One Man's Notes

Just over three years ago, I flew back from Hamburg, little suspecting that it would be so long until I flew again.

A week ago, I finally got on an aircraft to head to… Hamburg. Here’s some images from my return to international travel.


All the evidence – with more reported this morning - is that hydrogen won’t be a good path to decarbonising heating and travel.

Yet, people keep pushing it. Why? So they didn’t have to change too much.

My transition to an EV was pretty painless. Be brave!


The crazy battery life of Apple Silicon Macs and iPads really makes days of live event coverage in a theatre with a distinct paucity of power sockets so much easier…

The Schmidts Tivoli theatre in Hamburg

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

A copy of Nexl Level CMO…

One of my favourite parts of coming to Germany.

A bottle of Fritz Cola at Next Conference.

The stage is set. Ready to go!

#next22 #hugthesystem


Hamburg by night.

Hamburg at night.

Most people still wearing masks on the S-Bahn in Hamburg.

A masked Adam Tinworth.

Compulsory facemasks on the flight to Hamburg.

#next22 #hugthesystem

Adam Tinworth wearing a face mask.

Waiting at Heathrow for my first flight in three years.

I haven’t missed airports.

Heathrow Terminal 5

Quick Review: Coasting

Finished reading: Coasting by ELISE. DOWNING 📚

I enjoyed this more than I expected. On the surface, it’s a book about a woman running around the coast of Britain. Deeper down, it’s about somebody suffering badly from self-doubt and low self-esteem slowly coming to see herself as others see her - in a good way.

It’s slightly tricky to get into, because she paints such a negative portrayal of herself at the beginning that you’re not sure that spending hours in her company will be fun. But push on through that, and it’s a good read.


Local family out on the river.


The problem with studying and lecturing around online communities is that you don’t only get to look at the nice ones.

I have learnt some stuff this morning that I wish I could unlearn…


Yikes. This is going to hit a lot of people very fast: Over 280,000 WordPress Sites Attacked Using WPGateway Plugin Zero-Day Vulnerability


On the road again

Top Gear OTRA

25 years ago, I worked near Oxford Street in London. One lunchtime, I popped into the HMV store there, and picked up a double cassette boxed set called Top Gear: On The Road Again. I wasn’t a Top Gear watcher then, as I’m not now. But it looked like a good album for killing the hours I was due to drive that weekend.

That album of Dad Rock became a driving staple for me for years, until somewhere along the line, I lost it. It’s never been made available via digital download or streaming as far as I can tell, so I thought that was it. Gone.

Of late, I’ve been enjoying driving again, thanks to my new-ish EV. And I got really nostalgic for that old compilation album. So, with a bit of research, and work in Apple Music, I have it back as a playlist:

Dad Rock driving ahoy!


Back in my favourite sneaky reading spot, after the summer break. Daughter learning piano, I’m on the beach drinking coffee and reading Coasting by Elise Downing. 📚

Reading Coasting by the coast.

They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…

A gull on a streetlamp in Sussex.

Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.

Mist in the Sussex South Downs near Lancing College.

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

Usjng ssh to update a Ghost site from my iPad.

Weird.

I just realised that after singing “God save the Queen” every now and then my whole life, next time it’ll be “God save the King”.

And probably will be for the rest of my life.


The Queen is dead.

Long live the King.


The outdoors rescue/location features of the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 are an impressive idea that I didn’t expect. Let’s hope they work as advertised. #AppleEvent


Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent


I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent


This is a really good defence of RSS as the basis of podcasting

If you’re involved with podcasting, you need to understand this. Without RSS, big companies can start locking up the medium.