One Man's Notes

Ouch. This Big Sur upgrade nightmare is exactly what has happened to my sister-in-law.

Looks like I have bad news for her.


Team Tinworth lockdown work and homeschooling station for the day.


Planetary, a decentralised social network, officially launched yesterday.

I’ve been on the beta. It’s interesting - but really needs the network effect to kick in.


I would read this.


Well, I suppose it counts as snow.


When you head towards the beach, it’s easy to forget that Shoreham is still very much a working harbour. But a walk up the riverside quickly reminds you that it is. Yesterday, we saw one of the fishing boats bringing in a catch.

A fishing boat in the Adur bringing in a catch.

We found a great hagstone yesterday.


More low tide discoveries.

A girl digging in the sand by a pile of rocks at low tide.

Low tide adventures.

Two girls walking in the Adur at low tide.

The “staycation” semantic drift is complete, isn’t it?

The accepted usage now seems to be “a holiday in your own country” rather than “a holiday at your own house”.


Description of the day:

“Human YouTube comment section Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of all her congressional committees on Thursday.”


TIL: There’s a Wikipedia page for my surname. And it’s not terribly informative.


Shoreham-by-Sea fishing boats.


😱 The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real


Another day done.

Goodnight, friends.

My lockdown evening working setup.

Evening

A man sits on the edge of Shoreham Fort, watching the sun set over Worthing.

This bit of boat decoration is cute, unless you’ve seen Toy Story 3, in which case it’s vaguely horrifying…

Buzz Lightyear strapped to the top of a boat.

Beach walk views

Shoreham Beach, looking towards Worthing

Shoreham Beach, with Brighton in the distance


Low tide on the Adur.

The Adur, at low tide, looking towards the Adur Ferry Bridge.


Oh, Wix websites are a pain. They have a “blog” section, they even publish RSS feeds - but they don’t set up auto-detect properly, so you have to know where the feed lives before you can subscribe. (It’s at /blog-feed.xml)


Something new.


An interesting set of predictions for 2021. If the world shifts its focus from solving the COVID crisis to solving the climate crisis, we might just have a chance as a species.

What can we do to help that happen?


Oh, marvellous. Well done.


Knackered after homeschooling. Updating all the iOS things to 14.4 because it’s brain dead work, but feels productive.


Low tide on a rainy afternoon is not the most photogenic time in the Quay.

Emerald Quay at low tide in the rain.