Re: Junior-mid level Perl

2011-04-27 Thread Billy Abbott
On 27/04/2011 22:48, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 27/04/11 22:31, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: On 27 Apr 2011, at 18:08, Dave Hodgkinsondaveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 Apr 2011, at 16:55, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: On 27 Apr 2011, at 16:18, Paul Makepeace wrote: Also: geek-operated mojito bars in

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

2009-10-01 Thread Billy Abbott
lists wrote: Dave Cross wrote: Having spent 45 minutes failing to get through to Demon's tech support people last night I've finally come to the realisation that they aren't still the company that I signed up with fifteen years ago and that I should probably be looking elsewhere for my

Re: Beer was Re: Anyone drinking at the moment?

2009-09-30 Thread Billy Abbott
Steve Mynott wrote: BTW I read a report that beer in 2/3 pint measures was to be allowed in the UK. It also claimed that currently 1/3 pint measures were available and legal in the UK. I wondered if anyone had ever seen this? I don't know about the 2/3rds (although it would follow naturally

Re: Anyone drinking at the moment?

2009-09-29 Thread Billy Abbott
Ovid wrote: Gotta disagree on this one. IPA in the states is *awful*. I've had some gooduns, and not only the rather excellent cask Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA that I had the GBBF a few years back. They are normally a bit fizzy, but as long as it's nice and hoppy I can forgive that. More

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-26 Thread Billy Abbott
Ovid wrote: --- On Fri, 25/9/09, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: From: Smylers smyl...@stripey.com So does the existence of Spam fritters imply that Spam is innocuous and free of social stigma? Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes.

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-26 Thread Billy Abbott
James Laver wrote: Frankly, if you don't want to drink your vinegar, it's not fit for your food. Hie thee to a flavor-tripping party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit I've got a small bag of freeze dried powdered Miracle Fruit in the fridge and a bottle of white wine vinegar

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-24 Thread Billy Abbott
Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Has HP sauce got cheaper in The Netherlands in the past couple of years? Huh. Wikipedia claims production was moved to Elst, The Netherlands in 2007. One would expect it to show up in Dutch shops, in that case ... Altoids are made in Wales, but you only seem to get

Re: Skype

2009-09-17 Thread Billy Abbott
Andrew Black wrote: What are other peoples views on it. I'm not that big a fan of it (dodgy client, memories of weirdness when it first started out, it not being allowed at work to the extent of being automatically uninstalled if you install it...) but am about to have a meeting using it.

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-28 Thread Billy Abbott
Paul Makepeace wrote The Kindle is one amazing piece of kit; I for one can't wait for it to appear here. And yeah, I don't give a flying f- about Amazon tracking my reading habits or accidentally deleting titles. I'm worried that I seem to be turning into a Sony evangelist, but I'd

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Billy Abbott
Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:43, David Cantrell wrote: The downside of ebooks is that they're a bit hard to read on the throne, and generally come in awkward formats, just to make them even less useful. Is there an ebook reader out yet that doesn't suck? I swear by my Sony

Re: Big Geek Day Out: Bletchley Park 18th July

2009-06-15 Thread Billy Abbott
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Joel Bernstein wrote: On 15 Jun 2009, at 10:21, Dave Cross wrote: On 15/06/2009 10:14, Joel Bernstein wrote: [ Trip to Bletchley Park ] What's there? What will you do? You're kidding, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park I knew about the history but

Re: Geekiest place on earth? (was Re: Big Geek Day Out)

2009-06-15 Thread Billy Abbott
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Michael Lush wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: I went about a month ago thanks to the organising super-powers of Billy, and let me tell you it's the geekiest place on Earth, period. I think you have an excellent case here, interesting exhibits, tour

Re: [OT] New Buffy movie

2009-05-27 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Dave Cross wrote: Avleen Vig wrote: I have to say, that is simply awesome. I can't wait. Er... did you read the same story as I did? Buffy without Whedon. That's not awesome, that's a travesty. As has been said Elsewhere - remain calm and repeat 'Joss Whedon is not

Re: Travelling to YAPC::Europe 2009

2009-05-13 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Léon Brocard wrote: YAPC::Europe will be this year's most rockingest Perl conference and it will be in Lisbon in August. It's good to book flights and hotels early. I've put my flight and hotel details online: http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/38968 Did you manage to

Re: Best pick for time-based 'event' looping?

2009-04-16 Thread Billy Abbott
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Peter Corlett wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:16:56PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote: What I'm looking for is a best-of-breed sort of CPAN solution for a job-queue processor in which the jobs are run based on time. Not quite cron, mind you, but not too different from that. In

Re: http://www.xkcd.com/519/

2009-03-10 Thread Billy Abbott
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Kieren Diment wrote: On 10/03/2009, at 10:44 AM, Chris Devers wrote: On Mar 9, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote: Sorry mate, it's just the way you tell them So then he clears his throat and tries another: ..Pi? Long pause. Then. Raucous

Re: ANNOUNCE: Pie Thursday 1pm City of London

2009-01-08 Thread Billy Abbott
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, James Laver wrote: On 2009-01-07 13:49, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: Lets go to the counting house for a pie lunch tomorrow. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Counting_House,_EC3V_3PD Counting House 50 Cornhill EC3V 3PD Streetmap:

Re: ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Kake L Pugh wrote: On Wed 07 Jan 2009, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: Chicken feet are delicious. Yeah, everyone always says this, so we order three baskets and end up with two-and-a-half left over at the end that nobody wants to eat. This seems to me to be a

Re: ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Bruce Richardson wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:44:23PM +, James Laver wrote: Anyway, my feelings are clear: Pie is better than dim sum (at least when in the city). I'm sure it's possible to combine the best features of dim sum and pie. Bob? I've had char siu

Re: ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Peter Corlett wrote: On 7 Jan 2009, at 16:02, James Laver wrote: [...] Oop norf we have strange ideas of food. I was introduced to the idea of a 'pie barm' yesterday, essentially pie in a bun. Those are apparently also known as a Wigan kebab, and are of course often

Re: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009

2009-01-05 Thread Billy Abbott
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, David Dorward wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Your heretical brain thinks that there should be a social on the 3rd Thursday of the month? No, it thought that the Thursday after the first Wednesday of this month takes place in a week and a half's time. Or your ultra-orthodox

Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell

2008-12-05 Thread Billy Abbott
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Greg McCarroll wrote: On 5 Dec 2008, at 09:29, L?on Brocard wrote: There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-10-15 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:13:09AM -0700, a bot claiming to be Ot??vio Fernandes wrote: I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. Ah well, I suppose it

Re: svk v git + possible gig

2008-09-09 Thread Billy Abbott
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: 2008/9/8 Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:59:26PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Has anyone used perforce? Do you also think it makes the OSS VCS look especially weak? I am much happier with its merge support than

[JOB] C/C++ Unix Developer

2003-09-05 Thread Billy Abbott
if you want to know more about the company. CVs + cover note to the address in the article or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ta billy -- When you say things like that, do you actually believe other people know what you mean? Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot org dot uk

Re: High speed beer

2003-08-17 Thread Billy Abbott
that when you press it sprays foamy beer on top of your pint so that you have a good head...you can achieve the same effect by only pulling the tap a little bit...but hey, it makes for an amusing advertising campaign. or something. billy -- Billy Abbott billy at cowfish dot

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Billy Abbott
beers and lagers. However, I sat in the garden, and that could cause frostbyte at this time of year (although they may have a magic heating mushroom...) billy -- The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead whelk Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Technical Reviewer

2002-11-14 Thread Billy Abbott
;t too interested in the subject matter (i think it was something to do with oracle and plams) i still have no idea why they mailed me to ask for my involvement...oh well billy -- The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead whelk Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: st peter's ale

2002-11-13 Thread Billy Abbott
house in surrey. I still haven't tried their cask ale... billy -- The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead whelk Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: st peter's ale

2002-11-13 Thread Billy Abbott
successful small brewery, and shown that with the right branding ale does sell - most impressive. hmm. talk of beer in the morning makes me thirsty billy -- The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead whelk Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usernames?

2002-11-06 Thread Billy Abbott
as ignoring case in passwords... supamonkey SupaMonkey suPa Monkey s u P aM o n KEy are all the same lovely it does have built in file versioning and an advanced beard growing plugin though... billy -- The sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead whelk Billy Abbott