" 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"}
Evolution cares about your survival, it doesn’t give a shit about your happiness
Typos, the Greek God of fat fingers t.co/BySjCwoOE…
RT @Sumblokeintheuk: @salisbury_matt To fit that much golf in is actually quite an achievement. Well done Don.
When I can’t sleep I sometimes try to decide whether we’re worse at attacking or defending corners #CHEWAT
“Whether the benefits would outweigh a broader political desire to cut ties with Brussels is reportedly still being evaluated.
Ultimately, the decision will get made in No 10.”
#TodayILearned that you have to put a space between the curly bracket of a @Rundeck option and the normal bracket of Powershell
$(get-service -ComputerName srv1 -name ${option.ServiceName})
Otherwise you get:
Missing closing ‘)’ in subexpression. t.co/PyCuEOZ8A…
Mr Johnson says that an ‘Australian style deal’ would be a good option
I think it’s a good euphemism for ‘No Deal’
#ItWasSupposedToBeAPieceOfCake t.co/Y35A3g49p…
This looks useful.
Even if I might not always want to make all of the suggested changes, it seems good to have this stuff pointed out
I wonder whether there are any roads or squares in the UK named after writers from other countries?