One Man's Notes

Something I should have worked out 30 years ago:

If someone whose work you like and enjoy turns out to be a complete tosser, let them and their work go. There are many lovely people out there doing great work who deserve your attention and money instead.

From a famous humorist who was the very first person who was just brutally unpleasant to me in my journalism career, to a former co-author who decided to interpret everything in bad faith, a lot of people have contributed to this insight. But now I’ve had it — and been using it for the past year or so — my world is a happier place.

The new Netflix CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the kid-friendly reboot not the Kevin Smith continuation series) is really quite a bit of fun, with some imaginative touches. My daughters are really enjoying it.

In less than two weeks, we’ve gone from “so hot in my study, I had seat beading on my face during courses” to “so cold I’m contemplating turning the heating on”.

Just ordered a new iPhone for the first time in four years.

That’s the longest I’ve held onto a phone in the smartphone era. But the time to upgrade has come…

New iPad Mini? That’s my wife’s Christmas present sorted, then.

Only Apple can get me to watch an hour-long advert.

Ah-ha. Big Sur 11.6 finally shows up for M1 Macs. Apparently today’s wave of Apple updates patch vulnerabilities that are actually being used to exploit devices — so get your updates done, people.

Huh. Weird. My pre-M1 iMac has the MacOS 11.6 update, but not my M1 MacBook Pro.

Well, hello.

Quite a sunset over the river tonight.

Oh, gosh. An I about to buy a new phone gimbal?

I am, aren’t I?

And yes, that includes washing it.

Today’s exciting lunch break: cleaning the tent post-camping trips.

Just booked my first evening out in Brighton since the pandemic began.

I shouldn’t be — but I do feel slightly nervous…

When I had a Real Job (™), I used to routinely ignore work email when on holiday, and come back to a terrifying pile of unreads. This is the first time I’ve managed to do that in nearly a decade of self-employment.

Wish me luck. I’m going in.

My classy, elegant meeting space this morning…

Just spent a happy couple of hours revamping a neglected blog, ready to start posting on it again from tomorrow.

Very happy with the new look.

One of the things I love about visiting Woods Mill is that you can get beautiful images before you’ve even left the car park…

The seductive lure of cognitive bias. Don’t look too hard, or the story might melt away…

Our lunchtime companion at Woods Mill.

Spiked beauty.

The only surprise here is that it took this long: The ‘Men Go Their Own Way’ Subreddit Has Been Banned

It is slightly terrifying to realise that, as of this autumn, I will be in a position to do “what I was blogging about 20/10/5 years ago…” posts.

Ulysses (a writing app) gets the ability to update Ghost posts — support for updating micro.blog posts coming next.

By the river’s edge.