📚Book Reviews

Adding another place to review stuff. This time from Birchtree


Missouri Likely to Prosecute Reporter for Viewing Web Page Source.

Hold that thought for a moment folk.

Shouldn’t the case just be thrown out?


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You know those challenges we set ourselves … one a day for ‘many several such days’ …

Yeah - It’s hard to even remember you need to be doing it … much less actually doing it!

How long for ‘a habit’ again?


Just started to read:

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 📚

never heard of book or author - but when Ian Rankin writes;

“So smart and funny. Deplorably good.'

How could I resist?


2022

My three new words for the year replacing 2021’s and hell - why not?

A new image icon to boot!



The new world of zero constraint of digital supply is absolute bull.

If it were true I wouldn’t have to wait to borrow a digital copy of a book from the library.

I know why - but it’s still bull.

Much like a movie being ‘unavailable in my region’.


The first message of our new year. Let’s hope 2022 brings great things.

My three words for the New Year;

‘Clear’
‘Close’ and
‘Choice’

What are your three words?

Click on the link for more background.


“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”

💬 Salman Rushdie

The Metaverse Problem

.. as usual Dana is nailing it.


Erik Prince, the billionaire mercenary who founded the private security firm Blackwater, is suing The Intercept.

Of course he is!

That family is such a nice group of people.



With shadowy money, Ukraine oligarch became Cleveland’s biggest landlord.

And we wonder why there has been an explosion in the price of real estate!


Worried about super-intelligent machines? They are already here.

Never thought about it like that - but not wrong!


My ‘three words’ for 2022 have been decided and the newsletter scheduled.

In case you aren’t already subscribed


Guilty - and I’m sure she is/was - but can’t help feeling she’s partly carrying the can because the real criminal slipped through the net.


“web1, web2 etc, you can make the story come out any way you like, but RSS, blogging and podcasting were part of the Web 2 story and they are all about decentralization.”

💬 Dave Winer

When Space Is The Link In The Chain

Idle thoughts.

Proving that ‘sound thinking’ might not be the same as ‘thinking with sound’.