RT @jprudeboy: Ian Dury dead 20 years today. What a magnificent artist he was! #reasonstobecheerful m.youtube.com/watch
RT @SalisburyCath: Tonight our spire is lit blue in honour of the incredible people working on the front line to fight #COVID2019.
#Thank…
This is a list of all the podcasts I’m subscribed* to in the ‘OPML’ format, which should be import-able into podcast-y apps
- I don’t listen to all the episodes of all the podcasts…some are a bit more ‘hunt and peck’ for stuff I’m interested in gist.github.com/mattypenn…
As much as anything else, it was nice to see a bunch of other people during the #clapforNHS
My word of the day today is ‘furlong’
You know when someone says that some football manager “doesn’t know what his best 11 is”?
I think this implies that neither did Ferguson, Ramsey, Revie, Wenger or Jose
“Salisbury Cathedral sticks out like a sore thumb above the rolling countryside. It’s like a five-star hotel for them.”
Today’s painting on our painting-a-day calendar is the 1908 ‘Absinthe Drinkers’ by Jean Beraud
It seems to feature Pete Doherty of the Libertines t.co/rl72U5Zim…
Very much looking forward to going back to worrying about Brexit and VAR
In principle this is the same as in unix/linux so, but my calculations I’ve been making this mistake fairly regularly for the last 27 years
You know it’s time to knock it on the head for the day when you do this:
while ($LoadFailed = $True) {
#Powershell
(it should be -eq. Using ‘=’ assigns the value, so the while condition is always true and you get an infinite loop. Lovely.)
Watching video clips of Chelsea scoring against the Spurs also boosts your immunity levels twitter.com/ChrisMear…
This was his big hit
I learned in the article that was originally composed for the African Nations Cup
Much as I like them, it knocks both Three Lions and Nessun Dorma into a cocked hat
I’m not much of a jazz-er, but this is one of my favourite bits of music
This is a good idea - the Grauniad is doing a daily list of their most read stories that have nothing to do with coronavirus
I had a long lunch break and went out for walk
Still feeling slightly ropey in the evening, so lunchtime works much better t.co/y91l49JFq…
One day I will be taking notice of this again t.co/CrZ5VS4xb…
Manu Dibango, Cameroon jazz-funk star, dies aged 86 of coronavirus
Really missing having a monitor that I can rotate into portrait mode
#ReallyNicheFirstWorldProblems
What’s your favourite lock?