And just like that….the little runt of a month that is February is gone for another year. A busy week punctuated by a day trip to London on Thursday. The travel was pretty flawless apart from a slightly longer than expected train journey from Heathrow to Farringdon but there are worse ways to see London than via a crawling train. Walking around areas of London that I don’t know is always interesting. Old buildings in need of repair, some wonderful architecture and loads of new and interesting skyscrapers punching into the sky. Love it. And cyclists everywhere coming from all directions, always a danger for me who can’t wait for the lights to go green.
What I didn’t love though was Gordon Ramsay’s Plane Food Market at Terminal 5. I plumped for a safe Fish Combo from the menu that at a glance could be a World Buffet special until you spot the prices. Three pieces of cod, think slightly plumper fish fingers and some of the poorest chips I’ve had in a long time. £19. My colleagues Tom Kha Glass Noodles were no better. £18. Underwhelming and will head to Wagamama’s next time.
🔗 Links
- Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card – always a highlight, 50 odd Apple watchers vote annually on how Apple is doing in their eyes. No surprise that the Mac has fallen over the last 12 months thanks to Tahoe, Liquid Glass and one of the buggiest releases I’ve used in years.
- Sticking with the Mac, 2 dock utilities worth a look. Dockey makes it easy to tweak your dock without resorting to terminal commands. Dockfix is a throwback app for me and introduces a level of graphical tweaking I haven’t seen in years including customising any icon.
- It’s less than a week to go until it slights out on a new F1 season. In America Apple is now the exclusive TV provider and they announced this week something nobody predicted – Drive to Survive available on Apple TV – in the US only. Apple and Netflix hardly ever play ball so an interesting development including Netflix broadcasting the Canadian Grand Prix live. If you haven’t watched Drive to Survive its well worth binging before the start of the season, first couple of episodes have been great.
- Alignment theatre – this struck a chord as we set out goals, deliverables, roadmaps and plans for the year. Much to do.
- How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard – total overkill and expensive but there’s something about these information sinks that make me want to do my own, and Trmnl hasn’t satisfied the itch.
📺 Media
Quiet week really. Enjoyed Industry and looking forward to the final episode of season 4 – also good they’ve got a fifth and final season green lit to close things out. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms also finished well. 6 half hour episodes and a season 2 already filming. Also enjoyed Shelter which is Jason Statham’s annual kick the shit out of people movie while wearing a cardigan or jacket.