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So why has no-one told me about Milk Kan before? God With an iPod, for example, is brilliant. From 2008.
Brett Terpstra is offering the chance to win a copy of the new 60 Mac Tips book and the (updated) old one. All you have to do is register. Sounds great.
Citymapper has AR now. Not sure it’s as useful as the rest of the app, but fun.
Star Trek: Discovery, episode 3, ‘Context is for Kings,’ keeps up the good work, in case you were expecting otherwise. And I forgot to say the other day that, although the IMDB people were negative, there is a very positive review on Tor.com. Much positivity in the comments there. too.
I received one of the stranger pieces of spam or phishing I’ve ever seen. Not because of what it’s trying to do — obviously it wants me to click on a dodgy link — but because of the weird, almost surreal ineptness of the content. Take a look:
Isn’t that its own special thing? Almost poetry, in a disturbed, fractured way.
Gabi Garbutt & The Illuminations at the Monarch in Camden.
Twitter going to 280 characters. Clearly emulating Micro.blog. Congratulations [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton).
I hate how Amazon Prime Video puts adverts in between episodes. And it always seems to be for The Tick.
Watching early Seinfeld. If I’m not very much mistaken he just made instant coffee! Yuck. The past was another world.
This tree looked amazing as the sun caught it. This morning in Croydon.
Put on BBC 6 Music this morning. They played ‘The Sound of the Suburbs.’ Excellent. Still stands up well.
Also that ‘easy moving’ trick only works on the iPad, not the iPhone. In fact the strangest thing about iOS 11 so far is the differences between iPhone and iPad. Like when I swipe up from the bottom on the iPhone, I want to see the Dock.
Ah, wait: they do shake if you hold them long enough. But you can now move them before they start to shake. Nice. Obviously they have to go into shake mode, otherwise how could you delete them?
iOS 11: icons don’t go shaky when you move them any more. I think I’ll miss that.
This post, in which I said:
I just checked, and my current total is 700. I’ll have to go some to catch you up. 🙂
will no doubt have confused everyone. I was involved in a conversation on Micro.blog, and I may have pressed the wrong button and created a new post instead of a reply. I thought it was a bug, but it’s entirely possible it was my fault.
Manton, the creator of Micro.blog, is going to make some UI changes to make that error less likely. And he has also told me how to check where a post is going to go. Which is that, if it shows devilgate.org at the bottom while I’m typing, then it will be posted here. So I’ll watch out for that in the future.
Listening to Joe Strummer’s ‘Willesden to Cricklewood’ for the first time in a while, and realising that’s not very far. When that album came out we didn’t have digital maps in our pockets.
Rainbow over Dalston tonight. Just visible to the left of the Hackney Peace Mural there.
Well, so much for my hoping. I don’t think ‘iPhone X’ is a great name, especially when they’re pronouncing it ‘ten.’ I can only say ‘ex’ in my head when I read it, and the 10/8 dichotomy is just going to confuse people and make the 8s feel old. But if it wasn’t for my recent forced purchase I’d certainly be wanting one.
I hope the rumours are false and Apple don’t call the new iPhone the ‘iPhone X.’ That’s a terrible name, I think. Whichever way you pronounce ‘X’.
A playlist on Apple Music on the Sonos: “Alternative Hits: 1978.” And man is it good. But as they say, the golden age of music is 14…