I suspect that the best use of my evening would be ensuring that there’s enough good coffee and whisky in the house to see me thought what feels like the inevitable lockdown #4.
With that, and the flu and COVID booster vaccinations earlier, I feel prepared.
Two jabs in one session:
Covid: 💉💉💉 Flu: 💉
The iPad Pro is the best coffee shop computer yet invented.
Thank you. I will not be taking questions.
Time to slay the iPhone tabs monster…
One for GoPro folks: New firmware for the Hero 10 Black, including more 24fps modes.
Down by the harbour arm again. It’s cold and grey, so I had the beach to myself, apart from a handful of scavenging birds.
Some useful trends amongst the Web 3.0 / Metaverse hype picked out here.
Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter by Nigel Slater 📚
Well, it’s the right time of year. 🎄
We have our Christmas tree.
Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.
Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.
When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.
I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting married in, not the ”metaverse”:
The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.
These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad.
A 15 mile walk. In December. In their swimming costumes. 🥶
A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.
This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a negative educational impact from the pandemic.
At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside.
I’m off to have a celebratory coffee, while the editor goes to work on it.
13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated.
I suppose I’d had digital cameras for half a decade at that point.
I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook as a (free) weekly email.
I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no longer online. I’m slowly starting to reconstruct them from the Wayback Machine and republish them here. Just one so far, but I will work steadily through them in down moments.
Shoreham sunset.
A frosty morning down on the beach.
If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the more British politicians say that “holiday x will be fine”, the more likely it is to end up with us in lockdown instead.
How’s your omicro… sorry, morning going?
A lot of a individual creator newsletters are basically a week’s worth of old-style blogging (lots of links with context, a bit of analysis, a hot take or two, with some personal life stuff mixed in), stuck in an email and sent.
Not a good or a bad thing, just an observation.