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How has it been a week since I last wrote anything in the blog? I’ve been meaning to write something every day – but one thing or another has got in the way and just sitting in front of the keyboard to write has never quite happened. I’m trying to think of anything vaguely interesting…
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Ever since I can remember, my middle daughter has had her heart set on joining the police. Throughout school she read endless books, and watched innumerable television programmes – and then went on to college where she studied uniformed services – a combined course comprising law, criminology, psychology, the media, and everything else involved in…
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About seven years ago one of the first federated social networks appeared on the internet. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “federated” just means “not a walled garden” – plays nicely with others. Where Twitter and Facebook attempted to ring-fence users into a tightly controlled and monitored world, Mastodon allowed for a proliferation of worlds…
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I canceled my Amazon music subscription this evening, and re-signed with Spotify. While pulling pizza from the oven at dinner time I explained to our middle daughter what I had done – and she asked why. “Because the playlists on Spotify are so much better” The voice of our youngest shouted from the hallway: “I…
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There’s something I’ve noticed on the various social networks recently – I imagine some of you might have noticed it too – a crafty trick to do with the algorithmic timelines. People are using programming to create posts that use AI to regurgitate news stories, which then get pulled into the algorithmic timeline based on…
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Today’s writing prompt asks what the most important invention in your lifetime is. While it’s an easy question to answer – the internet – it only really makes sense if we go back and look at the story of how computers were used before the internet became widespread. Thankfully, several years ago I took part…
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Today’s writing prompt asks us to describe an ideal day, from beginning to end. I would get up and discover the bathroom mat hasn’t been left on the floor after the last person had a shower. I would also find no pile of dirty clothes hidden behind the bathroom door, and the empty toilet roll…
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Today’s writing prompt asks “how do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?” I’m going to go out on a limb for this one. I’m not sure I’ve ever been overly influenced by anything happening around me, or to me. While I’ve written in the past that we are…
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I logged into WordPress at lunchtime, expecting a writing prompt to appear – only it didn’t, because it’s not January any more. That didn’t stop a piece of the interface from sitting there and not populating with content though – because obviously Automattic suffer from the same problems every other organisation in the world does…
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Yesterday’s writing prompt (because I missed a day again, and it’s much easier than today’s writing prompt) asks “what do you complain about the most?” Where do I even start with this? There’s going to be nothing huge on my list – just a lot of little things that if added together on the same…
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