Author: Mike
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Winning the Internet, one argument at a time
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Ever crawl into bed at night, phone still in hand, and think: “Ah, yes. Another triumphant day of complaining and arguing about nonsense on the internet”?
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Stuck on loading: the Samsung life
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If you value customer service, Samsung – or Android at all – is probably not the way to go.
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Making a Sky Change
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Threads is like Twitter on steroids, with an algorithm constantly throwing more and more new content at me – so I’m making a ‘sky change’. I’m leaving the big smoke of Threads and heading for the calm Bluesky.
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iPhone v Android: Tribalism is quite the thing huh
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The most oddly remarkable thing happened this year. Well, two things, really. The first is that Apple finally enabled RCS messaging, at last allowing for high-res media sharing and proper group chats between iOS and Android.
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41 days
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41 days until the often grey, always special town of Berlin becomes my home for the foreseeable. The house is sold, the flights are booked, the kids are enrolled in school… I’m not sure which of those events was the bigger “this is really happening” moment, and frankly there’s still a lot to be done, but… this…
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Having kids is…
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remembering at 6pm on Monday that you didn’t do any batch cooking on the weekend and so you think oh well I’ll just whip up a quick cottage pie and then hey presto it’s dinner at 8:30 lolol
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“I’m a young photographer, how much should I charge?”
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How much should you charge for photography? It depends! Let’s look at it here.
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ThreadHeads: The coolest tees I’ve found today
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Today I went browsing my current favourite site for fun tees, Aussie website ThreadHeads – and I’ve got a discount code for you and me!
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Man it’s like kids don’t know they’ll still live if they stop talking
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🍿 Now Screening…
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Flashback to the early 2010s when I occasionally hosted retro movie nights for friends – ‘now showing’ poster included. 😁 This reminds me, of course, that Netflix hadn’t yet launched in Australia to kick off the streaming era. It first arrived in 2015, and up to then, the only choice was linear TV or ‘cable’.…