Facebookland
An excellent, and chilling, article in The Atlantic by Adrienne LaFrance about the power and dangers of Facebook. Worth reading. I left Facebook, with absolutely no regrets, over six years ago. One...
View ArticleIs That A Threat Or A Promise?
I see that Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook) is saying that it may have to abandon the European Union. “If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted… we will likely be...
View ArticleThe Brexit Effect – the Facts
I see that the Financial Times has at last weighed in with a film on the effects (mostly malign) of Brexit on the UK Economy. Well worth watching – but depressing as hell as an example of seeing a...
View ArticleBrexit & a Clueless PostNL
We received a letter from the Dutch Post Office (PostNL) last week. It told us that they had received a packet addressed to us from abroad and that they were legally obliged to make a Customs...
View ArticleYouTube and Adverts
I don’t think it’s just me, but I feel sure that adverts on YouTube have become a lot more intrusive than they used to be. These days, I rarely manage to complete watching a YouTube post without...
View ArticleSurface Duo – It’s Dead, Jim…
I predicted back in July that the end was nigh for the Surface Duo line of devices made by Microsoft. I think we can now categorically state that the plug has been pulled and it is well and truly...
View ArticlePulling The Plug on Premium Lite
Back in June, I blogged about the intrusive adverts that are infesting YouTube videos these days. While YouTube Premium offers ad-free viewing, it also includes the ability to watch content offline...
View ArticlePop Goes the Weasel…
A little local matter that’s vexing our village… Our village Heelweg is split into two halves – East Heelweg and West Heelweg – separated by 1.5 kilometers. There are two connecting routes: the...
View ArticleRubbing Salt Into The Wound
I recently blogged about the fact that Google was pulling the plug on the Premium Lite membership tier in YouTube. Today I had the following email from YouTube: Which translates as: Your Premium Lite...
View ArticleThe UK Home Office Strikes Again
A woman is facing deportation, and being separated from her husband and 10-year-old son, despite a court ruling that the family has the right to live together in the UK. Full story here in The...
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