James Wright

Development Director @bromium. Unfit cyclist, mediocre guitarist, terrible drummer, private pilot and passionate collector of expensive hobbies.

[James Wright @jegwright]

@adehohum Yay!

[James Wright @jegwright]

@writing_steve Hope the neighbours are enjoying the musicality.

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@MrStephenPower They never gave me a sticker :-(

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@nclarey @kecmorey Not 100% sure about kids, maybe there is a restriction for kids. I had to do it for me because sadly I am eligible. Anyway will be quicker to find out than holding for the GP!

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@nclarey @kecmorey Better solution. Give up on GP and book through a pharmacy. I had the same issue but it took me ten seconds to book online for an appointment at the supermarket and I didn’t have to pay because they knew my status. I used Lloyds, it was faultless.

[James Wright @jegwright]

@nclarey A younger fitter less arthritic me would be very envious. A suggestion if you have the gear is to take the cable car up Aiguille du midi and trek to Italy (Torino hut) then get the cable car back. The glacier is pretty magical. The ridge onto the glacier is exciting…

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@nclarey If you are on Aiguille rouge, which it looks like you might be, enjoy the climbing. It’s excellent! I once had to spend the night in an abandoned cable car station up there…

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@nclarey Are you climbing it? Big adventure if you are. I did 3 monts route many years ago, I have many pub stories as a result.

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@nclarey Mont Blanc Massif?

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@nclarey But it glides as softly as a cloud.

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@MrStephenPower Amazon has been...

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@nclarey Anyway. I have broken my rule about arguing on social media. So let’s see what happens at 4pm and I will get back in my box.

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@nclarey When do you make the decision? You won’t have data on vaccine effectiveness and long term impact for several years because that’s how long vaccines take. Australia recently admitted “end 2021 at best”. lockdowns for that length of time are not practical.

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@nclarey Then you disagree with the strategy, not leadership. FWIW it isn’t obvious to me that a lockdown is the right thing since it isn’t obvious to me what you do next. Lockdown assumes people won’t rebel before a vaccine is found. That vaccine might never happen, so then what?

[James Wright @jegwright]

@nclarey There is a strategy, the tier lockdown for local hot spots. There is evidence that’s not enough so now there is a decision to lockdown nationwide. I am not defending BJ but anyone expecting any leader to get this right is being unreasonable.

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@nclarey The difficulty is it’s not exactly clear what “the right thing” is.

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@danielsamuels I recommend deleting Facebook. It’s liberating and resolves the notification issue.

[James Wright @jegwright]

@danielsamuels They only play music when they have run out of ice cream. At least that’s what I tell the kids.

[Virus Bulletin @virusbtn]

Bromium reports a malicious spam campaign targeting German organisations is spreading the Buran ransomware https://t.co/pBkG6D9zsS

[Alex @cryptogramfan]

#Buran is a family of commodity #ransomware that we recently saw targeting German orgs through #eFax malspam campaigns delivering Buran v5 (aka "Generation V"). Its devs advertise it as a ransomware-as-a-service scheme, taking a 25% cut of paid ransoms.

https://t.co/wMfAZbHNZj