Ross's Micro Blog

Testing Icro posting

Which reminds me of a silly discussion we had before our first child was born about #geekbabynames

I maintain that my favourite for a girl was “Ellie Dee”!

Just realised my daughter’s name is a valid CSS hex colour code. And it’s a delightful shade of pastel green! #ADA

Those perfect, beautiful curls ❤️

This is a great article/interview on electronic waste. Encouraging us to get unused electronics into the recycling loop! Always wondered what happened to it. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/23/17270960/electronic-waste-urban-mining-materials-recycling

My first reading of this was: “This job will take take 6 minutes. Tools required: A toilet roll” 😂

Development on my “Kownter” analytics has stalled somewhat. But here’s a post in which I dissect the new competition’s mockup: https://blog.kownter.com/2018/04/23/competition/

Great to see others pursuing the goal of simpler/more privacy-aware analytics: https://usefathom.com/

But remember, THIS WAS MY IDEA TOO! And I HAVE A WORKING PROTOTYPE! https://blog.kownter.com/about-kownter/

I feel validated.

But Paul & Danny will do a much better job.

In a stroke of never-seen-before-and-never-to-be-repeated practical creativity, a few days ago I made a basketball hoop out of a plant pot, some lying-around wood and some cable ties. My boy is super happy!

Thing I hadn’t catered for in my planning for GDPR: time required to read, understand and accept everyone else’s new terms and policies!

WordPress: Interesting. Divi’s response to Gutenberg seems to be “You can build custom blocks over here too now!” https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/theme-releases/divi-3-1-has-arrived-introducing-the-new-divi-developer-api

…especially as you can choose a key frame now!

iOS Live Photos are GREAT for this…

This approaching/about to narrowly miss is storm is impressive. Image doesn’t really show, but left is all darkness and lightning, right is clear and still almost blue.

Another roundabout…

…no, seriously…I’m not. 😉

I don’t think live-tweeting this will be very interesting. That’s not my plan. You’ll be glad to know.

The “safety CD” says you must wear the seat belt – it’s the law!

No one puts a seat belt on.

What should I do?!

My reserved seat (reduced anxiety for £2 is good value, OK!) was actually taken. Wasn’t sure what to do there, but I’ve claimed two seats across the aisle and no one seems to mind. Yet.

I get pretty anxious about travel. So this will be interesting. Especially as I don’t know the etiquette or practicalities.

There’s a loo…which is awesome. I hope it works. And it’s pretty quiet tonight so people have spread themselves out a bit!

So, as someone who pretty much always uses the train, today I’m on a coach. It was easy to book. Super cheap and the pre-flight info to prep me was awesome.