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Nov 10, 2024: Week note #2 : W45 I’m a couple of days late writing this, but I did say that it might not be as regular as my other writing. I have an excuse: I’ve been travelling. …

Oct 31, 2024: Week note #1 : W44 I haven’t been posting much here for reasons I can’t quite explain. But as it’s not a commercial adventure and really only a personal space to put …

Sep 28, 2024: I finally bought a decent coffee grinder after months of unsuccessfully trying to find one on the island. People will hype them as “game-changing,” …

Sep 28, 2024: BBC: Met Police launch plans to be “truly anti-racist and inclusive”. Yeah sure. We believe you this time. 28 September 2024 — French West Indies

Sep 16, 2024: I’m trying to figure out where I was when the memo was passed around asking everyone to use the word “obligated” rather than the existing, perfectly …

Sep 11, 2024: Facebook continues insisting on being an awful Internet citizen. Surreptitiously scraping data to train its AI models since 2017unless legislation …

Sep 5, 2024: What a wonderful sunset we had tonight. I was tempted to get the camera out and take a picture postcard photo. But something told me to sit, relax, …

Aug 6, 2024: Please stop using the word content, as in “content creator”, “creative content”, or “content”. You are commoditising your work, your time, and your …

Aug 5, 2024: I’m currently reading Number Go Up by Zeke Faux. Anyone who is deep into, holds, uses or otherwise is connected to the running of this “industry” is …

Jul 15, 2024: Despite the discussion about LLM training data and the rights to train this data, a fundamental question about consent is often ignored. Much of the …

Jul 4, 2024: With news that Threads has reached 175 MAUs, this is an interesting waypoint in its life worth keeping an eye on. Currently, Thread is an ad-free and …

Jun 12, 2024: Social Media and general online commentary are about to get even more vacuous, irrational, wrong and just plain stupid. With around 50% of new iPhone …

Jun 11, 2024: The long-term outcomes and the impacts on the economy, society, and politics clearly show that neoliberalism has failed. It has been a disaster and a …

Jun 4, 2024: In other words, Threads likely wants to be a monetization center for online creators and eventually compete with Patreon. Human Generated Content: …

May 28, 2024: Heads up. Here’s the real reason the Caribbean cannot dig itself out of the hole that it has been forced into for over 400 years: SIDS drowning in …

May 3, 2024: Never forget. Cory Doctrow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr), writing on pluralistic.net: Together, they represent a multi-front war on the very idea that four …

May 2, 2024: Blogrolls are cool again I’ve tried blogging on and off for years, possibly decades. It has never stuck. These last couple of years or so, I have been more consistent and …

Apr 27, 2024: Au revoir Apple Watch I’ve bought three Apple Watches since its introduction, spending a total of around 1000 € not including a few bands that I bought to change things …

Apr 23, 2024: No Logitech, I don’t want or need an AI prompt system attached to the mouse software wasting GPU uselessly. At least make it so we can switch that …

Apr 16, 2024: When Facebook (or Meta if you believe they have changed purpose) first proposed the EU-only pay-for-no-ads subscriptions to their “products”, there …

Apr 15, 2024: Normal person reading Science Fiction novel: “Oh wow, cool story. Not reality however because of a million and one flaws and oversights in physics, …

Apr 6, 2024: Every now and again, I get to show people around this Island in the middle of the Caribbean. I have friends over from the UK at the moment and I got …

Mar 29, 2024: If you’ve been following along the Beyoncé/Country Music thing, I recommend reading this article: Vason named the rodeo in honor of Bill Pickett, a …

Mar 27, 2024: From TechCrunch: Facebook (Meta) is essentially a cybercriminal organisation *My headline In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to …

Mar 27, 2024: BBC: Public satisfaction with the NHS has dropped again, setting a new low recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey. Just 24% …

Mar 26, 2024: Burning the planet to a cinder is the answer to getting fans to buy your music? …

Mar 18, 2024: I spent the weekend replacing an ageing Apple Airport wifi network with some fancy gear from Ubiquiti. I should have done this ages ago, but I’m glad …

Mar 7, 2024: So much of the Internet is now a Hobson’s choice, that we’ve lost what its purpose was. 7 March 2024 — French West Indies

Mar 6, 2024: Generative AI accountability Should owners of GenAI machines be made responsible for their outputs? I’m not sure whether I entirely agree with that statement, but I think a more …

Mar 3, 2024: Shipwreck 3 March 2024 — French West Indies

Mar 2, 2024: They say RSS died years ago, killed by Google. Lol. https://rss-is-dead.lol/ 2 March 2024 — French West Indies

Feb 27, 2024: La Fondation du Rien Aren’t we all in need of this? 27 February 2024 — French West Indies

Feb 26, 2024: “FineWoven cases are junk, say majority, sharing photos of peeling and scratches.” From 9to5Mac. I’d argue that pretty much all of Apple’s recent accessories are junk these days. The quality and longevity have generally nosedived …

Feb 25, 2024: Splash 25 February 2024 — French West Indies

Feb 23, 2024: Welcome Back This is the first post of a completely new blog based on the old blog that used to reside here. I recently went through a complete overhaul of all my …

Sep 2, 2023: Meta May Allow Instagram and Facebook Users in Europe to Pay to Avoid Ads Via The New York Times: The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta’s data-collection practices. …

Aug 5, 2023: Facebook/Meta and highly personalised ads in the EU Highly personalised ads imply highly personalised data about you. Despite what Facebook/Meta and the intrusive advertising apologists say, collecting, …

Aug 2, 2023: Digital Colonialism in action We’ll just walk in here, do what we want and won’t ask permission. Look over there, free money! From the BBC: “The Kenyan government has ordered …

Aug 1, 2023: A world slowly going mad The FT reports that Meta is about to introduce chatbots with different “personas” as a retention ploy. Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to …

Jul 28, 2023: The Metaverse: Just around the corner (if the corner is a galactic-sized outer arm) Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half - BBC News “He said work on the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology …

Jul 25, 2023: Digital IDs and Shitcoins Step 1: Create an AI that accelerates its adoption and forces the creation of AGI. Step 2: Roll out an iris-scanning tool capturing the biometric …

Jun 4, 2023: I’m a British subject not proud of it From the Conversation: In announcing the scheme, then home secretary Amber Rudd apologised for her government’s appalling treatment of the Windrush …

May 25, 2023: Hallucinations are not limited only to GenAI, they are also the domain of its creators During an onstage interview with Sam Altman with Azeem Azhar, as reported by the Verge: “My basic model of the world is that the cost of intelligence …

May 24, 2023: AI hallucinations I should have linked to this article from Naomi Klein in the Gruaniad a while back. AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are. If …

May 23, 2023: “Officer Naughty” From the Grauniad: What a twisted little egotistical world we occupy currently. ‘It’s ok, as long as I’m alright.’ Dreadful. “While under …

May 6, 2023: Not My King 6 May 2023 — French West Indies

May 3, 2023: Rumours of a new journaling app in iOS According to the WSJ, Apple is planning on releasing a journaling app that competes with existing apps: The software will compete in a category of …

Apr 30, 2023: Take your coronation and shove it I, for one, will not be pledging allegiance to “the King”. Royalty is essentially a criminal enterprise and always has been. The gangs of the past …

Apr 28, 2023: The Guardian: Meloni praises Sunak’s immigration policies on visit to No 10 From the Guardian: Not the kind of endorsement that I’d be comfortable with —more of an indication of just how far right the UK has shifted in recent …

Apr 24, 2023: A tale of two headlines From BBC News 24/04/2023: Also, from the same day: Both of these presenters got fired. Sacked. Booted out. I’ll leave it up to you to spot the …

Apr 6, 2023: Repeating the mistakes of AI past With the current news cycle being dominated by all things ChatGPT and AI, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit a book I first read in …

Apr 5, 2023: The open blockchain, my arse! More like Fraudola. In a Bloomberg article by Nick Baker called An NFT Just Sold for $532 Million, But Didn’t Really Sell at All, we see that transactions on blockchains …

Mar 30, 2023: WSJ: Meta to Let Users Opt Out of Some Targeted Ads, but Only in Europe From the Wall Street Journal. Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to let European users of Facebook and Instagram opt out of certain highly personalized …

Mar 14, 2023: Platformer: Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams What was I saying about that Silicon Valley mantra again? From Platformer: Some members of the team pushed back. “I'm going to be bold enough to ask …

Mar 13, 2023: First, drive people apart. Then sell them tech to bring them together. But only on our terms. And monetised. While I’m on the topic of bullshit and the onanistic nature of Silicon Valley, it seems the “metaverse” is dying on its arse. Fucking good riddance to …

Mar 13, 2023: “Move fast and break things”. - Silicon Valley’s mantra. I call bullshit. It’s been the mantra for some time now in the valley. Everyone benefits by moving fast and breaking a couple of things because we move faster at a …

Feb 2, 2023: Facebook tests deliberately drain phone batteries As reported by 9to5 Mac from an article in the New York Post —I’ll leave you to make up your own mind about that— Facebook seems to have been …

Jan 30, 2023: The End of Writing From ia.net. Soon, you won’t need to write much anymore. Artificial Intelligence will do it for you. With all the free time we will have, we could try …

Jan 24, 2023: The enshittification of air travel Ever since the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001, the airlines and various states’ security organisations trusted with guaranteeing …

Jan 20, 2023: Apple AirTag tracks a big detour of luggage In an article on Apple Insider, a couple of Air Canada passengers followed their luggage after it was lost for several days. To their surprise, the …

Jan 18, 2023: Revenue haemorrhage at Twitter. From The Information: A senior Twitter manager told employees that the company’s daily revenue on Tuesday was 40% lower than the same day a year ago, …

Jan 16, 2023: The Before. A curated playlist of samples and originals I’ve been having a lot of fun curating a playlist of songs and the corresponding tracks they sampled from. Well, that’s not entirely fair. Some of the …

Jan 14, 2023: Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio Via Ars Technica: On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice …

Jan 11, 2023: AI is coming for the Lawyers too The term “low-hanging fruit” tends to invoke a particular disdain from me, given that it has been overused throughout the tech bro sphere. Still, I …

Jan 10, 2023: A turning point for Social Media? I’m wondering if this is a turning point for Social Media. There’s a confluence of factors that are starting to bite. And it doesn’t look like it will …

Jan 8, 2023: From nested fiction to reality: The story of (allegedly) skimming $300K From The Verge: Like Superman III 8 January 2023 — French West Indies

Jan 7, 2023: A brief history of maps From archdaily: Source: Wikimedia Commons When in what was called Junior School at the time, ages 7 to 10, our teacher took us to a small village and …

Jan 6, 2023: How Apple Daisy de-manufacturing machines battle e-waste From Wallpaper: Image source: Apple Daisy. Daisy… 6 January 2023 — French West Indies

Jan 5, 2023: The more social, social network There’s a number which is called Dunbar’s Number. It’s around 150 or so. It’s a significant number in that it seems to indicate that, as humans, we …

Jan 4, 2023: Key Bitcoin developer calls on FBI to recover $3.6M in digital coin Via Ars Technica: The irony! Oh, wait. We need a centralised system to police the blockchain thieves now! Seriously, why do they think the banks and …

Jan 4, 2023: Exodus, movement of Jah people The mass exodus to Mastodon continues. Over 9 million accounts were created, with 113,393 new users last week (see bot): 4 January 2023 — French West …

Jan 3, 2023: The Dark Risk of Large Language Models From Wired: Unless you’ve been hiding, in a coma, or purposefully ignoring Social Media, you will have seen the explosion of the use of GPT-3 through …

Jan 2, 2023: “what the fuck happened to my FTX account” Poor guy woke up from a 5-month coma after a car accident to find that FTX had shit the bed. Anecdotal and to be taken with a pinch of salt. 2 January …

Jan 2, 2023: What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? From The Honest Broker: So many businesses and industries could learn a lot from this. Every time you go into a big chain store, you feel that …

Dec 31, 2022: Simple pleasures I’m sitting here listening to music at a volume I deem perfect, with a freshly brewed espresso. The house is empty, apart from me. And it is sheer …

Dec 30, 2022: I don’t make predictions … … but I do think that Social Media, in general, will come to a reckoning over the next year or so. There’s building evidence of it being a net …

Dec 29, 2022: “There is only one Pelé” From the Guardian: João Saldanha, the coach who helped shape that 1970 side, once said: “Ask me who is the best right-back in Brazil, and I’ll say …

Dec 29, 2022: “What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.” Buying Instagram is best understood as part of a long pattern of Mark Zuckerberg coercing others into giving him power. From his days as a 19 year old …

Dec 28, 2022: AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection CBR.com: The United States Copyright Office (USCO) reversed an earlier decision to grant a copyright to a comic book that was created using "A.I. …

Dec 26, 2022: Ask, and ye shall receive File this under “I did not know that.” If you’re a researcher and you happen upon a scientific paper that you’re interested in reading, and it’s found …

Dec 25, 2022: That Steph Curry Video I don’t know if you’ve seen the video, but it is damn impressive. But I had doubts. Turns out, for a good reason: How to Use Physics to Tell If That …

Dec 23, 2022: A grain of sand [youtu.be/M2_eKX9iV...](https://youtu.be/M2_eKX9iVME) See more here. 23 December 2022 — French West Indies

Dec 23, 2022: Oops. It wasn’t just account information… It was your passwords too! The Verge: If you have an account you use to store passwords and login information on LastPass, or you used to have one and hadn’t deleted it before …

Dec 21, 2022: It’s only going to get worse According to the Guardian, “Cheating in professional exams is still a ‘live’ issue at the UK’s biggest audit firms, the accountancy watchdog warned.” …

Dec 19, 2022: Another “End of Era”: Terry Hall His voice and the Specials were part of the sound when we were growing up. Saddened to hear of his passing. The story behind Gangsters is interesting …

Dec 19, 2022: End of an era: The final Boeing 747 is delivered after 50 years of production Reduced to a cargo plane today, this was probably the most important plane ever designed, developed and put into production. I flew on one once, maybe …

Dec 18, 2022: Freedom For a specific class, freedom always means freedom to do and say what they want, not what anyone else does or says. As the owner of a private …

Dec 15, 2022: The Same Old Logical Conclusion Despite the odd way it works —and the new, sometimes, infantile terminology— Mastodon feels a lot like Twitter when I first joined in 2009, but I …

Dec 14, 2022: The Line I Will Not Cross Yesterday I wrote about how I’d likely dial-down Twitter use, but not leave the platform. Then this: Forcing me to give my location AND opt-in to …

Dec 13, 2022: Not particularly social According to Insider Intelligence, as reported in the Grauniad, Twitter will likely lose 30 million users over the next two years. To put that into …

Dec 12, 2022: Crypto or Criminal? It is getting harder to tell whether Crypto actually means “Criminal”. Take this Reuters article, for instance (emphasis mine): The charges under …

Dec 11, 2022: Experiences and Timelines I had an odd experience last night. I say odd, but that’s making it sound more dramatic than it is on closer inspection. I’m an ex-pat and have been …

Dec 10, 2022: Hold my beer The world: “Surely it can’t get much worse than this now?” SBF: “Hold my beer…” …

Dec 9, 2022: Themes If you listen to many podcasts in the tech space, particularly where a lot of Apple discussion takes place, you won’t have missed a podcast called …

Dec 8, 2022: Design is how things work. Not how they look. In a New York Times article in 2003, Steve Jobs was quoted as saying: Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” says …

Apr 16, 2021: Marketing problem Science doesn’t have an execution problem. Science has a marketing problem. Conspiracies and fake news don’t have a marketing problem. Conspiracies …

Apr 15, 2021: Internet fanboy I’ve been an internet fanboy for as long as I can remember —at least, as long as I learnt there was a big network of computers that we could all use, …

Apr 13, 2021: M1 Happy Oh, my! I’m so happy with the new MacBook Air M1. It is everything that everyone said it was. The processor, the speed, the weight. The quality is …

Apr 8, 2021: It’s always them There’s and old saying in the Information Technology industry to describe the situation when the network is not working properly. It’s the DNS. It’s …

Apr 5, 2021: On talking about Apple Music The app is an absolute unadulterated piece of shit. It’s buggy. It’s slow. Furthermore, it has a mind its own. Likewise, it manages virtually nothing …

Apr 4, 2021: Less is most likely more The answer to the problems created by technology is almost certainly not more technology. The likes of Facebook would have you believe that more …

Apr 1, 2021: A missed opportunity for Apple and Apple Music 🤷‍♂️ Despite being criticised, and rightly so for some products, much hi-fi equipment is far from being snake oil. It tends to follow the laws of …

Mar 31, 2021: It’s the little things No, scrap that. It’s the major things that make a difference. It is an absolute pleasure to no longer think about the battery drain of a powerful …

Mar 30, 2021: Thoughts on Clubhouse I got on to Clubhouse, so you don’t have to. It is actually a fascinating idea but one I can’t quite adhere to fully for numerous reasons, some of …

Nov 20, 2020: The origins of Rosetta(2) probably lie in a little-known technology from 1996 called FX!32 Unless you’re a hermit or not in any way linked to the tech industry, you’ll be aware that Apple has released its in-house designed processors to …

Nov 18, 2020: Virtual or Physical Civil War? In my timeline of doom and gloom, I put forward my theory that the recent divisions in societies around the world would push them into civil war. In …

Nov 15, 2020: Software is indeed, eating the world When Marc Andreessen famously wrote that software is eating the world, it was seen as both a love letter to the tech industry and an alarm of the …

Nov 4, 2020: Time for all Internet comments to be switched off? This article from John Dario resonates with me when I read it this morning. It's not that comments are unwanted by or in itself. Internet assumptions …

Nov 3, 2020: Election Day USA Never have I had any misgivings about the authenticity and verity of an election. For more than forty years I have been nothing but a believer of the …

Nov 2, 2020: 2020 Tropical Cyclone Season. Nearly over, but not quite. A truly breathtaking season that thankfully resulted in few storms directly hitting us here in the Caribbean. The US, particularly Louisiana, didn’t …

Jul 22, 2020: After the first real TW, comes the first real TS Genuinely a worrying image to see when you live in the Caribbean. For the best sources to follow and to learn about how these predictions are done, …

Jul 7, 2020: The first (real) Tropical Wave of the season As many of you will know, I live in the Caribbean. And apart from its idyllic setting sometimes, we do have 3 major potential natural disasters to …

Jul 5, 2020: These companies constantly prostitute the notion of the First Amendment From Fast Company’s interview with Scott Galloway: Fast Company: What do you think about Mark Zuckerberg’s relationship with Donald Trump? Scott …

Jul 4, 2020: My timeline of doom and gloom. Here’s hoping I’m wrong! I wrote in one of my recent newsletters that I had started to form a bigger picture of the events that are happening around the world currently. I …

Jun 8, 2020: A few thoughts I don’t know about you, but it has been a particularly difficult couple of months to think clearly about things. First, the pandemic was “over there” …

May 5, 2020: Wish list for a new Magic Keyboard Just to be precise, I’m talking about the separately sold Bluetooth Magic Keyboard that comes bundled with an iMac. It’s slight, light and very …

Apr 27, 2020: More on Studio Neat’s Canopy I wrote about my love for the Studio Neat Canopy here. Literally, the only thing it lacks compared to the new iPad magic Keyboard is the different …

Apr 24, 2020: GatesNotes : The first modern pandemic A thoughtful and interesting must-read, worth all of the twenty or so minutes it’ll take you to read it in detail. Take your time and ingest. It’s …

Apr 22, 2020: The versatility of the iPad I’ve been thinking about the new iPad Magic Keyboard (iPad MK) and have a couple of thoughts I’d like to share. I get it, I really do. I’m someone who …

Dec 10, 2019: NoNaBloPoMo My self-inflicted pressure to write a blog post per day for the month of November didn’t quite go as well as I’d hoped. It did, however, confirm …

Nov 19, 2019: Depends where you look Although I haven’t been as active as I’d hoped, I’ve not been lazy. Quite the opposite in fact. I’ve written and published over 2000 words this week …

Nov 19, 2019: Ouch, 4 days! Dear oh dear! 4 days without an update despite me promising myself and anyone who read this, that I would update daily. It’s actually quite a hard …

Nov 15, 2019: Clean Shoes I love having clean, freshly polished shoes. It just shows the commitment and effort required to look after objects. I just wish I had more time to …

Nov 15, 2019: Social Sewage I originally published this nearly a year ago. I still think it holds up and is relevant today, if not more so. From The Rise of Populism Is Hurting …

Nov 13, 2019: An enjoyable experience without the BS I like photos and photography in a casual way. I’d love ot be a better photographer but I’m not sure I have the energy or the time to put in the …

Nov 13, 2019: My Apple Watch Series 5 quick take I treated myself to a new Aluminium (Space Grey) Apple Watch Series 5 a couple of days ago. I’ve been wearing it all the time, just like my …

Nov 11, 2019: Happy Armistice Day I hope you had as peaceful a day as I did. /sarcasm 11 November 2019 — French West Indies

Nov 7, 2019: 8 letter word. Abdicate. From an interview between Manoush Zomorodi (Note to Self Podcast) and David Hohusen (creator of Two Dots) in Manoush’s book Bored and Briliant. I like …

Nov 5, 2019: Birmingham, UK had one of the most vibrant record shop scenes in the country During the 70s and 80s, Birmingham became a Mecca for record stores. You could find almost anything, and what you couldn't find someone could import …

Nov 4, 2019: Intentions to realisations In trying out this idea to write and publish something everyday for a month, I inevitably had a look at some of the ideas I've had for articles, blog …

Nov 3, 2019: Every device Every device with a non-user replaceable battery should be available on a subscription bases, with manufacturers and distributers bound to recover and …

Nov 2, 2019: Only day two It’s only day two into my self-imposed folly of NaBloPoMo, and it is already difficult to find something to write about that is worth publishing. I …

Nov 1, 2019: NaBloPoMo Every November a writing challenge is started, NaNoWriMo. The goal is to write every day for the 30 days of November to complete a novel, hence the …

Oct 28, 2019: Quick takes I’m always surprised how many pundits and commentators publish comments on as yet unreleased or unavailable products. Today is a great example, Apple …

Oct 21, 2019: The Joy of Tech comic... Zuck, the Champion of Free Speech! Zuck, the Champion of Free Speech? A better perspective: www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2651.html

Oct 14, 2019: The BBC killed the paragraph Is it just me? Am I alone? The only one that thinks that the way the BBC writes it's articles is awful to read? They have taken to writing one …

Sep 20, 2019: Book recommendation I really do think you should take the time to read this book. Talking to Strangers I get to the heart of why seemingly innocuous encounters can turn …

Sep 14, 2019: U SHOOT VIDEOS? A wonderful short film worth watching on a big screen. U SHOOT VIDEOS? A Film by Morgan Cooper

Sep 12, 2019: Feeling better by effort I can’t quite put my finger on when exactly I decided to do it, but after more than a month I feel a lot better. Better physically, but better …

Sep 8, 2019: Sunday Mornings Sunday mornings is my time. I wake up early, usually around 5am, so that I can have a coffee and prepare my things for a morning ride. I’m a (Sunday) …

Sep 6, 2019: Missed opportunity On the horizon this morning, a beautiful scene of rising Cumulus clouds being lit by the warm sunrise. I couldn’t take a photo. I tried, but I …

Sep 5, 2019: (Un)LinkedIn LinkedIn is a great resource for professional use. Links to colleagues (if you’re working in an international company), articles and insights in your …

Sep 3, 2019: West Indian September Sunset One of the most beautiful periods in the year, September, gives us stunning sunsets almost daily, like tonight’s you can see above. But we know that a …

Sep 2, 2019: Dorian The scenes coming out of the Bahamas are just heartbreaking. I fear we haven’t seen the worst yet. What used to be the airport looks like the Atlantic …

Sep 1, 2019: A love letter to RSS You may be wondering what RSS is, however, if you listen to podcasts regularly then you’re using it every time your app renews the list and downloads …

Aug 31, 2019: La rentrée Here in the French West Indies, next week is La Rentrée, or Back to School. It’s a big deal not just for the kids, but also it’s a marker in the year …

Aug 31, 2018: Opinion : Google and MasterCard are not being entirely truthful I suspect Opinion : Google and MasterCard are not being entirely truthful I suspect We learnt recently via a The Verge articlethat Google and MasterCard had an …

Dec 3, 2017: Music to my ears Music to my ears Depuis mon blog : Minus453F De temps en temps je m’éloigne de la routine quotidienne pour réfléchir de toute et de n’importe quoi. …

Nov 24, 2017: Hey Siri, say Please. Image Source : http://www.mybloggerlab.com/2012/08/how-success-can-turn-pro-blogger-into.htmlHey Siri, say Please. From my blog @ …

Dec 9, 2016: #I caught iCloud Account Locked herpes I caught “iCloud Account Locked” Herpes Don’t misjudge the title, which is a little click-bait-y — perhaps a lot click-bait-y — this is in fact a …

Jan 29, 2016: Podcasts Medium post I’m sure that like many of you coming from the generation that grew up with radio, the recent Podcast boom is very welcome indeed. I listened a lot to …