2025
“Apologies for any inconvenience caused.” What a bland, impersonal statement for something that directly impacts thousands of people and makes it very personal indeed www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…
America’s so-called “leadership class” is a sham. Most of them do not care a whit for the rest of the US. They are out for themselves. “Trump has precipitated a long-overdue reckoning. That reckoning has revealed the rot.” www.theguardian.com/commentis…
“Dodgy audio experiences are on the rise” #podcasting www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra…
Sad to read of the death of Chris Rea, aged just 74. While his most well-known song is ‘Driving Home for Christmas,’ I loved ‘The Road to Hell’ best. RIP, Chris, on the road to heaven music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B0…
Quite a shock for the traditional US broadcast TV establishment: “The ceremony will be available live and for free to over 2 billion people around the world on YouTube, and to YouTube TV subscribers in the United States.” bit.ly/3MOGsQc
What the US used to be: “A reliable ally; a country that supports those less fortunate, stands up against tyranny worldwide and is a beacon of freedom for human rights defenders.” www.politico.eu/article/u…
Whew, not Trump! time.com/7338621/c…
Maybe coming in 2026? A new social network called Twitter.New I’m up for it! #BackWithYourEx arstechnica.com/informati…
Seeing stories about Sam Altmans’s ‘Code Red’ at OpenAI, all I can think of is Jack Nicholson’s ‘Code Red’ in the classic 1993 film ‘A Few Good Men’ www.youtube.com/watch
If you drive a plug-in hybrid car (PHEV), it looks like you’ll have the worst deal under the new car tax plan. Clearly BEVs are the best choice, but if you can’t use a BEV, your best bet looks to be a self-charging hybrid (HEV) bit.ly/4rjhpEG
Concentrating politically right-wing mainstream print media in the UK under single ownership. Will Ofcom and the government approve it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…
Ok, I succumbed to the Black Friday temptation - I bought a Kindle Colorsoft 2025 edition on a great Amazon offer, enhanced by trading in my current Kindle Paperwhite. I use my Kindle every day; now I’ll be able to find content in my library by looking at the book covers in colour!
“In reality, the FCC will likely come up empty. If the programme wasn’t broadcast in America, that’s fatal to Trump’s claim and to the FCC investigation.” There’s nothing else about the Panorama programme that’s not been disclosed, right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…
LinkedIn really is a place for great engagement when you share something there that captures imaginations. The blog post I wrote about em dashes and shared on LinkedIn has some terrific comments - and over 20,000 views. Wow! In just three days bit.ly/4o49Fn2
We’re just past mid-November. Christmas Day is still five weeks away. Yet all I hear on the radio is Christmas songs. Some neighbours have already put up their decorations. Supermarkets and department stores are full-on with Christmas. Let’s hear it again from Noddy:
Cloudflare error trying to load ChatGPT. Could it be connected with the reported “massive Cloudflare outage”? www.itpro.com/infrastru…
We’re intermingling two very different dramas: alternating between the first season of Poirot from 1989 on ITVX, and The Beast In Me that premiered on Netflix last week. Chalk and cheese but each excellent TV
This is crazy. I have #Chrome running on #Windows11 with four tabs open on a handful of news and social websites - and Chrome is consuming just over 5 gigs of memory according to the Task Manager. Wtf?
“Last week, an environmental disaster took place on Camber Sands beach, on what could turn out to be an unprecedented scale…” www.theguardian.com/environme…
