A relatively non-political point

Given there’s already lots of really fab Beatles stuff to see and do in Liverpool wouldn’t it be better to spend the money on an attraction celebrating the music of Manchester, or Birmingham or London or somewhere else? twitter.com/NadineDor…

Unpopular opinion, possibly.

If you forget about the whole getting-drunk thing, drinking the very best wine is not as good as eating a fairly average grape.

My word of the day today is ‘heft’.

My word of the day today is ‘jot’.

#TodayILearned the word ‘standish’.

“The employees are worried. The world is worried. LaFrance, who has seen the internal documents, is very worried.

And Zuckerberg is still defending what he created. Because that’s what the algorithm needs him to do.”

withoutbullshit.com/blog/read…

#PostItQuote number six

#SketchQuote #sketchnote

I’ve used this to generate some documentation for my Powershell script…not sure it’s massively useful documentation, but still….

foreach ($C in $(get-command "get-VBr*")) { get-help $C | select name, Synopsis} 

My word of the day today is ‘scrawny’.

My word of the day today is ‘corroborate’

RT @hated_and_dead: Newest episode is out, the subject is Colonel Gaddafi, leader of Libya 1969-2011. My guest was Tim Niblock at @ExeterIA…

www.theguardian.com/film/2021…

I’m watching series 3 of House of Cards….and now I have serious Windows Phone envy

10 of today’s @ChelseaFC 11 have now scored this season

That Mendy needs to start pulling his weight

#CheNor #ktbffh

The government “argues that companies in serious difficulty must have the option of offering staff new jobs,if the alternative is closure

However, an analysis earlier this year found that nearly 70% of firms engaging in the practice were making a profit”

www.theguardian.com/law/2021/…

“The most powerful discrepancy between right and left was in Canada (Liberals 43%; Conservatives 167%), followed by the UK (Labour 112%; Conservatives 176%).”

www.theguardian.com/technolog…

#TodayILearned that the ‘F. Scott’ in F. Scott (Key) Fitzgerald stands for Francis Scott Key. Francis Scott Key was a distant relation, who wrote the words of The Star-Spangled Banner

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

My word of the day today is ‘palaver’.

Two months until #stonehengewintersolstice, I hope 🤞🤞🌄

My word of the day today is ‘cribbage’.