: I had a fantasy that Mr Trump had orchestrated an uprising in Moscow and the arrest of Putin in …
: My Crucial Tracks over the last week or so - Kraftwerk, Jaz Elise, Suggs, The Beatles, Elvis, Bethany Eve, and Dickie Goodman I really enjoy Crucial Tracks. Something about it chimes with the way my brain works, or something …
: “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and …
: The Guardian is asking the really big question today I’m #TeamLampsOn, obviously The Guardian …
: Vimrc lines to get my ongoing-notes-type file to autosave autocmd BufWriteCmd HighlightsNow.md …
: I’m too lazy to go to the Edinburgh Festival, but I always enjoy the collection of one-liners. …
: “These people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for piano …
: Worked out how list my favourite Crucial Tracks artists get-content …
: I’ve been working with the Bourn shell, the Korn Shell, the Born Again Shell, or Powershell …
: “Black Sabbath’s drummer, Bill Ward, told an interviewer that he used to lie awake at night …
: Although rock and pop have been dominated by people born during and after the Second World War, many …
: I’ve got The Hundred on the telly, and I can’t help thinking of Barney Ronay’s bit …
: My last week's Crucial Tracks - Paul McCartney, the Ramones, Ike and Tina, the Wolfe Tones, the Blockheads, the Commodores and Oki with Umeko Ando These were my Crucial Tracks for the last few days. What song makes you feel like your in another …
: I’d like to end on a fun note: the Beatles or the Stones? The Beatles, without a question. If they …
: I’m wondering what it is that owls need to be more aware of
: Arise, Sir Chris Woakes. Surely? 🏏 CHRIS WOAKES WALKS OUT WITH HIS BAT IN ONE ARM AND HIS OTHER ARM …
: Test cricket, bloody hell. As Sir Alex almost said 🏏
: Re-booting my laptop has got my HD webcam working again. Sadly this has coincided with me growing a …
: Retirement project #2 - add a ‘Copy as Markdown Link’ option to the Android ‘Share …
: One of the things that I love about England, and the English climate, is that, just as you realise …
: Retirement projects #1 Rewrite the words of Ian Dury’s Reasons to be Cheerful Part Three with …
: My Crucial Track for 01 August 2025 - "Sun Arise" by Rolf Harris What’s a song you’d want to hear while watching the sunrise? “Sun Arise” by …
: Podcast episodes I've enjoyed over the last month - Joe Hart, ICE, Rod Stewart, Tainted Love, Victor Spinetti, Pata Pata, Stonehenge, Charles and Harry, Jamaica, Chelsea the Champions of the Universe, Robert Mueller, Katherine Ryan, Thomas Paine, Nig Test Match Special - Joe Root goes second on the all-time list - the guest interviewee is goalkeeper …
: I ran this: az keyvault secret set-attributes --Vault-Name myvault --Name mysecret --expires …
: You only get this level of commentary for the cricket 🏏
: I really enjoyed Dept. Q. The main guy is likeably unpleasant - he’d be horrible to work with, …
: #TodayILearned that to exclude stuff from a github code search you can use a NOT keyword: …
: “What with all this daylight-saving stuff, we had hit the great open spaces at a moment when …
: I posted a punk song by the Outcasts for #JukeboxFridayNight on Mastodon. I hadn't seen the video for 40 years and, in my ignorance I was a bit curious about, or maybe worried by, something that looked a bit sectarian I searched a bit and found this Petesey Burns, from punk band The Outcasts, added to the research, …
: There’s a new political party in the UK and it doesn’t have a name yet I’m tempted …
: Crucial Track for 23 July 2025 - The Wild Rover by the Pogues What's your favorite song about second chances? I was thinking about this song In a different …
: Crucial Track for 23 July 2025 - The Walls of Jericho - The Virgin Prunes What song makes you want to stay up all night? At my age, nothing makes me want to stay up all …
: Dripping with disdain, and as Alan Shearer would say, rightly so “Out of respect for the …
: Fun at work #506 “When the first you hear of something is when you’re asked why you …
: I’m a bit disappointed to discover that Donald Trump “writes pictures” better than …
: Our local Wadworth’s pub hasn’t had any of their stout recently. I think it’s the …
: I did a company / volunteer litter picking yesterday It was a great thing to do….but the …
: I enjoyed this week’s Dave Squires cartoon, on the World Cup David Squires on … trophy-loving …
: One morning the President (FDR) entered his guest’s suite to see Churchill emerge pink, glowing and …
: Testing McTestingFace The Picture of Everything Some old nonsense
: There are some nice clips on the TMS (Test Match Special [the BBC’s cricket radio commentary]) …
: Interesting bit in the lunchtime discussion of the cricket yesterday. Aggers asked the panel of …
: There’s a gallery of 50 photos from our World Cup win on the official Chelsea app Not one of …
: The planet is blue ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
: I too am having a great time.Tremendous sport.
: Decent first half, on the whole 😁 ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
: I’m going through my old tweets, loading them into a micro.blog and found this favourite, …
: I finished both Beserker and Saint Denis Medical today. Enjoyed them both very much. Saint Denis is …
: I don’t normally link to Substack, because it’s the most annoying thing on the internet, …
: “Creativity is mostly sub-conscious theft” - Adrian Edmundson …
: My Crucial Track for today What song reflects how your football team are doing at the minute? …
: With apologies to those who don’t have access to it. God Bless the NHS and all those who work …
: In honour of the Oasis reunion….other terrible band names Coldplay Depeche Mode Crass INXS …
: I wouldn’t dream of correcting anyone’s spelling or grammar or anything much else, but a …
: I agree with most of this, although I’d omit the word ‘beach’ The Guardian - …
: Podcast bits worth listening to this month - Patrick Stewart, Ben Travers on WG Grace, AUKUS, David Kynaston, Disney, Coffin Ships,, some brilliant stand-up about Northern Ireland, the bloke from Judas Priest and a proto-fascist Stuff I’ve enjoyed listening to Fresh Air - Actor Patrick Stewart - Patrick Stewart says he …
: Bill Bailey is auctioning his rather good drawings of swifts, to raise money for conservation …
: It’s very hot in The Shire today I’m wondering whether it’s better to read a book …
: Olivia Rodrigo introduced Robert Smith of The Cure as “perhaps the best songwriter to come out …
: Final day of #MbJune - solitude
: Rod’s voice has held up better than his contemporaries imho
: winding — day 29 of the #mbjune photoblogging challenge A slightly winding path at Hengistbury Head, …
: Micro.blog challenge word for day 28: “ephemeral” #mbjune According to the signs this is an …
: 📷 #mbjune Day 27: Collective 2 photos The plaque is from Magna Carta. The barons collectively got …
: I’m still watching Endgame in Ireland, and it struck me that building the peace process …
: decay — day 25 of the micro.blog june 2025 photoblogging challenge 📷 You can just about see that …
: June 25th. Halfway to Christmas 🎅🌲🎅🌲
: Micro.blog challenge - day 24 #mbjune - bloom
: I’m watching Endgame in Ireland. It’s excellent. Endgame in Ireland, Series 1: 1. Bomb …
: I just created a time-shifted version of a podcast. I got the rss feed - …
: I was talking to someone about a film the other night, but I couldn’t remember what it was …
: Day 22 Day of the Micro.blog photo challenge - hometown This is the High Street Gate of the …
: Day 21 of the Micro.blog photo challenge - silhouette #mbjune I took this at a (London) tube station …
: Day 20 of #MbJune - gather I will certainly be gathering these fellows in a few weeks
: I was pleased to learn that Marc Bolan was a nice bloke and that Bowie had a stupid sense of humour …
: Day 19 of the Micro.blog photo challenge — equal This stone is about a mile from where I live. …
: Day 18 of the Micro.blog photo challenge — texture 📷 #mbjune
: Of all of the good days of the year, fixture list day is one of my favourites. A day of hope and …
: 📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 17: Warmth
: Every Premier League player saying their own name, twice The Chelsea players start at about …
: 📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 16: Blur
: I’m watching Soccer Aid and was reminded that comedian Alan Carr’s uncle Willie was the …
: 📸 #mbjune day 15 - tie A cup tie we went to. FC Noah are from Armenia, and are named in honour of …
: I watched some rugby today. I’ve no idea why the players were doing the things they were …
: #mbjune day 14 twilight Stonehenge, on winter evening, just before closing time
: 📸 #MbJune Day 13 pathways This ornamental pathway represents the route of the Summerlock stream, …
: As Churchill would have probably said if he’d worked in IT “Anyone can reverse ferret, …
: I was thinking about last week’s Mastodon #JukeboxFridayNight subject, which was #OtherLands, …
: I was thinking about last week’s Mastodon #JukeboxFridayNight subject, which was #OtherLands, …
: “One day I’ll tell them all about their grandad, and what happened to them, but just not …
: 📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 12: Hidden #mbjune This is a “Green Man” on the …
: There was a thing in Harry Potter where someone said don’t trust a magical object if you …
: Well….I might be overstating a teensy-weensy bit, but THERE’S A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL …
: #mbjune micro blog challenge day 11: brick Two brick-y buildings with musical connections. I’m …
: 📸 #mbjune Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 10: Rail This is John Betjeman, at St Pancras station He …
: 📷 Micro Blog Photo Challenge Day 9: Wood #mbjune This is a ‘bug hotel’ in Salisbury …
: Day 8: travel 📷 #mbjune This isn’t the most exotic of locations. I was on my way up to the …
: I had a lovely time at the folk festival at the Salisbury military museum today, despite the …
: I took this photo shortly before getting shocked because I hadn’t turned the right switch off …
: I got over-excited yesterday and posted the wrong photo on the wrong day, so this is wrong too …
: My 'Crucial Track' for today - "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by Toots & The Maytals Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. “Take Me Home, Country …
: Fascinating podcast episode about Gabriele D’Annunzio, who Mussolini called “The John …
: I took this at Stonehenge on a winter solstice a few years back. The solstice is about sunshine and …
: This is part of the Circus in Bath. According to Rosemary Hill’s book on Stonehenge the Circus …
: #TodayILearned that the bloke who invented Iron Mountain originally had a business growing mushrooms …
: These trees are at Old Sarum (Iron Age/Norman hill fort outside of Salisbury), and I always think …
: We were on a Replacement Bus Service a couple of weeks back, from Woking to Andover I think we were …
: I need to get this as a tattoo…or maybe just a coffee mug ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
: Marvelous second-half performance. Lovely to see ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
: I’m delighted that we got the result, but that was no fun at all. I hadn’t realised it, …
: The words ‘Tottenham Hotspur’ and ‘open-top bus parade’ have appeared in the …
: An Englishman talking about the weather is a bit of a cliche, but I love the warm wind that’s …
: Crucial Tracks over the last week - Wilson Simonal, Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra, Paul Kelly, Alaine, Tv Personalities, and Elvis, twice These are the posts from my Crucial Tracks profile for the last few days. 23 May 2025 - What song …
: It’s all very un-Spursy You can’t depend on anyone anymore ⚽
: #TodayILearned that, although you can’t copy meetings in Outlook’s calendar within the …
: Crucial Track for 20th May 2025 - "Hello" by Alaine What’s a remix or cover you like more than the original? There are a number of covers I could …
: I heard this overnight. Coincidentally it’s the anniversary today of Henry having Anne Boleyn …
: I almost certainly spent longer looking for this today than it would have taken to re-do it. My most …
: Samuel Johnson said that Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral were the first essay and last perfection …
: He’s trying to curry favour so that we win Eurovision Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has …
: Crucial Tracks over the last week - Come From Away, The Stranglers, Abba, Joey Ramone, The Beermats, The Pogues, 23 Skidoo, Christy Moore, Barbara and Barry, The Undertones, The Isleys, and the wonderful Mary Saenz These are the posts from my Crucial Tracks for the last few days. 16 May 2025 - A song from a genre …
: I enjoyed the classicly British understatement of ‘Everyone in 1945 was a bit tired’ …
: Four Constable images from my longer running route. Milford Bridge, with a distant view of …
: I think Jackson might be lucky to stay on ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
: Congratulations to the Invincibles! ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
: I found this today. We missed our connection on the way home and had to get a taxi home from …
: Crucial Track for 08 May 2025 - What’s your favorite love song, and why??" “A Rainy Night …
: We went to see the Cathedral last night, lit up to celebrate VE Day. These photos don’t begin …
: Crucial Track for 07 May 2025 - “What’s a hidden gem or underrated song you love?" …
: “Their eccentric sound at times was almost like if Blur’s Parklife was being played by (very …
: "I would love to have been in Memphis at the time of Elvis, or in Liverpool at the time of the Beatles...but I was young and in London during the heyday of the Pogues and that's more than enough musical good luck for one lifetime" I wrote that, or something like it, while waxing nostalgic during one of the covid lockdowns. I …
: I’m enjoying Austin (the Australian TV comedy, not the city)….but you can’t park …
: #TodayILearned that True by Spandau Ballet was written about Clare Grogan I wrote the song at my …
: Gary Oldman in this week’s Radio Times
: Sous les floorboards,….la plage!! (We’ve been to the Mayflower pub in Rotherhithe. …
: Podcast episodes I enjoyed last month: the Empire, Naomi Klein, the witches of St Osyth, the Titanic, Judaism, pop instrumentals, Barack Obama, Thomas Smallwood, Nazi jazz and Tim Riley Podcast stuff I enjoyed in April. One day in the British empire -History Extra - the saying is that …
: Really enjoyed 24 Hour Party People. It would be nice to think that some of it is …
: Currently reading: Access All Areas by Barbara Charone (music industry supremo, and #ChelseaFc …
: It’s my annual wondering-whether-I-should-do-a-marathon day
: Joe Cole just said that however good a player you are, you can’t be in two places at once He …
: The thing I like about Neto is that he’s physically strong for a silky-skilled winger ⚽ …
: I just saw a Party Political for Reform, for the local elections. You would think immigration was a …
: This seems quite useful if you’re thinking of retiring, ever. The figures are for the UK, and …
: I’m not sure what I’ve been more confused by over the years The day and the month being …
: Does anyone, other than the New Yorker, use the spelling ‘coördinating’?
: People have written that, in Dickens' books, London is a character in its own right. London …
: I quite enjoyed Last One Laughing, but I think it’s more like very good Reality TV than it is …
: Terrifying BBC News - Why giant Easter bunny was created in small town - BBC New
: I found this today - there’s a good list of ‘additional resources’ for Pester on …
: Elizabeth Frink’s Walking Madonna, and the big, old church
: I wasn’t keen on Persuader, but I enjoyed the latest Reacher season, which was based on it
: SPOILER: ending of the Old Curiosity Shop In his letters Dickens spoke both about breaking his heart over the ending of the Old Curiousity …
: So Kobo says the book here is a Child’s History of England but the cover says it’s a …
: Searching websites from the Edge address bar I didn’t know you could set up site searches in Edge. I assume it’s the same in Chrome, …
: I’m a bit nervous out this one ⚽ #LegChe
: Top bins, the spider's web, where the owls sleep and Declan Rice I’m obviously hoping that Real beat Arsenal 4-0 back at the Bernabeu, but I enjoyed the …
: Malcolm Tucker on the Cramps Our influences were Bowie, Talking Heads and the Cramps, who were like …
: There’s a very brief window between me understanding how something works and me forgetting how …
: In the UK Liz Truss has become a byword for economic disaster She might be quite pleased that …
: I knew you could install Chrome extensions in Edge...but I didn't know how. click on the extension button…which looks like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, then Manage …
: I’ve been looking at Obsidian,but I’m going to stick with Joplin for note-taking …
: The old castle at sundown this evening
: The truth of the Marine Le Pen story is simple. She mucked* around. She got found out. Ian Dunt …
: Podcast episodes I enjoyed in March - Pat Nevin, the Irishness of Kate Bush, Nazi sterilizations, Mike Leigh, Nicholas Parsons, Naomi Klein, ice cream, the Taj Mahal, Boy George, Oliver Cromwell, and Lenny Henry's influence on Theresa May and Caitli Word In Your Ear - Pat Nevin - “Pat Nevin has musical memories even better than scoring a …
: I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m planning on having an Awesome April
: Using Out-Gridview to interactively select one item from a collection I’m not sure I’ve ever had cause to do this before…but it’s quite handy. …
: I love pop music and I love Chelsea (Pat was a great Chelsea player in the ’80s) The sentence …
: Very much enjoyed seeing Jenny Eclair last week. Last saw her in the mid ’90s, I think. She …
: I’m enjoying The Residence but I will be disappointed if it doesn’t turn out to be Kylie …
: I live in the top right hand corner of this map. I wish it was still called Mizmaze Hill. I’ve …
: My new favourite website. Chicken sandwiches, dinosaurs and sign language. They are all woke. …
: Just 9 months ‘til Christmas 🌲🎅🦌
: Marvellous free kick from the man who is surely England’s future captain ⚽ #EngLva …
: I took this pic 3 years ago today while I was out running. It’s a house in the Close which was …
: I very much like the cover of the upcoming Kate Rusby LP…but does it look a bit like …
: England looking quite good ATM ⚽ #EngAlb #ItsDefinitelyComingHomeThisTime
: the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex - Flanders and Swann on Stonehenge I’d not heard this before. Flanders and Swann were a duo I just about remember that did comic …
: In praise of the blossomest blossom A rubbish-y photo of a rubbish-y roadside….but it’s enough to remind me of Dennis …
: #TodqyILearned that Blackboard Jungle, the film that introduced Rock Around The Clock to the world, …
: In honour of the day The High Kings - Irish Pub youtu.be/bp3UsU5pQ…
: I enjoyed the Bath Half yesterday…and unlike last year, I didn’t go the wrong way at …
: I hope Newcastle hang on. From what I’ve seen they’ve been much the better team. …
: I’ve seen Russ Noble a couple of times and I think he’s a genius. I can imagine this …
: I love pictorial maps This was in a hotel room. It’s by a chap called Justin Eagleton. His …
: I just finished Zero Day. There are good things in it, but it felt like there was a simple story but …
: My words or the day from 2015 to 2022, from absurd to yonder ILike a poor man’s Suzie Dent I used to post a ‘word of the day’ on Twitter. They …
: the most incisive pass so far has been a ricochet. ⚽ #CfcCph #ChelseaFC
: I’ve got A Big Run coming up I couldn’t represent Wiltshire, as a runner, nor Salisbury. …
: I just heard an old parody of this old advert With due respect to Proust and his cakes…there …
: I’m watching Robert de Niro in ‘Zero Day’s I’m hoping it’s going to …
: I’m having one of those mornings when the typo’s are outnumbering the non-typo’s
: The coolest pop star on the planet is on Desert Island Discs atm BBC Desert Island Discs - Cyndi …
: There’s nothing as good as a good night at the theatre. There’s also nothing as bad as a …
: There’s a young chap started for Chelsea tonight who’s 40-odd years younger than me I …
: I passed lots of kids on their way to school this morning, and they were all dressed up for World …
: Finished reading: Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers 📚 I enjoyed this, but I shouldnt have done it …
: 20 years ago I lived in a road called India Avenue. At the end of the road was another called …
: I’m not doing much politics on here but I can’t resist a good …
: Finished reading: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris 📚 Enjoyed this a lot, although I’m always a …
: Podcast episodes that I enjoyed in February - Micky Flanagan, moshing, Independence Day UK, the best single of all time, Dylan, Comic Relief, Jay-Z, Ken Dodd, Chaplin, Mengele, New Order, Flat Earth, Hattie Jacques etc BBC - Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? - episode 1, the 1970s - Micky Flanagan talking about …
: In a week of controversy, I hesitate to post this in case it sparks a pineapple-on-pizza level of …
: Happy 'Boys from the County Hell's day to all those celebrating it today On the first day of March it was raining It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen …
: I’ve got a rail trip coming up, and I can’t decide who to take along with me Wifedom …
: Pet hate: the phrase ‘pension pot’
: #TodayILearned that 'Bouncing Babies' by the Teardrop Explodes has been streamed 516,716 times, but 'I can't get Bouncing Babies by the Teardrop Explodes' by The Freshies has only been streamed 24,393 times <img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/139254/2025/16772316772303-3.jpg" …
: #TodayILearned that in VS Code there is a command called “View: Toggle Locked Scrolling Across …
: I finished Ghosts over the weekend. Lovely show. I was simultaneously touched and slightly …
: Best performance this year but not quite good enough Rashford looks good ⚽ #AvlChe
: I tried out the instance of Deepseek that’s being hosted by Nvidia It’s still reluctant …
: Unshortening a shortened URL with powershell....as of February 2025 anyway There are a bunch of pages on the internet giving code to expand shortened URLs, but none of the …
: David Hepworth in this week’s Radio Times What makes 2025 a unique year is what won’t be …
: I’m looking forward to listening to this Alan and Ray are the comedy writing partnership who …
: On a lighter note, some poor soul has watched all 40 of the lowest-ranked films on Rotten Tomatoes …
: Nazi photo of Salisbury Cathedral I found this on archive.org. It gives me the chills. It’s an unusual view of the Cathedral, …
: A new entry for The Meaning of Liff, IT Workers Edition Fugglestone. Noun The state of mind when …
: #TodayILearned that Rose Madder isn’t just the name of a Stephen King book Wikipedia says …
: If I had a pound for every time I had to look up how to do Ctrl-Alt-Del on a remote machine …
: “I’ve been waiting for the collapse of capitalism my entire life. Now it’s here, …
: I’m trying to learn how to do cryptic crosswords….largely through the medium of …
: Come back VAR….all is forgiven ⚽ #MunLei
: I forgot to remember that setting: $ErrorView = ‘NormalView’ ….gives you useful …
: Mr Pinch had a shrewd notion that Salisbury was a very desperate sort of place; an exceeding wild and dissipated city - Charlie D on my hometown An annual-ish tweet / toot / post in honour of Charles Dickens' birthday Mr Pinch had a shrewd …
: In honour of it being 80 years since the birth of Bob Marley, this is a bit of an obscurity, but …
: Annual-ish tweet / toot / post The crocuses, or possibly the croci, are out in the Shire
: Listening to me of my favourite politicians and she just mispronounced either …
: Sanchez dropped I can’t help feeling sorry for him….but it’s the right decision ⚽ …
: #TodayILearned that Lily the Pink is actually Lydia E.Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Mike …
: Salisbury chap just scored for England in the rugby. Probably just as well I’m not in a pub …
: So…I think this might work this time. 😃 A list of some favourite books …
: I need to have a play with this sooner rather than later Microsoft Entra blog - Microsoft Entra …
: People in Salisbury can, finally, pick up litter again should they want to. Mr Putin stills owes me …
: I always liked Clive James’s description of the naked Arnold Schwarzenegger as “a brown condom …
: Podcast episodes that I enjoyed this month - Mrs Orwell, Golda Meir, The Sun, The Light Brigade, Val MacDermid, Tupperware, Highwaymen, Raffles, Smokey, The Famine, Anti-Vaxxers, The Arctic, and Fukushima Note that I have put stuff in quotes sometimes…but these will only be approximations of what …
: #TodayILearned that the Bad Sisters theme is a Leonard Cohen song youtu.be/pDpfGW9CM…
: I created a list of my favourite books, using the Bookshelf thingy in micro.blog 📖 My favourite …
: Proposed new entry for the Meaning of Liff, IT Workers Edition Bullock’s Horn - the situation …
: #TodayILearned that Raphael did a drawing of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and it seems to be of a …
: I enjoy a list - this is History Extra magazines list of the top historical films No Life of Brian, …
: If I’m on Teams and my little dots are bouncing up and down in the way they do for a long …
: I just finished the Walk-In. Great show about fascists and the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate - …
: I heard a program overnight that mentioned this guy - Wojtek, the bear that helped fight the Nazis …
: I’m not sure this is behaviour one would want to encourage, but it’s a nice story When …
: Missing a penalty at an away ground must be a very “special” feeling for a player …
: A photo from 12 years ago today. This is in Salisbury market place. The statue is Henry Fawcett, …
: I was intrigued by the name of this LP - ‘Live at Basins Nightclub’. Most nightclubs of …
: The Outlaws was fun Nice to see the bad guy from ‘Bad Sisters’ being the bad guy in …
: How to delete from a tweets micro.blog with powershell These were my last three tweets on the blog…and, I think, the last tweets I posted …
: I am enjoying the ‘A Short History Of….’ podcast on BBC Sounds. They are about an …
: Life goals Use all 3,790 emojis, in context, before I die ☠️🪣
: Went out for one of my usual slow trots around Salisbury last night, but speeded up towards the end …
: Impressive I have been in Johannesburg for 3 days and I am proud to say I’ve eaten at Nando’s 4 …
: “The joy of watching a Lionel Messi will always outweigh the cringe of listening to an …
: I’m sorry if they aren’t available outside the UK, but Hugh Bonneville reading Sherlock …
: The best thing about AI chat sites is that they allow you to ask stupid questions in a stupid way.
: Mark Thomas's Pet Hates I thought these were funny. Comedian Mark Thomas’s pet hates, from The Irish Times , quoted by …
: 15th of January, here in the Shire, is halfway through winter, by some …
: Another thought from last night ⚽ I really, really, really want this car
: I wonder if any of Bob Dylan’s LP’s have ever been advertised on a poster this big? In …
: Thoughts on Chelsea - Bournemouth lovely to see Reece score the first goal was sublime. Not …
: Nice story about Brian Clough in the Telegraph today, from the Liverpool player Phil Thompson …
: Reasons I’d like to be famous to be one of the VIPs on a half-marathon (because they get very …
: Watercolour skies in the Shire this morning
: Currently reading: Blue was the colour by andy hamilton 📚
: Currently reading: Blue was the colour by andy hamilton 📚
: This won’t be a popular view amongst football fans, but the Third Round of the FA Cup does …
: Are the Gooners cos-playing Real Madrid because they’ve won the Champions League so many times …
: Wise words can come from various sources
: Really enjoyed ‘Better Man’. Worth seeing at the cinema, if you get the chance, if only …
: The final, rather grown-up, joy of Christmas is when the binmen take all the rubbish away
: I’m very fortunate to be #ChelseaFc….but I wish it wasn’t so ruddy difficult to …
: I wasn’t planning on doing a lot of politics on here….but I think Jess Phillips is a …
: There was a very ‘Radio 4’ exchange on the radio just now what was the last gig that …
: The Christmas Radio Times is now defunct…..goodbye old friend
: Random painting I like - The Gardener by Simon Saint-Jean. From File:La Jardiniere, 1837.jpg / Musée …
: Podcast episodes that I've enjoyed recently - Armando, Cillian, Barbie, 'the Stalin of the Steppes', Troy, Princess Di, John Wilkes Booth, UFO's, etc Strong Message Here - Political words of 2024 Barbie and the plasticity of pop - Switched on Pop UFO …
: I’ve done a #sketchnote to use to talk through an introduction to VS Code. I’m not sure …
: Me vs. Rolling Stone magazine My thoughts on the top 20 songs from Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. These …
: Back to work thoughts. As they almost said in The Go-Between “2024 is a foreign country. They …
: I’ve been out a’pinting There was a marvellous covers band…it’s …
: May your God or Goddess go with you in the New Year
: My formerly-footballing friend Fred Fieber has done the illustrations for CAMRA’s new leaflet …
: Ian Dunt on why Traitors Australia, Season Two, is the Best Political TV Show of 2024 All of the …
: My favourite folkie Christmas songs. open.spotify.com/playlist/…
: I’m not capable of great emotional complexity, but I do come near to it when a player I like, …
: My favourite reggae Christmas tunes open.spotify.com/playlist/…
: The middle classes can be quite confrontational, because they don’t associate confrontation …
: In honour of the day Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones
: Panto and post-panto pints put paid to my plan for Solstice at Stonehenge, but here are some pics …
: Possibly the best thing I’ve seen in a theatre since The Clash at the Lyceum Sleeping Beauty …
: Things that annoy me #1035 When you need a password and MFA to see some IT documentation. Especially …
: I enjoyed That Christmas last night. It’s a sweet film. It said in the credits that it was …
: Powershell to get a list of micro.blog posts Set your headers: $headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer $Token" …
: Want to read: Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth 📚 I listened to this podcast …
: The two best songs which start with the same two words, imho Goin' back - Dusty Springfield Going …
: I know next to nothing about Mongolia, so this was interesting My young friend Tom’s podcast …
: I’m mucking about with the idea of doing some #sketchnote pages on Powershell basics …
: I read in this month’s Record Collector magazine that: [David Essex’s] performance of …
: These numbers are quite something ⚽ Brentford have the unusual distinction of being the Premier …
: For some reason, I was thinking this morning about books named after song titles, or lyrics, and …
: Like weekends, December is too short
: Back in the olden days, when Twitter was still a nice place to be, there was a hashtag called …
: I’m not a fan of the works of either Freddie Mercury, or Kenny Everett and Cleo Rocos, but …
: I’m thinking about writing and running a Powershell script to upload my twitter archive to …
: The Hogwarts Express came through Salisbury station just now
: The German rendering of Ben Lyttleton’s Twelve Yards reads like it’s about monitoring …
: By my calculations, it’s only 15 sleeps until Gavin and Stacey
: Melvyn Bragg once perceptively said that the 1970s McCartney had made a “magnificent attempt to be …
: This is a lovely Christmas wreath on a lovely Salisbury building…but it looks a bit out of …
: Just saw this in town. Salisbury to Norfolk would be a decent walk
: Thoughts on yesterday’s Tottenham - Chelsea match ⚽ wasn’t it marvellous? caicedo …
: Many of the COVID signs, warning people to keep their distance, are fading now I wonder when the …
: Annual-ish post / toot / tweet / skeet…. Please could you all continuosly stream my …
: Spotify tells me that I’m in the top 0.2% of listeners to Elvis ….so the year …
: I’ve never seen Back to the Future. I only realised today, when I saw this poster, that the …
: Lovely BBC radio doc about Shane Macgowan, with his wife, and his sister, and Nick Cave, and Bono, and Geldof, and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all I particularly enjoyed the detail about the Broad Majestic Shannon from Shane’s sister Bob …
: To Trowbridge by train today. In quick succession you go past the White Horse at Westbury, as in …
: David Squires on … the Fifa Man’s plan to make Saudi dreams come true
: Happy Cyber-men Day to all who are celebrating it today
: Good news …well, good news for old folks who like to plod around like me, anyway “There’s a …
: I would very much like to do a Desi Pub Tour of the UK Jay Rayner on restaurants - Desi Yew Tree, …
: Thoughts on the Chelsea match this afternoon lovely to see a bit of proper ice-cold Cole Palmer …
: in honour of the season Siouxsie and the Banshees - Il est ne le Devin enfant
: As people who’ve followed me on various social media are probably sick of hearing, the first …
: I found out today that one of my favourite songs, I Say A Little Prayer is a song about Vietnam. …
: I really like SSMS as a query tool, but i found it much easier to pronounce ‘Toad’
: I’ve never been able to imagine Cary Grant speaking in a Bristol accent (For those outside the UK, …
: According to the Times, Kemi Badenoch has appointed 20 whips to look after her 121 MPs According to …
: #TodayILearned that Mike Batt wrote 3 hit singles about Julianne White, who is now his wife A …
: My most un-English opinion is this. I find the Shipping Forecast really boring <img …
: Happy Thanksgiving Day to all who are celebrating it today
: I don’t really see much of the Great British Bake Off I’m sad when it ends …
: Love and cannibalism in the Yorkshire Dales I’ve never thought much about the folk song ‘Ilkley Moor Baht ‘at’ before …
: Lauren Laverne is the host of the Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs. She used to be in a band, called …
: The job title ‘Platform Engineer’ sounds to me like I’m working on an oil rig
: Like many English blokes of a certain age, I’m fascinated by Winston Churchill…so this …
: Podcasts and radio shows I’ve enjoyed recently The Political Party Show 203 - Margaret Beckett …
: 5 discovered songs - The Revels, Ann-Margaret and Elvis, Susan Cadogan, Lee Thompson, and Lorne Green This is the first in what might possibly be a continuing series of songs I’ve discovered in …
: I like the Scottish ‘outwith’, which I think is ‘outside’ in the sense of …
: It’s a sunny-but-cold day in the Shire
: I’m trying to replace the phrase ‘Maternity Leave’, or ‘Mat Leave’ …
: I don’t know whether watching Paddington and Gladiator II together might become a thing, like …
: Thoughts on Gladiator II I very much enjoyed it Not having seen the original film, it was more gory than I was expecting …
: British tabloids have an awful lot to answer for but I did enjoy this sub-headline BOFFIN REVEALS …
: Nice to see these guys again, in the Chantry Centre in Andover I expect they come to life at …
: I enjoyed Paddington in Peru, too Preferred it to Paddington 2, although that might just be because …
: Very much enjoyed a folkie night out with Cara Dillon last night. It was just her and her other …
: There’s a nice picture of the Salisbury ‘Spoons on the cover of their latest magazine
: A thought that consoles me a bit, hearing about the President Elect’s various appointments …
: I went to see my footballing friend Fred Fieber’s fab friezes
: I feel that Christmas songs are acceptable at any time after Remembrance Day Other opinions are …
: Calling monarchs by their first names makes them seem cuddly I’m listening to this excellent podcast episode about Anne Boleyn. It occurs to me that part …
: How to post to a test instance of micro.blog with powershell Source the micro.blog token $BlogToken = $(import-csv /stuff/GeneralParameters.csv | ? parameter -eq …
: My last four posts have been about the weather, the class system, the football, and a saucy seaside …
: I read or heard a thing about the British class system recently. I don’t know where but …
: #TodayILearned that this postcard sold more copies than any other via Paul Sinha - Paul …
: I have to say I prefer it when we’re 6-0 up at half time #CheArs ⚽
: If I’m honest, I’m quite enjoying the anti-cyclonic gloom. UK weather England has 10th …
: I enjoyed the cover of this month’s Cfcuk…I remember a similar cover featuring David …
: Thoughts on this evening at Chelsea Vs Noah Mudryk often needs to drop 5-10 yards. He’s fast enough that he doesn’t need to be level …
: The view from under the banner in the Matthew Harding Lower , #ChelseaFC ⚽
: We had a good night tonight but managed to miss one of the highlights there was some light relief …
: At Chelsea Vs FC Noah The players are coming out two by two ⚽
: Like James Brown, I’ve taken it to the Bridge Not before time tbh ⚽ #ChelseaFc
: I feel that, if I live long enough, the stones will turn out to have come from Antarctica, or a …
: Just read this bit, at the end of the Pickwick Papers Let us leave our old friend in one of those …
: We missed out on Southampton - Chelsea tickets….I think my hit rate is down to 1 in 5
: Random painting of Salisbury Merritt, H. S. - St. Ann’s Gate, Salisbury, 1943 I used to go …
: Today seems a good day for a rom-com I just finished this. Lovely show. The proportion of rom to com …
: I shot this at Hengistbury Head a couple of weeks ago. I find it quite relaxing Wish it was longer …
: I’m sure these are all really good and well worth going to…..but the phrase …
: I didn’t know this existed but I want to read it One of my favourite comics has written a …
: Paul Merton on Have I Got News For You No one is irreplaceable in show business. But we’ll keep …
: The hashtag for Man United Vs Chelsea always reminds me of ….. ⚽ #MunChe (annual-ish toot / …
: I like it when people use the word ‘weblog’ but I often read it as something …
: I’m enjoying the #Powershell tips module. I’ve already learnt a couple of …
: It was some while before MGM was off to see a profit from the wonderful Wizard of Oz – specifically, …
: That’s what girls have to think about all the time I was half-listening to Graham Norton the other night but I missed this In a development that …
: Not sure how, all of a sudden, I’m quite so old….but I’m lucky to have lasted so …
: “The British constitution is puzzling, and always will be” - Queen Elizabeth, on a visit …
: It seems to have got dreadful reviews and I’ve not seen any of the other films but I enjoyed …
: Not sure if this’ll work…but this is my Halloween playlist Halloween playlist on …
: I don’t think I’ve posted this before. A sketch note/map that i did a few years ago of …
: I saw these today, near Canary Wharf. I imagine they come to life at night, when everyone’s …
: I can’t wait Oh no I can’t… #Panto
: If I ever meet Daniel Ek who, I believe, is “Mr Spotify” I’m obviously going to …
: I enjoyed Play On at Salisbury Playhouse last night It’s a jazz musical based on Twelfth Night …
: Easy or easier cryptic crosswords I can sometimes get a few answers in a cryptic crossword, but I’m not very good at them I can …
: I’m enjoying the second series of D.I. Ray
: I thought this was very interesting Does the Irish Republic Want Reunification? BBC Seriously …
: ““Fifa always shout that they want the game to be inclusive, and they want the game to …
: I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about the appointment of an England manager as I …
: In France, it is described as “a delicious little thing that only British television knows how to …
: This is worth a listen if you have an interest in UK politics - Matt Forde interviewing Rob Burley …
: You would think that Spotify, with all its money and its smarts and its AI, would be able to …
: Watching an episode of the Cleaner and they refer to a sea monster called the Oilliphéist Apparently …
: Nick Hayward, of Haircut 100, recounts how shocked he was seeing Sparks wandering around his home …
: Thoughts on the Bournemouth half marathon yesterday Hengistbury Head is nice. Outdoors-y but with …
: Hengistbury Head and the Needles in the background
: Hengistbury Head - I read that it doesn’t really have much to do with Hengist
: Enjoying a stand-up LP by the-lady-from-Fisk on Spotify Kitty Flanagan - Seriously?
: Theresa May gets it right here. It was appalling that Putin tried to assassinate someone on British …
: the temperature has dropped, and the fingerless gloves are back on I feel Dickensian
: Some music-related AI pub signs Oasis: The Pogues: The fifth Beatle: The Waterloo Sunset:
: James Cleverly has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership race This seems like fantastic …
: #TodayILearned that While humans are split between right-handers and left-handers, elephants have a …
: Beautiful day in The Shire…if you can avoid the rain
: After years and years of having an Android phone, I’ve only just discovered the usefulness of …
: I enjoyed Supacell, but it did make South east London seem a bit grim. I was hoping a bit for …
: As the commentator pointed out, it looks a bit like Everton are playing Saudi Arabia :(
: Pam Ayers has a pile of wood and rubbish in her garden which provides a habitat for hedgehogs and …
: A friend has met Paul McCartney a couple of times I thought about what I’d say if I ever met …
: One of the Conservative candidates for their Leadership was just on the telly. The reporter asked if …
: I still miss Jose The Fenerbahce manager, José Mourinho, was booked by the referee on Sunday after …
: My favourite pub name is The Conquered Moon By the way…everyone should have a favourite pub …
: New powershell group “dedicated to bringing together professionals with a passion for …
: For me this is a music podcast of Avengers Assemble - the blokes from Sodajerker meet the blokes …
: That’s kind of irritating….the much-used-by-me ‘Format Document’ command in …
: Strange country Hollywood actor Damian Lewis has taken part in an “eccentric” tradition …
: I enjoyed Scott Minto talking about Cole Palmer at half time He danced around making the comparison, …
: Listening on the Chelsea app, and getting slightly worried for Jason Cindy #MastodonFC ⚽
: “1000 copies were pressed (which sell for £1000 upwards)” I sold my copy for …
: Had a nice evening in a pub with some old chums, half watching some football that I don’t …
: Slippers 3.0 is still incompatible with Dog 1.0
: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water….in Paris! I enjoyed this amiably …
: When I was very young I had some sort of old book about football. It mentioned Barrow as a 4th …
: The Wicker Man soundtrack is on Spotify now I think it’s got some extra bits compared to my …
: I very much enjoyed The Hour on Netflix Wikipedia quotes Nancy Franklin in the New Yorker …
: Marking the changing of the seasons, and the turning of the great wheel of the year with this semi …
: Lovely to see empty seats towards the end of a Chelsea away match ⚽ #MastodonFC
: The Bible tells us that i is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich …
: Powershelling my twitter archive I’ve been looking at my twitter archive, with a view to importing bits of it into micro.blog …
: I’ve been watching The Hour on Netflix. It’s set in an office in the 1960s. I’m …
: I don’t agree with Marina and Richard about twitter but I like this quote “To be …
: Spoiler alert for 1930s play Gaslight I learned today that the play Gaslight was renamed Angel Street in the US. It was being performed as …
: I’ve got a cold. Please send chocolate and curry.
: Happy Hope-They-Both-Lose-Day to all who are celebrating it today Spurs - Arsenal #MastodonFc ⚽
: “in a way that has no analogue in the world of conventional commercial transactions, customers …
: A small part of me is pleased that Old Street roundabout has retained its character, even if that …
: This evening’s Quorn chilli will be enlivened, and hopefully enhanced, by this sauce I’m …
: #TodayILearned, from watching the TV quiz The Chase, that “Originally, rhinestones were rock …
: Something I didn’t know… Henry VIII’s disappointment with Anne of Cleves began …
: I google-ized ‘England fixtures’…and as well as tonight’s fixture it gave …
: " “Processing fee”, “service fee”, “delivery fee” – truly it has 100 ways of saying …
: Since I’ve seen a few posts about people using or not using Linux, I thought it might be time …
: I’ve been creating a page of podcast episodes I’ve liked I’ve extracted all of …
: The photos in Salisbury railway station, and the Clock Tower Took a picture of this to say how much I like the old photos that they’ve got at Salisbury …
: I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I …
: If I watch enough tech videos at 1.75 speed, will I start dreaming in 1.75 speed? 😟😟
: I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out …
: I’m not much interested in the Oasis reunion from a musical point of view, but it would be …
: I always enjoy the annual list of top 10 one-liners from the Edinburgh Festival…but none of …
: I’ve started watching the 2009 Day of the Triffids I don’t know what I was expecting, …
: Disappointed to discover that my favourite ever sports commentator, Barry Davies, is …
: Rock sages Mark Ellen and David Hepworth discuss musical plagiarism lawsuits in the attached At one …
: I enjoyed the 1970s Death Race 2000 It’s Wacky Races meets Russ Meyer, with shades of the …
: Chelsea v Man City Potential title decider, obviously ⚽😃 #Cfc #Ktbffh #MastodonFc
: I maybe need to get this tattoo-ed on something prominent “The road to programming hell is …
: They are not having it back “The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from …
: I enjoyed Trap….but there’s very little you can say about the film without giving away …
: That was a terrific match. 🏀
: A marvellous pub name Johnson grew up in the Two Puddings pub in Stratford, east London, a Kray …
: Lovely Department of Putting the Best Possible Spin on a Situation: high-jumper Gianmarco Tamberi of …
: He’d get my vote, just for this ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday [ …
: It’s not Barca and Bayern on the way to winning the Champions League, but it’s a start ⚽ …
: These are fun photographer Hector Vivas has created a series of astonishing images called Layers of …
: I read that there’s an iceberg slowly spinning around and around the same spot in the South …
: This would almost make it worth doing jury service “I swear by the River Roding, from her …
: SPOILER ALERT re: ‘Gaslight’…. although, given the play came out in 1938, maybe I …
: Chelsea’s new signing Kieran Dewsbury-Hall has followed the new manager from Leicester The …
: Good quote: “Churchill was a racist and an imperialist, and also the most important …
: Chelsea 1 Celtic 4 …and I thought we might still have some of the momentum from the end of …
: Thoughts on this evening Paris looked lovely, despite the rain the catwalk-y bit was …
: Words I like - Missing You Who did you murder, are you a spy? I’m just fond of a drink, helps …
: Podcast episode about a 19th Century outfit called the British Israelites who went digging on Tara …
: An odd coincidence of my social circle My two best friends at university didn’t know each …
: Magic Johnson used to shoot 200-300 three-pointers a day in the summer 🏀 I’m not sure I could …
: Finished reading: Fake Heroes by Otto English 📚 Great book. Some of the targets are maybe a bit …
: The Crowdstrike thing reminds me of the time I brought down about 80% of of a mobile phone network …
: Giving good epithet This is good, particularly the bit ive put in bold. It’s from Otto English’s “Fake …
: Annual-ish tweet / toot / post to say thay the blackberries seem early this year
: Im not sure if this counts as a metaphor but i like it ⚽ “Southgate has seemed a little more …
: Peter Butterworth and the Wooden Horse #TodayILearned that Carry On actor Peter Butterworth auditioned for a part in the 1949 film …
: There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. - Lenin
: It’s Saint Swithun’s Day today Saint Swithun is very much the British equivalent of …
: I’d like to say ‘may the best team win’ tonight…but I’d rather …
: I’m enjoying Alan Carr’s Changing Ends auto-bio-pic on ITV I think I’m right in …
: People I have seen on the train between Salisbury and London The two writers were in second class …
: We’re voting again today There’s a local council byelection. It will feel a bit flat …
: This morning, instead of putting coffee granules in my coffee mug, i put them in the pint glass that …
: never a penalty…but never mind! ⚽
: I didn’t know this Guardian series existed, but I like it 📖 Where to start …
: I was in the middle of posting very slightly off-colour and then lost eveything i’d written …
: I like this statue of Oscar Wilde, near Charing Cross Wilde isn’t someone who has had a huge …
: #TodayILearned that the chant We know what we are We know what we are Champions of Europe We know …
: Recommended show: Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican, with him out of Line of Duty I really enjoyed Kiss Me Kate at the Barbican, at the weekend. Here are some bullet points …
: I’m sure there will be disappointments and muck-ups ahead. But for now i am enjoying the …
: I was reminded, the other day, of something Tony Blair said “When we came to power we were at …
: I had a wonderful time yomping around Salisbury Plain on Friday, but at this point my feet are half …
: The origin truth of football is that outstanding individuals doing outrageous things is no basis for …
: Because it’s easy to take a good photo of Stonehengeq
: Not sure who i want to win - Germany because Rudiger used to play for Chelsea, or Spain because …
: Because it’s easy to take a good photo of Stonehengeq
: Liz Truss has lost her seat….jeepers Much as I disagree with her about pretty much …
: I’ve been and gone and voted
: June in sketchnotes What I did in June saw the magnificent Fly Yeti Fly curry at the Elai lots of training walks …
: I thought England should have done much better against Slovenia It looks like I underestimated …
: For the first time ever, I just got asked to take part in an opinion poll One of the questions, …
: As a wise man once said, “Football. Bloody hell.” ⚽
: It would be a shame if Joe Biden is mainly remembered as the guy that enabled the second Trump …
: Call me a pedant but this week I have been particularly irritated by BBC Radio 5 calling itself …
: I can’t think of another example where father and son have been current on the same team …
: In defence of Rishi and Kier A bloke called Robert, a member of the audience in the debate last night, got a lot of applause for …
: #TodayILearned that “The word “Bronx” originated with Swedish-born (or …
: My new, not necessarily improved, sketchnote heiroglyphic for ‘a JSON file’
: Words I Like - Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) Jules Rimet, still gleaming Three Lions …
: Here’s a cheery thought ⚽ If England don’t win the Euro’s this time, then, by the …
: I didn’t enjoy the football, but I did enjoy the Guardian’s headline ⚽ Woe de Cologne …
: This came up, from 11 years ago, in my Photos app I was going to a work thing in Eastleigh, which I …
: I like a good , flowery political metaphor, and this is a particularly vivid one, from Andrew …
: Scotland fans win the European Championships of singing, by some distance ⚽
: A friend who is a painter and decorator introduced one of his colleagues as a ‘brother of the …
: An Elvis story I hadn't heard before Songwriter Mike Stoller was in a mid-Atlantic ship collision in the 1950s. He abandoned ship into a …
: I may be a 1970s throwback……but the idea that there could be any debate about that …
: Some nice solstice pictures from the Stones and elsewhere www.theguardian.com/world/gal…
: I’m wondering if opposition coaches tell their teams that England will always drop away after …
: I have one thing to say today, and it’s this. ‘Get Over You’ is a better song than …
: Well….I like it! ‘Pile of old wood’: Salisbury residents say sculpture spoils cathedral view …
: I’m listening to Rolling Stone’s The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History. It’s …
: I hope the blackberry berries are as prolific as the blackberry flowers are this year
: As Dickens almost said, of all the good old days in the good old year, fixture list day is one of my …
: Allez les bleus! Don’t vote for the far right, French sports stars urge public …
: I linux-ified my aging windows laptop over the weekend All good, in general, and I’ll be able to get another couple of years out of it I found that: …
: I couldn’t really see the point of playing so many long, aerial balls against a team so …
: So far, so ok-ish The BBC guys seem to be wearing rose-tinted glasses ⚽
: Three different players beginning with B have scored so far Broja has just got to score ⚽
: From a bit in last week’s Times in which various writer-y types recommend books for the new …
: I got an alert from the BBC just now. It alerted me to the fact that I can now discover who Chesney …
: Words I like - The Limerick Rake “Now there’s some say I’m foolish, there’s …
: Very much enjoyed reading, and simultaneously listening to, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner 35 …
: I often find myself thinking, if not saying out loud, “He’s doing his best, but then so …
: I take a disproportionate amount of pleasure from surrounding a word with stars to make it bold
: Shortcuts to fold and unfold text in VS Code #VsCode
: Not the nicest of thoughts Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study - …
: Would’ve liked to have been at Stamford Bridge for SoccerAid again - it was a good afternoon …
: I’m compiling a mental list of results to look up on July 5th Basildon and Billericay is one …
: The dog, on instagram www.instagram.com/p/C7ZZPhW…
: Congratulations, USA! 🏏 www.theguardian.com/sport/liv…
: On days of remembrance, as well as gratitude for the sacrifices, I think of the people I knew who …
: This is slightly weird I am a politics geek. I did politics at university, i listen to various …
: Which absolute idiot wrote this? $ThisTimeYesterday = $(Get-Date).AddHours(24)
: Interesting episode about Chanira Bajracharya, who went from being designated as a goddess until …
: I hadn’t heard of David Fricke before - he’s very Cool, but in a really cool way Rolling …
: i’m sorry to be a dreadful football snob, but for me the highlight of an international …
: I like this, from Austin Kleon’s newsletter: As the poet Donald Hall wrote in Essays After …
: The work on Salisbury’s new riverside walk has been a nuisance, especially for the wonderful …
: Only 13 more CLs and Chelsea will actually be level with Real Madrid ⚽
: This Blinken chap has got something about him As we reported earlier, Russia has accused the White …
: Another proposed entry for the next edition of The Meaning of Liff, this one for people of a certain …
: Proposed entry for a future edition of The Meaning of Liff Lockeridge: the time spent staring into …
: #TodayILearned that tomatos were thought very poisonous in North America until a chap called Colonel …
: This has been one of my favourite reggae songs over the last couple of years #TodayILearned, via …
: I’d give this article a solid 4.5 :) ‘Entire evenings of my life have been shaped by the …
: Recommended TV: Avoidance The blurb says: “Newly separated Jonathan has no home, no friends …
: Bette Davis on Jackie DeShannon’s song, Bette Davis Eyes Bette Davis was also a fan. “She …
: I may be wrong, but I think that if we’d had more working-class people in the House of …
: Alan Shearer finishes every other sentence with ‘and rightly so’….and rightly so. …
: Harold Wilson, Leonid Brezhnev, and 'all the football' This is fun, although the first bit is a tad unfair on Rishi, who does seem to be a proper football …
: Hoping for wins for all the ‘S’s this weekend - Saints, Seltic and Siteh ⚽
: I’ve been wondering whether I could come up with 47 reasons why the election’s on the …
: Music news. I much prefer Shakira’s latest LP to Beyonce’s latest LP I hope Beyonce …
: One guy I’ve not seen mentioned in relation to the vacancy at Chelsea
: Hopefully I’ll be proved wrong when we win the Premiership at a canter next …
: It’s been a while since I posted a picture of HobNob. Here he is with the Giant, as depicted …
: I think it’s important, on a Monday morning, to set one’s goals for the working week. My …
: There was a Crass poster stuck up at Salisbury station yesterday - not seen that in a while I …
: Listening to Rob Delaney on Sean Keaveny and Iszi Lawrence’s Your Place or Mine Delaney is …
: The Most Grim-Faced of Churls - #AnyoneButArsenal “Only the most grim-faced of churls would refuse to recognise the progress Mikel Arteta’s …
: Last night I was reminded that: jogging in the countryside, and being a man of a certain age who …
: Recommended podcast: Origin Story I’ve only discovered this podcast recently, but it seems very good The blurb says …
: There was a recent story in the UK about a local council dropping apostrophes from road signs …
: Possibly the most British thing ever…Midge Ure doesn’t have his OBE to hand, but he …
: This is well worth a listen if you’re at all interested in football The main things I got …
: I’m not going to name the pub, but we had a Sunday roast at the weekend. They said …
: Today in the UK we are celebrating …
: Thoughts on yesterday (includes swears) Malo Gusto made a big difference when he came on we need …
: Our AI overlords may be about to take over and enslave us all, but I’m reassured that St …
: Kettering has a pretty station
: Went through London today, and managed to see the statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras If I …
: Finished reading: The Innocents by Bridget Walsh 📚 This wasn’t entirely my cup of tea, but i …
: I slept through what seems to have been the Lightshow of the Century last night, but it’s been …
: Nice to see that the universe is beginning the celebrations for my 60th, albeit a couple of months …
: Just tried connecting to IP address 15.0.4365.2….which, sadly, is not an IP address, …
: Out dog-walking this morning, and saw a mum and son walking to school, with the mum blowing bubbles …
: One man’s proverb is another man’s ‘wtf?’
: When someone else is screen-sharing, and I’m trying to point them to the right link or button …
: This is very good…on getting physical fitness into perspective “I always regarded …
: Room 101 was a meeting room #TodayILearned, via mastodonapp.uk/@Probertd… that “The original Room 101 was not in …
: Was up in London over the weekend and went to see the now not-very-new statue of George Orwell, at …
: An amusing UK political story The bloke who made it compulsory to bring photo id to your polling …
: We had to vote for a Police and Crime Commissioner today. It turns out every one of the candidates …
: I’m slightly worried that Alfie Gilchrist is going to spontaneously combust at full time ⚽
: 📷 photoblogging challenge #mbapr - unputdownable Somewhat negated by the fact that I have clearly …
: I really enjoyed all the hometown photos in the photoblogging challenge. Call me nosey, but …
: This was my April, in #SketchNotes From top left to bottom right Guinesses in the Wig and Quill 🍺 …
: 📷 #mbapr photo-blogging challenge - hometown I’m not 100% sure whether this is the photo I …
: 🎙️ Podcast episode in which A.J. Jacobs tries, and largely fails,to live day without plastic …
: 📷 #mbapr photo-blogging challenge - drift I’ve got a vague feeling I’ve seen flowers …
: #TodayILearned that ‘scarper’ is rhyming slang, derived from Scapa Flow, rhyming with …
: This podcast episode includes my favourite tale of quintessential British upper middle classness A …
: I got a bit damp last night marshalling for the Salisbury Hospice Midnight Walk.Terrific event …
: Only saw the last half hour, but that half hour was a great Chelsea performance ⚽
: Karaoke doesn’t half make you appreciate professional singers 🎵
: Football has come a long way since ‘Ron Manager’ ⚽ I “created an animation with my …
: This week the powers that be decided to stick with Ofsted’s 4-point scale of assessing schools …
: I’ve been to the theatre a few times since COVID, but I’ve not really managed to get …
: I was standing just now next to someone who stank of cigarette smoke I’ve never been a smoker, …
: There are days when the notion that exercise is good for you is totally counter-intuitive. This is …
: “Drummers are like hockey goalies. No-one knows how to talk to them apart from other …
: I listened to this yesterday. It’s fascinating, ridiculous and disturbing, often at the same …
: 📸 #mbapr photo-blogging challenge - dreamy This is from November 2022. It was a sound and light show …
: In honour of it being Saint George’s Day, this is Ralph Mctell, the ‘Streets of …
: 📸 #mbapr photo-blogging challenge - blue I couldn’t not pick something Chelsea-related for …
: Always stressful watching Child 2 play 🏀
: I enjoyed The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore 📚, although I maybe don’t have a …
: #TodayILearned the phrase ‘gish gallop’. It’s means to create a deluge of rubbish …
: 📸 #MbApr Winter Solstice 2010, in the dawn’s early light, when all was ice and snow
: #TodayILearned that Richard Whittington really was apprenticed to someone called Sir Ivo FitzWaryn …
: #TodayILearned that the TV audience that is most disproportionately Labour voting is Taskmaster, …
: When I’m the first in a one-to-one Teams meeting, and the other person is late, so …
: There’s a photo of a Salisbury road sign in the Guardian today I’m thinking about …
: #OnThisDay in 1930, which was Good Friday, the BBC News Announcer announced, in the evening …
: I enjoyed this combination of headline and photo - Harry Kane reacts to knocking Arsenal out of the …
: This is lovely Frank Cottrell-Boyce talking about how the Queen jumped out of a helicopter for the …
: Chelsea's pre-penalty playground squabble dissected by The Athletic I thought this was amusing The Athletic has a typically nerd-level-detail bit about Cole …
: I got 11 out of 16 Liz Truss quiz: did she really say that in her book? Can you guess which things …
: #TodayILearned that Chris Spedding, who produced the Cramps, and possibly the Sex Pistols, and had a …
: Arsenal, Liverpool, and Tottenham all lost. I just need a Chelsea win tomorrow night and my …
: I had a lovely day out going to Saint Mary’s yesterday It reminded me that, when Child Two was …
: Todays browser wallpaper is pleasantly familiar - I’ve not seen Pulteney Bridge from that …
: I’ve been doing this, after a fashion, for a few years…but I didn’t know …
: “At this point, I’m pretty sure, that if I lost my .zsh_history I probably …
: This used to be the shop next door to the house I grew up in Then it was ‘Spire Models’ …
: I keep looking at my phone and seeing that Strava is open Either I’m opening it by accident, …
: A good article about xz and open source and ‘source-available’ companies The threat to …
: Interesting point in this, at least for politics nerds like myself Famously, JFK performed better in …
: It’s clearly not the main point of my friend Tom’s podcast, but #TodayILearned that …
: Fiona Wilson for PM! “Fictional Labour frontbencher better known than real ones, survey finds …
: Today’s newly-acquired superpower is remembering that, in vim, ‘*’ jumps you to …
: I’ve very much enjoyed everyone’s thoughts about, and photos of, the eclipse. Thank you.
: Chiming podcasts and the importance of any other business I like it when un-related things chime. In this instance, it’s two podcast episodes that I …
: Achievemt unlocked. Wetherspoons breakfast and Toby Carvery, on the same day If you keep believing …
: April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 5: Serene I took this a couple of weeks ago All around is …
: #TodayILearned that the first known use of the word ‘celebrity’ was by Geoffrey Chaucer, …
: I’d buy this as a t-shirt, or a mug, or a tattoo, or something ⚽😃😃😃
: This isn’t perfect, in that it doesn’t cope with the ‘nd’ in …
: I don’t really play vinyl any more, but the card it came in gives me a big hit of nostalgia …
: #TodayILearned that to comment out the currently selected text in VS Code you can do Ctrl + / …
: Neil Young is on Spotify. I bought this as a CD, but the thing wouldn’t play. When I got …
: Liz Truss and Brian Clough I’ve always enjoyed unusual political metaphors - for a while I collected and tweeted a …
: The thing I find slightly tricky with non-fiction audio books is that it’s easy to lose track …
: I rather half-heartedly collect old postcards of Salisbury and Stonehenge There are a few different …
: #TodayILearned that the first Beatle’s concert in the United States was at Boneyard Bocce Ball …
: Good podcast: The Hated and the Dead The blurb says: “Kissinger said that ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent …
: ‘Angertainment’ is a great, and useful, word ‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones …
: I don’t think I’m going to move off of pinboard, but raindrop.io looks neat …
: I ❤️ the NHS part 103 I’ve been fixed up after a spot of comedy goalkeeping earlier in the …
: Annual-ish tweet/toot/post to say I think it’s amazing that Oxford and Cambridge have both …
: Harry Houdini and the Barrel of Tetley's #TodayILearned that, when he was in Leeds, Houdini was sponsored by Tetley’s Bitter to perform …
: #TodayILearned that the Galway Girl in Steve Earle’s song, but not in Ed Sheeran’s song, …
: “As Mr. Pickwick beautifully observes, it has somehow or other happened, from time immemorial, …
: 9 months until Christmas. 🎄🎅
: How to continuously run a set of Pester tests from the commandline while ($(get-date).hour -lt 19) …
: ”A year ago the Beatles were known only to patrons of Liverpool pubs. Today there isn’t a …
: Currently reading: The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim; Kevin Behr; George Spafford 📚 My main learning …
: #TodayILearned that: Initialisms are made from the first letter (or letters) of a string of words, …
: How to set default parameters for other people's Powershell cmdlets Not exactly #TodayILearned because I vaguely remember learning that you can do this, but had never …
: As an ex-resident, I love this, from Sara Pascoe: “i live in Lewisham, which is brilliant. If …
: #TodayILearned that a ‘wolf tone’ is “an undesirable phenomenon that occurs in …
: To save you looking…..I’m not a member :) “Garrick Club’s men-only members list …
: I was sure Jeremy Clarkson knew the answer to the last question on Who Wants to be Millionaire and …
: Really enjoyed the Bath Half today. Bath is as lovely place…not as good as Salisbury though, …
: #TodayILearned that the lyric is “You don’t have to say you love me Just be close at …
: Mark Steel’s impersonation of George Galloway is worth this year’s license fee on its …
: One of the odd things about being a year behind in my podcasts is listening to people and knowing …
: Four men discussing a threat against a woman MP but not letting her speak is not great …
: I’m wondering whether Google will soft-pedal their ‘best take’ ads after the …
: R.I.P. Freddie. Two years gone. So very sad BBC News - Freddie Fontete-Jones' mother backs …
: Saw this on Facebook…..I’m not a huge fan of Fleetwood Mac, but this happened about a …
: I found this recording of a thing I was at just 43 years ago - Killing Joke playing in Trafalgar …
: #TodayILearned that Charlie, Ronnie and Reggie Kray got £255,000 from the 1990 film 📺📽️🎙️ The …
: I need to decide whether I’m going to use $SplatParams or $SplatParameters….and then …
: Watching a Word in Your Attic video which features a vaguely disappointing David Bowie Monopoly set …
: Being an Elvis nerd of many years standing, in the normal run of the things I don’t often come …
: I got an email about HIMSS24. It stands for ' Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society …
: I really enjoyed G’Wed Like a mixture of Inbetweeners, Derry Girls and Grange Hill, but ruder, …
: Setting up a file-specific (not filetype-specific) colorscheme in vim Setting up a file-specific (not filetype-specific) colorscheme in vim is a two step process. First, …
: #TodayILearned that the word ‘cockamamie’ is possibly related to …
: I’m putting together a chronology of stuff thats happened and stuff i’ve done, or been …
: #TodayILearned that the passengers in the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ got $5,000 …
: Hoping everyone has a super Tuesday
: #TodayILearned that the 1967 Beatles Christmas record was produced by Kenny Everett Danny Baker - …
: The Spotify graphic for Neil Diamond is a bit ‘1984’ 🎵
: There’s something particularly sad about the death of one half of a double act
: The stations on this line sound like they should be in the Lord of the Rings
: #TodayILearned that Cinderella’s slippers may have been squirrel fur (‘vair’) …
: This is definitely better than the view from the M5
: Sir Keir/Kier Starmer needs to be Prime Minister for at least 10 years for me to have any hope of me …
: When Kier Starmer gets on the blower and asks me what he should do in government, I shall tell him …
: #TodayILearned the phrase "cheese it-the cops!" #TodayILearned the phrase cheese it-the cops! “A warning that the police were coming. …
: If you squint hard enough, and use your imagination, you can just about make out the ruins of …
: #TodayILearned that one way of getting a list of data available from Microsoft Graph API is to type …
: I bought an old postcard of my chums from Salisbury Museum - the Giant and Hobnob. I’m just …
: Agree with virtually every word of this A more sympathetic take on Chelsea’s defeat #cfc …
: Vim commands to write out parameter list Executive summary :) For each line 0 D PP From the colon prompt: %s/^ */ write-dbg "` %s/ …
: #TodayILearned that in 1929, the USSR replaced the 7 day week with a 5 day week, with a fifth of the …
: Lee Anderson MP thinks that Sadiq Khan is “controlled by Islamists” I think Lee Anderson …
: That was a shame….could have easily gone the other way. We’ll be back⚽
: I just saw Wicked Little Lies….absolutely adored it. It won’t be everybody’s cup …
: We had a lovely, long lunch yesterday at the Lahore Kebab House, just off the Commercial Road …
: On 10cc I listened to the Word in your Ear podcast about 10cc and it occurred to me that I really like one …
: #TodayILearned that Lloyd Cole, of the Commotions, and Perfect Skin, is Chelsea 🎵⚽ …
: I’ve been told that, ergonomically, the top of your monitor should be level with your eyes. …
: I think my work laptop is being converted to Windows 11 I think ‘trepidatious’ is the …
: Watched Catch Me if You Can. I really enjoyed it, and my enjoyment wasn’t at all marred by …
: The crocuses (croci?) are out
: The Smiths' first album came out 40 years ago this week 🎵 40 years 🫨 …
: How to post to a test micro.blog from powershell Sorry about the formatting of this post…I’m having trouble getting markdown not to …
: How to post to micro.blog with powershell Get the token Go to the account page in micro.blog, scroll down to the bottom where there is …
: So obviously I’m hoping for and expecting a win for Chelsea, but I’d settle for another …
: People who followed me on Twitter may remember this quote, which I tweeted both before and after …
: I finished Trigger Point last week. It’s a cracking show and ‘her off Line of …
: What I learned in 2018 (according to my twitter archive) Dec 18, 2018 #TodayILearned that (the) Buzzcocks' song ‘Ever Fallen In Love’ was …
: #TodayILearned that for #Powershell’s Get-ADUser, using -identity will return an error: $ …
: Listened to this discussion of Juan Peron. Interesting stuff EP67: Juan Perón The Hated and the Dead
: My slightly late-in-the-day New Year’s Resolution is to use #Powershell’s Out-GridView …
: Terrible news Piece of London’s Jewish East End feared lost as Beigel Shop shuts
: Listened to this 🎙️ Made me realise how little i know about Irish history Although tbf i dont know …
: Saw this in the paper the other day. I think its a bit misleading in that whereas Jose, for example, …
: “No” is no to one thing. “Yes” is no to a lot of things. I’m not big on self-help-y type stuff, or the associated slogans, but I liked this: “No” is …
: I love Irish folk music but I can’t get on with Lankum or John Francis Flynn or any of those. …
: I love the idea of Steve Wright travelling to New York, and just sitting in a hotel room for a week …
: What I Learned in 2019 (according to my Twitter archive) Nov 25, 2019 #TodayILearned that Tony Fitzgerald adopted the name ‘Christie’ after …
: Watched Assault on Precinct 13 Quite enjoyed it. The soundtrack sounds a bit Kraftwerk-y which seems …
: Roll on Christmas! Gavin & Stacey to return for Christmas special after five years
: I had access to Github Copilot over the weekend. I’ll type up some thoughts about it …
: Another injury at Chelsea.☹️ I dread to think what the injury list would have been like if …
: I don’t want any DDOS attacks, but I did like the idea of a toothbrush-based botnet ”Near as I …
: Do remember to keep your toothbrushes updated Millions of hacked toothbrushes used in Swiss cyber …
: Charles Dickens on my hometown On the occasion of his 212th birthday, this is from Martin Chuzzlewit Mr Pinch had a shrewd notion …
: it’s one of those mornings when I’m doubting the wisdom of a 50-something continuing to …
: i love this. Noddy Holder says he had more number one singles than yhe rest of the chaps in Slade …
: Function to return markdown link for a URL This function accepts a URL and returns a markdown link for the URL: function …
: “I look at it and think what an awful job I did retouching the horizon. It looks like I did it …
: #TodayILearned that there’s a Coney Island in County Down, in the North of Ireland as well as …
: What I learned in 2017 (according to my twitter archive) Dec 27, 2017 #TodayILearned that Morrissey is a cousin of Robbie Keane …
: TodayILearned that the Egyptian pyramids were built by people doing something like National Service …
: This is a great long read from the Guardian, and a great collection of photographs. I particularly …
: #TodayILearned that Phil Bowdery, who was one of Mud’s roadies who did the “Tiger Feet” on Top …
: #TodayILearned that “In the year 2000, the average house deposit was £9,865. In 2023, it was …
: What I learned in 2016 (according to my twitter archive) Dec 23, 2016 #TodayILearned that Angelina Jolie has a Christopher Marlowe quotation as a tattoo …
: There’s a chap in this bit in the Guardian who says American football is rigged so that Taylor …
: The only thing more nostalgia-inducing than old TV adverts are TV adverts for companies you once …
: Some good news in the news [BBC News - Northern Ireland: Sinn Féin hails ‘day of …
: #TodayILearned that here are whole books about the Beatles in Bath, the Paul is Dead nonsense, and …
: M’young friend Tom refers to Putin’s eventual successor as ‘he or she’ The …
: #TodayILearned that “With VS Code release 1.30 you can type Shift + Enter in the search box to …
: #TodayILearned that the first two lines of Billy Bragg’s A New England are taken from Simon …
: Spring hasn’t yet sprung….but it’s on its way in the Shire
: Call me a nerdy pedant but the football pyramid.is shaped more like the Eiffel Tower than a pyramid, …
: I think I might struggle to score 73 points in 48 minutes even if I was alone on the court 🏀 Doncic …
: Commentator just said there’s a battle developing between Sterling and Cash I don’t know …
: Only eleven months to Christmas
: I always hoped I’d get a cheque meant for poor old Matthew Perry, but sadly it never happened …
: As a constitution geek, I absolutely love this “Lord Cameron, the UK foreign secretary, should …
: Chelsea FC are returning to Stamford Bridge North 😃⚽
: Commentator just referred to cole Palmer as cole porter Well, did you ever? ⚽
: Words of the day Before Elon Musk got his hands on twitter, I tweeted ‘my word of the day’ for the best …
: In which David Owen refers to the Department of Health and Social Security as ‘the Department …
: This is good, from Austin Kleon’s newsletter: On the asshole who lives in our brains: “Were …
: There’s a book of the punk rock fanzine that was local to where I live. Something to ask …
: Finished my run tonight and discovered I’d forgotten to press ‘Start’ in Strava. …
: I meant to post this while it was actually a hit….but Kylie Minogue’s Padam Padam …
: if the beatles used adele's naming system for their albums... Adele has so far used her age as the title of her LPs. So, her LPs have been called: 19 21 25 …
: I can only ever remember git add, commit, diff, rm and push...and I couldn't be bothered to rtfm (Confessions of a powershell numpty, #1) I don’t use git much, and I’m far too lazy to consult the docco so to find a command …
: 20 House Points to whoever it was at Record Collector magazine who came up with the headline for …
: #TodayILearned that in YouTube, you can “press the comma key to go back one frame and the …
: The NHS is wonderful ‘Waddle like a penguin’: NHS shows how to walk safely in icy conditions
: I worked at Sony at the time that HD telly was coming in, and I thought that a good cheese-y …
: I did a one page ‘‘What is Powershell?’ slide I’m happy enough with it, but …
: #TodayILearned that if you type a cryptic crossword clue into a search engine, you seem to typically …
: I don’t use the ‘Close Others’ option enough in VS Code….and I end up with …
: I really, relly want to stick with Poch….but could Jose be a latter day Dick Whittington, …
: A year ago yesterday we went up to Stamford Bridge for the first Chelsea match since the death of …
: The Telegraph breaks down its latest poll by constituency I don’t think it’s to be taken …
: Dickens on the lamentable necessity of ghost stories I read this in Pickwick Papers. He’s describing pubs in The Borough. Great, rambling queer …
: I very much like the phrase ‘the depths of winter’
: #TodayILearned that Windows-. (i.e. the windows key and the full stop together) bring up all the …
: I’m hoping this means Chelsea aren’t being charged…but I’m not optimistic …
: Chelsea v Fulham - thoughts Thoughts on today’s game Willian is still a good player ….but I’m glad he …
: I enjoyed Wonka last night. If Hugh Grant doesnt get an Oscar then there’s no point in Oscars
: #TodayILearned that the ‘Naga’ in Naga Munchetty means ‘snake’ - she says …
: There is supposed to be a shortage of dart boards, after Luke Littler’s progress to the Darts …
: Out running tonight. It was still Christmas-y in Salisbury Cathedral Close, which was lovely, but …
: Doing a sketch note about processing of joiners, movers and leavers (and inactives).
: Marvellous news TFL considering installing fake steering wheels at front of DLR trains
: #TodayILearned that to remove the two different timestamps I tend to use you can do this in …
: After the Flood I very much agree with the Grauniad After the Flood is about how big global changes play out in …
: Hello, world (again) After running a blog of some description on Bloglines, then Blogspot, then …
: Jakub Jares - Common Mistakes in Pester Tests Probably best to do Right Click, then Open in New Tab to make this legible
: one-liner to create an excel changlog from git commit messages git log --pretty=format:%ad,%h,%an,%s $filename | convertfrom-csv -Header Date,HashThingy, Who, …
: Javascript bookmarklet to create markdown-style link This bookmarklet creates a markdown-style link for the current webpage javascript:function …
: [IO.Directory]::EnumerateFiles vs. Get-ChildItem On my laptop, with a fairly random set of files, I found that [http://IO.Directory]::EnumerateFiles …
: My $Myvimrc set nocompatible source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim behave mswin set …
: podcasts I listen to - some episodes I’ve split the list into three posts, depending on whether I listen religiously to every …
: podcasts I listen to - some episodes I’ve split the list into three posts, depending on whether I listen religiously to every …
: Hugo error: execute of template failed: template: _default/list.html:8:23: executing 'main' at <.Pages.Date.Reverse>: can't evaluate field Date in type page.Pages Got this: Building sites - WARN 2020/02/18 18:08:30 .File.Dir on zero object. Wrap it in if or with: …
: Script to Setup Markdown Pages for All the Sketchnotes tbc
: other Other Anything that isn’t powershell, sqlserver or other stuff I’ve got as a category
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: Agarwal, Sunil - Clustered columnstore index
: Bailey, James - Msrc, Packer, Powershell and Terraform
: Banerjee - Amit -and - Agarwal - Sourabh - Sql - Azure
: Barthel, Esther - Azure Automation
: Bergmeister, Christoph - PSScriptAnalyzer
: Berry, Glenn - Dr DMV part 3
: Bertrand - Aaron -50 - Things - Developers - Should - Know -higher -res
: Boulton, Nigel - Multi-threading in Powershell
: Bourgon, Michael - Tracking changes - real time in your environment
: Brasser, Jaap - Powershell, a one-trick unicorn
: Brezis, Noam - SQL the bug talk
: Cain, Robert, Ball, Bradley and Strate, Jason - Powershell and SQL
: Chapman, tim - Troubleshooting like an Ms Engineer
: Colas, Gael - Configuration management
: Colas, Gael - Leverage Test Kitchen Develop Dsc
: Cucen, Ebru - Powershell Module Lifecycle
: Cucen, Ebru - Prompts And Customizations
: Davis, Robert L - Licensing SQL on VMs
: Davis, Tony - Uncovering Sqlserver query problems with Executio
: Ehrenmueller-Jensen, Markus - Simple rules for clear visualizations
: Emmett, Ben - Stop your application killing database performanc
: Fernandez, Argenis - Securing sql
: Fritchey, Grant - 3 ways to identify long running queries
: Fritchey, Grant - A partly cloudy future
: Fritchey, Grant - AG Monitoring0002
: Gardner, Chris - Module design
: Glantser, Guy - From Xml to Json
: Gossa, Mark - You can do anything with Powershell but should you
: Hicks, Jeff And Siddaway, Richard And Gavin, Lawrence - Whats New In Powershell V5
: Higgins, Michael - Kemp Products Cloud Deployment Automation
: Hirt, Allan - Availability Groups and Failover Instances
: Hirt, Allan - The SQL Availability story on Linux
: Hofman, Katja - AI and the world of Minecraft
: Howlett, Martin - Powershell And Restful Apis
: Inge-Larsen, Tom - Markdown, PlatyPs, mkdocs
: Jares, Jakub - Legacy scrips and pester
: Jelen, Bill - Mr Excels Favorite Tips and Tricks
: Jones, Steve - A practical approach to version control for sql
: Jones, Steve, Galbraith, Simon and Smith, Alexander - Let Your
: Kamman, Andre - Deploy And Manage Ola Hallengrens Scripts With Powershell
: Kehayias, Jonathan and Stellato, Erin - Extended Events
: Kellenberger, Kathi - Sqlserver data compression
: Klee, David - SQL-Virtualization-499
: Koesmarno, Julie - Powerview
: Kogan, Dan - Data Warehousing with SQL and hAdoop
: Kokkinos, Constantine and LeMaire Chrissy - Powershell loves Sqlserver
: Komo, Darnadi - Sql 2014 Hybrid cloud
: Korotkevitch, Dmitri - Sql Internals
: Krebs, Daniel - Chef Habitat and Powershell
: Krebs, Daniel - Chocolatey and powershell
: Krebs, Daniel - Recap of Powershell and Devops Summit
: Krebs, Daniel - VS Code and Powershell
: Leach, Brandon - Log Shipping
: Learning Tree - Technical Writing Introduction0020(1)
: Leech, Guy - Trouble-shooting windows with Powershell
: Lehrer, Christian - Powershell remoting
: Lemaire, Chrissy - Simplifying Sqlserver Migrations With Powershell
: LeMaire, Chrissy - Sql Migrations with Posh
: Lemaire, Chrissy And Walz, Jon And Rottenberg, Hal - Powerscripting Podcast Episode312
: Little, Kendra - Why did my clever index change backfire
: Lopez, Pedro - SQL-2014-Changes-to-Query-Plans
: Martin, John - Get sql server right first time
: Martin, John - SQL Server Setup First Time
: Martin, Mike - Azure and DSC
: Martin, Mike - Getting Your Devops Operating
: Mauri, Davide - Agile data warehouse
: May, Jimmy - Columnstore indexes 2014
: Medd, Jonathan - Going further with github
: Medd, Jonathan - Google Cloud Powershell 101
: Medd, Jonathan - Powershell And Different Types Of Data
: Messina, Chris - Augmenting Conversations
: Mitchell, Allan - Realtime analytics
: Murawski, Steven - Desired State Configuration
: Nocentino, Anthony - Linux fundamentals for the sql admin
: Ozar, Brent - How to think like the Sql Server Engine
: Ozar, Brent - who needs a DBA
: Ozar, Brent and Darling, Erik - Last Seasons Performance Tuning Techniques
: Penny, Matt - Confluence Shortcuts
: Plesner-Jacobsen, Martin and Shelemin, Alexander - Veeam and sql deep-dive
: Plevsner, Martin and Shelemin Alexander - Veeam and SQL - Always On
: Porteous, Craig - PowerBI and powershell
: Porteous, Craig and Broadwith, Paul - Powershell Standards Agency
: Pot'Vin, Kellyn - DevOps and the Agile DBA
: Potvin-Gorman, Kellyn - Devops and the agile dba
: Prajdic, Mladen - Optimizing database access and diving into dot Net
: Presley, Chris, Weiss, Richard and Chaves, Warner - Running Sql Server on Linux
: Procida, Daniele - What Nobody Tells You About Documentation
: Purnell, Craig - the professional networking toolbox
: Ricken, Uwe - Analyzing SQLServer Wait Stats
: Robinson, Jay - A guided tour of the sqlclient namespace
: Russo, Marco - Create a PowerBI Solution in one day
: Scruggs, Richard - Getting Started with Sql Server Compliance Auditing
: Sewell, Rob - Making Powershell useful for your team
: Shaw, Chris and Morehouse, John - SQL 2014 migration
: Shaw, Gail - Statistics, Heuristics and Raw Estimations
: Siddaway, Richard - 2018 Keynote
: Sirosh, Joseph - Augmented Decisions
: Sketchnote_visual_vocabulary
: Skinner, Simon - Sql and System Center
: Snover, Jeffrey - Desired State Configuration Day Two
: Snover, Jeffrey - MVA DSC Day 1
: Stad, Sander - Automate Glenn Berrys Dmv Script With Powershell
: Stirrup, Jen - Data democratization
: Stuewe, Mickey - The Silent Killers Lurking in Your Schema0013
: Stuewe, Mickey - Tsql-habits
: Trinidad, Max - The Essential Powershell On Error Trapping
: Tripp, Kimberly - Execution and Plan Cache
: Turkeslan, Selzin - Migration to SQL Azure
: Tuson, Toni-anne, MacLellan, Stuart, Stirrup, Jen - Implementing hybrid acrchitectures
: van Bobaeys, Damien - powershell and rundeck
: Van Der Leek, Rob And Obrenovic, Zeljko - Building Maintainable Software For Sustainable Business Growth
: Van Robaeys, Damien - Powershell with Rundeck
: Vanover, Rick - Advanced VM Backup and Recovery - Veeam
: Vanover, Rick - Veeam and SQL - Backup and Recovery
: Verloy, Filip - Automate the boring out of backup - Rubrik
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: Pester script parameter passing not working Problem I was trying to parameterize a Pester script. The script looked like this: param ( …
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: Get day of week number in cmd (dos) This is a slight tweak to code at: …
: Get day of week number in cmd (dos) This is a slight tweak to code at: …
: What I learned about powershell in 2016, according to my twitter archive Sep 27, 2016 #TodayILearned you have to: export-modulemember -alias * -function * to define aliases …
: pester: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Actual' because it is an empty string. I’m just getting started with Pester and I got this error Cannot bind argument to parameter …
: pester: Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Actual' because it is an empty string. I’m just getting started with Pester and I got this error Cannot bind argument to parameter …
: extracting post details from wordpress xml dump with powershell Get the xml into a variable [xml]$xmla = get-content …
: powershell equivalent of linux 'ps -aux | sort -k3n' I’m not entirely sure how I managed to not find out about …
: powershell equivalent of linux 'ps -aux | sort -k3n' I’m not entirely sure how I managed to not find out about …
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: how to get a list of images uploaded to wordpress.com website Go to your media library and switch to the ‘List View’ Then under ‘Screen …
: how to get a list of images uploaded to wordpress.com website Go to your media library and switch to the ‘List View’ Then under ‘Screen …
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: Powershell function to get Sqlserver errorlog recent lines I’ve started knocking up a function to return the last few lines of a sqlserver errorlog. This …
: Markdown support in Notepad is fab….it would be fab-ber if it supported the backtick code …
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: how to extract tweets about... This was the Powershell code I used to create the all the podcasts I’ve ever tweeted about …
: show sql errorlog messages since a specified date This almost speaks for itself…but it might be worth noting that: I’m only …
: system databases not included in powershell sqlserver provider 'databases' folder I hadn’t noticed this before. If you do a dir listing of the databases for an instance within …
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: sql server 2005 install hangs at 'Removing Backup Files' I’m installing sqlserver 2005, and it seemed to hang towards the end of the installation. The …
: sql server 2005 install hangs at 'Removing Backup Files' I’m installing sqlserver 2005, and it seemed to hang towards the end of the installation. The …
: Problem: php commenting out not working in wordpress This was a bit of a ‘Duh!’ moment. I use the following to ‘comment out’ …
: How to do a sql server equivalent of Oracle 'set feedback on' I haven’t been able to find a T-sql equivalent of the Oracle ‘set feedback on’, …
: How to generate the t-sql to disable all your triggers This seems to work: SELECT 'disable trigger ' + USER_NAME(trig.schema_id) + '.' + trig.name + ' on ' …
: How to generate the t-sql to disable all your triggers This seems to work: SELECT 'disable trigger ' + USER_NAME(trig.schema_id) + '.' + trig.name + ' on ' …
: How to use t-sql to show SSRS permissions I’m not great at T-sql, and I know that cursors are unfashionable in Microsoft world, but this …
: Problem: ssrs error: 'System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater' A quick post on a quick fix. I installed Sql Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 on the report server, …
: Problem: ssrs error: 'System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater' A quick post on a quick fix. I installed Sql Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 on the report server, …
: Powershell pattern matching to check if a string is hex I’ve been playing with pattern matching in Powershell. I was trying to use …
: notes about wordpress version of salisburyandstonehenge.net This page is a bit of documentation for how I do stuff on the multifarious websites that I’ve …
: Problem: SSIS: 'Hresult: 0x800703E6 Description: Invalid access to memory location' Problem came up trying to connect to a remote Oracle source: Started: 12:03:03 Error: 2013-10-09 …
: 24Hop Notes Clustering Conundrum - Allan Hirt Running some HA classes in Europe. Loose definition - networked …
: Problem: 'Access is denied. [0x80070005]' when changing sql server agent login Trying to change the sql server agent to run as a non-admin user, I couldn’t get Sql Server …
: Problem: 'Access is denied. [0x80070005]' when changing sql server agent login Trying to change the sql server agent to run as a non-admin user, I couldn’t get Sql Server …
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: How to report mp3 tags in Powershell I’m slowly getting to grips with Powershell. # …
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: Mucking about with analytic functions I’ve never really used the analytic functions in anger, so consequently I don’t really …
: ORA-01552: cannot use system rollback segment..... Another post that’s unlikely to be all that useful….but you never know. As per a couple …
: Convert an html table to excel spreadsheet A quick and dirty post for a quick and dirty technique that I used to get the Oracle CPU Database …
: Convert an html table to excel spreadsheet A quick and dirty post for a quick and dirty technique that I used to get the Oracle CPU Database …
: opatch error: Perl lib version (v5.8.3) doesnt match executable version (v5.6.1) at x:/oracle... Got the following error: C:\oracle\ora92\OPatch>perl opatch.pl version Perl lib version (v5.8.3) …
: instType uknown Started getting this error from a batch job which was using oradim to do a shutdown. instType …
: instType uknown Started getting this error from a batch job which was using oradim to do a shutdown. instType …
: Determining which CPUs have been applied The question of how to determine which CPUs have been applied to a database came up at a couple of …
: Determining which CPUs have been applied The question of how to determine which CPUs have been applied to a database came up at a couple of …
: Problem: TNS-03505: Failed to resolve name We’re in the process of migrating from Oracle Names to LDAP, and found the following fairly …
: Oracle options - update from Niall Subsequent to the previous post I got a note from Niall, saying that at least in 10g you can query …
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: DOS equivalent to unix find -name -print I’m planning to type up a couple of DOS and Windows equivalents of some of my most used unix …
: DOS equivalent to unix find -name -print I’m planning to type up a couple of DOS and Windows equivalents of some of my most used unix …
: Bookmarking Oracle Metalink in IE or Firefox This may well be obvious, but…. If you try and save the link to a Metalink note whilst you …
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: DOS script to output contents of latest file matching a given spec Some of our batch jobs write log information to standard output. Others create dated log files. Our …
: DOS script to output contents of latest file matching a given spec Some of our batch jobs write log information to standard output. Others create dated log files. Our …
: Moving to netbackup - its case sensitive.... We’re currently migrating our backups from TSM to netbackup. I know TSM quite well, but …
: Missed email alerts because 'Sent' date missing I scripted our backup jobs to send an email to me if there’s a problem. This works well …
: Missed email alerts because 'Sent' date missing I scripted our backup jobs to send an email to me if there’s a problem. This works well …
: Changing the DOS prompt I’m mucking about with VSS from the command line. To do this you need to be in the VSS …
: Changing the DOS prompt I’m mucking about with VSS from the command line. To do this you need to be in the VSS …
: How to create a spool file in the format <specified prefix>_databasename.lst This is relatively handy, particularly when running the same thing against multiple databases. …
: How to use sqlplus substitution variables I didn’t know you could do this. Its quite handy! SQL> column name new_value dbname SQL> …
: Query to compare parameter settings between databases Create a link to the remote database then supply the name of the link as &1 set pagesize 1000 …
: SQLserver 2005 New Features Here is some stuff I learnt yesterday evening’s SQL Server 2005 New Features session at …
: SQLserver 2005 New Features Here is some stuff I learnt yesterday evening’s SQL Server 2005 New Features session at …
: Problem: opatch fails with 'The patch directory area must be a number' opatch failed with the above error. Again its really a problem with the wetware (i.e. me), but worth …
: Problem: opatch fails with 'The patch directory area must be a number' opatch failed with the above error. Again its really a problem with the wetware (i.e. me), but worth …
: ORA-02074: 'cannot analyze table' calling a package from perl I got this error running an analyze from within a package called by perl: …
: Re-naming the listener - check for dependencies This is a fairly foolish pitfall that I stumbled into last week. One of the recommendations from our …
: opatch - make sure there's no space on the end of TRUE I’ve been having problems with opatch. todo - fix the link Setting ACTIVE_STATE_PERL=TRUE …
: How to record and use keyboard macros in gvim Keyboard macros in gvim are much easier than using the map command. Basically you do: qx - to start …
: Raptor, 10G and Oracle Names So, Raptor seems to need 10G client. I knew there was not going to be a 10G version of Names, as it …
: Raptor, 10G and Oracle Names So, Raptor seems to need 10G client. I knew there was not going to be a 10G version of Names, as it …
: ORA-29260 because of a problem with the mail server? I think this is because we had a problem with our corporate mail server, because: a) I have a vague …
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: Problem: opatch doesn't appear to be doing anything - set ACTIVE_STATE_PERL=TRUE I always used to find it a nuisance that applying the lower level Oracle patches was such a manual …
: Disabling/Enabling wsh Here are instructions for disabling wsh. This is particularly used by DBAs to run RDA (Remote …
: Disabling/Enabling wsh Here are instructions for disabling wsh. This is particularly used by DBAs to run RDA (Remote …
: ORA-29850: invalid option for creation of domain indexes I got this error trying to specify the tablespace for my text indexes. I was moving them from a …
: ORA-29850: invalid option for creation of domain indexes I got this error trying to specify the tablespace for my text indexes. I was moving them from a …
: PL/SQL doesnt recognize privileges granted to roles My procedure has a create database link in it: v_exe := 'create database link temp_security_monitor …
: Loss of SQL connectivity - a problem with the wetware The problem I lost SQL connectivity to all databases between about 11.29 and 12.06 today (21st …
: Not got ODBC administrator on the start menu But on my PC its at: C:\WINNT\system32\ODBCAD32.exe On one of the users XP boxes it was …
: Oracle Text - some counter intuitive behavior I had a query from a user about Text not retrieving the expected data for a given bit of Text The …
: SQLServer: 'Cannot generate SSPI context' error message Started getting the error above this morning. The SQL server involved supports our Alteris …
: Synonym resolution oddity Well, it seems odd to me anyway…. If you set up a synonym pointing across a database …
: Synonym resolution oddity Well, it seems odd to me anyway…. If you set up a synonym pointing across a database …
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: BJS Jobs going into 'Awaiting Execution' state BJS is the scheduling tool we use on our Windows servers. Its produced by Camellia Software: …
: JDBC fails to connect to 9i Oracle In the course of trying to sort out the problem outlined in the previous post, I hit a problem …
: JDBC fails to connect to 9i Oracle In the course of trying to sort out the problem outlined in the previous post, I hit a problem …
: JDBC: Unparseable date This is a problem we had a month or so back. I’m going to cut and paste from my notes at the …
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