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Why my next camera may still be a camera rather than a mobile phone
In a recent posting here, I speculated that my next “camera” might also be my next mobile. Setting aside the question of whether I live long enough to be making any such decision, I think I probably...
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So what does this Real AI do to the network?
Here’s the latest Taxi-with-advert photo I photoed, not far from a favourite taxi spot even during Lockdown, Victoria Station: Whereas yesterday, the posting was about a big gadget that merely happened...
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The Airbus A390 “Clickbate”– etc.
Indeed: I encountered this glorious airplane on Twitter, but just now Twitter is refusing to load onto my computer, for some idiot reason to do with me refusing to update or generally do as commanded,...
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Two black cabs that are not black and sixteen black cabs that are black
On my walkabout yesterday morning, I did encounter a couple of taxis with adverts, or black cabs as they are somewhat confusingly known. The point being, they are frequently not black at all: Adverts...
View ArticleAn exercise lesson on Zoom
I can remember when e-mail became a necessity for me. I got a phone call from someone who asked: “What’s your email?” and I said “I don’t do email”. It was the way she then said “Oh” that made me...
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Michael Jennings tells me more about mobile phone photography
Today Michael Jennings, the creator and still technical curator of this blog, who was in my area for the first time in quite a while, called round and we went out and had drinks. In a Pimlico pub....
View ArticleWhy electric cars will soon displace petrol cars (and some general thoughts...
I have been keeping half an eye out for a piece of writing that summarises how, and why, electric cars have been on the up-and-up, and today such a piece presented itself to me, by Justin Rowlatt, the...
View Article“Students stopped caring about literature because the professors stopped...
Arts & Letters Daily sent me to this piece, by Mark Bauerlein, about the study of literature in American universities. It made particular sense of way that the descent into wokeness was not one...
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A choice that we all face these days
Yes, a favourite photo of mine, at the opposite end of the spectrum mentioned in this posting from the photo in that posting, is this one: I originally posted this photo, photoed in WH Smith Liverpool...
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Do you love robots now that they can dance?
I watched this video, and resolved to repost it here, only then to realise that I had encountered it because my favourite Twitterer, Steve Stewart-Williams was the reason I was seeing it in the first...
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