Here... I just write about the most random stuff
31 Aug 2026 1 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted
I recently mislaid my very new, very expensive AirPods Max. By which I mean I left them on a seat in an airport lounge and only realised when it was too late. Apple's Find My pings their position very close to the airport, at a private residence, w...
26 Aug 2026 2 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
You'd imagine that can't be a saga with AirPods. You buy them, you use them. That's it. But in my case, there was a saga. Until about 5-6 years ago, I'd probably never bought a pair of headphones. Headphones used to be included in the box with a new...
25 Jul 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
The auction business is absolutely exploding. It's pretty crazy. Not long ago, auction houses would mostly auction off cars and watches, and occasionally things like wines and so on. Now, everything is sold at auction all the time, and there are m...
24 Jul 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
I know a lot of people love to hate Ryanair but the low-cost carrier pioneered a way of travelling that made it possible for millions of people to travel cheaply. For my parents' generation - we don't have to go that far in the past - a weekend geta...
28 Jun 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
I'm beginning to realise that AI can be very good at helping you with unimportant things that are important. As in, important to you. When we look at the universe, my coffee moka isn't a huge deal, but it is for me, because for about two months, I...
7 Jun 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
Anglophone and Anglo-Saxon cultures have given the world a lot of great things, but corporatism isn't one of them. So many of the issues we see today are caused by self-imposed bulls**t we have to deal with it. The peak of which is probably HR. No...
16 May 2026 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted
Back when I was a teenager, which is not that long ago, rappers would make money, but not that much money. They'd be relegation-zone, mid-level EPL player rich, not Man City rich. I still remember an MTV Cribs video, for example, where G-Unit membe...
15 May 2026 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted
I've never subscribed to the 'yesterday was better than today' party, mostly because I can't see the point. I don't know whether being an adult in the 1950s or 1980s or 2000s was better or worse than being an adult in 2026 because I can't know. I'll...
3 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
I don't want to sound melodramatic but one of the things that worry me is people's inability to separate absurd conspiracy theories from realistic scenarios that might happen, or that have been already happened. Over the last few years, I've seen a...
27 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted
I do my best not to waste money on unused reservations, subscriptions and bookings. I travel a lot so that's a huge hidden cost but, fortunately, thanks to a combination of experience and paranoia, that almost never happens. Over the last 20 years,...
