Crashing a fighter jet
iPhone 11 decisions — upgrading my old iPhone 6
I have an old iPhone 6 that is 3.75 years old and, whilst I'm certainly not a phone person, I think it's time to upgrade (for reasons I talk about in the article) and therefore an iPhone 11 is on the cards.

What does quantum probability really mean?
An article by Sean Carroll on Quanta Magazine looks at what quantum probability might mean. I provide an intro and then link to the article.

Donkey Kong court case
Proton size measured with a better ruler
A default set of rules for online advertising and privacy
Further to my previous article on the subject, I present the sort of rules I'd like to see governing online advertising and privacy. I was originally motivated to post about this by Google's article about the subject, but they don't go anywhere near far enough in my opinion.

From Steve Harley to Camila Cabello
Insomnia is a plague and I use the early hour to entirely waste my time trying to connect Steve Harley to Camila Cabello.

The longer we stay awake, the more we need to sleep, scientists say
Publishers, advertisers and advertising networks need to solve the online advertising problem
The economics of the internet depends heavily on advertising but publishers, advertisers and advertising networks are going to shoot themselves in the foot if they don't address the problem of advert overload.

Avengers: Endgame review — a bit disappointing

By and large, I've enjoyed the Avengers and most of Phase 1 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Endgame left me a little disappointed. I'll tell you why in this review, in which I've largely avoided any spoilers.

Problem with black holes possibly existing when they shouldn’t
Gravitational-wave detectors may have discovered a black hole of a mass that shouldn't really be allowed.

Blondie’s Parallel Lines — top class album
I've been musing about music again, this time it's the Parallel Lines album by Blondie.

HS2 and government projects in general
On optimism
Taylor Swift
Google's private web proposals
Google is proposing a way to build a more private web which suggests a reclassification of cookies amongst other things. From a user's perspective I think Google are coming at this from the wrong angle.

Zen Internet review after 9 years

I've been using Zen Internet as my ISP for 9 years now and I always recommend them to people, so I thought it was about time I did a proper review of the broadband package I use.

Brexit and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
The Tumblr acquisition
How should the internet be moderated?
The Cloudflare/8chan situation raises questions about how the internet should be moderated. With a bit of prelude I link to Ben Thompson's ideas about this.

Drug crime
Measuring cosmic distances
I was recently reading an article about the expansion of the universe and how recent data suggests the figures we've been using might not be quite correct. This led me to look at how we measure this expansion - and, more generically, how we measure any cosmic distance - and I thought I'd write an article about it.

Protect your spuds from gulls
macOS Mojave Exchange email account stuck ‘moving messages’
I had a problem with macOS's Mail app getting stuck 'moving messages' via my Microsoft Exchange account. This is how I solved the problem.

Why do films get mental health so wrong?
Priti Patel pushes for weakened encryption
Priti Patel is pushing for weakened encryption in the UK as part of the so-called Snooper's Charter. She wants tech firms to provide backdoors in end-to-end encryption so intelligence services can access it at will. There are many problems with this idea.

Einstein's 'Equivalence Principle' passes the test
More than 100 years after Einstein proposed it, his General Theory of Relativity is still being tested. In this case, Einstein's 'Equivalence Principle' is put to the test.

I am not a robot
I'm a bit fed up with 'robot tests' that websites ask me to pass before permitting me access. Half the time I simply don't bother and visit another website instead. Is there no better way to do this?
