Sunday 23 October 2011 (Phil Gyford’s website)

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: The Curae of TINA: blimey, just caught up with this, and it's an incredible read. Hayek, Radio Caroline, Thatcher, Institute for Economic Affairs… so many things. I really wish the BBC would get a non-Flash video player though.
Paradise Regained « Snarkmarket: That is a lovely story from the introduction to a Project Gutenberg ebook of 'Paradise Lost'. 100,000 punch cards!
Infovore » Why on earth would you do otherwise?: Tom writes everything I thought while reading Igor's good Wieden+Kennedy blog post about “creative technologists”, only better than I would have done.
iCal Cleaner: Deletes duplicate events, and more, from iCal calendars. Just what I needed after a big iCloud confusion. And it's free.
United States Early Radio History: A fascinating read, with loads of links to text and images from period articles and adverts.

23 Oct 2011 at Twitter

09:07am: @ianbetteridge Maybe he checked the Twitter backchannel? (Not that I’m watching.)

01:06pm: @designswarm Oh, I haven’t seen it then, sorry.

03:44pm: A couple of weeks on and I’ve finally worked out how to use iCloud calendars in iCal. And got myself in a right mess. Hmm.

03:56pm: @pixellent Yes. Fixing iCloud clashes and confusions would be more bearable if iCal’s UI wasn’t so awful, and worse with every release.

05:01pm: @katylindemann I don’t use Mobileme, so no idea about that. I ended up with lots of duplicates and some *almost* identical calendars.

05:09pm: @katylindemann I’d have done better if I’d realised I should add my iCloud account in iCal. I’ve spent 2 weeks using local calendar instead.

06:07pm: In case anyone else found iCal/iCloud had duplicated many events, this free app appears to fix things just fine: http://t.co/aOE0CBCu

Sunday 23 October 2011