Just some bloke with a keyboard. Proud Gen-X'er. Love Aberdeen FC, and 80's and 90's sport, music & culture. I take the occasional photo. Sometimes they ...
It's been a while. I started this blog with a lot of enthusiasm, hoping to update it every day, fill these pages with my dreary dull little life on this dead planet, but even that fizzled out. Simply stated, nothing much really happens. I get up, I go to work, I come home, I eat, I play a game or watch Netflix, I go to bed. Rinse and repeat. Not exactly exciting, but then unless you're a deep sea…
By which I mean speaking to people on the phone. I love my phone for everything else. It's just the actually-using-it-as-a-phone part I'm not keen on. I've never liked speaking to people I can't see. Conversely, I also hate video chats. So a bit of a contradiction, I guess that I can't quite resolve. I mean, the video thing is probably the same reason why I don't like mirrors, they just don't show…
AI is coming for you, and your job! That should have been the title of the presentation I had to sit and watch during a two-hour Technology Update from senior management. Clearly, someone at HQ has stumbled across an AI generated page about how AI will revolutionise your company, and increase profits and customer satisfaction beyond measure. Through a punishing 32-slide presentation we sat through…
Spotify is 20 today 🎉 To celebrate they made me a playlist of the songs and artists I've listed to the most since I joined Spotify. It's a mixture of mostly 80s and 90s classics (I'm a GenX-er, remember), and it's actually a very good playlists. Ok, there's some pure shiters on there too which I'll take out but, yeah, a good playlist to play on a long drive, or as background during my working…
I have this strange habit of buying games I'm afraid to play. That is to say, I really like the idea of a game, I'll buy it, then get quickly overwhelmed by everything you can do, and then one of two things happen. I completely stop playing because, well, I don't know what to do I constantly start and restart because I'm afraid to make mistakes Like, today I bought the updated version of → Wall…
... instead, judge it by the opening page. Yup, that's how I decide whether I like a book or not. Not by the cover (though it helps, I am attracted by bright shiny things), but by just how much the opening few lines grab my attention. You can tell a lot from first impressions when you're meeting new people, and according to that article above, that first impression is made within the first few…
Much as I love watching football, there's nothing like listening to a game on the radio. This evening the penultimate game of the Scottish Premiership it taking place. Hearts can become champions for the first time in 66 years, and the first team outside of the Old Firm to win the league since 1985, if Celtic lose away at Motherwell. At the time of me writing this Hearts are 2-0 up against…
Oh marvellous. As if being a photographer isn't hard enough these days, here's Meta and their latest range of spy glasses to speed up the race to the bottom. Your girlfriends bottom, possibly. I was just reading on the BBC News ( 'Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever' ) about another innovative way to be a dick with a camera. Streep photography is hard…
Not a lot happening today at work, so the week has gotten off to a distinctly sluggish start. We had the sprint reviews, five in total which pretty much took up most of the morning. In the afternoon no meetings so a chance to work on some fun projects at work, as well as getting Claude to code me up a new template based on Tumblr/Twitter (see Ink Polaroids - The BearBlog! - it needs a bit of work…
I was thinking - imagine if humanity ended today, like a mass extinction effect, everyone gone in a meteor strike or another virus, or nuclear annihilation, but we left behind just enough evidence of our existence, and then when the world has recovered in 65 million years, and there's been another evolutionary cycle and humans return, would we do the same thing? Would we end up with the same…