Sad to be missing all the folk at #CampDigital today. Good luck to @jukes.ie and @tumshie.me with their talks. Consoling myself with this view and doing very little

Good vibes, kilts and planning at today’s GovCamp Scotland at Edinburgh Futures Institute #GovCampScotland

Hackney Half done. Perfect weather. Snuck in a PB and felt good but defeated by the bro in the final 2k 🤦‍♂️ #HackneyHalf

My office is older than your office

Flow was as beautiful and brilliant as expected. Kids were engrossed and very thoughtful about it afterwards.

Increasingly seeing websites (eg Mirror, Independent, Mail) force people to accept cookies unless users subscribe to an “ad-free” service. This pay-for-privacy model surely can’t comply with data legislation?

Reassuring post-Christmas note from the machine…

End of the week.

Great talk on Digital Transformation by @tumshie.bsky.social at the Digital Scotland Conference, providing simple lessons in an area of huge complexity.

Good start to the week with a free birthday coffee from my favourite spot ☕️

Snow ❄️

On the way to London and regretting my “I’ll do that on the train” mentality from earlier in the week 🚂

Back to work after a trip to Dublin visiting Trinity Library. Today has been a lot but here’s some nice pictures of things.

Interesting drink options at Dublin Airport Burger King

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein was being filmed outside the office today in Edinburgh

An ongoing bugbear of AI reporting is treating it like an out-of-the-box single “technology”solving complex tasks as soon as it’s deployed.

The reality: “The company finally solved the problem after 10 years of internally funded research and filed a patent application in September 2019.”

Slightly baffled that an altogether brilliant new website for a leading cultural organisation shares cookies with 886 (!) partners and has cookies on by default