If you’re looking for slides of my Introduction To Spark talk, you can find them here.

This week has felt like being in a holding pattern. Lots of things may be happening in the coming weeks and months, but they may not. Meanwhile, there’s so much archive BBC/ITV on YouTube to get through…

Oh, and I guess, it’s probably worth pointing out that I killed barbelith.com this week. Well, I didn’t hold the gun, but did point out to Tom that the site appeared to have been hacked. It’s odd - I went there to reflect on how wonderful it is that large sections of the web from decades ago still exist…only to be instrumental in why it now just returns 403 Forbidden. Oops.

(but to be fair, somebody else would have noticed eventually, and in the case of a data breach, better to know sooner rather than later)

Right, back to watching an ancient Ruth Rendell episode where Peter Capaldi seems to be playing Bob Dylan by way of Glasgow.