Still, seems like we’re getting the solar panels up just in time for the hottest day. Or actually, not: watch when the rest of the summer is cloudy.

Damned noisy round here today. At the front we’re getting scaffolding put up, for our solar panels to get installed tomorrow. Out the back it’s all strimmers, drills, other people’s scaffolding, and I don’t know what all. It used to be quiet!

Why are so many Johnny Cash compilations being released at the moment? Seems like I’ve seen about six different ones in the last month or two.

I hope I didn’t fool you with that last title. It had nothing to do with the B-word. That ship has sailed, and the icebergs won’t really loom till the end of the year. It was about email. Go and check it out.

The growth of email newsletters over the last few years has been interesting. But they have a major problem, compared to blogs.

That is, once they’ve been sent out, the author can’t fix typos. Other errors can be corrected in later issues, but typos are out there forever.

God, what is this wintry July we’re having?

On a not-unrelated note to my last, Colin Devroe wrote this last month:

All pop-ups on page visit should be blocked. I don’t care if you’re giving me 100% off, I don’t want to see the pop-up. No, wait, how about only if you’re giving me 100% off is it OK to show me a pop-up. Thanks.

Colin Devroe, Untitled

I agree 100%.

More Options… 👇 Reject All 👇 Save and Exit 👇

That’s how I roll on websites these days. Anyone else?

We’re currently watching Borgen, or the Danish West Wing, as I like to think of it. It’s really good. Just about to start season 3, and slightly sad that this is the last one.

It’s funny when you hear the DJ on BBC 6Music saying, ‘I borrowed some records from the John Peel Archive’; and then you realise it’s Tom Ravenscroft. ‘I got some records from my dad’s collection’ doesn’t sound quite so… distinguished.