I Tried to Teach My Son Soccer. Here's What He Taught Me.
I am on this particular journey with my son at the moment. He's graduated from doing the basics indoor with a club to playing outdoors. I'm less involved than I was with the indoor version where we had 15 minutes each week to tire each other out and it's more about him getting to grips with the elements, proper studded boots and using all of the skills he has.
In his previous club, or class, it was obvious the challenge was no longer there so we tried to create some. That meant me intervening, like Rory did, but now that he's somewhere new it's all up to him and the instructions he gets from the coaches. My interventions were more about bringing his team into it the game with him, and I get the sense that there's an aspect of that in the article. Keeping the ball in play is one thing, but you want it to go to a team mate so it stays alive.
Posted 2nd Dec 2024 @ 13:51
Apple TV's Hardware Situation Is Fine
If Front Row was still a thing, then a Mac Mini as your media hub would actually make a lot of sense.
Posted 26th Nov 2024 @ 09:48
Apple Accused of Trapping 40 Million UK Customers Into iCloud Service
While I think this is a silly claim, it's not hard to move to Dropbox, Google Photos or Amazon Photos to back up your photos. It's also up to app developers if they adopt iCloud as the preferred storage method within an app. Plenty of apps I use give you the choice of other providers.
Is iCloud storage a rip off though? Probably. Storage continues to get cheaper if you're looking at your own solutions but cloud providers continue to charge us all high prices. I'm not looking for a discount myself, just give us a little more ever now and then.
Posted 14th Nov 2024 @ 14:00
2024 Presidential election results
This year, the UK finally voted for adults to be in charge. Not perfect by any stretch, but a damning victory for some sense over division. America, unfortunately, did not get the memo and decided that a criminal and rapist deserved another shot at running their country.
Visiting the US was something I was lucky enough to do many times from the late 90s up until 2010. I haven't been back and the appeal just isn't there anymore. I have a soft spot for Hawaii, so I'm pleased to see they voted for Harris.
Maybe not enough people voted, or maybe Americans don't understand their elevated position in the world?
When you think about social media, and the internet in general, you're most likely going to be thinking about an American company or product. One that the whole world benefits from and should have brought us together. News is global. And yet Trump, and America it seems, are only willing to look at themselves.
Immigration, for example, will not change during his term, just as it continues to be a topic in the UK. This is despite the need for legal routes for refugees so that you can at least have a sensible approach to immigration. It's a part of life. We bring in highly-skilled people to do the jobs we don't want to do or that we are failing to train the next generation to do.
I don't think immigration should be unlimited but it's terrible thing to hang your hat on when the demons that immigrants are portrayed to be are the ones fleeing for their lives. If you take an anti-immigration position, you look and ultimately become intolerable of others. We see this with every right-wing politician across the world. It's always them, those foreigners who are stealing jobs and causing problems when the reality is that most of these people are only looking for a better life. Just as your own parents, grand parents or ancestors did at some point in history.
I am gutted with the result. I wanted nothing more than for Trump to fade into obscurity and for any subsequent coverage to be of him being fully convicted for all of the terrible things he has done thanks to the privileges he's enjoyed because of his riches. Unfortunately, it looks like neither will happen.
From a UK perspective, I hope he is shunned in every way possible. America should no longer be considered a super power but a threat to world peace until we see action that leads to the end of wars in Ukraine and Gaza at the very least and I have no faith that will happen in the next 4 years now because of this election result.
Posted 7th Nov 2024 @ 08:37
We Are Cursed to Have More Connector Standards and, Also, Articles About Connector Standards
Posted 5th Nov 2024 @ 09:19
Networking Doesn't Have to Feel Gross by Daniel Hallak
Honestly, the best video I've watched in ages. Exactly how I feel about networking and how gross it all feels. I'm happy to let my work and skills do the talking but in a room of louder people that means you can go under the radar quite easily.
I prefer to be kind before anything else and I'll try to be more generous too going forward.
Posted 3rd Nov 2024 @ 21:16