February 10, 2020
I've been using some Bluetooth peripherals lately which has meant I've been charging my phone two or three times a week. Consequently, Peak Performance has now dropped to 95%. I suppose that's still pretty good for sixteen months. Also, I need to keep the following in mind:
I'm nowhere near that so I think the battery is still doing fine.
January 4, 2020
Nick @ Rough Type:
If Instagram showed us what a world without art looks like, TikTok shows us what a world without shame looks like. The old virtues of restraint — modesty, discretion, taste — are gone. There is only one virtue: to be seen. The future has arrived, but you don’t get fifteen minutes of fame. You get fifteen seconds.
January 1, 2020
Happy new year to everyone. Lots of new books and music are due this year.
December 29, 2019
Peak capacity drops another point to 97%. Still pretty good for fourteen months in. Still charges to 100% from 10% in 1hr & 45 mins.
December 26, 2019
All of Doctor Who Classic has landed on BritBox from today, bringing a whole host of Time Lord adventures, documentaries and more to the streaming service.
Launched this winter, the joint venture between BBC and ITV offers British TV box sets to subscribers for £4.99 a month in a bid to take on Netflix. With lots of the Beeb and ITV archives still on BBC iPlayer and Netflix, though, BritBox needs exclusive content to stand out from the crowd – and it doesn’t come more impressive than the biggest Doctor Who Classic collection ever streamed in the UK.
27 pieces of Doctor Who Classic content are available on the service, comprising episodes, spin-offs, documentaries, telesnaps and more and many rarely-seen treasures. 129 complete stories, which totals 558 episodes spanning the first eight Doctors from William Hartnell to Paul McGann, form the backbone of the collection.
Reemah Sakaan, Group Director ITV SVOD:
BritBox becoming the first complete digital home of Doctor Who Classic creates a special opportunity for fans and streamers across the UK. We are looking forward to expanding the collection even further by working with the show creators to lovingly restore lost and previously unavailable episodes in the months to come and offering a truly exclusive experience.
Sally de St Croix, Franchise Director for Doctor Who at BBC Studios adds:
It’s thrilling to partner with BritBox and see all this amazing Doctor Who Classic content congregate in one place where subscribers can stream to their hearts’ content – some experiencing the show for the first time whilst others will simply be enjoying it all over again.
The arrival of Doctor Who comes just as BritBox expands its reach: subscribers are now able to access the service on Chromecast, as well as via web, mobile, tablet and select connected TVs.
December 22, 2019
This fragrance has been out for a few years now but I've only recently discovered it. Some of the reviews are mixed but I'm looking forward to trying it out.
December 15, 2019
Back in the 1980s, British occultists in the know strove to get their hands on the releases from a series entitled Cornucopia - A Compendium Of Practical Occultism. A collection of private-press cassettes, these tapes were sound art compilations which oscillated between tales of magick, instructional spoken word, drone music and blissful ambiences that could have been described as new-age if they weren’t so intimately linked with the dark arts. This stuff comes off as woozy, often beautiful, rather than black-hearted.
The Cornucopia releases are some of those records which could easily have been lost to history. They are almost impossible to track down, even through internet search engines, and hardly any of the original copies are still in circulation. What a boon, then, that Folklore Tapes boss David Chatton Barker has managed to procure the audio of one Cornucopia volume for a new cassette release. Over two lengthy sides of tape, this record delivers a sort of hallucinatory, curious sound collage that serves as the missing link between Nurse With Wound and Hype Williams.
December 2, 2019
I thought I would take a look at Django, a high-level Python Web framework. It may prove useful going forward.
December 1, 2019
I listened to quite a lot of stuff this year. These were my favourite things in 2019. The Boards of Canada entry is a compilation of other artists they curated for the Warp 30th Anniversary so it doesn't really belong here but was extremely good.
Some are albums from decades past that I rediscovered buried in my collection - musing on memory and in the process, unearthing some things I'd rather have forgotten.
November 17, 2019
Another company promising privacy in a browser. I don't see what's so different about this compared to Firefox or Safari. Personally, I just use AdGuard which sits at the OS level meaning you are not tied to any one browser.
I think the Basic Attention Tokens that apparently run through blockchains is an interesting idea but will it take off? People don't like paying for things - that's the reason Facebook and Twitter have huge market share.