Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Image saying ‘not my circus, not my clowns’

Today’s work status:

What’s worse than having to go into the office?

Forgetting your ear bud case and knowing that the batteries will die before you can leave

Emergency wired pair going into the work bag asap

The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic.

Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/...

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An old and no longer used nodding donkey for pumping oil during World War 2. The no longer used oil field is in northern Nottinghamshire just outside of Eakring

Walking Marx yesterday and we ended up around the old WW 2 oil field near Eakring.

If things get too bad, how much WD40 do you think we’d need to get these producing again?

Left hand sides of 2 kyria keyboards. Top is 2026 halcyon revision and the lower one is a 2020 version

Right hand sides of 2 kyria keyboards. Top is 2026 halcyon revision and the lower one is a 2020 version

New keyboard time. Lower one has done 6 years of great service, but it’s starting to have some quirks, all due to the idiot who soldered it together ( which would be me)

So I got a newer version of the same board that didn’t need soldering.

Remembered just enough C so I could rebuild the firmware

This morning I have mostly been trying to remember how C works so
I can flash my new keyboard.

Sunlight streaming through trees

Cocker spaniel sitting and panting in the woods

Fir tree avenue in the woods

Nice pre archery walk in the woods at Gravelly Hollow.

Strange cloud floating over Sherwood archers ground

Starting to be able to get to the archery field in light after work, winter is disappearing!!!

Go aee Heartworms, they’re great

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There are only 12 hours to get your sessions in for Data Relay 2025, CfS closes at 23:59 GMT 12/02/2025!

Please make our life harder, we love to have to sift through all the great content you submit!

#DataCommunity #SqlServer #MSFabric #PowerBI

PowerShell Universal + dbatools! YouTube video by Jess Pomfret

Put together a little video on using #PowerShellUniversal with @dbatools.io to create a cool dashboard!

What do you think? What should I add? (especially to the home page 🤣)

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Yep, the more people who refer to President Musk (🤮) the quicker trump will try to ditch or stitch him.

We’re still open for top notch Data Platform content for this year’s road trip

Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repa...

UK folk, here's a petition you may be interested in: "Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Let's keep applying pressure to ensure games remain accessible and history is preserved.

Call for speakers: Data Relay 2025 - us7.campaign-archive.com/

Forest bathing: a natural remedy for mental health The practice of forest bathing can have remarkable effects on both physical and mental health

The practice of forest bathing can have remarkable effects on both physical and mental health | Akanksha Singh

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Oh yeah, we’re back on the road on 2025!

Venues and Call for Speakers announcements incoming.

Don’t do Spotify so no end of year round up for me. But I do have everything in at ‘last.fm’ - www.last.fm/user/eeymsmo so can make my own Artists, Album and tracks collages of what i listened to this year.

Man wearing a sisters of mercy “sisters gegen Nazis” t shirt

Off to a Rock Against Racism gig so dug out my old ‘Sisters gegen Nazis’ shirt

Couldn’t remember how old it was, so googled it. Now I know that it’s probably the most expensive bit of clothing I own 😳

Tango & Fash.

Favourite swim spot frozen over? That’s not going to stop the fun

Looks like this place is getting popular these days.

Gah, I was right to be suspicious when there wasn’t any monitoring alerts this morning.

Now to check the estate manually and then fix the monitoring kit.

An hour of DNS and firewall ‘fun’ to start the morning off.

I love it when the ‘professionals’ chuck it over the fence and run away.

So far today this modern ‘DBA’ has spent most of his time modifying network peerings, address spaces and Express Route.

This morning’s pot of coffee lasted less than 75 minutes.

It’s one of *those* days then

Great first day for #datarelay_uk 2023.

Great venue, great sessions and great to catch up with loads of people.

I also bought a ‘new’ slide rule :)

Many thanks to the lovely people at the National Museum of Computing. If you’ve not been, you should