Wise words, both regarding opinion polls, and in general :
“An important point to remember about public opinion is that people are quite capable of believing things that are contradictory”
#TodayILearned that 70% of players in Premier League academies are born in the first six months of the school year, compared to 30% in the last six months.
(Via @timwig)
#ICouldHaveBeenAContender
I thought Lauren Laverne did/does a great job on Desert Island Discs
Her first question on her first episode was about standing on the edge of a diving board, looking down
I thought that was quite neat
Lucky she was interviewing Tom Daley rather than, say, Boris Johnson though
Listening to Tom Daley talking about losing his father to cancer
Tough to hear
#OnThisDay in 1981 Wasted Youth played at Salisbury Technical College
I thought they were marvellous
RT @Mike_Batt: People with beards are just people without beards, with beards.
I do like it when someone picks a Christmas songs on Desert Island Discs
Shows they are considering the whole Desert Island scenario with an appropriate degree of seriousness
:)
“A great strength of the NHS is that the surgeon has no pecuniary interest in what he’s doing”
RT @janeeecharman: What even is a think tank? Do tanks think? Do people think in tanks! Are you a terrapin? #thinktank
The BBC seems to be leading the news with Boris Johnson’s views on Brexit
It’s hardly news.
Or particularly interesting.
#OnThisDay in 2004 Fleetwood Mac tribute band @rumoursfm played at @CityHallSalis
They were joined on-stage by Mick Fleetwood himself
#OnThisDay in 1973 Enoch Powell came to the White Hart, Salisbury to speak to the Croydon South Young @Conservatives.
This was 5 years after Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech and 3 months before he called on his supporters to vote Labour. He would shortly join the Ulster Unionists
#TodayILearned that Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s name was not inspired by a headline, but by a pop-art painting of a headline.
For some reason I find this rather pleasing
I’m reading (and enjoying) Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, and she refers to ‘Railway sidings named after a careless child’ in Lambeth
Anybody know where or what she means?
#OnThisDay in 1927 Lady Edith Hulse of Breamore House was elected as Salisbury’s first female mayor. There had only previously been one Lady Mayor in the whole country
Her son Edward, who I think was her only son, had been killed was killed at Neuve-Chapelle on 12 March 1915
“his commanding officer, Major Paynter, fell severely wounded and Hulse was killed crossing open ground after trying to help him”
#TodayILearned that you can use [ValidateSet] with powershell variables other than parameters
(I’m hoping this will, in this case, guard against typo’s later in the code)
#TodayILearned you can set a VS @code setting as follows:
“files.defaultlanguage”: “powershell”
….to have new files default to Powershell
(via @vhusker)
This explains a lot.
My first programming language was VAX Basic
(via @NickJHeath) www.techrepublic.com/article/w…
RT @thomasbrake: .@sagegroupplc is running a campaign called #SageServingHeroes, praising veteran-owned businesses.
@ThoughtifyLtd is one…