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James McGillivray

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Father. Microsoft Data Consultant and Director at Cobalt Analytics | Speaker - PowerBI World Tour / PASS Summit / SQLBits | MCSE Data Analytics & Management | Cricket | Arsenal | Musical Theatre 🚻 He/Him

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How did the ref find an extra minute to add on for City?

04.03.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s bad, but I refuse to believe he’s worse for Arsenal than Oliver.

04.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would bite off your arm for 3 months of heart attack inducing matches that end up with us winning the title

01.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

27.02.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Counting, or limiting? Because given that you know the calorie value per ounce, you can prevent even more washing by drinking the whole bottle πŸ€”

26.02.2026 05:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Roy Keane, well known for not being emotional or impulsive πŸ™„

25.02.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kiev. Seems symbolic today

24.02.2026 07:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@orbinho.bsky.social

Is there a way to look at the Arsenal game states in the periods of games after Gyokeres has been taken off?

Feels like that despite all the (justified) criticism of his lack of effect on games, we have frequently surrendered advantages when he has gone off.

20.02.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unexpected Item in bagging area?
Something to do with a free scratch card

18.02.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There wasn’t much waiting/uncertainty in Riverdale πŸ˜‚

12.02.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I also have Mike McDonald on my mind a lot.

11.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of me at 5:15AM in Johannesburg, South Africa, celebrating the Seahawks win, wearing all my Seahawks Apparel and drinking tea from my Seahawks mug!

Photo of me at 5:15AM in Johannesburg, South Africa, celebrating the Seahawks win, wearing all my Seahawks Apparel and drinking tea from my Seahawks mug!

21 Weeks of Crazy Late Nights and Crazy Early Mornings. All worth it!!! Sam Darnold, WHAT A STORY!! #SuperBowl Champs!! #GoHawks #12s

09.02.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of me at 5:15am in Johannesburg, South Africa, celebrating the Seahawks win with a cup of tea in my Seahawks mug

Photo of me at 5:15am in Johannesburg, South Africa, celebrating the Seahawks win with a cup of tea in my Seahawks mug

21 weeks of staying up crazy late, or waking up crazy early. Definitely all worth it!! #GoHawks #12s

09.02.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I like owls too! Let’s pretend that’s why I woke up at 01:30

09.02.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would love to watch the Green Day set live, but it means waking up at 00:30 instead of 01:30, and that just seems not great.

Will watch it over the course of the adverts

08.02.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’ll be cumming round the mountain

08.02.2026 07:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My dad had something similar, it was a notification that had been enabled on his browser. I’m sure you’ve already checked this, but just in case.

03.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess that makes sense. Would guess that the lower the level of the code, the fewer ways there are to do something. I’ve been using it to assist with Powershell cmdlets, and when I’ve shown people they have pointed out that there are existing cmdlets that could be used to make it more efficient

03.02.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno about expert. But I would say Senior, or Advanced Intermediate. Been very impressed with a number of solutions it has generated for me in tech I’m not strong in. But when I show it to actual experts they point out that it can be quite inefficient, even though it’s correct.

03.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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As of this morning, I am on the job market, #OpenToWork, or however that is designated here. πŸ™‚ I’m immediately looking for a new position, and my DMs are open. Thanks network!

02.02.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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27.01.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s 19:30 in Johannesburg, and I’m about to collapse into bed thanks to my 01:30 wake up this morning for the game!

26.01.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SEAHAWKS!!!!! Waking up at 1:30AM totally worth it for that! Love this team!

26.01.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me too! Worth waking up at 3am to watch it!!

18.01.2026 06:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
My Lego display shelf. Includes 5 Star Wars Dioramas, both Friends sets, one Harry Potter set and the Disney castle. Currently unorganised

My Lego display shelf. Includes 5 Star Wars Dioramas, both Friends sets, one Harry Potter set and the Disney castle. Currently unorganised

Very nice. Can you share a link with the exact light? I moved my sets in to the new room yesterday, still planning the project out (and need to scrape/treat some damp that was hidden by the previous furniture)

16.01.2026 07:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, I am getting started on doing exactly the same thing. Looks great! Did you use one long light strip with sections programmed, or multiple lights?

16.01.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When I was a junior report writer, the Enterprise Architect at the company I was working for told me, β€œArchitecture is a series of trade-offs. Good Architecture is ensuring that the business take responsibility for the choice of trade-offs”. Feels like this exists very closely to your statement.

15.01.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s a great observation Daniel! Would you like me to provide an additional set of questions you can ask which I can compliment you on? Or draft a LinkedIn post highlighting how your observations can be applied for B2B sales?

14.01.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s 28Β° here too. But we use Celsius, so it’s comfortable not /s comfortable 😊

14.01.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did. I’m embarrassed to admit that early on in my career I spent a lot of time making the ugliest and least useful graphs ever! Not because I wanted to, just because I did not know any better.

Being truly awful at something is a great starting point to learn some solid theory πŸ˜‚

14.01.2026 10:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0