𝖕𝖆𝖈𝖔 𝖍𝖔𝖕𝖊 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @paco@mastodon.org.uk

This is a test. I'll delete it later.

OMG: I've just discovered a way to use Mastodon for commenting on my blog (based on Hugo). Can't wait to try this out! https://git.wadza.fr/me/comtodon

So what is the non-Apple, non-Google fitness tracker, now that #Google bought #Fitbit?

I think this article from The Onion in 1997 anticipates the Amazon Echo Auto perfectly.

Echo Auto: https://www.techhive.com/article/3433536/amazon-echo-auto-review.html

The Onion 1997: https://www.theonion.com/new-remote-control-can-be-operated-by-remote-1819564183

@janellecshane Just heard you on Marketplace! Wow. Nice work. Somehow missed that you have written a book. Gonna go acquire it. I love your work and have spent many minutes laughing at your results (the ones that are supposed to be funny 😜) Congratulations on the book and the good coverage.

Hey look, #tories posted their plan for #Brexit. #ukpol

I ordered glasses from a local optician. $330. Nearly 4 weeks later they haven't arrived. It's a comedy of errors. In the meantime I discovered an online shop that does really great service and has a huge variety of frames from $10 on up. Finally I just cancelled my order. They offered to make me a free pair of sunglasses as compensation. But with a $330 refund I could buy glasses AND sunglasses online with money leftover. Last time I try to buy from a brick-and-mortar optician, sadly.

Just got an email from a colleague in the Netherlands. His email signs off with "Brgds / Met vriendelijke groet". It amuses me that he abbreviates "Best Regards" but he's happy to write out "Met vriendelijke groet"

My life.

Every once in a while, viewing a web site (this time the BBC) with JavaScript disabled and an ad blocker results in some pretty funny stuff.

I had a fun encounter with a seagull in #RDR2 https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption2/comments/dkrcmm/seagull_helps_me_with_the_remote_control_boat/

I’ve got a 1988 boom box hooked up to a 2019 music workstation with Logic Pro X so I can digitise some crappy songs I made back in 1991.

Something funny just happened. I was cleaning my DSLR sensor. I took a few reference photos (defocused pictures of the sky) to look for blobs or shadows from dust. Coincidentally a bug flew in front of my lens. So in one of the reference photos I nearly had a heart attack. It looked like a big black spot of dust. :)

One thing I'm noticing in America is that I'm having trouble finding:
• Beer flavoured beer
• Coffee flavoured coffee
• Jeans that look like jeans
• Cheese flavoured cheese. Well, cheese generally

Welp. Labour has voted to back a Corbyn #Brexit instead of a Tory Brexit. They've taken #Remain off the table. #Corbyn has lost me as a #Labour voter for as long as he is at the helm.

I was at an Amazon recruiting event last night and I came up with an interesting bit of advice for talking to Amazonians about your past work: if you can find a way to work a number into a sentence, it's probably to your advantage. "I worked 6 months on a web site supporting 75 internal users who filed an average of 20 support tickets a day" speaks volumes. As opposed to "I supported a busy internal IT support system". Data driven people want to hear data about your work.