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• From Tum to Mum

  By Shaun on November 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  My wife, Joanne, is starting a new business called From Tum to Mum which is designed to help pregnant women understand and feel more reassured about the process they are going through. The website is not quite finished as yet,… Read More ›

• Read your daily news in 5 minutes

  By Shaun on November 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The Knowledge is a daily newsletter that makes news manageable. It takes just five minutes to read, bringing together the things that matter, along with a few things that don’t, from all the best news sources… More here. There are… Read More ›

• The Mecascape ‘Sublimation One’

  By Shaun on November 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The result of reflection upon the representation of time and space, the Mecascape centers precisely around our raison d’être: pushing the limits of watchmaking, taking risks and being the stuff dreams are made of for our community. 12 years after… Read More ›

• The genius of the Apple Watch strap system

  By Shaun on November 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  It has been 7 years since Apple introduced the Apple Watch and the strap mechanism rarely gets a mention these days. It has become a feature that we are so familiar with that it is invisible, even when changing a… Read More ›

• Time to say goodbye to the fax machine

  By Shaun on November 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The fax machine is about to be pushed closer to the dustbin of history. The device – formally known as a facsimile machine – was once a regular feature of British offices. But now the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom is… Read More ›

• Then hoofprints appeared in the sand…

  By Shaun on October 31, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The wild horses all have names. Ronald, for example, and Becky and Clyde. The names sound mundane, even for horses, but each is something like a badge of honor. For years now, the people of Cedar Island, North Carolina, have… Read More ›

• Caviar’s Rolex Daytona iPhone 14 Pro🤣

  By Shaun on October 31, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The Rolex Daytona (functional, might I add) isn’t the only detail on the back of the iPhone – clearly doubling down on the racing-inspired theme, the phone also comes with decorative dashboard dials modeled to look like a speedometer and… Read More ›

• ‘We’re packed in like battery hens. I was told off for leaning’

  By Shaun on October 31, 2022 • ( 0 )

  They’re OK on toilet breaks these days, because they got such bad press on the difficulty of staff taking toilet breaks, but you still have to be quick, because you have to keep scanning items. If you’re not constantly scanning,… Read More ›

• Welcome To The Circus (We’ve Got Bots & Sockpuppets!)

  By Shaun on October 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  While my account is in this “temporarily limited” state, Twitter has essentially stripped me of having a (public) voice on their platform. I was similarly silenced by Twitter back in April 2017, when I was no-platformed by Twitter-owned Periscope (yes,… Read More ›

• Come on Apple, stop taking the p*ss!

  By Shaun on October 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  As of the end of the September quarter, Apple had reduced its net cash position to $49 billion. For the fiscal year ended in September, Apple bought back $90.2 billion shares, up from $85.5 billion in fiscal 2021, and the… Read More ›

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