One Man's Notes

Any time my work intersects slightly with social media marketing “experts”, I end up feeling slightly dirty. And not in a good way.


Iris


Flood defences coming along nicely.




It’s not even December yet.


Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.


Hopefully microblog.onemanandhisblog.com is working now.


Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.


Some people stay up late binge watching Netflix. I stay up late fiddling with DNS.


The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors.


The iPhone X really does do much better in low light than its predecessors.

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I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats.

I am clearly not old enough yet to be silent without drawing attention to the fact I’m being silent.


I am old enough to have learnt to not to blog every opinion that crosses my brainmeats.

I am clearly not old enough yet to be silent without drawing attention to the fact I’m being silent.


First portrait mode pic from my shiney new iPhone X


Hazel PoP. iPhone X in portrait mode


Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. There will be some Nazi brains having a good old meltdown tonight, won’t there?


Ex-military prince from one of the oldest monarchies in Europe gets engaged to a mixed race woman. There will be some Nazi brains having a good old meltdown tonight, won’t there?


So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook:

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So, doing that B&W challenge thing that’s doing the rounds on FBook:


Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of the’s UK’s democracy


Situations like this - and the behaviour of leave.eu - make me really worry about the state of the’s UK’s democracy


Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace Reading


Getting my newsletter ship shape and Bristol fashion to be sent out in the morning… Commonplace Reading


The Next dystopian family

This morning I was greeted by the above delightful email from Next.

A rather embarrassing NEXT ad.

Can it be that nobody involved could see how sinister this is? A blandly beautiful family all reduced to bland unthreatening ciphers by a pseudo-uniform. It's like propaganda from a dystopian near-future sci-fi film.

The world's quite enough of a dystopian fantasy as it is. I don't fancy turning my family into one, thanks.