Saw an advert today for an alt-punk band
I thought punk might be seen as the wellspring of everything ‘alt’
Wonderful evening of music with the London Lasses and Chris O’Malley tonight, in aid of @SalisburySHC
Was reminded today that Gary Oldman has done biopics of both Sid Vicious and Winston Churchill
Even allowing for the fact that some of us have downloaded the Extension several times, this implies there are an awful lot of Powershell users in the world t.co/AueR7CLCS…
On the whole, I think I preferred the previous President
Headline of the day
Spent the last 20 minutes trying to fix a non-existent bug
I only thought there was a problem because I read 2016-11-01 as 2019-11-01
Eyesight even worse than my coding….
1980s!
#TodayILearned that there haven’t been any icebergs in the area where the Titanic sunk since the 1989s
RT @IainDale: There is one word to describe the Conservative campaign so far - Clustershambles. And that’s being kind.
I’ve counted 8 pret…
Boris Johnson just said ‘Ofsted protects kids from bullying in the classroom’
Is that right?
Football.
Bloody hell…
“We structure our software to make change easier; after all, software is meant to be soft.”
@MartinFowler in ‘Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code’
RT @mahemoff: @salisbury_matt @Inkyfool A petition to re-introduce this metric for blood alcohol tests
#TodayILearned that the ancient Aztec unit of drunkenness was a rabbit
So being mildly tipsy was to be as drunk as one rabbit, being totally plastered might be being as drunk as 400 rabbits
(via @InkyFool)
Some parliamentary traditions leave me cold, but I’ve always liked the one about a new Speaker being dragged to the Chair
RT @PolhomeEditor: This is the sort of gaffe that loses elections.
I know JC has a big-ish majority, but I wonder what odds you could get on both Corbyn and Johnson losing their seats? www.standard.co.uk/news/poli…
RT @Victoriamary: Shane and I are terribly sad to hear of the loss of Gay Byrne, he was eternally kind and supportive and thoughtful and co…
“In the song [You’re So Vain], hopefully, the person could wink at himself in the mirror because he got the joke”