Year: 2015

Rare day that I don’t have any quobbles with what The Wirecutter publishes, but their bag choices look very good, and overall I agree with most things on this guide. Well done.

John Gruber:

If you think of a “watch” as purely a device for telling the time of day, then Apple Watch is not just a watch. But if you think of a “watch” as a wrist-worn glance-able display of status information (including, perhaps prominently, perhaps not, the time of day), and as a signifier of your personal taste and style, then Apple Watch is very much a watch.

Sometimes, perhaps not often, perhaps often, I like to think of my lawnmower not as a machine for cutting the lawn, but as a machine for exercise.

I’m glad someone took the time to write this, because I wasn’t about to research it.

Mike Bates has a great post responding to my calls for bag setups. Interesting use of a sleeve as his lightest carry option.

Christina Warren:

This is the notebook for people who love their iPad but want something with a real keyboard and a bigger screen. It's a great second computer to complement an iMac or a larger MacBook Pro.

I read all the MacBook reviews today, Christina's is the best of the lot. The design of the page is stunning too.

Clever setup from Jennifer Mack, I need to see if it works with Markdown formatting instead as I prefer to keep all my posts formatted that way. But looks cool.

Chris Vannoy shares his work travel gear.

John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke:

The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don’t know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.

I guess I won’t be using that metric anymore — I always thought something felt a little off with those claims between manufacturers.

Federico Viticci:

There have been many cautionary tales about Apple’s cloud services and photo management apps, but I think they nailed it this time. I’m happy with iCloud Photo Library because it’s seamlessly integrated with my iPhone’s camera and photos – I don’t have to manually upload anything, and I don’t have to think about managing photos.

Yep, ditto.

This is absurd. Any officer that signed that police report should be kicked off the job.

Matt Gemmell:

We should be hearing women at least as often as we hear men, but that’s not what happens for most of us. Regardless of our gender, we probably hear men far more often. That’s a skewed, artificial version of reality, and it doesn’t have to be that way.