I tried the new Ice Cream Irn Bru today and it’s prob the most artificial tasting drink I’ve ever had.

Cockburn street, Edinburgh. It is on a hill, with cobbles. People are walking in the sunshine

The main hall of the National Museum Edinburgh. It has a glass atrium

Craig’s close. A very narrow and steep staircase.

Cockburn street at sunset. Cobbles.

Had a sunny afternoon in Edinburgh yesterday, hosting a talk at the science festival in the national museum.

them: oh, you brought your own clipboard?
me: 🙂‍↕️

Oops! Forbidden

Would make a good catchphrase.

The Rest is Adverts has some of the most awkward promo reads. This week’s episode has Marina & Richard plugging horse racing and Bumble.

Throwback to when I was the quartermaster for Barbie and the spy squad.

I think Opalite would sound really good in Simlish.

Me every time I open my fridge and see my leftover Easter eggs.

Project Hail Mary takes place either in the Who-inverse or the Mandy-verse.

Lisa Kudrow plays Valerie in The Comeback with a brilliant mix of narcissism, vulnerability, strength, and naivety. She is infuriating, but we always want her to succeed.

Going round the far side of the Moon is basically like losing Radio 4 when you go through the Clyde tunnel.

Like the NASA astronauts, I too take photos of the moon with my iPhone.

New tax year, new me.

Happy New Financial Year 🎇

You should put your clock forward another hour tonight. I dare you.

YouTube is def making it harder to find your subscription feed. It’s bizarre that "recommended" videos take priority over the channels I’m actually subscribed to! I reckon it’s because most YouTube users don’t actually subscribe to anyone.

I’m dreaaaming of a whiteeee Easter ❄️

better to add one extra device to your network than six. I suspect they’d all get very hot too.

Hello Dave

For breakfast I had home baked granola with yoghurt and fruit 👌.

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increa... Existing licensees are grandfathered.

The licensing fees for H.264 codecs are jumping from $100k to $4.5 million per year! But only for new licences.

So if you’re planning to launch a new video streaming platform, you’ll be paying far more than the incumbents.

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I got my first Raspberry Pi (Model B) for about £30. And currently…

It’s Friday, good.

What percentage of fortune cookie fortunes do you think go undocumented on social media?

A trip to Edinburgh today 🚆

Got absolutely soaked on my walk 👌

Reminder that clocks go forward tonight and every other night for that matter, because that’s how they work.

The base model could have been bought new on educational discount (so £500), and now being sold at a profit.

Got called old by Apple

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Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May.

Encrypted messaging should always be the default. Full stop.

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