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2020xii29, Tuesday: Day One.
I don’t know whether it’s worth explicitly going for daily posts; or whether it’d be better for it to happen organically. Let’s see how this goes.
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At long last. A deal.
Any deal was always going to be better than no deal. And there'll be lots of tall tales (put generously) told about its glories. But so much of this is placeholder...
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Here we go.
I've been writing, spasmodically, for most of this year. Now to get into the habit. Perhaps Substack can help.
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Reconsidering bundling apps.
Recently I tried three, and reluctantly settled on one. After a long chat with the founder of one of the others, I’m thinking again. Not so long ago, I tried out three apps designed for lawyers to handle paperless bundles: to make them, and use them. As I explained,
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Something new.
I need to write more regularly. So I’m going to try to do something – however tiny – every day. And Substack might encourage me. I’ll give it a whirl. Oh dear. It’s been almost two months since my last post. I’m sorry. It’s been busy, but
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Back to Things.
I’m a serial experimenter with task tracking. But Things keeps pulling me back… It’s a terrible habit, and the GTD crowd (and many other, far more sensible, people) will look aghast at me. But I can’t help switching task tracking methods from time to time. Life at
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Can apps or services relieve the burden of bundling?
tl;dr: Not without some pain, and considerable cost if you’re a solo practitioner. But we have a winner. Albeit at the cost of breaking a fundamental rule of British journalism.* It turns out my blog on nested emails struck a chord. Several cries of pain rang out. Clearly
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Unlawful? Or - far worse - dangerous?
Test and trace relies on trust. Undermine it, and people’s lives are at risk. If the Times is to be believed, companies gathering customers’ data on behalf of restaurants and bars are doing just that. If there’s one thing that the nations which have succeeded in containing Covid
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Nested emails: the bane of bundling.
A heartfelt plea from a non-Windows, non-Outlook user: sending a string of emails, containing other emails, containing attachments, is a huge timesuck. Think how much advice I could’ve given in the time I spent disentangling it… I’ll keep this short. Sending Counsel nested emails is a waste of
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Fragility.
Yesterday, just for a while, I broke. Without going into detail (others deserve their privacy), personal stuff has been unremitting and draining the past month and more. A bunch of work deadlines collided in September. The outcome: a relentless grind of sleeplessness and toil that never seemed to diminish, or
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Algorithms, face recognition and rights. (And exams, too.)
The Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold an appeal against South Wales Police’s use of facial recognition software has all kinds of interesting facets. But the interplay between its findings on the equality implications of facial recognition, and the rights we all have under GDPR, may have significant
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Lies and freedom. They don't mix.
“All politicians lie,” so they say. No; all human beings lie. What matters is what lie, when – and what it does to your ability to choose. I’m a sucker for a series. By which I mean a sequence of books (for preference) or a good serialised TV show. Genre,