For those who still want to read about COVID, my latest Stuff column is about a new paper on long COVID and post-exertional malaise. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3501...

It occurs to me I haven't posted this masterpiece of NZ film making here yet. It has an important self-esteem vs. Moniques message and the family bonding power of puzzles.

Todays vibe

youtu.be/fHX9I6MwI9Q

Father in law is staying with us, I hooked him up with Plex and shared my (extensive) media library with him. He balked at the 4.99GBP cost for the Plex app. Told him I wouldn’t be springing for it so…. Eventually he caved and paid up

I’m reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #1) and I’m loving it. It got me thinking about how a ChatGPT type plugin could make an application produce a human-readable event log, which read like a diary.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...

I’ve had weird dreams before, but last night I was backstage with Taylor Swift and she was asking me to confirm I was joining her on tour, to play keyboard. I said “I’m really not that good, surely you can find someone more qualified?”, and she was really sad and said she’d been told I was the best