This pelican was so cute
Author Archives: shaun
I’m back! My blog was out of action for a while…
Couldn’t escape GDPR even at WWDC Keynote ? Having said that, I love the privacy-first stance Apple has. It’s a huge differential between them and Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Just witnessed a thief being chased out of Waitrose. I think he got away 😱
Disappointed by Instapaper. They had 2 years notice. Oh well, I’ve fully switched to Mozilla’s Pocket now and will delete my Instapaper account when it comes back up.
GDPR means we get websites without tracking. This is awesome.
GDPR is an excellent step for consumer rights and privacy but the wording of it was so vague it’s caused us no end of headaches 😤
Ecco The Dolphin was RIGHT! A recent paper published in the scientific journal ‘Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology’ suggests that octopuses might be aliens.
We are back from a week in the caravan, house still not sold yet 😠
The Icro app for micro.blog is very good. Icro by Martin Hartl
When I launch Tweetbot: it remembers where I last read, I scroll down and read new posts in the correct order. When I launch micro.blog: it takes me to the top, I have to scroll up and read things in backwards order. It’s the one thing preventing me from launching micro.blog as often as I […]
We got an Apple TV 4K at last! ? Very annoyed that no Disney / Pixar / Marvel movies are available in 4K. They are leaving money on the table!
82% of US Teens currently own an iPhone
www.loopinsight.com/2018/04/10/piper-jaffrays-teens-survey-shows-82-of-us-teens-currently-own-an-iphone/
Rest In Peace, Jean-Luc 😿
I really wish there was a way to opt-out of sports news from all TV!
Trying out Codekit as a replacement for LiveReload, which seems abandoned by its developer!
We’ve been looking at the open viewing for the house we want. Looks like we’re going to try and go for it! Time to sell!
The Good War
The Good War. Very thought provoking. This does very well in explaining why I am a conscientious objector. The Good War
@manton hey. Trying to add cross posting. This select box is empty and after adding payment details there doesn’t seem to be any way to set it up?
So glad we didn’t get an Amazon Alexa device if they’re going to start putting ads on it. Yuck. Google will be next, too ?? Amazon Alexa is opening up to more sponsored product ads
I’ve moved my site to be hosted by Flywheel ?
We are going to see The Book of Mormon tonight ?
I ❤️ my iPhone X
I’ve finally retired my old email address. It was a six-letter, no numbers @gmail.com address and I have had enough of all the emails that aren’t actually meant for me! I set up an auto response and smart filtering to manage the transition. ?
I’m gonna get an iPhone X ?
First flight with Andrew after he’s got his license!
First flight across the channel with Andrew as pilot! Nervous and excited! #moulesandfrites
Progressive alliances are the future of British politics.
“Make Votes Matter estimates that, had this election been run under Proportional Representation, the Conservative lead over Labour would have been slashed to 16 seats. The Greens would have won 11 and our combined total, along with Labour and the Liberal Democrats, would have easily surpassed the Conservatives. A progressive government could have happened.” Caroline […]
We need a fairer voting system
The Tories are clinging on to power by making an alliance with the DUP, a homophobic, misogynistic party who thinks the earth is 4,000 years old. This is an absolute travesty considering the number of votes the two parties actually received. Here’s the results by number of votes: As you can see, as the only […]
Pretty excited about getting my MacBook!! ? ❤️
On our way to The Crystal Maze! ?
Irony
Husband just said “sometimes Google says a website’s robots have gone mad”. Referring to “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt” ??
Just ordered “Murder Most Horrid: The Complete Collection”. I have been waiting 18 years to watch that again, absolutely love it.
Why oh why isn’t there a universal standard for importing and exporting DNS records?! ?
The call isn’t out there at all, it’s inside me ? ❤️
Monkey Jam ??
Trying out micro.blog for the first time!
Researcher calls Samsung’s Tizen OS “the worst code I’ve ever seen”
http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/17/04/05/researcher-calls-samsungs-tizen-os-the-worst-code-ive-ever-seen
I think I’m going to delete all my social media / email apps when I travel to USA this year.
Electronic Media Searches At Border Crossings Raise Worry http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/electronic-media-searches-at-border
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last Churchill
A new blog
Well I’ve finally consolidated the following into my new site: Very old posts from when I was 14 (in 1999!) Posts from my old site, webbunny.co.uk Posts from Tumblr And I’m going to start microblogging here. Most of my old posts are set as private – sorry about that! Another fresh beginning 😉
The meaning of ‘knowing’
The meaning of ‘knowing’ has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it. Nobel laureate Herbert Simon
Tim Cook on workplace rights
So long as the law remains silent on the workplace rights of gay and lesbian Americans, we as a nation are effectively consenting to discrimination against them. Tim Cook
The cost of selling Galaxies
A frequent put-down of Apple is that its success is all down to the amount of marketing they do. Well, turns out Samsung, the #1 seller of Android phones, spends 10 times the amount on marketing than Apple does. That’s more than Apple, Dell, HP, Microsoft and Coca-Cola combined. (via Daring Fireball).
Epic Games
When Epic Games released the computer-exclusive Unreal Tournament 2004, it was packaged with nearly one-hundred maps for use across half-a-dozen game types. Thousands upon thousands of free, community-created maps followed. Two years later, Epic Games released Gears of War, a third-person shooter touted as (and would become) a cornerstone of the Xbox 360 game library. […]
Olympics
As sceptical as I am about the Olympics, I thought the opening ceremony was absolutely brilliant.
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters. John Gruber, looking back on five years of the iPhone.
Starting with the opening gag with Siri doing stand-up comedy and continuing through to Apple’s new maps and Siri’s new features, there was an unmistakeable “Fuck you, Google” undertone to the whole keynote. Apple is forcing Google out of iOS. Daring Fireball: Three Takeaways From Today’s WWDC Keynote
Star Trek/Doctor Who Crossover Comic Due In May
Star Trek/Doctor Who Crossover Comic Due In May It’s official. And it only took five decades to happen. Yes, Star Trek and Doctor Who, two of the most popular and venerable franchises in entertainment history, will cross over for the first time ever in Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #1.