Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-15 Thread Sue Spence
2009/11/15 David Landgren > I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up > on the cont...@perl.org queue. > > (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point > me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?) > > I think the module

Re: New www.perl.org site

2009-11-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 15 Nov 2009, at 12:49, Denny wrote: > > That said, I do regret buying a flat through Foxtons, for reasons > unrelated to the website. :) > I have a stock of ten-foot bargepoles here. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkins

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-15 Thread Gordon Joly
David Landgren wrote: I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up on the cont...@perl.org queue. http://search.cpan.org/~jwalt/Acme-Lingua-NIGERIAN-1.0.0/NIGERIAN.pm It is probably difficult to judge this. There is a 419 in most of our mailboxen, for sure, f

Re: Weekend entertainment

2009-11-15 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 15 Nov 2009, at 11:51, David Landgren wrote: > > I personally as a Nigerian demand an apology from you for embarrassing me > and my country. Your apology should also be posted on CPAN and any other > place you might have posted the module. "Sure, just send me £5k."

Re: New www.perl.org site

2009-11-15 Thread Denny
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 11:50 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > It does surprise me a bit that over the past five or more years none of > Foxtons' competition ever manage to escape rule 1 long enough to ask > "why doesn't our site work as well as theirs?" When I was house-hunting I got the impression t

Weekend entertainment

2009-11-15 Thread David Landgren
I wanted to share this... Some people have no sense of humour. This came up on the cont...@perl.org queue. (I shall compose a message saying Acme is fun, etc. etc. Can anyone point me to other similar Acme modules to put this in context?) Dear Sir, Let me begin by saying that I am really dis

Re: New www.perl.org site

2009-11-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:03:53PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: > I note that the sIFR on perl.org degrades gracefully when faced with > FlashBlock, which is nice and shows somebody had a bout of common > sense. (It's nonsense like sIFR that had me install FlashBlock in the > first place.) Y

Re: New www.perl.org site

2009-11-15 Thread Simon Elliott
>>> >>> Goodness me, whatever next? I should keep quiet about this if I was >>> you, because if people hear that you can actually get things done >>> rather than getting entrenched in the prevailing mindset that's >>> holding back improvements, a whole bunch of work will be coming your >>> way. >