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What are weddings for? A piece by me on Medium.

Billion dollar business idea: a restaurant with all the markings of a hatted restaurant, but when the menu comes out, there's only Coco Pops available for dinner. Rare, medium, or well done? Soy, almond, or full cream milk?

Anyone in any good Slack groups they think I should be in?

Reading Jonathan Kim’s Medium piece on the three stages of April criticism and all of my anti-Apple mates come to mind. Read this, you'll love it.

I think @agenda might be the calendar/notes combo app I've been looking for, once there's a good iPad/iPhone app. Khoi's review is pretty much what I would say about it.

What do people not on social media get anxious about?

A year ago today, Stevie went more viral than any of us

Do these #GC2018 opening ceremony bongo players with Delta Goodrem have the required permits?

Jingeri #GC2018

Someone recently asked me what makes me who I am, why would people invite me to fly around the globe to be their marriage celebrant?

I think it’s because I care. I believe that your marriage matters, that it’s a once in a lifetime kind of love, and I think your wedding ceremony matters. But I think your marriage should be better than your wedding. And I think that the best part about a wedding is the ceremony.

Today's the day #GC2018

I've written my first edition of The Sizzle! It's heading out to inboxes soon :) subscribe at www.thesizzle.com.au

I think hustling might have jumped the shark.

In August due to a flight change I now have six hours in San Francisco, and I'm pretty excited having never been. Where should a nerd like go in six hours? Apple Park?!

Diving into another perfect Gold Coast day volunteering at #GC2018 Commonwealth Games

All of the big Internet companies want your private data, but Cloudflare's business model looks transparent and I think this is a service worth using your protect yourself online: 1.1.1.1

My kind of April Fools gag is a Seth Godin April Fools gag

Watching Qld Police officers, highly trained in bringing down criminals, embarrassingly bring down the letter of the law on rogue bongo drummers in Burleigh Park.

The USA is proposing reviewing social media of nearly everyone seeking entry and I'm really looking forward to their riveting critique of my 3GB Facebook archive, almost 80,000 tweets, and 6,000 Instagram posts.

There is nothing more exciting on earth today than this Twitter thread

There's a primary school in Torres Strait, the far northern tip of Queensland, Australia, that has no books for the students. It would be so cool if everyone sent them a children's book!

A startling review of stock photos on Medium

People are losing their mind as Pope Francis says 'Hell does not exist,', which is great and all that, but why don’t we just ‘fess up and say we simply don’t know & the information we’ve got on the subject is sketchy.

A 2007 article by Victor Keegan arguing that MySpace had a monopoly and it was too hard for it’s users to leave.

Your fortune teller isn't as good as David Gerrold

I've just checked into my hotel for the night and I think I've been drafted to represent Scotland in the #GC2018 Commonwealth Games

Seeing this photo makes me feel extraordinarily proud

“The truth is, we could make a ton of money, if we monetized our customer - if our customer was our product. We’ve elected not to do that.” - Apple CEO, Tim Cook, commenting on Facebook's business model.

Apple’s constant efforts to win over schools and students isn’t a silly effort. My first computer experience was an Apple IIe in Grade Five, then using my uncle’s Macintosh in the early 90s cemented it. I wanted an Apple computer.

Humans, we aren't going to beat the computers if it takes this airline staff member 14 minutes to figure out there's no direct Vancouver-Gold Coast flights.

Doc Searls makes a pretty good point about what the rest of the year is going to look like in the news (OMG Amazon is tracking me!)

This piece in the NYTimes on teachers has my brain going down a different tangent. What do "professions" and "degrees" mean in a society that values them less everyday?

I wonder how many small or independant businesses are prepared for a 38% drop in Facebook favourability, which for some may lead to a 38% drop in business.

One of the best local podcasts going around is Scotty Mac's Brisbane is Weird, and the latest ep about the the Battle of Brisbane is about Brisbane's shameful American past.

Is there an award for the most number of times you've left your Kindle e-reader in a hotel room or on a plane? Asking for a friend.

If you invoice with Xero, did you know that for free you can connect it to Stripe, and let your customers pay you with credit card? It even lets you on-charge the credit card fee #pleasedothiseveryone

J&C #marriedbyjosh #photographedbyjosh

An issue more people should consider is that your content and your data, is yours. You should own it. But it's all locked up in Facebook (and other networks) and competition is severly limited because of the high costs of switching to a new network. This needs to change.

There's a new edition of the most niche podcast we could think of, an Australian marriage celebrant podcast. But hey, you can listen if you want.

Remember back in the olden days we had day themes for social media content, Micro.blog has that in the form of Micro Monday and I'll nominate @ismh if only because he's at least active here ✌🏼

It's an easy week to bash social media, even I've been doing it, but it's brought all of us closer together, so it can't be all that bad.

But if you want to know how I'm changing up my social media habits, lets chat offline about it.

Sleep, an eight hour album on Spotify to listen to while you sleep

The most exciting thing about Trump's presidency is that all future world leaders can say "Look, I don't threaten porn star's children's lives" and we'll be so overjoyed with their high-level morals.

Driving out of Sydney Airport feels just like leaving Denpasar Airport now. Same road designers?

How to cook soup. First, you need some water.

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, no, no, no

"The name Christian now aligns me with gun-toting preachers, damnation-wielding social media trolls and predatory Presidents. It now aligns me with the least-like-Jesus stuff I can imagine." — John Pav

As the bible says, “Let any one of you who has not thrown around the idea of possibly destroying a nation's ethics over a long lunch, be the first to throw a Cricket ball at him.”

30 crazy photos of China's bike-sharing oversupply