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Crucial Track 🎵 June 23, 2026
"Vivaldi" by Curved Air
Another one of those cross genre mind blowing tracks that just had me hooked - and never let me go. I wonder if two cellos would ever have happened without Darryl.
🪦 Thank you Clive … safe travels … ‘keep making stars ‘.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 22, 2026
"Phaedra (Steven Wilson 2018 Stereo Remix)" by Tangerine Dream
But these were the guys that had my heart back in the day. Noting that I try to post links as close to the original as I can - this is the exception that proves the rule - a 2028 Remix by Steven Wilson.
Bonus points for the name of the river.
👁️ Let’s see if this works. I’m looking at you Inkwell.
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Crucial Track 🎵 June 21, 2026
"Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (2014 Remaster)" by Elton John
IMO he never did enough instrumentals. And no - not a 'yellow' brick' 'road'.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 20, 2026
"God Speed The Plough" by Stackridge
Part 2 of 2. Not The Korgis.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 19, 2026
"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" by The Korgis
Part 1 of 2 - Not Stackridge.
👁️ Roelof Botha you say … I guess the muskrat is getting the band back together.
And so good night. I’ll just leave this with you all to marinate.
🔗 Daring Fireball: New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations
Security research critics Mysk, posting on Twitter/X (XCancel link), report that the App Store app seemingly sends analytics usage data to Apple with everything you do in the App Store app, including exactly what you type, character-by-character – and that this isn’t for search suggestions, but for analytics. (Via Michael Tsai.)
That doesn’t strike me as a very ‘Appley’ thing - except maybe it is?
🔗 Is it Coming Home? England, the World Cup, and the Long Shadow of 1966
I don’t really pay much attention .. mainly because Football. Except - on the ’66 World Cup itself I do have a back story, which one day I will tell because for different reasons that year is firmly printed in my mind. But I had never really understood the back story to how much that team had running that made 66 so important.
Of course - after that it all went downhill.
🏗️💡Thinking about my photo page …
🔗 ARM Never Made a Chip. Dolby Never Built a Speaker. | I, Cringely
And the scarce thing in AI isn’t intelligence. It’s trust.
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You don’t sell the trustworthy machine. You license the part that makes the machine trustworthy, and you collect a sliver every time it runs.
Not just AI .. Identity and News are two domains I work in where our approach is exactly this. (Early days.)
Crucial Track 🎵 June 18, 2026
"I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Makes me happy. How about you?
If you are British and someone of ‘a certain age’ you are going to enjoy this trip down memory lane.