[charidee] Geek toy

[Paul Makepeace]

I have acquired a simple scan+reset portable radio receiver (includes
small torch light!) from somewhere in Asia that will receive Korea &
Japan band FM radio which together stretch 78MHz to 108MHz. Ordinary UK
& US allocations go from 88-108 of course.

Anyone who wants it mail me with some kind of offer which'll end
up with YAS.

Paul (on a [bank]roll now)

-- 
Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/

"If we climb it, then richard van Lesbian's cockney accent would have
 been perfect!"
   -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

Re: rack you brains

[Anthony Newman]

Simon Wistow wrote:

Of the many cool features (well, I think they're cool. Please leave any
"Google 0wnZ! Y4h00! is d4 sUXz" arguments firmly out of the way) one of
them, Direct Display, allows us to inline relevant things at the top of
the page. For example
a Currency Converter
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=currency+converter
 

Avoirdupois weights and measures converter for non-UK resident perl mongers?

Ant

Re: rack you brains

[David Cantrell]

On Monday, July 28, 2003 12:00 pm +0100 Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=cal+08+2003
OK, own up, how many of you tried appending ;echo+haxorred or similar to 
that url?

--
David Cantrell

Re: meetings

[Nicholas Clark]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
> > When's the next one? And where?
> 
> Emergency social on the -1th of August (ie 31st July) at the Calthorpe Arms
> because R. Geoffrey Avery and Claes Jacobson are in town.
> 
> I should probably mail the announce list about this.

There has been some grumbling on IRC that the Calthorpe Arms is not a
good location. If you want it to be elsewhere, please suggest another
pub that is 

* conveniently located for all (typically that means inside the Circle line,
  or at least zone 1)
* that will have space sufficient in case >12 people turn up
* does food
* easy for our visitors to find.

Usually places that we've been to before meet these criteria.

And if someone else suggest places that they don't realise fail to meet
one or more of the above criteria, please explain why.

And do it fast - before noon tomorrow. Else we will go to the Calthorpe
Arms (even though I don't really like it), given that I know that it does
meet the above criteria.

For information Geoffrey is staying somewhere near Kings Cross, and
Claes is staying with Arthur which IIRC is somewhere up near Old Street.

This message is on topic because it is about beer. Therefore I do not
need to mention Buffy.

Nicholas Clark

Re: meetings

[Claes Jacobsson]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
> > When's the next one? And where?
> 
> Emergency social on the -1th of August (ie 31st July) at the Calthorpe Arms
> because R. Geoffrey Avery and Claes Jacobson are in town.

Sounds nice. The only problem is that I'm flying home to Stockholm on thursday evening 
at 18.15

/claes

Re: meetings

[Nicholas Clark]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote:
> When's the next one? And where?

Emergency social on the -1th of August (ie 31st July) at the Calthorpe Arms
because R. Geoffrey Avery and Claes Jacobson are in town.

I should probably mail the announce list about this.

The regular social is the week after, and is the 5th anniversary meeting.

Nicholas Clark

Re: iCal meetings?

[Dave Cross]

From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7/28/03 1:39:13 PM

> I'm loathed ...

You're not. We all _love_ you :)

Dave...

-- 


"Let me see you make decisions, without your television"
   - Depeche Mode (Stripped)

Re: iCal meetings?

[Leo Lapworth]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> I'm quite happy to actually maintain the ics file myself, it's the parsing
> and turning it into something else that I need someone else to do.

I know someone working on Text::vCal which should parse ics - I think,
he's the author of Text::vFile - which will be great - once it actually
works :)

Leo

Re: iCal meetings?

[Steve Purkis]

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 02:39  pm, Mark Fowler wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Steve Purkis wrote:

Well, I don't mind maintaining an official London.pm .ics file if you
like.  Though I'd need webdav access to do that easily from iCal.  Can
email as a last resort.
I'm quite happy to actually maintain the ics file myself, it's the 
parsing
That's cool.

and turning it into something else that I need someone else to do.
What else would you like to turn it into?


I'm loathed to have more than one offical source of information, as I 
know
they'll end up contradicting each other.
Makes sense.  Which is why I was thinking of a bot that scans the list. 
 But if you're doing the whole .ics thing anyway, there's not much 
point.

-Steve

Re: iCal meetings?

[Chris Benson]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:08:15PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> And doubly so, since as you can see on the same page, the Best Game award 
> went to Frozen Bubble, a game written in... Perl (yes, it's possible, and it 
> even looks really good).
> 
>   http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
> 
> Next month, when none of you have finished any of your projects, don't blame 
> me :)

Never a true-er work spoken.  Damned thing :-(   

-- 
Chris Benson

Re: iCal meetings?

[Mark Fowler]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Steve Purkis wrote:

> Well, I don't mind maintaining an official London.pm .ics file if you
> like.  Though I'd need webdav access to do that easily from iCal.  Can
> email as a last resort.

I'm quite happy to actually maintain the ics file myself, it's the parsing
and turning it into something else that I need someone else to do.

I'm loathed to have more than one offical source of information, as I know
they'll end up contradicting each other.

-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
print q{Mark Fowler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://twoshortplanks.com/};

Re: iCal meetings?

[Robin Berjon]

Simon Wistow wrote:
Perl[tm] (which I hear is a 
groovy new, award winning language [0]).

[0] http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6995
And doubly so, since as you can see on the same page, the Best Game award went 
to Frozen Bubble, a game written in... Perl (yes, it's possible, and it even 
looks really good).

  http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

Next month, when none of you have finished any of your projects, don't blame me :)

--
Robin Berjon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Research Engineer, Expwayhttp://expway.fr/
7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE  8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488

Re: iCal meetings?

[Simon Wistow]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:26:54PM +0100, Steve Purkis said:
> Well, I don't mind maintaining an official London.pm .ics file if you 
> like.  Though I'd need webdav access to do that easily from iCal.  Can 
> email as a last resort.

I'm currently attempting to muster up the energy to write a .ics 
parser/generator which should make it easy to generate files sufficently 
far in advance using the mighty power of Perl[tm] (which I hear is a 
groovy new, award winning language [0]).

Simon

[0] http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6995

Re: iCal meetings?

[Steve Purkis]

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:53  am, Leo Lapworth wrote:

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:30:03AM +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:
http://husk.org/misc/irc/london.pm.ics
oooh, shiny. :)

Still, would be handy to have an official, auto-generated one on
london.pm.org.  Maybe another template?  or a bot that subscribes to
the list to do proper updates.. get all the emergency socials, and all
that.
Steve - very nice of you to offer to maintain it / write the code :)
Just email me the file(s) (and updates) and I'll put it on the site.
hrmm..  right after I sent that, I had a feeling of impending doom. :)

Well, I don't mind maintaining an official London.pm .ics file if you 
like.  Though I'd need webdav access to do that easily from iCal.  Can 
email as a last resort.

As for automating it, if enough people would actually use it I can look 
into it when I get some free time.

-Steve

rack you brains

[Simon Wistow]

Yahoo Europe recently launched a complete redesign (with masterminding, 
machination and studly coding by at least two london.pm members - one of 
whom recoded part of the search engine so that it simultaneously 
searched, solved an arbitary n-dminsion moebius maze and was also 
formatted to look like a squirrel playing a banjo [0]) 

Of the many cool features (well, I think they're cool. Please leave any
"Google 0wnZ! Y4h00! is d4 sUXz" arguments firmly out of the way) one of
them, Direct Display, allows us to inline relevant things at the top of
the page. For example

a Currency Converter
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=currency+converter

... Sports News ...
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=manchester+united

And my favourite ...
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=cal
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=cal+08+2003 

I'm thinking of doing a link to search.cpan and maybe a "cow say" 
feature 

http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/orr.html

Anybody else got any bright ideas? 

Simon


[0] may not *actually* have happened. Although I can see Alex's face and 
the ObFu part of his brain is starting to throb in a worryingly "I've 
just had an idea" way.

-- 
stay up late ... if we want to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] YAPC::Europe Auction

[Richard Clamp]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:42:38PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> On the other hand, given that the sum raised was so substantial (an 
> also in light of how search.cpan.org went to orange for a bit even 
> though the "orange" group lost, in honour of the substantial bid, as I 
> understood), wouldn't it be a nice gesture to offer a full year?
> 
> I mean, if 200 euros would have made the page French until the end of 
> the year, surely 1372 euros can do so for an entire year?

Based upon my understanding of auctions it would have required 1372
euros to make it French, for the agreed time period.

If anything by your logic we could expect to see both sites being
English for a period of time as a gesture towards the losing side, but
that would still be up to the respective leaders of Paris and
London.pm.

-- 
Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [P1mpage] rack you brains

[alex]

I think you missed out that extra tag in the subject line simon.

bad si.

al
ps and yes, it's all done in 4 lines.


> Yahoo Europe recently launched a complete redesign (with masterminding,
> machination and studly coding by at least two london.pm members - one of
> whom recoded part of the search engine so that it simultaneously
> searched, solved an arbitary n-dminsion moebius maze and was also
> formatted to look like a squirrel playing a banjo [0])
>
> Of the many cool features (well, I think they're cool. Please leave any
> "Google 0wnZ! Y4h00! is d4 sUXz" arguments firmly out of the way) one of
> them, Direct Display, allows us to inline relevant things at the top of
> the page. For example
>
> a Currency Converter
> http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=currency+converter
>
> ... Sports News ...
> http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=manchester+united
>
> And my favourite ...
> http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=cal
> http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/ukie?p=cal+08+2003
>
> I'm thinking of doing a link to search.cpan and maybe a "cow say"
> feature
>
> http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/orr.html
>
> Anybody else got any bright ideas?
>
> Simon
>
>
> [0] may not *actually* have happened. Although I can see Alex's face and
> the ObFu part of his brain is starting to throb in a worryingly "I've
> just had an idea" way.
>
> --
> stay up late ... if we want to
>
>

Re: iCal meetings?

[Leo Lapworth]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:30:03AM +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:
> >http://husk.org/misc/irc/london.pm.ics
> 
> oooh, shiny. :)
> 
> Still, would be handy to have an official, auto-generated one on 
> london.pm.org.  Maybe another template?  or a bot that subscribes to 
> the list to do proper updates.. get all the emergency socials, and all 
> that.

Steve - very nice of you to offer to maintain it / write the code :)

Just email me the file(s) (and updates) and I'll put it on the site.

Cheers

Leo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] YAPC::Europe Auction

[Philip Newton]

On 27 Jul 2003 at 17:24, Richard Clamp wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 05:21:03PM +0100, Michael Chamberlain wrote:
> > >So, in conclusion both London.pm and Paris.pm will have their homepage
> > >in Esperanto until the end of the year.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > You mean for the next 12 months, not until december ;)
> 
> No, until the end of the year.

On the other hand, given that the sum raised was so substantial (an 
also in light of how search.cpan.org went to orange for a bit even 
though the "orange" group lost, in honour of the substantial bid, as I 
understood), wouldn't it be a nice gesture to offer a full year?

I mean, if 200 euros would have made the page French until the end of 
the year, surely 1372 euros can do so for an entire year?

Koraj salutoj,
Filipo.
-- 
Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: iCal meetings?

[Steve Purkis]

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 10:39  am, Paul Mison wrote:

On 28/07/2003 at 10:06 +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:
Anybody ever think of publishing the london.pm meets as an .ics file 
on
the website?  Unfortunately the maths for 'the thursday after the 
first
wednesday' isn't supported by iCal ATM ;)
Yes. It's not official, and since I really don't like iCal much, and I 
don't promise it's at all up to date. But:

http://husk.org/misc/irc/london.pm.ics
oooh, shiny. :)

Still, would be handy to have an official, auto-generated one on 
london.pm.org.  Maybe another template?  or a bot that subscribes to 
the list to do proper updates.. get all the emergency socials, and all 
that.

-Steve

Re: iCal meetings?

[Steve Purkis]

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 10:13  am, Roger Burton West wrote:

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:06:00AM +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:

Anybody ever think of publishing the london.pm meets as an .ics file 
on
the website?  Unfortunately the maths for 'the thursday after the 
first
wednesday' isn't supported by iCal ATM ;)
Does it support "the Thursday in date range 2-8 inclusive"?
Not that I can see...

-stv

Re: iCal meetings?

[Paul Mison]

On 28/07/2003 at 10:06 +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:
Anybody ever think of publishing the london.pm meets as an .ics file on
the website?  Unfortunately the maths for 'the thursday after the first
wednesday' isn't supported by iCal ATM ;)
Yes. It's not official, and since I really don't like iCal much, and 
I don't promise it's at all up to date. But:

http://husk.org/misc/irc/london.pm.ics

Now, if only there were nice DateTime modules to play with the ics 
format. (The people I'm prodding with this know who I am.)

--
:: paul
:: compiles with canadian cs1471 protocol

iCal meetings?

[Steve Purkis]

say...

Anybody ever think of publishing the london.pm meets as an .ics file on 
the website?  Unfortunately the maths for 'the thursday after the first 
wednesday' isn't supported by iCal ATM ;)

-Steve

Re: iCal meetings?

[Roger Burton West]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:06:00AM +0100, Steve Purkis wrote:

>Anybody ever think of publishing the london.pm meets as an .ics file on 
>the website?  Unfortunately the maths for 'the thursday after the first 
>wednesday' isn't supported by iCal ATM ;)

Does it support "the Thursday in date range 2-8 inclusive"?

R