Started reading: Edge of Cymru by Julie Brominicks 📚
Worthing Pier from Shoreham Beach, 8/12/22, 4.10pm
Cold enough that I’ve actually put on my rarely-used woolly hat for the commute this morning.
My beloved Canon M50 is back from the camera doctor and working once more:
And here’s one of my test shots, just to prove it’s working again.
Happy days.
Another wave of angst over Musk fiddling with the blue tick systems, I see. And all because Old Twitter created a system that was a confusing mix of “verification” and “notability”.
One is about a need for trust, one about a need for status. Confusing them is not wise.
First night we’ve gone below zero this winter. Plenty more to come, I’m sure.
Heavy Metal x Indian Singing
This is just brilliant:
[via Boing Boing]
Holy crap, this Rackspace email outage looks very bad indeed.
I wonder what microposts look like on WordPress.
MarsEdit 5 is here. Still no Ghost support, but looking good for my other blogging. And yes, this is my first post using it.
People have a long and inglorious tradition of mangling my surname, but this is a new one for me…
Thesis: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made.
Turns out there’s no market for VC-funded upbeat tech “journalism”: Future is dead.
Ah, the good old days, when people aspired to blogger style not influencer style…
In Brighton on business for the first time in years. When I started out in business for myself nearly 11 years ago, I hoped to do more in Brighton, but it never panned out that way, alas.
D&D drops the word “race”
Dungeons & Dragons announcement:
we understand “race” is a problematic term that has had prejudiced links between real world people and the fantasy peoples of D&D worlds. The usage of the term across D&D and other popular IP has evolved over time. Now it’s time for the next evolution.
They’re shifting to using “species”. The general reaction seems to be positive. A few grumbly folks on either extreme complaining a wee bit, but generally seen as the right move.
Started reading: The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent 📚
Seeing “Tom Baker” and “Death of the Doctor” trend together on Twitter was a scary moment, but thankfully that icon of my childhood still lives. Just an unpleasant co-incidence.
🎲 Me in #7TTRPGs
Ordered by “amount written for”, to the best of my memory:
- Hunter: the Reckoning
- Demon: the Fallen
- Werewolf: the Apocalypse
- Werewolf: the Forsaken
- Exalted
- Victorian Age: Vampire
- Dark Ages: Inquisitor
[h/t to @toddgrotenhuis, where I first saw this meme, even if I changed it a bit…]
Hitting the sack early (for me, at least) as I’ll need all the energy and motivation I can manage to get through the week ahead.
This is a lovely reflection on the joy of the old, the analogue and the enduring: Personal connections, a season for repairs, and my grandfather’s watch.
Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚
Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.
Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.
Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.
That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.
