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.

Listening to the Bikini Kill Peel Session, and it does have Peel’s intros. So good to hear his voice again.

My son is doing university exams in the kitchen.

Such is the world we live in now.

Strange seeing this tweet from the London Cycling Campaign:

Cycling is up all over, apparently. Yet I stopped cycling for fear of putting extra strain on the NHS.

This guy gets it. The start of a 16-tweet thread, and following on from my thoughts the other day.