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
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. 📚
They’re alway there. Always above us. Always watching…
Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.
Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️
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.
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.
Evening on the beach.
This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.
Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search of inspiration for walks to tire out small people. 👧🏼👧🏼🚶🏼♀️ 📚
Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.
Campfire reading.
Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚
Night in the woods.
Currently reading: Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis 📚
Such a melancholy book. It’s absolutely bursting with Roy’s joy in nature, and his knowledge of it. But his awareness of the climate crisis ever hovers in the background, like Banquo’s ghost.
Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.
Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.
A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.
The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.
A long dive into the current and future fortunes of the tarnished newsletter platform Substack. The easy ride is over. These are the hard yards.