Feb 20, 2025 - 5:17pm – Amazon MGM now has creative control over Bond 😬 blot.blog/2025/02/2…
Feb 20, 2025 - 10:25am – Raising a glass of Wild Turkey to Hunter S. Thompson, who died 20 years ago today. The father of …
Feb 16, 2025 - 8:28am – I hate tiny mug handles. elliot.my/262
Feb 14, 2025 - 4:54pm – I’ve written a deep dive into the tech that powers my life. imlefthanded.com/2025/the-…
Feb 10, 2025 - 8:52pm – I like dedicated servers
Jan 31, 2025 - 6:00pm – Being ill in 1643 must have been awful
Jan 31, 2025 - 9:27am – I remember being so excited about the rise of tech. I was sure nerds would create a utopia – a fair, …
Jan 30, 2025 - 11:38pm – 30-year-olds buy a cottage in the country and make it their whole personality. And do you know what? …
Jan 29, 2025 - 11:21am – Test post – please ignore
Jan 29, 2025 - 10:27am – Garth Hudson has died
Jan 10, 2025 - 3:33pm – In 1700’s London, if you received charity from your local parish you were supposed to wear a …
Jan 10, 2025 - 10:00am – In one of his sermons from the 900s, Ælfric of Eynsham warns against over-eating and excess drinking …
Nov 25, 2024 - 7:54am – 50 years ago today Nick Drake died. All three of his albums are melancholic. masterpieces. If this …
Oct 24, 2024 - 9:43pm – I rarely think about how I’m lucky to live in a warm house with running water, have access to the …
Oct 23, 2024 - 1:25pm – AI has officially arrived. My Mum has sent me a AI-generated video on Instagram.
Oct 23, 2024 - 9:36am – I’ve written about Andrew Roberts' diary routine. blot.blog/2024/10/2…
Oct 19, 2024 - 10:02am – Morning all 🍂 UK-folk, don’t forget to get yourself into some woods in the next few weeks — …
Oct 16, 2024 - 6:43am – I envy people who can be productive in a coffee shop or office. My ideal working condition is a a …
Oct 15, 2024 - 3:57pm – "Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut"
Oct 13, 2024 - 9:58pm – I’m getting old. Not because I turned 33 yesterday. But because ‘late nights’ are now defined as …
Oct 13, 2024 - 9:38pm – I love people who use social media like it’s 2009. Yes, please tell me that you’ve brewed some …
Oct 13, 2024 - 9:22pm – my google.searches on my.phone.alwuas end up looking.like.this
Oct 13, 2024 - 9:19pm – Newsletters feel inherently uninteresting. Blogs feel like a digital living room where I can share …
Oct 13, 2024 - 8:50pm – How does my ADHD manifest? Mostly as accidental cardio from running up and down the stairs 20 times …
Oct 13, 2024 - 7:48pm – What files from your Mac do you actually need on your phone?
Oct 13, 2024 - 7:32pm – When you review things on Plex your friends can now see them. I love this. I trust my friend’s …
Oct 13, 2024 - 4:50pm – One of the consistently good sources for interesting websites or news is the Pinboard ‘popular …
Oct 11, 2024 - 9:37am – I’ve decided to write up my favourite 500 songs. I expect to be done in about 3 years.
Oct 10, 2024 - 10:57pm – I love a cutesy nickname. But I draw the line at “doggo”. There’s just something about it that oddly …
Oct 10, 2024 - 10:47pm – I love a door you can open just by pushing it. Sure, the doorknob is busted and it should be fixed. …
Oct 3, 2024 - 11:38am – I’ve written: “On Writing: Short Enough to Finish, Long Enough to Matter” …
Oct 1, 2024 - 8:34am – I’ve written about ADHD and the struggle with internal expectations. …
Sep 27, 2024 - 9:07am – 🍿 Film Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Sep 27, 2024 - 12:04am – I now fall asleep every time I go to the cinema. I regularly struggle to sleep at night in my comfy …
Sep 26, 2024 - 11:58pm – Digital legacy
Sep 26, 2024 - 11:08pm – Find out what the weather was like on the day you were born. bdayweather.com
Sep 24, 2024 - 12:47pm – I’ve written about ADHD and the burden of possessions blot.blog/2024/09/2…
Aug 11, 2024 - 8:28am – Remembering Robin Williams, who left us 10 years ago today. His comedic genius and deep humanity …
Jul 28, 2024 - 9:13pm – — Ashridge
Jul 27, 2024 - 11:22pm – Some photos from my night of Italian food and English theatre.
Jul 27, 2024 - 10:15pm – “Much Ado About Nothing” at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Jul 26, 2024 - 11:30am – Why do tape measures always have a very distinctive smell?
Jul 26, 2024 - 9:40am – There’s a session drummer named Steve Gadd who looks awfully like George Clooney.
Jul 25, 2024 - 6:57am – This ad I saw is from 2007.
Jul 24, 2024 - 9:44am – The restaurant I made a reservation at lets me upload a photo of myself so they can greet me by name …
Jul 24, 2024 - 7:46am – Morning all ☀️ I don’t know about you lot, but my sun is gorgeous this morning.
Jul 22, 2024 - 2:59pm – I’ve written about how media companies keep on underestimating the value of new technologies. …
Jul 18, 2024 - 8:26am – 🍿 Film Review: Air (2023)
Jul 17, 2024 - 7:18am – Front and Back
Jul 16, 2024 - 6:00pm – KFC is the only good value fast food chain left. As long as you ignore the burgers and stick to the …
Jul 15, 2024 - 8:32pm – My fellow English autumn addicts, just how much are you loving this wonderfully rainy July?
Jul 15, 2024 - 3:07pm – If you want to use Dropbox but don’t want to have to pay $10/mo for 2TB you can apparently …
Jul 14, 2024 - 11:33am – Happy Sunday all. The weather is fine and sunny in Hertfordshire today and I’ve been for a …
Jul 14, 2024 - 8:54am – The barista yelled ‘Mi’lady!’ and for a split second I thought I’d …
Jul 13, 2024 - 3:14pm – Hope everyone’s Saturday’s are going well. I’m just back from a spooky July walk …
Jul 13, 2024 - 2:02pm – Modern life feels like death by a thousand £9.99 subscriptions.
Jul 13, 2024 - 7:20am – I mean, doesn’t the word ‘buy’ imply you get to keep it?
Jul 12, 2024 - 1:03pm – Captcha: ‘Select all stairs.’ Brain: ‘What defines a stair?’ Suddenly, …
Jul 9, 2024 - 8:51pm – The longest title for a film that I’ve come across.
Jul 9, 2024 - 2:14pm – The Queen’s final Christmas speech before she died is listed as the “series …
Jul 9, 2024 - 1:42pm – I’m flattered Hozier wants my phone number. But I shouldn’t have to give it to him just …
Jul 9, 2024 - 11:40am – I propose we bring back the 19th century tea dance. It’s so much better than a night club or …
Jul 9, 2024 - 11:30am – “It was illegal until the mid-1960s for bars in New York to sell alcohol to people known to be …
Jul 9, 2024 - 7:41am – I love the wonderful terminology of American music in the 1940’s. Crooner, bobby soxers, …
Jul 8, 2024 - 3:50pm – The original toilet roll patent from 1891 clearly shows it should hang over the roll, not under.
Jul 8, 2024 - 9:01am – The Google Maps iOS app finally has a speedometer on it.
Jul 7, 2024 - 5:43pm – I rate films precisely out of 100. I can tell you exactly what I liked and disliked. But books? …
Jul 7, 2024 - 2:19pm – Sunday so far: a walk, a shop and a burger from a greasy spoon. 🥾🌲🍔 Next: Tour de France and then …
Jul 7, 2024 - 8:39am – I’ve written about the struggle of birthdays in an extrovert-centric world. Ron Swanson gets …
Jul 6, 2024 - 8:17pm – Post England game. The sun has come out and I’m drinking a Leffe 0% beer 🍺☀️ My second ever …
Jul 6, 2024 - 4:36pm – Pre England game walk and food. 🥾🍽️ 📍 National Trust - Ashridge Estate + The Traveller’s Rest
Jul 5, 2024 - 11:18am – I think the concept of ‘cultural appropriation’ is largely nonsense. But some of you …
Jul 5, 2024 - 11:12am – The AI data gold rush meets its match: Cloudflare – imlefthanded.com
Jul 5, 2024 - 11:09am – The absolute disappointment of turning on the Tour de France and discovering it’s a time trial day. …
Jul 5, 2024 - 8:28am – A good day to no longer be under a Tory government 🙅♂️
Jul 5, 2024 - 12:46am – Snacks taste 15% better if I browse their website whilst eating them.
Jul 4, 2024 - 11:30pm – Cloudflare is making it easier to stop AI crawlers scraping your site.
Jul 4, 2024 - 10:38pm – ‘noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store’ It very much is …
Jul 4, 2024 - 7:49pm – 🗳️ Voted. Labour.
Jul 4, 2024 - 4:47pm – What an odd headline in the Times: “No more koala cuddles at sanctuary visited by Putin and …
Jul 4, 2024 - 11:43am – A hip church, a modern poet
Jul 4, 2024 - 12:00am – SoundCloud doesn't let you fast forward without signing in
Jul 3, 2024 - 9:21am – Pipes.digital is a great replacement for Yahoo Pipes. As a keen RSS user I used to love Pipes back …
Jul 3, 2024 - 2:16am – Blogging like Dave Winer: the case for making more of your thoughts public
Jul 2, 2024 - 10:28pm – No one oversells more than a podcast host pushing a VPN. Apparently it will stop people tracking …
Jul 2, 2024 - 9:32pm – I wrote several post bearish on AI today. But it is simply amazing at helping you remember the …
Jul 2, 2024 - 9:21pm – The first ever podcast I listened/watched was Diggnation, back in 2005 (nearly 20 years ago!) If you …
Jul 2, 2024 - 7:20pm – I struggled to find a TV show to watch. Tried “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” and …
Jul 2, 2024 - 5:34pm – A few new posts on my tech blog today, mostly around AI. ‘Why AI can’t replace science’ …
Jun 30, 2024 - 3:44pm – 🍿 Film Review: The Lobster (2015)
Jun 30, 2024 - 7:33am – If you’ve got an adblocker Rotten Tomatoes isn’t letting you in anymore. They’ve had this popup for …
Jun 29, 2024 - 6:39pm – I despise Putin’s Russia and am totally on the 🇺🇦 side of the Russo-Ukrainian War. But I think their …
Jun 29, 2024 - 11:33am – I keep on hearing such mixed things about The Bear season 3, it’s insane. I wouldn’t know. found …
Jun 28, 2024 - 10:00pm – Not the most original artwork by Discovery+ here.
Jun 28, 2024 - 8:50pm – “Brighton FC want to buy Dewsbury Hall from Leicester.” Dewsbury Hall sounds like it should be …
Jun 28, 2024 - 8:04pm – 🍿 Film Review: Wonka (2023)
Jun 27, 2024 - 5:47pm – Me: “Hey ChatGPT, what’s 2 + 2?” ChatGPT: “I’m not going to answer that. Here’s some Python code …
Jun 27, 2024 - 5:11pm – Playing Battlefield 1. Probably my favourite game of all time. The graphics, soundtrack and ‘feel’ …
Jun 27, 2024 - 5:30am – After 20 years, my morning RSS ritual still feels like unwrapping digital gifts. From news to niche …
Jun 26, 2024 - 8:07am – June 26, 2024
Jun 25, 2024 - 6:03pm – A sports score Mac menu bar app inspired by teletext. I haven’t used it, but I love the look.
Jun 25, 2024 - 2:43pm – App subscription pricing in 2024. Yearly: £99 Monthly: £250
Jun 23, 2024 - 2:55pm – 🥾 Ashridge Estate
Jun 23, 2024 - 8:40am – “Excuse my fingers.” No Barbara, I won’t excuse them. Just use some utensils you tramp.
Jun 22, 2024 - 6:28pm – Alban Day 2024
Jun 21, 2024 - 9:43am – June 21st, 2024
Jun 21, 2024 - 8:33am – This morning I saw a man walking along with a ceramic mug in his hand and a beaming smile on his …
Jun 21, 2024 - 8:32am – Glad Apple has created the Journal app. But I would recommend Day One over it. Its a mature product …
Jun 21, 2024 - 1:15am – The moon is so bright tonight it looks like the sun 📷
Jun 20, 2024 - 10:48pm – Watching Noah Kalina’s “Hotline Show” series on YouTube. I can’t tell if it’s good or not. But it’s …
Jun 20, 2024 - 8:31am – June 20th, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 - 4:03pm – Didn’t realise there was a Five Guys with a glorious view of Tower Bridge. Great place to see …
Jun 19, 2024 - 7:53am – June 19th, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 - 7:07am – 🔗 15 rules for blogging - Matt Webb Some of the best and most realistic rules for blogging I’ve …
Jun 19, 2024 - 6:47am – A common British experience is that for every single place you know there’s an identically named …
Jun 18, 2024 - 10:12pm – 🍿 Dumb Money (2024) Adequately put together and fairly fun, but this was merely okay. The whole Wall …
Jun 18, 2024 - 4:34pm – These AI newsletters are essentially identical. I don’t know why I’ve remained …
Jun 18, 2024 - 4:24pm – I’ve reached the point in my digital life where I’ve used enough ‘saving’ …
Jun 18, 2024 - 4:08pm – 🔗 Why I write and why I won’t – Remy Sharp° He says that one of the benefits of sharing your …
Jun 18, 2024 - 3:39pm – A place to write where you just don't care
Jun 18, 2024 - 3:14pm – New word learnt: standfirst. “An introductory paragraph in an article, printed in larger or …
Jun 18, 2024 - 2:55pm – 1988 Flannel
Jun 18, 2024 - 8:52am – Continuing on from yesterdays post about preserving your websites once you die Derek Sivers has the …
Jun 18, 2024 - 7:07am – They were talking about the “agri-food industry” on the radio. But all I could hear was the “angry …
Jun 17, 2024 - 5:10pm – People who put (Save for later) in their posts sure must think highly of what they have to say. I …
Jun 17, 2024 - 5:04pm – fredbenenson on Threads: Apple needs to ban notifications from delivery / service apps that are …
Jun 17, 2024 - 1:58pm – Digital legacy
Jun 17, 2024 - 1:45pm – I’ve written about @vincent’s wonderful Tinylytics.
Jun 17, 2024 - 9:51am – It’s a human rights violation for a company not to have any wi-fi signal in their toilets.
Jun 17, 2024 - 7:59am – “Israel Adds a Medieval Weapon to Its Arsenal in Fight Against Hezbollah"°
Jun 17, 2024 - 12:00am – Small Sites Want Analytics Too
Jun 16, 2024 - 9:12am – Finally getting around to watching the Apple WWDC keynote. Favourite new thing thus far? You can now …
Jun 15, 2024 - 1:17pm – Perfect weather for staying indoors and watching 📺 “Clarkson’s Farm”. As a …
Jun 15, 2024 - 12:03pm – Portugal - 2024
Jun 15, 2024 - 11:26am – Reddit is a much more pleasant place once you start blocking certain words and subreddits.
Jun 15, 2024 - 1:02am – I’ve been rewatching those stunt/dare/prank reality shows of my teenage years, like Jackass …
Jun 14, 2024 - 8:13pm – 🍿 Rewatching “Bullet Train”. It’s a fun popcorn film. 64. And it’s worth watching just for its array …
Jun 14, 2024 - 5:44pm – I still miss app.net techcrunch.com/2017/01/1…
Jun 14, 2024 - 5:42pm – I don’t know what it is but I can never bring myself to use the 😂 emoji.
Jun 14, 2024 - 5:17pm – I am pleased to report that Uber/Deliveroo now lets you add extra patties to your Five Guys order. …
Jun 14, 2024 - 3:53pm – “More Than This” by Roxy Music is a fantastic song (it’s great for testing out new speakers …
Jun 14, 2024 - 3:50pm – Few feelings are more wonderful than the exciting early stages of a new hobby.
Jun 14, 2024 - 3:28pm – 1920’s depression treatment: lots of milk and lots of nothing
Jun 14, 2024 - 3:24pm – 1930’s Protective Foods
Jun 14, 2024 - 3:13pm – I began tagging emails as ‘not important,’ but soon realised I was labelling 95% of them …
Jun 14, 2024 - 7:09am – Cleaning tip for people with ADHD. Make yourself a coffee and then start cleaning. You will move …
Jun 13, 2024 - 7:07pm – I completely misjudged how crowded the train would be and snagged the first available seat, right …
Jun 13, 2024 - 4:55pm – I can eat lunch and lose focus and have an energy crash and struggle to get work done. Or I can skip …
Jun 13, 2024 - 4:49pm – I’ve been enjoying a lot of Japanese ambient music recently. And I just discovered this one and love …
Jun 13, 2024 - 4:47pm – I often accidentally type 2014 instead of 2024. And when I do 2014 as a date doesn’t feel that long …
Jun 12, 2024 - 8:56am – Sorry, I missed that. I was too busy having a crisis over the communal food in the middle of the …
Jun 9, 2024 - 1:52pm – High-end hotels and first class plane tickets are two things I’m always shocked at the price of. …
Jun 7, 2024 - 9:19pm – I’d never been in a proper bookshop nook before. The cosiest part of it is actually how it sounds in …
Jun 7, 2024 - 5:38pm – I’m actually really enjoying summer this year. But I have to admit, I still have autumn and …
Jun 7, 2024 - 5:09pm – This is a test post
Jun 7, 2024 - 4:48pm – I love the illustration on the Pika.page. It makes me feel warm, fuzzy and happy for some reason. I …