I realised recently that the time had come to replace both my iPad and my aging iPhone, not least because battery lives do eventually fade, and both of them were becoming something of a nuisance for this reason. There isn't always a readily available plug to recharge from.
So, having done my research I set off for the Apple Store in Cambridge today and spent some of the donations made to this blog on an iPad Pro and an iPhone 14 Pro, both chosen because they provide more opportunity to produce better quality material for this blog and for videos than any of the other options available.
I also added a Logitech keyboard for the iPad, and was amused that the Apple Store staff did not, themselves, recommend the Apple alternative. That keypad is amazing - perhaps the best typing experience that I have ever had.
The quality of dictation processing is also very high. I guess using the latest chips helps this, but it also reduces the stress in my arms given the number of words I write a day.
So, my thanks to those who helped fund these purchases. The blog will be the better for them - and the old phone is being recycled for use by someone else. The old iPad will be a back up until it fades away.
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i fink it aul sownds bryliaunt!
You’re welcome! The best donations I’ve ever made BTW.
It’s rather amusing that the blog has more financial transparency than certain members of the government.
Rishi Sunak has promised to publish his tax return.
I wonder when Richard will start publishing his. You can’t be ‘transparent’ when it suits you and opaque when it doesn’t.
You might have not noticed, but I am not the prime minister
Hi Richard
Just to shoe horn an idea on here which is tech related – I think the search facility on your blog need an overhaul. Given the amassed wealth of knowledge contained within the 2,234 pages of your blog, the current format just doesn’t do it justice, in my opinion.
There are lots of important blog posts with useful information contained therein which I have found useful to return to, but I can only do so if I have remembered to save them as a bookmark on my browser.
A newcomer to your blog who is keen to get an overall picture of what your blog is about, or is keen to learn the basics of MMT for example, would only see the handful of blogs on the first page, be rewarded with a few more if they press Next, but surely there’s a better way.
Here are 2 examples I have come across where a mass of content ( in these cases podcasts, but the same argument holds for blog posts) is made much more accessible to a potential newcomer:
Podcast — Guru Viking
https://www.guruviking.com/podcast
The above example groups podcasts into themes like “12 most popular” or “hidden gems” so a newcomer can be re-directed to a list of podcasts curated by the owner with a single click.
In a similar fashion you could have links to themes such as “MMT for beginners”, “12 most popular blogs”, “International Taxation”, “MMT video series “ etc.
Likewise, the podcast page below has a useful contents of episodes eg. “Four to start with”, “Topics in depth series” etc.
Mr Barton Maths Podcast for Maths Teachers on Mr Barton Maths
https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/podcast/#maths
Organising your posts in a similar way would save you having to repost important blog posts from the past, which you had to do recently. It would enhance your blog as an educational resource, a structure that befits the content. It is a shame that it feels like your posts have a shelf-life of a week or so, a week for someone with good fortune to stumble upon, else they are confined to the mass archive of history, never to be read again. Ok I’m being dramatic, but you get the point 🙂
Sincerely
Ian
Thanks for this
I will be discussing it in a blog tomorrow
Fantastic
There is a slight error on the second link I gave – it goes to a sub section instead of the Table of Contents at the top of the page. Here’s the correct link
https://mrbartonmaths.com/podcast/