Indeed. That's another favourite feature. Clunky meeting options FTW, in my book. The AR / VR / AI future of remote collaboration is built on these types of next generation design choices

Enterprise software, right there

There's a "what" missing there. But you get the idea

This is apparently 'modern collaboration' looks like

My favourite MS365 feature is when it sends reminder notifications for meetings that have already happened. Oh, also when the calendar hasn't synced properly and meetings just drop out of my celandar. These things really spice up my day, keeping things fresh

False narratives about London are being manufactured by state-backed actors, extremist groups and profit-driven content farms. Different motivations, same effect. Last night Mayor of London @london.gov.uk published new GLA research into who's doing it and why www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🧵 1/3

Just as important, going solar we're better insulated from energy cost increases in our monthly outgoings. I say 'better' because nobody is immune unless they live completely off grid

Last night I reviewed our numbers adjusting for the 3 monthly change in avg cost per kWh in the UK. Our saving for 2025 was just over £1,200 (+£100 on last guess), still not including what we're selling back to the grid. On that, we'd make our install cost back in 7.6 years

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NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices

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TV image close up of Artemis 2 rocket engine with flames and huge exhaust plume.

Watched the #ArtemisII launch with my cat, who mostly wants to sleep but looked up when the crowd cheered. Also, wow

I’d add to your questions: do people know what information they’re looking at? Even when it’s presented, it’s often not in a way that enables the decisions that need to be made

Food waste collection deadline missed by one in four councils Local authorities blame the delays on a lack of funding and a shortage of bin lorries.

Greenwich Council "No response": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hmm. A quick search of the Greenwich website would have shown they collect biodegradable waste: www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/recycling-an...

In fact, they've been collecting it since at least 2004 (which is the age of our green top bin).

Consumers, users, people, mammals.

Reminding myself of this joy-of-a-piece-of-writing, and what a joy it is to read Russell's writing. It makes so much sense.
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We're looking to fill a couple of Senior Content Designer roles across the OPG and Probation digital teams www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

* I meant to post this in January but a backlog in data gathering and a spreadsheet overhaul delayed that.

I now have a shiny new google sheet so plan to keep collecting data. I might also post export numbers and payments from the energy company, but that’ll take a bit more working out

Solar install update. Our first year.

The year to December ended as forecast.

We generated 4.5 megawatt hours over the year which was 91% of the energy we used 🎉

We saved roughly £1,100 on energy we didn’t draw from the grid. We also exported a bunch, so made money too.

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It seems it was February 2026 when MS Teams finally started supporting threaded discussions. At least, that’s my experience

UPF doesn’t equal bad. But some UPF are high risk (eg Pringles). Many are lower, or no risk. Some are even healthy. There’s science that’s proved there’s an issue, there’s science happening now to refine where the issues exist

Don’t believe the fake gloom about London [FREE TO READ] The UK capital is subject to more than its fair share of misinformation

The doom and gloom about London is ridiculous and harmful. Team FT is Team London - as.ft.com/r/19d3d36d-e...

Aaah

Fair

You do have to trust the people running the service. If it’s connected to 9to5Google that gives me hope it’s trustworthy (they’ve been around a while). I guess you’d also want to know what instructions it’s giving your Nest. So not for the novice

The unintended consequence of asking "what can we say we've done?" is the focus it can create on comms as the primary strategy.

Comms _is_ important, it takes time and energy to get right, but it's not everything. Changing the question, focussing on delivery unlocks so much (inc comms, ironically).

15 years and Amazon "never validated [their] core assumptions". The sad thing is that this still seems pretty common in the tech industry. aka HIPPO (highest paid person's opinion). I've also heard it called "vibes and shiny".

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Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997. Wired: March 1, 1997: “You can kiss your web browser goodbye” – Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, The Big Story. 1Inspired by the success of PointCast, a clever application that displayed news headlines as a screensaver, our "Push!" story argued that Web browsers were about to become obsolete. 

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997.

For what it was going for, I liked it! Lots to visually stunning set pieces. Nice references. The IMAX sound was immense

The word Tron in blue neon projected onto a wall with Philips Hue lights beneath in matching colour.

Last night I rewatched Tron Legacy and am ready for Tron Ares tonight at the IMAX. Based on reviews I’ve set my expectations low but am looking forward to the nostalgia and escapism

Regularly used image showing the importance of graphic design. The sentence 'You will read this first' is big and bold in the middle. Visual users will indeed read this first. Then there are other sentences: 'and then you will read this'; 'Then this one'; 'And you will read this last'. To make the point, the last sentence you read is the first a non-visual user would have read out on the page, it's at the top.

It's buggy and the interfaces look like they were designed by a drunk monkey. Everything I look at reminds me of this graphic (as in, I wish they'd seen it and internalised the point).

Life finds a way

Oh, that makes sense. I've seen a few 404s. Yes it could fail much more gracefully / usefully