Another mess up for Two Tier Kier to add to the list… no more encrypted iCloud storage for the UK.
I think I just stumbled across the speaker equivalent of iPod socks.
Waking up to see Hamas parading coffins on stage makes me so angry. Coffins of two children, one of whom spent more of his life as a hostage than as a free person, used as propaganda with scores of Gazan children there looking on. Barbaric. 😢
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
I’ve been playing around with Google Gemini the last couple of weeks. Interestingly it’s been more accurate and more useful than ChatGTP has. Its integration with their ecosystem is beginning to be very interesting. Apple is going to struggle.
I hope the addition of NASCAR to the Apple Sports app means F1 will arrive in time for the new season. Can’t justify the Box Box subscription at the moment.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
Downloaded and setup Obsidian again. I’m a glutton for punishment, but I decided this time to try their own sync for a month and see if it impacts my usage. I’ve also installed a new theme that feels more natural on Apple devices.
I think I have a new favourite podcast… I’ve been listening to The Rest Is History for the last few weeks and highly recommend it. I’ve been listening to the Franz Ferdinand and start of the First World War episodes with a ton more in my queue.
In a little break from work I’ve added a dark theme to my install of the new Bayou theme from @Mtt and tweaked some light theme colours.
Finally looking into the work of Brandon Sanderson, I’ve always enjoyed fantasy but managed to miss his work somehow. Any recommendations on where to start? 📚
Dark Mode Days
Monday, February 10, 2025
It’s a dark mode day. Outside is gloomy and grey, it’s raining, and everything feels like it’s in dark mode. There’s been a few of these kinds of day recently, normally they coincide with extrovert days at work, when my calendar is chock full of meetings and there’s no room to actually Do The Work. Today is a bit different. Whilst it’s a dark mode day outside, and consequently a dark mode day on my Mac I only have a couple of calls today so I have chance to find some flow.
Updated my iPad to 18.3 last night, can’t tell if the WiFi being so crap is a result of that or the cafe I’m in. Seems ok on my iPhone though…
Having initially abandoned trying OmniFocus 4 I decided to give it a run over the last week. I forgot how nice sequential projects are for only showing the 1 task that needs to be done to make progress.
It happened, I downloaded Omnifocus 4 on my lunch break but there’s no way of easily getting emails into it from Outlook. I guess that’s the end of that experiment.
The CEO of Sonos has finally stepped down which took a lot longer than I expected. The damage is already done for me though, I won't buy another Sonos product again.
It’s so cold today I’m actually considering going to buy some thermals… it’s almost 11am and it’s still frozen outside.
Followed a few accounts from Bluesky in Micro.blog. Going to see how that goes and then I’ll probably delete my Bluesky account. Essentially I just want one place to go to see all things non-RSS.
Tasks, tasks, everywhere…
Monday, January 6, 2025
Barry Hess in a post about the state of his task manager makes the point that he is DDoS’ing himself with To-dos and Reminders. Essentially there is so much stuff in his task manager and he has lost trust in the way it works to ever see the right things at the right time. I feel his pain. I have been bouncing around task managers for, at least, the last 6 months trying to find a way that works for me to see what I need to do at the right time.
Three days into the new year and I’ve already finished a book. In what has become a bit of an annual tradition, my Dad bought me the newest Jeremy Clarkson, Diddly Squat: Home to Roost and I’ve finished this one in 2 days. If I’d have started earlier yesterday it likely would’ve been done in one sitting. 📚
Gah, was looking forward to watching season 3 of Tehran but it’s only released in Israel today and no date for Apple TV+ has been announced.
The first email Apple Intelligence deemed as a priority for me is a phishing email pretending to be from a delivery company who failed to deliver a package I haven’t ordered. Good start Apple.