💬 John Philpin

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:50:20 +1200

If you follow me you will know that I don’t always listen to Lenny - but a big fan of his - and when he has a great guest … 🤯 .. 🔗🎙️ Simon Willison is one such great guest.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:58:53 +1200

Yes .. I did watch it .. a while back .. unmemorable .. but know that you now don’t have to. Nor should you.

🔗 Unfamiliar

Movies - like music, books, art et al is not a competition. I hate 'best' in those terms. So star ratings have always been hard for me. They have to be seen in the context of the reviewer. A ★★★★★ movie in this world is not necessarily better than a ★ movie - it's just that is how I feel.

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The inspiration for my ★ rating comes from @derekpeden - thank you sir, modified slightly to accommodate my personal watching habits. If this footer is on one of my book, film or TV reviews - the stars fit the guide above. Going forward - I will append my reviews with this footer. Over time I will revisit prior reviews and update.

★★★★★ So Good - A personal favourite

★★★★☆ Excellent - well worth a watch

★★★☆☆ Enjoyed - recommend

★★☆☆☆ Not Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats

★☆☆☆☆ Not for me

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Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:57:31 +1200

🔗 What could POSSIBLY go wrong❓

Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their I.T. systems, three of the people said.

The Beekeeper, 2024 - ★★

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:24:23 +1200

I watched it because it’s Jason .. sad that he keeps making the same movie .. even sadder is that I keep watching them.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:48:10 +1200

🔗 Miriam Schwab

A clean security model with nothing to secure is an easy sell, but let’s see how this actually plays out when there are 10, 20, 100 plugins in their marketplace. The real test will come when complex platform-like extensions like Elementor, Yoast, and more are created. Will the capability model be able to handle them? This is unknown at this time.

🎥 Baby Driver, 2017 ★★★

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:59:43 +1200

Good action movie. GREAT Soundtrack.

📺 Detective Hole ★★★★

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:56:22 +1200

One of these dark Nordic series. Love them. Loved it

🔗 Detective Hole

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★★★★★ So Good - A personal favourite

★★★★☆ Excellent - well worth a watch

★★★☆☆ Enjoyed - recommend

★★☆☆☆ Not Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats

★☆☆☆☆ Not for me

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Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:18:56 +1200

🔗 You Only Think They Work For You

Steve is talking PR Agencies. Not wrong. But they aren’t the only sinners. I am looking at you ‘Recruiters’.

Key rule: ‘who’s paying them /// now and in the future.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:16:38 +1200

🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago apparently.

Maybe it is time to do it again❓

Then again - pretty much in the mode of finally fixing 🖇️ PHI⑊PIN - and one thing at a time … except …

ONE. THING. AT. TIME.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:13:45 +1200

🔗 The Guestbook Is Back

Funny, 🔗 I have a guestbook (thankyou Pika) which I forget about .. so much so that when I recently rejigged my site navigation, it was no where to be found.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:06:09 +1200

🔗 Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.

On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give.

When you breakit down - that’s a lot.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:03:54 +1200

🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports

I guess ‘software’ and ‘services’ are not included in ‘exports’?

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:02:46 +1200

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

💬 Bertrand Russell

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:56 +1200

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande

@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.

Although the insights are a little scary ….

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:57:28 +1200

🔗 Seeker – On my Om

I have always struggled to describe myself. Not sure how others see me versus how I see myself. This is not the first time I have had to confront this question. As a child and as a young man, I dealt with this same challenge.

I have the same problem. Hell I can write pages and get nowhere close to the right summary - and Jax just nails it when she introduces me. Then again - I am better and introducing her than she is introducing herself.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:51:24 +1200

🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – Asymco

But the really shocking revelation from the report is that more than half of Windows PCs used in big business get replaced within a year.

For most of my life of living in the Mac world - I have never worked out why Total Cost of Ownership is rarely used as a metric to make decisions around ‘which computer should I buy’.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:25:30 +1200

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026

Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.

Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻‍♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:09:30 +1200

🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal

Just a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000.

Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:03:07 +1200

🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs

Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.

“I dunno” - wrote Alan

With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:00:14 +1200

🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com

I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.

Never heard of it until now.

Subscribed.

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:56:31 +1200

Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.

📺 Hijack ★★

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:30:37 +1200

Originally Published: August 7th, 2024
Updated: April 3rd, 2026

In 2024 I originally wrote:

What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.

Well - at least until the final episode.

Just finished the second series - and the fact it took us so many months to work through it speaks volumes. And when I say work … I mean work.

Series 1 ★★★ – that is old star rating - but still holds …

Do you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images that find their way to the top of my memory is generally large groups of cast members randomly gathered together on a golf green, in a cab, looking in a hole … I mean for that movie - which was a great ensemble cast - total sense, not too mention that I bet that each star was guaranteed a certain amount of screen time … and this is one way to get round that.

Anyway, back to the plot. Watch the final episode of Hijack and tell me those scenes don’t come to your mind.

And yes - all the usual happy ever after, plane saved with seconds to spare, it was all about the money - etc etc

Series 2 ★★

And that rating is getting applied to the whole show. VERY disappointing - they took that final episode from Series 1 - and doubled down on it!

I was tempted to 1 star it - but that wouldn’t be fair to series 1.

ShowName on 🔗 Reelgood

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★★★★★ So Good - A personal favourite

★★★★☆ Excellent - well worth a watch

★★★☆☆ Enjoyed - recommend

★★☆☆☆ Not Bad - BUT - only a 'kinda' recommendation - with (many?) caveats

★☆☆☆☆ Not for me

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About that ‘spoiler alert’ - really - did you expect a different ending?

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:16:01 +1200

Spending more time looking at Feedland as I seek to work towards a better way of managing my canonical OPML for all feeds …

I know that I am definitely not the only reader of people like Gruber and Ben … but according to Feedland .. nobody else is subscribed to them.I wonder what gives❓

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:54:53 +1200

Still the ‘🍎 at 50’ articles subsume my feeds .. not even Artemis can compete.

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:55:36 +1200

I notice that it’s the women who he’s firing first.