Alex Leonard's thoughts on life, technology, music, and the arts
We recently finished watching the second season of The Bear, which I thoroughly enjoyed, even more so than the first season. In many ways the season had it's peak, at least from an intensity point of view, in episode six, where we have a flashback to a family gathering at Christmas time. I won't go… Continue reading Embracing and celebrating our natural looks
I have lost track of the amount of times I've had to remind Windows Explorer that I don't want any folders to "optimise this folder for Music". I've tried selecting the top level folder in a drive and applying the 'Documents' layout to all sub folders, but still, Windows knows better, and reverts folders back… Continue reading Oh Windows Explorer
And the inability of people to forget about their phones for 90 minutes.
A somewhat long read of my thoughts on consumer responsibility. Specifically with regard to driving meaningful positive change in the way consumer goods are produced.
I'm one of those people with a Facebook account, but who rarely ever uses it. So is there really any point keeping the account hanging around?
If this is the future of DJing, it's a sad future indeed.
This morning I happened to see Microsoft claiming that modern.ie has saved developers 1,000,000 hours of work. Are they kidding us?
It appears to be time for another rant...
Amazon have just bought a digital comics service I was really quite happy with. Suddenly I'm not supporting the little guy any more.
I don't really celebrate St. Patrick's Day, aka Paddy's day. However this does not mean that it doesn't irk me to hear people call it Patty's Day or St. Paddy's Day.
There now follows some rambling thoughts about nationalism and patriotism.
Yes, Bank of Ireland values their business customers' privacy so highly that they're happy to reveal the email addresses of hundreds of their customers. Nice work BOI!
I want to see the end of preferred regional pricing and availability for digital content. There is something inherently wrong about the concept that a digital product costs $X in one country whilst it costs $Y in another country.
Exposing the total lack of reliability on a fresh installation of Windows 8.
Whenever you hear someone say this, spare a moment to think about whether they might just be talking shit.
Who the hell knows what a cup of mushrooms weighs - surely it depends on the type of mushroom and how you cram them into the cup. Lunacy I tell you.
Despite turning off all notifications from LinkedIn last week, I still got an email today entitled "Jobs you may be interested in".
Adobe have just announced that they are no longer going to sell their Creative Suite product. Yes, welcome to the new age of you-must-have-a-subscription-for-everything.
On a Variety of Topics 