🔗 The User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
The Tool - Palantir
A dash says so much.
In that late 80s period Terence is writing about - I was part of Oracle and had email on my DEC terminal for communicating with others in the company around the world. Just gnashing my teeth over why people outside the company couldn’t see the benefit.
Probably because they understood that …
a single computer terminal was likely to set you back around £3,000 - and that’s before you take into account message transmission costs.
… better than I did
When Oracle moved me to California - I even had one of those terminals at home.
Of course - come the PC and laptop revolution they were so slow in adoption it was hard to understand that it was the same company.
It was kind of like how use of mobiles in geographies with bad landline coverage resulted in exponentially faster adoption
🔗 Ranked: The Most Valuable Sports Teams in 2026
Is it wrong of me to suggest that it speaks volumes about America’s challenges when you learn that not only are 19 of the most valuable sports teams in the world American - but that 13 of them are NFL teams.
🔗 Will They Inherit Our Blogs? | Kev Quirk
I’d love it if my sons took up blogging when they’re old enough to (that, and riding motorbikes!). But they’re their own people, and may not want to. If that’s the case, I just hope they’ll agree to keep my waffle online for a little while once I’m gone.
I have been known to think about this myself. Not holding my breath for my work to remain online - then again - who knows?
But - like Kev - pretty sure it won’t be my daughter 🤔
Finally ….
developers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product
Hopefully that will not only be about Design and Interface, but also navigation and simplicity and all else that drives me nuts with too many apps. (Most if I am honest - some I stick with.)
In December 🔗🎙️Lenny talked with Elena Verna - head of growth at Lovable - and on the way through commented that ‘Minimum Viable Product’ is now table stakes - we need to be building Minimum Loveable Products.
Ok - self serving naming - but it is the same kind of thinking.
🔗 National Transport & Toy Museum in Wanaka | Atlas Obscura
It’s impossible to describe everything that’s here: cars spanning the Morris Minor to a Ferrari 400I, Air New Zealand airplanes, almost every type of Lego set, a Barbie section, and vintage items like cast-iron banks and typewriters.
Not sure I understand how typewriters fit into the museums theme … but it continues to amaze how much stuff like this floats around New Zealand.
🔗 UK ETA Strict Enforcement Begins 25 February
When you submit your application - you should always ask
What is the ETA for my ETA.
🔗 Ranking CFO Compensation: The Top Earners
Click through and you read
What a CFO’s Hour is Worth
It’s not the first time I have had cause to highlight the langauge problem … the graphic reveals what they are being paid.
That does NOT equate to what they are worth.
🔗 Scripting News: Tuesday, February 3, 2026
I don’t understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing the output of an app so other apps can use it as input.
I understand - it forms the foundation of one if my new modules in the Engagement Platform we are building.
A Public Service Announcement
🔗 Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys - Schneier on Security
Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year