🔗 Ranked: Wine Production by Country - it’s amazing how teeny tiny the Kiwi wine industry is - I mean GREAT quality - for sure - but presence on the world stage .. 1%.




🎶 Apparently Vanilla Fudge could have been as big as Zeppelin and if not - certainly Purple.

Say what now? No they couldn’t. Listen to their stuff back in the day and then to early Purple and Zep. It’s clear where the talent is.

To riff on Rob Reiner’s mum …

“I’ll have what they’re having.”

And ‘they didn’t stay together’ is the excuse?

Neither did Purple and Zep - but a number of individuals in the two English bands went on to great success in solo careers.

Name me one member of Vanilla Fudge - and what was their best album.


I am convinced that right now ChatGPT is being powered by Siri. It can be the only explanation.


ME …

ChatGPT - should we …. {deleted to protect the innocent}?

ChatGPT …

No - that won’t solve anything.

One Hour later …

Please …. {deleted to protect the innocent}?


🎶 Been a while since Lark’s Tongue were played through my speakers … and it remains just as big, extraordinary, relevant and engaging as I remember it.


🎶 Just discovered Jesse Wells

.. this just in from the #LivingUnderTheRockArchives



ChatGPT running through some stuff for me this morning - and one part it was really tripping up over - so i explained what was wrong - ‘thinking’ … long reply - embedded in there was

… the generated “dodecahedron” was definitely auditioning for a different role

💬 ChatGPT

I dunno - I thought that was quite funny.


My Mouse Issue Has Been Fixed

A persistent mouse scrolling issue was successfully resolved in 10 minutes with the help of ChatGPT after exhausting other troubleshooting methods.


It’s fine that Google stopped allowing for the creating of new links a while back, but there’s no reason they should ever stop redirecting existing links. The whole reason anyone might have used goo.gl instead of something like bit.ly is misplaced trust in Google. I trust Google with almost nothing long-term. Mark my words, they’re going to do this with Gmail accounts eventually.

💬 John Gruber

What Gruber said.

💬 Me


Always liked Ashton’s thinking - another writer that fell off my RSS tracker that I am reconnecting with as I sort out my RSS feeds.

🔗 The boomers ruined everything? Think again.


The Party’s Over


The Party’s Over


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