Chris Harrison

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Ex-academic, ex-coder, now teacher; @vestarowing VP, season ticket at @quinsrugbyunion. Ultrarunning, quizzing, InfoSec, opinions.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@British_Airways things go wrong, I get it. But when you cancel a flight (e.g. from Miami 3 hours ago) there are ways of handling it and this time your staff on the ground were not up to the task. Absolutely terrible experience.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@harlequinspod Despite the mistakes

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

. @virginmedia broadband down in SW19 with a 48 hour ETA. And I pay *how*much*? Not for much longer.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@BatCavePhil @DieselDave12345 In 2011 public drains became the responsibility of the water companies - an austerity win! - another instance of the lack of follow-up of their regulation.

[Kate isn't really here any more @katebevan]

Bit tired of "ooh bad journalists didn't cover the Post Office scandal". It's been covered for years: there have been two Panoramas, coverage of the court cases going back years, Radio 4 has done a series, Private Eye has been all over it, Computer Weekly has been on it for years

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

And while the NHS model is not unique, the U.K. is the largest country to provide such a service and as such we have an incredible level of super-specialism.

That all goes away with an insurance based model. Hospitals rely more on generalists than specialists.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

This map perfectly shows how the UK and Ireland can be the Saudi Arabia of wind power. I think we are unexcited by wind-power in part because we assume that everyone gets to benefit from it. Framed in terms of comparative advantage, it's much more potent.

https://t.co/XNOKkkXbtY

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

TIL every time you say “he is toast,” you are paying homage to that great linguistic innovator, Bill Murray.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@virginmedia broadband down. Status page down. Phone line not being answered. App authentication mechanism unavailable.

A fine time to have just received a letter telling me you're raising the prices by 15% ...

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@harlequinspod NEv, without a shadow of a doubt.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

Third party apps still not working for me.

I'm done here.

Goodbye all.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

Quite. Wordle 572 2/6*

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[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

The irony of the front cover, only (checks postmark) 4 weeks late. @RoyalMail @PrivateEyeNews

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

Robert Gordon 👏👏👏 #UniversityChallenge

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

Soggy #COYQ #HARvSAL

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

I think @britishairways should spend more money on their abysmal customer "service" than this papering over of nonexistent problems. https://t.co/Uki7h5U0v2

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

Dear @Strava can I suggest a new year's resolution? Just automatically flag any segment where the pace exceeds a comparable world record for that distance. The segments are a key USP for you and the data are easily validated, so why don't you?

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@markofagenius Hmm. Perhaps if the job paid tolerably well, that might solve several problems.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@deworde @JonnElledge Of course; and history, chemistry, computing and everything else. Mind you, dyslexia affects numbers too.

[Chris Harrison @unsliced]

@worgztheowl And to learn R/SQL/Numpy or whatever it is @ZaltzCricket uses on @bbctms 🤓