5th June, 2018.
I’ve a definite confession to make … I like some of Radio Four’s Monday night comedies.
One of the classics?
One of their classics, of course, is the ever listenable Just a Minute: fronted since 1967 by presenter, Nicolas Parsons.
He’s 94: which is one hell of a good innings
But … ?
For the first time in his fifty years presenting the show, he missed an episode: last night’s.
Which was a sombre affair, as a result.
I think I can understand that.
Nicolas being off is understandable: is is 94, after all.
But it’s mildly worrying to see.
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There’s something else I’ve seen, that struck me.
The news from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference: that Apple will be re-designing Safari, their browser, so that it will be able to block the various tracking tools used by — very specifically — Facebook.
With the recent row over Cambridge’s Analytica’s use of data from FB?
And with ongoing tracking by various advertisers?
That’s possibly a good move: in the original iPhone update, Apple refused to build in an ability to use the battery draining Flash.
And encouraging the uptake HTML5, with it’s more efficient use of power in doing the same job.
Personally?
I can’t help but think that — and the various upcoming parental controls — are a good thing.
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