Re: "...damage to national security...."
You missed the 'aircraft carrier' came without aircraft
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According to QI series P, 'Parts', the pope only craps in the woods...
'The Pope is not a Roman Catholic. The religious leader who officially uses the title of "Pope" is the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria. His official title is "Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy See of Saint Mark the Apostle". '
Notepad's big failing was that it assumed DOS formatting and would display everything allononelineifithadLinuxorMac line endings (solution: open in Wordpad if Notepad++ not available)
Wordpad's RTF was handy for annotating log files to highlight the errors or for creating quick'n'dirty documents that could be loaded without waiting 5mins for Word to load
I once came across an NHS site that listed 'never events', medical incidents that should never have accrued. Alongside the 'normal' ones like wrong limbs operated on, wrong injections and the like, were a couple of 'fallen from window' events!
Luckily it appears not to have reached the epidemic levels found in Moscow's hospitals and care homes, and hopefully this isn't another symptom of misplaced cutbacks of vital services in the NHS
I was on a train and looked up at the dot matrix display at the end of the carriage... one half was clear, the other was blurred and unreadable.
It then occurred to me that it was a kind of parallax effect caused by a pole between me and the display... each eye was seeing only half of the display and my left eye had seriously changed, and until that point I hadn't noticed
Same here (until retirement). I worked a 'nine day fortnight' based on a 35hr week and HR insisted on decimal hours on the timesheet. Bank Holidays and leave days were different amounts and booking everything could be a nightmare... luckily my hours were (generally) standard, so I could book a month or so ahead and make changes where necessary
(others worked different patterns, like a straight 35hr week)
"Like adding ribbons"
Try context-sensitive ribbons/toolbars...
You discover a wonderfully useful function but it was buried 3 levels down and you can't remember the steps you took to find it and, no matter how hard you try, you never come across it again... did I imagine it?