Over the past few decades I've accumulated hundreds of gigabytes of not-very-well-catalogued MP3s. They're all still sitting on my NAS, and part of me is thinking it'd be nice to get them properly organised. Another part is hovering its finger over the Delete key...

Is it really true that Logic doesn't have a chord track? That's baffling. Completely kills it for me (not that I was seriously considering switching anyway).

I like this hat, and I like this jacket, but when I wear them together I look like a racing driver.

Need to get me a pair of these so I can switch patches without accidentally stomping on two buttons at once and inadvertently activating tube-screamer mode in the middle of the breakdown.

How did I not previously notice that Tie Your Mother Down is basically an AC/DC song? (Except that it really needs another guitar in the chorus.)

Excited that our very-long-awaited ski trip (we booked in JULY) is now less than three weeks away. And look at all the facilities in our holiday apartment!

I'm not saying that LTNs are necessarily bad, but this report seems to imply that they're a success because a) there is now less traffic on roads where motor vehicles are banned and b) the corresponding increase in traffic on other roads has not been infinite.

It doesn't make much difference to my overall storage situation, but I was quite delighted earlier today to discover that, by resaving an image as a flat JPEG rather than a multi-layer PSD, I was able to reduce its size on disk from 495MB to 11MB.

The Synology BeeStation is coming in for review next week, and I'm intrigued to find out whether it's brilliant or bobbins. I can really see it going either way.

I'm not saying the 1974 Joseph is the pinnacle of good taste and restraint, but compared to the clownish 1991 one it's like a recital on the embassy lawn.

This has happened to most women, if your friends aren’t telling you about it ask yourself why they don’t trust you

I hate how this stumbling, ungrammatical construction finds its way into even quite respectable publications.

Oh hey, the Apprentice candidates just walked through City North (i.e. directly outside my front window).

I read a post this morning arguing that wet/dry mixing is NOT the same as parallel compression, and I'm still going back and forth on it.

A lot of events in my life seem quite recent until I think about what phone I had when they happened.

Editing today's podcast is proving to be fun. If you fancy a bit of entertainment (hmm) you can try to spot the anomaly where a lost half-sentence had to be, shall we say, creatively restored.

My Time Machine backups are currently occupying about 4½TB of NAS space. I have a strong suspicion that 80% of that is unnecessary copies of the Applications and Downloads folders. I guess it's hopelessly optimistic of me to ask if I can selectively remove those directories from an existing archive?

The Little Shop of Horrors debacle has got me mulling: was there ever a director's cut that was (IYHO) genuinely better than the original? I can think of Blade Runner, maybe.

I've tended to think of the cell formatting options in Excel as basically cosmetic. Today I'm revising that view, having just entered "£10.99" into a cell, only to see it silently change to "€10.99" upon my hitting Return.

Friends say it's fine – friends say it's good – so I'm trying out the Arc browser. After 15 years of Chrome it feels weird and unfamiliar, but I guess that's kind of its whole deal. I'll give it 24 hours. Tick tock.

what absolute bullshit is this

I know I'm new here, and still finding my feet and seeking out my people, but the suspicion is stealing upon me that switching to BlueSky because you weren't getting engagement on Threads is like moving to Scotland to get away from the rain.

Is it just me or do scam calls always claim to be from O2? I've literally never had anyone say they're calling from EE or Vodafone. Maybe it's because my number was originally registered with O2, but if that's their angle then it ain't working as I've switched networks more than once since then...

I'm getting a bit bored of Word. What do? I've always steered clear of Pages just because its proprietary file format makes me anxious. But I don't remember the last time I needed to send anyone a word-processing file, so maybe that's a 2004 concern rather than a 2024 one.

Oh my God, I just sat down to watch Little Shop of Horrors with Scarlett for the first time, and somehow the ending is... NOT AS I REMEMBER IT.

Oh hey, Bea Arthur is in this episode of Malcolm in the Middle that came out 24 years ago!

Threading on BlueSky is a bit broken, isn't it? When someone you follow is chatting with someone you don't, your timeline goes all Memento.

New rule: if an interface element can be tapped/clicked/dragged whatever then once rendered to the screen it MUST NOT MOVE. EVER. (Until the user navigates away.) And no, load times or dynamic rendering are not excuses. Figure it out.

I know it's a TERRIBLE idea, but based on my observations of the property market in the past year or so, buying a small, tatty, old house and renovating/extending it into a nice, smart, modern big one is starting to seem like a pretty attractive idea.

I like the way that on Threads you can follow anyone, from anywhere, with a single tap. Which is to say that - as someone trying to build up a decent timeline from scratch - I don't like the way that on BlueSky you can't.

Just experienced a brief moment of genuine irritation that I can't use my phone to check whether we have a particular book at home.

All the tables with mains sockets in this cafe are being occupied by people who are not using the sockets.

Growing up in the 1980s I used to be into Head and Puma sportswear. Today - based on my Amazon order history - it seems my favourite brands are Yuanqian, COOCNH, Fifgyoi and - of course - woujtg.

God grant me the inner serenity of the guy who just went to the toilet in Gail's and left his iPad unattended on the table.

Whatever they paid Tim Rice for Evita, it was a bargain.

I thought Threads looked and felt like Twitter, and it kinda does, but this place is the dictionary definition of eerily familiar. It's like when you meet a friend's twin brother. It's like if you asked an AI to generate Twitter.

Late last night I made a post on Threads about hi-hat articulation in Logic Pro. Woke up this morning to ZERO replies. Fine, I can take a hint.