I really liked this take from Ed Zitron on why Zuckerberg is a terrible CEO. But it was this part about the future of Facebook and Instagram that really resonated: They will likely become unpopular, forgotten products - unimaginable even a year ago - that are so desperate to try and trick you into consuming content that they’ve forgotten that real people even use the app. Source The line about forgetting real people use the apps is key, and one of the reasons I quit those platforms. Continue reading →

A pretty spectacular moon over the house as I took the bins out tonight… 📷🌑

It was so nice to have a warm, sunny day today. We are more than halfway through Spring and we were still using the heater last week thanks to all the rain and miserable weather.

Hopefully, it lasts longer than a week so the ground can dry out too!

Was straining the moisture out of some roast pumpkin in a tea towel. Strained so hard I popped a hole in the towel and pumpkin squirted across the kitchen. Oops. That’s not how it described it in the recipe.

It absolutely blew my mind last week when I randomly had my work Mac and my personal Mac running side by side and my mouse cursor just travelled from one screen to the next. Related: I now have a 3-screen setup.

The winners of the Finder Innovation Awards 2022 have been announced, with Aussie Broadband and The BioVerse Group winning big. The post Aussie Broadband and The BioVerse Group big winners at the 2022 Finder Innovation Awards appeared first on finder.com.au. Continue reading →

Teenagers are so exhausting. It’s like having a toddler again, except he talks back every time.

Playing Skyrim: The Adventure Game. Not gonna lie, it’s a bit of a learning curve with the kids. But it’s still pretty epic.

When the first smart speakers launched in Australia, I was so filled with excitement. I lusted for the idea of a home I could talk, which could turn even my three bedder into Tony Stark’s Malibu mansion. I was fortunate enough to be able to test just about everything that launched in that first year. From Google Home to Amazon’s Echo family, plus a bunch of products from brands that should have done better than they did, like Sony and Panasonic. Continue reading →

It’s been a long time since a Friday afternoon beer went down as easily as that one. I think it probably reflects my past week more than anything else though.

Despite my children reaching an age that they are somewhat independent, they are still mostly dependent. And this is best exemplified by the weekday morning routine. Despite the fact that I wake up at 6:30am every Monday to Friday, I don’t get to think about anything other than The Routine until almost 9am. Two and a half hours spent working to make sure my children are fed, watered and ready to be educated. Continue reading →

Sweet, sweet relief peppered with mild panic is apparently today’s emotional range.

🎲 Opening up the door and discovering my copy of the new Skyrim board game had been delivered was quite the start to the day!

I’ve spent a fair amount of time today having deeper thoughts about being in my 40s and constantly feeling like shit. When I say “feeling like shit”, I do not mean “unwell”, by the way. I mean the never-ending feeling of impending doom and disappointment; the silent strangulation of happiness that fills my waking thoughts. A lot of this is just me working through my thoughts on Matt Rudd’s book Man down. Continue reading →

Finished reading: Man Down by Matt Rudd 📚

This book helped. I feel a little less lost, though I’m not yet certain of my next steps.

Definitely worth a read if, like me, you feel like life in your 40s isn’t what you hoped or expected it to be.

Listening to the cast recording of the Aussie Jesus Christ Superstar from the 90s for the first time in years and am shocked I still remember more than 3/4 of the words. My son is mortified.

Gotta love a message from your bank at 11pm on a Saturday night saying your credit card may have been used for nefarious purposes… now waiting for the call from the fraud team. So tired.

📺 Now I’ve seen the season finale of Rings of Power, I’m really looking forward to rewatching the whole thing to pick up on all the hints I missed first time around as to who was who and what was what.

Thoroughly enjoyed season 1. Don’t want to wait for season 2.

With the sun shining for the first time in a while, I walked my daughter to and from school the past couple of days.

And now my hip is aching.

I do not like this “getting older” thing at all.

Day in the life: Mt Annan, NSW Australia. Still can’t believe all this space is less than 5 minutes from home.