Re: Functional Grammar is fun (apparently)

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony Fisher
Kristian Flint wrote: > We?re trying to find some code in different languages which essentially > performs the same task, this led us Programming contest entries? Anthony -- To contact me directly please apply s/lists/aef/ to my address.

Books for sale

2010-10-18 Thread Anthony Fisher
Dear London.ebay, I've decided to remove wads of dead-tree from my life. Accordingly, I'm selling loads of books, many of which are actually quite good. Details here: http://www.anthonysblog.org/books.html Anthony -- To contact me directly please apply s/lists/aef/ to my address.

Re: Founding a Perlmongers group

2010-02-18 Thread Anthony Fisher
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:56:09PM +0000, Anthony Fisher wrote: > > Ovid wrote: > > > > > for cross-disciple presentations. > > > > Personally, I think it's better to keep religion separate. [snip] > The three co

Re: Founding a Perlmongers group

2010-02-17 Thread Anthony Fisher
Ovid wrote: > for cross-disciple presentations. Personally, I think it's better to keep religion separate. Anthony

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread Anthony Fisher
Dave Cross wrote: > But I need somewhere else to go. I'm thinking probably Be, but I'm open > to suggestions of other suppliers. Does anyone want to share horror > stories or recommendations? I'm surprised they haven't already been mentioned, but I recommend Bytemark. I used to have their ADSL

Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

2009-08-21 Thread Anthony Fisher
Peter Corlett wrote: > On 21 Aug 2009, at 17:27, James Laver wrote: > >My flat is a tip, my desk is atrocious and my crate of paperwork > >(unsorted of course) is getting out of control. Important tip: get a system in-place and working for new incoming stuff before you try to deal with your back

Re: Beautiful is better than ugly

2009-04-22 Thread Anthony Fisher
L?on Brocard wrote: > Alias ranted: http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38842 > > Which Perl website do you think looks the worst? Which has the worst > navigation? > > We managed to redesign london.pm.org. Is it time to do another? Some aspects of good/bad design are fairly universal, but I t

Floorspace for Thursday evening

2002-03-05 Thread Anthony Fisher
Hi, Does anyone have some floor in a spare/front room I can use on Thursday night after the social? I come complete with sleeping bag and sleeping mat, and can be fairly quiet when getting up and out early on Friday morning. Mail me off-list, please. Tony

Re: Next social and tube strikes

2002-02-23 Thread Anthony Fisher
I vote for a postponement (because it won't really be practicak for me to come if the strike goes ahead.) Tony

Re: Newbie introduction

2002-02-21 Thread Anthony Fisher
George Dickey wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm reasonably new to Perl, I am an electronics engineer by trade and > I started playing with Perl last year as I needed to mangle some text Welcome! > I'm thinking xhtml and EmbPerl for my web site. I've already got > apache running in a basic configurati

[JOB] Oxford area, menial packing work in exciting IT company

2002-02-19 Thread anthony . fisher
for. >How much does this cost I hear you cry. Nothing! In fact Sophos will pay >participants £5 per hour for the pleasure of their company. > > >If you know of anyone who may be interested, then please let me know. > >Many thanks for your time. > >Ed ;O) -- Anthony Fish

Re: Milan (was Re: User Input at speed)

2002-02-17 Thread Anthony Fisher
Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Anthony Fisher wrote: > > > Now, this is why I want to take only a carry-on bag to YAPC::E... > > This is waht my supervisor does when he goes to Japan. Apparently, it > really confuses airport staff. I don't thin

Re: Milan (was Re: User Input at speed)

2002-02-17 Thread Anthony Fisher
Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Newton, Philip wrote: > > > [a tale which involved getting separated from luggage - AEF] > > [another tale which involved getting separated from luggage - AEF] Now, this is why I want to take only a carry-on bag to YAPC::E... but it seems that I c

Re: The Hotel Fiasco

2002-02-14 Thread anthony . fisher
Right, I really want to go for a single at the HS... but only if there are going to be a few other people there... Tony -- Anthony Fisher, Web Developer, Sophos Anti-Virus Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awards: Company of the Year Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: 01235 559933, Web

Re: Forwarded : YAPC 2002

2002-02-14 Thread anthony . fisher
My opinion is that 80-90eur per night is much more plausible (for me) than the other, higher prices. Although splitting the group is a Bad Thing, I think that this the best option :/ Tony -- Anthony Fisher, Web Developer, Sophos Anti-Virus Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awards: Company of

Re: Youth Hostel for YAPC::Europe?

2002-02-13 Thread anthony . fisher
Umm... yeah. I'm interested... if there are a few other people also going. Can people mail me off-list (my mail address is on http://2799.org/) if they are interested, and let me know *how* interested they are? Tony -- Anthony Fisher, Web Developer, Sophos Anti-Virus Real Business/CBI Gr

[JOB] Perly webby systemy stuff.

2002-01-30 Thread anthony . fisher
I got asked to pimp this... http://www.virusbtn.com/careers/ I've heard there's some Perl involved, you to could get to work in the same room as me. (But you'll have to be quick.) Tony -- Anthony Fisher, Web Developer, Sophos Anti-Virus Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awa

Re: Guns and 'puters was Re: Wingate was Re: black hat hackers

2002-01-15 Thread anthony . fisher
> whereas a .303 rifle may only cause slight bruising/annoyance. Have you ever *held* a .303 rifle? Tony -- Anthony Fisher, Web Developer, Sophos Anti-Virus Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awards: Company of the Year Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: 01235 559933, Web: www.sophos.com

LotR 5pm, Odeon TCR today (Monday)

2002-01-07 Thread Anthony Fisher
The Grue and I are going, possibly other people. Be there or be somewhere else. Tony/aef

Welsh Invasion

2002-01-03 Thread Anthony Fisher
Story of, and some photos from, our pathfinding mission to Wales last December: http://2799.org/londonpm/welsh_invasion/ (Sometimes seems very slow, this may just be my ISP.) Tony

Re: Books (sigh, again)

2001-12-09 Thread Anthony Fisher
That was meant to go to davorg, not the list. Apologies. Tony

Re: Books (sigh, again)

2001-12-09 Thread Anthony Fisher
Dave Cross wrote: > Perl for Web Site Management - AEF I will be there. Tony

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-09 Thread Anthony Fisher
Tim Sweetman wrote: > Mostly I end up spending time in the "geek-friendly" zone - amongst > people who, if not necessarily geeks, value intelligence/originality/etc > in general. Those with a broad enough outlook that they don't usually > make statements like "geeks can't form long-term relations

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-08 Thread Anthony Fisher
Tim Sweetman wrote: > *** CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING SERVICES NEWS *** > Reports are coming in of a burst stereotype main somewhere around > Holborn. Those in the local area may experience their life becoming > utterly cliched for the present. Those elsewhere will probably > experience disturbing amo

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Anthony Fisher
I also read this. (Some of the other comments in this thread are addressed in the article, by the way.) It seems clear to me, that in order to secure a future for the human race with both genetic diversity and technical skills, the government should introduce a programme whereby male geeks hav

Re: Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-04 Thread Anthony Fisher
Patrick Carmichael wrote: > > If you're alluding to Reading FC's descent towards the Unibond League, > then that doesn't actually apply to me ... Wimbledon fan, man and boy ... > so .. oh yeah .. right .. OK, point taken. No, actually I was referring to everyone's favourite cyborg, Kevin Warwi

Re: Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-01 Thread Anthony Fisher
Patrick Carmichael wrote: > Other than the inevitable cheesy picture of me wearing a Perl T-shirt and > standing beside a camel, what possible advocacy activities a.k.a. > shameless publicity stunts might be worth a try? That don't involve my > University of Reading Arrange a football contest