2017-09-09 (Saturday)

@genmon ‘I Wanna Be A Winner’ by Brown Sauce (Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin and Maggie Philbin).

@kentparkstreet @jcd1974 You can read the original guide here! archive.org/details/Thomas…

@kentparkstreet @jcd1974 There’s mention in the Preface to the Latham & Matthews edition which you can read here books.google.co.uk/books?id=n3nwg… (hopefully that link works…)

@kentparkstreet @jcd1974 @samuelpepys It was Thomas Shelton’s Shorthand, apparently also used by Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sh…

@kentparkstreet @jcd1974 @samuelpepys wrote in shorthand, not a cypher. The occasional more risqué passages were in an odd mixture of French, Spanish and Italian.

@adrianhon If only it was possible to quantify loss of goodwill as easily as page views.

@nraford I can only assume it improves some “interaction” metric that is still used to justify something by someone important.

The comments on that article are, inevitably, terrible. It baffles me why the Guardian still has comments. What’s the benefit to them?

I like @guardianmusic’s new monthly playlist theguardian.com/music/2017/sep… but I can’t search for it on Spotify itself. Not sure whose fault.