Listening to Tom Hanks @BAFTA on screen acting. Heard him reference Marx and Engels….and couldn’t see his point

Re-wound and he actually said ‘marks and angles’

www.bafta.org/film/feat…

Today is Saint Cynthia’s Day

Or #InternationalScotchDay, if you prefer

I’ve been a DBA for about 20 years, on and off, and I still find Point-In-Time recovery rather magical

RT @DuckDuckGo: If you ever get asked why you should use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, here’s a definitive answer by @yegg:

t.co/2

RT @RossMc11: Whatever wins #EurovisionYouDecide is going to win the whole thing, because Europe would find nothing funnier than forcing th…

RT @davey: Manager: “Please add an asterix to each required field on the sign up form.” Me: “Will do.” t.co/zxDQrNB0r…

RT @DavidLammy: I am so here for the comments on the @MailOnline story on Cheddar Man revealing that the oldest known Briton had dark skin.…

#TodayILearned that @veeam backs up @SQLServer transaction logs to c:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\SqlLogBackup on the target VM, before shipping them off to the veeam repo

Dunno if you can specify a different folder

RT @carriesymonds: The level of intimidation experienced by candidates seems to be at an all time high, with women getting the brunt of it.…

RT @dansavatar: Today, the Berlin Wall has been gone as long as it was up. These walls can broken as well as built.

Spring is on its way!

I just heard one of the chaps on #MotD say the phrase ‘I fear for them’

It’s like the first cuckoo

Marvellous to hear Blue Day ringing out around @CityHallSalis tonight

Great evening with Suggs

.@SalisburyCath, looking all Gothic and moody

After a traumatic and difficult couple of weeks…..I can report that I have got used to, and now quite like, the new format of the @guardian

Out running last night when I went past the Old Mill, the nearly-full moon was right behind the tip of @SalisburyCath spire

Was rather beautiful

#TodayILearned that you can use a bar (or ‘pipe symbol’) to enter more than one ‘ex’ command in Vim i.e.

:%s/[‘’]/'/g | %s/SQLData/sql_data/g

RT @PamAyres: I do, she was an absolute genius. twitter.com/londonsco…

RT @ChelseaFC: The home fans sing the name of Antonio Conte and he responds by applauding in their direction. #CHEBOU

I’m afraid @BBCRadio4 didn’t really exist for me until the age of the podcast

So I’ve only just discovered that Great Lives goes back beyond the time of Matthew Parris

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grea…

RT @georgeeaton: Quite a stat from Thornberry: “I am the only Emily elected since 1918 and he is one of 155 Davids.” #PMQs