Back to work last week and as ever a holiday leads to a massive backlog of mails and tasks and one from which I never really catch back up on during the first week.
For the last few years I’ve set myself a yearly walking target of 2000km. Usually I hit that in late October/November so with time to spare. This year I passed 2000km on August 27th, so if I keep that rate up it will be 3000km. However weather and darker nights will trim the distances down but good to get it ticked of so early.
Tremendous news that Norway has down selected the T26 frigate and agreed that the UK will supply five frigates to Norway. Gives a massive secure pipeline for shipbuilding on the Clyde well into the 2030’s.
New iPhones are only a couple of weeks away – I really like the look of the new Google Pixels, not enough to leave the locked in world of Apple…but what I really hated was the Jimmy Fallon Made by Google event. Awkward.
iPhone event also means iOS26, macOS 26 etc being released in the next 2 weeks. I’ve stayed away from the beta’s but seeing some of the icons here I don’t much look forward to Tahoe.
They Used to Be Good, But Now They’ve Turned to Evil: The Synology End Game – it’s why I built my own NAS. Update on that – it’s alive, Unraid is nice, copying data is not. In Synology’s favour, the devices consume fairly low amounts of power and mine is 10 years old and still going strong. I doubt I will be able to say the same about my self built NAS.
The Last Tokens – brings back memories of The Big Apple in Sauchiehall Street in the late 80/early 90’s.
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is a disgrace on Switch 2 – is this due to the Switch 2 being underpowered, the lack of developers getting Seitch 2 dev kits or greedy dev’s? Whatever the reason, pick this up on Steam or another console.
Enjoyed F1 the movie probably more than I should have as there was a high amount of cringe. Mission Impossible Final Reckoning was underwhelming. Too long, too much angst. Alien Earth is mega and it’s great having Peacemaker back.
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