📺 The Chelsea Detective ★★★

The Chelsea Detective

Originally Published: Jun 6th, 2025
Updated: Jan 30th, 2026

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Joe Boyd - So Much More Than A Producer

Ajay quoting Joe Boyd …

🔗 Joe Boyd - linking to a quote via @ajay.

It is a great quote from ‘White Bicycles’. And I know that Wikipedia positions him as a ‘producer’ - but for me is so much more - not the least of which is that he also wrote ‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain’ Those those two masterpieces alone should guarantee him a place in our conversation around musical culture.

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C3 Ain't What It Used To Be - More Rebrands than ~~Facebook~~ Meta.

C3.AI, founded by tech industry veteran Thomas Siebel, is in talks to merge with privately held startup Automation Anywhere being reported by The Information.

Which got me to thinking - C3 is a dot ‘ai’? When did that happen?

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📺 The Last Frontier ★★★

The Last Frontier

First couple of episodes and - meh. Even so much as parked it for a looong while - until the other day …

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📺 The Morning Show ★★★

The Morning Show

 

Originally Published: Dec 17th, 2023
Updated: Jan 19th, 2026

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The Tyranny of the Town Square

We’re self-censoring into vanilla mediocrity, It’s destroying everything - and I do mean everything.


And when they don't, we judge competence, take it personally, make assumptions, or shut down.

Guilty as charged. Going to try harder.


Exploring The New Claude PlugIN For Chrome

Cough - is it in fact ’new'?

Anyway - installed and popped over to a local banking site here in New Zealand and asked Claude ‘what the strategic imperatives of the business at that page are … It built a plan and asked me to approve - I did - no modifications …

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Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.

🔗 The Redacted Smith Transcript

So I 🔗 asked Claude a simple question …

Please only consider this document and no other information. Bottom line - if you were the judge - would you find the defendant guilty or innocent. If guilty - on what counts. For each of those counts - What SHOULD the punishment be, what would the punishment be and what could the punishment be. Please keep succinct.

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Spring Cleaning

Still To Do

On the Blog

  • Categories: Remove category ‘LongForm’ from Film Review Posts

  • CSS: Simple Recent Posts - finish styling

  • CSS: On a phone close up ‘spaces’ on home page

  • CSS: Sort all home page blog styling

  • CSS: Get the bullets back

  • Functionality - Add the ‘Replies’ page back ❓

  • Functionality - Second Archive Page to pull entire Archive

    • going to need JSON/Micro.Blog Help
  • Import My Instagram. It is time.

  • Import The ‘Quotespace’ Blog. (Troubleshooting)

  • Search - resolve PageFind, @sod search, categories, archive et al - way too confusin

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