#TodayILearned that Lena Zavaroni was signed to Stax Records
(Via an old @WIYElondon podcast)
I prefer a coup de glace to a coup d’État
#StopTheCoup
Holger Schmieding of thr German Berenberg bank:
“In a way, a need for a Prime Minister to suspend his own parliament because he seems to lack a majority for his key policy – the approach to Brexit – is not exactly a sign of strength, to put it mildly.”
I’m not over keen on either drones or aeroplanes but I’d quite like to staple an outline of Concorde to a drone and fly it over the house now and again, just for old times sake
I do miss seeing it
I need to either get creative with set-alias….or try to remember to only ever spell it as:
Enter<Tab><tab>
‘Enter-pssession’ is a very useful powershell command…..but for some reason I struggle to spell it
#OnThisDay in 2012 Thor II was being filmed at @EH_Stonehenge
It’s from Jesse Toth who at the time of the talk of was working for Github
I thought this was a good point….possibly with wider application than just computer code :)
“I’m not sure what the lads in VAR Towers are drinking this afternoon, but I wouldn’t mind a drop of it.”
Me too.
Bloke thinks he’s Harry Potter
He probably thinks Boris Johnson is Dobby
Phil Hogan of @FineGael has a way with words
‘However, in the event of a no deal Brexit, the UK government’s only Churchilian legacy will be –‘never have so few done so much damage to so many’.’
#OnThisDay in 2005 Madonna turned up at Salisbury District Hospital, having fallen off a horse
#TodayILearned that this is a Link Wray tune
The Swag by Link Wray
#TodayILearned that you can get useful @Veeam error information from the eventlog, as well as from the application
Get-WinEvent -ComputerName VeeamServer -FilterHashtable @{Logname=‘Veeam Backup’;ID=190} | ? message -like “VeeamJobName” | select timecreated, message | fl
Tweet of the day
Cain Maddox @ctrlshifti protip: alias sudo to “please” for a much more wholesome unix experience
Both Greta Thunberg and Meghan Markle seem to be litmus tests for public figures that I could only describe with a Very Bad Swear Word
#OnThisDay in 2003 Mis-teeq played at the Ray Mac.
#OnThisDay the a user called Isis-Enwiki created the Wikipediia page for ‘Salisbury’
The initial version just had a picture of @SalisburyCat, but this was soon followed by the text
“Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire in England”
#OnThisDay in 1856 Queen Victoria and Albert visited Salisbury
“The Mayor and Corporation received the Royal party at the railway station, and they were escorted to the White Hart Hotel by a detachment of the 11th Hussars, who had arrived in Salisbury.”