RE: the latest booking list

2002-02-08 Thread Richard Clyne
I'd guess that Greg views that Greg is not one of the trouble makers. Id also suspect he is confused between 19 and 21. Richard -Original Message- From: Leo Lapworth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 February 2002 08:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the latest booking

Re: the latest booking list

2002-02-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Newton, == Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Newton, Greg McCarroll wrote: i count 19 trouble makers out of 22, and no i didn't count myself ;-) Newton, /me smiles innocently Good thing I didn't put myself on that list publicly. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: the latest booking list

2002-02-08 Thread Andy Wardley
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:29:55PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: ok, here is our latest booking list . Andy Wardley This man is a fool. He's already got accomodation sorted. Please ignore him. Or better still, call him names and mock him in public. Put a

Last night's social

2002-02-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
Last night was fun; good to see people. What did people think of the venue? Do we want to go back there again? Do we want to go to the same place every month, or swap around? Things that people who weren't there won't know: we were in the cellar bar, which is down a flight of stairs, but there

Re: JOB: Web Support Engineer (£80k)

2002-02-08 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Dave Cross wrote: Barclays Capital are looking for web support engineer. It's a permie job and will pay up to £80k. !!! Whimper. How was the social? L. Pick a card. Any card. No, not that one.

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:51:11PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'm actually slightly surprised they don't push Python since that's their internal language preference for the crawler, which is a pretty sophisticated piece of code from what I've heard. s/the crawler/prototypes/; Guido

Re: Last night's social

2002-02-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:03:51PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: Last night was fun; good to see people. What did people think of the venue? Do we want to go back there again? Do we want to go to the same place every month, or swap around? I liked the venue. I'd be happy to go back. I'd prefer

gcov/xs trickery.

2002-02-08 Thread Richard Clamp
Last night at the London.pm meeting I mentioned to Nick Clark that I was puzzling over the problem of ensuring suitable test coverage for .xs modules, to which he kindly put me out of my misery and pointed me at gcov. This is the recipie I'm currently working on. It's a little messy, and

Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
Curious instructions as seen on an Organic Columbian Blacktail Free Range Eggs eggbox: Store point end downwards and away from strongly flavoured foods. This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable for use in Lilliput. Nicholas Clark -- EMCFT

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: Curious instructions as seen on an Organic Columbian Blacktail Free Range Eggs eggbox: Store point end downwards and away from strongly flavoured foods. This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable for use in

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Graham Seaman
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: Curious instructions as seen on an Organic Columbian Blacktail Free Range Eggs eggbox: Store point end downwards and away from strongly flavoured foods. This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable for use in Lilliput.

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Alex Gough
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable for use in Lilliput. It's about time we did the right thing here: legalize little endians! Or, for maximum amusement use the Lilliputian

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Curious instructions as seen on an Organic Columbian Blacktail Free Range Eggs eggbox: Store point end downwards and away from strongly flavoured foods. This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable for use in Lilliput.

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:54:08AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: But of course, a lot of the current problems both down in Columbia and back up here in the US would be greatly diminished if we would just think sensibly and legalize little endianness. It's obviously what a lot of people want, and

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:20, Nicholas Clark wrote: Or alternatively, just drink loads more coffee. As I understand it, it grows in the same climatic conditions, so increasing coffee demand considerably would price out the alternatives that might want to be grown. [and likewise eat many

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:54:08AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: But of course, a lot of the current problems both down in Columbia and back up here in the US would be greatly diminished if we would just think sensibly and legalize little endianness.

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread Chris Devers
On 8 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote: Ha! All Americans know banannas come from Canada. At least since Reagan was president. When we started the embargo against Nicaragua, we started buying our banannas from Canada. And to think that the Republicans don't believe in global warming... ;)

projects

2002-02-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
Out of interest, who here, in the last year or so have avoided getting involved in some project, such as NMS, Perl Certification, One day conferences, early P5EE discussions etc. etc. Because they felt they were too junior or too outside the circle to be involved. Or even simply haven't

Re: projects

2002-02-08 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: Out of interest, who here, in the last year or so have avoided getting involved in some project, such as NMS, Perl Certification, One day conferences, early P5EE discussions etc. etc. Because they felt they were too junior or too outside the circle

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:54:58PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: On 8 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote: Ha! All Americans know banannas come from Canada. At least since Reagan was president. When we started the embargo against Nicaragua, we started buying our banannas from Canada. And to

Re: Columbia is Lilliput

2002-02-08 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:22:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: Curious instructions as seen on an Organic Columbian Blacktail Free Range Eggs eggbox: Store point end downwards and away from strongly flavoured foods. This makes these eggs big endian, doesn't it? And therefore suitable

Charing CSM double-room for YAPC::Europe Munchen

2002-02-08 Thread Kåre Olai Lindbach
I have tried this mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], and Greg McCarroll suggested that I might try here also Regarding the YAPC::Europe 2002 Munchen event, I will try here to air the possibility of saving some money by sharing a room with a room-mate. (And then spend them on something else ;-) I