And in one of history's most beautiful F1 cars.

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO Apple announced Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus will become Apple’s next CEO.

As has long been suspected, Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO in favour of John Turnus after 15 years at the helm.

While it's usually a good step to put an engineer in charge of a tech firm (looking at you Intel) I doubt the enshittification of Apple will slow down, and may even speed up.

Slashdot comes to mind.

The San Francisco Earthquake – In Colour (1906) YouTube video by Yesterday Restored

120 years ago, there was a whole lotta of shaking (an estimated 7.9 magnitude) going on in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake.

Some colourised footage here, with commentary from Jack London's account. I suspect he employed his fiction skills in describing how calm everyone was.

Bravo sir.

I'm a leaf on the wind, watch how I THUNK.

Hightly likely.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”

Given government plans in this area, and the enormously high stakes involved in verification, you'd think the EU could do better than this. Then again, experience shows it's hardly surprising - government isn't good at building apps.

It's coming your way.

A soggy Sunday is a bit of a letdown but we need the water.

With a diet Coke...

The amount of mince and potatoes I ate in the 80s it was a stroke of luck BSE didn't rear its ugly head.

Sorry Mike, that's a shit situation.

I'm British, I've seen a lot worse. Never, ever, go to a Wimpy.

Decided to take a break from the diet and have an In-N-Out for lunch.

The double-double animal style with whole onion is the finest fast-food burger in the US. It's a pity the fries are so bad, even done crispy.

Meanwhile, on Brexit Island, there is much stupidity.

Welcome home. An epic trip.

I was surprised - used it for my last round-number shindig and we all had a great time. May your solar orbit celebrations be full of fun and generate interesting tales for the next one.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

Heil Smoochy!

I've been here over a decade and it still creeps me out. Baffling design.

Earthset - NASA Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon.

The Earth is coming into view for Artemis II.

Not taken from an iPhone.

That belly fur looks like a trap :)

"I will not give up on the British sausage!"

My thoughts too, loved that episode - and indeed the whole series.

I'm presuming a ginger? We used to have one on our street who was aggressive in terms of strokes - we called him Don Gingeroni.

A great panel and a lot of fun was had. Was very glad I helped expose the Great British Marmalade Scandal that isn't - Paddington would be giving some journalists a very hard stare.

Walkies for Stumpy

Walking the cat in the evening and a neighbour stopped by to give her strokes. "It's Stumpy, the local celebrity!"

I know it's odd walking a cat but she's very old and her eyesight is not so good. But she loves a prowl.

My favourite is "That's an interesting question," when it's not - just direct.

The link is in there, search for "rant" :)

I love his works dearly, but was proud of the "Napoleon complex or short arsehole?" subhead when I wrote his obituary.