Tales from the Bitface

They were never quite my favourite band, but were always there or thereabouts

In Legend of the Fall: Mark E Smith kept swinging to the end, Dave Simpson sums things up well. 🎵

Maybe this change to Facebook’s feed will take it back towards just showing what family and friends post, as I was asking for back in October.

My guess is it still won’t give us what we want: all the things our Friends post, in reverse-chronological order.

If only there were a special word that described posts presented in that way… or a special protocol, or feed format, that made it easy to share the posts…

I love that, on Touch Bar MacBooks, you can set things up so that you use your fingerprint to authorise sudo in the Terminal.

Happy New Year from firework-drenched London Town.

Liked: In “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Luke Skywalker Finally Becomes Cool | The New Yorker

Luke’s diminished circumstances make for a far richer character, one whom Hamill portrays with mournful energy and depth. For the first time, Hamill’s performance is one of the best parts of a “Star Wars” movie.

I can’t really agree with this article more. Except maybe the bit about the wink.

At the cinema. What for, you say? Oh, nothing special: just Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

You’ll be pleased to know that we got the battery cover off the Fire TV Stick remote. Got Netflix and iPlayer installed, watched Person of Interest.

In the end we just had to be persistent. And firm.

It would be weird if Tony Blair turned out to be the hero of the Brexit hour. But we need all the support we can get.

Just saw this winter’s first flurry of snow. Well, hardly flurry: just a few flakes drifting past the window. And it’s stopped now.

I’m glad Scrivener 3 is out, but could they have picked a worse month for it? The end of November, when a crazy percentage of users are crazily last-minute-typing into the app.

Not a good time to upgrade.

On the other hand, when November is over we can reward ourselves.

Just realising that when the Star Trek: Discovery theme music starts, I now want someone to say “Space: the final frontier…”

Just saw a guy cycling along, no hands, hands in pockets. Geez, get some gloves, mon, you’re making us all terrified.

23,600 words in 15 days. I’m on course to make the 50,000. And to finish my novel. If I do that, I may not go to the full 50,000.

I also finished reading, a year and eleven days after I bought it, Alan Moore’s Jerusalem. Which was almost as much of a challenge.

Turned out the missing dates was a setting of the theme. Dates are back.

I wouldn’t mind if it showed the time, too, but dates are a bare minimum.

The Ramones were the first band I saw when I came to London, and I’ve seen them several other times. I’ve just been listening to a couple of early albums, and they’re still so good. Now sad that I’ll never see them live again.

Go and see bands live when you can.

12,120 words so far. And a sure sign that I’m getting close to finishing this novel: today I started thinking about what I’ll write next. The total word count is 85,700. I didn’t start a new one this month.