One Man's Notes

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:12:48 +0100

Well, the #artemisII launch was the first time I had a real time news experience on Bluesky the way I did back in the early years of Twitter.

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:14:33 +0100

OK. This is my absolute favourite piece of “special content” for today: Warhammer 40k: the Musical.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:43:21 +0100

This is a cautionary tale of letting ChatGPT do your research and writing for you, if ever there was one.

MattGPT is going to stick.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:34:27 +0100

It looks like OpenAI shuttering Sora might well be all about money. After all, the orange one’s war has spiked energy prices, making AI inference ever more expensive…

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:53:15 +0100

The last week has been a flashback to the days, 25 years ago, when my job involved a lot of waiting for connections in small rural stations…

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:16:18 +0100

This sums up the state of the world.

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:17:46 +0100

If every day was as productive as today has been so far, my life would be a lot less stressful.

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:12:39 +0100

The first ever YouTube video is on display in the V&A Museum in London.

It’s encouraging that we’re seeing museum and archives starting to take digital preservation seriously. As ever, to understand the present, we also need to understand the past.

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:36:53 +0000

Dropped my daughters off at stupid o’clock for a Guides activity day, and rewarding myself with a good start to the day.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:53:19 +0000

There’s an awful lot of Underpants Gnoming of AI in journalism businesses.

Apply AI across the business!
???????
Profit!

Case(s) in point.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:18:07 +0000

This piece on interviewing (and how not to do it) from Om Malik is worth any journalism student (or any early career journalist) reading:

The subject is interesting. The interviewer is credentialed. They agree with each other at length. Nothing is at stake. No one is surprised.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:03:56 +0000

Found a coffee haunt for a while, to hill time while my teen has style applied to her hair.

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:50:24 +0000

Morning from Hove. Having a rare day’s holiday, mainly to be chauffeur for the family.

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:35:10 +0000

I bought this mug for my Mum the best part of 25 years ago. I’ve now owned it for longer than she did; I inherited it 18 years ago. But I always think happy memories of her when I drink from it.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:42:17 +0000

All the pigeons. All of them.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:37:23 +0000

This sounded alarming at first glance:

Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky, the social media platform exclusively announced to WIRED. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

However, it turns out she’s staying on the board as chief innovation officer, and will have a hand in choosing her successor.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:44:32 +0000

The other side of the river vanished yesterday.

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:58:36 +0000

Foggy on the river today.

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:19:44 +0000

Humanity summed up in three photos:

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:27:07 +0000

Interesting analysis of why Apple’s new chips might be more important than they seem.

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:23:26 +0000

Relic of a grim time.

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:39:48 +0000

What will our post-AI world look like?

By post-AI, I don’t mean after AI disappears, I mean after AI becomes so ubiquitous that it no longer remarkable. After all, we’re already in the post-digital era, so what will the post-AI era look like?

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:39:09 +0000

Happy day. My youngest daughter got her first choice of secondary school!

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:43:09 +0000

Matt Bircher:

I’m just really tired of execs, who’s every monetary need is satisfied, go in front of their employees and saying, “things have never been better, and that’s why we need to let a bunch of you go.”

Context? Jack Dorsey laying off ⅓ of his staff, so he can replace them with AI.

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:25:34 +0000

A little piece of history: this is the Royal Oak, the pub in Swallowcliffe now co-owned by James May of Top Gear and The Grand Tour fame.

But this was long before he bought it, back in January 2009, when it was just a run-down looking pub with a sign with aspirations above the rest of the pub.