Two damn decades of writing the same blog.
Yes, One Man & His Blog is 20 today.
Wood and tile.
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Your Sunday morning swimming pool white board wisdom.
After spending most of the winter feeling cold when out and about, I bought myself a new coat in the sales — just in time for one last cold snap.
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Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚
I want that sticker.
Sometimes solitude is possible, even in the heart of London.
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The Good Apple and the Bad Apple
“Putting the legality of Apple’s anti-steering rules aside, I think they make the company look spiteful and petty.”
It sometimes feels like there’s two Apples: the user-first Apple that makes delightful hardware, and the App Store Apple that’s cheap, nasty and willl nickel and dime you on everything.
That latter Apple is busy damaging the reputation of the company for surprisingly little return.
The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon.
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A rather lovely hagstone - and a deep one - found on a quick beach walk this afternoon, trying to burn off some of my daughter’s energy. She’s home today because of the teachers’ strike.
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 media course.
“Why so few?” I thought. “I’ll need more content than that for the 90 minutes.” So I prepared more slides, and pulled some forwards from week 3.
Guess what?
Yes, I ran out of time, exactly where Adam-from-four-months-ago had cut off the slides. I know what I’m doing. Old me knew what he was doing. We need to learn to trust each other…
Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.
A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the Chatham House Rule, alas, so I can’t say any more.
Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t understand the existing games coverage business.
Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure.
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I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.
Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.
What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The sun is up for our early morning pool run. The views up the Adur valley were spectacular.
A walk down memory lane to 1994, when this young chap (me) had his view of journalism shifted by the launch of a new magazine for men…
We did the thing yesterday.
Just corrected a typo in a blog post published… 10 years and 20 days ago.
Ooops.
Adventure time.
Plausible Analytics providing both Search Console integration AND Google Analytics import is making me very happy.
Finally got my (consulting/training) work inbox down to double digits.
Plenty of people will be waking up to slightly (or, in some cases, very) tardy replies from me. But I’m getting there…
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 to revolve around disrupting or sabotaging rival campaigns: the team even claimed to have sent a sex toy delivered via Amazon to the home of a politician, with the aim of giving his wife the false impression he was having an affair.”
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