{"id":8607,"date":"2024-01-12T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2024-01-13T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T09:20:36","slug":"weeknote-2-2024-time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/01\/weeknote-2-2024-time-flies.htm","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote 2\/2024: time flies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Writing this weeknote may explain why this week has felt so busy. I clearly try to squeeze far too many personal projects in around my work and family life&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I spent quite a bit of time looking at ways to reduce the cost of moving to Azure for our clients. I&#8217;m not going to post the details here, but I think my colleagues and I made some good progress. I&#8217;ll have more to share soon, but in the meantime, you can always get in touch. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/bookwithme\/user\/5c983cc45a9c41adaf6dda0508efe438@Risual.com?anonymous&amp;ep=plink\">my Microsoft Bookings link<\/a> if you want to have a chat about how Node4 could help your business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Talking of which, I set up Calendly to try and pull my various calendars together. It&#8217;s kind of like Microsoft Bookings on steroids. Sadly it didn&#8217;t do the thing I&#8217;m really struggling with and show me my work, home and family calendars in one place. Outlook does that for me, but the family calendar in iCloud doesn&#8217;t seem to update&#8230; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have been staying up far too late watching too much YouTube. Last night the algorithm decided that I needed to know how to install a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_drain\">French Drain<\/a>. Actually, it was right&#8230; it might help with some of the drainage issues in our back garden. Other gems have included:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IcPtdlWu2fk\">AirTags are not great for tracking bikes<\/a> (which is a shame, as I installed one on my road bike recently &#8211; I may now need to hack it to remove its ability to &#8220;beep&#8221;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xXtyDQxCq7U\">An escape attempt from East to West Berlin via the U-Bahn<\/a>. BTW, if you like stories like that, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/extra\/Od4dL9Lip2\/tunnel_29\">the BBC&#8217;s Tunnel 29 podcast<\/a> series.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7ihHyBwyRU\">Cleaning battery corrosion<\/a> using white vinegar and isopropol alcohol.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And much more, but I&#8217;m not going to recreate my entire YouTube History here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I did try to create a static archive of my tweets though. It&#8217;s not quite as I would like, so let&#8217;s just say that&#8217;s &#8220;work in progress&#8221;. Maybe more next week, when I have a working solution.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Apropos of nothing, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/1743327151913349206\">I continue to be dismayed by the state of Twitter\/X ads<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And I questioned how &#8220;normal users&#8221; must feel when presented with nonsensical or jargon-filled computer messages:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/1743331998377079241\">Exhibit A<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/1745464434523562435\">Exhibit B<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The photos are still uploading from my NAS to Azure. Several people have recommended other solutions (e.g. Backblaze or Synology C2) but the granular charging on Azure means that I think my current solution may well cost a little less if I tick over the 1TB mark&#8230; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&#8217;ve been watching&#8230;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as the YouTube content I mentioned above, and the dramas I wrote about last week&#8230; 3\/4 of my family watched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1517268\/\">Barbie<\/a> movie together last weekend. I really quite enjoyed it. Actually, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/jul\/23\/barbie-review-greta-gerwig-margot-robbie-ryan-riotous-candy-coloured-feminist-fable\">Mark Kermode&#8217;s Guardian review<\/a> nails it: &#8220;It\u2019s a riotously entertaining candy-coloured feminist fable that manages simultaneously to celebrate, satirise and deconstruct its happy-plastic subject. Audiences will be delighted. Mattel should be ecstatic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, away from the screen, I got to watch my youngest son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedfordhockeyclub.com\/\">play Hockey at Bedford<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&#8217;ve been reading&#8230;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Not enough. But I am slowly reading the materials for my <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/clubs-training\/for-students\/foundation\/\">amateur radio foundation licence<\/a> exam&#8230; and I&#8217;ve made the Man Cave a better place to kick back and relax (including a place to read, or listen to an audiobook):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Love this recent purchase\u2026 it\u2019s so cosy in my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCave?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ManCave<\/a> now\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8FeN3KmLZp\">https:\/\/t.co\/8FeN3KmLZp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bu8nGHCQFi\">pic.twitter.com\/bu8nGHCQFi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/1744470988274741274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some thoughts that won&#8217;t make it to a full blog post&#8230;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The ITV Drama about the Post Office Scandal is a brilliant illustration of the power of storytelling. Graham Chastney wrote about this before I got around to it and <a href=\"https:\/\/grahamchastney.com\/2024\/01\/08\/we-are-wired-for-story-working-principles\/\">his post about how we are wired for stories<\/a> is pretty much what I wanted to say. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danbarker\/status\/1744852830798610884\">Dan Barker&#8217;s tweet<\/a> looks a bit deeper at why years of quality journalism wasn&#8217;t enough and it took an ITV Drama to bring the story to the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Once again, demonstrating the power of storytelling\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rgUgvxT3pN\">https:\/\/t.co\/rgUgvxT3pN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/1745459126619218285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachelcoldicutt\/status\/1743925195583242440\">Rachel Coldicutt examines<\/a> why we seem inclined to believe the machine, not the person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Post Office scandal exemplifies why automated decisions in public services introduces a new layer of risk.<br><br>It&#39;s become q normal to trust the output of a machine but be wary of a person&#39;s opinion, particularly when it comes to numbers. When did you last doubt a calculator? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b9iw5zsyTN\">https:\/\/t.co\/b9iw5zsyTN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; @rachelcoldicutt@assemblag.es (@rachelcoldicutt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachelcoldicutt\/status\/1743925195583242440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve certainly experienced &#8220;management by dashboard&#8221;, when a report, which was believed by so many, was flawed and presented bad insights on data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, whilst I&#8217;m still embarrassed that my former employer is so deeply embroiled in a scandal that led to so many miscarriages of justice, I&#8217;m more and more inclined to think that software is imperfect, and that the failure of leadership (and consequential mismanagement of the issues) was the main problem here, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damien_page\/status\/1744604855811944617\">as outlined by Professor Damien Page<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Horizon Post Office scandal was not a failure of technology, it was a failure of leadership. 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Next week&#8217;s weeknote <em>might<\/em> not be such a rush&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image: Author\u2019s own<\/em><br>(screenshot from Microsoft Visio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing this weeknote may explain why this week has felt so busy. 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