Bill Bennett
What good idea. When I lived in Birkenhead I commuted almost every day by ferry, it was so much better than using a bus or car.
Call me cynical if you like, but this Taipan wireless router is sporting the tech-sector’s equivalent of go-fast stripes. It’s a bit faster than the ISP supplied model, but only marginal improvement.
If you mean “falling house prices” why not say “falling house prices”?
Happy Christmas the (broadband price) war is over.
It’s the UK, but good news all the same
Independent bookshops grow for second year after 20-year decline
Found my journalist notebooks from 1998-99. Was given a huge amount of Y2K propaganda by enterprise computer people… much of it sounded a bit over the top at the time…
Record number of Britons seeking Irish passports ahead of Brexit
More movement away from Facebook https://www.manton.org/2018/12/19/more-movement-away.html
‘For me, this is paradise’: life in the Spanish city that banned cars
Found out about this a few weeks back when researching a possible holiday, my first in almost a decade. Sad news.
Good question.
Blimey.
Manchester City lose again as Ricardo Pereira hits shock winner for Leicester
That’s me done with buying anything from Japan or Japanese companies. Which admittedly isn’t a lot these days… apart from cars.
Japan confirms it will quit IWC to resume commercial whaling
Counting down the minutes until a UK tabloid uses the term “Norwegian Wood” or maybe ‘would’ in a headline about Manchester United.
10 million words
I’m a journalist.
Writing for newspapers and magazines has been my main job for almost 40 years.
For most of the past decade, I’ve worked seven days a week, 50 weeks of the year. Earlier in my life I had regular jobs which had paid holiday and I didn’t always need to work through the weekend. But still long hours.
I estimate that over the long haul I’ve written an average of 5,000 words a week. That’s around 250,000 a year. Over 40 years it adds up to 10 million words give or take.
Interesting review of second generation Apple Pencil. My only issue is that a) I don’t use it as much as expected and b) I struggle using it to write Teeline shorthand
A scheme by Auckland Airport is helping local people into work. Which is important as it sits next to an area of high unemployment.
WordPress Gutenberg is an ok idea, but it breaks my workflow. I can no longer easily extract the raw HTML as a single, continuous file and then republish it on my syndicated sites.
Odd photo of my new MacBook Air taken at random turns up on my iPad. Wonder if I can pass it off as high art photography?
I’m taking a fresh look at microblogging. I’m interested to know how people who have both a WordPress site and a micro.blog get the two working together. In particular, it is possible to combine the two RSS feeds?
My 2018 12.9 inch iPad Pro is my main mobile computer. I use it for all my work and had though of going to iPad for mobile and a desktop iMac for home use. In the end I bought a 2018 MacBook Air. I’d have preferred the iPad plus desktop combo, but certain apps, I’m looking at you WordPress but there are others, are still lousy on iOS. WordPress in the browser is especially awful on a touch screen.