David Gerrard

Software engineer. Ineffective curmudgeon / impotent rage exponent.

[David Gerrard @dakeyshave]

@arrivamidlandsE You seem to be fundamentally incapable of getting nurses from Ratby to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Thanks for your amazing contribution to the smooth running of the country.

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@stwater Hi - not to worry - I managed to find the chat function on your site and they helped me find the right number to call. It is pretty hard to contact you, though. Especially if you don't like conducting business in public on Social Networks

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@stwater I'd like to contact someone about the Lead Replacement Scheme. Can you please help?

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@criticalsenses I watched this and thought of you during the 'digitising old reel-to-reel tapes that had been in a box for 40 years' parts... :) https://t.co/1Ml4zcthkx

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@NeilSJefferies Though on the other hand...: https://t.co/BZUuzh3uMz

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@marycktech Put me down for 'somewhere else'...

[David Gerrard @dakeyshave]

@NeilSJefferies @EdithHalvarsson @e_stanf ... but on the flip-side, version control has been a part of computing since 1972, nearly ten years before the 'paperdigm' came along and royally encouraged everyone (archivists in particular) to think of 'files' as 'bits of electronic paper'. :(

[David Gerrard @dakeyshave]

@marycktech Well for a start I just have. For another thing, I don't really use Twitter than much any more, though I expect I might start doing again, if I can keep it work-related.

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Thought I'd change my handle as I haven't been at Lboro for years and Epiphany was the name of my PhD project - which finished a while back, too.

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New name is as close as possible to my GitHub profile, which should hopefully have a little more longevity to it: https://t.co/Jb1ummRRqo

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Something else to park for later... https://t.co/mipgHYrdP2

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Worth keeping an eye on this: https://t.co/AUYaduamdq

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@archivematica Do you know any more about this? E.g. who said what about it?

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Put The Dust / Chemical Brothers' remix of Packet of Peace by Lionrock on please... #AllDayRave

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@tzijlstra @mikehurst My word Reading were pants yesterday. All it took was for one of your players to be vaguely arsed about winning and you scored three. Most of your squad apart from Forestieri were on the beach already. All of ours either had no confidence or just weren't very good at football.

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@tzijlstra @mikehurst so I've only gone and booked some tickets to see Reading get annihilated by Sheffield Wednesday.

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@DrGInTheLibrary @tzijlstra @clareravenwood I'd enjoy that too.

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@euanc Needs the following logic added: Is the disc from a Nuclear Submarine? If so, it's still using XP: https://t.co/SElyKET6ac ... PS - start hoarding tinned food.

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@tzijlstra @DrGInTheLibrary I've been saying since finishing my PhD that I'd set one of the free / distributed ones up for my mates to use. https://t.co/8vrA0DnhP0 - however, leaving Facebook and never hearing from anyone proves I don't have any mates, so...

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@tzijlstra @DrGInTheLibrary Naive? It's as much an exercise in 'revenue by Silicon Valley investment' as Facebook is, just not as good at it. That's why they'd rather risk people getting fried unnecessarily by shiny missiles than delete the account of the 'engagement magnet' that is our Orange Overlord. :(