Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Natalie S. Ford
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Also something about a lack of girly drinks. What would you consider a girly drink? Baileys? Southern Comfort? From what I remember, the CoY did not do *real* southern comfort - only an inferior clone... -- Natalie S. Ford

Re: [OT] Credit cards

2002-05-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:13:06AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm looking for a credit card with a 0% rate on balance transfers for n months for some n = 6. Being able to manage it over the web would be very good too. I already have an Egg card, so aside from that, any

Emergency Dim Sum!

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Kake needs steamed dumplings and fatty pork! So do I! Join us at the New World today, 1pm and help stave off the emergency. -- Piers It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite. -- Jane Austen?

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread the hatter
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Natalie S. Ford wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Also something about a lack of girly drinks. What would you consider a girly drink? Baileys? Southern Comfort? From what I remember, the CoY did not do *real* southern comfort -

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also something about a lack of girly drinks. What would you consider a girly drink? al_murray pint for the fella, white wine or fruit-based drink for the lady

Re: [OT] Credit cards

2002-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:13:06AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm looking for a credit card with a 0% rate on balance transfers for n months for some n = 6. Being able to manage it over the web would be very good too. I already

Re: [OT] Credit cards

2002-05-23 Thread lpm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignoring the grumpiness aspect, he does have some good advice in as I've replied off-line rather than bickering about it here. much as uk.finance is very good for this sort of question. I occasionally read it at the minute for mortgage reasons and its proved very

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 23 May 2002, the hatter wrote: I was meaning more of the smirnoff ice variety, no alcopops at all. Smirnoff Ice isn't an alcopop. It's beer (just not the type you have to pull on handles to pour.) Not even any red bull. ENOTVR! -- s'' Mark Fowler

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, 22 May 2002 17:57:25 +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: So, I get the impression that discerning hackers use Debian, not only on this list but from yapcs and so. Why is that? I started using Debian because it was the only distribution I could find at the time which supported m68k

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: My m68k box is now sitting neglected on my desk at home with a tiny disk, no ^^ networking, and comparitively ancient Debian installation. I haven't

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Chris Heathcote
on 23/5/02 10:57 am, Mark Fowler wrote: Smirnoff Ice isn't an alcopop. It's beer (just not the type you have to pull on handles to pour.) Smirnoff Ice in America contains no vodka. 30,000 bottles of Bacardi Breezer are sold in the UK every hour. The next big bottle trend is going to be

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Simon Wistow
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Chris Heathcote said: Smirnoff Ice in America contains no vodka. Smirnoff Ice is a weird drink ... What is SMIRNOFF ICE^(TM)? SMIRNOFF ICE^(TM) is a beer alternative brewed using a malt base that gives ICE a refreshing citrus flavored taste. Does

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Chris Heathcote wrote: The next big bottle trend is going to be fruity beer... I think it's Grolsch that's introducing beer with 4 different fruit flavours added. Cherry flavoured beer! What will they ever *cough* De Hems *cough* think of next. -- s'' Mark Fowler

5.005_03 v 5.6.1

2002-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
Does anyone have any strong feelings (or even weak ones) about 5.005_03 vs 5.6.1. I'd be especially interested in any stories/feelings connected with Solaris or Oracle. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Niklas Nordebo
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:17:51AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Does SMIRNOFF ICE^(TM) have vodka? NO. SMIRNOFF ICE^(TM) was created as a beer alternative; brewing it using a malt base enabled us to create a recipe that could be sold and consumed just like a beer here in the United States.

Re: 5.005_03 v 5.6.1

2002-05-23 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Does anyone have any strong feelings (or even weak ones) about 5.005_03 vs 5.6.1. I'd be especially interested in any stories/feelings connected with Solaris or Oracle. For starters the direct 5.6.0 dislike, but it also

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Cross
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:40:15AM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also something about a lack of girly drinks. What would you consider a

Re: Fwd: [Strange Attractor] Esperanto!

2002-05-23 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 10 May 2002, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed June 5th is Esperanto Evening at the Horse Hospital behind Russell Sq. Included is a rare showing of Incubus the only Esperanto film that famously stars William Shatner. I'm up for this; anyone else going to come along? Kake

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Redvers Davies
So, what distro do people prefer and why? What's better in Debian than in Distro X? What's bad about distro X? soapbox I would switch immediatly to any distribution that didn't split up libraries and header files. What is the big deal of having them there? shurely its more effort to

Forwarded : Excellent Contract in Holland

2002-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
this may interest some of you ... - Forwarded message from Taylor, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Taylor, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Excellent Contract in Holland Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:13:30 +0100

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:40:15AM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also something about a lack of

Re: Forwarded : Excellent Contract in Holland

2002-05-23 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:59:26PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: this may interest some of you ... If you are not available but you know somebody who is please pass this e-mail on. Not only will you find a friend or collegue a job in a difficult market but we will send you a complimentary

[JOB] Re: Forwarded : Excellent Contract in Holland

2002-05-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nicholas Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Presumably the bottle of champagne is what would interest many people here. i didnt actually noticed that, i just sort of thought - Job, some people want one, Amsterdam, some people have lived there. So I forwarded it. -- Greg McCarroll

[jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Leon Brocard
[Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? Leon - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, 23 May 2002 11:07:14 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: My m68k box is now sitting neglected on my desk at home with a tiny disk, no networking, and comparitively ancient Debian installation. I haven't ^^

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer -Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom,London]

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. -- Piers It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:54:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible.

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer -Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom,London]

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:54:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? No. The

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Cooper
No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. That's what I was thinking. They're paying bad salary rates but for a contract-length period. Hell yes. £2033 after tax per month for three months. Some people would love to be earning that much lately (i.e. better than £0 per