\n\n![\"On](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bookcover00001.png\")
\n On The Timeline \n \n→\n\n![\"Post](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bookcover00002.png\")
\n Post Detail \n \n→\n\n![\"Category](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bookcover00003.png\")
\n In The Category List \n \n
\n\n \n \n 👁️ You forget all the funny little things you do to get all this stuff going. Eight days later - and we are finally back. I think.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-30T21:41:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/30/you-forget-all-the-funny.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/30/is-that-really-right-wonder.html", "content_html": "👁️ Is that really right? Wonder what war he’s talking about? And how he thinks it will be fought?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/e4f5fd737e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-30T21:22:44+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/30/is-that-really-right-wonder.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/30/only-ever-passed-by-arcadia.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Only ever passed by Arcadia - might have paid more attention had I known it was an outpost of a Chinese spy ring.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-30T18:24:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/30/only-ever-passed-by-arcadia.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/29/its-as-if-mccartney-is.html", "content_html": "👁️🎵 it’s as if McCartney is on a global farewell to Public life tour.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-29T09:39:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/29/its-as-if-mccartney-is.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/28/have-to-say-feeling-rather.html", "content_html": "👁️ Have to say, feeling rather pleased with myself.
\n\n \n \n Let the development and design continue.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-28T15:10:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/28/have-to-say-feeling-rather.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/28/in-a-world-of-eft.html", "content_html": "👁️ In a world of EFT and instant gratification it is interesting to see that Amazon can ship atoms from warehouse to door an order of magnitude faster than a bank can add a deposit from another bank.
\nThat said - any bank can take money out of your account at a speed that leaves light in the dust.
\nSo I guess ‘on average’ the banks think they are doing ok.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-28T12:53:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/28/in-a-world-of-eft.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/28/i-forgot-that-i-had.html", "content_html": "👁️ I forgot that I had two 🎵LastFM accounts - time to merge. Somehow.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-28T11:49:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/28/i-forgot-that-i-had.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/27/til-that-ukiah-is-the.html", "content_html": "👁️ TIL that Ukiah is the palindrome of Haiku … which is why Ukiah has an 🔗 annual Haiku festival.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-27T09:02:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/27/til-that-ukiah-is-the.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/27/before-llms-how-many-writers.html", "content_html": "👁️ Before LLMs how many writers included paragraphs containing two sentence that follow this pattern?
\nThat’s not imagination. That’s reality.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-27T08:33:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/27/before-llms-how-many-writers.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/27/turns-out-when-i-wrote.html", "content_html": "👁️ Turns out when I wrote - “🖇️ We are back” - we weren’t quite. Just learned another little thing about Micro.Blog that I had never completely absorbed. Thank you @sod - we are now back .. at least functionally - css and layout remains a WIP.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-27T07:50:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/27/turns-out-when-i-wrote.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/26/there-arent-that-many-great.html", "content_html": "👁️There aren’t that many great Sax players to begin with - to lose two in a week - on a ratio basis it’s kinda like losing 50 great guitarists in the same time period. 🤯
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-26T20:09:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/26/there-arent-that-many-great.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/26/sitting-in-aotearoa-working-at.html", "content_html": "👁️ Sitting in Aotearoa, working at different times (literally) with people in Europe, the USA, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore it’s become clear to me that just as ‘the sun never set on ‘the empire’ and thus it is ‘always cocktail hour somewhere’ - so too on any given day we’re having a holiday.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-26T10:01:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/26/sitting-in-aotearoa-working-at.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/25/ive-lost-all-frames-of.html", "content_html": "👁️ I’ve lost all frames of reference for comparison purposes between the ‘indie’ RSS readers that have come out in the past 6 months.
\n.. those just off the top of my head - and doesn’t even get to
\n👁️ And we are back - normal service has been resumed.
\nSpecial shout outs to @sod and @AndySylvester who were on the end of email helping me bottom out my problems (I have many) and unknowingly @danielpunkass who I was not in contact with - but is the brains behind Mars Edit - without which some of what Sven and Andy asked of me in problem solving would not have been possible.
\nAnd when I say ‘normal’ - that is with respect to the MB feed.
\nLife is not so normal on the 🖇️ website which is
\nBut all fixable. Right?
\nGood to be home.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:02:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/and-we-are-back-normal.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/just-a-vote-lt-of.html", "content_html": "Just a vote - lt of background work going on on Chez PHI⑊PIN this weekend - sure would be helpful to give me an idea of where this is occuring. Or can I search all the files to find it? Disabling plugins right now.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-96cefe4e.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-23T09:01:30+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/just-a-vote-lt-of.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/aaah-the-irony.html",
"content_html": "Aaah - the irony.
\n![\"Waiting](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-02543c58.png\")
How long should a Rebuild take (per post / Mb?)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-2c1fd0ec.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-23T08:42:27+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/how-long-should-a-rebuild.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/the-only-surprise-is-that.html",
"content_html": "👁️ The only surprise is that it took this long.
\n🔗 Largest North American bitcoin ATM operator, Bitcoin Depot, files for bankruptcy.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-23T08:25:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/the-only-surprise-is-that.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/if-i-understand-this-correctly.html", "content_html": "👁️🤯 If I understand this correctly - Nilay Patel, Peter Kafka, Scott Galloway, Kara Swisher, Preet Bharara, Henry Blodgett, Maria Sharapova, Sean Illing (who all sit in my feeds) - and a whole host of other podcasts are shortly all going to be managed (if not owned) by … James Murdoch?
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T12:43:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/if-i-understand-this-correctly.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/back-in-the-day-stefp.html", "content_html": "👁️ Back in the day @stefp / @stephenpieper.net was a welcome source of posts in my micro.blog stream - and then somehow he wasn’t. Probably moved on. Then I saw him on Crucial Tracks - found his site and added to my Feeds in NetNewsWire and of course he is here - just not as prolific?
\nReminded me of others that seem to have moved on - and yet haven’t or I have just lost them somehow?
\n@pratik @pratik@writing.exchange for example … @pimoore.ca … @smokey … @jacob and of course @SimonWoods - interesting to see all their handles appear in the MB list.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T10:57:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/back-in-the-day-stefp.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/i-rarely-get-guestbook-posts.html", "content_html": "👁️ I rarely get guestbook posts - and then 4 this week. All of them spam. Not good.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-21T10:42:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/i-rarely-get-guestbook-posts.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/funny-how-suddenly-things-just.html", "content_html": "Funny👁️ how suddenly things just come to mind. Take 🔗🎵 Russ Conway - not thought of him for decades - my mum was a fan (which is why I even know his name), but I still have no idea how he suddenly cropped up in my brain.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T11:46:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/funny-how-suddenly-things-just.html", "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/i-occasionally-suffer-from-nighttime.html", "content_html": "👁️ I occasionally suffer from night-time foot cramps - excruciating at the best of times.
\nYesterday I threw my back out.
\nWord to the wise: avoid a middle-of-the-night foot cramp whilst nursing a bad back.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-20T10:17:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/i-occasionally-suffer-from-nighttime.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/19/if-you-live-in-new.html", "content_html": "👁️ If you live in New Zealand .. try this game ..
\nTalk to your Bolt/Uber driver and discover how many qualifications they have. Note how often they are allowed IN to New Zealand, but once in - somehow they aren’t ‘qualified enough’.
\nIsolated story? Not really.
\nI see a pattern.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-19T15:51:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/19/if-you-live-in-new.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/ummmm.html", "content_html": "👁️ Ummmm❓
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-89f95b34.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-18T12:58:14+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/ummmm.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/16/problem-of-the-day-why.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Problem of the day .. why is it so hard for Paste to keep it all in synch❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-16T07:56:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/16/problem-of-the-day-why.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/14/sometimes-its-like-wackamole.html", "content_html": "👁️ Sometimes it’s like wack-a-mole.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-14T17:11:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/14/sometimes-its-like-wackamole.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/spotted-on-linkedin-wouldnt-battery.html", "content_html": "👁️ Spotted on LinkedIN.
\nWouldn’t ‘Battery As A Service’ be called ‘Electricity’ outside of the Bay Area?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-dbcb50f7.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-13T15:13:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/13/spotted-on-linkedin-wouldnt-battery.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/thinking-that-we-need-a.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Thinking that we need a different collective noun. From here on in they will known as Feral Agencies.
\n🔗 How Not to Respond to Political Violence
\nI dunno Peggy.
\n👁️ Doesn’t really stack up for this bear.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-12T10:06:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/how-not-to-respond-to.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/nuff-said.html", "content_html": "👁️ ‘Nuff Said.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3243.png\")
\n\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-12T09:34:26+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/nuff-said.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/10/software-companies-are-brilliant-at.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Software companies are brilliant at building smarter mousetraps; they’re terrible at asking
👁️ Ruminating … I wonder if there might be a way of better revealing the title-less posts in SourceFeed @terrygodier
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/4837d22ea8.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-09T08:18:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/ruminating-i-wonder-if-there.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/how-often-do-people-rebuild.html",
"content_html": "👁️ How often do people rebuild their site and if they do - why? What goes on to necessitate a rebuild to begin with - as opposed to just flushing the cache? #AskingForAFriend
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T17:11:46+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/how-often-do-people-rebuild.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/aggregate-curate-syndicate-sourcefeed-and.html", "content_html": "👁️ Aggregate - Curate - Syndicate
\nSourceFeed and Crucial Tracks recently added to feed this blog, but Crucial Tracks doesn’t seem to populate until I get into the MB dashboard and refresh the blog. All other feeds including SourceFeed repost automatically.
\nIntended? Or me missing a trick somewhere?
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-08T09:34:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/aggregate-curate-syndicate-sourcefeed-and.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/looks-like-the-weather-forecast.html", "content_html": "👁️ Looks like the weather forecast on Monday was right.
\n👁️ TIL a lot about something I did not know that I didn’t know and didn’t know that I needed to know.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-07T18:38:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/07/til-a-lot-about-something.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/07/the-process-continues.html", "content_html": "👁️ The process continues.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-07T16:09:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/07/the-process-continues.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/07/i-wonder-if-crucialtracks-rss.html", "content_html": "👁️ I wonder if CrucialTracks RSS publishing mechanism is down❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-07T15:21:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/07/i-wonder-if-crucialtracks-rss.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/07/clearly-a-while-since-i.html", "content_html": "👁️ Clearly a while since I was here - bus stop not just gone - disappeared❗️
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-07T12:03:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/07/clearly-a-while-since-i.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/are-you-allowed-to-quote.html", "content_html": "👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓
\n\n\nIt’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.
\n
💬 Me
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-06T07:49:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/are-you-allowed-to-quote.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/consider-the-source-life-isnt.html", "content_html": "👁️ Consider the source. Life isn’t what it used to be.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/c9ae7c4012.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-05T18:58:27+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/consider-the-source-life-isnt.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/who-knows-what-the-truth.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Who knows what the truth is in the ‘he said she said’ war of words - but how sad is it that I even have to write that.
\nYes of course we never really know - except today we do.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/d1e24ad60a.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-05T18:47:04+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/who-knows-what-the-truth.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/03/theres-a-lot-to-styling.html",
"content_html": "👁️ There’s a lot to styling even a few pages isn’t there?😖
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-03T17:38:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/theres-a-lot-to-styling.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/03/two-new-sources-added-to.html", "content_html": "👁️ Two new sources added to my ‘central aggregator’ today .. restyling and leaning as I go.
\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-e413cb18.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-05-03T15:25:11+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/two-new-sources-added-to.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/03/in-obsidian-there-is-a.html",
"content_html": "In Obsidian there is a plugin called ‘Style Setting’ written by ‘@mgmeyers’. I wonder if a similar plug in could be developed and worked on MicroBlog?
\nIt’s a user friendly mechanism for people to talk to the custom CSS using simple form changes that get applied to the CSS?
\n… just in case there is anyone out there with some spare time on their hands @AndySylvester 😉 … and I am not sure whether this would be before or after creating a presentation layer for Feedland et al so I can have it look like the rest of my sites.
\nTo me - before would make most sense - and the first use case could be interfacing just to the Feedland CSS?
\nFiled in ‘A Boy Can Dream Can’t He’?
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-03T10:35:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/in-obsidian-there-is-a.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Tech"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/02/you-dont-want-to-rebuild.html", "content_html": "👁️ You don’t want to rebuild your site too often when it is on the ‘larger’ side. Yet to unpack the specifics behind ‘larger’.
\n", "date_published": "2026-05-02T11:21:20+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/02/you-dont-want-to-rebuild.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/its-decided-farewell-reeder-hello.html", "content_html": "👁️ Its decided. Farewell Reeder … Hello (again) NetNewsWire old friend.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T08:39:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/its-decided-farewell-reeder-hello.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/people-first-all-else-follows.html", "content_html": "💬 👁️🏢 People First - All Else Follows.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3214.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-30T08:10:38+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/people-first-all-else-follows.html",
"tags": ["? PeopleFirst","? Quotes","? Asides","? Organisations"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/colorless-shapeless-orb-gapingvoid-we.html",
"content_html": "🔗 Colorless, Shapeless Orb - Gapingvoid
\n\n\nWe call it The Void. It’s where most work lives now. Transactional. Comfortable. Manageable. Forgettable. If you’ve ever wondered why our name is so weird, that’s it. We made it our business to kill it.
\n
👁️ Yes. Seperately - love their new home page.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/99994e3b56.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-30T08:07:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/colorless-shapeless-orb-gapingvoid-we.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/rss-really-seems-to-be.html",
"content_html": "👁️ RSS really seems to be coming back into vogue.
\n🔗 More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS: …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T08:04:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/rss-really-seems-to-be.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/30/taco-trivia-after-avoiding-trivia.html", "content_html": "when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.
\n
👁️ Taco Trivia …
\n🔗 After avoiding trivia for a long time, we stumbled into the wrong (right?) bar
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-30T07:50:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/30/taco-trivia-after-avoiding-trivia.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/29/you-have-to-click-through.html", "content_html": "👁️😂 You have to click through for the full story …
\n🔗 Turing Test 2.0 - Existential Comics
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/0a646814e3.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-29T13:54:12+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/29/you-have-to-click-through.html",
"tags": ["? Links",":'D Humour","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/29/a-new-to-me-error.html",
"content_html": "👁️ A new - to me - error on my Micro.blog timeline …
\n\nStill seems to work though.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/4973bc3876.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-29T12:01:57+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/29/a-new-to-me-error.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/29/so-pleased-not-to-be.html",
"content_html": "👁️ So pleased not to be an American. My bold…
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-29T11:58:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/29/so-pleased-not-to-be.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/28/story-of-my-life-just.html", "content_html": "The new design shows the president’s image superimposed over the Declaration of Independence and an American flag and features Trump’s signature in gold lettering.
\n
👁️ Story of my life:
\n\n\nJust waiting for the cache to catch up.
\n
Seems to be worse on Micro.Blog than anywhere else - and yes I have a bigger than average site and yes this version of Hugo moves like molasses - but when I move to upgrade to a better version - my site breaks - #BecausePlugIns - how to work out which? Uninstall them all and reintroduce one by one.
\nMy plugin list:
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-1fbb1ce3.png\")
\n… so no.
\nThen again - there is also this …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-46ef1dcb.png\")
\nWhat IS a boy to do?
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-28T10:59:32+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/28/story-of-my-life-just.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/stunning-art-navid-baratys-atmospheric.html", "content_html": "👁️ Stunning art.
\n🔗 Navid Baraty’s Atmospheric Photos Explore Contrasting Scales of Time - Colossal
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/80d0121a53.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-26T11:56:44+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/stunning-art-navid-baratys-atmospheric.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/interesting-view-of-tenure-and.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question …\n🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:56:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/interesting-view-of-tenure-and.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/whilst-years-is-certainly-over.html", "content_html": "👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.
\n\n\nTim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.
\n
🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus
\n(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:55:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/whilst-years-is-certainly-over.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/reality-the-path-to-success.html", "content_html": "👁️ Reality …
\n🔗 The Path to Success Isn’t a Straight Line.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f2427a60a5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-26T10:46:52+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/reality-the-path-to-success.html",
"tags": ["? Links","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/gotta-say-i-am-liking.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Gotta say - I am liking this thought …
\n\nThanks for the link @numericcitizen
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:44:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/gotta-say-i-am-liking.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/i-think-you-can-learn.html", "content_html": "👁️ I think you can learn it at school. And at home. With your friends. It just isn’t really ’taught’.
\n\n\n“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”
\n
💬 Warren Buffet
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:39:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/i-think-you-can-learn.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/xitter-seems-to-be-the.html", "content_html": "👁️’ Xitter’ seems to be the new name in town which makes sense in writing … but how do you pronounce it❓
\nEasy.
\n‘X’ is pronounced ‘Sh’
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:37:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/xitter-seems-to-be-the.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/if-you-are-an-organisation.html", "content_html": "👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.
\n🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-26T10:35:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/if-you-are-an-organisation.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/24/wework-the-gift-that-keeps.html", "content_html": "RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.
\n
👁️ WeWork - the gift that keeps giving.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/95864ac0dd.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-24T10:27:31+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/24/wework-the-gift-that-keeps.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/oh-now-that-i-did.html",
"content_html": "👁️ OH … now that I did not expect. But at least I understand what has happened.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-c280a7e7.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-23T14:43:15+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/oh-now-that-i-did.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/experiment-malus-clean-room-as.html",
"content_html": "👁️🚧 Experiment.
\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T14:39:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/experiment-malus-clean-room-as.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides","? WIP","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/this-sentence-was-written-by.html", "content_html": "👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
\nA parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
\n
👁️
\n\n\n“This sentence was written by a human.”
\n
That’s not a lie. That’s a fact.
\nThis post is rare because line 2 is usually a clear indication that an LLM has been involved in the post creation. In this case that is not true.
\n‘Clear indication’ is not the same as ‘absolute’.
\nLikewise the em dash.
\nNo, the use of an em dash does not mean that the writing was generated by the LLM - but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them since LLMs turned up - and are used a lot by people who often include in their posts something like … “that’s not a coincidence - that’s a pattern”.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T12:24:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/this-sentence-was-written-by.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/malus-clean-room-as-a.html", "content_html": "👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
\nA parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T12:19:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/malus-clean-room-as-a.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/its-the-rd-april-and.html", "content_html": "👁️ It’s the 23rd April and it needs to be said …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/cd9b35ada7.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-23T11:38:47+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/its-the-rd-april-and.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/the-hugo-thing-started-to.html",
"content_html": "👁️ The Hugo thing started to make me wonder a few weeks ago .. and now the social cards .. with @sod pointing out to me that my theme has been untouched for four years.
\nIs it time to bite the bullet?
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T11:23:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/the-hugo-thing-started-to.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/no-rss-on-a-site.html", "content_html": "👁️❓ No RSS on a site.
\nGood or Bad … for the reader?
\nGood or Bad … for the author?
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-23T06:45:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/no-rss-on-a-site.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/json-files-are-finicky-mothers.html", "content_html": "👁️ JSON files are finicky mothers aren’t they.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-22T18:23:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/json-files-are-finicky-mothers.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/a-couple-of-youtube-shorts.html", "content_html": "👁️ A couple of YouTube Shorts
\n\n📼🔗 A VERY different kind of drum solo 🤯 - take that 📼🔗 El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🤯.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-22T13:49:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/a-couple-of-youtube-shorts.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Videos",":'D Humour","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/i-remember-when-the-people.html", "content_html": "👁️ I remember when the ‘people line item’ was the largest on a typical PandL.
\nAI … “Hold my beer” …
\n🔗 Charted: Compute Costs More Than Talent in AI
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-22T12:57:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/i-remember-when-the-people.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/i-just-rediscovered-but-cannot.html", "content_html": "👁️💬 I just rediscovered - but cannot recall where I found them … John Naughton❓Alan Jacobs❓When I find out - will come back and adjust.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/d5312132d9.jpg\")
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/5865860b36.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-20T09:26:38+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/i-just-rediscovered-but-cannot.html",
"tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/091443.html",
"content_html": "👁️💬
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3200.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-20T09:14:43+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/091443.html",
"tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/i-love-private-eye.html",
"content_html": "👁️ I love Private Eye.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/71d9aa3c4d.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-20T08:56:46+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/i-love-private-eye.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/the-only-surprise-here-is.html",
"content_html": "👁️ The only surprise here is that someone, somewhere is taking this on.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ded2f3c62f.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-20T08:55:54+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/the-only-surprise-here-is.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/hunter-adds-to-my-growing.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.
\nUsing AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts
\nUsing ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t
\n\n\nLinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.
\n
💬 Hunter Walk
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-19T09:56:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/hunter-adds-to-my-growing.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/the-true-test-of-happiness.html", "content_html": "👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
\n\n\nThe true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
\n
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:12:23+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/the-true-test-of-happiness.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/16/let-this-be-a-warning.html", "content_html": "👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
\n🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
\n\n\nWhat happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
\n
💬 Ben Werdmuller
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-16T17:03:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/16/let-this-be-a-warning.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/16/it-dawned-on-me-last.html", "content_html": "👁️ It dawned on me last night that Tяump clearly hasn’t watched the TV series Tehran …
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-16T16:56:49+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/16/it-dawned-on-me-last.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/15/ranked-the-most-productive-countries.html", "content_html": "👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
\n🔗 Ranked: The Most Productive Countries in the World
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-15T15:39:56+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/15/ranked-the-most-productive-countries.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/14/i-think-this-is-pretty.html", "content_html": "👁️ I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
\n🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-04-14T17:34:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/14/i-think-this-is-pretty.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/14/do-people-still-use-nb.html", "content_html": "There’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level…\nThey’re the 4D chess crowd.
\n
👁️ Do people still use ‘N.B.’ and if not - what has replaced it❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-14T12:25:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/14/do-people-still-use-nb.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/14/slow-news-day-or-just.html", "content_html": "👁️ slow news day = or just repetitive news day❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-14T12:17:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/14/slow-news-day-or-just.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/13/pope-leo-is-weak-on.html", "content_html": "👁️ Pots and kettles spring to mind …
\n\n\nPope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.
\n
💬 you know who …
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-13T20:22:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/13/pope-leo-is-weak-on.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/12/not-one-not-two-not.html", "content_html": "👁️🤯 Not one - not two - not even three - but FOUR - count them - FOUR definitions of .card-photo in the CSS fighting with each other - and none of them are winning. No wonder the file is so big …😬
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T13:57:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/12/not-one-not-two-not.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/12/cyclone-what-cyclone.html", "content_html": "👁️ Cyclone ❓ .. what Cyclone❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T08:43:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/12/cyclone-what-cyclone.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/09/problem-solved.html", "content_html": "👁️ Problem Solved …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ab56c287c6.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-04-09T12:34:26+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/problem-solved.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/08/pretty-out-therek-position-for.html",
"content_html": "👁️ Pretty ‘out there' position for the UK govt to take on Kanye .. wonder when they’ll ban the rest of them❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-08T06:16:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/08/pretty-out-therek-position-for.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/03/having-had-a-flipboard-account.html", "content_html": "Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-03T13:56:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/03/having-had-a-flipboard-account.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/18/delete-the-entire-public-directory.html", "content_html": "delete the entire public directory from the web - and upload this new directory - hell … why not❓
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-18T14:35:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/18/delete-the-entire-public-directory.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/tumblr-is-counting-apparently-i.html", "content_html": "Tumblr is counting. Apparently.
\nI am pretty sure that around 0.01% of those actually originated on Tumblr.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/07294af662.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-02-06T14:52:28+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/tumblr-is-counting-apparently-i.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/06/suddenly-my-marked-drafts-action.html",
"content_html": "Suddenly my ‘Marked’ Drafts action isn’t working. No time to sort. Deleted.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-06T13:30:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/06/suddenly-my-marked-drafts-action.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/05/thanks-to-ai-the-cost.html", "content_html": "Thanks to AI, the cost of code has definitely reduced recently. By a lot.
\nBut people don’t buy code. They buy solutions. Code is never the solution.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-05T11:37:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/05/thanks-to-ai-the-cost.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Organisations"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/when-emu-rambles-on-about.html", "content_html": "When Emu rambles on about his SciFi vision for
Dying to watch a show or movie sometime with a teen girl who isn’t constantly frowning, angry and just pissed off with the world - let alone her family.
\nThis one’s called Homeland. The kid is particularly annoying.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T18:27:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/dying-to-watch-a-show.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/02/what-a-wonderful-start-to.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/6946aacfcc.jpg\")
Trump carried the district by 17 points in 2024\nRehmet took 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent.
\n", "date_published": "2026-02-02T06:37:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/02/what-a-wonderful-start-to.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/01/stunning-totally-unsurprising-older-females.html", "content_html": "Stunning? Totally unsurprising.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2026-02-01T08:38:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/01/stunning-totally-unsurprising-older-females.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/31/take-care-out-there.html", "content_html": "older females over the age of 55, made up 72 percent of the opening-day audience. And a stunning 78 percent of all ticket buyers were 55 and older.
\n
Take care out there.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/png-image.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-31T12:20:55+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/31/take-care-out-there.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/30/its-especially-popular-among-developers.html",
"content_html": "\n\nIt’s especially popular among developers and tech-savvy users like you
\n
… clearly Perplexity does not know me.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-30T15:53:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/30/its-especially-popular-among-developers.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/30/dear-no-just-no.html", "content_html": "Dear 🍎
\nNo.
\nJust No.
\n![\"CleanShot](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/cleanshot-2026-01-30-at-12.26.382x.png\" "\\"CleanShot")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-30T11:27:40+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/30/dear-no-just-no.html",
"tags": ["? Asides","? Apple"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/29/all-i-did-was-click.html",
"content_html": "All I did was click on the unsubscribe link.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/cleanshot-2026-01-29-at-07.54.192x.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-29T09:09:29+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/29/all-i-did-was-click.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/28/apparently-the-th-is-national.html",
"content_html": "Apparently The 28th is ‘National Privacy Day’ in the USA.
\nMarvy.
\nSpeaks volumes to the other 364 days in the year.
\nI am guessing a ‘free for all’?
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-28T14:29:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/28/apparently-the-th-is-national.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/when-nz-fully-embraces-ai.html", "content_html": "When NZ fully embraces AI and launches yet another government department to ‘help’ …. two pieces of advice.
\n1] Don’t (but they rarely never call be for advice .. so not holding my breath.)
2] Get some good marketing advice on the name.
\n—-
\nWon’t be a good look.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-27T06:37:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/when-nz-fully-embraces-ai.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/and-what-to-do-about.html", "content_html": "… and what to do about it.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f7bc5b6d39.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-26T21:28:35+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/and-what-to-do-about.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/sorry-no-matter-what-the.html",
"content_html": "Sorry - No matter what the pundits tell you - ‘The Future’ is not here.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:15:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/sorry-no-matter-what-the.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/25/113551.html", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/107011825d.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-25T10:35:51+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/25/113551.html",
"tags": ["? Quotes","Quotewise","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/21/if-the-world-cup-in.html",
"content_html": "If the World Cup in the US is not boycotted by every other country in the world - I will add them to my enabler list.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-21T22:10:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/21/if-the-world-cup-in.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/17/sarah-jessica-parker-is-an.html", "content_html": "Sarah Jessica Parker is an outlier.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3044.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2026-01-17T14:23:13+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/17/sarah-jessica-parker-is-an.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/09/would-it-be-an-easy.html",
"content_html": "Would it be
\n1 an easy change and
\n2 a sensible change that …
\n… when I am in micro.blog .. and replying .. I have the ability to allow that reply to federate out to my connected networks?
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-09T07:00:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/09/would-it-be-an-easy.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/bulk-editing-of-categories-would.html", "content_html": "Bulk Editing of Categories would be sooooo useful - Scripts and APIs seem to be hit and miss.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T13:20:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/05/bulk-editing-of-categories-would.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/mars-edit-suddenly-decides-that.html", "content_html": "Mars Edit suddenly decides that there is a endpoint error on my Micro Blog API - but wondering if there is something more - because once again posts are taking ‘forever’ to reach the web page.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T09:49:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/05/mars-edit-suddenly-decides-that.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/05/is-this-thing-on-he.html", "content_html": "Is this thing on - he casually wonders ….
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-05T08:53:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/05/is-this-thing-on-he.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/round-about-minute-on-the.html", "content_html": "Round about minute 19 on the ‘Rest is Politics’ and talking about Chavez and Maduro … they could substitute Tяump for Chavez … the words make even more sense.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T13:28:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/round-about-minute-on-the.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/04/chatting-to-claude-its-response.html", "content_html": "Chatting to Claude - it’s response to a suggestion I made ..
\n\n\nGood instinct! Micro.blog sync can be slow.
\n
Not wrong.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-04T13:13:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/04/chatting-to-claude-its-response.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/12/22/its-more-than-years-since.html", "content_html": "It’s 2025 - more than 50 years since The British Tabloids dubbed Andrew (formally known as Prince) ‘Randy Andy’. I continue to be surprised that people are surprised at how this all turned out.
\n", "date_published": "2025-12-22T11:37:03+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/22/its-more-than-years-since.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/27/spotted-on-the-web-this.html", "content_html": "Spotted on the web this morning - @dave .. I think ….
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-11-27T08:46:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/27/spotted-on-the-web-this.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/26/a-reminder-from-seth-the.html", "content_html": "It’s not decentralized, it’s uncentralized. Important distinction.
\n
A reminder from Seth
\nThe Hotel California (and subscriptions)
\n\n\nThe seduction is clear. They’re sending a message: If you want us to bring you eyeballs, move in. Don’t link out.
\n
and …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2025-11-26T06:48:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/26/a-reminder-from-seth-the.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/24/you-know-how-they-keep.html", "content_html": "The best way to read blogs hasn’t changed in twenty years. RSS. It’s free and easy and it just works. It’s the most efficient way to get the information you’re looking for, and it’s under your control.
\n
👁️ You know how they keep leaving New Zealand off world maps? Now we are disappearing from global surveys❗️Were NZ to be included in this survey, I believe they would surely be top right oo this graphic.
\n🔗 Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?
\n(No - not absolute - it is ‘per capita’)
\n", "date_published": "2025-11-24T08:13:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/24/you-know-how-they-keep.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/19/the-only-surprising-thing-about.html", "content_html": "The only surprising thing about Jimmy and Disney is the world’s surprise at Disney doing what Disney did.
\nIt’s what everyone does people - they pay, they mollify and they lick.
\n", "date_published": "2025-09-19T07:34:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/19/the-only-surprising-thing-about.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/02/i-have-been-trying-to.html", "content_html": "I have been trying to work out why the posts I thought I had posted weren’t posted. It seems that somehow my settings got changed and I now have a backlog of posts on my test blog. #Annoying
\nJust going to repost here.
\n", "date_published": "2025-07-02T13:26:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/02/i-have-been-trying-to.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/05/the-tiktoktincan-rolls-again.html", "content_html": "The ‘TikTokTinCan’ Rolls Again
\n", "date_published": "2025-05-05T23:18:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/05/the-tiktoktincan-rolls-again.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/12/dear-apple-those-tab-things.html", "content_html": "Dear Apple - those tab things you finally moved into Apple Mail - Primary, Transactions, Updates, Promotions.
\nOne more please, Newsletters.
\nThey don’t fit into any of the above.
\nAt a pinch .. updates - but really - NO.
\n", "date_published": "2025-04-12T11:03:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/12/dear-apple-those-tab-things.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/31/in-a-march-company-meeting.html", "content_html": "\n\nIn a March 20 company meeting, Musk indicated that he was dumbfounded by the attacks and said the vandals should “stop acting psycho.”
\n
![\"psycho\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/fa86819e4a.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2025-03-31T12:36:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/31/in-a-march-company-meeting.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/27/introducing-what-a-hegseth-as.html",
"content_html": "Introducing …
\n\n\nwhat a hegseth
\n
… as a new phrase for our global lexicon - I will let y’all decide what it means.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-27T19:02:53+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/27/introducing-what-a-hegseth-as.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/27/finally-tried-the-medias-podcast.html", "content_html": "Finally tried the MeidasTouch podcast since it seems to suddenly be ‘up there’ in the podcast league … sure it’s for a lot of people - but boy .. a bit more in the enthusiasm sector of speech delivery would really help.
\n", "date_published": "2025-03-27T13:25:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/27/finally-tried-the-medias-podcast.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/24/people-keep-on-talking-about.html", "content_html": "People keep on talking about ‘the felon’ … and I keep reading ‘elon’ can’t wait to read more about
\nSomewhere there were a couple of complaints about the back arrow (top left) in the iOS app needing adjustment. @manton mentioned he had made changes which may have caused the problem. Adding myself to the ‘can we fix it please list’ .. particularly bad on the iPad mini.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-25T02:54:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/24/somewhere-there-were-a-couple.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/23/finally-cracked-the-big-yellow.html", "content_html": "Finally cracked the big yellow header at the top of my blog that ‘randomly appeared’ about a month ago. Turns out that uninstalling the ‘holiday lights’ wasn’t sufficient - I needed to also delete row after row of ‘invisible bullets’. #Fixed.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-24T09:47:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/23/finally-cracked-the-big-yellow.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/been-a-while-since-i.html", "content_html": "Been a while since I posted any film reviews.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T09:55:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/been-a-while-since-i.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/11/ive-settled-on-the-correct.html", "content_html": "I’ve settled on the correct spelling
\nGOUGE-l
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-12T06:32:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/11/ive-settled-on-the-correct.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/09/do-i-care-no-not.html", "content_html": "Do I care? No. Not at all.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-10T10:00:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/09/do-i-care-no-not.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/the-fact-that-any-democrat.html", "content_html": "The fact that there is a Democrat voting against a t-Rump surrogate should not be news.
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T12:36:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/the-fact-that-any-democrat.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/i-am-thinking-that-it.html", "content_html": "I am thinking that it might be time to bid farewell to Hitchens and move on to a new theme. Sorely tempted by a theme that isn’t even out there yet!
\nYou know what I’m talking about @mtt
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T11:09:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/i-am-thinking-that-it.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/31/so-thats-on-and-thats.html", "content_html": "So that’s 25% on 🌯 🥑 🌶️ 🍹 🥃 🫔 🌮 🪅 and that’s just 🇲🇽
\n", "date_published": "2025-02-01T08:45:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/31/so-thats-on-and-thats.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/02/dear-joe-you.html", "content_html": "🎈184/366 Dear Joe .. you have absolute immunity.
\n", "date_published": "2024-07-02T07:41:18+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/02/dear-joe-you.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/29/if-your-strategy.html", "content_html": "🎈181/366 If your strategy doesn’t fit on one page, do you have a strategy?
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-29T17:25:19+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/29/if-your-strategy.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/24/found-on-a.html", "content_html": "Found on a US Govt Site
\nOnline passport renewal
\nIf you need to renew your US passport there is a pilot program to renew it online, but you’ll need 8 weeks to process it. Mailing it in is currently faster.
\nYour Tax Dollars At Work - Leading The Way In Global Efficiency.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-24T15:29:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/24/found-on-a.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/18/the-gops-vision.html", "content_html": "🔗 The GOP’s Vision of an Authoritarian America Is…Coming True.
\nUmair Haque nearly a year ago. He seemed a little extreme back then.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-18T11:47:10+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/18/the-gops-vision.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/17/i-was-very.html", "content_html": "I was very happy to learn that the ferry goes to the mainland every hour and that the bus to the ferry also goes every hour.
\nI was not happy to learn that the bus arrives at the ferry around 3 minutes after the ferry leaves.
\nFiled in the ‘stuff you can’t make up’ bucket.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-17T06:50:13+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/17/i-was-very.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/16/listening-to-scott.html", "content_html": "Listening to Scott Galloway on the show with Kara .. essentially defending ‘work based’ sexual predators. Yes he qualifies … but no.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-16T15:05:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/listening-to-scott.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/15/a-six-three.html", "content_html": "A six - three SCOTUS decision against something that with this court you would assume would be a six - three in favour is pretty seismic.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-15T06:52:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/15/a-six-three.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/11/hit-man.html", "content_html": "Nah …
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-11T00:13:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/11/hit-man.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/oops.html", "content_html": "Oops
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-10T23:59:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/oops.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/theres-a-thought.html", "content_html": "There’s A Thought. I wonder if, come November 6th, America will come out and agree? ‘France’ didn’t seem to. (Yes different - not sure how those rules work - but it seems to have unnerved Macron.)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-06-10T15:50:59+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/theres-a-thought.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/anyone-else-saddened.html", "content_html": "Fareed says Indian voters rejected Modi’s strongman ways. Some sophisticated international observers praise strongmen who can get things done, Fareed says. But Indian voters seem to have recognized that “pluralism, cooperation and diversity,” rather than religious nationalism and authoritarian leanings, are their country’s strengths.
\n
Anyone else saddened by the name choice for the project ‘Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots’.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/871cb43957.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-10T11:32:35+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/anyone-else-saddened.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/the-greeting-when.html",
"content_html": "The greeting when you come in from Canada!
\nWelcome to America.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cb26652a20.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-10T11:30:13+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/the-greeting-when.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/08/found-on-a.html",
"content_html": "Found on a 1Password thread …
\n\n\nLeft unchecked you may stop worrying about building the best product, and you instead focus on building the best business. It is a subtle subconscious switch, but it’ll have massive impact on the product your customers use.
\n
I like that distinction.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-08T07:24:07+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/08/found-on-a.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/06/all-those-years.html", "content_html": "All those years ago the 🍎 Long and Hodgman ads were really very good and clever, definitely creative, truly fun. Interesting how the subsequent careers of the two actors developed to be nearly the exact opposite of the companies they represented.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-06T07:48:41+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/06/all-those-years.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/you-know-what.html", "content_html": "You know what this is - right?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/cleanshot-2024-06-03-at-10.13.062x.png\")
Christmas WWDC is coming.
All I really want is for it to STOP.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-03T16:42:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/you-know-what.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/today-i-learned.html", "content_html": "Today I Learned that ‘A Boy Named Sue’ was written by Shel Silverstein …
\n… I’m also thinking that today most of you will be asking ‘ what’s ‘A Boy Named Sue’ ‘
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-03T08:47:44+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/today-i-learned.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/magnet-fishing-had.html", "content_html": "Magnet Fishing.
\nHad you heard of the term before now?
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-03T08:34:31+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/magnet-fishing-had.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/the-surprising-thing.html", "content_html": "The surprising thing about ICQ closing down is that it is 2024 and it is still around to close down.
\n", "date_published": "2024-06-03T08:04:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/the-surprising-thing.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/sounds-like-a.html", "content_html": "Sounds like a grand plan. If memory serves he’s on a sticky wicket when it comes to his coalition, If they go - the whole house o/ card is at risk - he loses power and will then have to face courts for other crimes - or something like that - I need to check. BUT. It sure smells like another example of a very small extreme minority holding sway over the vastly larger majority.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/9cba0d44a5.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-06-03T07:33:23+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/sounds-like-a.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/29/sometimes-the-software.html",
"content_html": "🎈150/366 Sometimes … the software does exactly what it is programmed to. It is rather easy to forget that and I need to really remember that it is usually always my fault. 🤦♂️
\n\nAt this rate, it won’t be too long before Nvidia becomes the most valuable company in the U.S. Shares of the AI chip maker rose another 7% on Tuesday to $1,139, giving the company a market capitalization of $2.8 trillion, according to Koyfin data. Apple, by comparison, finished the day with a market cap of $2.9 trillion, while Microsoft, the current leader, has a market cap of $3.2 trillion.
\n
There is something seriously wrong with the Stock market. Yeah - I know. Old News.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-29T12:11:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/29/the-information-at.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/the-widget-has.html", "content_html": "The 🍎🗞️ widget has suddenly appeared on my desktop - did I accidentally press something - or is this the U2 debacle reframed for 2024?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T15:06:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/the-widget-has.html", "tags": ["? Asides","? Apple"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/its-neither-here.html", "content_html": "It’s neither here nor there there really when you add up what a holiday to New Zealand is going to cost you .. but still …
\n\n\n“(‘The Govt’) is also considering nearly tripling an entry tax on tourists to almost $100 a visit.
\n
.. aren’t there more pressing problems?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T07:58:43+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/its-neither-here.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/today-i-learned.html", "content_html": "Today I ‘Learned’ that Baron is a time traveller who is here to cement the Trump dynasty … or something like that … and people wonder why I like living under my rock.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-27T07:51:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/today-i-learned.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/26/im-enjoying-it.html", "content_html": "🎈147/366 I’m enjoying it but I’m feeling that the pitch was Sliding Doors meets Doctor Who.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-26T18:59:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/26/im-enjoying-it.html", "tags": ["MyFilmReferences","366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/23/a-gamble-he.html", "content_html": "A gamble? He just wants out.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/18fdb89780.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-05-23T10:56:27+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/23/a-gamble-he.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/23/advice-from-a.html",
"content_html": "🎈144/366 Advice from a pro
\nIf you are wondering if the croissant that is heating in the oven. Is done .. don’t use your finger tip to test. 🤦♂️
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-23T08:34:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/23/advice-from-a.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/22/craft-for-vision.html", "content_html": "🎈143/366 Craft. For Vision Pro.
\nIs there anything more niche?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-22T12:24:35+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/22/craft-for-vision.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/21/im-old-enough.html", "content_html": "I’m old enough to remember the Boesky trials and the public furor .. ok .. no internet .. the media furor.. today, it would be barely a blip on the radar.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-21T08:10:52+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/21/im-old-enough.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/20/is-scott-galloway.html", "content_html": "🎈141/366 Is Scott Galloway the American Tech version of Clarkson?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-20T15:01:17+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/20/is-scott-galloway.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/20/i-am-no.html", "content_html": "I am no fan of the orange douche .. but the Biden campaign’s tweet on the crappy podium is misguided and not right. The clip they circulated was actually quite funny .. demonstrated fast thinking .. the ‘leaning left’ pun particularly clever and the words in their headline are misleading .. his dig was not at this event workers but the contractor .. who #HadOneJob
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-20T09:12:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/20/i-am-no.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/19/you-know-the.html", "content_html": "🎈140/366 You know the problem with great new features being added to Micro Blog?
\nYou have to keep on learning more CSS to keep it ‘pretty’
\nNot complaining now - but seriously the last adjustments were only last weekend!
\nGREAT job @manton
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/907a69b2f1.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-05-19T11:24:48+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/19/you-know-the.html",
"tags": ["366","? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/15/elon-musks-startup.html",
"content_html": "\n\nElon Musk’s startup, xAI, is nearing a multiyear deal to spend $10 billion to rent Oracle cloud servers
\n
💬 The Information
\n10 BILLION. To RENT.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-15T11:06:15+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/15/elon-musks-startup.html", "tags": ["? Quotes","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/14/hers-what-im.html", "content_html": "Here’s what I’m thinking. Trump announced the Barron story .. and Melania killed it.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-14T15:10:12+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/14/hers-what-im.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/14/looks-like-sam.html", "content_html": "🎈135/366 Looks like Sam has gone all in on the nuts brigade.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-14T14:29:34+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/14/looks-like-sam.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/13/i-must-have.html", "content_html": "🎈134/366I must have missed the announcement at the time but apparently Break Dancing is now an Olympic sport .. no mention why the centuries old waltz has been an outcast since it all started.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-13T08:31:21+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/13/i-must-have.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/12/seriously-people-this.html", "content_html": "🎈133/366 Seriously people .. this straight quotes and curly quotes difference needs to be fixed. Am I the only one that gets messed up .. regularly.
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-12T15:41:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/12/seriously-people-this.html", "tags": ["Help","366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/10/the-biden-crime.html", "content_html": "‘The Biden Crime Family’ … seriously Rudy?
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-10T17:56:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/10/the-biden-crime.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/09/cough-no-idea.html", "content_html": "🎈130/366 … Cough - no idea how long it has been there @bjhess - but I think that is a first for me. 🙏🏼
\n", "date_published": "2024-05-09T22:35:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/09/cough-no-idea.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/09/just-as-i.html", "content_html": "Just as I have just about sorted out my now | doing | using | about pages .. now I discover guestbook pages .. 🤯
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-05-09T07:12:50+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/09/just-as-i.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/04/got-a-new.html", "content_html": "🎈125/366 I got a new gizmo yesterday - and all happy that it had USBC charging … to get home, unbox and find that the provide charging cable had USBC at one end and USBA at the other.
\n![\"straight](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\")
Have to say .. great coup for the Smartless guys .. let’s see how it pans out …
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-30T11:37:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/30/have-to-say.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/30/i-have-stopped.html", "content_html": "I have stopped using ‘mtg’ as an abbreviation for ‘meeting’ just to avoid being reminded of a dimwit.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-30T09:31:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/30/i-have-stopped.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/26/weinstein-reversed-trump.html", "content_html": "Weinstein reversed.
\nTrump delayed .. again.
\nLife normal continues.
🎈110/366 I think I broke the Internet - so stopping now.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-20T18:44:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/20/i-think-i.html", "tags": ["366","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/17/don-snorleone.html", "content_html": "' Don Snorleone ' … 😂😂😂😂😂
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-17T11:51:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/17/don-snorleone.html", "tags": [":'D Humour","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/17/wait-eclectic-ink.html", "content_html": "Wait … ‘Eclectic Ink’ @pimoore ? Did I miss the announcement?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/53a2e429b1.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-04-17T10:15:24+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/17/wait-eclectic-ink.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/16/im-feeling-a.html",
"content_html": "I’m feeling a clean up coming on me …
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/df3064d185.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-04-16T00:45:14+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/16/im-feeling-a.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/16/i-think-i.html",
"content_html": "I think I just used my new Random (Surprise Me) Link more times in the last 10 minutes than it has ever been used in total.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-16T00:43:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/16/i-think-i.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/16/oh-now-thats.html", "content_html": "OH. Now that’s a neat idea. (The ‘random’ button between the previous and next)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/ef2431745e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-04-16T00:03:31+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/16/oh-now-thats.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/12/filed-in-the.html",
"content_html": "🎈102/366
\nFiled in the bucket of ‘Things That Are Wrong With The World’ .. that moment that you discover that your translator has stolen $16 million from your bank account.
\n
The irony of a footer that tells you that you aren’t going to get one of this annoying little pop ups asking you to sign up - and not being aware that it is dutifully delivered over and over again through the RSS feed on each post - sometimes even without a post.
\n", "date_published": "2024-04-08T16:27:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/08/the-irony-of.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/07/ooh-ooh-heres.html", "content_html": "🎈097/366
\nOOH OOH - here’s an idea - let’s take a movie from 25 years ago and turn it into an 8 part mini series.
\n
Just a test from Obsidian.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-31T21:20:22+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/31/just-a-test.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/22/been-a-while.html", "content_html": "Been a while - but just dropped into MB Admin and slaughtered another 25 or so categories.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-22T18:41:11+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/22/been-a-while.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/14/one-day-just.html", "content_html": "🎈073/366
\nOne day - just one day - I will wake up and it will be a normal lovely day .. and will stay that way.
\n
🎈061/366
\nIt was all going really well … and then it wasn’t. Handbrake turn, rubber scorching the road and now we have what I believe is a better name and a much improved URL ( and a dot com at that) … now all we have to do is start again.
\n
Thinking it’s not wrong.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e6a269abbc.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-02-08T20:50:35+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/08/thinking-its-not.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/08/i-wonder-if.html",
"content_html": "I wonder if ‘my beautiful wife’ is an employee, vendor or coworker.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/70eec7c52e.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-02-08T20:10:02+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/08/i-wonder-if.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/friend-of-mine.html",
"content_html": "Friend of mine mentioned ‘Cyclades’, a French project from ‘back in the day’.
\n\n\nYou know, they were solving for problems that TCP/IP was trying to solve before there was TCP/IP.
\n
🤯
\nI did just find this ‘billy-doo’.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-8847.png\")
We get so used to the narrative we are told. Don’t we?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T12:10:47+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/friend-of-mine.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/anyone-explored-beepercom.html", "content_html": "Anyone explored 🔗 beeper.com ?
\nIs it in use anywhere - or is it just a giant wait list?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T11:45:37+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/anyone-explored-beepercom.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/watched-first-episode.html", "content_html": "Watched first episode of 📽️ The Brothers Sun last night. I am worried - surely it can only get worse at this point?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T11:16:57+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/watched-first-episode.html", "tags": ["MyShowReferences","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/07/heard-on-a.html", "content_html": "Heard on a conference call
\n\n\nMy son attends xxx University .. what a great school. Great school. It’s so clean you can eat off the floor.
\n
… just struck me as an unexplored metric of quality in education.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-07T05:13:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/heard-on-a.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/05/lets-call-it.html", "content_html": "Let’s call it an experiment
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dd4123ec81.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-02-05T14:12:47+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/05/lets-call-it.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/05/you-see-that.html",
"content_html": "You see that building there - in the ‘middle’, second from right, 3rd from left … in the distance…
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f36ec54e-9c86-4379-8bde-5e39a5cdb07c.jpg\")
It’s that building here .. slightly different angle but more interesting buildings to frame it.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e8a4a4b7-1721-41b9-b4fb-d1886afa58c1.jpg\")
This is what it looks like when you are up, close and personal.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e64456e4-3f39-4659-8cb7-f8966f7a27bd.jpg\")
\n\nIt’s a device that is really only any good to consume. You can’t really create.
\n
… is a sentence I read in Vision Pro reviews.
\nI also read it in early iPhone reviews.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-04T14:18:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/04/its-a-device.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/04/reviewing-the-vision.html", "content_html": "Reviewing the Vision Pro on an audio podcast with no irony what-so-ever.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-04T13:59:02+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/04/reviewing-the-vision.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/the-enhanced-games.html", "content_html": "‘The Enhanced Games’ .. brought to you by .. go on … guess who.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T20:51:39+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/the-enhanced-games.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/trying-to-speak.html", "content_html": "Trying to speak to Edison Electric.
\nTo maximize efficiency, I am logged on to my web account so ready with my information when they answer.
\nApparently I have been on the web site so long without activity, that my web session just disconnected.
\nTell me about it!
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-02T10:16:45+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/trying-to-speak.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/31/its-definitely-corruption.html", "content_html": "It’s definitely corruption, I’m just not convinced that the people who have been sentenced to 14 years are the corrupt ones. But heh … what do I know?
\nNothing! I hear you cry,
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T19:18:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/its-definitely-corruption.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/31/career-advice-awesome.html", "content_html": "Career Advice
\n1 awesome Luxury Brand with a diverse portfolio of subsidiary brands is clearly the way to go, rather than a random collection of hyped up tech brands.
\nIt also helps to not be a self serving, messianic lying, despot with all the grace and culture of one of the other guys handbags.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T12:15:09+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/career-advice-awesome.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/31/when-smartless-moves.html", "content_html": "When Smartless moves to SiriusXM - will it still be a podcast?
\nAnd more importantly, will it still be available …
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T00:01:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/when-smartless-moves.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/29/new-idea-as.html", "content_html": "‘on all the places we listen to podcasts?
\n
New Idea as I have been shuffling and deleting categories and realizing just how much stuff is in here.
\nAs I rediscover posts I am adding three new categories that are ‘best’ post, image and quote … according to me. Once I hit 10 in any group - an 11th means one of the ten has to go out.
\nWe will see.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a41bedd233.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-01-29T17:20:34+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/new-idea-as.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/this-whole-thing.html",
"content_html": "This whole thing on film and shows where a couple of people are texting. Nobody talking - camera closes in on the device. Crucial part of the plot.
\nYeah, No.
\nAm I the only one that can’t read it?
\nWhat’s the fix?
\nAnd no. The answer cannot be to buy an 85 inch telly.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T23:12:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/this-whole-thing.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/27/million-nice.html", "content_html": "83.3 Million. Nice.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T10:51:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/27/million-nice.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/27/so-little-elon.html", "content_html": "So little Elon now wants trade barriers to protect him.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T07:09:40+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/27/so-little-elon.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/26/for-years-decades.html", "content_html": "☕️ For years … decades … I make a pot of coffee … I drink it … slowly … towards the end it starts getting cold .. so I do a quick zap in the microwave. (Please don’t judge me.)
\nFor years … decades … the milk went in … and then I zapped.
\nTwo days ago I reversed the order.
\nI zap and THEN add the milk.
\nLife Changing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-26T07:53:55+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/26/for-years-decades.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/26/makes-me-wonder.html", "content_html": "Makes me wonder how much the other people use the app!
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/50fdfd7270.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-01-26T06:15:00+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/26/makes-me-wonder.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/25/and-so-my.html",
"content_html": "And so by definition - one third of American disagrees with its government just on this single issue.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/d472029022.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-01-25T13:19:01+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/25/and-so-my.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/25/popped-out-of.html",
"content_html": "Popped out of my ‘history feed’ this morning … 11 years ago.
\nEven more relevant today as (in my feeds at least) the noise around ‘freeing Assange’ is deafening.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/5c97149925.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-01-25T13:17:51+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/25/popped-out-of.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/23/if-you-like.html",
"content_html": "If you like playing around with AI image generators - I like and use Leonardo.ai (free version) - separately there is this … might be fun?
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/869e4d4a55.png\")
\n",
"date_published": "2024-01-23T10:54:52+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/23/if-you-like.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/22/had-a-hankering.html",
"content_html": "Had a hankering for some Chinese, so looked up the local places.
\nNow trying to decide between taking out a mortgage or adjusting my palette.
\nGood Grief!
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-22T16:38:26+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/had-a-hankering.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/22/heh-ron-bu.html", "content_html": "Heh Ron!
\nBu Bye Now.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-22T11:45:16+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/heh-ron-bu.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/16/i-wonder-if.html", "content_html": "I wonder if Rishi thinks that all us ‘Brits abroad’ are going to vote for him this year?
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-16T12:14:33+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/16/i-wonder-if.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/12/killing-categories-on.html", "content_html": "Killing categories on Micro.Blog is mind numbing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-12T08:22:14+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/12/killing-categories-on.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/10/january-th-for.html", "content_html": "January 19th for February 2nd .. my guess is that this beats a lot of expectations on ‘when’ … expect the flood of armchair analysts on the 3rd.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-10T08:18:54+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/10/january-th-for.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/08/about-me-update.html", "content_html": "‘About Me’ Update Time …
\n“Transform | Transition | Transcend - and yes I have been here before - but this time it is altogether different. I will publish a link to the newsletter that sheds light on the conundrum."
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-08T11:37:51+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/08/about-me-update.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/21/why-dont-people.html", "content_html": "👁️ Why don’t people with headphones in their ears connect them to the phone they are using to talk on?
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-22T11:26:30+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/21/why-dont-people.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/25/i-know-lets.html", "content_html": "I know … Let’s build a wind-farm to power an oil field.
\nThere’s that language thing again … Farms and fields … don’t they sound nice?
\n", "date_published": "2023-06-26T03:10:08+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/25/i-know-lets.html", "tags": ["People First","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/21/its-a-pure.html", "content_html": "It’s a pure text app .. so why wouldn’t the ChatGPT people build their new app so it auto sizes for iPad …
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-22T04:01:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/21/its-a-pure.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/chatgpt-is-sucking.html", "content_html": "ChatGPT is sucking the oxygen out of the conversation … just like Uber and AirBNB before it …
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-16T02:52:05+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/chatgpt-is-sucking.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/09/if-you-dont.html", "content_html": "If you don’t want your AI to just be about chat … why would you call it ChatGPT?
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-10T17:29:48+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/09/if-you-dont.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/for-the-first.html", "content_html": "For the first time ever, iOS notifications are working on my iPad 🎁 🍾 🎉
\n", "date_published": "2023-02-10T16:36:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/for-the-first.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/21/larry-ellison-oracle.html", "content_html": "\n\nLarry Ellison, Oracle chairman, donated $32,400 for Jenner’s campaign
\n
👁️ Ellison is heading towards ‘McAfee crazy’!
\n", "date_published": "2021-07-21T14:10:01+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/21/larry-ellison-oracle.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/25/race-car-driver.html", "content_html": "👁️ 🔗 Race car driver Jessi Combs has posthumously been named the fastest woman on Earth by Guinness.
\nMany congratulations and all that - BUT - ‘posthumously named’ … ‘ON earth’ ….
\nDid I miss the memo redefining the after-life?
\n", "date_published": "2020-06-25T13:46:28+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/25/race-car-driver.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/16/i-really-should.html", "content_html": "I really should unsubscribe from Gotham Girl … but I don’t. I guess it’s my ‘Bachelor’ or ‘Love Island’ or ‘Real ‘Housewives’ secret pleasure … come to think of it - I think she’d fit right in to a twist on ‘Real Housewives of New York’.
\n", "date_published": "2020-04-16T09:10:58+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/16/i-really-should.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/08/12/these-legitlooking-iphone.html", "content_html": "👁️ 🔗These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
\nNow there’s a clever thing. At least if you’re a bad person that is.
\n", "date_published": "2019-08-13T03:02:29+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/08/12/these-legitlooking-iphone.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/04/sorry-just-because.html", "content_html": "Sorry - just because we voted you in, or you own a newspaper or are a big strapping tech jock … whatever … you are not ‘an elite’ … another example of language being co-opted to maintain the status quo.
\n🖇️ 🔎 More ‘Language' posts here.
\n", "date_published": "2019-06-05T07:10:36+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/04/sorry-just-because.html", "tags": ["? Links","? Asides","? Searched"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/03/03/llanfair-etcetera-a-snicklecast-im.html", "content_html": "Llanfair Etcetera - A Snicklecast
\nI’m English, not Welsh … but anyway … for you @derekpeden
\n\nWhat is a Snickelcast? | More snickelcasts | All ‘My Sounds’
\n", "date_published": "2019-03-03T10:59:00+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/03/03/llanfair-etcetera-a-snicklecast-im.html", "tags": ["? Podcasts","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/13/uncertain-less-different.html", "content_html": "uncertain | less | different
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/bc2fd37017.jpg\")
\n",
"date_published": "2019-01-04T13:07:24+12:00",
"url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/04/010724.html",
"tags": ["? Asides"]
},
{
"id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/02/happy-new-year-to-everyone.html",
"content_html": "Happy New Year To Everyone
\nMy three words ?
\nuncertain | less | different
\n👁️ Apologies For Our Absence
\n… we have been doing a little housekeeping at ‘Chez First’ … and now we are finished. You can expect a lot more interesting and relevant information coming through this channel. Thank you.
\n", "date_published": "2018-03-03T18:38:24+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/02/apologies-for-our.html", "tags": ["? PeopleFirst","People First","? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/05/21/larry-ellison-gets.html", "content_html": "Larry Ellison Gets Philosophical
\nLife isn't about money: 'At some point, you can't spend all of it. Trust me, I've tried'\n", "date_published": "2016-05-22T04:48:38+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/05/21/larry-ellison-gets.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] }, { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/05/17/do-people-no.html", "content_html": "
Do People No Longer Pick Up The Phone ❓
\nApparently not !
\n", "date_published": "2016-05-18T10:59:27+12:00", "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/05/17/do-people-no.html", "tags": ["? Asides"] } ] }