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:
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I had to run the installer twice before it worked
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gpodder picked up all my subscriptions from gpodder.net, which was handy, because I’d forgotten to export the opml
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I had to log out and back in again to get gpodder to save to the folder I specified
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Spotify seems identical. I use custom order, which I wasn’t expecting to be there in the Linux version….I’m wondering whether it’s actually the windows version running under wine
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it’s a shame PSClock won’t run
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I installed the Mate desktop…I very much prefer that to the default Ubuntu one
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I haven’t got gvim set up yet
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or VS Code
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or any powershell stuff beyond installing it
……but it’s all good
I couldn’t really see the point of playing so many long, aerial balls against a team so particularly big and so particularly physical as Serbia…..but a win’s a win by any other name, I suppose ⚽
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 Prime Minister (I hope)
The last thing the next prime minister should do is to read a book about political history. He’ll draw all the wrong lessons - they always do - then spend the next five years worrying about how he’ll be remembered. Since one of the most important political assets is a sense of humour, he’d be much better off with PG Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters, a valuable reminder that behind the stern façade of even the most formidable politician, there lurks the potential proprietor of a lingerie shop.
Dominic Sandbrook historian and columnist
I got an alert from the BBC just now.
It alerted me to the fact that I can now discover who Chesney Hawkes, Nina Nesbitt and Aitch think will win Euro 2024
I wonder what Lord Reith would have made of it?
Euro 2024 winners? Chesney Hawkes, Nina Nesbitt and Aitch have their say - www.bbc.com/sport/foo…
Words I like - The Limerick Rake
“Now there’s some say I’m foolish, there’s some say I’m wise, Though being fond of the women I think is no crime. Sure the son of King David, he had ten thousand wives, And his wisdom was highly regarded.”
Limerick Rake by Ronnie Drew - songwhip.com/ronnie-dr…
Very much enjoyed reading, and simultaneously listening to, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
35 minutes well spent
Text at : poets.org/poem/rime…
And on Spotify at : open.spotify.com/show/5TBy…
Finished reading: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 📚
I often find myself thinking, if not saying out loud, “He’s doing his best, but then so was Liz Truss”
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
![ctrl+shift+[ to fold and ctrl+shift+] to unfold](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/139254/2024/a00bd3fda7.jpg)
Not the nicest of thoughts
Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study - www.theguardian.com/environme…
Would’ve liked to have been at Stamford Bridge for SoccerAid again - it was a good afternoon out last time
I’m compiling a mental list of results to look up on July 5th
Basildon and Billericay is one of them
This was my May, in doodles
Congratulations, USA! 🏏
On days of remembrance, as well as gratitude for the sacrifices, I think of the people I knew who fought in the war, and to some extent my thoughts aren’t all about what they did at that time.
I just miss them.
This is slightly weird
I am a politics geek.
I did politics at university, i listen to various politics podcasts, and i rarely miss Peston or Question Time
I find politics fascinating, vital and often entertaining
But i always get a bit bored with it during election campaigns
