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Fragments of @ntstourhead pic.twitter.com/s6PfdMq9Ni
SophiaDelPizzo Happy look at the oven clock and panic day
@benjohnbarnes Yup. Don’t worry, it’s harmless.
@RodneyMarshall1 Literally just rewatched this. Astounding show.
@dangusset Nice. I needed another guess.
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adweak BREAKING: Client Who Doesn’t Have Specific Budget In Mind Absolutely Has Budget In Mind After Hearing Agency’s Budget In Mind
twisteddoodles Finishing a house renovation in October pic.twitter.com/gwA9ojUHhx
@WeirdBristol Your next one should be the astounding GP surgery around the back!
@olanetsoft Sinclair BASIC, then BBC BASIC, bit of 6502 assembly, then C, I think. Might’ve been some LOGO in there somewhere.
Quick turnaround.
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@chubbybannister Nice.
Boom.
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@CubicleApril Sadly my iMac can’t even upgrade to Ventura. Might look into getting a more recent one secondhand if Apple really aren’t going to bring out a new 27” replacement…
@chubbybannister Agreed
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@adamgasson @madzadev It’s the fiddling with the little azimuth angle screw on the tapehead to get that one bloody game to load that I remember most from tape drives.
@adamgasson @madzadev 128 times the memory of mine! Luxury..#zx8181
@deandrawrites_ When they live in draughty houses built in 1763 they do 😂
@littlebime I KNEW it. pic.twitter.com/gkPxYOV6C3
Tinkering. pic.twitter.com/nQfPbkKagc
@4r7hr I did *not* get it in two.
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@4r7hr Cover me; I’m going in.
@fanofwalt @TansuYegen To this day I am disappointed that Mark Knopfler doesn’t actually look like that, because he definitely *sounds* like he should.
@james_blowers__ @BobRushy I wondered that. Was she wearing the parachute? Can’t remember (and of course it probably wouldn’t have been terribly useful in a lift shaft…)
@andrew_techfolk …I probably wouldn’t have thought of just asking the bathroom people. I wonder if that’s a prevalent thing and maybe part of the reason bathroom fitters don’t think about insulation as much as they should.
@andrew_techfolk Also a very obvious condensation and cold issue in a lot of UK homes that are like that. If I were re-doing a bathroom with those issues I’d probably have thought to ask a builder to add insulation before calling the bathroom people, but for some reason…
KYPBristol Work on the iconic Sheldon Bush shot tower nears completion in 1968. It was built to replace the historic Georgian shot tower in Redcliffe, designed to allow molten lead to fall by gravity into a water pool at the base, forming perfect shotgun pellets.
maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/YZI2ymOTV5
@KYPBristol 2004 vs 2022 pic.twitter.com/qxDgg47BiW
@andrew_techfolk Insulation isn’t something that’s really associated in my mind with bathroom fitting. Maybe it’s a mental demarkation thing? Internals == fitters, insulation == builders?
The oncoming storm. pic.twitter.com/vCjlox7oCL
@SwanRiverPress Gorgeous.
@Janeenie @stillawake @BristolWater PS: found my Vine (which dates it!) of the last time that one burst..vine.co/v/Ma0O1OQXhtEF7
@Janeenie @stillawake @BristolWater It really was pouring out, though, wasn’t it? I heard it before I got to the end of Frayne Road.
MulberryCoates Did you know, it’s 27 years to the day that the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets? They didn’t mean to. It’s just that Gavin Ewart was 79, and they bought him a lunch that involved enough booze to fell an ox pic.twitter.com/N9AWxMwakz
stephenRB4 What’s the prettiest book you own? 📚
@chubbybannister Agreed.
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@beardedjourno Saw someone this morning boarding down from the roof level of the Galleries’ car park. Maybe they got confused!
@tothemax2050 For the comfort of an old friend, known and familiar, or for the adventure of finding yet more depth and understanding in something that’s worthy of getting to know all over again.
@KWargamer Fab, ta!
Linux geeks, I run a little web server and I’m interested in measuring its resource usage (memory, CPU, maybe more detailed stuff to do with Apache/PHP) over some months while I try a few different things to reduce load. Any tips/tools? Ta.
“The Prisoner” theme music ends. David Cameron gets out of bed, stretches, pulls back the curtain to his travellers’ hut window and stands frozen, aghast. There he is, back at Number 10, looking out at Downing Street.
A lectern stands waiting. twitter.com/DigitalJonatha…
@corylus @chubbybannister @DigitalJonathan Let’s get Cameron back, just because he bloody deserves it.
@Bristolvor @archidave @chubbybannister I go through phases. Currently HP is for virtually everything, but it’s still tomato for chips.
@iamtheshunt1 @ubereuger A professional investor recently told me that his top two pieces of advice were 1) never try to be clever and 2) try not to look.
Time to dust off some of my Android apps and do a bit of modernisation. pic.twitter.com/o2FnrlnEt4
@bexxi Someone annoyed you enough for you to run them through an industrial macerator?
Inspired guesswork.
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Rewatching Edge of Darkness. Dear God, Joe Don Baker really makes Jedburgh shine.
shaetlan_rose “Shetland cut off from U.K. mainland after damage to undersea telecom cables”
Twitter conspiracy theorists: IS THIS RUSSIA?!?!
Shetlanders: pic.twitter.com/wdmGUcHjXy
@dangusset Bit tough.
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chordbug “MySQL is named after its creator’s daughter, My” sounds a little bit like a surreal joke but it’s true
That feeling of wanting to check in with the news in case you miss an entire Prime Minister.
@CubicleApril @ticianobenetti I also remember learning about octal notation for C constants the hard way after I added leading zeroes in my code to make a column of numbers line up prettily, at which point the compiler told me that the number 09 didn’t exist and baffled me for an hour 😂
@CubicleApril @ticianobenetti Easily done, especially with a weird one like vertical tab. I have some of them burned into my brain from growing up programming in the eighties, but only a handful.
@ticianobenetti @CubicleApril 13 (0x0d) = line feed. 10 (0x0a) = carriage return. 11 (0x0b) = vertical tab. Guessing the original was confusing octal and hex? But yes, vertical tab, whole different character, still works here and there. Like 0x07, BEL, will still get you a beep in places…
janemerrick23 When a lettuce outlasts a Prime Minister, we have truly reached the endive days
@ememess Hey, they told me that was *my* turn! Are you sure you’re not down for Chancellor?
bencsmoke flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it
@ctkat1 @LtlMissFeminist @ed___wins @jestom I can’t quite believe how happy I was made by this clarification.
mrJamesGraham A Prime Minister may fall today. Soak up the history, guys. Days like today only come around every couple of months
@martr101 I feel Hanlon’s Razor may apply.
Ah. Home to no heating and no hot water because of a gas leak on the way to the flat. pic.twitter.com/X7qJ8VKURu
TristanCorkPost This isn’t good. Grosvenor Hotel opposite Temple Meads. Probably done more stories about this building than any other in Bristol over the years. twitter.com/edplowden/stat…
Three from the morning commute #bristol pic.twitter.com/PR9uyC51ak
And Bristol’s enthusiastic local historians come through for me yet again: yes, there is a specific book on the Clift House area. pic.twitter.com/XFg23fQxtP
forrestbrazeal This one goes out to all the serious professional tech people whose Personal Website is a janky Jekyll blog last updated in 2014 pic.twitter.com/E5K8XSZMSl
@chubbybannister “It’s okay, I’m British. Putting an umbrella up halfway through is entirely normal.”
Just been notified it’s my turn as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the second fortnight in December. Shame; I was hoping for jury duty.
@mzdt @TJDHalliday @joncstone You think there will be schools in Britain in 2040? Optimistic…
lilydoughball It has come to my attention that the Colosseum in Bristol is for sale and I’m so worried that it’s going to turn into some stupid small plate London gaff WE MUST KEEP IT EXACTLY HOW IT IS OK
@benjohnbarnes Yahoo Pipes was a long way ahead of its time.
@AshTreeFarm42 I can confirm that I am a fellow sufferer.
@lilydoughball I am in my third or fourth Marmite on toast era.
@benjohnbarnes @yarden_shafir Really you should have abbreviated each of those polling options to “S”.
@shadowfirebird @Seej500 Seconded.
culturaltutor This painting is over 100 years old.
It’s by Zinaida Serebriakova, a wonderful painter with a fascinating life whose story is worth knowing… pic.twitter.com/kAIE0XKCac
@psidnell Nice. I had the opposite, really, a gruelling process of elimination.
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Tony_Robinson Calling all Bristolians! My new series ’ Museum of us’airs tomorrow night at 9pm on More4. The first episode focuses on Bedminster!!
Revisiting some old night shots. 2/2 (landscape) #bristol pic.twitter.com/yT41q0EinF
Revisiting some old night shots. 1/2 (portrait) #bristol pic.twitter.com/IYxhrUV9Wg
@MrWhoCapture @photography @iTheFelizer @JeriLile @JBrushertphoto1 @OutdoorPhotoMag @HaywainPhoto @Janas2110 @Lionsightphoto @GooglePixelFC @madebygoogle Clifton Suspension Bridge (with the Plough and a shooting star, if you look really closely 😀) pic.twitter.com/GaStnJ9QQ7
MicroSFF Once I was dead, it was curiously easy to accept it.
“Where are you taking me?” I asked.
Death extended a bony finger, pointing at a tall tower in the distance.
“What is that?”
“Your unread books. Unwatched films. Unplayed games. Etcetera.”
“Oh. How much time do I have?”
“All.”
yarden_shafir My teenage brother’s coding teacher is telling them to keep variable names short - 1-2 characters, to make their code shorter and save space.
If you teach, please don’t do this.
Im trying to undo the damage now.
@TheMcVariations @Glassworks18 Yes indeed. I liked it a lot but I’ve only read it once so far. Like Blindsight I think it’s going to take me a couple more reads to really appreciate it properly.
Sudden reference to the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo on a podcast and I find myself oddly transported back to Warwick Uni, where I must’ve first heard of them… memory is an odd thing.
@Glassworks18 @TheMcVariations Absolutely seconded. This and Echopraxia are among my favourites of “out there” SF that’s probably too smart for me to be reading.
@chubbybannister Another in my series of “I forget Wordle exists until I see someone else do it”
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Why yes, it *does* smell just as amazing as you’d expect. #library #reservestock #books pic.twitter.com/Ey0hU6BaU2
@Glassworks18 @garethlpowell Sounds more like a @cstross number…
Finally catching up with the latest series of Inside No. 9. Astounding stuff.
@DavidRawding_ The Wasp Factory; Iain Banks.
@ovationchris Sorted. pic.twitter.com/v2KtR7OAn1
bingowings14 Chancellors, sir. Thousands of ‘em. pic.twitter.com/jhgnSjyqRw
@stillawake Just.
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@jamesqquick Can’t recall ever having done one. (49, British, programming my whole career.)
_iPed Apparently Kwasi Kwarteng had trouble getting a seat on the plane cos nobody wanted him anywhere near business or economy
Bookkeeping going fairly well. Time for a lunch bread away from a screen. pic.twitter.com/Q31XmHuJ8N
@jukesie HUSH
Bookkeeping day. I took a day off yesterday, too, *just* to do the procrastination that happens before the bookkeeping. I wonder if it will help.
Inspired.
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@CharlieVivante I’m sure you’ll get turfed out eventually if you’re that cut up about it.
everycolorbot 0x0b2f0f pic.twitter.com/WxBTNyIpUI
Think my favourite one so far is this one of Baltic Wharf, flic.kr/p/8agD1e, similar to one I took for my One Mile Matt project, omm.gothick.org.uk/image/7639, but from when the flat I first lived in when I moved to Bristol was still being built…
Enjoying looking through Knowle West Media Centre’s archive of the late George Gallop’s photos, after a mention of him at my Electricity Museum visit this morning. (flickr.com/photos/kwmc/co…). He had a place on the Hotwell Road, not far from me, and we’ve taken some similar pics!
Kyberian Today I put a pun in the game that was so bad, QA bug reported it.
@mojonojo3 @CharlieVivante Yeah, I was wondering what was on the other side.
ScarredForLife2 The 1980s, folks! pic.twitter.com/ZfBnkRptKn
@ScarredForLife2 THAT Bob Peck moment :D
@thomasreggi (Oh, and done from a printout on the sofa so it feels nothing like work.)
@thomasreggi The Times cryptic crossword (with an hour cut-off point in case it’s too hard for me that morning, enforced by a count-down timer.)
@porthjess @stillawake @RobLogan3 @beardedjourno Still a bit of pressure here down the hill, but I’m trying not to use it!
Clearly an attempt to summon the spirit of Colliter’s Brook for water control purposes. twitter.com/beardedjourno/…
TristanCorkPost Huge flood at Avon Bridge Brunel Way bristol / burst water main pic.twitter.com/QU1KL7noKW
beardedjourno Surreal scenes here in BS3 pic.twitter.com/whgSGWIxGv
Won’t be a mo, just running a hose down to the hot spring. Anyone got a boat and some plumbing connectors?
Finally got the time and energy to wash the algae off the patio and Hotwells is virtually without water pressure because of the burst main in Bemmie. Must be quite a sizeable burst; hope nobody’s getting flooded…
@BristolWater Came here because water pressure noticeably low in BS8. Guessing it would be best for everyone if I left my patio cleaning for another day!
BristolWater ⚠️Burst main Affecting BS3, BS4, BS5 and surrounding areas⚠️
13/10/2022 13:44
We have been made aware of a large burst main in Bedminster affecting multiple areas. An Inspector is on site and a crew are already on route.
Customers affected may have low water pressure or no water.
@karenwhite03 It was everything I expected and more. So much to see packed into such a small space.
TristanCorkPost On my way to reports that a dinosaur has exploded at Ashton Court
As you do…
@RealDramRob As someone who lives in a house that’s pretty cold first thing in the morning, I’m with you.
Just spent some amazing time in the little-known museum and archives of the Western Power Electricity Historical Society in Redland. Open for a couple of hours once a month, or by appointment. Fascinating! #bristol wpehs.org.uk/museum-and-arc… pic.twitter.com/mx41O53rmJ
@GeordieStory @adayeoyh Top-notch deployment of “wowsers” there.
We who are about to be refurbished salute you. #bristol pic.twitter.com/RF6gE38uQx
Raspberry_Pi Today in *incredibly* niche LEGO sets we decided we need to buy seven of… pic.twitter.com/huiztfwFy7
NoahGarfinkel I grew up in Cabot Cove, and a lot of us feel she exploited our massive murder problem for profit. Maybe keep that in mind.
@dangusset Frustration
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@4r7hr You are not allowed. Everything will become TikTok just in time for the next fashionable thing to come along.
@beardedjourno I think they should fill it with what I most wanted the last time I was in Broadmead: a Debenhams.
warren_craddock I’ve worked on a number of high-profile failures:
- Lytro lightfield cameras
- Google Glass head-mounted computer
- Google Clips automatic photographer
They all had a fatal flaw. Everyone saw the flaw. But the culture that arose in these teams purposefully ignored the flaw. 1/n
JohnGeeMcCarthy This week. I hit my lowest culinary point after a couple of cans.
In Glasgow, there’s a pizza vending machine, in the wall of an abandoned shop.
It’s a curious thing.
It MUST be bad. But how bad??? Let’s find out. pic.twitter.com/O7CqlaUCHA
@chubbybannister A not dissimilar experience…
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@OnAmbridge Poor geography in this week’s episode, I’m afraid. The village of Little Dogging on the Bypass is actually in Hertfordshire, as surely everyone should know.
realnickperry Turns out @EngineerLondon is actually spying on us. pic.twitter.com/pONf39x8wR
DataDrivenMD 👀 Yankee Candle reviews indicate that COVID is about surge again pic.twitter.com/b6j7qhaFob
Greville Smyth Park pic.twitter.com/2ATLumDscS
Off for a little wander around this area today… pic.twitter.com/e9MVsURqO4
@ovationchris Have read Psmith; will have to put EB&C on the old T-R list 😀
@andrewbrownld @bristol_pip We can all be grateful for the lack of colour film in *some* childhood photos of ourselves, I’m sure… pic.twitter.com/9LxB3Gbmat
@ovationchris Right now listening to Jonathan Cecil’s reading of _Joy in the Morning_…
AdrianGreetham Deportishead twitter.com/Ottojizzmark/s…
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@hayles Triangle is open on weekdays only, annoyingly. Luckily I hardly ever need to go either. Though still using an actual building society book account that can *only* do cheques or cash—no electronic payment—for one particular thing. Hoping to fix that one when I have the energy…
@hayles Since the Clifton Village and the Corn Street branches shut down, there isn’t a Lloyds I can get to at lunchtime by walking, either from work or home. And driving to the bank just seems annoying.
@beardedjourno One of my favourites. Would actually have bought that paddle steamer book from the window today if I’d not been passing before opening time!
@bendavis_86 TKTK WITTY COMEBACK TKTK
@chubbybannister I have on of those electric tennis rackets and it’s quite satisfying, though admittedly not terribly efficient.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Just explain Bitcoin to your parents, I’m sure nothing will go wrong.
@stillawake Yes. It wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t great. I will try something else next time; seemed like a pleasant enough place and the staff were very friendly.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor My bank let me pay in cheques by taking a photo of them, which is oddly anachronistic. Sadly there’s an upper limit on the value, which is why I had to schlepp all the way to Cabot today to pay in an Inland Revenue refund. No more local Lloyds is open at weekends now :(
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor Ironically, I would happily have a couple fewer cafes in Bristol if it meant that my bank and building society weren’t fecking miles away now.
@chubbybannister @Bristolvor That was the one.
beardedjourno It’s #bookshopday today so what better way to spend the afternoon than to explore every one of Bristol’s independent bookshops? First stop: Bookhaus in Wapping Wharf, which was officially opened by David Olusoga in August last year. (1/12) pic.twitter.com/ta3HpvXsz3
BacklistedPod New episode up now. Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, with guests Jennifer Lucy Allan @JenniferLAllan and Ilona Chavasse @MissAdaDoom. backlisted.fm/episodes/r2thi…
ohsinnerman CELTIC WEIRD will now come out on November 10th. This is fine, because look at the final cover which has incorparated imagery from books of ancient Celtic Art. I wept with joy when I saw it. A massive bravo to Mauricio and Magdalena who designed it.
I am in love. pic.twitter.com/BUSar7wEiX
@psidnell NICE.
@benjohnbarnes No, they’re on the ground floor. IT IS I WHO DESCENDS.
I love the AI-based feature in iPhones’ Photos app that makes sure you’re sitting at your Mac wanting to do something with the photos that you took hours ago before it starts to sync them.
@slicknic (Also the Lloyds app is incredibly fussy and last time it took about nine goes for it to accept that the photo of the back of the cheque it required—which was completely blank!—was valid…)
@slicknic Tried that but this one was over the limit for that method, sadly. #firstworldproblems Really I should just try to convince the Inland Revenue to use the bank details I thought they already had for me…
I mean, if we’re determined to go back to the 1970s the least we could do is turn a few wine bars back into banks.
Just had to pay a cheque into the bank, like a Victorian. Been a while. Given the progression of the last few times, my next trip will be in 2027, and I’ll be going to a branch of Lloyds in Birmingham that’s only open between 11 and noon on Tuesdays.
peterwalker99 A round of applause, please, for the Guardian colleague who wrote the headline to this story of mine. pic.twitter.com/HR4ube1gLb
@chubbybannister I went with a bizarre VROOM, and—because I was thinking US spellings, but in the wrong way—both VISOR and VIZOR. D’oh.
Cinnamon pretzel. Yes please. pic.twitter.com/4TeLJHoLIb
I see Broadmead had given its balls a buff-up. pic.twitter.com/OA2Mn3W1KG
Oh dear. Upstairs neighbours are moving out. “Oh dear” not because I know them well, but because they’ve never woken me up at 3am. I fear the Unknown Quantity that Might Be About to Descend.
outonbluesix What *is* The Camberwick Green Procrastination Society…?
timworthington.org/books/the-camb…
@chubbybannister FFS
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@danieldurrans It it possible that magpies are being reincarnated in silicon-based life forms now?
RDRv3 iOS: yes we will automatically update the apps on your iPhone
the app store, every time I bother to check it: you have 93 updates and a christmas card from your grandma pending
@chubbybannister Bugger.
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porthjess My annual Baltic Wharf traffic light trees appreciation post. 🍂 Swear they get more vibrant every year! pic.twitter.com/7GIc7H0olT
ekuber My “strategy” of treating browser tabs as an append only list and rely on the browser crashing about once a month has turned into a worse nightmare than you can imagine since Firefox stopped crashing as regularly earlier this year.
@Dru_Marland So this is how the otter half lives.
CathHanley *extremely* niche medievalist tweet: I’ve just read again that Margaret of Beverley ‘wore a breastplate like a man’ at the siege of Jerusalem in 1187. This always gets me, as breastplates were not worn: C12th armour was mail. So I tracked down the original Latin, and guess what?
MattNavarra This is the first edited tweet from the UK. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
josecastillo I’m not annoyed by this bug, just mystified by how it happens: somehow, every time I add the sqlite amalgamation — sqlite.c and sqlite.h — to m@PlatformIO_Orgrg project, it adds Doom as one of my dependencies. Easy to work around, but puzzling and also KIND OF HILARIOUSpic.twitter.com/FKK4yFm7FLFL
@BeardyHowse Leonard finally loses it and shoots out the stained-glass window, one slow pane at a time. #thearchers pic.twitter.com/nWe0Jo1S4u
@chubbybannister Cripes.
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@EuphoriTori Women are the most important people in the world and they are the most powerful people in the whole world and they are the most powerful people in the entire world and they are the most powerful people in the universe and they are the most powerful people in the universe (!)
Clearly my lucky day…
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Well. New p.b. for the Times cryptic today, coming home in 14 minutes. Not a bad start to a Monday.
Boom.
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1929. I feel Hotwells suffers from a lack of Burlesque Opera these days. pic.twitter.com/WSjWv0sRUV
@TadeThompson Fairly sure it’d be Hitchcock for me.
Hadn’t realised the age of this end of Hotwells Primary School… #bristol pic.twitter.com/laLJvoXhTN
Dru_Marland I reckon the picture’s finished. Gin o’clock then 😀 pic.twitter.com/hg6ognmfQG
@collindonnell I find that the problem with making apps for advanced meditators is that they generally need far fewer features than beginners! Just give me a reliable timer and an interval bell at most. And maybe some simple way of recording my progress.
@Bristolvor I hope you’ll understand if I’m mostly looking out for Kathryn Drysdale rather than Ben Sherman.
dcuthbert Aaand we to live to an interview with a modern IT administrator keeping modern enterprise networks running and hopefully secure. Over to you Keith twitter.com/How2Drink/stat…
Timeless trend. pic.twitter.com/pbNbFBZh47
@clivemitchell1 My chemistry teacher’s class party piece was pointing the geiger counter at the watch he’d been wearing for years, to scare everyone with the whooshing sound it made.