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My three favourite bits of tech
I’m surrounded by tech. Actually, it’s slightly more nuanced than that. I personally don’t have all that much tech compared to many of the people I know, but it’s everywhere in my life, in other people’s houses, in my own, or out in the wider world. I get quite excited when I see knew tech […]
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AI and work
Back in the 1990’s (I think), there was a TV series on the BBC in which a successful business man would be shipped into failing businesses. He would examine what was going wrong and make suggestions. In an episode I’ll never forget, a production line of people were making soft toys. It was work of […]
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Our closest neighbour
Earth’s perspective from Mars. We’re not that big! The perspective of Earth from Mars is stunning in this image captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover.
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Working from a small bag
Over the last few years, my set of requirements for work has become smaller and smaller. This is now what I need to function as a podcaster (which is what I do): That’s it. I can get it all in a tiny backpack. Who would have imagined just a few years ago that remote / […]
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We are all addicted to our devices
This is going to be nothing new to you, because you already know that it’s true. You know it’s true for you, and almost every person you know. I consider myself lucky to have been born into a world in which there was no mobile technology. No portable computing devices of any kind. Computers back […]
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I love sound, not just music
This might sound (!) strange, but I love music and sounds equally. My favourite sound is without a doubt that of flowing water. Not the heavy crash of a waterfall after rain, rather the sound of a slow moving river or stream moving over rocks. There is no way to explain this, it’s been with […]
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AAAT – All the AI, All the Time
Imagine being a carpenter in the age of plastic. A user of stone age tool when metal came about. Trying to advocate for the wider use of horses when the train was invented. During my lifetime, I don’t remember anything replacing anything else. I will use AI. I will worry about AI. I will watch it grow, embed, concern us and amaze us. But I will need help with it, to understand it, to figure out when I want it and when I’ll spurn it. AI is everywhere, it’s AAAT – All the AI, All the Time.
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The hypocrisy of buying domain names for my family
One of my pet peeves is when I come up with an idea, go to purchase a suitable domain for the project, only to discover that it’s been taken and is being squatted upon. Domain squatting or cybersquatting is pretty rampant, and likely quite lucrative if you get the right domain at the right time, […]
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Consider me ‘concerned about AI’
So, it’s the year 2025, and we’re all falling headlong over ourselves to implement as much AI into our lives as we can. I’m not too sure that this is a good thing. Given that we really don’t know what’s going on with the processes AI uses to arrive at answers, I think we ought to let humans make the decisions.
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What makes you a podcaster?
I saw a post on X the other day which basically asked the question, when can you / should you call yourself a podcaster? I’ve been creating podcasts for about 9 years now, and although there might be some vanity metrics in the use of the word, the definition of ‘a podcaster’ is pretty clear […]
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Wireless headphones
I recently bought a fairly inexpensive, but pretty good (to my ears), wireless headphones. They’re the over-the-head type, not the in-ear ones. The noise cancellation is remarkable and it’s a complete revelation! They sound great. I’m not really all that sure how headphones could be x5 the cost. Can they really sound x5 better?!? I […]