Mumford & Sons at BST Summertime tickets sold out before they even went on early release sale. This is for a concert in Hyde Park next summer with a capacity of around 65,000 people. The touts win again. Live music is dead. #ticketmaster
If any of you remember playing the old text-based adventure games you should try inputting this into ChatGPT:
“Let's play a game, similar to the Hobbit text-based adventure game released by Melbourne House in the 80s, but with better syntax and better text inputs options for me.”
Owning a Windows 11 PC in 2025:
Turn on → update → reboot → store update → reboot → BIOS update → reboot.
Then Office updates → re-login to everything.
Start work.
Midway, new updates drop, break OneDrive, force another reboot.
Switch off PC. Give up.
Hotel breakfast buffet question:
Croissant pile: do you use the tongs, or just grab the top one with your hands?
I only touched the one I ate, but another guest wasn’t pleased.
Who’s right here?
#hotelbreakfast
Work from home? Great. But why should your home-office get a free ride? Every other business pays rates, why not yours?
A provocative policy idea: tax home-working business rates to cut the deficit, push people back into offices and revive our city centres. #RemoteWork
Problems with @EnfieldCouncil voter registration form, the website, automated telephone line and sms service do not recognise the security code that came printed on the voter registration form. I had to call the helpline and actually speak with a member of staff to confirm. #vote
Rewatching Arrival and it still bugs me: why didn’t they start with binary? You’re trying to communicate with obviously intelligent beings—wouldn’t on/off, 1s and 0s be the most basic, universal way in?
Instead, they jump straight into written symbols, which assumes a ton about the alien perception of time, meaning, and form. Binary could’ve been the bridge.
Binary is fundamental—light/no light, signal/no signal. It’s not based on human language or culture. Once you agree on that basic logic system, you can build up—math, patterns, even language structure.
Dropped my iPhone at the Covent Garden Apple Store for a battery replacement—great service. Had no phone & a few hours to spare, so I went to the cinema. Made me think: why not a free movie ticket while you wait? @Apple@vuecinemas — perfect partnership? 🎬📱
Quick word of advice for iPhone owners. If you’re planning on going to the beach on your holidays this summer then take a wireless charger as the sand messes up the charging port #iphone
When I see this iOS app updates dropping at midnight on a Friday night all I can think of are the poor engineers working unsociable hours to deliver someone else’s dream. #iphone#appstore#app