Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all who are celebrating, or trying to celebrate!
Clearly everything’s grim for everyone….but I finished self-isolating last night so I can’t help feeling quite chipper t.co/VAnMX66oQ…
Winds, floods, pestilence…..and now I find myself agreeing with @piersmorgan twitter.com/piersmorg…
Powershell command to show number of @GoHugoIO markdown per year of publication
select-string ‘publishdate: ' *.md | select-object @{L=‘year’;E={$_.line.substring(14,4)}} | Group-Object -property year t.co/h29eA9L9q…
RT @salisbury_matt: If you’re stuck at home, as I am, then you could do worse than streaming one of my daughter’s songs a few hundred times…
I’ve got quite a lot of my sketchnotes on my shiny, new github pages website now
The titles need to be tweaked, but you can tell what’s what I think
#TodayILearned that powershell logs all commands by default in
$(Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath
…mine is:
C:\Users\matty\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt
(via a @CBergmeister comment here:
People always look very cheerful when they’re bumping elbows
" I’m no epidemiologist so I won’t pretend to be a qualified judge of whether they are doing the right thing.
I am persuaded that they are sincerely endeavouring to do the right thing."
20 people died from radiation [at Fukushima]
Many more, about a thousand, lost their lives as a result of the decision to evacuate: casualties of car crashes, heart attacks …
Sometimes the obvious reaction to a crisis will not be the correct one.
Magnolia, as the sun was starting to set t.co/1hJxKcJoW…
#Tweetoftheday 🏅 twitter.com/NadineDor…
I’m in the process of moving my computer-y website from wordpress to github pages.
The content won’t be any better than it ever was, but I’m quite pleased with the logo thing t.co/Do2ehF3qN…
I got @ChelseaFC
Could be worse but I feel I’m going to have to practice my keepie-uppies twitter.com/Sheridans…
I described @Ben_Aaronovitch’s Rivers Of London books as being ‘like Harry Potter grew up and joined the @metpoliceuk’, but this description is better
RT @ProfessorUnwin: Despite concentrale and intensey listenit, finding it impossibold to understab a worm of incomprehensifole gibbery from…
Boy George, I think, had a record label called ‘More Protein’
I always assumed/hoped that was a reference to Stanley’s sign
This was his sign t.co/5eP3dDXKK…
As per the pic, James talks to Stanley Green, the guy who had the ‘Less Protein, Less Passion’ sign who seems to have been a kindly, gentle chap….albeit vaguely reminiscent of Jacob Rees-Mogg
“Talking about how things used to be is one of London’s unchanging attractions” - Clive James