: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 17 Aston Villa - Manchester City - Home Brentford - Nottingham Forest - Away Ipswich - Newcastle - Draw …
: Made it to December 16 without hearing a single Christmas song… but from here on in it gets …
: How bad is it when a New Zealand company INSISTS on a mobile phone number before you can order …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 16 I don’t see any away winners this week, that’s statistically unlikely, but here goes: …
: At some point I managed to disable voicemail on my phone. That’s good, I hate using it. But …
: When I was a student and worked on the University newspaper, an old school Marxist described me as a …
: Here’s an unpopular option that won’t win me many friends. Nine times out of ten if you …
: And we have a live cross to our relaxation correspondent…
: For years I have resisted Apple’s offer of a three month free subscription to Arcade… I …
: The thing about New Zealand is that you are only ever one Lotto jackpot away from being financially …
: A confession: I was too much of a coward to watch the Black Caps test match. What little I saw made …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 15 Picking Fulham to draw with Arsenal seems brave, almost foolhardy, but there you go. Everton - …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 14 Ipswich Town - Crystal Palace - Home Leicester City - West Ham - Draw Southampton - Chelsea - Away …
: Miffed that my new iPhone autocorrected my daughter’s name from Briony (spelt correctly) to …
: I’d like an AI service that could eliminate all incoming Black Friday spam emails, texts and …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 13 Brighton - Southampton - Home Brentford - Leicester - Home Crystal Palace - Newcastle - Away …
: I’m old enough to remember to remember when no-one I knew had ever heard of “Black Friday”. The …
: Demotivation In 1970 I graduated from primary school to what was then called a ‘secondary modern’. Unlike the …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 12 Leicester v Chelsea - Away win Bournemouth v Brighton - Draw Arsenal v Nottingham Forest - Home win …
: Woke up early wondering why I am loyal to AirNZ when flying domestic when I could save $300 on a …
: Has the angstrom gone out of fashion as a unit? I saw the word today in an old physics book and …
: It’s great that Sky shows Nations League football matches, but I’d like to have seen the All Whites …
: Put the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on for a change from my usual late afternoon playlists and am …
: Do people still have elevenses?
: Had a dentist check up appointment this morning. For the first time since I came back to New Zealand …
: Today I finally deactivated my Twitter account. I haven’t used it for two years, but kept it …
: Writing for a newspaper, magazine or newsy online site is like a self-saucing pudding. The byline …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 11 Home Away Brentford Bournemouth Draw Crystal Palace Fulham Away West Ham Everton Home …
: About once a week a flyer, or an impersonal letter, from a local estate agent turns up in my letter …
: I’m old enough to remember when yoghurt was an exotic new health food.
: Eliminated hay fever last year by chopping down the privit bushes near the house. Noticed eyes were …
: Annoyed that my personal data is among the material the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department gave …
: I doubt it is a popular opinion, but I feel New Zealand media is spending far too much time on an …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 10 Track record so far: Week 4 predictions: 6 out of ten correct. Week 5 predictions: 4 out of ten …
: I’ve spent more than 20 years working as a freelance, 99 percent of the time I deliver on …
: Sitting here in New Zealand, my strategy for coping with the US election is to stick fingers in both …
: Some days the writing muse takes until dinner time to get moving. This was one of those days.
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 9 Leicester Notts Forest Draw Aston Villa Bournemouth Home Brentford Ipswich Home Brighton …
: It’s easy to tell when I have a full work load: my social media output drops almost to zero.
: Often when I read about US politics in 2024 I think back with nostalgia to that scene where the …
: They don't make newspapers like they used to I’m so pleased this had nothing to do with me. This was published in _The Australian _ 15 …
: Do people outside the US still care about Chromebooks? Back in the day I’d get huge amounts of local …
: Am I alone in thinking Bing Webmaster Tools is utterly worthless or are there stealthy fans out …
: Earlier this year I looked at whether New Zealanders pay too much for broadband. …
: Farewell Computer Music magazine Although I mainly worked for newspapers, I spent a few years working in magazines too so it’s …
: From ten years ago on my site: At the time Chorus struggled to pay for the fibre build. …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 8 Tottenham West Ham Home Fulham Aston Villa Draw Ipswich Everton Draw Man United Brentford Draw …
: Reading a series of movie reviews where variations on the phrase “it doesn’t completely …
: Ten years ago on my site I wrote about the launch of MyRepublic as a fibre-only ISP. The brand no …
: Was thinking about food miles. I’m not sure if they contribute much to global warming, but now …
: Was looking at a post on my main site and realised it is now 16 years old. This story was posted …
: Do you normally get answers if you submit a bug report to Apple?
: In general I’m a touch skeptical about using ChatGPT in my work, but there is one area where …
: I’m disproportionately cross after buying what I thought was a low priced 1kg block of Tasty …
: Luxon meets Modi Of course it is good for New Zealand’s prime minister to meet Narendra Modi, the Indian prime …
: Ended up finishing a whole bottle of Garage Project Mon Petit Chou from Beer Spot this evening in a …
: I wondered how cheese shipped from the other side of the world sells for less in Auckland …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 7 Crystal Palace Liverpool Away Arsenal Southampton Home Brentford Wolves Home Man City …
: I’m very interested to know if the telecommunications network resiliency lessons learnt after …
: The killer app for cryptocurrency was cybercrime. Sometimes I have a feeling that things could be …
: I think we’ve all been there: Evidence of ‘Negative Time’ Found in Quantum Physics Experiment.
: Somewhat disturbed to learn multiple reminders for my company’s annual return all went through …
: Kim Dotcom's extradition From the NZ Herald: A survey collecting Kiwis’ thoughts on the fate of Kim Dotcom reveals 46% of …
: You can now comment on my main website but you need to register as a member first. I’m not …
: One of the greatest ever newspaper headlines Found this at Freelance Unbound - The charm of local newspapers.
: In memoriam Twitter So. Farewell. Then. Twitter. Social networking and micro-blogging service. Whatever that’s supposed …
: Predictions for Premier League Match Day 6 Newcastle v Man City - Draw Arsenal v Leicester - Home win Brentford v West Ham - Home win Chelsea v …
: Predictably dire consumer grade AI As a test, I asked the three most visible AI chatbots to predict the results of next week’s …
: Predictions for English Premier League Match Day 5 West Ham v Chelsea - Draw Aston Villa v Wolves - Home win Fulham v Newcastle - Away win Southampton …
: Premier League Predictions - Match Day 4 2024 Southampton - Manchester United - Draw Brighton - Ipswich - Home win Crystal Palace - Leicester - …
: Facebook scrapes Australia, what about New Zealand? The ABC’s political reporter Jake Evans: Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult …
: Fediverse update: I’ve changed the settings so that if you comment on anything that arrives here from my …
: When Australian webpages downloaded faster in Auckland than Sydney Ten years ago my other website had a story about tests showing New Zealand’s broadband network …
: How Honeywell saw mobile phones in 1968
: A life's work on that hard drive There are 43187 Text, Markdown or word processor documents on my laptop’s hard drive. iCloud …
: Useful AI I actually managed to use AI to do something useful. Not important or essential, but nevertheless …
: It’s annoying that my phone company sends text messages to tell me what it has already told me in an …
: Last night I almost ran over someone’s drone in a pub carpark.
: Everyday I get half a dozen requests from people wanting to post something on my website. Have foudn …
: Huawei plans a major launch Huawei plans a major launch event the day after Apple’s. Bless… …
: Why do so many online services, especially the AI things, want you to go through DIscord? Is there a …
: Spent the morning doing urgent things for one client and totally missed another client (from the …
: If I was a high net worth investor, I’d put some of my money into building more renewable energy in …
: I’m not in any way saying it’s good that so many cafes and restaurants are going out of business, …
: It’s a cardigan day. When I was growing up in the south of England, cardigans were an …
: A decade ago I froze while at an Eden Test Match during an Auckland cold snap in Auckland. So next …
: Because I frequently work on Saturdays and Sundays I sometimes take a half day off on Mondays. Some …
: While I readily admit the four for $5 supermarket croissants aren’t remotely close to the glorious …
: Call the cops. Birkenhead New World was selling Hot Cross Buns yesterday. HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE NOT …
: Three games into the new English Premier League season and I’m about to fire up my prediction …
: For almost 20 years I’ve been getting all notifications from Amazon in German. I ordered a …
: Shuffling the streaming video options ahead of the must watch new season of Slow Horses which starts …
: As an exercise I asked ChatGPT to write a short blog post in the style of my main billbennett.co.nz …
: On Friday afternoon I was asked to make a few minor additions to an otherwise finished and agreed …
: I’ve been writing about infrastructure for the New Zealand Herald since 2013. Here’s a …
: I decided a while ago that for every time I complain about something on social media, I must then …
: I can enjoy TV drama, sport and documentaries, but I simply cannot watch any kind of ‘reality …
: The last technology news story posed on Stuff.co.nz’s RSS feed was on November 23. Either the …
: Given all the talk about the Oasis reunion, I’m surprised no music-savvy news subeditor has …
: Forget AI, VR and Blockchain, the technology that gives me the largest productivity boost is the …
: Ben Werdmuller and Manton Reece prefer the term social web to Fediverse. This makes perfect sense to …
: Will be spending the next couple of days covering the Building Nations conference for the NZ Herald. …
: If I get irritating unsolicited email I don’t bother unsubscribing, I just send it straight to the …
: What is the inverse of nominative determinism? www.nzherald.co.nz/business/…
: Cognitive dissonance: On one hand my inner music snob is appalled by the idea of tribute bands. On …
: My homemade Chicken Mulligatawny soup is a favourite in our house. I worried that my recipe was too …
: Pinging social media When I post a new story on my main website: [billbennett.co.nz ](billbennett.co.nz ), it pings …
: When people say “things are turning to custard” they mean that’s a bad thing, but …
: Looking at the diary on my laptop, I can see I have written “save this date” on the …
: It’s coming up to 2 years since I left Twitter and I still can’t decide whether Mastodon or Bluesky …
: Have an “AI-powered” HP Omnibook for a short-term loan. The hardware looks and feels …
: Here’s a question for the sad folk who defend Morris Dancing. Ask yourself why the English …
: A correction There’s a small correction in this week’s newsletter. …
: “She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i’ the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she …
: I notice SkyTV has finally decided to inflict its banal advertising on its Premier League channel. …
: I made about 1.5 litres of over-baked rice pudding this afternoon. We’ve already eaten about a …
: Do you remember when “Sensitive New Age Guy” was a thing? I bet they’re now all …
: I’m back on the New Zealand Tech Podcast: This week we talk a lot about surveillance and a …
: I suspect the reason tech billionaires don’t invest in developing time machines is because …
: I’ve just realised it is halfway through winter and I still haven’t needed to wear my …
: Nine-to-Noon Was on RNZ Nine-to-Noon this morning talking about the tax that hurts New Zealand’s technology …
: I can find great Chinese style egg custard tarts all over Auckland, and many bakeries do the English …
: I’ve seen the future: I can’t afford it.
: Feeling sad. I’m clearing out old iPhone messages stored in iCloud, they go back over a …
: There is a huge capacity and price leap between Apple’s 200GB iCloud storage plans and the 2TB plan.
: The term “peak body”, commonly used in Australia, annoys me on many levels. It’s lazy, imprecise and …
: This is an unpopular view and may upset you, but hear me out: When a well known musician dies, I …
: The Repair Cafe The Birkenhead Repair Cafe was held on Saturday. It was my first time as a volunteer, but I’m …
: Apple isn’t perfect, but it still sets the bar for a big tech company and privacy. I’d …
: Contacted customer support for a normally very responsive US-based online service when it was …
: Will the bad news never cease? www.theguardian.com/society/a…
: I mean, yeah, it’s bad, but get a grip, it’s not like blowing up the Rainbow …
: I have a theory that Terry Pratchett was personally responsible for the revival of the Flat Earth …
: Lost the gizmo that allows us to mount phones on the car dashboard using the air vent. Local …
: I left the People’s Republic of Twitter 18 months ago and didn’t realise that the …
: Found a peculiar thing about the way social media picks up metadata from my Ghost-hosted website. …
: In a ideal world I’d be able to shut off all communications links to the United States until …
: Dear small business owner. Using Instagram as your ONLY online presence means you are dead to those …
: I’m sure you know exactly how it works for a journalist: diary empty two weeks, a few things a week …
: Why on Earth is there a Yellow Pages in 2024? Can there really be a viable business model for …
: More than a decade ago we opted out of getting the Yellow Pages. I found the communication recently …
: If I worked in a public relations agency, I’d quickly become depressed about the constant need to …
: In crude political terms the American Democrat versus Republican election system feels like a choice …
: Social media is quite boring right now now for those of us who are not obsessed with American …
: THat thing where you put something in a safe place, that is so safe you can’t find it again.
: I’ve been turning down requests to go on radio or TV talking about the Crowdstrike outage …
: This is the oldest front page lead story in my clippings portfolio, from 1979, 45 years ago on the …
: ChatGPT flatters to deceive From the ubiquitous AI: “Bill Bennett, a prominent New Zealand technology journalist, has …
: I’m always up for this kind of news story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nati…
: Perhaps the second greatest incentive to a healthy lifestyle is that by not having to visit …
: Hmmm. Maybe they are Quattro Pro spreadsheets… One of them has a line item that mentions …
: Have figured out that a couple of the hard to open “Unix Executable files” are ancient …
: Found some ancient documents on an old drive that go back to the 1990s… a few are from the …
: Looking forward to the Euro football final which will been on during Monday’s breakfast time here in …
: After two football matches the UK media view of Gareth Southgate has gone from “is there a …
: Started composing a whinge about an annoying Microsoft Word flaw, but realise I have written the …
: The England woman’s football team is ranked 2 in the world. The men’s team is ranked 5 and clearly …
: Looking at the AI industrial revolution and wondering what would be the 21st century equivalent of …
: This might upset my American friends, but watching from afar, US politics reminds me of when I was …
: Had one of those rare moments of clarity while driving this afternoon and realised there is a link …
: What a shame he is an Arsenal supporter. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p…
: Today feels like it was the first time since 1966 when England’s football team had an important …
: Realised that it is now exactly 50 years since, as a teenager, I saw AC/DC play at my local city. …
: Have just found an archived copy of the book I co-wrote in 1982: Usborne guide to understanding the …
: Travelling in Auckland’s rush hour There’s a curious anomaly with Apple Maps and Google Maps that took me a while to understand. I live …
: Since May, Google has been removing a few of my web pages from its index every week. It seems …
: Memo to self: Clean out browser cookies more often.
: I had almost completely forgotten about this other story from 10 years ago: The oddball Blackberry …
: Please don’t use the term “reach out” unless you are a member of the Four Tops. In …
: Minor cognitive dissonance as brain switches between early Saturday and Sunday morning Euros …
: You know what’s worse than a penalty shootout? A penalty shootout before breakfast. Before even the …
: The thing I learned this week. It is much harder to close down a solvent, but not longer needed, …
: After five years of, brilliantly, NOT losing the better quality sunglasses I invested in, a feat …
: The Guardian: “Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the …
: The next job for the United Kingdom is to fix the electoral system. First past the post worked where …
: This looks like an interesting idea, short form audio blogging… no more than two minutes each …
: I was on RNZ this morning talking technology… you can listen online …
: I doubt the whole idea of Inbox Zero is mentally healthy.
: I watched at least part of every Euro2024 round of 16 knockout games, in most cases the entire game. …
: The eight round of 16 games at the Euro tournament have all been a bit lacklustre, there were …
: I hate the way Linkedin has a whiff of a religious cult about it. But since Twitter went down the …
: I’m old enough to remember solving maths problems where π was 22/7.
: Wild Wheat’s Kawakawa Sour Dough bread is the best commercial bread I’ve ever tasted. …
: Something is going on with Google un-indexing pages on my site. Six weeks ago there were zero …
: Has anyone else noticed that if you ask Stable Diffusion to produce a “low poly” …
: Every Who down in Whoville liked Matariki a lot, but the Red Dwarf hologram did not
: Whoever said “a servant cannot serve two masters” clearly never lived in a house with a …
: On AI art and Stable Diffusion in particular There’s something wrong with a world where one needs to use the words “no nudity” …
: From ten years ago on my site, when the Productivity Commission came out in favour of government …
: Sitting at the computer while waiting for Stable Diffusion to do its thing is the new “a …
: Currently reading a jaunty customer newsletter from a digital service I subscribe to and realised I …
: I found my self singing The Ramones “I want to be sedated” on the way to having my wisdom teeth …
: When I first got my third generation iPad Pro five years ago it was way, way overpowered for every …
: Forgot all about this… it hit the spot.
: My last vestiges of Englishness are my accent, watching the football team being not quite good …
: One of my enduring memories of a wonderful break in Dunedin was eating the most beautiful fish …
: Back home from having my wisdom teeth. Removed and catching up on missed Euro 24 games while waiting …
: In hindsight I was never angry enough to be a Twitter notable. Totally relaxed with that.
: Watching the Euro 2024 game between Portugal and the Czech Republic on The TVNZ iPad app. The app …
: This is why New Zealand always needed more than The Southern Cross cable network. And could still do …
: Realised today that the small stash of banknotes and coins I keep for buying strawberries, cherries …
: Any fool can write a good press release that hits its target audience and creates an impact. Writing …
: A two minute read on how to get the best technology case studies billbennett.co.nz/write-goo…
: In the past 5 years two local businesses I loved closed their doors after the landlord increased …
: Historically this has been one of the most read posts on my website, Google Search Console says it …
: As a nod towards the early, glory, days of the internet, I’ve decided to reinstate the Blog …
: Do you think anyone in New Zealand would buy a Cybertruck if they could? (I asked the same question …
: I was hoping the news industry would see me out until retirement. That ambition is not looking too …
: New Zealand’s overlooked billion-dollar industry From my story in the NZ Herald: “New Zealand’s financial technology sector is booming. Over …
: In my capacity as a journalist writing about business and technology I get a lot of press releases …
: I have seen so many terrifying stories about airplane travel in the past couple of weeks that I …
: This eight year old post may amuse you: When a computer goes bad it’s a cyber
: Stable Diffusion's seamy side Ailments left me with time on my hands this week so I dived deeper into Stable Diffusion, I …
: Being tortured as a business model One of the most disappointing recent technology trends is, that for many modern apps, the only …
: This story on my site, from 2008, might finally be out of date: billbennett.co.nz/knowledge…
: Dear anyone online. If I’m unsubscribing from whatever spam you are sending me you can cut the …
: Even after 60 years of watching football I humbly recognise I couldn’t do a better job than …
: Checking if all those cross posting fediverse things are working as they should. Please ignore this.
: For reasons that I don’t need to bore anyone with, Saturday got off to an extremely slow start. By …
: I think in all my years of dealing with some awful documentation, Western Digital’s MyCloud …
: Deconstructed Breakfast Burrito: Here’s my go-too recipe when you need a filling, high protein breakfast but don’t have a …
: The political right use the term ‘woke’ in the way that communists would use the word …
: Should change the Orwellian supermarket’s name to New World Order www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-m… I
: Apple Music’s categorisation of my library is a wild ride….
: It turns out having my Shingles vaccine at the same time as the Tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping …
: Politicians’ salaries should be index linked by law to ordinary people’s income levels. It can be …
: I never respond to Linkedin connect requests from people I have never heard of because, as we say in …
: I’m surprised at how many people complain about daylight saving. Don’t remember it being …
: End of daylight saving has played havoc with my appetite. It’s like jet lag, I didn’t …
: “Atmospheric river” will be the title of my next album.
: Proof Google Search Console is just plain weird Overnight Google sent an email: Search Console has identified that some pages on your site are not …
: Parts of the internet are now badly broken Every month I open up the excellent Integrity app on my MacBook. It crawls my main, work-related …
: Conversation: “Tell me somethihng few people know about you”. “I am New …
: Had a roll mop herring for breakfast. My wife thinks I’m odd. but to me this is breakfast of …
: It’s not normally a wrench when a review period comes to an end and I pack the hardware to …
: Was on RNZ Nine to Noon this morning talking about why making tech giants pay media companies is …
: My grandmother’s name was Edith, but on Sundays it was Mary. I never knew if that was some …
: If I lived in Alaska I could be working from Nome.
: Had a press release today about the fancy communications technology being used on the driverless …
: There are pages on my web site that Google Search console still marks as 404 pages more than 15 …
: My plan is to wrap up my limited company and switch to working as a sole trader by the end of this …
: Watching the Carabao Cup Final in New Zealand Chelsea play Liverpool in the Carabano Cup Final early on Monday morning New Zealand time. The game …
: I’m no longer the only family member withh a regular writing gig: …
: Crash from the past Went to a company website to see its annual result. Clicked on the link, which took me to Microsoft …
: Mastodon and BlueSky go a long way to replacing Twitter. For now it looks like journalists would be …
: Have done the preparation for tomorrow’s technology slot on RNZ Nine to Noon. If you are in …
: If I buy something then get bombarded by pleading messages for positive online reviews then …
: My new driving licence photograph makes me look like I should be doing 12 years for armed robbery.
: Things have reached the point where it feels like it is easier to find and watch Australian cricket …
: I won’t be watching tonight’s Wolves - Chelsea football match live, but will probably …
: The newsletter sent out on Friday December 23 has, so far, had 3 per cent fewer openings than the …
: Have spent the morning writing to various websites, especially online forums, requesting they do a …
: My other site's web statistics For a while I was concerned at the drop in page read numbers when I switched from WordPress’s …
: My all time favourite piece of technology is the Bialetti stove top espresso pot. No question. After …
: Soon I will be extending my 65th years in a row streak of not going to Boxing Day sales.
: In praise of text editors As a freelance journalist (and occasional business writer) I have clients who insist on Microsoft …
: It is only a matter of time before Elon Musk comes to a sticky end when James Bond enters his secret …
: Just realised that the scheduled phone call I came in from doing gardening work to handle is, in …
: Boffins confirm what most of us already knew, that video conferencing is draining. …
: Do people who are concerned about the woke mind virus use masks if they go somewhere potentially …
: I’m not a coding kind of person, but I can’t stress enough how my computing experience …
: One of my proudest achievements is never, ever having worn a bow tie.
: One argument against New Zealand moving to four year parliaments is that there is no second chamber. …
: I wonder how many New Zealanders have got the government they wanted? I don’t mean the folk …
: I’ve been using Bluesky for three whole days now and no-one has given me a Mastodon-style …
: Is it me being fussy or do other people think that news media, including specialist tech news media, …
: Hmm. Just realised if I type BS into my browser address bar, I get Bluesky.
: Bennett's hierarchy of freelancing Poorly defined, open-ended non paying gigs* from difficult clients. Poorly defined, open-ended non …
: If you are interested in my take on the Optus outage that brought much of Australia to a grinding …
: Hear me on the New Zealand Tech Podcast I’m on the New Zealand Tech Podcast with Paul Spain. nztechpodcast.com/new-iphon… …
: My work goes crazy about this time of year as everyone in New Zealand races to get things finished …
: Optus outage: company reveals what caused last week’s failure
: I’m on a gigabit fibre connection. I can download a HD movie in the time it takes to pour a …
: Friday’s newsletter went out a little later than usual, which meant it got lfewer immediate …
: Is the internet really broken? Blogger and recovering journalist Elizabeth Tai writes about the state of Google Search and how that …
: Sustainable Business and Finance in the NZ Herald Over the last decade I’ve written more than 300 features for the NZ Herald’s business …
: Today’s newsletter includes a short editorial suggesting that a new Provincial Growth Fund …
: Gabor Cselle writes about the lessons from Twitter alternative T2-Pebble not making it. …
: While most of us are aware of Betteridge’s law of headlines, I think there is a subset of cases …
: Apologies to any social media folk who think I may have paid too little attention to your online, …
: Jumped out of my skin at 8am when my loud ring tone blasted sound through the house. It was an …
: A jolly good show: micro.blog/about/ind…
: In the populated parts of New Zealand you are never too far away from someone selling decent quality …
: Wondered why I wasn’t getting responses to micro.blog posts from my phone. Turns out it I was …
: One of the most New Zealand things I can think of is how people say hello to a driver when they get …
: Was up early today. First to watch Chelsea get beaten in the English Premier League, then to watch …
: Twitter's decline and fool Last week I wrote this about the state of Twitter a year after it changed hands: …
: I love how the best pie or best sausage roll awards are considered front page stories in New Zealand …
: I subscribe to the New Zealand Herald (I also freelance for the Herald) Of course I’m OK with …
: Humans in Australia and New Zealand can hear I have a British accent. After almost 40 years living …
: NY Times attempted Internet Archive block This is bad journalism practice. Not good for media transparency. The New York Times tried to block …
: Hear me on RNZ Nine-to-Noon Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about how Twitter has changed in the year since Elon Musk’s …
: Farewell Pebble I’m sad, but not surprised to see Pebble has pulled the plug on its Twitter alternative. The …
: Here we go again with another cyclone potentially heading towards northern New Zealand. Thankfully …
: Where is Roadrunner? www.bbc.com/news/av/w…
: Modern etiquette question. How rude is it if I never answer those damn customer service surveys? I …
: Trying to figure out if all the Federation development that’s been going on recently means I …
: Unnecessary journalism phrases The website hasn’t been updated in over a decade, yet there is still value in Unnecessary …
: Trolling, dumb-arsed headline questions I’m not one for new year resolutions, but IF I had one it would be to not write trolling, dumb-arsed …
: Fascinating. www.bbc.com/news/uk-s…
: On reaching my digital subscription limit This week I had a couple of emails from Sky TV telling me the payment for Sky Sport Now has not gone …
: Last Christmas Jo and I were given annual passes for Auckland Zoo that come with a photo ID and …
: Was confused by all the Thanksgiving posts I can see on Micro.blog until I realised that Canada has …
: The bad times are back For a decade I didn’t have a single bad debt for my freelance journalism and writing business. …
: Memo to self and anyone else who uses Apple kit: Hang on to that USB to Lightning connector because …
: It could explain a lot if it turns out that Elon Musk has been testing his brain implant technology …
: Apple Watch has “complications”. These are the last things I want in my life. Looking …
: The end of an era My last story on NZBusiness magazine. nzbusiness.co.nz/article/a… There will be an online …
: Go ahead, end a sentence with a preposition Your school may have taught you not to end a sentence with a preposition. This is a hangover from …
: It’s old, but I love this cartoon:
: “Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third …
: Went to the Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery today. …
: Google as a verb Google is one of a rare breed of companies that has moved into everyday language as a verb. There …
: There would be a place in Ben Werdmuller’s otherwise excellent Publishers on social media are …
: Google Search Console sets impossibly high bar Google Search Console sets an impossibly high bar for its “Redirect Error” test. …
: This would be a fascinating story to read, until you get to “Macalister was not willing to reveal …
: Seven things I’ve learnt about blogging You don’t need fancy software to blog. Free hosting services, like WordPress.com can as good as or …
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: Why short words are the best words Winston Churchill said: “Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of …
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: Can you start sentence with “And”? At school we were taught never to start sentences with “And”. And yet newspaper journalists do it …
: Tech: Rural divide in comms, law firm hack, Reddit goes bonkers Last week’s RNZ technology slot: Technology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk …
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: 2023 Ashes series Wasn’t sure about staying up late last night, getting up early this morning to watch the …
: Cold comfort for journalists The life of the journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his …
: Companies, especially tech companies, will spend time and money on press releases that are …
: Twitter’s move to make third parties pay heaps for API access isn’t going to make me use …
: Ten years ago Apple made a significant battery life breakthrough with a MacBook Air that could run …
: Today’s Download Weekly newsletter looks at the impact Apple’s spatial computing is …
: Getting found online As an experiment I submitted the URL for the latest post on my business blog …
: Poppy thinks my right hand is a pillow. I’m fine with that so long as I’m not on a deadline.
: Guidelines for writing better headlines Short – cram the maximum amount of meaning into the minimum number of words. There’s no strict guide …
: If you want to buy a fancy phone, the two best options at the moment are Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro Max …
: The Mobile to satellite communications – update blog post was missing its embedded table. Fixed that …
: Spent some time this morning tinkering with my micro.blog theme (Kiko) to increase the contrast, …
: Go easy on adjectives As old school journalists, we were taught to write mainly with nouns and verbs. Editors let us use …
: Exclamation marks: Caution! Exclamation marks have almost no place in serious writing. Tabloid journalists use them in …
: Jargon doesn’t make you look smarter Jargon makes it easier to write about technology. Technical ideas can be quicker and easier to …
: Apple AirPods Pro second-gen: Familiar looks, better all-round They may look the same, but Apple’s …
: The data breach fallacy: billbennett.co.nz/data-brea…
: The longer a company’s code of ethics, the more likely it is run by sleazeballs he No Asshole Rule …
: Murder your darlings “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — …
: My smart and insightful observation that there is a similar vibe between the dumb billionaire …
: This time last year I wrote about upgrading to Wi-FI 6. It’s a good move, but only worth doing if …
: When I was in my first term at university a friend who lived a couple of doors away in my halls …
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: I get phishing attempts every day. This one is unusual and, I think, quite specific. I have no idea …
: Can anyone please point me at other journalists who are on micro.blog?
: My other website ranks higher: @JohnPhilpin
: This week we had dinner at a hotpot restaurant on Dominion Road and I realised this is the Chinese …
: It turns out my other website billbennett.co.nz is part of the content used to train Google’s …
: Phishing, vishing, smishing and beyond Phishing, vishing, smishing and beyond is a story I wrote for NZBusiness about the most common form …
: There’s this thing about being a New Zealander that feels strange to someone like me who …
: Someone should write an alternative reality novel where Google didn’t close Google+.
: I’m certain our female cat, Poppy, has stopped trusting me after I sold her down the river to …
: Hot Cross Buns Auckland 2023 By accident more than design I managed to sample a wide variety of Hot Cross Buns from Auckland …
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: The rising tide of access forbidden errors Earlier this week I wrote about linkrot. This post missed a similar annoying trend. Today’s link …
: At least three quarters of the attempted phishing emails in my inbox aren’t really …
: It never ceases to amaze me how many people take my clearly deranged joke microblogs, tweets and …
: Impressed that Apple has released an iPhone especially for Villarreal and Wellington Phoenix …
: Something else rotten on the Internet Every week I check the links on my other website. And every single week a handful are broken and …
: Attempting to copy 3.7 TB of data over Wi-Fi because I optimistically assumed Wi-Fi 6e could handle …
: We survived Auckland’s atmospheric river and Cyclone Gabrielle, only to be flooded by a …
: Couriers.... I used to think those “we have delivered your package” emails and texts from online retailers were a …
: I guess most people living in New Zealand’s North Island now have a much better understanding …
: I haven’t needed to look at the Contacts app on my iPhone for ages. Did just now and it seems …
: Put my AI-generated Studio Ghibli “working and studying from home” artwork as the main …
: I write most of my news stories, features and blog posts using Markdown. If it is a paid job, I …
: It looks like Cyclone Gabrielle is stopping for coffee at Great Barrier Island.
: My great grandmother, who was around until I was a teenager, believed sending rockets into space …
: My great grandmother, who was around until I was a teenager, believed sending rockets into space …
: Absolutely love it that Safari offers Yahoo as a search engine option. Surely Apple is having a joke …
: I left the UK 35 years ago to live in New Zealand and still get the occasional urge to have mushy …
: The cyclone forming north of New Zealand is starting to look chewy. …
: The new Micro Blog Mastodon hook up is welcome and I’m definitely going to use it but I think I’ll …
: Read a post online where someone talks about “your favourite programming languages”. …
: My brain has been so conditioned by years of watching sport that when I see or hear the name …
: Love how when I write a news story on my one-person site, Bing sees it as news. Dislike …
: Published the full text of my latest newsletter on Linkedin and Medium to test whether they can …
: Dislike free apps that tell you there are in-app purchases, but don ’t reveal what the …
: Found a few more entries for my New Zealand media on Mastodon directory. It still looks light. Know …
: It never fails to get me that in some cultures a chicken omelette is known as “mother and child …
: Is there a pot of gold at the end of the spectrum or does it only apply to rainbows?
: Last night I watched the Tom Hanks movie Greyhound on Apple TV. It was about a WW2 destroyer …
: Five headlines in my morning newsfeed about “game changers” please dream up some new cliches, this …
: Auckland has potential problems with drinking water at exactly the same time brewers are struggling …
: For me Mastodon failed its first big test As anyone in New Zealand knows, Auckland had a serious rain storm yesterday. Two people died, two …
: Every single phone notification is turned off, although messages from familiy members (and two …
: I’m back on the NZ Tech Podcast with Paul Spain discussing technology news with a New Zealand …
: Tapbots' unpalatable Ivory Much as I like the idea of the new Tapbots Ivory app for Mastoden, selling it as a subscription, not …
: Now that I’m learning how to make better use of NetNewsWire, I’m feeding the important …
: It took me a while, well years actually, to cotton-on to using @netnewswire with iCloud, but boy …
: Over at my other site is a long-term (after two months) review of the 2022 iPad. Apple’s …
: Following Twitter without the Twitter app or website Twitter has changed, and not for the better. Killing the links to third-party apps was terrible for …
: I love how when I start typing the names of UK newspaper websites my browser defaults direct to the …
: Relieved more than anything that Chelsea managed to beat Crystal Palace. Although the performance …
: Interesting that micro.blog tags the game the entire world outside of North America calls football …
: Twitter disconnects third-party apps It looks like Twitter has disconnected the third-party clients that we use to help us manage the …
: The year of the personal website Mattias Ott: “So how about we make 2023 the year of the personal website? The year in which we …
: Posted a massive update to my Guide to writing on an iPad - billbennett.co.nz/ipad-pro-… It …
: Since Christmas Auckland has had two types of weather: Sticky humidity or unseasonably cold.
: Going by the marketing and publicity I’ve seen so far, Tesla designed the Cybertruck for …
: Pakistan one day international cricket matches are cruelly timed for New Zealand fans. They start at …
: I’m looking for a device that I can stick in an old fashioned audio jack that will transmit …
: Haven’t seen anything even remotely interesting in the press releases coming from CES. But …
: As a rule, if a product or service in New Zealand advertises itself as ‘premier’, it …
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: I don’t believe I am the only person who thinks of cryptosporidium when I see headlines about …
: Wonder why so many people on Mastodon refer to Twitter as “the bird site”. Feels like …
: Sometimes I think television drama is far too obsessed with murder mysteries. What about other …
: Online shopping When I buy something online, anything, and within days I’m pestered by needy requests for me …
: I wonder where people find the energy to be bigoted.
: It’s that time of the year when I have no idea what day of the week it is. This might seem …
: Very early days, but here is the first version of my New Zealand media on Mastodon directory. …
: Lifting my IndiWeb game I’m looking to lift my IndieWeb game. This Micro.blog site links to Mastodon (and from there …
: I’m not going to pretend I have a clue how to use or read Google Analytics. I used it years …
: Blue-sky thinking: Air NZ’s push to become the world’s leading digital airline …
: Deloitte Top 200 Awards: Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Researching, interviewing and writing this story on New Zealand’s Deloitte Top 200 Diversity …
: Here’s a story I wrote for yesterday’s NZ Herald: Deloitte Top 200: Young Executive of …
: It is a truth universally acknowledged that ever house interior I seen on Zoom or in a casual photo …
: I’m still in two minds about Mastodon and Twitter. Mastodon has some friendly banter, but is …
: My weekly NZ telecommunications newsletter is out: billbennett.co.nz/lifting-c… “The …
: Even Brazil’s second team is exciting to watch in a World Cup game. ⚽️
: I wonder if Finland’s PM Sanna Marin has to put up with this sexist nonsense in Europe?
: If you’ve had it with Twitter and don’t warm to Mastodon, Micro.blog could be the …
: Infrastructure: How Spark is moving NZ forward with 5G and fibre rollouts …
: Linkedin madness Six years ago I quit using Linkedin and closed my account. I explain why in a blogpost. My work as a …
: [www.theguardian.com](www.theguardian.com/football/… World Cup 2022: England, Wales and …
: You know how on Star Trek, there are matter transporter machines that can “beam me up …
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: Farewell WordPress It’s time to move on from WordPress. Because I’m not a developer, I now find the PHP …
: Some people have already left Twitter. Others are watching and waiting. I’m not jumping yet, …
: How long before Microsoft buys Meta?
: As a useful rule of thumb, any film that has “Christmas” or “Love” in the …
: Impressed at how many people on social media are experts on Brazilian politics. I could be the only …
: A major MacOS update is a fabulous opportunity for work procrastination.
: For the last four years we bought tons of chocolates in case kids came to the house on Halloween. …
: Congratulations to the Pīwauwau New Zealand’s bird of the year for 2022. Such a pretty bird. …
: Got up extra early on a wet Monday morning because there’s a heavy workload this week. Clicked …
: Companies who sell packets of peanuts could charge fancy restuarant prices if they presented them as …
: I’ve never understood why TV and radio news bulletins include reports on individual share …
: A man’s reach Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? — Robert …
: I like the fact that micro.blog doesn’t have likes.
: Narcissistic capitals Companies and insecure people often insist their job titles should be spelt …
: Predicting the future “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker
: Exclamation marks: Caution! Exclamation marks, some people call them bangs, have almost no place in serious writing. Tabloids …
: Engines of War “I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached …
: Companies are singular not plural A company can have many employees. Yet in law and in grammar it is a single entity. Use singular …
: Cold comfort The life of the journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. – Stella …
: Can you start a sentence with And? At school we were taught never to start sentences with “And”. And …
: Orwell on language Everyone who thinks at all has noticed that our language is practically useless …
: Does spelling still matter? Erin Brenner at the Writing Resource asks in a blog post: “Does spelling …
: David Ogilvy: How to write “Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, …
: The verb of attribution Earlier I wrote that most of the time you should use said when reporting …
: First, second, third Remember when list posts were all the rage? There’s nothing wrong with writing …
: Among and Amongst Modern newspaper style books tell journalists to use among, not amongst. Unlike …
: In defence of clear, crisp communications From the Rut – a site well worth investigating.
: You can tell from my review that I liked the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2. …
: Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation I found this online years ago. The original site is lost forever. Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist …
: Going by last night’s game, it’s only a matter of time before Ireland beats New Zealand in the …
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: It's best to use said when reporting someone's words When reporting someone’s words, it’s best to use said in most cases. Newspaper and other …
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: On the whole the move from using Gmail for my own domain email address to using iCloud Mail has gone …
: Google News can be frustrating to deal with. Because I run a one-person site, news stories on my …
: PimEyes, Chorus fast fibre, fake photos, telecoms merger On Thursday I was on RNZ’s Nine-to-Noon programme talking about technology. …
: I don’t want to be a person who tells a call centre worker I’ll move my account if I don’t get …
: So it turns out the Google Docs file I spent a day working on and thought was lost was stored in a …
: Today I filed my GST and paid the largest amount of tax since before Covid, which, if you stop to …
: Apple’s voice recognition struggles with my accent. I’m a pom who has lived in New …
: From earlier this morning: Breakfast of champions at Daily Bread, Auckland.
: DIgital subscriptions that autorenew claim to be ‘convienent’ for customers. Yeah right. …
: Was hoping 2022 would be the year I could get away with not renewing the Microsoft Office …
: Zoom works first time every time when I’m invited to a video conference meeting. Microsoft …
: Project for when I don’t have a work backlog to deal with: change my email signature to point …
: It used to be a struggle getting coffee after 3pm in New Zealand. Since Covid, the cut-off time at …
: This came today: 15 years with WordPress.
: Noticed that my iPhone turned off WiFi Calling during this week’s software update. …
: ⚽️This could be one of those English Premier League seasons where one of the clubs that will be …
: One curious, unexpected side effect of Covid: not wanting to drink alcohol. I’m not a huge …
: I switched to iCloud mail hosting because I can use my domain name. On the whole everything works …
: Sometimes the best computer is a tablet. My NZBusiness column. nzbusiness.co.nz/article/s…
: Yeserday I was thinking “I haven’t had post-Covod brain fog for days now, perhaps it has …
: Those ‘crypto fraud’ news stories are not going away. …
: Electric seagliders sound cool. Probably not great for the choppy waters around New Zealand though. …
: I’d be interested to know if there has been any research to find out if cruise ships actually …
: Love @netnewswire, it’s great on Mac, iPad and iPhone. by far the best way to deal with feeds. …
: A test post to see if Microblog is cross-posting to Twitter. It wasn’t earlier.
: Although I was technically over Covid ten days ago, this is the first day that I feel normal again. …
: Had to print a document for the first time in at least a year. Amazing how awkward this feels in …
: Mid Century Modernity In my view what @ayjay calls “mid-century modernity” has a lot to do with the arrival of …
: Thinking about the English Premier League relegation tussle. Everton and Leeds play more attractive …
: Is there a pratical alternative to Mail Chimp…. perhaps something a little more in tune with …
: The Download Weekly - latest edition of my newsletter covering New Zealand telecommunications …
: It took an hour and 15 minutes for the Two Factor Authenication code to arrive from Mail Chimp to my …
: I’ve yet to figure out how and why stories I post on my WordPress site are linked to in my …
: My weekly New Zealand telecommunications newsletter resumes after an Easter (and Covid) break. …
: Making a case for renaming The Peter Principle as The Dick Principle. …
: Moving mail from G-Suite to iCloud At the start of the year Google gave notice that the grandfathered G-suite accounts that let people …
: In memoriam Twitter So. Farewell Then Twitter. Social networking and micro-blogging service. Whatever that’s supposed to …
: The fact that more than 5 million WordPress users have installed a plug-in to workaround the woeful …
: I stumbled over this story scraped from my site years ago This is a story of mine that was syndicated on Scoop. Scraped by someone who then changed a few …
: Updated post about Wi-Fi 6 on my website: billbennett.co.nz/wi-fi-6/ “Upgrading your home …
: On reflection, “an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters” sums …
: I would prefer it if my iMac warned me the mouse battery was flat before it got as low as 2%. …
: Project Auckland: All you need is . . . love Here’s a feature I wrote for the NZ Herald about …
: Exciting. My copy of the ITP book has arrived. I wrote the chapter on New Zealand …
: I’m on my third or fourth day of having a really mild dose of Covid. Clearly the vaccine has helped …
: This is interesting. I found as a journalist I need to be more thorough in my preparation and write …
: One thing I will miss if Twitter crashes and burns is all the helpful expert advice and knowledge …
: Wrote this for the Network for Learning blog. Let’s tackle cyber crime together - N4L
: I think I’ve done this before, but can anyone remind me how to get this working? From …
: In the Beginning was the Website desmondrivet.com/2019/12/0… “Even if the entire IndieWeb consisted of a single personal …
: Syndication Links now supports per-post syndication to Micro.blog from WordPress …
: indiwebify.me reports that “micro.blog/billbenne… does not link back”. Is that normal? If …
: What happened to tagging? We did www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/what… I used tags a lot back when they were hot. I still use them …
: I’m interested to know how I can use the WordPress Indyweb Post Kinds Like option (Plugin by …
: Microsoft dabbling with Android devices…. I can’t decide if this is a stroke of genius or a …
: Spark marks Te Reo Māori week with Kupu update Spark has updated its free Kupu Te Reo Māori mobile app and included a version for desktop computers …
: So Westpac gave me a new credit card after a security scare. No problem. Until today. My domain …
: Found a web site that blatantly scraps my site and publishes my stories under its own bylines …
: It may be in bad taste to say this now, but when Queen Elizabeth departs, we should replace the …
: When I was a child in the UK, a TV advert would tell me: “A million housewives every day would pick …
: KDC’s attempt to buy an election and some of his antics around that time flopped badly, it came out …
: Dotcom hasn’t been treated well by New Zealand. That said, there is (or was) a case to answer. …
: I no longer need to keep an objective distance about Kim Dotcom. Sure he is dodgy, but despite the …
: I wonder if the NZ Herald paywall has had any impact on the NBR? Anyone know? It’s probably …
: a Huawei thought Navigating the Huawei story is one of the toughest jobs in technology journalism at the moment. …
: Amazed that those people who constantly talk about the power of “market forces” can’t draw a …
: Orcon first to trial residential 10Gbps broadband I’m impressed. Orcon makes a fetish of being …
: 12 years with WordPress. I started about the time of the first iPhone.
: Last night I was thinking: “Why didn’t Samsung’s DeX pad do better". On paper it looks …
: That moment when you wonder “do I have a cold coming on?” Then check there’s at least one lemon and …
: One of my biggest frustrations with the iPad, and a reason I can’t drop using a tradition computer …
: Pile on. Microsoft removes Huawei’s MateBook X Pro from its online store, stays silent on …
: Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insiders - …
: The Most Expensive Lesson Of My Life: Details of SIM port hack He lost US$100 grand in …
: Any other New Zealand folk on micro.blog?
: Is anyone out there working on ways to integrate this into a WordPress site? …
: Also, I like the idea of bringing back webrings. Researching that will keep me out of mischief this …
: Matthias Ott just reminded me to check the microformat stuff was working on my billbennett.co.nz …
: Hey @vincent, I can see plenty of stuff about developing Glueon and it being cross platform, but I …
: I can do about 95 to 97 percent of the things I need to do on my iPad Pro, the main problem …
: The term “content” is a barbarism that bit by bit devalues what journalists do. Jay Rosen, Chair of …
: Is there a semiologist out there? I’m interested to know why the poo emoji is smiling.
: Netflix is the ultimate embodiment of Bruce Springsteen’s “57 Channels and Nothing on”.
: May not be wise if the reports of screen breaks on review machines extend to the production run.
: Huawei P30 Pro review update Added this postscript to my Huawei P30 Pro review. billbennett.co.nz/p30-pro-r… When I …
: “You may wonder if there’s a market for a 7.9-inch iPad when you can buy a 6.5-inch iPhone.” Well …
: Started working on a review of the Audiofly AF56W wireless headphones. One of the points I was …
: Stuff makes a spat over development sound like an assault.
: Agree. Also, the headline does that clever “show not tell” thing…. ‘APPL STILL HASN’T …
: So, to clarify, the only part of Apple’s announcement that matters for New Zealand is the …
: A view from someone who isn’t a gamer but knows how the tech business works: Apple Arcade …
: Was interviewed on NewstalkZB about Apple TV Channels and TV Plus. Short version: Nice to have more …
: A day trip to China is hard yakka. The PM had better not be flying economy. PM Ardern to visit China …
: True story about growing up in England When I was six or seven I loved comics. A character in The Dandy or The Beano once said: “That …
: Asking clients or citizens to contact you via Facebook isn’t quite on a par with asking them to …
: 100 Proofs that the Earth is a Globe Number 5: Horizon dip angle …
: Benchmark pegs Apple’s new iPad Air or iPad mini at 2.49GHz with 3GB of RAM …
: This is one to watch. Will be fascinating. Sprint Takes Out Full Page NYT Ad Calling Out AT&T …
: Should have commented on this at the time. Chorus unbundled fibre design | Techblog by @bcarmody, …
: I must remember to use Micro.blog more often…
: I’m in two minds about banning Michael Jackson’s music. Many accepted artists are as despicable. I’m …
: For a long time I wasn’t impressed with the @WordPress iOS app. It has many limitations and is near …
: I have a micro.blog as well as my website: micro.blog/billbenne…
: In my haste to publish, I hit the send button without proofing the headline The threat to Huawei’s …
: <<Bill Bennett>> «Listen to myRNZ Nine-to-Noon segment online. This week I look at Apple
: My segment on RNZ Nine-to-Noon programme yesterday. www.radionz.co.nz/national/… For non-NZ …
: New Zealand Just Found Out It Has Fewer People Than Thought - Bloomberg
: When I first came to New Zealand from London I was invited to a cocktail party. Following my …
: “It’s not a direct comparison, but is some ways Huawei is the Apple of China’s eye.” …
: So that’s how stylish Italian fashion icons wear reading glasses when not reading
: This will be a cracker… www.theguardian.com Chelsea draw Manchester United in FA Cup fifth …
: A true story. It isn’t recent, but it did happen. Client: You didn’t follow the brief. …
: Love this headline: www.recode.net/2019/1/23…
: A mere flea bite to Google French data protection watchdog fines Google $57 million under the GDPR - …
: I like the idea of science projects that won’t show results until after we are dead…. …
: Mourinho is annoying, but speaks the truth here. www.theguardian.com José Mourinho bemoans lack of …
: Things haven’t been right since Costa left. He was precisely the right striker to match the rest of …
: America has its own antisocial traveller story… Wanted: The ‘Traveling Bandit,’ a Bank Robber …
: Was asked for help doing something on a Windows computer and realised all over again why I no longer …
: A wonderful story about The Buzzcocks and the late Pete Shelly. I was there for some of this. …
: I always wanted an ARP, but couldn’t afford them when I was still playing in bands. Alan R. …
: Of course it would be best if this wasn’t necessary. Apple launches Smart Battery Case for iPhone …
: “Hundreds” of layoffs coming at Vodafone. That would be, what, 10 or more percent of the workforce? …
: Instagram is not your friend or a safe replacement for Facebook. Instagram caught selling ads to …
: Here we go… Astronomers discover 13 new fast radio bursts from deep space
: What good idea. When I lived in Birkenhead I commuted almost every day by ferry, it was so much …
: Call me cynical if you like, but this Taipan wireless router is sporting the tech-sector’s …
: If you mean “falling house prices” why not say “falling house prices”? …
: Happy Christmas the (broadband price) war is over. www.stuff.co.nz/business/…
: It’s the UK, but good news all the same www.theguardian.com Independent bookshops grow for second …
: Found my journalist notebooks from 1998-99. Was given a huge amount of Y2K propaganda by enterprise …
: www.theguardian.com Record number of Britons seeking Irish passports ahead of Brexit
: Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click
: Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot …
: More movement away from Facebook https://www.manton.org/2018/12/19/more-movement-away.html
: Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching - Recode
: www.theguardian.com ‘For me, this is paradise’: life in the Spanish city that banned …
: Found out about this a few weeks back when researching a possible holiday, my first in almost a …
: Good question. What Happened to the iPad Split Keyboard? — MacSparky
: Blimey. www.theguardian.com Manchester City lose again as Ricardo Pereira hits shock winner for …
: That’s me done with buying anything from Japan or Japanese companies. Which admittedly isn’t a lot …
: Counting down the minutes until a UK tabloid uses the term “Norwegian Wood” or maybe ‘would’ in a …
: 10 million words I’m a journalist. Writing for newspapers and magazines has been my main job for almost 40 years. For …
: Interesting review of second generation Apple Pencil. My only issue is that a) I don’t use it …
: A scheme by Auckland Airport is helping local people into work. Which is important as it sits next …
: Can I adjust the text size on the iOS micro.blog app?
: WordPress Gutenberg is an ok idea, but it breaks my workflow. I can no longer easily extract the raw …
: Odd photo of my new MacBook Air taken at random turns up on my iPad. Wonder if I can pass it off as …
: I’m taking a fresh look at microblogging. I’m interested to know how people who have both a …
: My 2018 12.9 inch iPad Pro is my main mobile computer. I use it for all my work and had though of …
: I’ve tried to talk to people about the Indieweb idea, but their eyes glaze over as they reach …