The mission patch for the HPV private beta features Mavis the polar bear watching the sun rise over the horizon, representing the launch of our new service into private beta.

The mission patch for the release supporting ‘doubles’ (co-administered MenACWY and Td/IPV vaccinations) features Mavis the polar bear meeting her double.

Hey Guy’s

Diffused (sunrise).

If everything is working correctly, this is the first post from my website syndicated to Bluesky via Indiekit. 🤞

I put a little care into something and sent it out into the world.

Just watched B. J. Novak’s directorial debut, Vengeance (2022) and oh boy, it’s a hoot. A hearty recommendation from me.

Please, make it stop.

If you’re wondering why you can’t find any pineapples in Brighton, thank Fatto a Mano, where for a limited time you can exchange a pineapple for their Bella Disgrazia pizza. Fortunately they also accept tinned chunks!

Blogging about blogging.

Micro Social is to Micro.blog what Tweetie was to Twitter. Sometimes it takes a passionate and attentive third-party developer to design and build the best app for an open platform. Astounding work @gregmorris@micro.blog!

That loud groaning noise you can hear is the sound of a 1000 employees at Williams Racing being told they’ve now got to use Jira.

Watched the penultimate performance of Elektra in Brighton this afternoon, before it transfers to the West End. Dense dialogue compensates for the short running time and an abrupt ending, yet the play is undermined by needless and nonsensical gimmicks (effect pedals, a random blimp, ink guns). Larson gave a forceful performance though, and was an absolute pro dealing with a mid-performance interruption (a cup fell from an upper circle).

Before the new year gets into full swing, time to recap the year gone by.

Another year of counting things.

230 lines and branches, 89 railway companies, 966 towns and cities, 118 counties and regions. And counting.

Went to Lewes Depot this evening to watch a screening of Point Break (1991). Definitely one to file under ‘so bad it’s good’, with plenty of pithy one-liners to share for years to come.

Feeling quite proud of myself for getting my broken microwave repaired instead of mindlessly taking it to the dump and buying a new one. Only cost £45 to replace a blown capacitor.

Just received my first visual voicemail, 17 years after it was announced as a key feature of the first iPhone. 🤯

Prompted by their latest greenwashing campaign, only now twigged that Esso is the phonetic pronunciation of S.O. for Standard Oil. I prefer Jayesso, Just Stop Oil.

Binged the first season of Rivals sorry, not sorry.

♫ Is This Love? by Alison Moyet

Read an article in the Guardian only to have this ear worm firmly lodged.

Kinda wild watching a person sat on the train next to me using Twitter, and then posting an emotive, implicitly pro-Elon reply. Anyway, curiosity got the better of me and I logged in for the first time in ages; the site is unrecognisable, overflowing with spammy ads and pornography, with a user base of boiled frogs digging ever deeper trenches in one man’s manufactured culture war. It’s all very sad, bizarre and dare I say it, weird.

Earlier this year, I was captivated by this brightly coloured wall outside Düsseldorf Kunstsammlung K20. The artist? Sarah Morris. How beautifully circuitous.

How should September be abbreviated?

• Firefox: Sept
• Chrome: Sept
• Node.js: Sept
• Deno: Sept
• Safari: Sep 👀

This is for en-GB, en-IE, en-AU and en-NZ locales (maybe more); for other English locales, everyone agrees it should be Sep. Standards!

If I were paying more attention – and had planned any part of this trip – I would’ve known that today is the opening day of the exhibition, and that she was there to give a talk about her work. Free admission, too.

Nevermind, today I discovered an artist whose work is right up my Straße, possibly inspiring a new side-project. Bought the exhibition catalogue as eager to dig deeper and learn more.

At Stuttgart Kunstmuseum to see the Sarah Morris exhibition All Systems Fail, and saw actual Sarah Morris. 🤩

15 years on from my original post, an update on how I name my devices.

How to build a place on the web where you can own your identity, control your content and create whatever the hell you like.

Thank you, Gareth – for everything.