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My son makes music, and it’s good
I never talk about my kids online. I’ve never posted images of them. Never mentioned their names. I figured that they needed to make their own way, to decide for themselves what they wanted to make available, when they were old enough to do so. Today, that changes for one of my kids. Meet Sam Wrigley and his music.
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Christmas gets earlier each year
When I was a child, back in the 1970s, Christmas was a thing that happened in December, and most frequently in late December. Fast forward to now, the year 2025, and we’ve allowed Christmas to slowly but surely push further back into the year.
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Pride
I know that pride, being one of the seven deadly sins (if you believe in any of that), is not always something we should aspire to, but I think that once in a while it’s okay. Yesterday, my daughter graduated from university. I went, and I was very proud. That’s all I have a say about that.
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WPLDN, 30th October 2025
Another month goes by and another #WPLDN happened. We had Tim Nash speaking this time around and, as is always the case, he did a remarkable job of keeping the presentation engaging, energetic and fun.
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We need more silliness on the web
When the internet began, nobody had the faintest idea what it was going to become. Nobody knew that we were going to be deluged by images of cats, that all the music from across the globe would be available in a heartbeat. Nobody knew that it would change politics, cause connection and isolation. Nobody knew what the internet would become. Looking back, one thing that saddens me somewhat is how the internet has become less silly. There’s far less silliness out there. It’s been replaced by so-much-seriousness. It’s become a serious place first and foremost. We’re doing banking online, file…
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It’s all about the Blocks
Until now, my website was using a Classic WordPress theme. That was all lovely, and the one that I’ve used for years never let me down. But times have been a changin’ in the WordPress theme space, and now all the interesting things are happening with Full Site Editing themes. These are themes which use Blocks to create all-the-things. It’s been fun getting to grips with all this, and I think that you should too!
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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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Don’t just consume, create something too
We’re so used to consuming the content that other people create online, that we’ve forgotten the importance of creating things ourselves. Get creating for yourself.
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Brilliant people
I don’t really know how to encapsulate this – the idea of ‘brilliant people’ seems a little weird. With that said, brilliant people (I think) demonstrate these two qualities: They know that there’s no point in trying to make everyone else realise how fabulous they are. They know that when they make poor decisions, people will forgive them more quickly if they own up to it, if they admit when they’re wrong, and that errors are a necessary part of life, not something you must never admit to. We need more brilliant people in positions of power. Oh, and I…
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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 to me. If you have a podcast RSS feed, then you’re a podcaster. That’s it. An RSS feed (stands for Really Simple Syndication) is a text document which you will likely never see, but it’s what allows your podcast players to ‘see’ the episodes you…
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Nice weekend
Some weekends are better than others. I’m sure that you can agree. This one was exceptionally cool.
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I went to see Hogwarts
I turned up, got my trolley ready, but it would appear that Hogwarts is only open during office hours.
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Wi-Fi always
Many years ago, I was the first person I knew to purchase a Wi-Fi router. I remember people coming over to the house and asking how I could get on the internet without wires plugged into my laptop. Fast forward to 2025 and Wi-Fi, where I live at least, is more or less ubiquitous. The first sentence I so often hear uttered by people when they go to somewhere new is… “do you have Wi-Fi?”, or “can I get the Wi-Fi password?”. We seem to be increasingly unable to cope without access to the intravenous drip of information coming at…
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Early morning
I wrote the other day about the fact that I cannot seem to stay asleep. Turns out that this has some wonderful consequences. One of the best parts of the day is the time in the house when there’s nobody else around. I don’t want to sound like some old curmudgeon, but I suspect you know what I mean. If you’ve got a family, then you’ll know all about the craving that you get to be left alone once in a while – just for a few minutes. Not being able to sleep means that I’m often up hours before…
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No sleep
Over the last 9 months or so, my body has decided that a life long experiment with more or less perfect sleep was a waste of time. It decided that instead of falling off to sleep easily, and then staying asleep reliably for 7-9 hours, what was needed was a new regimen of lying awake and repeated episodes of prolonged waking up. I have told my body that this experiment is just silly, and that the old way of executing sleep was much better. Thus far my body has failed to read the memo. My body appears to regard this…
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I had kids, now I have adults
I have kids, well, I did have kids. Now I have adults. One of the trickiest moments to navigate as a parent is when your kid, the one that you fed, picked up when they fell, soothed when they worried, no longer need you in that way. It’s a strange transition. It’s not unwelcome, in fact it’s what you want. You want them to be independent, to move freely in the world with confidence. But, you think fondly of all the ‘kid moments’, and perhaps even want those moment again, if only briefly. I’ve never had a conversation with anyone,…
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