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Calum Andrew Morrell

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Sampling a few coffees
Put that burnt bitter sludge away, please!

Not all coffee is equal. Even when you have a range of top quality beans to pick from, your taste preferences are going to impact how you feel about each one.


Food & Drink • 12th of November, 2025 baratza, brazil, coffee, columbia, kenya, mexico, peru
Bird, the remake
Dear Cod put that glue away!

Like all good (and bad) remakes of films, taking on a new bird will never be the same experience as any previous birds you've looked after. Comparisons may be natural, but not always useful.


Budgerigar • 10th of November, 2025 bird, birth, budgie, cage, film, loss
TPW: YouTube's mid-roll adverts
For those of you not (increasingly sensibly) using an adblocker.

We may have to put up with advertising in order to gain free content, that doesn't seem entirely unreasonable, but should we be interuppted mid-sentence? Surely there's a better way to both provide free content and make a profit for an organisation as large as Google.


The Problem With • 3rd of November, 2025 advertising, annoying, google, ux, youtube
TPW: Photography Magazines
May apply to many other types of magazine!

Magazines can be very useful when they provide news, introduce you to new things and offer trustworthy reviews. Yet when they focus on a narrow remit, such as photography, there's only so much that can be written on each possible topic.


The Problem With • 20th of September, 2025 magazine, photography
TPW: HowTos
A HowTo guide to making HowTo guides shorter

HowTos can be immensely useful things when written well and exclude unnecessary content. Far too often they contain an enormous amount of irrelevant material which can make them more difficult to use effectively.


The Problem With • 19th of September, 2025 blog, guide, howto, post