2013 — 5 June: Wednesday

It's quite surreal flipping between BBC Radio 3 and NPR1 on this nice, sunny morning while my tea cools and the remaining half of a Bramley cooking apple gets zapped in readiness to adorn my morning cereal. (Use it or lose it, and it was looking rather forlorn in the fridge.)

My detailed...

... knowledge of financial markets and traders is exactly equal to my knowledge of the accuracy of the parasitical host of financial prognosticators and runes-readers who all seem full of the confidence necessary to part Joe Public (erm, that would be me) from his widower's mite. I therefore confine myself to merely listening to them with rather less than half an ear. I've just listened to an interview with the lady who's written this:

Book

But it amused me to hear that a) the American economy re-invents itself every 60 years, and b) it's now the turn of the derided "flyover" states to take their place at the Top Table (as it were).

Digging up the hatchet

The witty Clive James piece here also took me to the piece of nonsense here. Sad, unbookish, chap that I am, I recognised precisely one of the photographed celebrants.

When I read...

... stuff like this...

Example services include recommendations for TV programmes based on your previous viewing history, bookmarking programmes for later viewing, following your favourite series, pausing and resuming content between devices, and sharing interesting programmes with your online friends and family.

Chris Needham in BBC R&D blog


I reflect, sometimes glumly, how little I find myself aligned with popular culture and delivery methods.

Interesting trips...

... down GUI memory lane. (Link.)

Followed by...

... some tech consultancy from Brian as we try to get the Android plugin for DVD Profiler to behave itself and export details of my DVD collection down to my Tablet PC. It basically works, but there were some glitches while doing the manual copying (which should be a "one off" but which should also have "just worked"). Software is fine when it works, or (better yet) actually does what you want. But when the Asus Tablet is connected via USB it is not seen as a "real" or raw connection. There's some obfuscation going on (thanks, Google) that makes things needlessly tricky.

  

Footnote

1  Butterfly mind, remember? :-)