RT @PSSouthampton: Join us and @Dan1el42 tomorrow to learn about the build, deploy and management of applications with Chef Habitat & #Powe…

RT @tompeck: In “Take Back Control” latest, the EU will now have to decide how long the latest Brexit extension will be, because our actual…

RT @guyrleech: Handy! Too remove the copyright symbol:

$yourstring = $yourstring -replace [char]169 , ''

Good old (extended) ASCII chara…

#TodayILearned this bit of Powershell strips out the ‘Registered Trade Mark’ (little R in a circle) symbol from a string.

In this case the string was the caption for the Windows OS in Server 2008).

[string]$RegisterMark = [char]174 $Caption = $Caption.replace($RegisterMark,'')

#TodayILearned how to handle quotes when generating Powershell

foreach ($Name in “spider stacy”,“cait o’riordan”) {

$Name = $Name -replace "'","''"

$String = @"
get-ADUser -filter {Name -eq '$Name'}

“@

Invoke-Expression -Command $String | select name

}

My techie Twitter list is full of the Canadian elections and Star Wars.

I’m not sure coming off worse Mr Trudeau or C-3PO

#TodayILearned that until the 1880s a mountain range called the Mountains of Kong appeared on maps of Africa.

The mountains didn’t exist

player.fm/series/hi…

A retrospective of #PeopleIWouldRatherHaveAsPrimeMinisterThanBorisJohnson

#TodayILearned that “The Australian Psychological Society’s congress heard a study of 261 senior professionals in the US, which found 21% had clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits compared to one in 100 in the general population.”

www.theguardian.com/commentis…

For the first time ever, as far as I can remember, I had to stand on the strain from Salisbury to Andover this morning.

I can’t complain, ‘cos it’s much worse in other parts of the country…..but it was a shame it was the morning after the #GreatSouthRun

#CreakyOldMan

#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay

Hope @MrsTheOldDays Well who knew in 2016 that we had just enrolled on a three year course covering the mechanics of government, modern journalism, constitutional law, crowd sociology, online marketing and psychological warfare!

My head hurts!

Seamus is pleased with his new, nautically-themed medal

#GreatSouthRun t.co/s41nJ2sNI…

#OnThisDay in 1816 an escaped lioness attacked the Salisbury mail coach near the Pheasant Inn in Winterslow.

Bedeguar books published a booklet about the incident which they’ve put online here

bedeguarbooks.blogspot.com/2009/10/w…

On my way to the #GreatSouthRun

Bus replacement service again…hoorah!

#TodayILearned that King Louis of France invaded England in 1215.

French invaders and rebel Barons held London for over a year

www.historyextra.com/period/ea…

I did a degree in politics…and I’m not sure I understand all of this

People who say they know what they were voting for back in 2016 must be ruddy clever

www.theguardian.com/politics/…

#TodayILearned that @adbertram has a marvellous function for doing dynamic ValidateSets

adamtheautomator.com/dynamic-p…

Getting flashbacks to that time when I was working for a mobile phone network and….. #threedown

“And as the sunset came to meet The evening on the hill I told you I’d always love you I always did and I always will”

#PostASongLyricYouLove

open.spotify.com/track/3Fa…

Didn’t realise this was on Spotify

One of my favourite-est gigs - Joe Strummer standing in for Shane Macgowan and doing my favourite Clash song

Straight to Hell (with Joe Strummer) - Live by The Pogues open.spotify.com/track/2ff…