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Absolute madness from FIFA, which is not a surprise.

Firstly, what if any of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay fail to qualify? Or how do you rearrange their fixtures so that they can play a 'home' game?

Or will we just have 6 random teams playing in South America for three matches before flying them back over to Europe/Africa for the remainder of the tournament? How do, as a competing nation, even prepare for that?

If you need evidence of how bad this idea is, in the Premier League this weekend my club were on the receiving end of a massive lapse of concentration. The people at fault had flown back from the UAE just the day before after a bit of casual moonlighting. The demands on players and officials is so high, it's not a surprise that it might take it's toll in this way. Of course, the travel may not have been the issue, it may well be down to pure incompetence... but I choose to believe they were just tired and doing their best despite how I felt at the time.

Back to the 2030 World Cup. It's not like 2030 being the 100th year is a surprise to anyone. Given Uruguay made a joint bid for the tournament, I'm not sure why FIFA wouldn't take the opportunity to award to them? It will have been 16 years since the previous South American host.

As a fan, it's great to see so much football available to watch, but on the other hand you only want your own players to play a sensible number of games every year. There are already too many international games. Then you have inter-continental club games. The amount of travelling they do is not normal.

Posted 5th Oct 2023 @ 08:14

Sketchy rumour, according to MacRumors, but this is the obvious evolution of the Apple Pencil. I would love to be able to turn it over to rub something out rather than having to double tap, for example.

Just so happens that I recently reviewed the Apple Pencil 2 after 2 years of daily use.

Posted 3rd Oct 2023 @ 15:32

Posted 2nd Oct 2023 @ 09:21

John Gruber:

Not one whit of information describing what the Humane pins actually do. We do see, though, that they look like toy iPhones that might come in a McDonald's Happy Meal.

He's hit the nail on the head here. I saw the odd photo of these pins last week and couldn't put my finger on what they looked like until I read Gruber's piece. They definitely have a Happy Meal vibe to them at the moment and now they just remind me of the Transformers toys from the 90s!

Posted 2nd Oct 2023 @ 08:14

Posted 29th Sep 2023 @ 07:59

Didn't think I'd be sharing photography tips from a car brand, but here we are. Solid bits of advice in the first and third ones they've shared. I don't step back and zoom enough and with image stabilisation being so good now I really should do it more often.

Posted 27th Sep 2023 @ 10:40

Posted 27th Sep 2023 @ 08:39

A few things here I didn't know about, including walking radius and ping your Apple Watch. Walking radius would be really useful in the iOS version of Apple Maps too, not sure why it's limited to the watches.

Posted 26th Sep 2023 @ 15:44

While I totally back Apple's move away from leather in their products, fine woven seems like a misstep. The leather cases were truly great cases. I had one for my iPhone 8 Plus and it lasted longer than any other case I have ever owned. It aged beautifully and even when it was dirty it looked good.

Maybe they'll refine this material over time, but you'd have thought they would have put the effort in already.

iFixit also pointed out that the fine woven watch bands have marks on them already. They're £149. Not good.

Posted 25th Sep 2023 @ 16:16

This looks awesome. The Boys is a great TV show and this spin off looks like a lot of fun.

Posted 20th Sep 2023 @ 20:00