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📺 Finished 🔗 The Asset a while back and promptly forgot about it - which in itself tells you something.
★★
{Over the past few weeks I seem to have been in a ‘there’s nothing on’ mood. As I scrolled around a few ‘started and stopped’ shows popped up whilst others I’d forgotten all about reminded me that there wasn’t a post.}
📺 Finished watching the 🔗 Second Season of The Four Seasons, having already checked off Season 1 a while back.
★★ is the best I can do. Nice premise, plenty of Vivaldi - but didn’t keep me coming back and sometimes forgot it for months on end. I never saw the Alan Alda movie - but nice touch to see him pop up in the show from time to time … 89 at the time!
{Over the past few weeks I seem to have been in a ‘there’s nothing on’ mood. As I scrolled around a few ‘started and stopped’ shows popped up whilst others I’d forgotten all about reminded me that there wasn’t a post.}
I had seen the clips - and ‘yeah - nah. But last night I watched: 🔗🎥 The Ballad of Wallis Island and for me it falls into one of my personal categories: ‘a little english film’ ★★★★
‘CAVEAT - any film can fall into this category - it’s nothing to do with being ‘English’.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 14, 2026
"Boots on the Ground" by Massive Attack & Tom Waits
Hell yes. Only released a couple of months ago - played on rotation for a while there. It was posted in Crucial a couple of days ago - so electing to use my 'double down' card today.
🖇️ Posted on AlbumWhale back in April
For the life of me can't find the crucial entry again. All to say - go listen.
UPDATE: Literally One Minute Later: Wired Differently
Everything starts 🖇️ here … but it still all ends up elsewhere and maybe you follow me there. For The BlueSky aficionados amongst you - here’s a handy dandy thingy that apparently allows you to easily follow me there. Let me know how you get on.
🖇️ Me back in 2024 - in turn referencing a post back in 2021 .. and guess what it (the use of AI in hiring) is only getting worse.
🔗📼 A short video observation on Substack explaining recent research at Stanford and why you might never be getting any response to your submissions.
📺 Tried to watch 🔗 Widow’s Bay multiple episodes.
Gave it my best shot.
Yeah - nah.
★
.. but clearly I live in a minority … 📽️ Series Two has just been greenlit.
My first ever post referencing Micro.Blog was on 🖇️ Jan 4th/3rd 2017 (4th according to the post, 3rd according to the URL)
My first ever post on Micro.Blog was on 🖇️ Jan 27th 2018
Fully 8 years since I arrived here - and yet this is the first time I had ever heard this.
This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.
🤯 AWESOME @manton
Big moves forward on my blog design yesterday. Still some glitches to resolve - but a whole lot closer to the vision of what I want a post to look like than 24 hours ago.
📺 Finished 🔗 Criminal Record Season 2 last night as the final episode dropped.
It is another repeat formula. Started strong - meandered with a good ending.
Overall better than Season 1 … I think we are in ★★★ land.
🔗 Kev Quirk makes a good point.
Is it so hard to add an “email me” link at the bottom of the post? 😏
Which is why I do exactly that and why 🖇️ I started doing this.
🎛️ My second ever ‘Snicklecast’ was in 🖇️ March, 2019 and in it I defined a Snicklecast - and explained how 30 seconds came to be the maximum length of a Snicklecast.
Last night, the YouTube ‘algo’ served me 🔗📼 this last night … a short video of the street known as The Shambles in York … England.
I set the start of the video at 2 minutes and 5 seconds - just before the narrator referenced the ‘many’ Snickleways just around The Shambles.
The Coffee Yard - referenced in the Snicklecast in 2019 is not one of them. The map shows their relative positions.
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
📺 Finished watching 🔗 Lawmen: Bass Reeves last night.
I like a great Western - but this was only good.
It was made more interesting by the fact it was based on a true story.
★★
📺 Finished 🔗 Your Friends & Neighbors Season 2 last night .. and every bit as good as Season 1. Everything all nearly wrapped up .. with lots of new hanging chads for Series 3 to pickup on. Great job. Well worth ★★★★
🔗 Content that scales. Experiences that convert. | Contentful
You might guess that 🖇️🔎 I’m not a fan of Contentful (and likely what they do if their name is a clue ), but clearly SalesForce is, because they just bought them.
I missed them buying Informatica at the end of 2025 so adding them both to a long list including Slack, Tableau and Mulesoft - which as you all know is software fundamental to all sales.
📺 Finally got a show I could watch from beginning to end - not the best - but compared to some others I have been trying out, 🔗 The Beast in Me is worth ★★★
🔗 Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, “delve,” “tapestry,” “in today’s fast-paced world” - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. “Delve” alone rose about 1,500 percent in scientific abstracts between 2022 and 2024. These words are not wrong. They are tells. A reader sees three of them and stops trusting the page, even when the substance is fine.
💬 Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware 😂 and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLM’s output if they spend time on the problem - something which we don’t typically do - used as we are to our world of ‘instant gratification’.
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Just a couple of months ago 🖇️ I wrote: “but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.
In case you were wondering where 🖇️ this quote came from …. the answer is 🔗🎵📼 Ren - he is just so good. This one is a kind of 🔗📼 Musical Gary
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.Unclear if for the long haul - but while I am rebuilding my blog - before I finish rebuilding my site - before I revamp my wiki, I have been adding occasional comments about the ‘trials and tribulations’ of same.
🖇️🔎 🏗️BlogBuild category is live.
Will retrospectively update over time.