← 2024 May 2024
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It must be terrible for every other musician and songwriter in the world to know that anything they ever make will be - at very best - second best to Throw Your Arms Around Me.
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One day, some day in the next few years, I probably won’t fly as much as I do, and as my Qantas status fades and staff forget my face, the thing I’ll miss the most after the Qantas staff is the Sydney Qantas First Class Lounge.
It’s just a real joy to slip away to a fancy as heck (and free) restaurant (airport lounge) then get a neck massage before being slammed into a tin can for a long haul flight.
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WWDC 2024 prediction: iOS is dead. Long live aiOS.
aiOS: Think Different.
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Did you know Japan had its own beautiful and amazing method of measuring time before Christians ruined it all?
The Uniqueness of Japanese Time - JapanUp!
H/T Ian Betteridge’s A+ email, Ten Blue Links.
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Kent Nerburn:
Debt defines your future, and when your future is defined, hope begins to die. You have committed your life to making money to pay for your past.
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Apart from actually doing the work couples pay me to do, like making their weddings and elopements, some of the proudest professional work I'm doing these days is in Aisle Authority, my daily letter to the world's best wedding creators. If you create weddings for a living like I do, it's the kind of daily business encouragement I wanted to receive but no-one was making, so I wrote one.
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I can’t stop looking out the front door of our new home in the Huon Valley, so now I’ve got to show you. Plus a photo of the door because it’s potentially the cutest way a house has ever been presented at settlement.
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They say that when you have kids you enter your second stage of life. This is me entering my third stage of life.
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, call me crazy, or call me stupid, but I get a feeling that TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, LinkedIn and honestly any algorithm-driven social network isn't the place for deeper thinking, intellect, and non-viral-bs-business ideas. So I'm investing what little business-intelligence capital into my own blog and email. It's called Aisle Authority, I write it every day, and it looks like this. Read it and even subscribe like a madman at aisleauthority.email.
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The aurora australias, the southern lights, were a spectacle to behold last night aroundd Hobart, even with lots of cloud cover.
My first taste was a seeing pulsing of lights from behind the clouds. It was the most surreal thing I’ve seen.
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I can't stop thinking about this Boox Palma
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I could work for a million years, doing the best jobs, making the best things, writing the most eloquent words, delivering the best service, or creating the finest art, and still, I would pale in comparison to the eternal and beautiful legacy left by any mother, especially Britt.
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Do you ever just do something, then regret it, then feel awesome about it? That's how I felt when I got the domain name theinternet.com.au this afternoon
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Brought wedding-ready two pairs of pants and three shirts to Queenstown for three weddings here this week with the full confidence that one of the pairs of pants would serve double duty.
Both ended up in the snow mud, and I think I’ve cracked my ribs.
It’s now 10pm at a laundromat.
This is the exciting life of a travelling adventure elopement celebrant.
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I've realised that I am not equipped enough to manage replies to my actual Mastodon account - @withers@social.lol - and my Micro.Blog account, @hello@joshwithers.blog - so I'm totally migrating my Fediverse life to the omglol kingdom. This is the way.
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This reporting on the mysterious 777 Partners and it's Australian investment in airline, Bonza is a good read and good reporting by Ian Verrender and the ABC.
Virgin Blue executive Tim Jordan, claimed from the outset that he needed 10 aircraft to make the new operation viable. When he called in administrators this week, he had just four.
The large Boeing 737s are arguably the wrong fit for Bonza, flying second and third-tier routes, and appear to have been used as a means to soak up the US backer's fleet and provide it with income.
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Happy Star Wars Day!
I saw Episode 1 at the cinema this week and I’ve got a hot take.
Jar Jar Binks is an important character and the people that hate him, hate him because they see their clumsy selves in Jar Jar and they need to talk to their therapist about it.
Also, adding midi-chlorians to the Star Wars canon was weird. Welcome to my TED Talk.
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Weird week to be running an airline
