We know how to party on Saturday night…

2011-06-18: Walnuts (Pickled)

2011-06-18: Fruit harvest

2011-06-17: A good woman...uh...lizard...uh.... via www.postmodernbarney.com Never have a couple of characters from Doctor Who deserved a spin off …

2011-06-16: Getting Shirty

2011-06-15: No Full Series of Doctor Who for 2012 The reputable journalist Lizo Mzimba has reported the following: There will not be a full …

2011-06-13: Yes, I'm the one who buys them...

2011-06-12: It grows…

2011-06-12: Entertainment on a rainy Sunday

2011-06-10: Smokin' Hot Superheroing via Project Rooftop One for the comics fans. Lovely set of New Mutants redesigns. I like that the …

2011-06-07: I appear to have arrived in Narnia

2011-06-06: Presented without comment

2011-06-05: Fest

2011-06-03: Taking a view

2011-06-02: Arrival

2011-06-01: Covent Garden after the rain Shot last week, after sheltering from a sudeen downpour in the Apple Store. I managed not to buy …

2011-05-31: Christmas with Baggins Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" movies have been given official release dates and …

2011-05-31:

2011-05-28: Old to new

2011-05-21: Ballooned

2011-05-21: Birthday Party

2011-05-17: I'm not sure if this is the funniest WC sign I've ever seen… …but it's certainly the most graphic.

2011-05-17: Conferencing

2011-05-14: The beach in bloom

2011-05-13: Tiptoe through the bluebells… Just to get you through the last few hours until the weekend1: [youtube …

2011-05-13: Strange Comparisons

2011-05-12: Spoilers Gonna Spoil Spoilers are called “spoilers” for a reason, people: when leaked too early, they spoil. via …

2011-05-12: Toy Adelphi

2011-05-11: RSA: The Core Economy Live blogging an RSA Event, with Dr Edgar Cahn talking about timebanking. Beware: here be typos and …

2011-05-11: Reeder's little design touches I just love the way the latest beta of Reeder for Mac chooses to display the number of unread items …

2011-05-10: Respecting space, here and abroad But having been away from France for some years, what struck me afresh was the sense of generalised …

2011-05-08: Cabled

2011-05-02: A very French way of advertising a camera Oh, la la…

2011-05-02: Thanks, TomTom So, before I went on my holiday, I was forced to replace my long-serving iPhone 3GS with a …

2011-04-27: La France: Day One Just chillin' at my brother’s place in France.

2011-04-25: Arrival

2011-04-23: Green Ball

2011-04-23: Back Garden Beauty I spent much of this afternoon back in the Lewisham flat, straightening out the garden and generally …

2011-04-22: Easter

2011-04-22: Portrait of the gardener, with ear buds.

2011-04-22: Daisy, daisy

2011-04-21: Easter

2011-04-20: Looks like leaving drinks…

2011-04-17: God son, with book

2011-04-17: Lunchtime

2011-04-16: Whisky o’clock

2011-04-16: Hen party…

2011-04-16: Morning in the garden

2011-04-14: Attack of the White Screen of Death Pleasingly minimalist. And kinda restful. Not actually much use, though…

2011-04-14: The @grantswhisky is here…

2011-04-13: Potato glove READY!

2011-04-12: I'm amazed I haven't got this until now…

2011-04-12: Zi8

2011-04-10: iPad <3 HDMI

2011-04-05: Life on Lee High Road Top 10 Things To Do In The Borough Of Lewisham I'm busy selling my flat on Lee High Road, …

2011-04-04: Presentation from @redstarkim for #ricssm

2011-04-02: Fun of the fair

2011-04-02: Pre-loved

2011-04-01: A Fake Royal Wedding in Covent Garden Spotted on the way back from my pilgrimage to the Apple Store: [vimeo 21807492 w=535 h=401] Wonder …

2011-04-01: Sharded! via www.flickr.com Been using Camera+ on my iPhone over the last few days, and getting some really …

2011-03-30: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Warning… Not that I've been watching the trailer obsessively or anything, but look at this: That's the …

2011-03-30: I wear a blog now. Blogs are cool. [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Full trailer for the new series of Doctor Who. Ridiculously …

2011-03-30: Under construction

2011-03-30: Coffee reading

2011-03-29: Time to go home

2011-03-29: Hot desking

2011-03-29: Sharded

2011-03-28: Do you think my RSS reader is trying to tell me something?

2011-03-27: French mats and pub grub

2011-03-25: QH canteen to Procter Street in an hour. Not bad.

2011-03-25: Stop

2011-03-24: They finally got it right!

2011-03-24: Coffee break

2011-03-22: Daily Vignette #2: Beach Life [vimeo 21343360 w=500 h=375]  A quiet moment to destress your afternoon. 

2011-03-21: Netbooks and Custard Creams at #Bfong

2011-03-17: Tourists at work

2011-03-16: MOAR Archers! I'm one of the two scriptwriters from The Archers team who have been working on a spin-off from …

2011-03-16: Encouragement

2011-03-14: Daily Vignette #1: Shoreham Saturday [vimeo 20994464 w=521 h=293]Another little project for myself: shoot short vignettes capturing the …

2011-03-13: Misty Adur Another photo from the most recent roll of film I shot. The film grain really enhances the effect …

2011-03-13: Carroty Goodness

2011-03-13: Old &amp; New: Film Finis Redux A while ago, I started a project I called Film Finis. The idea was to use up all the remaining …

2011-03-12: Beach Pier Sea Sky

2011-03-12: Model Emerald Quay

2011-03-11: More evidence of Spring… Pity it's about to get cold and rainy again. 

2011-03-09: The Unbearable Joy of Commuting

2011-03-06: Sunday's made for beach walks… The sun finally struggled out again today, bathing Shoreham-by-sea in a warm light that belied the …

2011-03-06: Danger! Danger!

2011-03-06: Sunday on the beach

2011-03-06: Eight Years on one blog… This is the 2,885th post to this blog - which means I've added 317 posts over the last year. …

2011-03-05: Kitty’s car….

2011-03-03: They never get it right, dammit

2011-03-03: Love Trees

2011-03-03: Clive Aslet at the RSA

2011-03-03: RSA lunchtime talk

2011-03-01: jPod

2011-02-26: Papered

2011-02-25: Out of the mist Dropped the car off for a service this morning, and walked into Shoreham through mist-enshrouded …

2011-02-25: St Marys, Hidden

2011-02-25: Misty Morning

2011-02-24: A hint of spring in the air via www.flickr.com This winter has felt far too long, and that's despite spending three weeks in …

2011-02-23: Is there a place for God in education? I'm at the RSA this evening, for a debate over a rather contentious subject: the role of …

2011-02-21: AA Car Servicing Fail For years, I've bought my cars and had them serviced at the same place - Bramfield Garage - and I've …

2011-02-20: Florida: the state of the beach Gathered on a 10 minute walk down the Fort Lauderdale beach. Frightening.

2011-02-16: How Vampires Lost Their Fangs Vampires may be popular, but they've paid a terrible price for it. Simply put, they're not …

2011-02-16: New start

2011-02-14: Food &amp; Light Spent much of today working on some recent photography. Here's a couple I'm really pleased with: …

2011-02-13: The Ironic Inverted Commas Strike Shoreham Farmers Market, this morning

2011-02-11: I fought the week (and the week won) Time for a weekend, I think…

2011-02-09: Broken blogging

2011-02-06: Nephew Freddy

2011-02-05: Birthday boy

2011-02-05: Dalek family outing

2011-02-05: Party food!

2011-02-04: So, wait, politicians aren't allowed to have sex? Britain is a strange place, sometimes. Sally Bercow, wife of the speaker of the House of Commons, …

2011-02-04: Comcare cover

2011-02-03: Commuters

2011-02-03: Her #shoes

2011-02-02: Everything is a Remix (Part 2) [vimeo www.vimeo.com/19447662 w=560&h=315]via vimeo.com A really fascinating look into how …

2011-02-02: Gallery Gone, Man, Real Gone Many of you have noticed the Widget Gallery is no longer available. Most widgets, however, can be …

2011-02-02: Listen #ipod #headphone

2011-02-01: Dear Facebook... Not only are you exactly six months out on my insurance renewal cycle, but yellow just isn't my …

2011-02-01: At the theatre with @revstan. Shakespeare, daaaahlings…

2011-02-01: Today’s view from #hotdesking - gritty and #urban

2011-01-31: Office afternoon #officelife

2011-01-31: Lunch

2011-01-30: Twilight comes

2011-01-29: Lighted

2011-01-28: Desk #officelife

2011-01-26: New dawn?

2011-01-26: Trees, Stark

2011-01-23: Maybe spring is on its way…

2011-01-23: Roll on, spring

2011-01-21: Stand

2011-01-21: Nightfall

2011-01-20: Typepad gets new boss, says SAY Introducing Jeff Reine, Our New GM of TypePad Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Today we are pleased to …

2011-01-19: Mum unplugs teens for 6 months. Strangely, isn't murdered... But she encourages families to unplug periodically. "One way to do it is just to have that one …

2011-01-19: Ruins of Exeter I'm back in scanning mode, this time working through some negatives from 2000. These are from the …

2011-01-18: Snowball

2011-01-14: Jetlag... via dailybooth.com …is kicking my ass. And it's beginning to show…

2011-01-14: Red Eyed and Removed Today is proving to be a struggle. It's now about 25 hours since I had any significant amount of …

2011-01-14: Back at work

2011-01-12: Dressed up for my last dinner of my holiday

2011-01-12: PsychoBunny

2011-01-09: Beytiful Twilight

2011-01-08: Palms

2011-01-07: What's your top New Year's resolution this year? Actually, I have only one New Year's resolution this year - to give myself a new resolution each …

2011-01-02: Written in the sand Happy New Year. :-)

2010-12-28: Sun on a “record cold snap”

2010-12-28: Exploring

2010-12-25: Christmas lunch

2010-12-25: Christmas Day

2010-12-24: Christmas Eve Sun

2010-12-24: Adur, Christmas Eve

2010-12-22: Lights

2010-12-22: Snowy Bristol Garden

2010-12-21:

2010-12-15: Festive Gryphon Hatchling

2010-12-14: RBI Achievement Awards Night Big show this year…

2010-12-13: RBI partying

2010-12-10: This is our Christmas day out...?

2010-12-10: I found treasure!

2010-12-10: In the bleak midwinter…

2010-12-10: Geocaching

2010-12-09: Bloggers blogging at #leweb

2010-12-08: #nespresso time at #leweb

2010-12-08: I'm on a (Parisian) Boat Somehow, I feel that I deserve more than the usual Foursquare badge for getting this one in Paris:

2010-12-07: You by Egobox

2010-12-06: Arrival

2010-12-05: Shadow

2010-12-05: Under the snow: leaves

2010-12-03: Shattered Glass &amp; Phone Photography I had a small accident on Wednesday evening. A small accident that left the glass on the top of my …

2010-12-03: Adur, winter

2010-12-03: Bridge to the Beach

2010-12-03:

2010-12-03:

2010-12-03: Snowham-by-Sea It's a snow day. After I made it home last night, the snow really settled in on the South-East, …

2010-12-01: ewan teaching

2010-12-01: Finally arrived in Sutton

2010-12-01: I wish

2010-11-30: It's baaaaaack.... Yesterday, somebody confidently announced to me that the snow in London we'd seen for the last …

2010-11-30: Evening Standard catches mood if Lindon for once:

2010-11-29: #hhhrbi kicking off

2010-11-27:

2010-11-27: Afternoon coffee

2010-11-26: Cheaping stars, the stock shot way via www.telegraph.co.uk Talking of the Doctor Who Christmas special, one of the guest stars is Welsh …

2010-11-26: Christmas Time (Lord) Oh! Oh! How could I have missed this?  Genuinely excited. :)

2010-11-26: Gizmoded…

2010-11-26: Morning Commute

2010-11-25: Baubles and lights

2010-11-25: Christmas comes to Covent Garden

2010-11-25: Bored and waiting at the Apple Temple

2010-11-24: Wintry morning

2010-11-23: Flipping Elevenses

2010-11-22: Afternoon Coffee

2010-11-22: Thus passes lunch

2010-11-21: Pub time

2010-11-21: Rainbow over Shoreham A photo from yesterday, the result of being caught in the rain, in lieu of an actual post…

2010-11-21: Remains of the Stay

2010-11-19: Archiving and publishing the relationships of the past Scanning photos is fun. It allows you to rediscover images that you'd all but forgotten about. Often …

2010-11-19: From 1999, without explanation There are certain old photos that work better when no explanation is offered: Scanned earlier …

2010-11-17: Rush hour, London

2010-11-15: Sunset by the shore So, I finally did something I'd been longing to do since we rented the flat in Shoreham-by-Sea. I …

2010-11-15: On the beach

2010-11-15: Rock the demo This is rather good, and I have no memory of taking it: City Poly? Before the removal of the …

2010-11-15: Stuff your loans! I'm busy scanning and editing some photos I took on a student demo back in 1989, inspired by this …

2010-11-14: Shoreham-by-Sea Farmers Market It has, to put it mildly, been a little busy of late. I've been rushing around the country for …

2010-11-13: Beloved, Forgotten

2010-11-13: Friendly Welcome

2010-11-12: And another

2010-11-12: Another stupid flipchart sketch by me

2010-11-08: Commuter Hell

2010-11-07: Crumbled…

2010-11-05: Forgotten World

2010-10-30: Fleur

2010-10-30: Autumn

2010-10-30: Seated

2010-10-30: Vintage

2010-10-29: Au revoir, Exeter

2010-10-29: Meandering down Exeter memory lane Today has been something of a stroll down memory lane. I'm in Exeter for a conference (which I'm …

2010-10-29: iPad Liveblogging

2010-10-28: …and ye shall receive

2010-10-28: I love the #likeminds avatar stickers

2010-10-28: Like Minded at #likeminds

2010-10-28: #likeminds Publishing

2010-10-28: #likeminds publishing immersive is packed out

2010-10-28: Clarence Hotel, Exeter

2010-10-28: Exeter morning, autumn

2010-10-28: Most important meal of the day pre-#likeminds

2010-10-27: Parker Street

2010-10-27: Shapes in the sun

2010-10-26: Watching a movie on the iPad

2010-10-26: Paper

2010-10-26: i spy…

2010-10-23: Saturday reading

2010-10-23: Beach Cleaning

2010-10-22: Coffee

2010-10-22: Ropetackle

2010-10-22: Stormy

2010-10-22: View from #cogapp

2010-10-21: #media140 panel

2010-10-20: Trust Adobe… …to have an installer that finished before the progress bar does:  

2010-10-18: Streets

2010-10-18: Brunch: the finest meal of the weekend

2010-10-16: Agora Window

2010-10-15: Testing the Posterous iPhone app See and download the full gallery on posterous Posterous released a new iPhone app last week, …

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2010-10-15: Bored? In the Apple Store?

2010-10-15: Too much coffee?

2010-10-13: Tim Relf has no taste... It shouldn't be this way – some of my best friends are farmers, my girlfriend is a …

2010-10-12: The Past, in a Skip via ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com One of my obsessions that I have to keep at bay is a love for …

2010-10-12: Work. Laptop. And a hint of iPhone

2010-10-11: Conkered It was just laying there, on the patch from the car park, as I made my way to work this morning. How …

2010-10-10: Shoreham Farmers Market A glorious day, accompanied by some glorious shopping…

2010-10-09: Walking in the Cairngorms, March 1989 Back in my final year of school, a group of friends invited me on an Easter holiday with them. It …

2010-10-08: Adur, Evening Adur, Evening, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. You know, I could just get used to living here…

2010-10-06: Tech, 1988 Style This is my computer desk from the late 80s - probably '88 or '89. Yes, that's a portable TV it's …

2010-09-27: Amen (or your secular affirmation of choice) So it seems we know too little to commit to strict atheism, and too much to commit to any religion. …

2010-09-27: Debenhams Matures… via www.stylelist.com This got a huge thumbs-up from my (fashion-obsessed) mother-in-law over the …

2010-09-24: Hints of that double dip Our food costs have increased frighteningly since last year. Just to take a few examples from Le …

2010-09-24: Pre-requisite for modern media? We firmly believe that you can't build a modern media company without having a platform, and …

2010-09-23: Living in the UK - not so great The UK and Ireland have been named as the worst places to live in Europe for quality of life, …

2010-09-22: Where now for Movable Type and Typepad? - a post on my "work" blog about the Say Media …

2010-09-21: Thieves jamming car-locks? Surrey police are exploring the theory that a gang of car thieves are jamming central locking …

2010-09-12: This Week in iPhone Pictures: 12th September 2010 Let's be honest. I rarely go anywhere without my iPhone. And, on occasion, I'm so taken by something …

2010-09-08: Blog Unleashes Cliché in Headline Katie Holmes unleashes her wild side in leopard print via www.mydaily.co.uk Oh, dear God. Is there …

2010-09-08: On the death of Vox Last Thursday, I opened Safari, and found a death notice. Vox, a blogging platform I've used for …

2010-09-05: Enjoying the Downbeat When I was growing up, I remember vividly my Dad choosing to absent himself from the living room …

2010-08-30: Fishbourne Palace

2010-08-29: Abandoned Guardian While walking down Shoreham Beach yesterday afternoon, we came across a Guardian that appeared to …

2010-08-29: Maggie Philbin is.... Somewhere, my inner seven year old, a Swap Shop fanatic, is squealing with delight. (and yes, it's …

2010-08-28: Covent Garden Candids I used to do a lot of wandering around, just snapping pictures of life. I'm trying to get back into …

2010-08-28: Sunny Morning in Shoreham Beach

2010-08-27: Another Glorious British Summer All set for the Bank Holiday?

2010-08-22: Study's End The study I've used for the last 12 years or so is dismembered, ready to be turned into a bedroom …

2010-08-18: An Urban Garden Our back garden in Lewisham, lit for a summer evening.  

2010-08-17: Foragers' Harvest We've been foraging for fruit in the trees that grow adjacent to the flat in Lewisham: …

2010-08-17: Das Potato An image shot for a student magazine project, back in the early 90s. That's me on the left, …

2010-08-16: The start of something new…

2010-07-31: Work from home? The office? The coffee shop? Although working from home is convenient, sometimes it pays to go to the office. That's what …

2010-07-30: Reporting the Obvious: Women in Skimpy Summer Outfits Cause Male Drivers to Crash According to a new survey from UK insurance company Sheilas' Wheels, male drivers are more …

2010-07-30: Uh-Oh That’s just a few minutes’ walk from one of the office I work out of. Bad wallet news.

2010-07-30: Caprica Season 1.5 Preview via www.youtube.com I'm really looking forward to this. Dr T and I really enjoyed Battlestar …

2010-07-29: Doctor Who Theme (with didgeridoo) [youtube www.youtube.com/watch Somehow melancholy - and somewhat Sherlock Holmsian…

2010-07-24: Tractor Love Starts Young… Just been clearing through my e-mail in-box, aiming for in-box zero sometime before the end of the …

2010-07-23: When Lunch Goes Bad Anyone who knows anything about Twitter knows that it's all about what people had for their lunch. I …

2010-07-19: A New Traffic Light Feature? Interesting new road safety feature at the crossing near Holborn station: It counts down the number …

2010-07-19: This Is Where I Live CAMPAIGNERS protesting over cuts to their jobs and services were branded “f**king idiots” and told …

2010-07-13: Dancing to the Productivity Tune Research from University of Windsor in Canada showed the effect of music on the work performance of …

2010-07-11: Feeding Your Doctor Who Addiction For the first time in 13 weeks, no Doctor Who, and there won’t be new episodes on television until …

2010-07-11: Quitting apps in iOS 4 There's actually a much simpler approach for quitting apps, and that's to use your recent …

2010-07-10: Why the UK needs more Trees via www.youtube.com I love trees, me.

2010-06-24: The Secret Powers of Time [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via comment.rsablogs.org.uk This is a really fascinating look into …

2010-06-23: Superhero Sexy-Time Given that superhero comics tend to be about beautiful people in skin-tight outfits engaging in …

2010-06-23: Scenes from Southwold Had a single day off yesterday, and spent it in Suffolk, for various reasons. Here are a few …

2010-06-17: A Little Summer Preparation Camping time is coming…

2010-06-14: Pre-Pandorica Reading (Dr Who linkage) Ah, the Doctor Who season finale two parter looms close. The Pandorica will open and silence will …

2010-06-13: A View From Childhood This was the view from our back garden in Dollar, around 1987 - September or October, I'd guess. I …

2010-06-12: 80s Brothers I'm spending some time scanning my way through a big bag of negatives, and this morning I was …

2010-06-10: Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Caucasian blondes are usually slightly higher in oestrogen than brunettes and are likely to exhibit …

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2010-06-02: The Very Last of the Summer Wine Long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine is to be axed after 37 years, the BBC has announced. …

2010-05-31: London's Hidden Theatre Treasure The building itself is tucked behind high security fencing around the back of Olympia and looks like …

2010-05-31: Scenes from a home hunt Still trying to figure out where to live next…

2010-05-27: London's Photographic Density (a nerdy ramble) via londonist.com The picture above represents the most photographed areas of London, based on the …

2010-05-26: Fashionably Recessional There was a small debate on Twitter this morning, possibly triggered by Glynn, about the …

2010-05-26: Kids and social networking – at what age is it acceptable to let kids get online with friends? And what are your rules for keeping tabs on it? Never. Darn kids should stay off my virtual lawn. When I was a kid we had to network using a 28.8k …

2010-05-21: The Value of Tribes I've found the idea of tribalism to be increasingly useful in understanding political …

2010-05-18: More on the new Routemaster [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via jamescleverly.blogspot.com

2010-05-14: Donate them to a good cause, recycle them... What do you do with your old computers and phones? My old computers have mainly cascaded down the family, before eventually leaving the family via a …

2010-05-14: What Adobe is Still Good At I sometimes think Adobe is fighting the wrong fight. The current spat between the two over Flash is …

2010-05-13: Telegraph reviews the new Photoshop CS5 has four major improvements that – on paper – jumped out at me. The most exciting is …

2010-05-12: Do you want a 3D TV? Why or why not? And will you ever get one? No. No. No. Also, no. I'm at my limit with TV repurchasing. First it was Dolby Digital Stereo, and …

2010-05-12: Where Were You When Gordon Brown Resigned? Well, two of the major parties that went into this General Election were promising change, and they …

2010-05-11: Chicks Dig Time Lords via scyfilove.com This ScyFi Love post is as good a followup to this as I could hope.

2010-05-07: My (Personal) First Reactions to the General Election I've become something of an internal hung parliament myself. The journalist in me is delighted. …

2010-05-05: Baptismal Photos I've been a wee bit busy of late - playing catch-up at work, after a few days off sick, and away for …

2010-04-23: "Chicks Don't Get Doctor Who"? Chicks don't get it. Unless you are in a relationship where the woman is legally obligated to stay …

2010-04-23: Liking Me, Liking You (Ah-ha) I've just added the new Facebook Like button to this blog - you can see it to the right, under the …

2010-04-21: Embodied Energy &amp; Greener Houses http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com …

2010-04-17: Soho Sticker Escapee I associate prostitute adverts with Soho phone boxes, not the post box outside the flat. This is not …

2010-04-10: 50mm of Fun So, based on many rave blog posts and articles in magazines, I treated myself to a 50mm f1.8 lens …

2010-04-09: Film Finis? I promised you an explanation of my current photo project, didn't I? It was inspired (or, more …

2010-04-09: HipstaWalk #1 Spring finally seems to have arrived in London, so I took the opportunity to walk a chunk of the …

2010-04-07: Labour Goes Keywording This amused me - this is the feed from Boris Johnson's blog in my feed reader. Note the partial …

2010-04-07: A New Photo Project Some pictures from the early stages of a little photographic project I've set myself: The …

2010-04-05: Too Sexy for Who? via www.dailymail.co.uk You just know that the new Doctor Who production team have got something …

2010-04-03: Americans: Don't Buy Yourself An iPad Buy ME one and get it shipped over here ASAP. kthxbai :-)

2010-04-03: QotD: The Hardest Thing I've Ever Done... What's the hardest thing you've ever done? Telling my dying mother that it was OK for her …

2010-04-03: QotD: Sweet Treat If you could only indulge in one dessert for the rest of your life, which sweet treat would you …

2010-04-02: To Commute or Not To Commute We're in the middle of trying to figure out where to live next. It's dawning on us that …

2010-03-30: Hello, New Tardis via www.radiotimes.com I thought they'd save this for a big reveal on Saturday, but no, here it is. …

2010-03-26: Holborn's Burning (Briefly) OK, I admit it. the title's a bit of an exaggeration. But we had the excitement of a small fire here …

2010-03-25: Photoshop 5's magical fill tool [youtube www.youtube.com/watch via kottke.org This looks insanely awesome. I have a whole bunch of …

2010-03-24: Journey to Hamburg Random iPhone photographs from my journey last night:

2010-03-23: Is Le Wei Xiang, Lewisham any good? We flicked through the menu and I was fair jumping up and down at seeing such gems as "Blood …

2010-03-22: Leaders' Wives via www.dailymail.co.uk This is the wife of one of our political leaders. These photos are a decade …

2010-03-21: Eleventh Doctor trailer 3 w00t! Another trailer for the new series of Doctor Who (thanks, Michael): How awesome is this? …

2010-03-20: Selling the Kids on the Eleventh Doctor Last weekend, we went to the cinema with Stacey  to see Alice in Wonderland. And very enjoyable …

2010-02-17: Reggie Perrin Redux I watched last year's remake of The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin with some trepidation. I …

2010-01-31: What The Internet is Made Of... (Spoiler: cats)

2010-01-26: 25 Years Ago... Just sticking this up here so I can find it again. I love the recreating of the 1980s in this ad …

2010-01-21: Today on the internets... Today I have been: Finally figuring out what body con means. Not knowing had been bothering me for …

2010-01-21: QotD: License to Drive Do you consider yourself a good driver? How many tickets have you received? What were they for? …

2010-01-21: London Snow Mini-Retrospective The snow in London passed almost without acknowledgement here. Time to change that a little. My …

2010-01-21: Back Down to Mile End Pulp Mile End Music Video Edit With Lyrics Jarvis Cocker Trainspotting LondonYouch. Here's a …

2010-01-12: Deforestation Because I'm a tree-hugging hippy at heart: …

2010-01-12: QotD: The Name Game Were you named after anyone? If not, how did you get your name? Adam Macey I was, in a way. My …

2010-01-11: No Entry (Snow) Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Adam's posterous

2010-01-10: Tags of Christmas Past We had something of an eco-friendly Christmas this year. While we were clearing out Mum's house back …

2010-01-08: Snowy Sutton < p style=“font-size: 10px;">Posted via email from Adam's posterous

2010-01-08: Night, Snow and QH Download now or watch on posterousIMG_2202.MOV (6516 KB) Sent from my iPhone < p …

2010-01-07: Night, Snow and QH Posted via email from Adam's posterous

2010-01-07: Snowy Sutton Posted via email from Adam's posterous

2010-01-06: Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?

2010-01-06: Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?

2010-01-05: When a Canon Boy Meets a Nikon Girl Possibly not safe for work, depending on your office environment… [via the EOS …

2010-01-05: On Objects and Memories An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late …

2010-01-05: On Objects and Memories An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' …

2010-01-02: First 11th Doctor Trailer http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf

2010-01-02: First 11th Doctor Trailer http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf The first trailer for series five of the new Doctor …

2009-12-29: Fair Warning My brother and his wife were kind enough to but me a new standard zoom for Christmas, a lens …

2009-12-28: Fair Warning My brother and his wife were kind enough to but me a new standard zoom for Christmas, a lens I've …

2009-12-27: My Christmas Creation Dickie the Snowman Like it?

2009-12-27: Christmas in the Country Colaton Raleigh Christmas

2009-12-27: Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't …

2009-12-27: Fear of Flying course from Virgin. Admittedly, people trying to blow up aircraft isn't …

2009-12-27: A Home Movie Archive Reelintime.com - an archive of home movies, searchable by decade and location. You can pay them to …

2009-12-27: A Home Movie Archive Reelintime.com - an archive of home movies, searchable by decade and location. You can pay them to …

2009-12-07: The Named Famous Face Well, after my ruminations on the last Scarlett Johansson bus advert not being immediately …

2009-11-09: Acoustic Serenity From the series that was cancelled too soon…

2009-11-09: Birthday Dinner Three slightly ropey photos from my birthday meal at Jamie's Italian in Guildford. The iPhone …

2009-11-08: Blackheath Farmers Market This morning, I took myself off to Blackheath, to give some more of Mum's old possessions to the …

2009-11-06: The coaster of awesome photo.jpg

2009-11-01: A Culinary Inspiration to Us All Alie and Georgia Present: The McNuggetini

2009-11-01: Officially, My Favourite Variety of Rose If only for the name: IMG_1474

2009-11-01: It's Halloween! photo.jpg

2009-10-24: Random iPhone Photography A wonderful sunset over Sutton: Sutton Sunset The more prosaic reality of Sutton: Autumn …

2009-10-21: Debenhams Doesn't Want You To Advertise It H&M lets you embed slideshows of its advertising campaigns. Yet Debenhams doesn't allow you to …

2009-10-01: The Good, The Bad &amp; The Uke Some gratuitous Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain to see me through the afternoon:

2009-09-28: The Anonymous Famous Face I saw this on the side of a bus the other day. It was striking, in a slightly Bet Lynch sort of …

2009-09-24: The Anonymous Famous Face I saw this on the side of a bus the other day. It was striking, in a slightly Bet Lynch sort of …

2009-09-21: A Comparison I am annoyed. On Saturday night, some lackwit managed to clip my (parked) car, scraping and cracking …

2009-09-21: Autumn is in the air And the trees… The Edge of Autumn

2009-09-21: Remains of the Leaf Remains of the Leaf The skeleton of an autumn leaf, spotted in Holborn

2009-09-16: Mother Courage &amp; Her Children Once upon a time, I had plans to write a review here, but this photo sat as the sole content of the …

2009-09-15: Charity for Time Travellers I assume whomever donated The Best Bed & Breakfast 1998 to our office charity lending library is …

2009-09-15: Charity for Time Travellers I assume whomever donated The Best Bed & Breakfast 1998 to the Estates Gazette charity lending …

2009-09-14: Back to the 1990s I did a little scanning last night of random photos I had lying around, so I could shred the …

2009-09-14: Freecycle Splits The UK arm of Freecycle, an initiative that allows people to give away things they no longer need …

2009-09-14: Freecycle Splits The UK arm of Freecycle, an initiative that allows people to give away things they no longer need …

2009-09-14: Waterloo Panorama

2009-09-14: Waterloo Panorama

2009-09-09: BananaramaBack Bananarama - Love ComesBlimey. Bananarama. It's bringing back memories of fetid teenage years …

2009-09-09: QotD: Happy Labor Day! How are you spending this Labor Day? Bonus points if you show us pictures. At work: Beware - …

2009-09-09: QotD: Splurging for My Future What's something you would splurge on this year to improve your future? Presented by Intel, …

2009-09-07: Acorn

2009-09-07: Acorn

2009-09-06: New Flats? No Way. Graffiti seen on a derelict site in Totnes. They'll be waiting for the next economic cycle …

2009-09-06: New Flats? No Way. Graffiti seen on a derelict site in Totnes. They'll be waiting for the next economic cycle …

2009-09-05: When is a fruit not a fruit? Most of the time, it seems.

2009-09-05: Men Are Drooling Morons, Say Scientists I love what I call "no sh*t, sherlock research". Scientists proving what we already knew. …

2009-09-04: Men Are Drooling Morons, Say Scientists I love what I call "no sh*t, sherlock research". Scientists proving what we already knew. …

2009-09-04: Autumn's Harbinger The first conker of 2009, found on my walk from the car park to the office today. Autumn begins...

2009-09-04: Autumn's Harbinger The first conker of 2009, found on my walk from the car park to the office today. Autumn …

2009-08-31: From France to Bristol These plants were brought from Mark & Jo's place in France to my mother-in-law's house in …

2009-08-31: From France to Bristol These plants were brought from Mark & Jo's place in France to my mother-in-law's house in …

2009-08-17: Allotments, Cars and camping Camping and Allotments A wee panorama built on the iPhone, from the site we were at over the …

2009-08-15: The Tiled Owl My late mother loved owls. And here's one she painted on a tile. We just found it while sorting …

2009-08-15: The Tiled Owl My late mother loved owls. And here's one she painted on a tile. We just found it while sorting …

2009-08-12: It's Me, Kinda Adders, Distorted

2009-07-31: No Mobiles photo.jpg

2009-07-31: Lo! Kittehs! Martyn & Sophie have, well, kittens:

2009-07-29: Alice in HD Wonderland This looks like seven kinds of wonderful:

2009-07-28: Focused Photography I wonder if Rev Stan noticed this in my Flickr stream? [flickr video=3734401315 show_info=true …

2009-07-28: If Only... Clearance Ale

2009-07-24: Born to be... Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin …

2009-07-24: Born to be... Mugs in Mousehole targeted at fans of Doctor Who, Spooks or Robin Hood. (Are there any fans of Robin …

2009-07-24: Beware of...uh, me? Adders is my username on most sites… Erosion & Adders

2009-07-23: QotD: Houseguest Etiquette What's one thing a houseguest should always do? Leave.  Having people to stay is great, …

2009-07-23: The Most Fun You Can Have at St Michael's Mount So, we visited St Michael's Mount yesterday, and very enjoyable it was too. And we discovered …

2009-07-23: The Most Fun You Can Have at St Michael's Mount So, we visited St Michael's Mount yesterday, and very enjoyable it was too. And we discovered the …

2009-07-22: QotD: Thirst-Quenching Beverage How do you like to quench your thirst on a hot summer day? This was working rather well for me …

2009-07-22: QotD: Email vs. Telephone If you had to give up either email or the telephone for the rest of your life, which one would your …

2009-07-21: Kite flying Steve flies a kite

2009-07-21: Down by the Sea Cornish Coast

2009-07-21: Who is Archie? photo.jpg

2009-07-20: He Sleeps Standing Up Me in Cornwall

2009-07-20: Portrait of the Blogger, Unshaven I love this photo of me Lorna grabbed earlier.

2009-07-20: Portrait of the Blogger, Unshaven I love this photo of me Lorna grabbed earlier.

2009-07-19: From Comics to Screen I have a long-held theory: that for comics to successfully adapt to the screen, they need to keep …

2009-07-19: From Comics to Screen I have a long-held theory: that for comics to successfully adapt to the screen, they need to keep …

2009-07-15: London, I'm So Proud For a capital city, we don't show much pride in ourselves.

2009-07-15: London, I'm So Proud For a capital city, we don't show much pride in ourselves.

2009-07-15: Holborn Freebies One of the nice things about working in Holborn again is fun urban moments like this:

2009-07-12: QotD: Only in My Dreams What life dream or goal have you given up on? GRID issue 1 cover Oooh! Good one.  I've …

2009-07-12: Your Son is Rather Rotund... Not my Mum's finest photographic moment...

2009-07-12: Your Son is Rather Rotund... Not my Mum's finest photographic moment…

2009-07-12: Knitted Horrors of 1970 Ah, knitting patterns of the 1970s: I found this "two in one" pattern for …

2009-07-12: Knitted Horrors of 1970 Ah, knitting patterns of the 1970s: I found this "two in one" pattern for …

2009-07-12: Faces From The Past I've been doing some more sorting of old stuff from Mum's and I came across this photo tucked into …

2009-07-06: QotD: One Day. $100,000. If you had one day to spend $100,000 - and you had to spend it totally selfishly - what would you …

2009-07-06: Life is Short Anniversary Flowers So, last Thursday I went to Suffolk. I haven't felt like writing about it …

2009-07-04: UnTrendy TV: Last of the Summer Wine It's not cutting-edge, it's not fashionable and it's certainly not innovative, but I'm not afraid to …

2009-07-04: UnTrendy TV: Last of the Summer Wine It's not cutting-edge, it's not fashionable and it's certainly not innovative, but I'm not afraid to …

2009-07-04: Creationists: Their Dirty Secret A scientist visits the Creationism museum in the US: Daryl Domning, professor of anatomy at Howard …

2009-07-03: WTF? Fluffy Mystery

2009-07-01: QotD: RIP MJ What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? Bonus points if you share the video. The Jacksons - …

2009-07-01: QotD: Everywhere Has Its Problems What prevents your city/town from being the best place in the country to live? Submitted by Cherney. …

2009-06-30: QotD: Environmental Confession 'Fess up: What do you do that's bad for the environment? Sponsored by One Million Acts of …

2009-06-30: The Girl in the Lego Earrings Finally met a Vox friend in the flesh at the weekend. CupCate was at TweetCamp over the weekend, and …

2009-06-30: Tacky Tissues Spotted, to my mingled disbelief and amazement in my local supermarket: Hannah Montana tissues. For …

2009-06-30: Tacky Tissues Spotted, to my mingled disbelief and amazement in my local supermarket: Hannah Montana tissues. For …

2009-06-22: What's that wierd mobile on the left? Mobiles on Monday Morning

2009-06-20: Quick iPhone 3G S Tests Here's a couple of pictures shot with my new iPhone 3G S This was a test of its new macro …

2009-06-18: Watching Karen Millen find its blogging feet I love watching new blogs develop. I discovered a few months back that high street fashion chain …

2009-06-18: Watching Karen Millen find its blogging feet I love watching new blogs develop. I discovered a few months back that high street fashion chain …

2009-06-15: Self-Portrait, in a mirror DSCF1187 I rather like this shot, which I grabbed in a mirror at my mother-in-law's.

2009-06-15: The Default Doctor Who Companion I just blundered across this on a Guardian blog: But the thing about Doctor Who companions, whatever …

2009-06-10: Brown in the Bunker Oh, I just knew that there would be European Elections / Gordon Brown / Downfall mashups kicking …

2009-06-07: Classy Dinner... photo.jpg

2009-06-05: QotD: Why I Blog Why do you blog? Submitted by Syafira. It's my job. Although, to be fair, I also do it because …

2009-06-04: QotD: Emergency Contact Who do you write down as your Emergency Contact? Why did you pick this person? Lorna, my wife. I …

2009-06-04: Boris Goes Swimming River in Labour-controlled Lewisham attacks Conservative Mayor: …

2009-06-03: Reflux Oh, God. Advertisers have spotted that I'm middle-aged, haven't they?

2009-06-03: Serious Photography [caption id=“attachment_3238” align=“alignnone” width=“500”] A …

2009-06-03: Pub Quiz Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.

2009-06-03: Pub Quiz Pub quizzes: more fun than I expected.

2009-05-31: The 11th Doctor's First Companion So, Karen Gillan is set to be the 11th Doctor's first companion. My initial reaction …

2009-05-31: Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.

2009-05-31: Boldy Rebooting Where Many Men Have Rebooted Before Why new Trek is the longest in a long line of reboots. Awesome, obsessive, compelling blogging.

2009-05-24: Oops photo.jpg

2009-05-18: Mr Timworth, I Presume? They never get it right... [moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]

2009-05-18: Mr Timworth, I Presume? They never get it right… [moblogging from my iPhone. High chance of typos]

2009-05-05: Vaulted IMG_0524 The roof of Bristol Cathedral, where we watched a distant relative of Dr T. being collated …

2009-04-26: The Improvement Society The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.

2009-04-26: The Improvement Society The world could, I feel, do with more improvement societies.

2009-04-26: Where are the bees? DSCF0972 Where indeed?

2009-04-25: Paint Your Fake Coal You have no idea how depressed this makes me: Paint, for the fake coal in your fake fireplace. Such …

2009-04-24: I've been to Brean Can't say as I recommend it. photo.jpg

2009-04-23: Thank a Farmer photo.jpg

2009-04-21: Digital Polaroids DSCF0788-pola Been having some ever-so-slightly pointless fun with an application called Poladroid, …

2009-04-20: Vox Hunt: Video Show-and-Tell Share the last video you took. …

2009-04-16: Sutton's Urban Renewal Continues... photo.jpg

2009-04-15: QotD: Life Changes What change have you made in your life that you're most proud of? Sponsored by Nature Made. …

2009-04-11: Bristol, morning photo.jpg

2009-04-09: Sutton Station Starbucks When did Sutton station get a Starbucks? photo.jpg

2009-03-30: The Black Swans of Dawlish The Black Swans of Dawlish A curious sight from a weekend's house-hunting

2009-03-06: The Busy Life of Focus Ladies and gentlemen, we present Rev Stan in her starring role:   Friday Afternoon Focus …

2009-02-25: My Beautiful Neighbourhood Space - NeighbourhoodHow it feels to live in Lewisham quite a lot of the time...

2009-02-21: Walking with the in-laws photo.jpg

2009-02-15: Pictures of an Unknown Past Mystery baby One of the strange things about going through my parents stuff is finding pictures like …

2009-02-13: Friday Afternoon Culture Habanera

2009-01-26: A Small Gate Problem One Man & His Gate And I just couldn't resist sharing this picture of Mr Heape obeying the …

2009-01-26: A True Holiday Wiltshire Field OK, it was only a weekend away. But for the first time in years, Lorna & I had a …

2009-01-23: Wishing I Was Still on Holiday The trees of CenterParcs Longleat But that video makes me feel good.

2009-01-08: This Afternoon's Fun photo.jpg

2009-01-08: Our Hungry Wee Friend The Robin A cheeky wee robin redbreast who keep hopping after us, chirping for food…

2009-01-07: Icy Waterfall photo.jpg

2009-01-06: Guessing Game IMG_0178 Anyone care to guess what this is a picture of? :)

2009-01-03: The Last Books of 2008 2008 was not a good year for me, book-wise. One way or another, I never seemed to find the time to …

2009-01-01: New Year's Eve at the Moulin Rouge (Blackheath) DSCF0585

2008-12-31: Blackheath, New Year's Eve photo.jpg

2008-12-31: Port Grapes Scan-081230-0008 Another one from the Portugal trip

2008-12-30: Winter Sunshine, Brighton Road Winter Sunshine

2008-12-30: Any Port in a… Calem Quinta in the Duro Valley I'm busy scanning some old slides of mine. Right now, I'm …

2008-12-26: Clapham, morning photo.jpg

2008-12-24: Christmas Eve @ my brother's His new house has four ovens. Four! photo.jpg

2008-12-12: A Paris Christmas Grabbed yesterday afternoon, near the Champs d'Elysee in Paris photo.jpg

2008-12-09: In Paris DSCF0418

2008-12-05: Suffolk Morning Winter Morning, Wenhaston

2008-12-05: A Brief Return to Suffolk I popped back to Suffolk for the day, for the first time since Mum's house sold a couple of months …

2008-12-02: First Icy Car Morning photo.jpg

2008-12-02: QH gets Festive photo.jpg

2008-11-28: Real Life Rickroll This is just full of win: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade RickRoll (No idea what I'm …

2008-11-28: Recreational Social Gaming for Beginners Frost Nymph Here's a thing: I barely watch any TV any more. And since we picked up a BT Vision …

2008-11-28: Of Stags and Baths Brighton Pier So, what have I been up to in recent weeks?  Well, last weekend I headed off to …

2008-11-24: Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 trailer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsfpeNURHU&w=425&h=344]  There have been two scifi …

2008-11-22: Lamps in the bath Fairly sure this isn't normal styling for a hotel… photo.jpg

2008-11-05: They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard For Rev Stan who could probably do with a laugh: taking the hobbits to isengard

2008-11-03: The (Rotten) Core The Core (2003) - Trailer I seem to have watched some really bad movies of late. Most of my free …

2008-11-03: The Apple iMug photo.jpg

2008-11-02: Autumn Leaves photo.jpg

2008-11-02: Sunday Sainsbury's Hell photo.jpg

2008-10-09: Orinocho Flow, interpreted through dance [via The Medium is Not Enough]

2008-09-23: Gosh Andrew and Ola - Strictly Come Dancing 2008 Round 1 - BBC OneThat'll be Strictly Come Dancing …

2008-09-13: Likin' the People Tree I love People Tree far more than I should do a company I've yet to spend a single penny with …

2008-09-08: Living Room Living Room Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. Experimenting with iSight self-portraiture…

2008-09-08: Parts of my Past Bric-a-brac

2008-09-01: Vox Hunt: The Forecast Is... Show us the weather you're having today. Well, the weather forecast was for …

2008-09-01: Home(ish) Marischal Road, Night

2008-08-31: Vox Hunt: Peace and Quiet Show us your favorite place to relax. Lee Abbey, through the gate

2008-08-31: QotD: Sales, Sales, Sales Do you plan on taking advantage of all the holiday sales this weekend? Uh, no. The problem in …

2008-08-31: Dinner Halesworth Fish & Chips

2008-08-28: Lunch photo.jpg

2008-08-28: By Way of Explanation Why do I need another blog? Well, One Man & His Blog was initially my general purpose blog, …

2008-08-27: Time For A New Start?

2008-08-26: Always Remembering photo.jpg

2008-08-25: 70s Records... photo.jpg

2008-08-25: Halesworth Nightlife photo.jpg

2008-08-24: Goodbye, iMac G4 photo.jpg

2008-08-24: Gardening photo.jpg

2008-08-23: An Abstemious Night Out photo.jpg

2008-08-22: Guardian photo.jpg

2008-08-21: Alan at The Shaftesbury photo.jpg

2008-08-20: Coffee &amp; Mac photo.jpg

2008-08-20: MacMecca photo.jpg

2008-08-19: Gaming Night Behold Sophie's finger of doom photo.jpg

2008-08-16: Whitchurch Car Boot Sale photo.jpg

2008-08-13: I Hate The M25 photo.jpg

2008-08-12: Church Light IMG_0004 Light playing on a bench in the church where Mum & Dad are buried. Quite took my breath …

2008-08-10: Afternoon in the Pub photo.jpg

2008-07-28: Back to 1999 [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“500”] Roy & Ann …

2008-07-16: Owl Army [flickr video=2670280403 secret=0fdc9af20d w=500 h=375]

2008-07-16: Those Jib Jab Folks Do It Again http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/client/zero/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?external_make_id=6bRCmPnkhFj2MwPo& …

2008-07-12: Who says social networks are all about sex? Facebook 69

2008-07-12: Dr T Attacks

2008-07-05: A Moment of Peace DSCF0281 Taking time out from funeral plans and house clearing.

2008-07-03: Goodbye, Mum DSCF0189 Ann Patricia Tinworth 1939 - 2008

2008-07-02: Waiting The Patrick Stead Hospital

2008-06-17: South Bank Art photo.jpg

2008-06-14: Coffee Break

2008-06-13: Vox Hunt: The Outside World Show us a reason to get off the computer and go outside.<br /><span …

2008-06-13: The New Resident of Mum's Garden Mum's garden visitor Not doubt my brother will be around to shoot it momentarily…

2008-06-12: Rural Enterprise at its best photo.jpg

2008-05-31: Wonder if they have any vacancies? photo.jpg

2008-05-30: Quiet Old Chap photo.jpg

2008-05-30: This is the life... photo.jpg

2008-05-30: Sanified? Is that a word? photo.jpg

2008-05-24: Best iChat Evar Secret & Mysterious

2008-05-17: A lovely, traditional British suburban Saturday afternoon photo.jpg

2008-05-16: The In-House Starbucks Because some of my Twitter friends didn't believe it existed... photo.jpg

2008-05-16: Vox Hunt: Wedding Bells Show us a photograph from a wedding.<br /><span …

2008-05-15: QotD: Top 5 Break-Up Songs What are your top five break-up songs?<br /><span …

2008-05-15: Vox Hunt: Workin' Hard Show us what you&#039;re working on right now.<br /><span …

2008-05-11: Charity Ball Night photo.jpg

2008-05-03: Wortham Manor photo.jpg

2008-04-25: Abandon hope all ye who enter here... photo.jpg

2008-04-16: From Facebook to Vox Giving Six Apart's new Facebook app a quick spin. Will this post magically jump from Facebook …

2008-04-14: The Summer of '66 Another one from Mum's old slides: Dad & Dusky on the beach in the summer of '66: Dad & …

2008-04-12: Dusky &amp; The Baby Dusky & The Baby Once in a while, while scanning my parents' old transparencies, I …

2008-04-08: Down Wif Da Kids We're hip here in Business Development photo.jpg

2008-04-07: I Think I Fancy Boris In the US, they have Obama Girl. Here we have: I think I fancy BorisAnd therein lies the difference …

2008-04-04: Leaving lunch for Piers at Mama Dumplings photo.jpg

2008-03-27: Video Club Video Club

2008-03-27: About the Apprentice About the Apprentice

2008-03-22: She is, clearly, bovvered Doctor Who Cinema Trailer **Best Quality**

2008-03-20: The Great Wall of Hancock photo.jpg

2008-03-14: The Triple Plea Pub lunch on the way back to Mum's photo.jpg

2008-03-11: Lunch in the Chapel(field) Grabbing a bite to eat in Norwich after Mum's chemo. photo.jpg

2008-03-11: Chemo Ward photo.jpg

2008-03-11: Norwich Street Scene photo.jpg

2008-03-10: Yum Yum photo.jpg

2008-03-07: Planning a Movable Type upgrade photo.jpg

2008-03-06: Ah, Ludvig Today's e-mails have been full of my colleagues swapping bizarre children's cartoons of …

2008-03-05: Mourn Enter the ICHC <a Gary Gygax, the guy who invented a hobby, passed on yesterday. I actually …

2008-03-05: The QH Truck Arriving at the office gets stranger every day… Big Digger at QH

2008-03-05: If Saul Bass had done the Star Wars intro Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

2008-03-05: QotD: What's in a Name? How did you create your username for VOX? What influenced your decision? Submitted by …

2008-03-03: Review: The Tudors The Tudors: Complete BBC Series 1 [2007] So, I went up to Mum's last night, to surprise her for …

2008-03-03: Three Word Review: Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain [2005] Pretty. Dull. Depressing.

2008-03-03: Winter Morning, Suffolk It was gorgeous as I set off for my drive to Sutton early this morning. photo.jpg

2008-02-28: Whatever Lola Wants Stumbled across this while researching posts for another blog. Rather liked it: Tigrita Project - …

2008-02-21: The Sea

2008-02-21: Coffee &amp; Computing

2008-02-21: The Week So Far… Frosty Spider Web It's been one of those "feet not touching the ground" kind of …

2008-02-18: Suffolk Frost Looking lovely this morning... photo.jpg

2008-02-15: Social Media Cafe, London photo.jpg

2008-02-15: New Year in Chinatown photo.jpg

2008-02-04: Man &amp; Iron Man I haven't been excited by a superhero movies for years now - but this looks like a lot of fun. What …

2008-02-04: Urgent ToDo List of Doom photo.jpg

2008-02-02: Hidden Past Doorway from the Past A cracking, mysterious image from July 1966, taken by my parents on holiday. …

2008-02-02: Amazing What You Find While Tidying Up Robert Kilroy-Silk

2008-01-31: Tonight's the Night Tango Ticket I'm taking Lorna out tonight to celebrate her birthday. We're off to the Peacock …

2008-01-31: News &amp; Politics QotD: Drop Outs Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards both recently dropped out of the primary race. Does this change how …

2008-01-08: Norwich Apartment photo.jpg

2008-01-03: The LARP Nativity This made my inner geek snigger: IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR

2007-12-30: Suffolk Melancholy ...there undoubtedly is something unnerving about East Anglia. Whether it's those huge skies, …

2007-12-28: The Trees of Halesworth photo.jpg

2007-12-25: Christmas Day: Progress So Far Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak My in-laws run Christmas rather differently to the …

2007-12-25: Egg Nogg Pie photo.jpg

2007-12-23: Oh, Christmas Tree The tree at my mother-in-law's. photo.jpg

2007-12-21: Our Christmas Bash BizDev at Christmas We're so very grown up…

2007-12-21: On The Beach - 1998 I've been putting the scanner through its paces again, this time scanning some film I shot on the …

2007-12-19: Video Share Fair photo.jpg

2007-12-18: The Lights Go On... http://llnw.jibjab.com/content/player.swfDon't send a lame Holiday eCard. Try JibJab …

2007-12-16: A Moment of Magic Sometimes something happens to spark off that Christmas feeling, even in the most difficult of …

2007-12-14: Skating at Somerset House photo.jpg

2007-12-14: Life on a Duck photo.jpg

2007-12-14: iPhone Test Andrew on the South Bank photo.jpg

2007-12-07: Rurally Retreating Again Bramfield, morning I'm back in Suffolk again, providing Mum with some support before she goes …

2007-12-03: Conference Blogging

2007-12-03: QotD: My Wikipedia Entry Write your own Wikipedia entry for yourself (or share the link if you already have one). I have one …

2007-12-03: Flooded Back Passage The Back Passage Ah, the trials of living in a Victorian-era building on a Victorian-era street that …

2007-12-01: Voce 'e Notte Voce 'e NotteA lovely piece of music played with style by alan.

2007-11-26: Re: Blogging IMG_0016.JPG So, life. I must getting better at posting to my blogs. I must get better at posting …

2007-11-22: Margate Promenade Great-great-grandm-grandad-steele This is my great great grandparents on holiday in Margate. Well, …

2007-11-22: Mum &amp; Dad's Wedding Day Mum & Dad's Wedding I've been playing with the scanner again…

2007-11-20: Vox Hunt: Thanksgiving Traditions Show us one of your Thanksgiving traditions. Well, getting annoyed at American-centric Vox …

2007-11-09: Waiting in the dayroom Another visit to hospital with Mum Waiting in the dayroom

2007-10-27: Real Life Forum Discussion We should probably show this to all our community managers as part of their training: …

2007-10-27: Liking Leopard Picture 1 So, my copy of the new version of Mac OSX called Leopard (or, rather more prosaically, Mac …

2007-10-22: Vox Hunt: The Good Doctor Show us your favorite doctor. The Fifth and Tenth Doctor Duh.

2007-10-20: Sojourn in Sunderland Sojourn in Sunderland We're up in Sunderland for the weekend, to attend a christening of the son of …

2007-10-15: Tree Light

2007-10-15: Woody Bay

2007-10-14: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Hack Cubby Adam I've been scanning a random selection of negatives I picked up from Mum's a few weeks …

2007-10-13: Man of Destiny (and his Mum) Man of Destiny (and his Mum)

2007-10-13: Charity Fundraising in Halesworth Ironically, it's for cancer research Charity Fundraising in Halesworth

2007-10-12: Sucky McSuck 1am. Can’t sleep. Not happy. The meeting with Mum’s oncologist did not go well. How …

2007-10-10: Coffee Moment: the Caffé Nero cup Thanks to a quick visit to Sutton town centre today, I had the rare chance to enjoy my favourite of …

2007-10-10: Vox Hunt: My Latest Download Audio:  Show us a song or album you've recently downloaded. PicturesKatie Melua Because …

2007-10-10: /dance With apologies to the non-WoWers out there: Slashdance - Live Action WoW Night Elf Dance

2007-10-09: How I'm Starting To Feel About Facebook Facebook2

2007-10-09: Holidays are Good I'm back from my hols. We stayed in a lovely place: Lee Bay from Lee Abbey And walked to some lovely …

2007-10-08: Looks like Autumn I think the days of driving home in the daylight are done for this year. Looks like Autumn

2007-10-08: Changing Season

2007-10-08: Still in the Torrent

2007-09-29: A Gentleman's Duel A Gentlemen Duel[via James]

2007-09-29: Why Your Coffee Sucks - And How To Make It Better Your coffee sucks, apparently, and indeed, much of the coffee we consume does suck. Some years ago, …

2007-09-29: Blast from the Past in my RSS Publicschool I was rather surprised to see the above picture on the Adam Smith Institute blog… …

2007-09-29: Ladies Love Leather (Apparently) Now, I love a woman in a leather dress as much as the next straight man. So, the news that the above …

2007-09-25: Fleeing to the Country This, or something very much like it, is my dream for the near future: We are moving out of our …

2007-09-24: Blogathon: the Movie Today was the RBI Charity Blogathon. Here's a quick bit of movie I grabbed on my phone towards the …

2007-09-23: Horror of My Youth A while ago, I replaced my few remaining tapes with iTunes downloads to tidy up my music collection …

2007-09-20: Steel and Eye Steel and Eye

2007-09-19: Reading Break Reading Break

2007-09-15: The UK's First Log Built House? Another one from the "press releases for my old job, but I'm still interested" file: Look …

2007-09-14: The Ideal Christmas Gift I've heard a lot about this video, but only just got around to watching it: SNL - Digital Short …

2007-09-14: links for 2007-09-14 Blogger vrs Wordpress: Druids vs. PriestsA Wordpress vrs Blogger fight like you've never seen …

2007-09-14: Saying Goodbye to a Ragged Era Ragged School 1855 Tonight saw the end of an era. Despite the damage I've done to my back, I …

2007-09-13: Vox Hunt: Music - Ticket Stub Show us a ticket stub from a great concert you saw. Spinal tap ticket Hah! Bet you're jealous …

2007-09-13: Vox Hunt: Music - I Last Listened To... Show us the last album you listened to. According to iTunes, it was this: SupernatureGoldfrapp …

2007-09-12: links for 2007-09-12 First, it was retailers. Then, it was publishers. Now, it's the turn of marketers.Some thoughts …

2007-09-08: Lunch and papers in Halesworth Lunch and papers in Halesworth

2007-09-07: Everyone's a critic... Everyone's a critic...

2007-09-06: Serious Business Journalism (Again) Nothing but serious business blogs for us, oh yes.

2007-09-04: Work in Progress: Types of Blog Post I'm in the process of working up some documentation for a blog-related event we're having here at …

2007-09-03: Devon: Not As Green As It Thinks? Devon has been advertising itself as the greenest county in Britain. Not so, says the ASA: clipped …

2007-09-03: Regular is the new small (The Caterer Blog) Regular is the new small (The Caterer …

2007-09-03: Vox Incognita When I started Voxing, waaaaaay back in June of last year, I decided to keep my neighbourhood, as …

2007-09-03: Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out. First Dance …

2007-09-03: Vox Hunt: Photography - Allow Me To Explain... Show us a photo that requires an explanation. Two bottles of wine and a loaf of bread This was shot …

2007-09-03: Vox Hunt: Photography - Frame It Show us one of your photos that you’d like to print out and frame. Lee Bay

2007-09-02: Scenes from Sophie's Party Toby & Anita Allie & Chris & Pint

2007-08-31: Enter Disco Stu Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a …

2007-08-30: I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.com I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - …

2007-08-30: The Simpsons Star Wars The Simpsons Star WarsNicked from here.

2007-08-30: NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excel NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on …

2007-08-30: Fair and Balanced Videos So, MainMor posted this:http://www.videojug.com/film/player?id=0428efb6-c039-e254-e478-ff0008c8e85c …

2007-08-29: My Tragic Addiction 95%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? [Via Adriana]

2007-08-29: Should Employers Ban Facebook? Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic, one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC …

2007-08-29: My Current Favourite LoLCat

2007-08-29: In Which I Venture to East Grinstead The life of an Estates Gazette journalist is an isolated one. You sit in splendid, uhh, isolation in …

2007-08-29: TV Shows on iTunes UK I wake this morning to the exciting news that iTunes has added TV shows to the UK store. Hurrah! So …

2007-08-29: The MMOvie One of the things I love about online games is the spin-off creativity that develops around them: …

2007-08-26: Halesworth Street Fair We spent the early afternoon today at the Halesworth Antiques Street Fair. Here's a taste of what …

2007-08-23: Baby Pandas! Whole Lotta Baby Pandas

2007-08-21: Waiting for the AA …And watching video podcasts. Waiting for the AA

2007-08-21: Vox Hunt: Coffee Table Book Book:  Show us a great coffee table book.   Dictators' Homes: Lifestyles of the …

2007-08-21: QotD: Passing The Drive Time When driving alone, what do you do?  Sing along to the radio?  Think about your day?  …

2007-08-21: The Thief of Summer OK. Own up. Trees Overhead Who stole summer and left us Autumn in its place?

2007-08-19: DVD Review: The Mother The Mother [2003] I'm catching up on a backlog of Amazon DVD rentals in Lorna's absence, …

2007-08-19: Testing Crossposting Just testing a Movable Type plugin to cross-post to Vox.

2007-08-19: 1960s Builders More scanning, this time of a series of pics of my parents' first home in Hazel Grove. Here's one of …

2007-08-18: QotD: What My Name Means What does your name mean and why did your parents choose it for you?  Submitted by mommy2two. …

2007-08-18: More from the 80s I was never terribly keen on A-Ha, but I always though that ths video was genius: A-Ha - Take On Me …

2007-08-18: A Message From the 80s All on my tod this weekend (aaaah), so I'm pottering around the flat catching up on the 1001 …

2007-08-18: Vox Hunt: Today's Beverage Show us what you're drinking. Drink Coffee Follow the bean.

2007-08-14: Rural Weddings Who says romance is dead?

2007-08-14: Vox Hunt: This One's For The Kids Books:  Show us a great children's book. Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame Poop! Poop! …

2007-08-14: Chocolate Rain: annoying earworm "Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay ZondayI heard about this from a podcast, …

2007-08-13: QotD: First Crush How old were you when you had your very first boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you still know them …

2007-08-13: My Sad, Lamentable Taste in Music Oh, look. iTunes has …

2007-08-12: Vox Hunt: And All The Colors Show us a rainbow.  Submitted by Amy - Sister Brown Hair Surprise.   Rainbow over …

2007-08-12: Dr Who: Here Comes Season 4 Ah, we have more news about season 4 of New Who. There's some good casting in there, but the …

2007-08-09: Vintage QotD: Here Comes The Bride John & AnitaWhat was the last wedding you went to?  Were you in the wedding? John & …

2007-08-07: Dad'n'Me A silly pic of Dad and I taken by Mum back in 2001. Dad and me And us in a men of destiny pose: …

2007-08-06: Photo Friday: Wet Seated Paddling, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth. Two senior folks enjoying the feel of water …

2007-08-06: Burj Dubai - as tall as it gets? Part of the reason behind starting this (shamefully neglected) blog was to write about stuff I no …

2007-08-06: My Great-Grandma Another one from the family archives, shot in October 1983: Great Grandma

2007-08-04: Saturday Afternoon in Multicultural Lewisham LHR Street Celebration

2007-08-03: The Friday Afternoon Feeling Apparently, British firms are losing £50m, because people are taking Friday afternoons off, on the …

2007-08-03: Two Great 70s Tastes - That Taste Better Together! Keith Chegwin and The Wurzels! Wurzels - "The Tractor Song"

2007-08-02: Drivin' Along in my (cardboard) Automobile Cardboard cars

2007-08-01: Christopher Walken cooks Chicken with Pears Chicken with PearsThe mind boggles.Still, the man's a good cook. 

2007-08-01: QotD: My Strongest Summer Memory What will you remember most about this summer? August has only just begun! There's at least a …

2007-07-31: The Charity Shop Racks Charity Books The staple of any charity shop: romance novels and tatty fantasy series. Why do these …

2007-07-31: Flower One of a group of photos I shot, while fruitlessly searching for a butterfly, as instructed by a …

2007-07-31: QotD: School Sports What were the sports or games you played in high school or college?  Submitted by …

2007-07-30: QotD: Stress Case People do many different things to cope with stress, loss, and "bumps in the road". …

2007-07-28: Cinema Mismanagement Cinema Mismanagement So, on Friday night, Lorna and I went to the cinema. Boy, that was a mistake. …

2007-07-27: The Old Manor My old offices on Wardour Street, all refurbished and lovely. The Old Manor

2007-07-27: Ah, Charing Cross This is what used to greet me off the train for nine years. No more. Ah, Charing Cross

2007-07-26: Where I Want To Be Right Now Boat near Fowey

2007-07-25: They Broke The Internets! In honour of the power outage in San Fransisco last night which too down numerous sites, including …

2007-07-24: Mind The (Culture) Gap OK - can anyone really imagine this happening in the UK? Hott 4 Hill feat. Taryn SouthernDebate …

2007-07-24: QotD: Heartbreaking How many times have you had your heart broken?  Submitted by BullDogg. 1.5 times. It seems …

2007-07-23: Happy Birthday, Dave Birthday Cake A very happy birthday to Dave for today!

2007-07-23: Climate Change: Making Choices http://embed.break.com/MzExODA1 Interesting Argument About Global Warming - Watch more free …

2007-07-23: Random Phone Photography Deptford Clouds A beautiful sky over Deptford last Wednesday evening Lost Shoe Random shoe. This …

2007-07-23: Vox Hunt: Cityscape Show us a cityscape. Truro Skyline It's Truro. And it counts as a city because it has a cathedral. …

2007-07-23: Baking Daleks Raw Dalek Last Saturday, my morning of indolence was disturbed by the unexpected arrival of a …

2007-07-22: Graveside Reflections Dad's Grave I visited Dad's grave for the first time in a little while this afternoon. It …

2007-07-22: A Real-Life Hobbit Hole This is just fabulous - I want one now clipped from www.simondale.netYou are looking at pictures of …

2007-07-13: In Brighton In Brighton

2007-07-09: On The Rails With RBI BizDev Snap Snap 04072007040 Travelling Home

2007-07-09: The Old Neptune The Old Neptune, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.  

2007-07-09: BizDev in Whitstable Watchers on the shore Pictures from our team day out in Whitstable are now on Flickr.

2007-07-09: Razor Clams Razor Clams Yummy seafood from our prize day out to Whitstable last week. These were really, really …

2007-07-09: Listen While You Work iPod radio This morning, I finally remembered the existence of the iPod radio attachment that I …

2007-07-07: Toy Scarecrows Toy Scarecrows

2007-07-04: Shopping in Whitstable Shopping in Whitstable

2007-07-04: 04/07/07 04/07/07

2007-07-04: 04/07/07 04/07/07

2007-07-04: On Whitstable Beach 04/07/07

2007-07-04: Flowery Decisions Flowery Decisions

2007-07-04: After the rain After the rain

2007-07-03: Duck! 23/06/07 The Halesworth ducks like to explore. This chap was in the car park, a fair way from the …

2007-07-03: QotD: Signed, Sealed, Delivered How do you sign your emails? Submitted by rosemarypepper. In general: "Regards, Adam" For …

2007-07-03: Oh, so cute Just for Andrew Orange: It's oh so Cute! Cats of YouTube Music Video Stolen from Melinda

2007-07-01: Last of the Time Lords: intial thoughts My goodness. Doctor Who fans are a miserable bunch, aren't they? [Link now dead] Personally, I …

2007-06-30: Truro Cathedral Truro Cathedral, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.

2007-06-27: In Praise of Lucy Saxon [caption id=“attachment_2708” align=“alignright” width=“288”] …

2007-06-26: Rusted Rusted, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.  

2007-06-25: Faithful Times The Times has launched a new blog about faith. Faith Central, written by Libby Purves, is already …

2007-06-23: Stormy Weather 23062007039

2007-06-23: Never Underestimate the Power of Bric-a-Brac The Bric-a-Brac Hordes To Halesworth, and the annual cream teas in aid of the local Community …

2007-06-23: Summer's Coming... …and with it some colourful fashions, according to the windows on the King's Road. About …

2007-06-22: Hospital Sculpture I do like this. Hospital Sculpture

2007-06-21: Farmers Weekly: Rural Porn I'm so proud to work here sometimes. This is the follow-up to the Farmers Weekly video I posted …

2007-06-17: When Advertising Becomes Art …or something like it at least. When Advertising Becomes Art

2007-06-16: The Family Album Castle Campbell Another recovery scan - and this one has proved to be rather more tricky to get the …

2007-06-16: QotD: You'd Never Believe It What story from your wild-and-crazy youth would nobody believe about you today? AdamRocker July …

2007-06-16: New Old Photo Jim, Mark & Joan I've been having fun with the scanner again. This is one of the oldest …

2007-06-16: My Voxiversary I just realised: I've been on Vox for one year now. My, but a lot has changed in that year…

2007-06-15: Tour of Dublin A few weeks back, Karl and I went to Dublin, to visit the offices of Irish Medical Times. Michael, …

2007-06-15: Cameraphone Letdown Sunny Sutton, Early Evening While the humble mobile phone has all but replaced my digital compact …

2007-06-15: Vox Hunt: I Hold It In My Hands Show us what you hold in your hands the most every day.  Submitted by lezlee. Somewhat …

2007-06-12: A Windows Safari SafariWind Safari on Windows. It feels weird. But a good weird. Oh, and there's a cool …

2007-06-11: Happy Holiday Memories Cornish Cream Tea It all seems so long ago now…

2007-06-11: Coffee Forecast: Monday 11th June Today, I forecast three cups of coffee, because I'm a little tired.

2007-06-11: QotD: In Case Of Emergency Who is your Alert In Case Of Emergency person?   Why, the science pixie, Dr Evil herself, …

2007-06-11: Podcast of The Day: Media Talk I commute for about an hour each way right now, depending on traffic and the time of year, and I use …

2007-06-08: Anti-Ginger Nuts Gingerism: is it racism? - Styledash: According the BBC, red-head hating is still going strong …

2007-06-08: The Mystery Of Food Brits in the dark over food production | Food | Guardian Unlimited Environment: "Farmers …

2007-06-07: We can rebuild her Because Lindsay and Karl were asking: Bionic Woman – Coming to NBC

2007-06-07: Today's Office Nostalgia Terry And June Opening TitlesToday's bit of 1970s TV nostalgia: Terry & June. I used to …

2007-06-07: More Serious Rural Journalism from Farmers Weekly Young farmers and gratuitous nakedness... Farmers Weekly - Full Monty

2007-06-06: At Adobe Live At Adobe Live

2007-06-06: Focus HQ Nadia and Stan hard at work at Estates Gazette. Focus HQ

2007-06-05: Team Lunch Because, sometimes you need to go out for a Chinese… 05/06/07

2007-06-05: Explaining Volcanicity About a year ago, Jo (my sister-in-law) had scribbled "explain volcanicity" in her big …

2007-06-01: Vox Hunt: Villainous Video:  Show us your favorite TV or movie villain.  Submitted by Felipe Anuel. …

2007-06-01: QotD: I Turn My Camera On Rebel1What kind of camera(s) do you own? Most of my photography is done with a Canon EOS 300D, …

2007-05-30: Who's That Spoiler? Jack's Back Preview clip of Captain Jack returning to Doctor Who: Doctor Who - Utopia! Clip ( Captain Jacks …

2007-05-29: The Secret of Fox The Simpsons - Fox News and the Liberal Media

2007-05-24: Commute From Hell The traffic this morning is hell. Locked solid from Beckenham onwards, I've spent more time checking …

2007-05-24: Spot the car At Gatwick. Looking for the car in the car park. Note to self: it's the one covered in Cornish …

2007-05-22: Suffolk again Start the day in Suffolk - finish it in Dublin… Suffolk again

2007-05-11: QotD: Search Me How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.) Submitted by Matt Blank. …

2007-05-08: Alanis and Her Humps Alanis Moristette covers "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas in her traditional style: …

2007-05-07: Singing Hexadecimal It's interesting that the biggest tech story of the week in some quarters has been a string of …

2007-05-06: Birthday Beads It's Rev Stan's birthday! Birthday Beads

2007-05-04: Video share fair in progress Video share fair in progress

2007-05-04: Oops Heading back to London but stuck in a M25 nightmare. Oops

2007-05-02: When Snow Comes to London Some footage I shot back in February but have only just got around to editing: Snow!

2007-04-29: QotD: I Should Make A List What do you always forget to pack?  Submitted by quornflour. Cufflinks. I habitually wear …

2007-04-29: New Wurzels Release Oh, yes. It's on iTunes, too.

2007-04-29: QotD: What Blogging Means What are the positive and negative associations that you and those around you have with …

2007-04-26: A new start So, another blog from me. Why? Well, because One Man & His Blog, which used to be a general …

2007-04-26: Vox Hunt: It Came From The 70's Audio: It's 70's music Wednesday. 01 Combine HarvesterThe Wurzels Proof that anything …

2007-04-25: Vox Hunt: Here's Some Stuff Show us a pile of stuff. Submitted by The Eugene. A pile of stuff

2007-04-24: Fields of rape Suffolk is yellow this time of year Fields of rape (Although, now I see this from my desk, I can …

2007-04-24: Gilbert &amp; Sullivan's Baby Got Back Baby Got Back - Gilbert and Sullivan Style

2007-04-24: Respect My Authoritaaaah! Respectmyauthoritah Convincingly broke the Technorati top 40,000 blogs with my main blog this …

2007-04-24: All together now: Wince! clipped from news.bbc.co.ukMan cuts off penis in restaurant A man cut off his penis with a knife in …

2007-04-22: Checking Out The tattered remains of a wedding… Checking Out

2007-04-21: Lewisham blogging drinks Lewisham blogging drinks

2007-04-20: New haircut time again What do you think? New haircut time again

2007-04-20: Still They Come! General Waste

2007-04-20: St George A statue at St George's Hospital, created by one of the staff. St George

2007-04-19: Sinister Bins First Andrew captured them massing. Now they ATTACK Is there no escape for any of us? …

2007-04-19: Sun over Lewisham Station Of course, if I hadn't been commuting by train, I'd have missed this quality of light: Low Sun over …

2007-04-18: Commute On the train today. It reminds me of how lucky I am to drive most days. Commute

2007-04-17: 10 Ways to know a WoW Addict I'm only guilty of a few of these... clipped from www.www.wowinsider.comTop 10 ways to know you …

2007-04-13: Tea at the Crazy Bear Tea at the Crazy Bear

2007-04-12: My Brother Runs... http://www.justgiving.com/rss/getfundraisingPage2.asp?EventGivingGroupId=722891 As some of you know, …

2007-04-11: Vox Hunt: Is For The Birds Show us some birds. Snapped this little fella grabbing a bite while I was in New York: Bird in …

2007-04-10: Rooftop car work Just refilling the screen wash, but it looked impressive with the car all alone on the top floor of …

2007-04-10: Exciting Times chez Tinworth Oh, at least, if you're interested in gardening: Fun with a rake Bear having a break For today was …

2007-04-08: Messin' With Mark's MacBook MyPicture

2007-04-06: Bank Holiday Begins Today has been an unexpectedly quiet day. We dragged Nicola back here in the early hours of the …

2007-04-06: In Trafalgar Square Sitting with a drunk friend. Nice view. In Trafalgar Square

2007-04-05: Karl: style guru Karl: style guru

2007-04-05: Leaving Do Leaving Do

2007-04-05: Good Weather Ahead Despite Piers' concerns: Easter Bank Holiday Good times ahead! 

2007-04-04: Liveblogging is thirsty work Liveblogging is thirsty work Lloyd Davis of Perfect Path taking a Liveblogging break.

2007-04-04: At Blogging4Business But where is the wireless? At Blogging4Business

2007-04-01: Sunday afternoon in the back garden Sunday afternoon in the back garden

2007-03-30: Who's that (MySpace) Girl? Martha MySpace Martha Jones, the new companion being introduced in the third series of Doctor Who …

2007-03-29: Analysing 300 Great review and analysis of the film 300. clipped from www.storytellersunplugged.com300 is racist. …

2007-03-29: Things of which I am ashamed #1 Exalted: Savant and Sorcerer (Exalted) (Exalted)Adam TinworthSome of you may know that I had …

2007-03-28: Vox Hunt: Have This, Will Travel Show us something you cannot leave home without. Submitted by Quornflour. My Keys Sorry to be so …

2007-03-28: David Manners Done Good One of our bloggers is getting quite a lot of attention in the techie blogosphere with this post: …

2007-03-27: What Sort Of a Nerd am I? Nicked from Beth:What Be Your Nerd Type?Your Result: Literature Nerd Does sitting by a nice …

2007-03-27: Upgrading My Day Oh, yeah, nearly forgot, BA gave me an impromptu upgrade to business class on a very quiet flight …

2007-03-27: Report from Our Man in Dublin So, I'm in my Dublin hotel, and it's rather nice: But the very best bit is this: 26032007240 Yup, …

2007-03-26: Today Jet lag is kicking my arse. And now I have to fly to Ireland. That is all.

2007-03-25: Droid Mail Just for Anthony: R2-UPS It was right outside the Apple Store on 5th Avenue.

2007-03-25: Back Good flight back. Shame that the time difference means that I've lost the whole day travelling. Back …

2007-03-24: Apple Store, 5th Avenue Because I can't get enough of Apple product or beautiful glass-based urban design. Apple Store 5th …

2007-03-23: Keeping Busy Last night: dinner with Six Apart folks Today: Blogher Blogher Business Keeping myself out of …

2007-03-22: I've Heard of Roach Motels but… This is on the same street as my hotel: New York's special services

2007-03-22: Just for Karl… Shop on 25th Street

2007-03-22: Presentation: Done David Jacobs talks I survived. I got up in front of a audience of maybe 60 or 70 people, talked …

2007-03-20: The City That Never Sleeps 20032007218 So, I'm safely here in New York and, after a 22 hour day yesterday, I'm …

2007-03-17: Mark's Active Saturday Just lazing around at my brother's place. Mark's Active Saturday

2007-03-16: Balmy Sutton Days Balmy Sutton Days Today, I finally took an hour out of the office. Not because I wanted to, mind, …

2007-03-16: That video again... Testing the new (but in beta) embed functionality in Vox:[vimeo www.vimeo.com/154598 …

2007-03-16: Another Busy Afternoon in Business Development Anthony, Andrew and Piers cracking on with the serious stuff: Wii Movie

2007-03-15: Vox Hunt: It Takes Two Audio: Share a great duet. kylie & kermit!Especially for you, my Vox readers. An Aussie. And a …

2007-03-14: Coffee update Had coffee. Even the video below hasn't dented my improved mood: Travel Weekly does Wham! for …

2007-03-13: Office Departure Time: 18:55 Today, it's 25 minutes later than my self-imposed deadline. I will get better at this, oh yes.

2007-03-13: Vox Hunt: This Gets Me Cooking Book: Show us one of your favorite cookbooks. Chinese CookeryKen Hom This is, without doubt, my …

2007-03-13: Post in lieu of a Lunch Break Sutton from the 13th floor. So, back in sunny Sutton and back at the blogface after my weekend of …

2007-03-11: Has Spring Sprung? 11/03/07 Spring is here? I'm taking a brief break from my weekend of indolance to in shopping for …

2007-03-11: Mum &amp; Dad - Spanish Beach 1963 Another one from the growing digital archives Mum & Dad in Spain, 1963

2007-03-10: Climbing the RSS mountain Feeds A couple of weeks back, Karl was complaining about hitting 1,000 unread posts in his RSS …

2007-03-09: Human Beatbox in the Kitchen Last one for now, as e-mailed around by Karl: Kitchen diaries

2007-03-09: Vox Hunt: I Miss This Show Video: Show us a clip of a TV show you miss. The Goodies - How to Make Babies by Doing Dirty …

2007-03-09: Beware The Baby Panda! Stolen without shame from Jay Allen: Sneezing Panda

2007-03-09: Torn - mimed This came up on the Ravens GuildChat list earlier (which is pretty off-topic for a World of Warcraft …

2007-03-09: Touched by a Mole You have to wait for the mole, but it's almost worth it… Touched By A Mole - RBI / …

2007-03-08: QotD: MmmCookies Did you order Girl Scout cookies this year?  What kind? Y'know, one day Vox is going to …

2007-03-05: Vox Hunt: Candlelit Show us a candle burning. Candles

2007-03-04: Back to the 50s Here's an even earlier pic: my Dad (far right) with his National Service buddies serving in Suez… …

2007-03-03: QotD: Totally Obsessed What is your current obsession(s)? Submitted by eijsr. Currently, getting some sleep. I seem to be …

2007-03-01: Enter Mechanical March So, March. That's one sixth of the year gone. How the hell did that happen…? Still, …

2007-02-28: Book Tech Support Another bit of e-mailed video humour, this time from Karl: Introducing the book

2007-02-28: QotD: The Best Blend Office Coffee SupplyWhat's your favorite blend or brand of coffee or tea? Tea-wise, it's …

2007-02-28: Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager Michael Targett of Black Sheep e-mailed this around, but it's good enough to share here: Chad …

2007-02-26: Vox Hunt: Time To Make The Donuts Show us how your work week begins. Monday, monday Inspiring, isn't it?

2007-02-26: QotD: First Celebrity Crush Who was your first celebrity crush? Submitted by Glory. Leia Ah, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in …

2007-02-26: QotD: Best Day What is your favorite day of the week? I'm really struggling with this one. Friday would be an …

2007-02-26: The Lords of The North (Bernard Cornwell) The Lords of the NorthBernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell's best-known series, the Sharpe books, …

2007-02-24: Brief Lives: Newton (Peter Ackroyd) Newton (Brief Lives)Peter Ackroyd I'm not sure why I enjoy Peter Ackroyd's writing as much …

2007-02-23: In The Beginning...there were Barenaked Ladies The Barenaked Ladies/YouTube video I blogged a couple of days ago, combined with general …

2007-02-23: Vox Hunt: Yeah, About This Thing... Show us something weird that's on your desk. Submitted by Alex. In the most incredibly tardy Vox …

2007-02-23: Lunch abstract Lunch abstract

2007-02-23: Good Morning, Vox Cozy space Good morning! For the first time in a fortnight, I feel like I've had a good night's …

2007-02-21: Barenaked YouTube Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies, boosters of Google traffic for bloggers everywhere, have pulled …

2007-02-21: Report from Adders Central Tired. Very tired. Too many late nights and long drives over the last week. Productive day at work. …

2007-02-19: Mobile Self-portrait Mobile Self-portrait

2007-02-16: Vox Hunt: Set Your DVR Video: Show us a clip from your current favorite TV show. Whoever guessed that Daleks and Cybermen …

2007-02-16: QotD: The Best Brew What method do you use to prepare your coffee or tea?  Submitted by AgentBouche Coffee (drunk) …

2007-02-16: QotD: Apple For The Teacher Who was your best (or worst) primary school teacher? Submitted by Minnow.  (Question edited …

2007-02-16: Well, it's nearly Friday Night in Sutton... further to Andrew's post about the Fashion Police arriving in Sutton: Fashion police: dog section I …

2007-02-14: Hitting The Headlines (on p29) Just over a week ago, Katie Allen of The Guardian came to visit us here at RBI Towers: And today, …

2007-02-13: Vox Hunt: It's Like This... Audio: Share a song that reminds you of a current or past relationship. Lou BegaThis is Mambo No. 5! …

2007-02-12: QotD: Pass Me The Style Section Do you read the Sunday paper?  Which one(s)? I alternate between The Sunday Telegraph and The …

2007-02-12: What I Did On My Weekend Me in the Huntsman & Hounds Thursday: Drove to Suffolk. Arrived Friday, and half asleep. …

2007-02-06: Vox Hunt: I'm The VJ Video: Show us a great music video. I've loved this video since it first appeared: gorrilaz feel …

2007-02-06: QotD: Pleasepleaseplease! What was the one toy you wanted as a kid that your parents never bought you? Submitted by Princess …

2007-02-05: Done It's 2am and the bedroom is done. The carpet fitters arrive in 6 hours… Done

2007-02-04: Balloons at the SCC Balloons at the SCC

2007-02-04: Doctor Who and the French Dalek Another Sci-Fi/Python mashup: Doctor Who and the French Dalek

2007-02-03: This is what we do... Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

2007-02-02: Why I hate decorating Most parts of decorating I like. This is what I hate. Why I hate decorating

2007-02-02: Fashion's in the Details Project Catwalk: Ladies Day Sometimes telly is rubbish. Not rubbish in a big, over-arching way, but …

2007-02-01: Symphony in White Symphony in White

2007-02-01: View from the steps Painting again View from the steps

2007-02-01: Game night Game night

2007-01-31: Gates has encountered an error... So, Bill "Kermit the Geek" Gates has been doing the media rounds promoting Windows OSX, or …

2007-01-29: DVD review group I've just set up a DVD review group, not unlike Piers' Book Club. Join up and share your …

2007-01-29: DVD night: The Odd Couple Friday night's viewing from our Amazon DVD rental account was this old classic: The Odd Couple …

2007-01-29: Get a UK Mac Over in the US, Apple has been running the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads for a year or so. …

2007-01-28: Up the Junction Quick pub visit after moving duty Up the Junction

2007-01-26: Commenting Geeky Fun Thanks to a discussion in the office yesterday, and a little bit of research, you can now sign-in to …

2007-01-26: Blog Me Once, Blog Me Twice Here's a little experiment. I hope it will solve a little problem. You see, my number of blogs …

2007-01-26: Traffic. Again Spent too much time like this over the last week Traffic. Again

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2007-01-25: QotD: Take That, Writer's Block! How do you beat writer's block?  Submitted by marvel is my pen name. Generally, I find I …

2007-01-25: Vox Hunt: Rocked My World Audio: Show us cover art or share a track from the first band or solo artist you flipped for. …

2007-01-24: Life on Mars series two is on its way... Life on Mars meets Camberwick Green  And that's a great piece of viral video…

2007-01-24: Traffic terrible But the views make up for it Traffic terrible

2007-01-24: The snow doth fall... The snow doth fall...

2007-01-23: Girl with a one track deal While killing time before a meeting, I spotted this. A reminder of where popular blogs can lead Girl …

2007-01-22: At least the living room looks good At least the living room looks good

2007-01-22: David, Pat and Lorna At the Shaftesbury today David, Pat and Lorna

2007-01-21: This is our kitchen right now Things are getting a bit strange as we decorate the bedroom. This is our kitchen right now

2007-01-19: Silent Star Wars Silent Star Wars

2007-01-19: Storm Damage Signs down in Sutton Storm Damage

2007-01-19: QotD: Your Cheatin' Heart Have you ever been cheated on? Ever cheated?  Submitted by Joe.  Technically, I've …

2007-01-18: Vox Hunt: It Better Be Good What's the first image that comes up when you Google your name? Adamtinworth Well, it's …

2007-01-18: The Wind Blows Storms lashing the UK again: Trees from the Sutton car park I've just had my second miserable …

2007-01-18: Dartmouth by Night Dartmouth Harbour by Night Gratuitous pretty shot from New Year. And yes, Rev Stan and nadia, …

2007-01-17: QotD: It Was Kismet How did you meet your current, or most recent, significant other? I met her at the front door of a …

2007-01-17: QotD: Forward My Mail In which fictional world/universe/land/city would you most like to live? Submitted by glenn is the …

2007-01-17: Group Hug! So... While I've been insanely busy getting corporate blogging going, Vox got around to …

2007-01-15: Two great geek flavours that taste better together... Python's Camelot interlude, by Kirk and crew Very, very silly.

2007-01-15: Alive Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I'm back at work. More when things get quieter again.

2007-01-11: Sick. Sick as a dog. I am feeling exceptionally sorry for myself this morning. I'm curled up in bed with every duvet …

2007-01-05: Who's that Girl? Because I'm a sad geek, this pleases me immensely: Martha & The Doctor Roll on series 3!

2007-01-04: Wet, Wild &amp; Walking So, I'm not long back from Devon, where we were staying as guests of Rev Stan and Mosh, and am …

2007-01-03: From the iPod #1 Songs of Distant EarthMike Oldfield Today's stress-reduction listening is Mike Oldfield's …

2007-01-03: Back at the Coal Face Ruined Coffee Cup After an entertaining 20 minutes prising my wife out of bed with a crowbar this …

2007-01-02: Break for lunch The long slog home has not proved too bad so far. Finally found an open pub for a spot of lunch. …

2007-01-02: A room at Moonrakers 02/01/07

2007-01-01: Coffee time Coffee time

2007-01-01: Happy New Year New Year can be such a drag…  Happy New Year More pics to follow in a day or so.

2006-12-31: Stan in Salcombe Stan in Salcombe

2006-12-29: Mum&#039;s new haircut Mum's new haircut

2006-12-25: Books, Glorious Books This year's literary haul from my family: Reviews to follow as I work my way through them.

2006-12-24: Vox Hunt: Great Giftwrapping Show us some great giftwrapping. The Pressie Pile

2006-12-22: Worst day of fog yet Worst day of fog yet

2006-12-22: Complete Babes… Oxfam Mastercard You're Gorgeous Christmas ad

2006-12-22: Getting Down and Dirty with Natalie For all the gentlemen of Business Development who expressed their admiration of Miss Natalie Portman …

2006-12-22: QotD: One Lump or Two? How do you take your tea or coffee? Submitted by Vasquez. I take my coffee as dark as night and as …

2006-12-21: Foggy commute Foggy commute

2006-12-21: Foggy Lewisham Foggy Lewisham

2006-12-20: Foggy Sutton (night edition) Foggy Sutton (night edition)

2006-12-20: When D&amp;D Goes Bad I was forced to steal this from MainMor, due to extreme hilarity. This will mean nothing, if you …

2006-12-20: Work Christmas Lunch The Business Development Christmas Lunch Clink on the ones below to see three secret santa gifts …

2006-12-20: The Six Apart Holiday Movie Six Apart Holiday Movie 2006

2006-12-20: Foggy Sutton Foggy Sutton

2006-12-14: British Martial Arts Training British Fight School

2006-12-13: On the Eurostar I seem to be surrounded by sleepy French women on today's journey. On the Eurostar

2006-12-13: Le Web 3. C&#039;est fini… The conference is done. I'm pretty much done. Just staggered up from the bar , where I was drinking …

2006-12-11: Blogging from Le Web 3 11122006005 I'm blogging the Le Web 3 confrenece in France, over on my other blog.

2006-12-09: Vox Hunt: &#039;Tis the Season Show us something seasonal. The Festive Queue Nothing says the Christmas season like massive …

2006-12-08: Testing video uploads Behold! The spider hand! Testing video uploads

2006-12-08: Test post from Vox Mobile I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a handy-dandy Vox posting client for your mobile phone …

2006-12-08: The QEII Bridge Another image from my sloooow journey yesterday. 07/12/06

2006-12-07: Pondering I'm wondering if the bridge is shut because of the high winds...

2006-12-07: Stuck on the M25 This is taking too long. Stuck on the M25

2006-12-06: Voxy Stuff and Family Stuff Oooh. New look Vox... Some nice new features, including the ability to import posts from other …

2006-12-04: QotD: This Song Makes Me Festive Break Like the WindSpinal TapWhat song gives you the most holiday cheer? Submitted by Roxy. …

2006-11-24: QotD: Holiday Shopping When do you start your holiday shopping? Submitted by Murphy. As late as humanly possible. …

2006-11-24: QotD: Tasty Thanksgiving Treat What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? Submitted by Brennan. Thanksgiving? Bloody Americans.

2006-11-24: Cheering up a grumpy Friday... Sweet Tired Cat

2006-11-23: Open mouse Grabbed on my phone. Open mouse

2006-11-23: QotD: Childhood Frights What were you afraid of as a child that seems silly to you now? Submitted by navelgazer. Tron …

2006-11-21: QotD: Heartbreaker What's your favorite heartbreak song? Submitted by esta86. Here's Where the Story EndsTin …

2006-11-20: The Car Takes a Hit This is what some charmer did to my car overnight: Wing clipped? Thanks. Oh, and thanks for not …

2006-11-16: Eva Green&#039;s Premiere Style Eva Green 2 Talking of Casino Royale, did anyone see the Premiere pictures from early in the week? …

2006-11-16: Off to the pictures... Off to see Casino Royale tonight. I'm more excited about this than any Bond film I've seen in years. …

2006-11-16: Back in LJ land (sorta) You may have noticed that my Livejournal posts have dropped to almost nothing since Vox launched. …

2006-11-16: QotD: I Rock The Mic What song makes you rock the karaoke mic? Submitted by Ann. No song does that. I last did karaoke …

2006-11-15: Mum at Sutton Hoo. Mum has wanted to go to Sutton Hoo for years. On Sunday we finally went. More pics to follow… …

2006-11-15: The photographer at work The photographer at work

2006-11-15: How to tell you&#039;re in the countryside... The only business mag in the local supermarket is Farmer's Weekly. How to tell you're in the …

2006-11-10: The RBI Brighton Experience We had our annual Editors Conference in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. I was hoping to pull …

2006-11-09: QotD: OS Preference Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why? Submitted by ramblingsbymark. I'm …

2006-11-09: QotD: My Dream Career What's your dream career?  Submitted by Something. Oh, probably as a multi-media reporter …

2006-11-09: QotD: They Play My Jams What's your favorite radio station, past or present? Rather sadly, I'm pretty much a …

2006-11-02: QotD: My Vox Name How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?  Submitted by LeendaDLL.   Uh, …

2006-10-31: QotD: Ghost Story Do you believe in ghosts?  Have you ever seen a ghost?  Submitted by Nancy. In the sense …

2006-10-30: When pigeons attack I was walking through Trafalgar Square earlier when this happened. Wasn't Ken meant to be getting …

2006-10-27: Friday Afternoon Fun WoW The internet is for PornSong from Avenue Q, graphics from World of Warcraft.

2006-10-27: This is work, honest So, I've been testing a new phone with digital camera for work purposes. Here's some pictures of the …

2006-10-26: QotD: What I Love About Vox In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox? I just …

2006-10-24: QotD: All My Computers How many computers do you have in your house?  Submitted by Foomper. Usually, just two: the …

2006-10-21: Just a quick tipple Something I spotted on the way into the office the other day: Sutton's little problem…

2006-10-21: QotD: Weekend Plans What are your plans for the weekend? I'm spending time with Mum before her operation on …

2006-10-19: QotD: My First Kiss Tell us about your first kiss.  Who was it with?  How old were you? I was a late starter …

2006-10-17: QotD: How To Kick A Cold What do you do to get rid of a cold or flu?  Submitted by ashenflowers. Stay in bed, drink …

2006-10-17: Torchwood -5 Five days until this: Torchwood - First proper trailerTorchwoodExcited? Me?

2006-10-14: What the Adders has been doing So, what have I been working on, that's keeping me so quiet? Well, as of tomorrow, HJi will be …

2006-10-09: QotD: My Favorite Sense Which of your five senses (touch, taste, sight, hearing, or smell) do you value the most? Submitted …

2006-10-06: Vox Hunt: Can&#039;t Live Without Show us something you can't live without. Submitted by awkwardidity. Bear in a boat While I …

2006-10-06: QotD: The Day I Met My BFF(s) How did you meet your best friend(s)? The best friends I have are either people I used to hang out …

2006-10-03: Vox Hunt: Counting The Days Show us your desk or wall calendar. My calendar at work Sorry about the incorrect rotation. …

2006-10-02: QotD: Strike Up The Band Do you play any musical instruments? </p></blockquote><p> I can still play a …

2006-09-28: QotD: All My Pets How many pets have you owned in your lifetime? Tell us about them. Submitted by …

2006-09-25: Vox Hunt: Things To Do Show us your to-do list. Today's ToDo Not very informative, I'll grant you…

2006-09-25: QotD: Set Your DVR What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?  Submitted by ducnly.vox.com. Well, I …

2006-09-25: One from the archives… Here's a movie I found while tidying up my iMac. It's from one of Rev Stan's parties in 2004: Party …

2006-09-24: QotD: Reach Out Is there a friend who you owe a phonecall or email? What's stopping you? Well, I owe one to …

2006-09-23: Phone Video Test La Taupanne's Drive The video quality from my mobile phone is not great…

2006-09-22: QotD: I&#039;m Crafty What's the last thing you crafted, constructed or created yourself? Most of the things I …

2006-09-20: Bird song I really don't stop and listen to bird song often enough. I should do more of that.

2006-09-18: QotD: Let&#039;s Go There SalcombeWhat's your favorite vacation destination? I've not often visited the same area twice, …

2006-09-18: Revising My Opinions of Conventions X-23 Y'know, I always associated costumes at conventions with overweight, middle-aged men in …

2006-09-16: QotD: Collector&#039;s Item What do you collect? I don't really collect anything any more. I've been through phases …

2006-09-15: Remember Jigsaw? UK kids' TV got very strange during the 1980s. Very strange indeed: Noseybonk

2006-09-14: QotD: Speak To Me In... How many languages can you speak?  Which languages can you read or understand? Only English …

2006-09-11: Vox Hunt: Tastes great Show us something that tastes great. From the QH Starbuck's Mmm. Afternoon break.

2006-09-11: QotD: I Get Around How many places have you lived in your life? I've called 12 places "home" 2 houses …

2006-09-10: Scenes from Bristol&#039;s Open Doors It's an in-laws weekend, with Lorna and I down in Bristol visiting my mother-in-law and …

2006-09-07: QotD: Middle Name What's your middle name?  Is there a story or history behind it? I have two: Matthew …

2006-09-05: Stingray involvement… Apologies to anyone easily offended: BBC News questions Stingray

2006-09-03: QotD: Three-Day Weekend! What are your plans for the holiday weekend? Dear Voxters, The wonderful thing about the internet …

2006-09-02: QotD: Less Stress, Please What is your favorite way to relieve stress? Ravens in Maraudon Quite honestly, I think I unwind …

2006-08-29: QotD: Home Sweet Home What is your browser's default home page set to? Submitted by Kelev T. Cat. It's set to …

2006-08-28: A Handy Weekend The finer points of gardening Tonight feels odd. It's the end of the weekend, but not the Bank …

2006-08-28: QotD: I&#039;m reading (or about to read)... What books are on your nightstand? Bit of a mixed bag at the moment. The first two are books …

2006-08-25: QotD: I Just Made That Up Remember sniglets?  Do you have any favorites?  Have you ever made up your own word?  …

2006-08-24: Vox Hunt: That Rules Show us some rules. Bombthreat This is a pretty standard set of bomb threat rules, which I suspect …

2006-08-24: Today&#039;s Productivity Destroyer Absolutely no thanks at all to AndyB for sending me this and thus costing RBI 10 minutes of my …

2006-08-24: I&#039;m such a nerd because... What's the nerdiest thing about you? Lucifer's Shadow: Tales of Fallen AngelsMichael Lee, …

2006-08-23: QotD: Teacher&#039;s Pet What was (or is) your favorite subject in school? Oh, thank you for this. This is one of those …

2006-08-20: QotD: Here Comes The Bride What was the last wedding you went to?  Were you in the wedding? The last wedding we went to …

2006-08-20: Back We're back in the Uk. Horrible journey. More later.

2006-08-14: Long lunch So, here I am, sat with the family, having lunch in a French restaurant. It was worth driving …

2006-08-13: and we are off Tunnel time! Image(004).jpg

2006-08-13: QotD: My Intro to the Big Screen What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?  Question submitted by …

2006-08-13: Not There Yet La Taupanne in the trees and fields I should be in the house in the picture above tonight, but …

2006-08-13: The Snip I've not had a lot of luck with haircuts of late. The place I'd been going for half a decade closed …

2006-08-12: Planes, Trains and Automobiles At 3.30pm today, I am due to be taking off for Poitiers. This will not be happening. The flight was …

2006-08-10: One day, I&#039;ll fly away So, I'm due to fly to France on Saturday. Ah ha. Ha ha. Ha. Ha. Bugger. I wonder how much the …

2006-08-10: From &#039;umble acorns For those in need of a laugh: Young, young adders

2006-08-10: QotD: Baby Love How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics! Adam-playing-dress-up

2006-08-04: QotD: Reality TV Star If you could be on any reality TV show, which one would you pick and why? I …

2006-08-03: QotD: Desktop Show and Tell What is your current computer desktop image? Let's see it! I like my desktop images fairly plain …

2006-08-02: Weekend Movies Memoirs of a Geisha Jarhead (Widescreen Edition) I got the chance to watch a couple of movies over …

2006-08-02: QotD: Can you hear me now? What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it? It's one of the deafult …

2006-07-31: Sir Bob entertains My friend alan is here on Vox. He's a musician who plays in Bob Geldof's band. He's …

2006-07-31: QotD: You&#039;ve got to blog! If you could get someone in your life to start a blog, who would it be and why? All three people …

2006-07-27: QotD: Your fantasy restaurant If you could open any sort of restaurant, what would it be like? The Huntsman & Hounds I have a …

2006-07-27: QotD: I wish I could... Play any instrument or speak any language, which do you choose? Question submitted by …

2006-07-25: QotD: Back where I&#039;m from... Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional words that set you apart? Question submitted by …

2006-07-24: QotD: It&#039;s hot in here... What's the most extreme weather you've been in? A memorable storm? Heat wave? Or something …

2006-07-22: BBQ night begins The BBQ, alight

2006-07-22: QotD: Shaken not stirred What's your favorite drink or cocktail? What's in it? Question submitted by charm.vox.com …

2006-07-21: QotD: Midway Through What's one thing that you hope to do or accomplish before the end of this year? …

2006-07-21: Where I&#039;m Spending The Day Wotton House, near Dorking Work is hell, sometimes.

2006-07-20: Human Space Invaders Human Space Invaders

2006-07-20: Science and Faith I don't often blog about my faith any more, but with all the hoo-hah about Bush and stem cells, …

2006-07-20: Bit Warm Hot today! As I was driving to Heathrow last night to pick up a couple of friends, my car indicated …

2006-07-20: QotD: Celebrational Muppetational! Who is your favorite Muppet? Why? QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com. Kermit the Frog It has to …

2006-07-18: Away from the centre Sutton Post Office It's the little, subtle things that tell you that you've moved away from the …

2006-07-18: Join Vox (part deux) I've just received an invitation to join Vox. It must be from when I signed up as …

2006-07-17: QotD: Weekend Wrap-Up What did you do this weekend? That was one busy weekend. Friday night saw us doing some frantic …

2006-07-16: Name in Place That's My Name! The hand-painted place-setting at the wedding.

2006-07-16: Last Night, Party Night A brief bit of video from last night's wedding reception: Dancing at Adam & Clair's wedding …

2006-07-11: Qotd: Have a Question? We're going meta today: What questions would you'd like to see become QoTDs? This is …

2006-07-11: Desk clearing (still) in progress Quill & Inkwell 1 Another busy day's desk clearing at EG today. One more day, and I should be …

2006-07-10: the 80&#039;s live on 10072006.jpg

2006-07-10: You&#039;ve been playing too much WoW when... I popped into Procter Street this afternoon to sort through some stuff, and found a letter from a …

2006-07-10: QotD: Dream a little Dream What's the most recent vivid dream or nightmare that you remember? Most of the most vivid …

2006-07-10: One weekend, one man, one woman, many paintbrushes Decorating the hall As my father might have said, tonight, I have wanker's cramp. Not, you …

2006-07-08: Digital Photo Relics What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's …

2006-07-07: Friday end of play I'm heading home this evening with a to-do list as long as your arm. The remarkable thing is …

2006-07-07: New View This is the view from my new office: View from the 8th floor

2006-07-07: Commuting Candid Commute - Thursday night

2006-07-06: Starting Again New challenges, a new location and at least six months to make something of blogging within this …

2006-07-06: Watching the match Folks from my church watching the end of the Portugal vrs France game on my iBook. Thanks, BBC! …

2006-07-06: QotD: Brush with Celebrity About a decade ago, I was a restaurant journalist, working for a now defunct magazine. During the …

2006-07-04: New for Who: new companion announced New companion announced

2006-07-03: Rubber goldfish have feelings too Making good use of promotional tat in the office

2006-07-03: Best. Fireworks. Ever. I suspect that memory cheats with fireworks. Objectively speaking, the year 2000 fireworks over the …

2006-07-03: Winding Down at EG It's been something of a strange day here at EG towers. The business of the magazine is going on all …

2006-07-03: Anatomy of a Weekend Friday night was Conspiracy of Ravens night (that's Friday night, ellefurtle), a gathering of our …

2006-07-03: It&#039;s too damn hot I am clearly a warm-blooded adders, as all this hot weather is not making me happy. Or letting me …

2006-07-02: The stream at Wotten House Oh, to have something like this in the garden: The Stream

2006-07-02: Sainsbury&#039;s Stripes Silly phone grab while out shopping 02072006.jpg

2006-07-01: Beware: Doctor in Distress Who Cares - Doctor In DistressWarning: here be the worst of the 80s. This is a music video calling …

2006-06-30: More quarters please... World Of Warcraft The Roleplaying Game (Warcraft) The only video games that stick in my mind from my …

2006-06-28: Number one with a bullet When I was born, Rod Stewart's Maggie May was Top of the Pops (ho ho). It's a pretty good …

2006-06-26: Weekend Plans This weekend, I went to sell books at a charity fund-raising event in Suffolk. I spent Sunday …

2006-06-23: Commute Train, Friday night.jpg

2006-06-23: Something afoot at mansion house 23062006.jpg

2006-06-20: The soundtrack to my life In all likelyhood an odd, unpredictable selection of mainly mainstream stuff, that would all clash …

2006-06-20: My desk, Monday afternoon My desk.jpg

2006-06-18: Mother-in-law

2006-06-18: Duck! Test! A quick test of Vox's new Flickr intergration.

2006-06-18: My weekend plans... This weekend, I shall mainly be painting the kitchen, doing some writing and generally tidying up …

2006-06-18: Over the bridge A quick movie, captured on my camera on London’s Millennium Bridge last Thursday.

2006-06-15: From my walk home St Paul's.jpg

2006-06-15: In my head tonight ManeaterNelly Furtado Seriously stuck in my head right now.

2006-06-15: World cup in the office Watching England Play

2006-06-15: England vrs Trinidad &amp; Tobago My brother's showing off by texting me this picture from the match… Live from the …

2006-06-15: Review: A Hunger Like Fire A Hunger Like Fire (Vampire the Requiem)Greg Stolze I finally got around to reading this book over …

2006-06-15: Piers One of my fellow hacks.

2006-06-15: Vox Off Finally, my login problems have been solved and, I discover, not only can I login, but I can now …

2002-08-12: Animation Corner A stupid, yet fun, cartoon for anyone who has ever used AOL or been called by a parent about a …

2002-08-12: Duck Some people have asked if the “rubber duck” mentioned in my description of my stay in …

2002-08-08: Conclusion My trip is all but done. I’m sat in the departures lounge of Edinburgh airport, enjoying a …

2002-08-08: Redemption OK. The Apex European Hotel wins back a little respect. That was one of the best breakfasts …

2002-08-08: Aggravation The adders, on the whole, is a placid beast, not much given to anger or annoyance. He sails through …

2002-07-22: Pretty Pictures There’s a few new sets of pictures in my Photo Album, if anyone’s interested. And yes, …

2002-07-22: The Grim Reaper I’d like, if I may, to talk about death. Right, for both of you that are still reading after …

2002-07-08: Fighting for wakefulness. Well here I am, stuck in a press conference, desperatly trying to stay awake. The speaker is a man …

2002-07-08: The Sound of Silence... …will not be heard anywhere near my keyboard. I’m going to be flat out this week, so …

2002-07-06: By way of an explanation For those of you who were wondering about my previous and rather mysterious entry, I was testing out …

2002-07-05: Test Nothing to see here. Move along please.

2002-07-05: We Are Sailing Management here at the UK’s Leading Property Magazine (First Choice For Property Information) …

2002-07-04: Colour me amused that Sinfest’s July 4th strip has lyrics written by a pair of Brits as its …

2002-07-04: A Day of Much Randomness Me again. Back in electronic form, free of charge and with no prospect of a subscription to access …

2002-06-30: It isn&#039;t easy being green Want to see some stupid pictures of this Livejournaler? homepage.mac.com/adders/Ph… Enjoy!

2002-06-18: Back, yet away Been a little while since I posted. Why? I got sick. I spent three or four days with the world …

2002-05-28: Calming Americans Down I found a fascinating article written by an American living in Europe that sums up where I stand …

2002-05-28: In Turkey, the keyboards fall silent. What is “lying news”? How do you fancy the idea of submitting your website for …

2002-05-28: In case anyone didn’t catch this in ’s journal, Holywood is up to some rather worrying …

2002-05-28: How To Make Myself Unpoular Amongst Americans (Part 1) There’s often an assumption, usually found amongst the residents of the United States of …

2002-05-27: Monday Afternoon Doldrums While the Americans that make up the majority of my readership (with apologies to jackslack, …

2002-05-25: Hurray for Latvia! Lativa have won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with a rather upbeat Latin number. Hurrah …

2002-05-24: Friday afternoon in the office You know, there’s only really two important bits of tech a journalist needs: the PC and the …

2002-05-22: A very brief word on Attack of the Clones The new Star Wars movie? Tremendous fun. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. That’s all I have to say …

2002-05-17: Attack of the Mobile Phone Thieves I wish it noted that there are good day in life and there are bad days in life. A day which starts …

2002-05-14: False alarm, of sorts After four hours in Ipswich hospital, we have learned that Mum does not have a problem with her …

2002-05-14: Home, sweet home After a two hour drive through the driving rain, I’m here in Suffolk. It’s odd to be …

2002-05-13: Oh, what fun Looks like I have an impromptu trip to Suffolk ahead of me tonight. Mum has a problem with a …

2002-05-11: DeBagged This is a bloody good idea, and what’s more, it came from Ireland. Let’s recycle those …

2002-05-10: And for the American audience This is a better site for people in the US.

2002-05-10: Corrupt CDs redux Those of you who recall my rant about CDs which won’t play in PCs or Macs might want to check …

2002-05-09: Grrr There’s a guy who can’t be older than 21 or 22, thin and geeky looking, snoring like a …

2002-05-09: To York and back I’m on the road today, paying a visit to York to interview the chief executive of a software …

2002-05-08: Middle Age Another university friend has just become a proud and slightly deviant father. Truly, middle age …

2002-05-08: Sssssh A few of you may have noticed that I’ve been rather quiet on here of late. One or two of you …

2002-05-07: Here endeth the Bank Holiday weekend I’ve been silent a little while, but that’s to be expected when a long weekend with my …

2002-05-03: It&#039;s just a lurch to the right Normally, I like Fridays. This Friday in particular should be a good one, because Lorna is returning …

2002-05-01: May Day: and so it begins We’ve had trouble in Australia and Germany already. I’m heading into the West End now. …

2002-05-01: If I was a rich, famous and successful author I could blow deadlines out of the water in a …

2002-04-30: Watching an industry commit suicide, slowly Of late, I’ve been doing something with increasing frequency. No, it’s nothing immoral …

2002-04-30: Getting political For the first time in my life I feel strongly enough about certain political issues that I intend to …

2002-04-30: London is developing a tradition of May Day Riots. Anti-capitalism protesters take to the streets in …

2002-04-28: Sunday = day of rest? Well, the cold is easing. Looks like staying in out of the rain and writing all weekend was the …

2002-04-27: Meanwhile, in the self-pity corner Well, after experiments with cold drugs and anti-hestimines, I’m fairly sure I’m …

2002-04-27: Chat, chat, chat Hurrah! Finally got all the Instant Messaging protocols up and running in Fire. All the accounts in …

2002-04-27: Morning breaks I’m feeling odd this morning. Have I got a really bad attack of hayfever, or am I suffering …

2002-04-26: I find myself waiting for a fax. I haven’t done this for two years or so now. Haven’t …

2002-04-26: Incidentally, I’m right in the middle of a multiple deadline crisis pile-up. This might …

2002-04-26: LJ Crisis What the hell should I be doing with this journal? That question has been bouncing around my head …

2002-04-22: Take the What High School Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel. Make what you will of that. Proper …

2002-04-09: which "monty python and the holy grail" character are you? this quiz was made by colleen

2002-04-09: OK, if you say so... Test Results You think of yourself as being bold, firm, understated, and friendly.Others think of …

2002-04-04: Random Thoughts My coffee addiction made itself manifest today. I felt absolutely terrible until about 11.30am, when …

2002-04-01: Remember those party pics from last week I promised? Well, you can find them here!

2002-03-31: As you will note from the previous post, I had the wrong time zone setting on my iMac. This should …

2002-03-31: No Time Lord Day three of the Easter break has not started well. I missed church this morning, not through …

2002-03-30: New Boy Hey, I’ve used the first of my LiveJournal invites. So, welcome semichrist. I don’t know …

2002-03-30: Well, the media is beginning to return to normal. Only one TV station is still showing Queen Mother …

2002-03-30: RIP Well, the Queen Mother is dead. All the radio stations I’ve tried are playing mournful music, …

2002-03-29: Ah, as everyone else is doing it... Adam’s RPG credits

2002-03-29: Spring Cleaning The Easter holidays are here, I’m alone in London and it’s time to do my spring …

2002-03-27: ITMA Well, my deadline crunch has passed and I seem to be in one piece, more or less. One set of redlines …

2002-03-19: Today was always going to suck. That much was a given. It’s six months to the day since Dad …

2002-03-12: Ruminations on dealing with the big D. Hi there. Long time no see. Sorry about that, but been kinda busy, you know? Lots of writing on at …

2002-03-03: Worth a thousand words Well, I’ve been busy sorting out an accessible photo album. Adam’s Photo Album Feel free …

2002-03-01: Fool to myself. Typical. I’ve started a rash of Hitchikers quiz posts. I can’t even be consistent in my …

2002-03-01: Hypocrite, that&#039;s what I am, oh yes. Which Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy character are you? I’m feeling rather confused, you …

2002-02-28: Getting testy Am I allowed to whine that my friends page seems to be filling up with people’s tests, rather …

2002-02-22: Doing the right thing OK, I’ve been using LiveJournal long enough that I’ve decided it was time I stumped up …

2002-02-22: Well, we&#039;re both Brits Find out which Buffy villian you are most like! By I’m sure that’s not how you speall …

2002-02-19: Breaking Contact There’s nothing quite as frightening as a doctor holding your eyelids open and saying …

2002-02-15: Today I realised that I am now 5 years too old to ever present a show on MTV. I feel strangely …

2002-02-06: Just give me the electrons Why do PRs still persist in sending me press releases on paper this far into the 21st Century. I …

2002-02-02: Well, the dinner was worth waiting for. Good food, good company and amazing deviancy, as Jim both …

2002-02-01: Settling In When you take a rural holiday in early February, you take risks. We lost. From the moment we arrived …

2002-01-31: OK. I’ve found a problem with this train travel lark. This carriage is bloody freezing and mt …

2002-01-31: This is the age of the train Well, we’re not even out of the first month of 2002 and here I am on my first trip away. …

2002-01-28: I’ve lapsed into online silence for a while, I note. Ah, well, real life must get a look in …

2002-01-19: Wisdom As you go through life, you discover pieces of wisdom that you never suspected you needed to know. …

2002-01-15: More updates on previous entries: The mice remain ravenous, eating four trays of poison last night. …

2002-01-14: Mouse update: My mum does indeed have mice. The local council’s pest control people are coming …

2002-01-14: I am a wuss. Oxford Street was quiet, the bank was fast and efficient and I have a lovely sandwich …

2002-01-14: I really should be at the bank about now. Slept terribly last night. After a quiet, relaxed weekend …

2002-01-09: An Unusual Situation - with an explanation Well, as I mentioned in my last entry today - well, yesterday now given that it’s after …

2002-01-07: Monday morning. With a sense of dramatic appropriateness, the world has decided to furnish us with a …

2002-01-05: Hurrah! A 17k piece of writing filed comfortably on time. Actually, concentrating on the last …

2002-01-04: My Mum is scared. She’s heard sounds coming from the loft, and she thinks that it’s …

2002-01-04: If there’s one thing I hate, it’s a persistent misery guts, so I’m going to start …

2002-01-02: 2002 was going to be the year things got better. Admittedly, 2001 was only really bad in one big and …

2001-12-25: Christmas is Here! Just back from Midnight Mass, and what a lovely service it was. Andrew gave a fantastic (and brief) …

2001-12-24: Christmas is coming This is going to be a strange old Christmas, for all the obvious reasons. There’s an …

2001-12-11: Well, the speech is done, and Prince Charles turned out to be witty, thoughtful and not a little …

2001-12-11: Eavesdropping is fun. The Prince of Wales' press team are giving a pre-conference speech briefing to …

2001-12-11: I Remember I remember… Coming back from a work lunch to see the whole office clustered around the TV …

2001-11-28: For any and all who care, the pictures from my Scotland trip can be found here: I’ll take the …

2001-11-26: Found it! You may all stop holding your breath and return to your regularly scheduled activities.

2001-11-26: Oh no. I’m rushing to get a feature finished for the magazine, and I’ve lost the …

2001-11-24: Powered up and ready to go Just over a week ago, I went home to visit my Mum. This was a good deed, given her current …

2001-11-16: Adders - Online Bride of Christ This is amusing. I don’t normally post the results of Online Quizzes here, but seeing as this …

2001-11-16: Fraternal Housing Well, last night I took some time to visit my brother’s new house in Clapham. He and his wife …

2001-11-15: Back in Business I can hardly believe that just under three days ago I was happily walking by the shores of Loch …

2001-11-11: Thought of Homes Past and Future Today, Lorna and I explored Dollar, if one can truly explore a place where you spent the majority of …

2001-11-11: Onwards and Upwards Our luck seems to be holding. After an interesting day doing some of the sights of Glasgow, …

2001-11-10: Shocks at the Shack Glasgow clubbing, or at least the part of it that we saw last night, is something else. For a start, …

2001-11-09: Highland Holidays Well, I’m in Glasgow and it’s damn good to be back in Scotland. There’s a …

2001-11-06: It’s my birthday and I’m drunk. It’s my 30th birthday and I’m coping. Alas, …

2001-11-05: Attack of the Moans Am I the only person left who is still excited by the idea of a new Star Wars film? The teaser for …

2001-11-05: Cold thoughts Oh, great. I can feel the beginnings of a cold working its way into my system. Lorna got this a week …