#OnThisDay in 1826 William Cobbett visited @EHOldSarum and raged against it as ‘an Accursed Hill’ because of it’s status as a ‘rotten borough’
Just listened to this - No Reply by The Beatles
I think I previously only knew it from Stars on 45
Perhaps my expectations have been altered by the Europa League but this looks quite tough
Group H Chelsea, Ajax, Valencia, Lille.
“You’re playing chicken – driving your car head-on towards another car
Whoever swerves first loses
What’s your strategy?
One game-theory answer is: you ostentatiously unscrew your steering wheel and throw it out of the window.”
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay
#TodayILearned that EMI had their famous staircase taken apart and reconstructed when they moved from Manchester Square to Hammersmith
(Via @Eamonn_Forde on @WIYElondon)
#TodayILearned that Lena Zavaroni was signed to Stax Records
(Via an old @WIYElondon podcast)
I prefer a coup de glace to a coup d’État
#StopTheCoup
Holger Schmieding of thr German Berenberg bank:
“In a way, a need for a Prime Minister to suspend his own parliament because he seems to lack a majority for his key policy – the approach to Brexit – is not exactly a sign of strength, to put it mildly.”
I’m not over keen on either drones or aeroplanes but I’d quite like to staple an outline of Concorde to a drone and fly it over the house now and again, just for old times sake
I do miss seeing it
I need to either get creative with set-alias….or try to remember to only ever spell it as:
Enter<Tab><tab>
‘Enter-pssession’ is a very useful powershell command…..but for some reason I struggle to spell it
#OnThisDay in 2012 Thor II was being filmed at @EH_Stonehenge
It’s from Jesse Toth who at the time of the talk of was working for Github
I thought this was a good point….possibly with wider application than just computer code :)
“I’m not sure what the lads in VAR Towers are drinking this afternoon, but I wouldn’t mind a drop of it.”
Me too.
Bloke thinks he’s Harry Potter
He probably thinks Boris Johnson is Dobby
Phil Hogan of @FineGael has a way with words
‘However, in the event of a no deal Brexit, the UK government’s only Churchilian legacy will be –‘never have so few done so much damage to so many’.’
#OnThisDay in 2005 Madonna turned up at Salisbury District Hospital, having fallen off a horse
#TodayILearned that this is a Link Wray tune
The Swag by Link Wray
#TodayILearned that you can get useful @Veeam error information from the eventlog, as well as from the application
Get-WinEvent -ComputerName VeeamServer -FilterHashtable @{Logname=‘Veeam Backup’;ID=190} | ? message -like “VeeamJobName” | select timecreated, message | fl