Marc Settle

All the guys *actually* called Andrew Windsor have long been dreading this moment.

Put your headphones on and keep walking …

The post from secret London says “An immersive new museum dedicated to maths has opened in London - featuring code-breaking, experiments, challenges, and more” and the questions underneath say “ is mathsworld Museum a permanent exhibit?”

I’m sure it’ll win out in the long run but Meta’s AI just took away a click I would otherwise have given to a page on Facebook.
This was a good “curiosity gap” from Secret London, omitting the name of the museum… rather undermined by the suggested questions from Meta AI.

Neat trick - use the zoom on the iPhone 17 pro to help tell you the time.

Apologies for the lack of alt text: it shows a door in a hotel and the number of the room is 1114

I appear to be in Beethoven Fifth’s room.

I used to bring a little portable radio to games. I might doing that start again!

So who ELSE knew that Italians call Munich “Monaco of Bavaria”?
Can any Italians verify that…?

In the past, i’d bring a radio but not any more - and streaming on BBC sounds etc is impossible!

It has got worse, definitely. I’m not saying the games are so bad that I want to catch up on my emails, but it would be nice to be able to speak to mates who aren’t at the game about what they’re seeing on TV etc

It’s great that the *team* went 4g - I wish my phone would! Is connectivity as bad in the East Lower as in the rest of the ground? I never get a signal…

Curious that the Met Office’s one-icon weather summary for Thursday is “dark cloud & lots of rain” when the detailed forecast says that’ll happen 0100-0400 and the rest of Thursday looks to be quite nice.

Random discovery of the day.
The boundary of Kansas City, Missouri has real echoes of Marge Simpson.

With all ~this~ going on in the world <gesturing wildly>, I don’t know whether to be pleased or confused that the top story as shown on Google Chrome is about the temporary closure of a McDonalds somewhere in Sussex.

It’s the one I got when I signed up for AppleTV. But my point is that on the very rare occasions I’ve taken out subscriptions to apps, I don’t recall being asked if I wanted to opt out of renewal emails. So I don’t know if this is common practice…or Apple being a bit dodgy.

I don’t take out many subscriptions so I don’t know how common this is…but this seems a little dodgy “dark pattern” from Apple?
Under the guise of receiving fewer emails, the happy financial by-product for Apple would be me not getting a reminder about cancelling my subscription. 🤨

He’s a great guy - a rarity at the bbc ;-)

It was a very enjoyable conversation with Conor who I know from our time at the BBC. I remain though mystified by his use of the phrase “give it socks” which I have genuinely never heard before!

Ditto

I wonder what the Venn diagram is of “people who hate the idea of football matches from European leagues being played outside Europe” and “people who love that the Grand Sumo Tournament is taking place in London and not Tokyo”?

A little reward for submitting a bug report for iOS 26.1 beta 2

It hadn’t caused any problems by the time I found it and given I explained to my mum what the problem was, I’m hoping it won’t be happening again.

Goodbye (Mr) Clips.

I haven’t opened it let alone used it in years but Apple have given up on their short-form video editing app.

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The photo shows two iPhone plugs with the charging cable connecting them both. In other words the cable is not being used to power anything but merely to connect the two plugs, totally pointlessly.

My elderly mother asked me to come over and help sort out problems with her iPhone and “other technical issues”
This one made me laugh.

Obviously the wider ramifications of global warming are broadly not good, but it’s currently 18°c and sunny on the south coast of England. On October 8th.

Obviously the wider ramifications of global warming are broadly not good, but it’s currently 18°c and sunny on the south coast of England and it’s lovely.

The beta of iOS 26.1 has a useful extra feature for mojo - but I’ve already sent feedback to Apple about it.
In the control centre there’s a new Audio Input slider (gain control) for external mics.
But if volume & brightness are up high, it’s very hard to see and therefore use properly.

Not available on iPlayer as of now

What an honour! It’s a fun programme to work on, which I did for many years in the 2000s. The only downside was getting up at 4:30 on a Sunday morning…

I am watching the meme.