// Thanet Beach Conditions
I wanted to know if the sea’s actually worth the drive before I get there. Air temp, wind, rain chance, water temp, waves, tide times, daylight and UV, air quality and pollen, live sewage status and last season’s water quality rating, for every beach on the Thanet coast, in one page, with a one-sentence verdict at the top so you don’t have to read the rest unless you want to.
I'd love to tell you more.
// Emoticomp Revisited
I wrote about giving machines personality fifteen years before any of them could actually talk back.
Emoticomp again, this time asking what held up and what didn’t, now that every AI product on earth has a personality whether it wanted one or not.
Also: what I got right, what I got backwards, and the one thing I didn’t see coming at all.