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Port Vale coming to Stamford Bridge embodies the romance of the FA Cup. Jumpers for goalposts, Corinthian spirit, and all that

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Still hoping to hear “You’ve had you day out, now ‘go’ off home” early in the first half, though

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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Death on the Nile is on telly atm. Is this the most starry cast ever?

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The novel was adapted into a 1978 feature film, Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov for the first of his six appearances as Poirot. Others in the all-star cast included Bette Davis (Miss Van Schuyler), Mia Farrow (Jacqueline de Bellefort), Maggie Smith (Miss Bowers), Lois Chiles (Linnet Doyle), Simon MacCorkindale (Simon Doyle), Jon Finch (Mr Ferguson), Olivia Hussey (Rosalie Otterbourne), Angela Lansbury (Mrs Otterbourne), Jane Birkin (Louise), George Kennedy (Mr Pennington), Jack Warden (Dr Bessner), I. S. Johar (Mr...

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Mortimer took a dive.

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I don’t know why, but he took a dive.

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@mstblue.bsky.social congratulations!

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@matthewhurst I read this novel about him a few years back

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harpercollins.co.uk/products/…

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@matthewhurst it’s this one

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I’d previously read a bit about him. He was one of those Victorian or Edwardian men who was keen on ‘helping’ women, but possibly had ulterior motives. A sad but quite interesting story

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haro…

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A nice little video thing from the Beeb

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Why boredom is good for you

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A song by a band whose merchandise you’ve bought - what was the merchandise

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This song came out in 2005. I think sometime after that various enterprising entrepreneurs made the Joy Division Oven Glove a reality.

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I...

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The cover of The Economist today is quite striking

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The Salisbury Wetherspoons has a Green Man near the door, and, last time I was in there, Guinness at £3.79 a pint. I like both of these things.

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The Green Man on Wikipedia

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Podcast episodes I liked last month - Cecil the lion, Disney, Shakespeare, E.E. Nesbit, Rasputin, the Fast Show, the Rector of Stiffkey, Hadrian's Wall, 15-minute cities, David Seaman, Lincoln and the Spice Girls: mattypenny.micro.blog

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Post one of your favorite relaxing songs.

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Damien O’Kane is one of the musicians I’ve seen most often…but in a sense I’ve only seen him once.

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He’s married to Kate Rusby, and I’ve seen him in her band about a zillion times, but I’ve only...

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@8stringandsushi.bsky.social it seems like Kid Rock is being seen as a member of your Royal Family?

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How else would this be patriotic?

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Turning on ‘Format on save’

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I’d forgotten about this

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Got to settings

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Turn on ‘Editor: Format on save’

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….and set ‘Editor: Format on save mode’ to ‘file’

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It works nicely with the Powershell extension installed - I haven’t tried it with anything else I don’t think

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My Crucial Track for 29th March - The Turkish Song of the Damned by the Pogues

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Some albums have a good opening track, but the 2nd track is totally killer. What’s your favorite 2nd track song?

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Another Pogues track, and another trivial anecdote.

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When I was at the LSE, in the early ’80s, I vaguely knew a German chap who ran a fanzine that, he said, was mainly about the Pogues and the Damned. I don’t remember his name and we never kept in contact, but I do remember talking to him, both because punk-iness wasn’t a huge thing on campus, and because I thought the Damned and the Pogues was kind of an odd...

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Share a track by your favorite vocalist of all-time.

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One of my favourite vocalists, anyway. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders singing the Radiohead song.

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“Creep (Live)” by Pretenders on Apple Music

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This is from Crucial Tracks. My profile is h...

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Very sad - Iran players hold school bags in memory of girls killed in tribute.

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youtube.com/...

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@fakehistoryhunter.net tbh I didn’t know D’Artagnan was a real person

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Comparing bubblegum to power pop, Mojo writer Dawn Eden said: “Power pop aims for your heart and your feet. Bubblegum aims for any part of your body it can get, as long as you buy the damn record.”

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Bubblegum music - Wikipedia

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I’m starting to think that Napoleon’s thing about generals is also true of goalkeepers

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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Day 3 after the half marathon, and I now feel like I’ve been hit by a car rather than by a truck

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So that’s progress

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Post a cover that’s done in a different style than the original version.

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“Hurt so Good” by Susan Cadogan

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Maybe one of the classic reggae cover versions. This was originally a Bee Gees song - their version is great too.

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“Hurt so Good” by...

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I quite enjoyed Conclave. It’s a bit bonkers, but there’s good things about it. There was a bit at the end I found moving.

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My weekend. football, basketball, curry, low alcohol stout, the wonders of Woking, the spookiness of silver birches, and Seamus gets a new medal \"A : mattypenny.micro.blog

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What’s your favorite song to listen to while cooking?

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This is top of my ‘Kitchen Irish’ playlist. A couple of reasons. It’s a great song. It’s upbeat and cheerful, and it reminds me of a couple of trips to the west coast...

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@vazquez I like to think I’m the Messi of I.T….. whereas everyone knows I’m just messy

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Today is Saint Cyril’s Day, among others. I feel a bit sorry for the saints whose day is the day after Saint Patrick’s Day.

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@nancywisser I’d recommend this book too, written by the same chap. It’s maybe a bit expensive given there aren’t many words to it…but it’s a bit like a children’s book in that I’ve re-visited it often

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Powershell to get current certificates in the servers store

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invoke-command -ComputerName $ComputerName -command {\n    Get-ChildItem Cert:\\LocalMachine\\My  | \n    where-object subject -like \"*sh*\" | \n    where-object notafter -gt $(get-date)\n} | \n    select pscomputername,...
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Lovely. It’s like what you’d expect a programme with Michael Palin and Mackenzie Crook to be like, albeit they aren’t the stars of the show.

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Watched: Small Prophets Season 1 🍿

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all those celebrating it today

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Pic By NateBergin - Own work, CC BY 4.0, Link

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Powershell to get certificates that have been applied to IIS

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invoke-command -ComputerName $ComputerName -command {import-module WebAdministration ; Get-ChildItem IIS:\\SslBindings} |\n    Select-Object PSComputerName, IPAddress, Port, Hostname, Thumbprint, Store\n
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@sozdba.bsky.social Hi Shane, good to see you again. Your Irish will be fantastic by the time that happens….and hopefully you’ll still be able to recognise your dad!

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@boffbowsh as I get older…. increasingly like real life, sadly

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@iandunt.bsky.social you don’t much like him, then?

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@mattypenny A measure of justice done :)

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Gary Neville says “Arsenal have been Arsenaled”

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

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@mattypenny I think the chap on the BBC just said that “this would go down in history as a historic moment”

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@SteelShodLever The cat is still there - my eldest did a nostalgic bus trip a few months ago

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The tiger was above the Babur, which was a relatively upmarket Indian in Honor Oak

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I imagine the Elephant might be gone. Lots of redevelopment going on there. Maybe they’ll keep it

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@SteelShodLever Horniman is great - both inside and the gardens. Spent a lot of time there

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@SteelShodLever I was there probably three years ago and it was much the same tbh, but I think they were about to start re-hashing it all

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They used to say it was the first indoor shopping centre in the UK.

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@SteelShodLever It was really. If it was the first indoor shopping centre then it hadn’t been touched since.

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@SteelShodLever We lived around Lewisham and Catford for a long time, but moved back to Salisbury about 20 years ago

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I still miss living there, or at least some aspects of living there.

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@portraitinflesh I think of Guilty Pleasures in the same way I think of World Music

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It’s good to have a label for something that maybe needed a label…..but it’s a rubbish label

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@GrocerJackUK @cfcNath94 I’m not disagreeing but you could also argue United and Arsenal’s problems are partly because of having one manager for a long time. You need to have one eye on whatl comes next as well. It’s tricky.

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@JosephWatkins That 1% is sweet though

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@IrwinStrachan Very good word…..one to use with care, though!

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@CraigOliver100 @AnthonySeldon @BBCSounds @TobyStephensInV @jonculshaw @Boultybits @La_Lawrie I shall look forward to listening to that.

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IMHO the feebleness of the response after the novichok in Salisbury gave Putin the green light for whatever he wanted to do next

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I may be biased

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@TomLevins1 47 year-old me was too.

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@cfcNath94 I’m still slightly nervous when I see footage of Didier walking up to the penalty spot

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@mrmarksteel Anybody who saw Viera play would do their utmost to avoid annoying him

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