A couple of weeks ago I made an appointment with Apple to get the battery on an old Macbook Air replaced. I like that laptop a lot: the keyboard doesn’t suck, it actually has more than one external port, and it’s capable enough for work purposes. Still, Apple is Apple, and so the latest Xcode… Continue reading Planned Obsolescence
Month: August 2021
Bye Bye Blue Bird
I think I’m mostly done with Twitter. My reasons for this are in no way unique – they amount, more or less, to the standard criticisms of Twitter that have been expressed many times over. It has evolved to the point where my timeline consisted mostly of promoted tweets; suggested topics (based on a laughably… Continue reading Bye Bye Blue Bird
The Return of Fungus Fotos
The previous iteration of this blog had a collection of photos of fungi. Here’s to starting over.
‘Zoom lens’
Held my iPhone up to the binoculars lens, which created a neat effect.
I take this photo every year
And it never gets old.