I use Chrome once a month at work to access analytics from the major social media platforms at it almost always breaks. How is this the world’s most popular browser?
Author Archives: Phil
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978 – ★★★★
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement", realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?

You’ve got to love how this builds. It keeps a lot of its shocks back for the final third and it’s way more effective. The visual effects are, frankly, excellent.
Sidenote: Amazon Prime was telling me this was a PG! It surely is not.
We’ve expanded our demographics collection and we now cover sexuality. I wrote about it here https://www.healthwatchbucks.co.uk/2021/06/why-were-asking-for-more-information-about-you/. Since we added the new categories we have had a few people tick asexual. Do you think we should add links to the options explaining the meanings?
ICO fine!
Excel Chart Templates

If you write reports that contain a lot of similar charts from Excel, you must look at Chart Templates. They save so much time.
Paddington, 2014 – ★★★★★
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.

Love it.
Watched on Sunday June 27, 2021.
Noisli & accessibility
I have a lot of love for the noisli app but their choice of colours, especially their “brand” green (this green) is an accessibility nightmare. Most of their colour choices fail even the basic contrast checks.
Also, on a personal note, I wish they would add some darker colours and respect “dark mode” or “night time”!
Definitely been here…
The Mitchells vs. The Machines, 2021 – ★★★½
A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.

This movie has many wonderful moments but it also has plenty that just don’t land.
L.A. Confidential, 1997 – ★★★★★
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

This film doesn’t like women much but it’s still a great story.