I finally bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago and started creating video content for YouTube, TikTok and instagram. I don’t love it - I’m not very good I don’t think. But it’s not as terrible an experience as I thought it would be.
Nick Broughall.
Writing again.
Tech journalist with 20+ years behind me. Running BTTR.reviews. Writing here about everything else — music, family, food, the odd rant, and the weird stuff in between.
Finished watching His Dark Materials tonight. It’s one of my favourite books, so I had high expectations.
I loved it.
Mary Malone’s story in the last episode just pulled me apart, and then the ending was emotionally exhausting…
Dafne Keen was incredible as Lyra. After what happened with The Golden Compass, I’m so glad this show got made.
I am really keen to play Star Wars Outlaws. Regardless of the reviews, I’m pretty sure it’s exactly my style of game.
But, I only started Jedi Survivor not that long ago. It’s going to be a while before I get to Outlaws…
Had my busiest day in ages today. Highlight was definitely having an intimate meal cooked for me by Rodney Dunn, the founder of Australia’s best restaurant, the Agrarian Kitchen, to showcase a new AEG cooktop.
It was delicious.
Disney cancelled the Acolyte.
Damn.
Wasn’t a perfect show, but Manny Jacinto was incredible as The Stranger and I want to see more of him in that role.
I’m enjoying Ghost a month after migration
So it has been about a month since I began migrating BTTR from Wordpress to Ghost. I’m still fixing things and tidying up errors and SEO issues I keep finding …
Continue reading →A great (yet depressing) article from The Telegraph on how algorithms are making it harder for bands to succeed.
Asked for a quote from a tech company for an article, and the quote was “There is ample information available on the internet that outlines the benefits of (the topic I was asking about)”.
Yes, friend. But I wanted you to tell me so I could quote YOU.
That’s a swing and a miss, right there…
Did a bunch of work to finish the migration from .com.au to .reviews today, and somehow (I know exactly what it was… now) borked my email. Fixed now, but missed a few hours in there.
Ninja Woodfire event in Bundanoon
Got to spend a lovely night down at Bundanoon for a Ninja Woodfire event. It was pretty impressive watching a professional chef use the Ninja Woodfire grill. …
Continue reading →Archery is the greatest Olympic sport and you can’t change my mind.
Had a nice week away in Orange last week. Here are some pics.
In hindsight, trying to activate an eSIM on my mobile account during the CrowdStrike outages wasn’t my finest decision.
How L.A. Noire Conquered The Uncanny Valley With Aussie Technology Depth Analysis (Gizmodo Republish)
With the shuttering of Gizmodo Australia, I’m pulling a few of my favourite articles over here for safekeeping. Hopefully this won’t upset any of the Copyright …
Continue reading →Red Dead Redemption Hands On: So I Want To Be A Cowboy (Gizmodo republish)
With the shuttering of Gizmodo Australia, I’m pulling a few of my favourite articles over here for safekeeping. Hopefully this won’t upset any of …
Continue reading →I want to go back and republish a handful of my Gizmodo articles here so they don’t disappear from the Internet. Discovered that some have lost my byline already, which sucks.
Thoughts on the end of Gizmodo Australia
I wrote a thing on Linked about Pedestrian’s decision to shutter Gizmodo (and other titles). Because I don’t trust the algorithm, I’m going to …
Continue reading →Went for a walk and a coffee in the Botanic Gardens yesterday. Just after we saw these kangaroos, we came across a guy holding a GoPro camera. He came up to us and asked us (with a European accent of some description) if we had seen any kangaroos, and when we told him we had and pointed out where we had seen them, he excitedly exclaimed, “awesome!”
I hope he saw them, I’m still thinking about him.
I just published my 100th product review on BTTR. Gonna have a little party on my own tonight to celebrate.
So BTTR seems to have a problem with the Rest API today and I have no idea how to fix it. Or why it decided to bug out on me. Let’s see what the tech support guy says.
Went to the opening of the new Nepean river walk at Camden today. It was a really gorgeous day for it, and a really nice walk. Got to watch the gliders come in to land at Camden airport as well.
We’ve had to replace our car’s windscreen for the past two years. Fortunately, our insurance offers one free windscreen replacement a year.
Over the past week, we have suddenly had three (!) new chips appear in the windscreen. Insurance renewal is due next week.
Coincidence or fate?
Just phenomenal stuff here, folks. Every time someone like me reports on Google’s AI getting something wrong, we’re training the AI to be wronger.
Elizabeth Lopatto, Google still recommends glue for your pizza, The Verge
I really can’t wait for all the AI hype to die off. Sure, there are situations where AI can be helpful, but most of it is just crap, and the lofty promises of the technology will likely never become reality.
But I particularly want the idea of AI in search results to die. It’s a completely inappropriate use of the technology, given it can’t (and will likely never will be able to) discern fact from fiction.
Loved the first two episodes of The Acolyte. It’s so good to see. New side of Star Wars that doesn’t involve the Empire or Skywalkers
I ate all of this. It was incredible.
