This week I have learned: the sheer delight of proper remote workingthe sheer delight of purchase order processinghow there might be opportunity to use sentiment analysis to drive real data into customer journey mapshow people light up when they are asked to look at problems in human terms.I know a frightening number of sitcomsYou can't … Continue reading Weeknote 482 – May. Maybe not.
Ah, the Beastie Boys. I never much cared for the hooligan early years, but by Check your Head I was a fully paid up member of the fan club if such a thing had existed and I had bothered to join. I saw them at Glastonbury around this time, I think performing just after Bjork … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1992
Every so often, the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field switches. Geomagnetic reversal is a phenomenon that seems to happen at random, and has been observed through a natural records as having occurred 183 times in the last 83 million years. In the "list of stuff that I would worry about (but not unduly) at … Continue reading The world turned upside down?
This week I have learned: Oh, there is so much to think about when it comes to what comes after lock down. So it's good that there are some great people willing to think about it... Mary McKenna is "Berocca in Human Form"Cardstock Virtual worked well.Oh boy I'm looking forward to going to the supermarket … Continue reading Weeknote 481: Collaborative
Funnily enough, although the late teens were about guitar music, my university years saw me start to get back into electronica and hip hop. The Orb’s amazing ambient work Adventure’s Beyond the Ultraworld was one of the pieces of music that helped me on that journey. When I started at Loughborough, I was super keen … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1991
Amidst all of the horror and the madness, the recurring theme of "The will change the world of work forever" keeps popping up on my various timelines. There's no doubt that a number of assumptions about who can and can't work remotely have been crushed in the past few weeks. Although that will be little … Continue reading What comes next? The New Abnormal
This week I have learned: #CoffeeRorschach is probably the silliest thing I've done in a while, but it gives me great amusement.That multiple video thing in Zoom. Can't work out if it's useful or just a pleasing gimmick.This "event" is giving an opportunity to examine sacred cows.It's very easy to slip into not doing any … Continue reading Weeknote 480: Coffee
If there’s one album that perfectly encapsulates the guitar music of Britain’s indie scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is it. Jangly, cute, poppy but maybe slightly sad. It was music like this that led me into my University days up in Loughborough. https://open.spotify.com/album/6CmJJCI3lOn5XVZ68hP9kY You can see the #51for50 … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1990
A Simon Heath-inspired trio of Easter bunnies The week in photos:
The final of the late 1980s trilogy is The The’s Mindbomb, Matt Johnson’s fourth album and to my mind his best. Working with Johnny Marr, late of The Smiths, created a wonderful piece of work, sensual and political. Quiet and loud. Structured and abstract. At the end of my first attempt at A Levels, I … Continue reading 51 for 50 – 1989
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