It’s polling day in the UK, which means we’ll have seamless, live coverage of absolutely nothing until 10pm when the polls close. Then we’ll have an exit poll and live coverage of nothing happening for several more hours, until the first counts come in. In fact, the next 18 hours of news in the UK will contain very little actual news.
I was thinking about Trump’s conviction this morning and it occured to me that, if he had repaid Michael Cohen the hush money from the campaign fund AND written “Hush money for porn star” in the accounts – neither he nor Cohen would have done anything illegal
Oh, you now have to pay to see how badly your tweets are performing compared to the pre-Musk era 🤣
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?
https://www.pomodorotechnique.com/pomodoro-trademark-guidelines.php
I’m now afraid to mention the name of the well-known time management technique created by Francesco Cirillo.
I think “winning” the second World War was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain psychologically. We continue to celebrate the losses and hardships more than the victory. Dunkirk, the Blitz, rationing. Ask five people on any high street, on which day of the year we remember the fallen and I reckon 4 out of 5 will tell you. Ask anyone over 50 and it’ll be 100%. Then ask them when VE Day is. I reckon anyone under-25 won’t even know what VE day is…
Just had a random urge to watch John Carpenter’s The Fog. Lovely sunny day here… not sure where that came from at all!
When your party has a majority it’s a “clear mandate from the people”. When the OTHER party has the majority it’s “unchecked power”.
Oh, dear. I think Ben is a bit confused.
“With what audacity do you compare Hamas that murdered, burned, butchered, decapitated, raped and kidnapped our brothers and sisters and the IDF soldiers fighting a just war.”
Well, I’m not sure we have any ironclad evidence of rape and kidnap against civilians by the IDF but we can definitely check-off “murdered, burned, butchered and decapitated” – it’s on the news every day. That’s how I’d compare them.
Whether you regard this as “just” or not is a matter of perspective but the actions of Hamas and the IDF are entirely comparable.
Just spent an hour fixing some code I wrote when I was in the same timezone as the server. School boy error really but I guess limited to those who usually live/work in GMT!
Also, and I guess this is a common problem in older code, I discovered that the way the dates were being stored is out-dated, so I had to update them all to DateTime. And that’s what really took the time!
Given the dire predictions about the UK harvest, because of all the rain, if I were a young, naive, Christian policeman, I’d call in sick today #beltane