If we don’t understand ourselves as humans, what will AI make of us?

For now, I’m going the full Mozilla...Trying out Firefox and Thunderbird on my MAC. So far so good.

Out this week with new toys. The Astra Profile 500 LTIP (not the most attractive of names). So far so good.

Supplied by Chris Walker from Urban Lites.

I went to PLASA for the first time in ages... It was agreat couple of hours. Well worth it...

After much experimenting, errors and frustration, it’s all working. Restic with Backrest and iDriveS3. Whew!!!

Deeply in love with Feishin... Great app. Even though I don't know what Feishin means. Thanks very much...!!!

Visitors to be charged a "Road Tax" to use Belgian roads Will they improve the roads though...? I guess not. All governments are grabbing money from whoever they can, however they can.

It's the 200th Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight... Just had to have a go...

Salvador Dali said: Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it!

Too much tech....!

We always walk about making notes on our phone, tablet or computer, but what about good old fashioned pen and paper? I got a very nice writing pad out and my old fountain pen out and started writing again. How novel... It feels good to write stuff down...

A regular visitor to Vietnam, and a fan of black and white photography, I was lucky to capture this lady hard at work in the market.

Walking around grubby Bath city in the UK, I spied this overgrown phone box. Very pretty I thought.

Note to self No. 4 Stop taking loads of photos of the same thing with your phone. I have more waste pictures than usable ones.

Note to self No. 3: Be sure you don't need a backup before you delete it.

Note to self No2: Avoid the useless UK trains as best I can... Over two days, three trains, all of which were cancelled by two different operators.

A great tune... A blast from the past... PLAY LOUD...!!! Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse

“Keine zurück für dich...”

Note to self No. 1: Don't try a sample of craft beers, then cycle...

Thomas Carlyle - “Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand, and you’ve got an economist.“

Milton Friedman said: "A society that puts equality… ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom…a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality.”

David Horowitz - "Inside every Liberal Progressive Social Engineer, there is a totalitarian bursting to get out."

John Kenneth Galbraith - “In economics, the majority is always wrong.”

I used to keep the books that I read on Capacites, about a year ago. But as part of streamlining and reducing the software that I use, I have moved them to here on my simple and easy to use blog.

My current read is on my Kobo reader. One of us by Elizabeth Day

I always have a few books on the go, or on in a pile to be read. That pile is going down slowly; only two more to go. I'm sure I'll be adding more soon.

• Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
• Murder at the Black Cat Cafe, Seishi Yokomizo

I'm no thoosey, but I love watching them... Here is a bunch of my "snaps", some of which are now selling on Alamy

Lost Gravity - Walibi Holland theme park in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands