Sue Townsend on John Major (@MajorsRise), when she first saw him being introduced on TV:
‘It’s Adrian Mole!’
..and a #Sketchnote of @GFritchey very good @SQLPass talk last night on Getting Started Reading Execution Plans t.co/quW4eFkYs…
My #Sketchnote of @BrentO’s great talk yesterday on Thinking Like the Sql Server Engine t.co/2mkGLG96U…
Perhaps @David_Cameron was one of those nasty masked protesters twitter.com/DJack_Jou…
The @Telegraph Xmas appeal is for @HoratiosGarden. I spent some time in Salisbury one over the summer - it’s lovely www.telegraph.co.uk/news/tele…
Friday the 13th today. I’ve always felt that its unlucky to be superstitious
John Mortimer: ‘I found that the sons and daughters of judges were judging the sons and daughters of burglars’ www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
I like the way people of a particular generation and class pronounce ‘of course’ as ‘of coss’
I’m STILL reading IoT as Index-Organized Table…
You can’t teach an old DBA new acronyms
Just reminded of Havana Let’s Go www.youtube.com/watch Saw them at The Grange, Salisbury. They allegedly inspired a @poguesofficial song
PD James ‘the detective story is about bringing order out of disorder’
I do now spell it ‘Broadchalke’ but I’m not quite down with the first ‘e’ in ‘Chalke Valley’
Should have siad the afore-mentioned fat chewers were talking at @CVHISTORYFEST www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
Great podcast in which @annemcelvoy, David Starkey, @DrAmandaForeman & @sauldavid66 chew the fat about heroism www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
RT @KngHnryVIII: If God wisht us to be vegetarians why did he give each animal its own delicious flavour? #ThroneThoughts t.co/Cspy…
RT @petercmoore: @salisbury_matt Me too! I still do. I’ve got 10,356 ring-binders full of Wikipedia…
Now on to @BBCRadio4 book club with Philip Pullman. bbc.in/LIHlAQ Forgot Lyra’s daemon has a similar name to @SunderlandAFC keeper
Why wireless-ly charging a smartphone is a bit pointless www.howtogeek.com/233205/wh…
Was reminded that, when I was first on the internet, if I found something good I used to print it out
Douglas Adams says in the podcast, from Jan 2000, that the Hitchhikers Guide was a prototype PDA. I couldn’t quite remember what a PDA was