Rupert Goodwins
@rupertg
Tech hack. Hacks tech. Was Prince Philip. Wrote firmware for Clive and Alan, wrote words for decades, now Register columnist and creative tech at Civic Digits. Quite blind. Music, history, radio, science. Only robots have to be binary: YMMV.
Spotify understands neither the use of the passive voice, nor plurals. Who needs low value human capital with AI as good as this?
And here it is. While I lust after modern DAWs, their interfaces are as accessible to me as a Sanskrit spreadsheet. Give me the Fisher Price aesthetic or give me death.
61 this coming Saturday, and my father was just up for his 90th. What the very Hades is going on?
While we're on the topic of quality software, here is the best that the multi-trillion dollar Apple can do after sixteen years of the IPad.
Auto while we're on the subject, this is a favourite of mine in the collection and when I get my beam up, Scotty, it is so going on the air.
I know. That's not a multi mode VHF radio. THIS is a multi mode VHF radio.
It does share accelerating electrons to make photons with Madame Nixie, and here's the business end.
Meanwhile, for my own forthcoming birthday, I have bought myself a genuine secret weapon from world war II.
Goodwins Seniot, the Rev Christopher William Hedley of that ilk, has travelled to Edinburgh to celebrate his 90th. We talked about AI, display technologies, and St Paul.
Even more worrying for naive road users is the small print towards the bottom middle here...
Voi e-bike rental has been in Edinburgh for six months. Just long enough for some ned to dump this in my porch...
One of the major downsides to AI is that any idiot can share scenes from a dream whether you like it or not. This one is wrong in almost every detail.
Meanwhile, here in the science fictional future of today, my house is being attacked by Chinese robots using infra-red lasers. I fighti back with a laser of my own, screwed to the wall, next to the sofa, in the Edinburgh burial ground wherein I live. It's Friday.
Old agency adage: "If the client pouts and sighs Make their advert twice the size If that's still unsatisfactory Show a picture of their factory only in the direst case Print a picture of their face" And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
My T1154{R1155 RAF Bomber Command radios have arrived from Kent via a specialist courier. Far too heavy for one man to lift, and that's just the radios. The power supply is similar. All came with enormous amounts of documentation which is fantastic. Now to get it on the air.
400 miles from home. Return journey imminent. All the travel things on phone. Which phone? This phone. This afternoon. This ungood.
Fave new astrophysics - appreciable percentage of universe's gold created by transmutation in magnetar starquake flares. Hugely violent spasms of htperstrange physics. Philosopher's stone energetically improbable, I'm afraid.
Oh yuck. I was doing some digging around Windows' installed base, and look what Chrome's AI Overview cited as a source alongside Wikipedia. GB News. What dark force is at work here?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was, in fact, a documentary. Bring forth the Holy Hasnd Grenade of Antioch! {Resl Holy Grail? Herodian ritually appropriate tableware may have looked like this.
For the first ime this year, the sun hits the spa box in the front room. This was my grandfather's, he was the vicar of Sparty Lee, a Northumbria mining village. When he left, the miners gave him this, containing minerals found underground. Mpst such have been broken up for specimens. Not here.
The Portal of Truth! Behold! Out main prop for the Hack Your Age workshop stage show in Leith this evening. It's a digital ouija board for the noosphere, man...
It's Thursday, which means I have a Register column deadline, and it's a rare sunny day here on the Forth at the edge of Edinburgh, so I have an excellent choice of procrastinaria... the plantive cry of the gulls battling the buzz of the drones.
Trump says the Stars and Stripes will be planted on Mars in the next four years. Mars, half a century ago: