On occasions if given an inch I will ask where the remaining 1759 yards, 2 feet and 11 inches is. Case in point … #AlbumWhale .. just recently re-discovered it and having - well - ‘a whale of a time’ - and yes - pun absolutely intended.

Anyway have had more ideas - time to write them up. https://albumwhale.com

💬📚 Written in ‘63 - he died in ‘69 - book finally published in ‘80 .. so arguably he new nought of our world today …

And yet …

Right then. Ruminating. Here’s what I know … what a great song to end on. What an appalling rendition.

It’s back. Some have been brilliant. Others meh. A few … #Fail. For all of that though .. looking forward to this new series.

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Phil Jackson

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Jackson https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

Yet another 🔗🎵AlbumWhale list.

As the intro says …

"I am not a singles guy BUT there are some wonderful tracks out there, that wouldn’t make it to my lists if not careful. This list of albums is made up of albums that are only there because it includes one very specific track - which is WHY the album is here. (Not to say it isnt a good album - not that other songs aren’t great, and is all to say that ehe track named on the album notes is why the album is on the list. 🎵 I also have an apple playlist of the featured tracks." https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/the-album-that-has-the-single https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/albumwhale-singles/pl.u-NgpGuNNKm2

I now have …

‘Tяump’

… installed in a shortcut in TextExpander.

Quite simply the best use of Text Expander I have managed to create .. and I use it a LOT.

It’s going to be a (very) slow move - but decided to move all pages hosted on Micro Blog to Craft.

🖇️ This Is My First.

As I move them will delete the page and add the old page URL to my redirects.

COUGH

When I did that first one - found a lot of redirects that I know are broken - so maybe I will fix t... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/its-going-to-be-a.html

💬📚Lovely. Captures the mustiness of some of my favourite bookstores over the years.

💬 This 📚 is seven years old ….

Tomorrow will be my 75th ‘Inspired By People’ post.

My last? Push through to one hundred?

I also just worked out that I am missing 5 images from the collection above … the problem is … which ones?

Doesn’t seem to be an easy way to work that out. https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma

The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898 https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin

🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Ken Blanchard

🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blanchard https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

🔗 Israel is About to Empty Gaza - Chris Hedges

I find that Hedges often stands out by speaking out - loudly - about things that nobody even talks about, It used to be real hard to have that courage. Today? We should be pining medals on him - except he would probably refuse them. https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/israel-is-about-to-empty-gaza

🔗 Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple’s Siri Failure

Another link I got to thanks to Gruber. Re linking for one reason ….

The Set UP

"… more than half a dozen former employees who worked in Apple’s AI and machine-learning group"

… and we go on to learn that internally the group are referred to ‘AI/ML’ and then

BOOM

"Apple’s AI/ML group has been dubbed “AIMLess” internally" https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/10/chaos-behind-siri-revealed/

"I suppose if the only goal is to hurt China then shooting yourself in the foot, such that you no longer need to buy shoes for stumps, is a strategy you could choose, but that does nothing to help with what should be the primary motivation: shoring up the U.S. national security base."

💬 Ben Thompson

Via John Gruber

"It doesn’t matter what you didn’t do yesterday, it only matters what you do today and tomorrow."

💬 William Gallagher

Welcome to Structured Visual Thinking New York City.

This caught my eye this morning …. 🔗 NYC subway map updated with a diagrammatic style - FlowingData

FINALLY

Reminded me of 2 YouTubes by Map Men’s Jay Foreman

🔗📼 The Tube Map nearly looked very different

🔗📼 What went wrong with the Tube Map?

Around 7:45 in video 2 is where Jay highlights the fiasco that is (now moving to was) the New York map …

"with the notable exception of the New York subway that insists on being as baffling and ugly as possible."

Do watch HIGHLY recommend - and definitely not a map nerd. (particularly) https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/10/nyc-subway-map-updated-with-a-diagrammatic-style/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLCfl01zuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEhvWXmLyk