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I don’t know what spurred it but I’ve gotten back in the movie watching saddle. After not watching a film for the first two months of the year, I’ve now watched seven in March. And there’s still a week left in the month!

Another episode to add to my series of delayed realisations. My father often refers to pushy people as ‘bolshie’—I’ve just realised this’s a reference to Bolsheviks. My father was born just after the Second Wold War to a working class family. I’m not sure which was determinative.

It’s not strictly connected to the current controversy but today I moved the Facebook app off my primary home screen and replaced it with the Kindle app.

It’s only just occurred to me why a company that made storage media (I remember them from floppy disks!) was called ‘Verbatim’. As a kid, I didn’t know the word and once I did, I wasn’t seeing floppy disks any more to make the connection.

I broke down earlier this morning and checked Twitter again (I keep it stashed in a folder on my phone but try to avoid opening it). I still think at its best, it’s amazing but this morning it was chock full of ads and tweets out of order.

Not sure if I have a cold again or really severe hay fever.

My current home screen.

After a bit of a hiatus, back to hacking on blessed. Although this time, rather than submit a PR that I don’t have much faith will ever be incorporated, I’ve decided to create a drop-in replacement for the textarea and textbox widgets.

Apple Music has a playlist for every Triple J Hottest 100 list since 1993. Every playlist is in the format <Year> triple j Hottest 100 except one.

It’s weird there isn’t a Blu-Ray release for Snow Falling on Cedars.

I’m noticing a disturbing trend of men using their mobile phones while standing at urinals.

My friend Brandon has a post about his trip to Japan toward the end of last year with some truly excellent photographs.

Nothing better encapsulates the absurdity of the sexist division of labour than the notion that a woman is inherently suited to cooking a meal unless it’s served in a restaurant.

Why aren’t Yahoo Japan’s apps available outside the Japanese App Store? I don’t know.

I’m stumped as to why Safari is so shithouse at connecting to a ‘local’ server accessed via a VPN. SSH works fine. A DNS problem?

It’s astounding how good the first nine minutes of A New Hope are.

I’ve thought for a long time that Apple should release a smartband. Today I bothered to write up the argument. Here’s the 1500+ word case.

Am in the process of moving from GitHub Pages to hosting on my blog on my actual server. I assume that will make it marginally slower but I’ll enjoy having the control.

Reading about the PC-98 (via a link from @JacksonOfTrades) and struck by the similarities between Japan’s PC industry and its smartphone industry.

So here’s a book review of a children’s picture book. With no pictures!