Microposts
I was listening to The Specials yesterday because of the sad death of Terry Hall, of course.
I was mildly distracted by this text early in that Guardian report:
The pioneering 2 Tone band rose thanks to the support of Joe Strummer,1 who invited them to support the Clash live,2 and of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel.
While not wrong, it ignores the fact that The Specials were bloody brilliant! The piece does make that clear later, to be fair, but it seems slightly the wrong way to weight it.
I also listened to some Fun Boy Three, and they were far better than I remembered, too, both with and without Bananarama.
This is really weird. ‘Do the Dog’ by The Specials, but Apple Music brings up the lyrics of ‘The Last Day of Our Acquaintance’, by Sinead O’Connor.
At the start of this year, I promised myself I’d finish this novel by the end of the year.
I just passed the 70,000-word mark, and I’m on course to do it.
As long as Christmas doesn’t get in the way too much.
I opened a file where I had made some notes for a possible post. It had a link to something I might comment on. I clicked the link. Not only was the post gone, but the whole site; the whole Substack.
I created the file in March.
Own your stuff. Use your own site.
Right. Friday night is upon us. The week’s work is done. Hello.
Why do Netflix, when nothing’s playing, still include The OA in the shows they tout, when the bastards cancelled that wonderful series three years ago?
This is a micropost, sent using the MarsEdit 5 beta’s new ‘Micropost’ feature.
It’s good. Would be even better if it had a character count.
This is disappointing: Apple have removed the delightful page-turn animation from the Books app: Apple’s taken the joy out of its Books app with iOS 16 - The Verge.
Bring it back! Joy! Whimsy!
Saddened to read of the death of Marcus Sedgwick. I don’t know much about him, but I read and enjoyed one of his books two years ago, and subscribed to his mailing list after that. He seemed like a decent guy.
So it goes, I guess.
If you use Stage Manager on Mac, it seems that Command-backtick (⌘+`) behaves differently.
Normally it switches between windows of the active app. With Stage Manager it appears to switch between windows that are active in the current Stage (if that’s the term). Even between apps.
My site is fully switched over to Micro.blog. Everything has changed. Not just the look — I plan to work on that and try to make it more the way I want — but the URL scheme.
There will be breakages. I’ll fix things over time, but let me know about any you see.
I plan to move my site to Micro.blog. I’ve had enough of running servers and juggling components to make Indieweb things work together. I’d also relish the simplicity of making short posts easily.
I have a feast of fiddling about ahead of me to get all my old posts imported.
Tax rises expected from the latest Tory PM. What I can’t figure out is why they have to ‘make up for a £50bn fiscal hole’ caused by Truss, when she was only in for 5 minutes. Her disastrous mini-budget hadn’t been enacted yet.
Well, damn. As the only one in my immediate family never to have had it, I really thought I was going to get away with it.
Also I don’t really like the #NotMyKing hashtag that some republican campaigners have been using. It implies either that someone else should be king, or that there is or could be someone who is ‘my king’. Republicans believe no one should be king. Or queen.
Did anyone else get heavy Cybermen vibes from the royal funeral parade? All the slow marching with a drumbeat on every step? Everyone in time, rocking from side to side…
I no longer follow anyone on Twitter that I haven’t met, but I’m thinking of making an exception for this glorious translator between modern slang and business-speak:
It’s not yet the end of March. I’ve just put the cushions on the outdoor chairs, and put the umbrella up to shade me from the sun as I sit in the garden drinking coffee. I’m about to cut the grass. And I can hear seagulls.