10th June, 2025: Frances Ethel Gumm.
Death … comes to us all …
There’s possibly a lot of directions I could go with that statement.
But I’ll go with the sad route.
Yesterday?
Saw the death of writer, Frederick Forsyth.
I was never a fan of his politics: he was a little too high Tory for my tastes.
But the few books of his I read?
Were well constructed: The Fourth Protocol has been on my bookshelves for many years.
~≈📖≈~
The other death … ?
Was that of influential musician, Sly Stone.
Again, I was never a huge fan.
But?
I suspect the was a Family Stone tune for everyone: something he would’ve written.
The man will be missed.
~≈🎹≈~
The fact, in all this, that the US President has sent the Marines into Los Angeles?
Is less relevant: although it reinforces my personal belief that the current US president is a twerp.
It’s less relevant to my day than the fact I’m expecting a phone, early: a call from a lung-checking NHS service.
Hopefully?
I won’t need a hospital appointment, as a result.
~≈🫁≈~
As a last point?
It’s the time of year when Apple holds its World Wide Developers Conference: and makes a slew of announcements.
This year?
They’ve made several announcements, already.
Including an announcement that the next versions of their main operating systems will be macOS/iOS/iPhoneOS/tvOS/watchOS 26: a unified numbering system, in other words.
These will feature a new interface design language.
With lots of glass-like, transparent, elements.
That … ?
Will feature in the upcoming version on macOS — macOS 26 Tahoe — when it’s released later this year.
That version … ?
As well as the new interface, Tahoe will be the last to support Intel Macs.
I can only hope two things.
One?
That Tahoe’s replacement, a replacement that will only support Apple Silicon and presumably remove a lot of Intel code, will use less hard drive space as a result.
Two?
That the whizzy new interface design is readable.
Or, at least, can be turned off in Settings!
~≈🍎≈~
