Moving to blot rather takes me back to when I used a previous Dropbox blogging solution to move from Tumblr. Because It and Pelican have such similar metadata the move should a ‘skoosh’ as we say in Scotland.

All this talk about @blot convinced me to give it a try and I blame @jack I like Pelican but the need to build it back at base is occasionally a burden and I’ve never got my head round scaling images for mobile.

I’ve de-eyedroppered my Edison Collier pen and this is the first day using it. While I miss the huge ink capacity it’s nice not having inky fingers all day.

At this time of year it strikes me that one of the big advantages of Siri shortcuts is I can still do useful things with my phone while wearing gloves.

I completed my hi-fi this weekend, adding a separate phono preamp. Apparently I was the first person in the UK to buy a Moon Audio 110LP v2 (but only by chance).

Why did ‘War & Peace’ become the international standard to refer to when apologising for a big print job clogging-up a shared printer?

My first week cycling home in the dark and I see the Nukem®︎ Gamma-Ray™ 2000 is still a popular bike light. This year’s model has been upgraded to 10kW of collimated laser power, with a strobe mode that can literally etch morse code onto the inside of your eyeballs!

My daughter needs survey responses on logo design and Comic Con for her Advanced Higher Design course. I figured Micro.blog might have a higher-than-average interest in design and comic books. Thank you if you have the time. www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2FGYQ55

Daughter no. 1 and I are off to Aberdeen for a university open day. I finally get to use the line “we leave at daybreak!”

Just for fun, and to settle a long disagreement with daughter no. 2, I’ve crested a ONE QUESTION survey.

www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MZD88RT

New blog post: sulluzzu.com/three-act…

I’m looking forward to reading the latest book in The Shardlake series by CJ Samson. The last one left Matthew moving to a new monarchy abc it will be interesting to see how the story has moved on.

I’m reading a book where the paper is cheap, the type is small and the ink has feathered. My old man eyes aren’t coping with this combination as well as they used to!

I’m looking forward to listening to ‘Dead bees on a cake’ on vinyl. One of my favourite David Sylvian records. I was very impressed by Assai Records customer service; remembering I was after a copy and setting one aside for me.

Since last Saturday I’ve been mulling over the first appearance of the TARDIS in the rebooted Dr Who. I don’t like that it seems to be a bit like CS Lewis’s wardrobe to Narnia rather than genuinely bigger on the inside.

I’m finding that Feedbin’s web interface pretty much removes the need for dedicated apps on my main computer. Just as well, as my preferred app ReadKit is starting to look long in the tooth.

Another egregious example of Adobe losing the plot! A blue button that effectively does the same as the email icon at the other end. In fact, the email icon activates the share sheet.

• It’s huge and distracting
• The ‘social media’ aspect is inappropriate
• It can’t be removed

📚I’m currently reading a hardback copy of Killing Commendatore and loving it so far. All the usual Haruki Murakami tropes look like they will appear.

I am concerned that carrying the book around is going to cause musculoskeletal injuries eventually!

I wonder why Apple decided to make the two Dock dividers in Mojave slightly different widths. I don’t notice the ‘open/recent’ one as easily.

I’ve just started the @macsparky OmniFocus third edition field guide having moved back to it. I got so much from the first version of the training I think this will help me along again too.

I’m starting to fill in my 2019 diary (it actually starts from 19-Nov) and that’s both scary and exciting just how quickly the year has gone by.

I wish I could find another iOS Markdown notes app with search that’s as good as Simplenote - a search in the notes list takes you straight to the first match in the selected file.

Simplenote is good but the editing can be a bit iffy, especially around positioning the cursor.

📚 I’ve just finished reading John Buchan’s ‘Witch Wood’ and thoroughly enjoyed it. Up till now I’ve only know his writing from ‘The 39 Steps’ and this was very different and very Scottish.

Being the only man in a household of women has taught me many things. One of the most important is to be grateful for our pockets. Imagine living in a world where we had to use women’s Pocket’s!

New monthly blog post on my book, film and music of the month. I couldn’t decide on just one album this month so I cheated… sulluzzu.com/three-for…