Jeremy Cherfas

Last Christmas I vowed to spend less time on my smartphone. It worked — until a couple of months ago, when I started using Twitter much more. Why? I had something to sell. That seems wretchedly appropriate.Yup, that seems right. Even when no money actually changes hands.

Since getting a new VPN, Spotify thinks I am in Sweden, and it is remarkable how much more tolerable the ads are. Not just because I don’t understand them, because they are so much less frenetic.

For one thing, it’s a lot easier to call yourself a “nutritionist”. Then again, where do food scientists work except in industry, or training more food scientists?

I wrote about reviving my sourdough after an extended absence.

www.fornacalia.com/2020/sour…

@TavolaMed At last. Thanks for saying it loud and clear: farro is spelt and einkorn and emmer, and the point is that they are traditionally grown as a mixture, all three in the same fields. So yes, farro is all three, but on their own none of them is farro.

I’d certainly pay for an app that used RSS (or similar) to aggregate photographers' streams. Heck, I’d even exert pressure on my own favourite photographer to create a dedicated photo stream. I’ve kickstartered less promising pitches. h/t @chrisaldrich

Very good to know.

But seriously: why does it seem so weird to pay for a podcast, when I pay for music, films, TV etc?And answer came there none.

I managed to restore my Apple Time Capsule to proper working order, I think, but how sensible is it, really, to have the reset button and the status lights on opposite sides of the device?

I’m pretty sure that I will also continue to refer to them as blog posts, not blogs. I may be the last holdout of this nomenclature in 2020. I never planned to die on this hill, but here we are.No, @adactio, you are not alone.

2019 was pretty good. 2020 will be pretty good too. That is all.