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Spent the last 20 minutes trying to fix a non-existent bug
I only thought there was a problem because I read 2016-11-01 as 2019-11-01
Eyesight even worse than my coding….
1980s!
#TodayILearned that there haven’t been any icebergs in the area where the Titanic sunk since the 1989s
RT @IainDale: There is one word to describe the Conservative campaign so far - Clustershambles. And that’s being kind.
I’ve counted 8 pret…
Boris Johnson just said ‘Ofsted protects kids from bullying in the classroom’
Is that right?
Football.
Bloody hell…
“We structure our software to make change easier; after all, software is meant to be soft.”
@MartinFowler in ‘Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code’
RT @mahemoff: @salisbury_matt @Inkyfool A petition to re-introduce this metric for blood alcohol tests
#TodayILearned that the ancient Aztec unit of drunkenness was a rabbit
So being mildly tipsy was to be as drunk as one rabbit, being totally plastered might be being as drunk as 400 rabbits
(via @InkyFool)
Some parliamentary traditions leave me cold, but I’ve always liked the one about a new Speaker being dragged to the Chair
RT @PolhomeEditor: This is the sort of gaffe that loses elections.
I know JC has a big-ish majority, but I wonder what odds you could get on both Corbyn and Johnson losing their seats? www.standard.co.uk/news/poli…
RT @Victoriamary: Shane and I are terribly sad to hear of the loss of Gay Byrne, he was eternally kind and supportive and thoughtful and co…
“In the song [You’re So Vain], hopefully, the person could wink at himself in the mirror because he got the joke”
I hope not
There are quite a few players embodying Frank Lampard’s Chelsea revolution though
#KTBFFH
2015: number of new homes promised by @conservatives - 60,000
2019: number of new homes built by @Conservatives - 0
I’m wondering if ‘Thatcherism’ has any great emotional resonance to anyone under 40?
#TodayILearned twitter.com/RevRichar…