Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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No notifications
I’m pondering removing badge notifications —those little red numbers if you use iPhone— from all my apps. I already keep my phone on silent and only allow a few core apps to display a notification. I think removing the badges is the next step. I’m try to get to a state of only picking up…
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Crucial Track – 08 August 2026
“It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” by Andy Williams Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Tell us about your very favorite holiday / Christmas song. But it’s August! I guess if you buy into it, Christmas can seem like the most wonderful time of the year, and…
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Crucial Track – 21 June 2026
“Stealing Cars” by Nadine Shah Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Sometimes it's nice just to highlight a song that makes you stop what you are doing and singalong. Listen to Gordon McLean’s Apple Music playlist
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Crucial Track – 07 August 2026
“I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Live)” by U2 Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that feels like a prayer. That isn’t by Madonna? Hmmm (I mean like a prayer sure does feel uplifting, right? What a song!) In that case I’ll take a…
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Crucial Track – 06 August 2026
“California Dreamin' (Single)” by The Mamas & The Papas Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you think of your parents? My Dad loved folk music, my Mum loved pop. They had a lot more depth to their musical tastes of course —both enjoyed classical music and…
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AI, Mac Apps, Blogrolls, Substack
AI continues to be a hot topic. Be it the OpenAI/Apple spat, or the latest (clever) anti-AI pushback, or how it won’t ever attain consciousness, or how it feels to have people think your art was generated by AI when it clearly wasn’t. Elsewhere I find myself experimenting with some apps for my Mac. A…
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Mountain Bikes and Wild Fires
The heavens have opened, thunderstorms are threatened, and yet the wildfires still burn —the rain is useful but gets caught in the pine forest canopy and not enough of it falls onto the still burning peat below. It was sunny this morning though, and so I took my new shiny gorgeous mountain bike out for…
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Crucial Track – 05 August 2026
“Top of the World” by Carpenters Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel like you’re in love with the world? The first song that my Mum heard on the radio after I was born. She described it me later as "feeling like she was finally…
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It’s Raining
This is a good thing. A very good thing right now. When we arrived in Nethybridge you could see the low hanging smoke that was still rising from the remnants of the wildfires here, one area reignited yesterday too, this is far from over. But through the night and, as I type at 9:11am, it’s…