Verbal Diary

By Si Jobling & James Norton

A podcast of rants and bants with Si Jobling and James Norton. Some tech, some business, lots of nonsense.... more

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The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.

Verbal Diary episodes:

June 08, 2019№23 - Podnapped
This week, James grabs hold of the mic and brings out the WWDC rants and bants
DEVELOPER CONFERENCE OF THE WEEK
The Talk Show with Craig Federighi & Greg Joswiak
ATP live from WWDC
Can iTunes #muzuk sync offline for traditionalist Si?
New Dropbox plans
MacOS Sidecar could kill Duet
Powered by Shazam
Sherlocking
iOS 13 updates couldn’t fit in the Keynote
Sign in with Apple is not limited to Apple
Where is multi-user profiles on iOS?
“It’s not going to be shitty packaging”
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
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56min
May 23, 2019№22 – Rants and Pants
In this week's profane episode, Si has all the rants and James makes a political metaphor.
THIS WEEK
We have a new mic setup to try
Derby County comeback to Dirty Leeds (reference The Damned United)
SSE don’t mess with me
EU elections upcoming – but how does it work?!
What have we been watching or listening to? NOT GOT but Line of Duty, GLOW & Ozark
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure (by Pavel Durov from Telegram)
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54min
May 16, 2019№21 – Preprepared Bants
This week, James reads show notes to himself during the recording while Si wonders why he bothered.
THIS WEEK
A “ton of tons” in the Snooker World Championships
Facebook apparently focuses on privacy
TIL that pilots departing from California’s John Wayne Airport are required by law to cut their engines and pitch nose down shortly after takeoff for about 6 miles in order to reduce noise in the residential area below (
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47min
May 07, 2019 №20 – Binary Accelerator
This week, Si and James catch up after an Easter break talking about the joys of podcasting and rants about air travel.
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Are podcasts killing music or just wasting our time?
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52min
April 05, 2019№19 – That’s A Big Egg
This week, Si and James compare online subscriptions and rant about the point of April Fools.
RECENTLY…
James has found Apple News to be quite useful
Si has snapped up a Spotify Family for Premium subscription for the free Google Home Mini
Facebook is listening through their app and stored up to 600m user passwords in plain text
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Can’t mess with this: new Screen Cleaner in the Files app
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36min
March 22, 2019№18 – Heavy Metal
This week, Si & James talk about mesh networks, behemoth organisations and railways.
This Week
Si enjoyed After Life on Netflix and Curfew on Sky
James enjoyed the classic movie, Flight of the Navigator
Article of the Week
Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising
Let us know your thoughts with hashtag #bigfines
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35min
March 14, 2019 №17 - Rap It Up
This week, Si and James get lyrical about rubbish weekends, empathy in the workplace and the origins of iPhone.
RECENTLY…
The Lego Movie 2 – The Second One
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
> Empathy is described as not just understanding another person’s perspective, but truly putting yourself in their shoes and feeling those emotions alongside that person.
4 Reasons Your Remote Team Needs Extra Empathy At Work by Lauren Moon
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35min
March 08, 2019№16 - A Near Miss ✈️
This week, Si and James talk about Sunday dinners, sensational aviation headlines and refuse collection.
THIS WEEK
Si’s “other podcast” of 14 years gets some attention
Watching The Kid Who Would Be King
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
The Independent and The Mirror both publish sensational headlines about “near-miss” flight-paths and “emergency” airplane stops
(links redacted out of the principle of the matter)
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45min
March 01, 2019№15 - Round Bottom
This week, Si & James discuss good whiskeys, The Monument, the ambiguity of emoji and flash cars.
THIS WEEK
Training has begun for this year’s Ultra Challenge
The nicest whiskey ever – a 2003 single malt from Inverleven – only deserves to be served in whiskey flutes
The Monument for the Great Fire of London
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
> So far, the emoji and emoticons have rarely been important enough to sway the direction of a case, but as they become more common, the ambiguity in how emoji are displayed and what we interpret emoji to mean could become a larger issue for courts to contend with.
Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared from Si
RELATED LINKS
World Emoji Day on 17th July
Jeremy Burge – founder of Emojipedia
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40min
February 22, 2019№14 - Rest Your Meat
After missing a week, Si and James return with some unconventional discussions about plummeting insect numbers, steak dinners and more movie homework.
THIS WEEK
More Apple Watch fun
Upcoming holidays and walking challenges
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
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39min

FAQs about Verbal Diary :

How many episodes does Verbal Diary have?

The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.