Photography I Created
Screenshot from iPadOS 15 Photos.
Somehow Photos has figured out from location and date metadata these photos are from a ticketed event, a Foo Fighters concert. But the hero image is of Weezer opening the show, and if you tap through to the slideshow the music is Fleetwood Mac.
Vale Alan James Snow
Today, Britt and I attended - remotely via live stream - the memorial service of her grandfather, Alan James Snow.
Alan’s life story is wide ranging and interesting, from his time in the NSW Police through to his large and international legacy in his family.
On the 1st of November 2013, while Alan was visiting his son in Queensland, I took the opportunity to record a podcast episode with him. I’ve always wanted to record the stories of people around us, but as often happens, time and priorities get in the way. So today, I’m proud to share this hour-long recording today with our family, and anyone else wanting to.
Apple Weather in iOS 15 is still wrong in Australia
Since the moment Steve Jobs introduced us to the iPhone, Australian users have had bad weather data.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is the only true source of weather data in Australia, but Apple sources it’s data from Weather.com, even though it owns Dark Sky now. That said, Dark Sky’s data doesn’t seem accurate in Australia either.
But it doesn’t matter how you skin it, Apple Weather has had bad data for a long time, and it continues in iOS 15.
Here’s comparisons from three apps, Apple Weather, Carrot Westher which is sourcing its data from Willyweather which I’m guessing it licensed from the BoM, and the one true BoM app.
Apple Weather developers, if you want to source true weather data, this is a great place to start.
As Brisbane goes into lockdown - 6pm June 29, 2021
Brisbane for the next few days
Every day, since whenever the feature launched, my iPhone has generated a set of Featured Photos from my 27,000 odd photos in the library. Since June 22 it’s stopped.
What have I done to deserve this?!
Do you ever wonder who the Ambulance calls if they’re sick?
Who knew you could report junk spam to Apple. Where does that data go, and how does it play out?
I would literally give Apple more money to stop spam texts and spam phone calls.
Nostalgia – its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’
A Mackay sugarcane fire is my ‘pain from an old wound’.
So apparently the tax department website has a queue now. Does the ATO know websites don’t have queues?
TF when Google invites you to sit at the Knights Round Table
I believe my fellow young people would call Luna a “vibe”
Felt fatherly, might delete later
I might not amount to much in this life, so if I die and that’s the case, please put this on my gravestone.
Sony AirPeak S1 … want.
Weezer’s Buddy Holly, from Windows 95 to Apple Music 2021
I first heard this song on in August 1995, discovering it on one of the Windows 95 installation CDs in the ‘Fun Stuff’ folder - left there to demonstrate the video-playing capabilities of Windows 95.
To listen to it in Dolby Atmos spatial audio today is quite a stretch from whatever low-res MPEG codec I heard in 1995.
Looks like someone in ASIO has finally experienced booking a Qantas flight at the last minute.
The 2007 email that spawned Uber, Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram, and trillions of dollars worth of other companies - via @techemails
What’s the secret to not getting text message spam? This phone number is my wedding celebrant number and I’ve had it for over 15 years, so I’m not in a position to change numbers or turn on Filter Unknown Senders. It’s so annoying.
Revved up like a deuce, another roller in the night
