Stephen's Notebook

One of the many things I like about micro.blog is the lack of animated gifs in the timeline. I hope it stays this way.

I’ve been using Feedbin for a couple of years. Just noticed that if you go into settings you can see a graphical representation of how often a feed updates. I’ve used that to unsubscribe from a lot of inactive sites and made my list much more manageable.

This image on the cover of the Wonderous Stories book could be a metaphor for being a progressive rock fan in the late 70s.

Just watched a really good history of the Sunset Strip. Lots of music and bad behaviour. When I visited in 2004 on holiday the place was deserted.

A little project. I’m #drawing the same mug every morning for a month. I won’t be sharing them all here though.

James Woods - there’s a good example of having to separate the work from the person.

I’ve never tried dictation on my phone before. Doing it right now and it seems to work flawlessly. Even with my Scottish accent and speaking at my usual rate of knots. I’m very impressed.

You can tell a new social network is maturing when you find discussions on the ins and outs of the musical career of Steven Wilson.

It’s time to turn off auto-renew for Evernote premium. I only use it for importing Kindle highlights from Clippings.io now and free is good enough for that.