I didn’t realise you could pile up cimsessions like this
Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_NetworkConnection -cimsession $(new-cimsession -computername myserver,yourserver,hisserver,herserver)
The automated loading of my twitter archive into micro.blog didn’t quite work, so I’m loading it in with powershell and manually adding pics and editing
That guy that wrote all those tweets is a lot like me….but I don’t know if we’d get on
Back in the ’90s, before kids, and moving back to the Shire etc, we used to go to a thing called Club Montepulciano. They used to play groovy but ancient music by the likes of Andy Williams, Perez Prado, and Herb Alpert
Went to an ’80s thing yesterday and realized that that music is now older than the sounds at Club M were at the time
Feeling really old now….. nostalgia is indeed not what it used to be.
I had a fantasy that Mr Trump had orchestrated an uprising in Moscow and the arrest of Putin in Alaska.
I don’t think it’s happening.
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
These are the Crucial Tracks for the last few days…..it’s a fairly mainstream set of songs, but none the worse for that !
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.”
I like this quote. It’s from Tony Schwartz, who ghost wrote The Art of the Deal. He regrets that now.
The Guardian is asking the really big question today
I’m #TeamLampsOn, obviously
Vimrc lines to get my ongoing-notes-type file to autosave
autocmd BufWriteCmd HighlightsNow.md setlocal autowrite
autocmd InsertLeave,TextChanged * if expand('%:t') ==# 'HighlightsNow.md' | silent! write | endif
I’m too lazy to go to the Edinburgh Festival, but I always enjoy the collection of one-liners. It’s almost like being there.
“These people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for piano playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive,’ wrote the German poet Heinrich Heine after touring Britain in 1840. ‘Nothing on Earth is more terrible than English music, save English painting.’ At least he had the courtesy not to mention English cooking”
Currently reading: The Great British Dream Factory by Dominic Sandbrook 📚
Worked out how list my favourite Crucial Tracks artists
get-content C:\Users\matty\Downloads\crucial-tracks-export-2025-08-11.json | convertfrom-json | select -expand items | select -expand _song_details | group-object artist | sort-object -property count -descending | select count,name
Count Name
----- ----
6 Elvis Presley
4 The Pogues
4 Bethany Eve
3 Johnny Cash
3 Toots & The Maytals
2 The Cramps
2 Joey Ramone
2 Bob Marley & The Wailers
2 Christy Moore
2 The Wolfe Tones
2 ABBA
1 Ritchie Valens
1 The BeerMats
1 The Beatles
1 Television Personalities
1 Ramones
I’ve been working with the Bourn shell, the Korn Shell, the Born Again Shell, or Powershell since the early 1990s….and I just found this mistake in a script I wrote last week (you have to use ‘-eq’ for equality comparisons).
if ($ScriptDebugPreference = 'Continue') {
write-host $Message
}
Will I ever learn? I fear the answer is ‘no’
“Black Sabbath’s drummer, Bill Ward, told an interviewer that he used to lie awake at night listening to the rhythmical pounding of the machines in a nearby factory and drumming with his fingers on the headboard.”
Currently reading: The Great British Dream Factory by Dominic Sandbrook 📚
Although rock and pop have been dominated by people born during and after the Second World War, many of the writers who inhabit our collective imagination were much older. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859, Beatrix Potter in 1866, Agatha Christie in 1890, J. R. R. Tolkien in 1892, Enid Blyton in 1897, Ian Fleming in 1908 and Roald Dahl in 1916. As a result, much of our imaginative life is still rooted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:
Currently reading: The Great British Dream Factory by Dominic Sandbrook 📚
I’ve got The Hundred on the telly, and I can’t help thinking of Barney Ronay’s bit in the paper, and Bop-It
Stokes made a good point about the selflessness of the remaining England seamers, putting their bodies on the line to fill the breach left by Woakes. He talked about Siraj with genuine admiration, which will, you feel, mean a lot to the man himself. He said he would now be “knocking about” the Hundred, which is a bit like Odin announcing at the end of the Asgard‑Jotunheim War that he fancies a game of Bop-It now.
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
I’d like to end on a fun note: the Beatles or the Stones?
The Beatles, without a question. If they were two different restaurants, the Beatles are serving a huge eclectic variety of dishes, many things you’ve never eaten before. The Stones are really serving one thing they do very, very well, but they’re not the first ones to do it. The Beatles’s cultural imprint is so much deeper.
Dominic Sandbrook, being interviewed by Lauren Prastien
On “The Great British Dream Factory”: An Interview With Dominic Sandbrook
Arise, Sir Chris Woakes.
Surely?
🏏
CHRIS WOAKES WALKS OUT WITH HIS BAT IN ONE ARM AND HIS OTHER ARM IN A SLING.
The crowd stands to applaud this bravery.
Re-booting my laptop has got my HD webcam working again. Sadly this has coincided with me growing a horrible zit on the side of my nose
One of the things that I love about England, and the English climate, is that, just as you realise you’re past the height of summer, football starts up again ⚽
Retirement projects #1
Rewrite the words of Ian Dury’s Reasons to be Cheerful Part Three with my favourite sources of cheer
I’ve never been able to imagine Ian Dury singing along with Smokey. His voice seems too deep