This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Another Hot Week I created a song about the heat – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f7HVHCe88w&t=13s Historical Data – backdating data for the new personal website Finding data from the past – flights for example Going through emails of the past for flight details Also, Events, theatre shows, football matches, and other trips Way Back Machine is good for ... Read more

New Tools purchased Fanttik Slim V8 Apex Car Vacuum – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D8T3LTNN Great for the car to get down the sides of the seats Hose attachment great to get into the 3d printer Can be used for keyboards and electronic devices Fanttik F2 Master Mini Cordless Rotary Tool – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3CPRZXW Lots of attachments for drilling, sanding, ... Read more

Very hot week Celebrating 250 episodes of This Week With Statistics for the podcast Episode 1, 24th April 2000 Keeping a record of what we have been up to Total run time Shortest and Longest episode Average length, Average time between episodes Number of episodes per year We outlived the pandemic which was the reason ... Read more

News – Apple WWDC happened, which means new software beta’s and an insight on new AI features Learning a New Skill – 3D Modelling Huge subject to learn Personal version of Fusion Metal bathroom holder needing to be modelled and printed in plastic Simple model, but there were lots of measurements to get right Didn’t ... Read more

New location, Gordon’s Office We went to Wordcamp Europe in Poland, Krakow European Wordcamp is the biggest of the conventions Reasons for going – networking with friends and colleagues Theme this year seemed to be AI Connecting WordPress using MCP to Claude Using AI to build pages, perform WordPress operations, correct grammar, create images, pretty ... Read more

News – AI is created by a machine, so is not owned by anyone! Archiving Documents – for personal and business purposes Making searching easy and have it bring up relevant documents MCP server – to work with Evernote using AI on a CLI AI will create a context for the document – notes summarising ... Read more

Show week Sorting out collection of props – old and more recent – some valuable, some not Spreadsheeting all the boxes Printing a Book Box with a living hinge for the cast Running out of filament at one point Not a great deal done on a show week Very tiring Waiting for Ikea to send ... Read more

The Diary of Anne Frank Tickets for 14, 15, 16th May 2026 – https://www.parlourplayers.co.uk Sending large files over the internet – 4.8GB wetransfer.com – maximum of 2GB for free accounts Blaze Quantum – for larger files – https://blaze.cx/ Purchased on AppSumo many years ago Keeping track of the software available to us on a spreadsheet ... Read more

Internet went down Thursday Night – and took a week to get back up Lots of hassle getting it fixed Cloud smart home devices all stopped working Reflection – looking at yourself through a friends eyes One thing they think you do well and one thing they think you could do better at Would anonymous ... Read more

Client Handling – Losing a Customer Delays on both sides Need all content before we start work on the site The sitemap grew from 12 pages to 42 pages Communication with the client was not good New design requested When the content is delivered the work then needs scheduling in The design is being taken ... Read more