Apparently, lots of people are leaving WhatsApp, or at least looking for alternatives. (So say articles like this and this, at least.) I’ve only rarely used it, since most of my close friends and family are on iMessage and both my work-related groups use Zulip. It’s only the occasional extended-family discussion that ends up on Continue Reading
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Abandoning my principles
Two quotations occurred to me this morning. The first was from Edmund Blackadder, talking to Prince George: “Well, it is so often the way, sir: too late one thinks of what one should have said. Sir Thomas More, for instance — burned alive for refusing to recant his Catholicism — must have been kicking himself, as the Continue Reading
Warning Signal
I wrote a couple of years ago about why I really like the Signal app for chat-style communications. (Quick summary: it’s just like WhatsApp but doesn’t require you to sell your soul and all of your contacts’ private information to the devil!) I’ve been using it for a few years now, for business Continue Reading
Signalling virtue
Dear Reader, Can I encourage you to try something today? Go to Signal.org and get hold of the Signal messaging app, and/or go to your app store and download Signal for your phone. And while it’s downloading, come back here and I’ll tell you why I’ve become so fond of it, and why you might Continue Reading
University of Cambridge abandons open standards for proprietary ones, and starts to pay the price
A few years ago, the ‘University Information Services’ (UIS) team at Cambridge made the decision that the University would no longer run its own email service — something it had done since email began — and instead was going to outsource it to a commercial entity. This in itself, I think, was probably a mistake, Continue Reading
Android: How the other half live
I have had an epiphany. Living on a small boat with four strangers for five days is a great way to discover many things (including, in my case, what good company they were). One of the less aquatic things I learned, though, was probably very obvious and I should have realised it years ago. One Continue Reading
It only takes one bit of data…
A few days ago, I created a new Facebook account. Not for myself, of course; I’m not stupid! (I deleted my own account many years ago and haven’t looked back.) No, it was because my company was writing some software that connected to Instagram, and doing that requires you to have a Facebook account in Continue Reading
The New Year Beckons?
This is the best cartoon I’ve seen over the last few days. It was one of those shared-on-WhatsApp things, so I’m afraid I don’t know whom to credit.
Con-Text
The phenomenal success of SMS text messages is a fascinating example of many things – the need for an asynchronous communications mechanism between humans, the surprising adoption of what was originally a test facility for engineers, the merits of enforced brevity in communications, and our voluntary blindness to some costs when they’re expressed in a Continue Reading
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