25 years ago today, Ridley Scott’s epic “Gladiator” hit UK cinemas. ![/image/IMG_0841.jpg]

Been using Todoist since 2018 and I just experienced a major bug for the first time ever.

I really do love Todoist. It’s remarkably reliable (aside from this one time of course).

I’m always amazed how rock-solid its syncing is too. I’m constantly making changes on multiple offline devices on the train. Whenever they come back online it all syncs up perfectly.

Yesterday I wrote about how we buy things for social status, not because we truly want them. 
Prime example: the Fortnum & Mason hamper. 
People spend £350 for an assortment of picnic foods just so they can have a wicker box with “F&M” burnt into it that they can proudly display in their home.

Every single person I’ve met who “doesn’t even own a TV, let alone watch it” sure spends a lot of time at their partners house watching TV.

I’ve finally done it. I’ve found a Japanese ambient album that I don’t like. Sorry Hiroshi Yoshimura, but “Flora” isn’t for me.

It gets good reviews too. Maybe it’s just me.

Also, the album cover makes me feel sick.

I feel like “opium eater” sounds a lot cooler than “scaghead”.

“Is It Time for Old School?”. Michael Wade suggesting bringing back classical music knowledge, memorising poetry, joining community service organisations, reading more books, and more.

There’s a whiff of “old man shouts at cloud”, but there’s still food for thought in this list. https://michaelwade800695.substack.com/p/is-it-time-for-old-school

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” – Frank Zappa

What the hell’s a MCP server?

You know it’s a good day when you get to watch “The Last of Us” S01E03.

Rather shocked to see that a large fancy drink from Starbucks is now £6.20‽

I must have spent about 10 hours over the past week on blot.blog. How much have I spent writing? I’ve added a sidebar and implemented a few features.

Some are important and useful. I’ve added search. And there’s now an ‘asides’ section for short thoughts (I’ve imported all my old tweets too). But most of my time has been spent fiddling with CSS.

I really need to dedicate more time to writing my blog, not building it.

Netflix has introduced HDR10+.

Also:

“AV1-SDR is already the second most streamed codec at Netflix, behind H.264/AVC.”

In my mind AV1 is still not widely supported or used. I guess not.

I know Netflix has done its best to avoid H.265/HEVC due to its prohibitive licensing costs. And it has financially and technically backed AV1. But I’m surprised there’s that many AV1-friendly devices out there.

One of my hobbies is video transcoding. I use HEVC. But perhaps I should take a look at AV1. I won’t adopt it yet. Encode times I’m sure are still too slow and I have very few devices that support it. But I’m curious how it competes with HEVC on quality.

“Lives in my head rent free” = “I remember”

This is a test. Seeing as this blog is essentially my own little Twitter, it seems fitting that I’ve imported all of my tweets into it.

3122 tweets imported – dating back to 2008. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum.

I’m trying to implement a new rule: I’m not allowed to save any articles to read-later on a Saturday/Sunday morning.

If I’m not willing to read it on a weekend morning – when I’ve got a hot coffee and bucketloads of time – then I’m never going to read it.

I saw ‘turkey teeth’ in person for the first time today. It was quite a shock. They look awful.

Those things will not age well. You shouldn’t get teeth based on a fashion.