There was a chap in the radio the other day who had bought a bottle of beer from each of the 48 nations in the World Cup.
As each team gets eliminated he’s going to drink that country’s beer.
It’s a nice idea. I wonder whether that last bottle of beer, of the side that never gets eliminated (England, obviously), will ever be drunk, or will it become a family heirloom, passed down and treasured through the generations.
It’s coming home. Possibly. ⚽
It’s great that the referee’s signal for “hydration break” is the same as the mime for “do you want another beer?” ⚽
I was pleased to hear the first “and rightly so” from Alan Shearer in this World Cup.And rightly so. ⚽
My very favourite comedy ever is a radio comedy set in a corner shop near Glasgow, called Fags, Mags and Bags.
I just listened to an episode in which they mention Bensons for Beds, Salisbury.
I might have to go and get my picture taken in front of it.
I like to think I understand a bit about The Troubles and All That, but often something takes me aback.
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill says that his dad was one of two barbers in their village…but some Protestants got their haircut by his dad, who was Catholic, too.
The fact that this is worth mentioning, 60-odd years later, makes me realise that although I might know some stuff, I’ll never properly understand.
Went to the pictures last night. I enjoyed Batman Begins, but I couldn’t help thinking of how odd it now seems for a billionaire to be the good guy
Watched: Batman Begins 🍿
I’m enjoying ‘Play Nice’. Sex and the City meets the Haunting of Hill House?
Currently reading: Play Nice by Rachel Harrison 📚
I’m trying, and on the whole failing, to do stuff with ansible.windows.win_dsc:
To get the list of ‘parameters’ for the particular DSC resource you’re mucking about with you can do this:
Get-DscResource sqlrs | select -expand properties
Name PropertyType IsMandatory Values
---- ------------ ----------- ------
DatabaseInstanceName [string] True {}
DatabaseServerName [string] True {}
InstanceName [string] True {}
DependsOn [string[]] False {}
Encrypt [string] False {Mandatory, Optional, Strict}
PsDscRunAsCredential [PSCredential] False {}
ReportServerReservedUrl [string[]] False {}
ReportServerVirtualDirectory [string] False {}
ReportsReservedUrl [string[]] False {}
ReportsVirtualDirectory [string] False {}
RestartTimeout [UInt32] False {}
SuppressRestart [bool] False {}
UseSsl [bool] False {}
I’m walking the Clarendon Way from Winchester to Salisbury
I’m collecting donations for Farleigh Hospice, who helped look after my dad at the end of his life. Link is below, in case anyone in Fedi-land fancies chipping in
This chap, who played for Solent Kestrels in #Southampton, England, is as I understand it guaranteed an NBA Championship ring.
He played for both the Spurs and the Knicks this season
The really big names might be very familiar indeed – Elton John, Paul McCartney, Queen, the Who, the Rolling Stones, ELO – but the terms in which they’re discussed are frequently not. “Is Your Fave Rave Rock Star Old Enough to Be Your Father?” screams an [1976] NME cover: inside there’s a spread of pictures featuring most of the above, beneath the damning headline “All the People On This Page Will Be 30 Or Over During The Next Year – How Will They Live With It?”
‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded - The Guardian
How to create a shortcut that always runs something, in this case MS Terminal, as admin
Right-click somewhere on the desktop and do Create Shortcut, then stick in wt.exe
Give it a name
That creates the shortcut. Next right-click it and do ‘Properties’
Click ‘Advanced’
Tick the box to ‘Run as administrator’
“Introducing the panel, Cadwalladr said: “I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”
At the end of the event, Wynn-Williams received a standing ovation from the audience, during which she was moved to tears.”
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
“When I get to heaven, I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.”
Winston Churchill the Painter, Wallace Collection, London, to Nov 29
A sad comment in the paper. Meera Syal on the death of her parents
“I felt doubly orphaned because I had lost my living link with India”
Caption on the big photo on the front page of today’s Times.
Television critic Kevin McCloud, the Grand Designs presenter, has said he finds reality TV “slightly exploitative”.
If the King, or the Prime Minister, or Tommy Tuchel had said reality TV was “extremely exploitative” and should be abolished immediately, then that would seem to me to be a front page thing.
Kevin McCloud saying it’s slightly so….I’m not sure
Probably why I’m a computer monkey and not a journalist
In the paper today
[Agatha] Christie once said she got the ideas for her novels while eating apples in the bath
Not something I’ve ever done
First time this year I’ve had to oil up to take the dog out.
This is party meteorological, and partly just me being lazy
#WearSunscreen
I use what I know as ‘the Windows Run Box’ quite a bit - the command prompt that pops up when you do Windows Key and R together.
It keeps a history, which is great until you make a mistake. I tried editing out such a mistake in the Registry. The history is in:
HKEY_USERS\user id, or possibly a user sid\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU
The easiest way to find the key is to search for whatever mistake it was that you made e.g. if you typed ggvim by mistake, then search for that.
I did this on 28th May….I’ll delete this post if I subsequently find that my laptop is mucked up beyond all recognition :)
