Russell Davies

Non-fun run

I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to donate to a good cause. If you&

New news norms

Apart from a brief mention on the radio this is how I learned about the extraordinary events in Nepal. 1. Via TikTok 2. Via RSS Who are Nepal's Gen Z? This seems like a reasonably healthy situation to me.

A graphic representation of a lecture in a bar

Talks as leisure

The other day a friend emailed me to say 'Here's the Gen Z version of your Interesting thing'. And he linked to Lost Property. It looks brilliant. I'm going to the next one on October 4th. It made me realise that maybe there'

New WIP episode: the one with Stu about music in ads

A home made wooden chair sitting on a lawn

Occupying TikTok with love

I kicked my Kindle back into life the other day. It had been sitting by my bed, dead, waiting for me to find the right, slightly archaic form of USB cable to power it. But when it came back I found an old instapaper saving I'd once been

Woven All of Dream and Error

Excellent ambient soundscapes with bonus industrial/something noises. Warm but not soft. via S/FJ.

This is enjoyable

Blogadmin

The Saintlike Phil has kindly archived my main blog and the two good ones, eggbaconchipsandbeans and agoodplaceforacupofteaandathink. I think I'm just going to leave them there, like that. And any news entries will be on here. That means that some of the other little side-blogs I did over

Presentation Club

Here's a new thing. I get asked for help with presentations a lot. But most of the time people don't really need advice, they need an opportunity to practice. And maybe some feedback. So I've been wondering for ages if we could create a

Prompts that have happened

Dan has a post about (as ever with Dan) all sorts, but it includes a section on the system prompts for Claude. The ways Anthropic try to get it to behave, er, appropriately. Here's a section Dan quotes: "Claude approaches questions about its nature and limitations with