Greg Morris

Always Verbing, Never Me

My life is so busy at the moment I'm not really living. Merely existing. I'm so busy that I'm always doing something – caring, running, eating, working, designing – I'm always ‘verbing’ but never Gregging. There is no space in between all these things

Car Makers Can’t Make Software

Patrick George writing for The Atlantic About GMs decision to drop CarPlay going forward: Last month, General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced that new cars made by the auto giant won’t support CarPlay and its counterpart, Android Auto. Ditching smartphone mirroring may seem to make as much sense as

Siri's Gemini Future

Reports this week suggest Apple is planning to use Google's Gemini to power the next version of Siri. I've been spending time with an Oppo Find X9 Pro recently, and the gap between what Gemini can do and what Siri manages is vast. Gemini works the

Autumn Walk With My Dog

Snapped a few pictures whilst walking my faithful friend this morning. It is the first time in a long time I have reached for my camera. Perhaps it was the autumn colours mixed with the misty conditions. All taken on Fuji X100vi and edited in Lightroom.

Blogging For More Than A Decade

This website, and also gr36.com, has taken on many forms over the years. I often look back at the internet archive and marvel at how undecided I have been about it. It has been a business website, a personal blog, and at some points a place that I have

My New App: Micro Shelf

I blame Matt Birchler for numerous things in my life, but this time it’s something very positive. By writing about his new app, Quick Notes, he kicked me in to top gear to get mine in a better shape. It is Micro Shelf. One of the biggest things I

Power Adapters And Markets

Serial EU moaner John Gruber, responding to a measured approach from Nick Heer: I suspect there are going to be a lot of Europeans who buy a new M5 MacBook Pro and wind up charging it with inexpensive low-watt power adapters meant for things like phones, and wind up with

The Truth Doesn’t Matter

Nick Hilton commenting on Steven Bartlet and posted to LinkedIn: Content being interesting and provocative is more valuable, to creators, than it being accurate or instructional. We’ve known for a long time, stupid headlines get clicks, and this is an extension of that for the video centric world we

Beware The Hidden Middlemen

Within the first feewpages of reading Enshitification by Cory Doctorow (spoiler alert don’t waste your time, the book is literally a long rambling blog post) I began to think about the word platforms. He describes online platforms as “a business that operates a two-sided market, that is, a system

Are These Reviews True?

As with most things I write about, something triggers a thought that starts during away in my brain. Once it reaches a critical mass, I either go looking for more information, or other things I consume start triggering the same feelings. I try hard to avoid conformation bias, so more