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In this week’s episode, we discuss the grand old days of the web and James brings yet another productivity solution. We have to apologise for the excessive swearing and terrible audio quality, although one may offset the other. 🗓️ THIS WEEK sports times templateTickTickThe PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital InformationWorkin’ Moms on NetflixMotherland on BBC 🗞️ AOTW Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era “This interpretation of events is a key underpinning of Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-Today (Taschen, $50), a new visual-heavy book from author Rob Ford and editor Julius Wiedemann that does something that hasn’t been done on the broader internet in quite a long time: It praises the use of Flash as a creative tool, rather than a bloated malware vessel, and laments the ways that visual convention, technical shifts, and walled gardens have started to rein in much of this unvarnished creativity.” “[…] periods of extreme experimentation on the way to the convention-driven scaffolding we have today […]" “[…] Steve Job’s famous 2010 letter about killing off Flash […]" “[…] Adobe announced in 2015 it will no longer support it […]" “[…] Flash Player will be dead by the end of 2020 […]" 🖼️ POTW Burst water-mains repair in record timing #️⃣ HOTW IveNeverTaggedAnythingInMyLifeApartFromTweets Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

THIS WEEK Apple macOS and iOS remindersBlog about Rugby World Cup TimesGatsbyGhostGithub PagesAnchorCMSBlogspotPiano (house) lessonsApple delays iCloud Drive file sharing until next SpringThe Capture on BBC 🗞️ TOTW "Customized horn & movement sounds (coconuts being one, of course) coming to Teslas soon" @elonmusk, 6 Oct 2019 (reminds us of Monty Python coconut sounds) 📸 POTW Dyson tap on Instagram (plus all their other devices) Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Show Notes Zero patronsRugby World Cup TimesAmazon AWS IOT button 🗞️ AOTW Apple just released iOS 13.1.2 to fix even more iPhone bugs 📸 POTW (View on our Instagram) Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week, Si and James break up their summer holidays for another bumper special. Article Of The Week Go for a meal and takeover the show with your very own episode as a Verbal Diary Patreon Picture Of The Week View on Instagram Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week, it is our 2019 Summer Holiday Special. SOCIALS Tweet @verbaldiaryshow with #VerbalDiaryAreOnHolidayAndWereTakingABreakSoWeWontBeAnsweringYourTweets (Plus make sure you update Spotify to the latest version) Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Another animal-related episode title from Si & James - and this time they ponder what success might look like. THIS WEEK On The SideApple is reportedly giving up on its controversial MacBook keyboardThis Chrome extension lets you disguise Netflix as a Hangout to slack off at work AOTW It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy by Larry Cornett Related: Recorded messages from celebrities with Cameo POTW View on Instagram Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

What's the difference between UK Garage and Speed Garage? Listen in to find out. 🗒 NOTES House Finesse - #NileRodgers Disco Special 🗞️ AOTW A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel 📸 POTW Available on Instagram Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Si's got a thing going on the side and we check in on James' JOMO before discussing the end of an era at Apple and M3 PL4T3 THIS WEEK Le FreakOn The Side AOTW Five Jony Ive designs you probably don't knowJony Ive, Apple designer behind iPhone and iMac, to exit company after 30 years POTW Visible on Instagram Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

THIS WEEK Fiverr IPO?!Elon Musk's deleted Twitter accountsmart mattressring AOTW Why Mazda is purging touch screens from it's vehiclesByton POTW Si embraces JOMO Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

In this week's episode, the old men moan about how complicated the modern world is. THIS WEEK ARTICLE OF THE WEEK > "To be ready for that, I’m learning code and tools I probably should have learned a few years ago, but, as a rich man says of his servants, I always had people for that." Jeffrey Zeldman, You got this. PICTURE OF THE WEEK SOCIALS Find out more at https://verbaldiary.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week, James grabs hold of the mic and brings out the WWDC rants and bants DEVELOPER CONFERENCE OF THE WEEK The Talk Show with Craig Federighi & Greg JoswiakATP live from WWDC PICTURE OF THE WEEK https://verbaldiary-17b2b0.easywp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/3251BED1-6F0E-451C-B01B-3946A58DEDC9.jpeg" />

In this week's profane episode, Si has all the rants and James makes a political metaphor. THIS WEEK The Damned UnitedNOTLine of DutyGLOWOzark ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure (by Pavel Durov from Telegram)

This week, James reads show notes to himself during the recording while Si wonders why he bothered. THIS WEEK Reddit ARTICLE OF THE WEEK “The End of App Stores Is Rapidly Approaching” by Owen Williams

This week, Si and James catch up after an Easter break talking about the joys of podcasting and rants about air travel. ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Are podcasts killing music or just wasting our time?

This week, Si and James compare online subscriptions and rant about the point of April Fools. RECENTLY… Facebook is listening through their appstored up to 600m user passwords in plain text ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Can’t mess with this: new Screen Cleaner in the Files app

This week, Si & James talk about mesh networks, behemoth organisations and railways. This Week After LifeCurfewFlight of the Navigator Article of the Week Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising Let us know your thoughts with hashtag #bigfines

This week, Si and James get lyrical about rubbish weekends, empathy in the workplace and the origins of iPhone. RECENTLY… The Lego Movie 2 – The Second One ARTICLE OF THE WEEK > Empathy is described as not just understanding another person’s perspective, but truly putting yourself in their shoes and feeling those emotions alongside that person. 4 Reasons Your Remote Team Needs Extra Empathy At Work by Lauren Moon

This week, Si and James talk about Sunday dinners, sensational aviation headlines and refuse collection. THIS WEEK other podcastThe Kid Who Would Be King ARTICLE OF THE WEEK The Independent and The Mirror both publish sensational headlines about “near-miss” flight-paths and “emergency” airplane stops (links redacted out of the principle of the matter)

This week, Si & James discuss good whiskeys, The Monument, the ambiguity of emoji and flash cars. THIS WEEK Ultra Challengewhiskey flutesThe Monument ARTICLE OF THE WEEK > So far, the emoji and emoticons have rarely been important enough to sway the direction of a case, but as they become more common, the ambiguity in how emoji are displayed and what we interpret emoji to mean could become a larger issue for courts to contend with. Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared from Si RELATED LINKS World Emoji DayJeremy BurgeEmojipedia

After missing a week, Si and James return with some unconventional discussions about plummeting insect numbers, steak dinners and more movie homework. THIS WEEK ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’