I’m now on a 98 day activity streak. I wonder if I will get a special internet thingy with streamers and party hats to celebrate my 100th day of “activity”. Pushing a few buttons on WP is not activity.  To further underline this fact, I failed to do whatever needs doing a few days ago and broke my run of active days. However, it seems they allow you do do this from time to time, and I will be able to have another inactive day in the next week or so. How useless is that? It’s just more evidence pointing to the use of digital trinkets to lead the simple-minded along. And, annoyingly, I am falling for it.

I’m sure that somewhere along the line they are going to be used too try to extract money from me, and as I already pay plenty I am on my guard. Over the years I have looked at some on-line games, but never really with any degree of seriousness, and wondered why some people were able to get ahead so fast. This article explains it – they are buying their success. You can even buy your way to success with dear old Candycrush. Beware, it is addictive. And at peak, it seems to have been earning $1 million a day for its owners. Yes, a million a day from people all paying a few dollars to line sweets up and watch them explode.

Why did I waste my life on poultry, beer and history when I could have bought a Sinclair ZX-81 and become an early adopter tech pioneer. Or billionaire. I’d settle for being rich rather than a pioneer. Clive Sinclair, though a great man, doesn’t strike me as ever looking happy in his photographs.

I once knew somebody who could have been the patron saint of lost causes and dodgy schemes, who bought a Sinclair Z-81 to try and break the casino at Blackpool.  I laughed at the time . . .

Photos are of kintsugi – reminding me how failure is just another road to a different success. Or, to translate into short and understandable words – if at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.