The word ‘twit’ is rather underused twitter.com/BBCPoliti…
It’s not all bad news…..there’s a new Carl Hiaasen book coming out :)
RT @JonathanFoyle: “Not one job in Britain is at risk”
“Not one?”
“Because there would be a free trade agreement, because we’re so impor…
#TodayILearned that ‘The Wild Rover’ was originally an English temperance song
(Via @LankumDublin)
I don’t much like the fake crowd noise, but it seems pretty well done
I’m wondering whether
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they’ve developed something very clever very quickly, or
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they’ve borrowed the technology from video games, or
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they’ve always used fake crowd noise if it’s a bit quiet
#Motd
#TodayILearned that Kevin Phillips, one of my favourite, under-rated, non-Chelsea footballers, is related to one of my favourite politicians, Jess
All or nothing?
I’m going with the latter tbh
National treasure @mrmarksteel on the NHS
“Why stop at making NHS staff pay to park, let’s give ambulances speeding tickets too” www.mirror.co.uk/news/poli…
To be fair to old Samuel, it was probably darker and more overgrown then than it was this evening
" I saw a great fortification, and there ’light, and to it and in it; and find it prodigious, so as to frighten me to be in it all alone at that time of night, it being dark.
I understand, since, it to be that, that is called Old Sarum."
Samuel Pepys
Not being a sci-fi buff, it took me a couple of minutes to see what @ChelseaFC did here!
I was today years old when I discovered the Outline view in VS @Code
….and I’m a bit cross that nobody told me about it before!!
When I am Prime Minister the use of the word ‘eaterie’ will result in a short custodial sentence.
Boris Johnson, a fortnight ago
“I wonder whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman can name a single country in the world that has a functional contract tracing app—there isn’t one.” twitter.com/GermanEmb…
#TodayILearned that stand-up comedians were previously known as ‘front-of-cloth’ comedians
Because they stood in front of the curtains while the sets were being changed
I noticed that @Mike_Fabricant has a painting of the Houses of Parliament on his wall
No offence to either my current or to any of my previous employers….but I don’t think I’d want a picture of any my workplaces hanging on a wall at home
:)
#TodayILearned that it costs £14,000 a day to run @SalisburyCath
And relax.. #CRYCHE
Actually, the nice thing about this is, because it’s in curly brackets you can make it more readable
$Users | where-object { $.DistinguishedName -like “Pulisic” -or $.Description -like “Pulisic” -or $_.EmployeeNumber -like “Pulisic” }
Sad how pleased I am!
#TodayILearned that to filter for multiple conditions in Powershell you have to revert to this syntax
$Users | where-object {$.DistinguishedName -like “Pulisic” -or $.Description -like “Pulisic” -or $_.EmployeeNumber -like “Pulisic"}