← 2025 March 2025
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I sat next to a young honeymooning couple from Guatemala on my flight home to Tassie tonight.
They booked their entire Australia holiday based on ChatGPT planning their itinerary.
I added some local understanding to a few of the routes in Tassie they wanted, but it was a pretty good trip. Hamilton Island, Sydney, Tasmania, covering all their wants in the holiday.
If you haven’t figured out how AI is going to change your business or employment like it’s changing travel then you’re behind the eight ball.
I’d also love to have that conversation with you, particularly if you don’t know how ChatGPT figures out who and how to recommend what it recommends.
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New blog post on my wedding celebrant website: The long and gradual cancellation of Josh Withers
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The way we’re going here we’ll be on ICQ soon and I am here for it: Friendster is back.
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My favourite Charles Bukowski quote is “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.” Mainly because when you share it, some people are too confident it's about them.
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Today's another one of those weird days in the best and most beautiful, yet also so strange, wedding industry. Sometime in a few years over a beer remind me to tell you the story about the Tasmanian Wedding Directory
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My only experiences with electric vehicles are in renting them, and I rent quite a few as I travel.
The out-of-home charging infrastructure is bad.
Three stories from today:
- I’m staying at my mother-in-law’s home in suburban Gold Coast and the nearest public charging infrastructure is a 15 minute drive away. It’s got two charging bays, each time I visit there’s a queue.
- I had a long drive today and needed to charge in Brisbane before the drive. I get fee Chargefox charging with my Sixt rental but the best located charging station was at a BP. The app - BP Pulse - is yet another horrible corporate app that forgets logins, doesn’t work well, and the third BP app I have on my phone. The working charger didn’t work, and the second was pre-identified as not working. So once the “working charger” had not charged the charging cable was locked and would not come out of the car. The BYD Atto’s manual is electronic and requires the car have internet access. There are three methods to manually unlock, it took me to the third method.
- Charging station locations on Apple Maps and Google Maps sucks. Tonight I wanted to charge at a certain charger and I started the journey in a no-service area so I used BYD in-built maps which don’t know about an exit that had changed so I missed the exit and almost ran out of battery because I couldn’t charge at the BP charger earlier. Further to that I'm now charging at a charger in Brisbane city that's not on any mapping application but is in the Chargefox app, however in the app it's across the road and a few hundred metres away and apparently in a construction yard.
It's a weird time to be a travelling EV driver.
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Modern man is in a terrible predicament. He is helplessly enamoured with the beauty of what the old world built, yet despises the beliefs that inspired them to build it.
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picked up a new cool domain name for my non-personal and non-wedding blogging: thesmh.com.au
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The human spirit is a beautiful cacophony of stupidity and kindness.
If that beautiful mixture of stupidity and kindness is out of balance, well, that’s why we have journalism and social media.
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Our Goldie is four
