As per a previous tweet
It’s more complicated than they thought
It would cost a lot of money
…and it’s someone else’s fault #BrexitBong t.co/mMjN2wcEJ…
#TodayILearned that you can search within a list on Twitter.
e.g. I’ve a list of IT-Pro-type people called ‘Microstuff’. If I run this search:
edge list:salisbury_matt/microstuff
it shows me what those people are saying about Microsoft’s new browser twitter.com/search t.co/rZR12DvbZ…
There’s a new feature in Powershell called a ‘ternary operator’
Claude Monet, he was a Turner-y operator
Awful joke. Sorry. t.co/D0TCflV6t…
My Nokia phone, Strava and GPS over-estimated the distance on my run last night by 20ish percent
I think it’s this effect, where the GPS goes wierd t.co/yPqzhnQFk…
When Super Frank Lampard eventually resigns as @ChelseaFC manager, having won everything there is to win, and him and @morriskid go on to manage England to World Cup glory….when that happens I can imagine @juanmata8 as Chelsea manager
My word of the day today is ‘liniment’.
It’s more complicated and more expensive than they thought and all the problems are just a Remained plot twitter.com/Iancoll94…
Who’d have thought it? twitter.com/FullFact/… t.co/UFRF8tOuO…
Definitely not odd. twitter.com/Channel4N…
Better still….you can do it through T-sql
– creates a local job category named AdminJobs
USE msdb ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_add_category
@class=N’JOB',
@type=N’LOCAL',
@name=N’AdminJobs' ;
GO
#TodayILearned that you can create your own Sqlserver job categories by righ-clicking on Jobs, under SQL Server Agent t.co/cyLu0dXOm…
My work of the day today is ‘pernickety’, or possibly ‘persnickety’.
My word of the day today is ‘dumpling’.
It will be “Arise, Sir Tammy”
“John McDonnell, I will join you.
I will lie down in front of those bulldozers and stop the construction of that third runway”
Boris Johnson, 8th May 2015
Did Sid ever buy any shares in British Gas?
Similary, I am slightly ‘excessilogiphobic’ …..which means I’m afraid of made-up words which are more complicated than saying ‘fear of X’
To be honest I’m not over-keen on collective nouns anyway - I’d say a ‘flock’ of starlings
I would say the collective noun for collective nouns should be a ‘contrivance’ of collective nouns
Why is it a ‘murmuration’ of starlings rather than a ‘murmur’of starlings? t.co/b97rlHGRe…
My word of the day today is ‘miscreant’.