🔗 A bullying politician or snowflake civil servants? The downfall of Dominic Raab
I do not know Raab, other than his public persona, so take my thoughts with a pinch of NaCl. That said, there is a consistency to the back stories that keep getting published. Bottom line - to me - he doesn’t seem to be a nice man.
That said - I am sympathetic to his claims. We are living too much in a world where if I even feel offended - you will pay. To continue down that path will result in more and more people being ‘quietly silenced’.
Silencing Raab is one thing - but it will work (is working?) both ways.
🔗 Dream dinner party guests: Obama, Springsteen and Spielberg delight Barcelona restaurant staff.
Love Those Smiles. Warming the cockles of my heart
🔗 Worldwide public cloud spending heading for US$600 billion
“If you found yourself wondering why the cloud hyperscalers have chosen this moment to build in New Zealand, the answer lies in Gartner’s latest cloud forecast.”
@billbennettnz not sure you actually answer that question? I mean I get that Gartner is predicting outsized growth - and why NZ would want those data centers - but you don’t seem to offer a reason why MSoft and AWS are making the investments? Or have I read too fast?
🔗 You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup.
YUP - at least from a financial rewards perspective. But there are other considerations (as I said to a long time friend this past week) who is thinking of launching ‘StartUps Anonymous’.
Email me if you are interested in joining.
🔗 Twenty Years Ago, Apple Launched the iTunes Music Store.
The first Mac I ever owned arrived Christmas 2001. The iPod had been released and I wanted one - but it was Mac only back then. So I also ‘needed’ a Mac! It can’t have been two years before I had completely left Windoze behind.
It also means that I spent close to two years ripping CDs into the Mac to play on the iPod. (Still do that actually.)
“I’ve been mithered over a novel for months. I wrote a 100,000-word one over COVID and then threw the lot away immediately afterwards because it was, in technical terms, utter shite altogether.”
💬 William Gallagher
100,000 words ‘binned’ … would we all had that kind of courage.
🖋️ The Largest Project In The World That You MIGHT Not Have Heard Of
Quotes from Galloway talking about NEOM.
2023 | 04 | 29
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Nailing more and more workflow efficiencies in the ‘day2day’ … like in Spark - right click on an email - share it to Things - and now you have an action that you can trigger when ever you want that will jump you directly to that email.
The annoying part is that if I do that in the inbox - and then archive the email for decluttering purposes, the link seems to no longer work - at least sometimes that happens - and so I can’t rely on it. So right now I file it then create the action. A ‘frictionfull’ flow!
Is there a trick I am missing?
Over on Substack @artkavanagh raises a movie that I had never heard of - but is now on my list … what I said over there …
Big fan of Cage .. never heard of the movie … but with Dennis Hopper .. I clearly need to find it. Of course - it’s hard. Seems to be on ‘Vudu’ - which I have also never heard of. Reading about the movie - it seems to be a Coen brothers kinda movie - before the Coen brothers?
Meanwhile in New Zealand …
2023 | 04 | 28
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I don’t want much from the next iOS - just for Photos to support ‘smart albums’ - how hard could that be?
📺 Wednesday
Take Harry Potter, mix in some Umbrella Academy add in Tim Burton and away you go. I enjoyed the earlier part of the show more. The last two episodes started to soften up the Wednesday character - which for my taste just didn’t work. Jenna Ortega who’s name I did not know since I clearly live under a rock was absolutely perfectly cast.
📺 Better Call Saul
Stunning. I thought ‘Breaking Bad’ was good - but Saul - oh my. I know it has been around a while - and it is 6 seasons. But NO regrets.
PS - @pratik said as much … agreed.
📺 Shrinking
I had heard lots of good things about it - from more than a handful of people. Time to bite the bullet. It certainly wasn’t a dud - just one of those nice, gently humorous shows.
I did not know that one of the co-creators was Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), but still Shrinking is no Ted Lasso.
I think anybody that watches it could identify with at least one of the any diverse characters.
I wouldn’t say don’t watch it - but there are others I would recommend first.
I know, I know … leaf-blowers can drive me nuts … but a tad extreme … no?
🎵 The Gas Man Cometh
The gasman had an appointment this morning … he was on time and we spent some quality time together. End result? The next step would be to call a plumber (not a carpenter) … see the first verse below.
My mind went to Flanders and Swann’s rendition of their wonderful song … The Gas Man Cometh. The audio is well worth a listen if you don’t know it - and really - these days - who honestly does remember the duo.
The lead up to this particular version should be listened to - not jumped across!
T’was on the Monday morning, the gas man came to call,
The gas tap wouldn’t turn, I wasn’t getting gas at all;
He tore out all the skirting boards to try and find the main,
And I had to call a carpenter to put them back again!
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