The latest episode of Hemispheric Views is live. We talk Portland fires, the latest Apple event, search engines and commemorative coins. Listen and share! 🎙

My 9 year old told me about the Shortcut he has built to run on his iPad. Proud Dad moment.

Cortex Animated is Great

What’s better than Cortex Podcast?

Animated highlights from Cortex Podcast!

Another Hemispheric Views with @burk and @martinfeld is in the can. Releasing in a couple of days. 🎙

After hearing the latest Mac Power Users on Read-it Later apps I dusted off my old Instapaper account. Now, though, @manton is soon launching Micro.blog premium which may scratch that itch? Exciting times.

Played some Sea of Thieves with @burk. Any other micro.bloggers play?

My Kia Sorrento decided that my Emergency Parking Brake needs to stay on all the time. A call to their Roadside Assist service and now my car will be put on a flat-bed and taken for repairs tomorrow. I’d almost forgotten I had that assistance service!

Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably

Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably:

Microsoft put a server farm at the bottom of the sea and let it run for a few years.

The team hypothesizes that the atmosphere of nitrogen, which is less corrosive than oxygen, and the absence of people to bump and jostle components, are the primary reasons for the difference. If the analysis proves this correct, the team may be able to translate the findings to land datacenters.

Or will it means data centres are plonked all over the oceans?

“Our failure rate in the water is one-eighth of what we see on land,” Cutler said.

“I have an economic model that says if I lose so many servers per unit of time, I’m at least at parity with land,” he added. “We are considerably better than that.”

Worth following the link to read more detail and see some images of the subsea vessel.

So apparently to my kid I appear as a giant angry potato with arms growing out of my ears.

Keep Practising 16: Hemispheric Views

A quick update on another podcast project I’ve been working on with two other friends. Hemispheric Views has launched and we are quite proud of it.

I don’t want to brag, but I just had a Tim Tam Slam. @martinfeld @burk

Hemispheric Views is Go!

I’m excited to have worked with two other great people to put something new out into the world. Working with Jason Burk and Martin Feld, we have released the first episode of a new podcast, Hemispheric Views.

Our topics for this first episode range across condiments, technology and the price of petrol. Over time we anticipate the show will have a technology bias but we are interested to explore how Martin and I as Australians interpret things in comparison to Jason in the USA.

I’m proud of this first episode and I’ve got high hopes for our continuous improvement.

If you can find the time to have a listen, that would be amazing. Ideally, you’ll enjoy it enough that you will subscribe in your favourite podcast player app, and tell a friend about the show.

Get on board with the micro.blog gaming sessions that @burk has organised. I’m rubbish at games but still had a blast. Definitely no need to be a hard-core gamer.

Just a few hours until the Micro.blog gaming session. I look forward to losing badly @burk

I’ve upgraded to a Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM fan in my OWC Thunderbay RAID array. I should have done this a long time ago. The noise has always bothered me. It’s so much more quiet now. Best $32 I’ve spent in a while.

Launchbar has been updated. In the release notes it mentions search engine Ecosia. I’d never heard of it. Seems a laudable idea.

International Beard Day, you say?

I’ve been reassessing my note-taking apps again - that’s something that happens on a too-regular basis. NotePlan had been good, but I’m not keen on the v3 upgrade pricing. DEVONthink has shown it can work like NotePlan too. The answer is always DEVONthink. @jack @twelvety

Am I correct in thinking that each President of the USA leaves a letter in the Oval Office’s desk drawer, addressed to the incoming President?

If so, I wonder what Trump would write to Biden?

And I wonder how that would compare to the one that Obama left Trump…

Great to have the Micro Monday podcast back in the mix. Thanks @macgenie and @agilelisa

One of the greatest things I discovered in Japan. Put soy sauce on vanilla ice cream.

My iPad battery has seen better days and I’ve been contemplating an upgrade. But if the new Apple Silicon laptop is going to be a 12” MacBook Adorable, that might be a better investment. Tricky decisions approaching.

Photoblogging Challenge Day 31: A photo of a photo depicting love on our wedding day in 2005. 📷 #mbaug

No, I haven't found a fix for Logitech Mouse Judder

I recently wondered if I had found the solution to fixing the judder I get from the Logitech MX Master 3 mouse on a Mac.

Turns out, no, I had not.

Today the judder has returned.

Incidentally this is with the Logitech dongle.

So frustrating.

Photoblogging Challenge Day 30: It’s generally possible to make a discovery of something weird in the garden. 📷 #mbaug