Inside Apple’s Earthquake-Ready Headquarters.

Turns out that the Apple spaceship is actually floating.


”Apple Is Now The Privacy-as-a-service Company.”

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

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Apple is building major defense against spam calls

”iOS 13 will allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail, and Messages and route any number that can’t be found in one of those places to voicemail.

That setting goes on as soon as I get iOS13.


$300 to go in 36 hours …

”We can all pull together as a team.”

Bokeh from Tim Smith



The American Dream

All that is needed ... just three minutes of your time. A little more 'political' than the usual People First posts ... George Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing.

Released January 10, 2006
Recorded November 5, 2005, Beacon Theater, New York City, New York

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Thirteen Years Ago ... needless to say - nothing has changed, other than more people are aware ... hoping that this will make even more people aware ... and then we do something about it.


Thinking Allowed

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People Matter

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Thinking Allowed

This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.

Definition of ‘Typo’

”that which auto-magically appears after proof-reading a gazillion times.”

at least ’fources’ now reads ‘forces’ online!!!


How very annoying / sad … just discovered it - and already it is too late.

RSS Include Service

Any alternatives?



Anti-Trump protesters to be kept away from Downing Street … writes the Guardian … shame on them …

BUT … where there’s a will there’s a way … and nothing like a good challenge to motivate creative thinking.




“Why would anyone want to do this”

… said the ‘consumer engineer’ about the idea of ‘self sovereign identity’.


Sitting in a coffee bar earwigging a conversation between three ‘tech’ dudes.

One is setting up a demo on the computer …. as they chat about the security of using a second hard drive and blah blah …

“What’s your password?”

“The same as the machine access ….1234”

🤦


📸


I was thinking about the expression

“How people want to be made to feel”

and it struck me as odd phrasing … do you want to be made to do anything … even feel good?




John Cleese criticised for saying London no longer an English city

That all said, background stuff aside and certainly the twitter rampage ….

”We are proudly the English capital, a European city and a global hub.”

Sadiq Kahn

… funny - I thought London was also the capital of The United Kingdom?

”He’s clearly a really smart, funny man, but it is basically a very racist tweet.”

Dom Joly

… racist? Did he read it?