🔗 When the city told him to hide his boat, he complied — sort of - The Times of London - sorry 🍎 📰 - just couldn’t resist. A fine example of creativity besting bureaucracy.


🎈136/366 Translating A Transcript

German Language Podcast.
In 🍎 Podcasts - you can see the German language transcription.
BUT - you can’t copy the whole thing.
Looks like you can.
But you can’t.

I use software to record meetings.

Ooh I thought.

Play the podcast - and record - at end of podcast one german transcription. Run that through a translator and voila … or so I thought.

I did an experiment - thankfully.

What the software actually seems to have done is taken the german audio and decided as best it could as to what the german audio was saying - as if it was English.

This was the transcription ..

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Back to the drawing board.


🔗 Nervous drivers pay to be whisked across America’s scariest bridge

(Sorry - 🍎📰 )

.. I am of the opinion that if you’re too scared to drive this road - you shouldn’t be licensed for any road. What say you?


🔗Avoid these 3 common phrases—they make you look weak and insecure, experts say (🍎 News) ..

I don’t know .. I am sorry to ask, I just wonder if anyone else thinks this is a croc?

It just tends to be how we talk in England.


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Reading all the various commentaries around DoJ v 🍎, I am finding ‘heads on Threads’ making good arguments.

Walt Mossberg for one.

Ben Thompson for another.

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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I can find a song in 🍎 🎵 Music.
I can play that song in 🍎 Music.
I can add that song to my library in 🍎 Music.
I can add that song to a playlist in 🍎 Music.
AND THEN …
In the playlist in 🍎 Music it is greyed out and I can’t play it.

What is up with that?


Just noticed that in the 🍎 store ‘Threads’ is listed as an ‘Instagram’ app .. not a ‘Meta’ app.


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TIL that 🍎 is not quite as open and sharing with the Windows world as we might believe. YES - you can install an app called iCloud for Windoze on your PC BUT - for it to work - you need to authorize it from any device you have that is part of the 🍎 eco system.

Channeling Henry F - you can use any OS you want to use iCloud - but to authorize it you have to have an iOS device.

Filed In The Fucked Up Bucket … unless I read the tin wrongly?

straight line

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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For months I have had 4 ghost messages in 🍎 Mail. That’s 4 ‘unread messages’ according to the count - but no messages there.

It’s a known problem that has been there through many versions of OSX. In the past, I have always been able to flush it out with various tools like delete the plist, rebuild etc etc.

This time round - nada. I learned to live with it.

Until yesterday.

Out of the blue 13 more got added to the count. They just appeared (if that doesn’t confuse you - because of course the whole point is that they do not actually appear!

So now - a total of seventeen. FFS … Apple. Hello?



🔗 🌺 Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires(🍎 News)

CNN has a very different definition for ‘robust’ than I do.


🖇️ Here and 🔗 here and here … clearly🍎 are not listening to me.

But Apple notes does have smart lists on iOS - why not Photos?

It’s not as if Photos is missing the needed underpinnings.


Anybody asked a young person what they think of 🍎’s announcements?

Or people who need to demonstrate complex visual ideas?

Or people in the training industry?

Or people working on help desks needing to ‘engage remotely’?

Or people in the construction industry?

Or people in healthcare - particularly those in telemedicine?

Or people who frequently take long distance flights?

Or people building ‘entertainment experiences’?

Or people in the film industry?

Or people in shared living spaces who need and want to focus, without distraction?

Or people who increasingly want more and more immersive games?

Or people in research?

Or people who are sports fans who want ‘ringside’ seats watching their favorite teams at affordable prices?


Just popped into the timeline … is there something 🍎y going on?


Smart Photo Folders on iOS please. Have I said that before? I think so. But it bears repeating because I don’t ask🍎 for much!


Apparently if you rename a file like foodog.mov to foodog.mp4 … it just works.

So why convert it?

And if I don’t need to convert it why can’t we agree on the one extension?

And if we can’t do that … then why not have the apps simply play both?

Is this stupid 🍎 💩again?


But no 🍎📺 … gnashes teeth.


A personal micro blog first … my number of pins exceeds my number of tokens.

And yes this is definitely comparing 🍎 and 🍊


I try to type ‘maps’ and it comes out ‘maos’ - which I don’t notice and so search.

Google Maps ( which I don’t even have installed) comes up, but not ‘Maps’ … not even under the ‘Apps’ section.

It’s not just Maps, it’s across the🍎 portfolio.

🍎can fix this, why don’t they?


Just scanned an 🍎article about muscle dysmorphia … As far as I can tell a cat in hell has a better chance of living than me suffering from the disease.