Verbal Diary

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Verbal Diary episodes

  • №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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      56 min
    • №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)

        54 min
      • №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 (

          47 min
        • №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?

          52 min
        • №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

            36 min
          • №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

              35 min
            • №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

              35 min
            • №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)

                45 min
              • №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

                    40 min
                  • №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’

                      39 min

                    About Verbal Diary

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