Simon Kirk

Into people, Systems Thinking, Theory of Constraints, Lean, Agile and all that. Smalltalker. Erstwhile Physics student. Fond of the odd beer or two.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Looks like the BBC Presenter story did what was intended and drove off the front page the fact Johnson failed to hand over his notebooks and phones as required by law.
No doubt Murdoch will be calling in that favour very soon.

[MARK O'CONNELL - Writer, Author, Bond fan @Mark0Connell]

'Zis is ze way!'

Listen very carefully, I will take my mask off only once... I have been hearing this for three seasons now and needed to share!

#TheMandalorian #AlloAllo #Mando

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@AzureDevOps Please update your status about the ongoing outage, since you're now ~ an hour overdue from when you said your last status update would be? https://t.co/qDwttt5QrV

[Kirsty Kearney-Greig @k__k_g]

At first I was like 😮 this can't be real! But then I was like sure it can, examples like this popup everyday by teams who just focus on shipping & don't talk to their users...

Yes its hard to make time/get budget for but even the smallest of touch points can make a difference🧟‍♂️

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@guspower @mfloryan I do similar, except I use “capacity���. Same idea though.

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@Ebstar Staring blearily at the screen, trying to muster the will to get *another* coffee

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

Staring blearily at the screen, trying to muster the will to get a coffee

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@TLRailUK Where should they be? On the windows or on the outside of the doors themselves?

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@TLRailUK 4th train (today, the 08:04 Northbound from Horsham) in two days with no on-board wifi. Given the terrible Cellular blackspots on the way to London Bridge, this lack is pretty lame. Should we expect it to be this unavailable?

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@TLRailUK And again today (09:33 from Gatwick Airport, car number is 401117).

No wifi, and power sockets also not working in rear carriage.

So including yesterday’s trip home that’s now 6th train in a row and counting.

Here’s hoping for this evening on the way home!

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@TLRailUK Sure, but these are newish trains that have had wifi on them every day until recently, with the odd exception. Hence why I’m asking. I get the feeling it’s broken down and nobody’s doing anything about it.

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@CommitteeHart Good call, I’ll look for that next time, thanks!

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

On train. Sitting at table. My laptop screen just pressed up against the laptop screen of the chap opposite. I said "sorry we might..." He immediately replied "...kiss?". He is now appalled. We are sitting in silence, alone. England is good.

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@PapaChrisMatts @jchyip Feels more like an _answer_ (in the spirit of 5 whys) to the first question...

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@mfloryan With apologies to Greenrd’s law!

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@RonJeffries @PapaChrisMatts @johncutlefish @pivotalcf @absoludicrous Perhaps necessary for those attempting who also lack experience? Analogous to the decision to TDD (or not) by experienced devs.

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@AzureSupport Thanks for responding. The forum link didn’t help but we eventually found the VM (it may have been related to a migration from PAYG to CSP). Thanks for your help.

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@AzureSupport Hi there! I have a Windows VM we created for testing. I am connected to that VM via RDP *right now*, but it cannot be found in the Azure portal! Any ideas?

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@AzureSupport Thanks for responding. I’ve tried on both different browsers and private sessions, and sadly it still doesn’t show up.

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@joshuajames @PapaChrisMatts This was the twitter thread I’ve been waiting to read ever since @PapaChrisMatts wrote his blog… hoping he responds as I’m very interested in where this goes! (And I don’t mean a fight)

[Simon Kirk @skirk]

@EE Hello there. Please can you let me know what’s happened to the 4G data signal on the cell in the East Croydon area? Several days in a row now, almost all data packets dropped, basically zero connectivity!