Daniel Johnson

don’t really post here any more - more active where the skies are blue…

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

Looking at what @elonmusk is doing with this platform, I think I’ve had enough. Can be found elsewhere with same username. Might pop back occasionally.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@joshglancy @LukeDyks @megbaynes Is that the total including the DB scheme which is in run-off? Because if so surely that’s a very odd metric to use as it is in surplus and the surplus has increased?

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@_F_B_G_ Get you with paying for premium 😂

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

I care about the change slightly less than I do about someone writing “a millennia”.

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

Intensely depressing that the most mediocre group of MPs in history, almost all of whom will be eviscerated at the next election, were allowed to sweep away a millennia of history and pretend it somehow made life in the country they’re screwing up better.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

I see the useless leaders of @thameswater are doubling my monthly bill 😡 If ever there was a failure of the market, they really are the perfect example.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@OxIRandHistory I think this is where I know more about contracting for public sector work than you do…

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@OxIRandHistory Would that Fujitsu contract have been better if they had a duty of care towards individual postmasters?

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@OxIRandHistory So each army barracks should buy toilet rolls separately? And spend more to do so?

Because much the same goes for (eg) consulting and tax advice as it does for bog roll.

There’s a middle ground but it’s hard to find. Which is why we have procurement.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

Someone didn’t get an upgrade 😂

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Not to get too deep about something like Tier points, but there is something about @British_Airways now which embodies a hollowed out management consultancy led, computer says no approach to service that pervades business and frustrates so many people and diminishes loyalty.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

This should be a cracker from @EdwardWilsonLee

[Edward Wilson-Lee @EdwardWilsonLee]

A month today @WmCollinsBooks will publish THE GRAMMAR OF ANGELS, the book that has consumed my waking and sleeping moments for the last three years but which has been germinating for a decade and a half. 1/

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@OxIRandHistory I’ve never heard of Valerie Stivers. Being generous, I’ll assume that you’re posting this completely out of context and she isn’t quite as ignorant as that passage suggests…

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@TypeForVictory And the whole “still being paid off until 2015” thing is nonsense…

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@WalkerMarcus Merry Christmas 😁🤣

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

Does this indicate that we are in the end times @WalkerMarcus …? 😱

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@sharpquillets I misread this as sexiest.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

My last concert of the year 🥰

[Mark Valencia @MarkValencia]

My last review of 2024 tonight: Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber in an evening of Schumann Lieder at @wigmore_hall.

I can't imagine a more civilized way to close my diary for the year. Reviewing for @bachtrack.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

At the moment there are no fees for the DPS system because the entities that safeguard the cash also get to keep the interest arising on it (at super low rates because it’s almost zero risk). So might not be much of an opportunity here.

[Benjamin Lewis @tc1415]

Random thing that just occurred to me right now. But that's how my brain works.

Deposit protection for tenants is great. Very high value law change.

But it now needs to go further, deposits should accrue interest. Probably at a discounted rate. But still, there should be some.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

And anywhere else (at least originally under ER I) where Latin was “commonly understood”.

[Fr. Timothy Matkin @FrMatkin]

My Latin edition of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, still used at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

@DominicSelwood @Farm_Direct So far it’s been excellent quality! Plus also a way to buy from farms more directly rather than via supermarkets.

[Daniel Johnson @hackloon]

Stunning piece of beef via @Farm_Direct 🥰 Plus veg and bread for tomorrow’s leftover sandwiches