One Man's Notes

Funny how my plans for the year have now largely boiled down to:

  1. Don’t die.
  2. Don’t go bankrupt.

Everything beyond that is a bonus right now…


The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom has re-emerged with a blog and It is all about coronavirus and maths.

Uh-oh.


We can’t fight the big hiatus. So, we have to embrace it.

Embrace the Pause: time to plan and prepare for what comes next.


I have just remembered that once, a very long time ago, I drank whisky, smoked a cigar and chatted with Omar Sharif.

Life has been good to me, in ways it is easy to forget.


Daily exercise.

exercising on Shoreham Beach.

The speed with which some local folk have started demanding that martial law be imposed is quite, quite terrifying.


Mum, Christmas day, 1983.

Ann Tinworth on Christmas Day 1983.

Time-lapsing again.


I’m gonna be really good at these motionlapses by the end of 🔒⬇️


Life blossoming in the espalier trees.

An espalier fruit tree coming into bloom.

Nearly 14 years ago, then-French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy talked to the attendees at LeWeb 3, a digital conference.

It seems like yesterday, but the amount that has changed in the last 13 years is astonishing.


I’m really enjoying the process of pulling together my daily distractions newsletter. Finding three things to link is great fun. Today’s issue features @hollyhoneychurch, too…


And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.


Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.


Shooting random time lapses, because why not?


Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home


April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, Lies and Spammers


One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs standing idle.


John Gruber: How to Open the Emoji Keyboard While Using a Hardware Keyboard on iPadOS

But the shortcut he refers to for opening the Emoji picker on MacOS is even more useful. 🥳


Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?


Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty much everyone leading our response has the novel coronavirus.


Well, the quasi-lockdown in the UK is really good at showing up who are the selfish people in your neighbourhood - and who has the scary authoritarian tendencies.


Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.


So, today I corrected one small piece of misinformation about the government’s position, and got accused of all sorts of things as a result, before being blocked.

How’s your day going?


We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists could make that easier to find.