Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of an iMac Zooming, rather than gamboling, gazelle-like, between lecture theatres and seminar rooms.
A promise of new life.
Fantastic day out walking with the girls. So tired, but so happy.
And finally, we have the app.
Oh, sweet joy. iOS14 has brought emoji search to the iPhone. 🙌🏼
That URL looks completely legit and I shall be claiming straight away. 🙄
Weekend cooking. 👌🏻
A nice early autumn surprise in the garden.
Interesting. You can now find Substacks written by people you follow on Twitter.
This one of those rare things, an online quiz actually worth doing. It’s a test to see if you can identify which social media accounts are real, and which were set up by disinformation organisations. And it explains the signs you should be aware of… 👌🏻 Can you Spot the Troll?
As a palate cleanser after that last post, here’s Martin’s enjoyable ramblings about classic Doctor Who story The Invasion.
Everything wrong with both Facebook and internet fandom in one screencap.
Percentage chance I would use smart glasses from Facebook: 0%
Just a reminder to folks (especially journalists) who rely on their iOS devices for work. You REALLY shouldn’t update to iOS14 this evening.
Your apps have a really good chance of not being ready.
One thing that makes me sad about the Apple Event: a few years back the Fitness+ announcement would have been a set of APIs to allow fitness providers to work with the Watch, not an Apple Service.
What the heck is going to differentiate the iPad Pros if the iPad Air has the A14, the new keyboard and Pencil 2?
Remember, in the UK, the government can break international law if they find it inconvenient, while its citizens are encouraged to report their neighbours to the police if two families stop to chat in the street.
Welcome to Dystopia Now™.
This is a spectacular, but sobering, piece of animated short film making: Selfish
”Twitter is a place for outrage masturbation and little more.”
Not completely true, but uncomfortably close to it…
Duck!
Oxford vaccine trial resumes - always the most likely outcome, but a relief none-the-less.
And… breathe.
Finally.
Looking for a new magazine? I wrote about three favourites of mine. 🤓
Pubs 👍🏻 Offices 👍🏻 7 people in the park. 👎🏻
Yup. That all seems logical. 👀