Archive: 2025-08
Week 241: Jackpot
On Monday morning, I read that my client is banning Slack and forcibly migrating all chats to Microsoft Teams. I don’t love Slack – it’s hard enough to keep up with the four different kinds of places I have to check for replies and mentions – but I like Teams even less.
Also on Monday, I got kicked out of Teams calls four times, one of which was while I was in the middle of speaking. Great bit of software.
Week 240: Fifteen-second loop
I spent 52 minutes on the phone to Eurostar to cancel some tickets, for most of which I was listening to the same fifteen seconds of hold music over and over. (I timed it somewhere around the twentieth minute.)
The serendipitous digital audio player
I like to listen to albums, and I like to listen to them all the way through, from beginning to end.
I own a digital audio player, a kind of modern iPod. I have fitted it with a 256 GB microSDXC card for storage, which is enough for over 500 losslessly-compressed albums.
However, this leaves me with a couple of problems:
Week 239: Just one small detail
L— got a flat tyre cycling home – the first time in at least seven years – in an inconvenient location nowhere near public transport. Her bike is a Brompton, so I attached my bicycle trailer and rode the fifteen minutes to Burgess Park to pick it up while she rented a Lime bike to get home.