Words To Live By … at least you’d think?

On the plus side - they are at least being honest!

For the longest time, I have been in charge of ‘morning tea’ duties in whatever ‘chez’ we happen to be in at a given moment. I THOUGHT I had been doing ok. Apparently not. It turns out that combining the ratio of milk to tea together with the strength of the tea results in different colourations in the resultant elixir.

Behold the ‘ideal’ final colouration - together with three acceptable alternative hex references - that can be translated to your Pantone reference of choice

Happy Days

California sheriff’s department deems 47 deputies ‘not suited’ for duty.

“Roughly 10% of the force had their guns and arrest powers stripped after an internal audit of psychological exams”

University of Idaho says staff can offer condoms for STDs – not birth control

Well - that clears that up then!

🖋️ The joy of paper - an ‘Om’ post.

“The lady doth protest too much”

… way too much.

“A Union Jack at half mast to commemorate the passing of Queen Elizabeth the Second in the style of xxx”

• Replace xxx with the name of an artist and submit on Dall-E 2

• Choose one of 4 images that best conveys the sentiment

• No edits

• Repeat

• Stop at 8 artists

Answers to questions

Adam Curry

Spotify has to … because it can’t make money from music

Dave Winer

Radio Shows aren’t podcasts

Radio Shows don’t have to be on ‘the radio’

In June, The Markup reported that Meta Pixels on the websites of 33 of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America were transmitting the details of patients’ doctor’s appointments to Meta when patients booked on the websites. We also found Meta Pixels inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems collecting data about patients’ prescriptions, sexual orientation, and health conditions.

So of course 3 months later …

Meta Faces Mounting Questions from Congress on Health Data Privacy As Hospitals Remove Facebook Tracker

Who are the people inside Meta that thinks this a good idea, then makes it happen and fails to tell anyone?

“A 2% surcharge applies to all credit card and contactless payments. Eftpos and cash payment available with no surcharge.”

I am seeing this more and more.

In small print.

Nobody tells you.

If I create a reminder in BusyCal - it doesn’t appear in ‘Reminders’. All good. Things changed.

BUT

If I create a reminder in reminders - it does appear in BusyCal. Which surprised me.

Any ideas what is going on?