"I'm Waiting for the Van" - Updated Velvet Underground song about sitting in for a parcel delivery.

How reassuring...🤷‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rumours spread that the Chinese are working on a Self-Riding Horse.

Any truth to the rumour that Nvidia is working on self walking shoes? 👟

Crikey...also Gold and Silver...

Robert Wilkie doing a poor job on #r4Today right now of explaining how Venezuela could be an active threat to, erm, US universities. 🤷‍♂️ ( Also talking of a US "hemisphere" )

BBC #r4Today can't say "Resident Doctors" without reminding us that they used to be called "Junior Doctors" almost as if the audience is a goldfish. ( But do they keep reminding us that "Andrew Windsor" used to called "Prince"? 😉)

Xmas time and Frosty the "Brexit negotiator" is back. ( "Negotiator" meaning he took a look at it and ran away ).

Yeah, that'd be great except the view of my photos in File Explorer is coming from some cache of my phone that's about 2-3 weeks out of date. Phone Link, on the other hand, is displaying what's on the phone's actual filesystem.

Uh oh, hope I'm not heading for one of those $10bn lawsuits.

Eh?

"Members" of what? Can they vote for a new leader? No, thought not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What signal does this sort of to/fro send to the car industry and consumers? UK should make some plans and stick to them but, of course, that's a pipedream - our politics is 1 step forward, 2 steps back meaning we get little done. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just an everyday interaction with the AI...

I like idea that Trump "loves London". 🤣 Has he been there? Walked the streets? Stopped in a pub? Wandered through the parks and galleries? Taken in a show? Ridden the Tube and buses? Done a bit of shopping? Of course not, he's 100% clueless - he's no idea what London or Paris are like.

Not at all surprised to find that, having left BT a month or more ago, they continue to try and charge me for a service that they are no longer delivering and which they have long-since advised me has been terminated. ( how do these people stay in business? )

I've a feeling that a "Thanks for browsing our website" email has exactly the opposite effect than was intended.

For me, Royal Mail parcels works every time. No idea why a business uses anything else. UPS - random dates, times and lost parcels. DPD - parcel goes to delivery hub miles away. Delivery hub denies all knowledge. Evri - Parcel? What parcel? Have you checked your neighbour's bin?

Harborne, Farage, Bannon, Banks, Tether. What a mix... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today I learned that UPS can tell you that a parcel has left their warehouse when it hasn't. ( Hopefully, it's not lost in their warehouse along with my old hiking boots 🤣 )

Conservatives and Labour both on the #bbcwato lunchtime news explaining how great Brexit has been and how the future will deliver more of the same. ( Conservative tells us that "we owe Farage a debt of gratitude" ) 🤷‍♂️

"presidentially designated narco-terrorist" - quite a read... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, The Telegraph thinks "middle England" lives in a £2m+ house. 🤷‍♂️

Seems like The Telegraph is only another few years away from linking the prime suspect with the crime 😉

@financialtimes.com Find it a bit confusing that the "FT Digital Edition" is listed under your "Print" edition subscriptions and not under your "Digital" subscriptions. It's the exact opposite of what I'd expect.

Drivers of more efficient, smaller petrol/diesel cars pay less fuel tax per mile. Drivers of more efficient, smaller EVs....sorry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seems like the BBC has edited a programme in order to give a misleading impression of something said by or about Trump. Last time this happened, it was the BBC News top story. This time, it's tumbleweed on the BBC site.. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

It's hard to phone the banks these days because they understaff their phone lines in the hope that you will use online chat which they have also understaffed 😉 Not long now until it's all AI and there's nobody at all to talk to.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Yeah, nice try but...

Interesting read - points to the gap between the executive and the user base Is this stuff useful? Yes Do I trust it to answer questions correctly? No Would I give it a moderately important task to complete? No! One involving personal information? No, no! www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

One-Half Hyde Park? 😉 www.ft.com/content/9ee5...

Wonder how long it'll be before the UK has to seek migrants rather than try to repell people... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zia Yusuf looks like a man who's carrying the full weight of hanging out with Farage, Tice, Anderson and the other one.

Chose to watch 'The Apprentice' rather than 'Frankenstein' without appreciating the common themes.

Today I learned about profiles in Edge - either this wasn't there when I used to do public presentations off my own PC or I just never looked hard enough for the feature. www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/f...

Mmm, tell me more about £450/hour writing JavaScript in Manchester (or not). ( just going to see if I've still got those books somewhere 😉)

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

In the future, everyone will own part of a Manchester tower block for 15 minutes. 🤷‍♂️ www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Vast majority of the BBC News (#bbcwato) is about the BBC 🤷‍♂️ ( Don't care if Trump was misrepresented, it's what he does all the time )

Bias: switching a word and making an expression. Not bias: 10 years of feeding us an endless diet of Farage and ignoring Brexit. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Now, there's a nice positive example... Apple Watch data teamed with AI reveals range of heart conditions ftdigitaledition.onelink.me/i9DX?deep_li...

On Android, I find that the consolidated Microsoft Office app has turned into CoPilot and I now have to install separate Word and Excel apps like, erm, I used to?

Farage seems to be stating that "in government" he would (unlike Trump) appoint expertise implying that he'd put a Doctor in charge of Health, a Headteacher in charge of Education, an Economist as Chancellor, etc. ( seems ever so slightly unlikely given his friends🤷‍♂️ )

"Evri single parcel goes astray" ?

Does the "magic of software" (and its profit margins) extend to being a company that builds data centres, power plants and has to write off millions of GPUs every cycle? www.ft.com/content/5395...

I haven't made it through the whole thing but there's something about the next 60 seconds or so of this NEO Home Robot "montage" video that makes it one of the funniest things that I've seen in ages. It just screams "parody" to me. youtu.be/LTYMWadOW7c?...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Oh, apologies Buxton - we only popped in to go to the theatre, didn't realise that you don't want "faces that I haven't seen before" 🤣 ( btw, that theatre is lovely but it was far from full last time I was there ) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...