One Man's Notes

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

A christmas tree on the stret near Farringdon.

There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station was spectacular.

A ranbow over houses near Hassocks station.

OK.

So, I just set up a Mastodon Instance.

🤓


Amazing news for non-iOS mobile journalists and filmmakers - Lumafusion is now on Android and Chromebooks.

The consensus is that it’s the best mobile video editor.


I’m just an ordinary guy, looking at the weather, and asking it to stop pissing it down before I have to go and collect my daughters from school.


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


Well, I’d completely forgotten just how much noise the echo of 30-odd primary school children and a bouncy castle can make in an otherwise empty sports hall.

😫


I’m having an idiot evening. I was just about to build a special page for Microblogvember and then I remember it’s much easier to just do a category. D’oh.

Here it is.


It is very odd and sad to see the life and death of a young journalist you used to chat with at journalism events in London, become the centre of such a story — and now a documentary. But Lyra certainly deserved the attention. I wish the price of it hadn’t been her death.


Gah. Great website. No RSS. No newsletter. Protected Twitter account. How am I meant to know when you write something new?


Sadly, a birthday weekend doesn’t make me exempt from the business of being Daddy taxi for most of it: Brownies, swimming lessons (x2), Sea Lights and (joy of joys) a children’s bouncy castle party.

I will need ALL THE COFFEE. ☕️


Reading everyone’s “admiration” posts made me realise that, at this point of my life, I rarely admire people, but I often admire actions or decisions.

That’s not to do with growing cynicism, but more a happy acceptance that people are messy and complicated.


🤔

I have a certain admiration for the attempt to move people over, but I’m not sure it will work.


It’s a rough morning, watching friends and former students getting fired from Twitter.

I’m glad I’ve got this place to spend time in instead. Thank you, lovely micro.blog folks.


Well, I suppose the good thing about the reports that Revue (owned by Twitter) will be gone by the end of the year, dead by order of Musk, is that I now have licence to officially abandon my neglected newsletter there…


Working late at the office, adding a feast of links to Moodle, for the journalism students to ”enjoy”…


Well, it might have been chucking it down all day, and the wind has thrown things around the garden, but given how dry the summer was, I figure the plants could really do with it.


Enjoying Halloween on a warm but wet night.

A modest haul of sweets for the girls, but good fun in good company.

Trick or Treat in Shoreham.

Has anyone seen any news outlets doing anything interesting on Mastodon?


This is a great resource for people thinking of starting a blog: Get Blogging!

[via @manton]


London being London in its charming way.

A London pub in Farringdon

So, it looks like the deal is done, and Elon Musk has acquired Twitter.

It’s certainly the end of the beginning: the legal drama will now be replaced by management drama, and this is arguably the start of Twitter’s second act. Interesting times, indeed.


I think this is spot on. British politics — or, at least, the Tory party version of it — is now completely absurd. They are making us a global-level laughing stock.


More good advice from the morning swim classes whiteboard.

A whitebiard saying "strive for progress not perfection".

Autumn sun through the oak.

Sunlight shining through autumnal oak leaves.