Maintainer needed for perlsphere.net

2009-10-03 Thread Earle Martin
Hello, I no longer have the inclination to run perlsphere.net, an open "Planet"-style aggregator for Perl blogs. If you would be interested in taking it over, please mail me offlist. Its only requirement is having the Plagger set of modules installed. Earle -- Earle Mar

Re: is London.pm purely a social group

2003-09-24 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Andy Ford wrote: > I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group and thought more of > the basic infrastructure required to support it... 1. Steal Underpants 2. ... 3. Profit! Sorry, couldn't resist. -- # E

Re: Spam tarpits...

2003-09-09 Thread Earle Martin
I suck even more! On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:40:06PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > > http://downlode.org/perl/spamtrap.pl No, that should have been http://downlode.org/perl/spamtrap.cgi Dammit! I think I should go home now. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.c

Re: Spam tarpits...

2003-09-09 Thread Earle Martin
I suck. On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:30:00PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: > http://downlode.org/perl/spam-trap.pl > http://downlode.org/perl/spam-trap.txt Those should have been > http://downlode.org/perl/spamtrap.pl > http://downlode.org/perl/spamtrap.txt -- #

Re: Spam tarpits...

2003-09-09 Thread Earle Martin
erl/spam-trap.txt No idea if it'll work in practice, but it was fun to write. [0] From the license: "the official Wpoison logo itself must be include in an HTML hyperlink so that any user clicking on any part of the logo image will be directed/linked to the Wpoison home page".

Re: Dave and Religion

2003-09-06 Thread Earle Martin
new about the subject: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism I count myself as a Unitarian Universalist. http://www.uua.org/aboutuu/uufaq.html -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea9

Re: Dave and Religion - Inventing Deities

2003-09-06 Thread Earle Martin
that? [0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KiboNumber -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA

Re: Dave and Religion

2003-09-06 Thread Earle Martin
x27;t treating the > Prophets in a near-identical fashion to the way in which Allah is > worshipped. I'm very surprised by that because it's haram, and a fine way to invalidate your Islam. This is precisely why there's an injunction on making images of the Prophet Muhammad. -

Re: Dave and Religion

2003-09-06 Thread Earle Martin
ryone forgets that there are actually branches of Christianity that *don't* believe in the trinitarian doctrine. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f

Re: DOS/WIN archivers of the mid 1990s

2003-09-03 Thread Earle Martin
V, oPAQue, BZ2, Squish, MS CAB, HIT, IMP, NSK, DST, ASD, BTS, TOP4, BatComp (4DOS), BIX, LZA, BLI, CAR, SARJ, Compack Sfx, LGC, Akt, Akt32, ARS-Sfx, Flash, PC/3270, NPack, PFT, XTreme, SemOne, InstallIt, PPMD, RK, RPM, XPA32, XPack Data/DImg/SData. -- # Earle Martin http

Re: JOB: PHP and Perl Coder Vacancy

2003-09-01 Thread Earle Martin
will make us better at what we do. > > I'm looking for companies or individuals who can provide quality training > services. > > Who knows what I could do ? -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7

JOB: PHP and Perl Coder Vacancy

2003-09-01 Thread Earle Martin
. 25k. Email me for more. Peter .dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.. ..http://dorkbot.org - End forwarded

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-29 Thread Earle Martin
> some weird symbol on it so that medics know not to give them a chocolate > drip. Sounds like MedicAlert. My mum has one for an intolerance. http://www.medicalert.org.uk/how.htm -- # Earle Martin http://c2.co

Re: London.pm identity cards

2003-08-29 Thread Earle Martin
lns.com/foaf/0.1/"; > London Perl Mongers http://london.pm.org/"/> Earle Martin 8699ba79a95abf86e0055c133bf5d87ceab921e9 http://downlode.org"/> -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af66498

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Earle Martin
you to produce them, with the full force of the law behind him/her? I think you'll find that the answer is no. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-08-28 Thread Earle Martin
pstory/tjd40901.htm The Andrew J. Kirby in question is a friend of mine, and boy is he pissed. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef46

Messing with spammers

2003-08-14 Thread Earle Martin
address of over 50 characters causes a "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e57'". But I thought it would be more fun to do this, especially since every time that form is submitted their system sends out an email. And now I'm going back

Setting an Apache handler for a CGI script with no name extension

2003-08-14 Thread Earle Martin
eem to do much either. Permissions on the file are definitely correct; where am I going wrong? (I suppose it could be that mod_mime isn't loaded; how can I check if it is?) [0] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html -- # Earle Martin

Re: Setting an Apache handler for a CGI script with no name extension

2003-08-14 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:00:53PM +0100, I wrote: > (I suppose it could be that mod_mime isn't loaded; how can I check if it > is?) As has just been pointed out to me on IRC, I could read httpd.conf. So I did, and it is being loaded. -- # Earle Martin

Re: Messing with spammers

2003-08-09 Thread Earle Martin
l you is to take a look at the current appearance of their site: http://www.word-of-mouth.org/ I think maybe I should lie low for a bit now. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af62

Re: IP Slides

2003-07-30 Thread Earle Martin
isplayed at the tech > meet, it doesn't follow that that permission extends to public > dissemination. I hereby place the names I came up with under the Creative Commons "attribute and share-alike" license. So there. -- # Earle Martin

Re: IP Slides

2003-07-30 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:24:24PM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Are available here: Cool. Will you be publishing the results of the product naming survey, too? -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin

Re: Orange

2003-07-15 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:22:54PM +0100, will wrote: > http://www.dazedsheep.co.uk/ Redirects to http://www.dazedsheep.co.uk/james/, which gives a Directory Listing Denied error. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin

Re: Expletives (was Eurocracy sucks)

2003-07-15 Thread Earle Martin
ttp://lyst.org/lyst.html -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"&qu

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-15 Thread Earle Martin
t; Afterwards , i 'll have some time to get back at this ... :) Tres bien! I'll look forwards to saying hi. Amities, Earle. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d".

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
[0] This is Reem. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"&

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
if you do not know that, the first country you will be entering. In our case, both France. You can't apply to another country and lie that you'll be visiting there, because they all demand proof you're actually headed there, like hotel reservations. Believe me, I've che

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:47:06PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Earle Martin wrote: > The solution is to completely ignore all this nonsense about making > appointments and just show up at the Embassy. You will have to wait most > (all?) of the day but you sho

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
gt; Perhaps we could pollute Grubstreet with it :-) Well, I'm aiming to meet some interesting mongueurs and convince them into starting an OpenGuides Paris -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f

Eurocracy sucks.

2003-07-14 Thread Earle Martin
someone would like to share this room, please drop me a line offlist. (First come first served!) If not, I'll work out how to change the booking to one for a single person. Earle [0] http://www.eurovisa.info/ -- # Earle Martin

Re: State of Onion 2003 MP3?

2003-07-09 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:08:00PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=70412&pid=6398001 says > "tomorrow", which might well be our "today". Slashdot is so yesterday. -- # Earle Martin http://

We're all going on a summer holiday

2003-07-08 Thread Earle Martin
If you're going to YAPC::Europe, don't forget to pack your bucket and spade! http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=422677 -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8

Re: [OT] Yet more on UK Money...

2003-07-02 Thread Earle Martin
to write about the place... :) -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$

[ANNOUNCE] OpenGuides London goes live

2003-06-26 Thread Earle Martin
street since we began working on it. Cheers, Earle. pp OpenGuides -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$

[ANNOUNCE] OpenGuides London goes live

2003-06-26 Thread Earle Martin
street since we began working on it. Cheers, Earle. pp OpenGuides -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$

Re: Number Indicating Participation in London.pm (NIPL) (was: assimilating CPAN)

2003-06-18 Thread Earle Martin
cale, my NIPL towers over yours by 125 to 33, which is clearly a much more reasonable result. ;) -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlode.org/ chr(hex(substr($x,$y,2)));$y=$y+2;}# http://openguides.org/

Re: Dim sum today

2003-05-28 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Grubstreet has no entry for New World :-( It does now. http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?New_World,_W1D_5PA -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin .'206861636b6

Re: Dim sum today

2003-05-28 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Grubstreet has no entry for New World :-( http://www.google.com/search?q=%22new%20world%22%20%22gerrard%20place%22 Note the first hit... -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#

Or die...

2003-04-04 Thread Earle Martin
8 warning 7 crap5 oh no 5 fuck3 bugger 1 eek 1 (from our very own Chris Ball) oh dear 1 oh shit 1 -- $x='4a75737420616e6f7468657

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social

2003-04-04 Thread Earle Martin
it was too > late to sign up. That sucks. Okay. I just tend to sign up for things in advance if that's a requirement. I guess it depends on when the deadline for signing up is. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social

2003-04-04 Thread Earle Martin
ardship. But it does require some organisational discipline. But not much. And hardly enough to moan about. Which is my point. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlod

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Signup for Tech Meet Mon 14th April + Tonight Social

2003-04-04 Thread Earle Martin
effort of following the URL to the form? -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlode.org/ chr(hex(substr($x,$y,2)));$y=$y+2;}# http://grault.net/grubstreet/

Re: looking for a place to rent a server

2003-03-14 Thread Earle Martin
eally bad experiences with them (think along the lines of tech support restarting a machine by power-cycling it). Avoid them at all costs. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downl

Re: technical meeting date

2003-03-11 Thread Earle Martin
ml -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlode.org/ chr(hex(substr($x,$y,2)));$y=$y+2;}# http://grault.net/grubstreet/

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-08 Thread Earle Martin
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:59:41PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: > it's a unicode character which likes buffy. Is that sort of like a fictional character? -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0.

Re: Dotcom Boom

2003-03-03 Thread Earle Martin
king for folded halfway through 2001. [0] I say that's 2000 because I am lazy and not a maths geek and everyone has already had this argument a number of times so let's not start now KTHX! -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .&#

Re: Stokers Required

2003-02-23 Thread Earle Martin
got a certificate"-thing, or > something that could be achieved over a beer? Neither. I don't care about certificates, I just want someone to teach me what the hell I'm supposed to be doing, piece by piece. > Where are you based? That London. E. -- $x='4a75737420616e

Stokers Required

2003-02-23 Thread Earle Martin
...for a brain furnace that isn't working. This whole self-teaching thing really isn't working out. Where can I hire someone patient for one-on-one Perl lessons, and how much will it cost me? -- mineral rate

Re: Perversity

2003-01-31 Thread Earle Martin
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:08:19AM +, Dave Cross wrote: > It's Jeffery Friedl's regex for checking a valid email address. Oh. Naughty person; he gave me the impression that he'd written it himself! -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#

Perversity

2003-01-30 Thread Earle Martin
15()]*)*\))[^\\\x80-\xff\n\015()]*)*\)[\040\t]*)*(?:[^(\040)< >@,;:".\\\[\]\000-\037\x80-\xff]+(?![^(\040)<>@,;:".\\\[\]\000-\037\x8 0-\xff])|\[(?:[^\\\x80-\xff\n\015\[\]]|\\[^\x80-\xff])*\])[\040\t]*(?: \([^\\\x80-\xff\n\015()]*(?:(?:\\[^\x80-\xff]|\([^\\\x80-\xff\n\015()] *(?:\\[^\x80-\xff][^\\\x80-\xff\n\015()]*)*\))[^\\\x80-\xff\n\015()]*) *\)[\040\t]*)*)*>) -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlode.org/ chr(hex(substr($x,$y,2)));$y=$y+2;}# http://grault.net/grubstreet/

Re: How to split 6 digits into 3 lots of 2

2003-01-30 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:55:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > please stop emails Sorry, only the Internet Controller can do that, and he's very busy right now. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'# Earle Martin .'206861636b657

Re: Weird Money (was Re: YAPC::Europe)

2003-01-28 Thread Earle Martin
profound level. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlode.org/ chr(hex(substr($x,$y,2)));$y=$y+2;}# http://grault.net/grubstreet/

Re: Weird Money (was Re: YAPC::Europe)

2003-01-28 Thread Earle Martin
s) that accept foreign currency of any kind, please do contribute it and we can set up a search category for it. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#Earle Martin .'206861636b65720d0a';for(0..26){print #http://downlode.org/ chr(hex(s

Re: hats and penderel's oak

2003-01-12 Thread Earle Martin
e I left it at 2lmc on New Year's Eve, and one of the kind people therein (hitherto?) brought it to the meeting for me to pick up, which I failed to do! Dear oh dear. I guess I'll have to pick it up from you somewhen, then. -- $x='4a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c'#

[JOB] Billing system, Birmingham

2002-12-23 Thread Earle Martin
"We require Perl developers for this new team who will be responsible for a Billing System for a Utility company in the Midlands." http://www.freelancers.net/job.html?ID=6563 -- main alterer

Re: Social photos

2002-12-17 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:55:27PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > It actually drains a AAA battery in a few days even if you don't use the > camera Really? Mine doesn't. And I've managed to keep a full complement of photos in it for two weeks without losing them. Maybe I've got lucky batteries, or

Social photos

2002-12-15 Thread Earle Martin
Late, fuzzy, and chromatically dubious, but for completeness' sake: http://downlode.org/photos/photos.pl/by_subject/events/perl_mongers_social_2002-12-05 -- ermine altar

Re: Email full html with images

2002-12-05 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:19:32PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: > On Thu 05 Dec 2002, "Natalie S. Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Makepeace posted a more involved solution a few months ago: > http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20021014/014513.html That's the solution I cur

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:01:12PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Did anyone ask him "Am I free to make a DVD of your presentation?" > > I gave someone on #perl that task... it would put RMS in a double bind. Yeah, that was me. I didn't, I'm afraid... I liked him too much. -- rare aliment

Re: Crazy maths proof

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:18:45PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > This is totally spurious. /me sends this back to where he got the thing from in the first place. :) -- alarm in tree

Crazy maths proof

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
I saw this and thought of you people, for some reason. - Forwarded message - So I went and found this on a page of math "humor", in particular of bogus proofs. This one ain't bad; a nice variant to a classic. The aim is to prove that 1 = 2. Notice the following: 1

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > Next he explained the necessity for the GNU Free Documentation License, and > how it works, and discussed options for allowing reuse of copyrighted > materials. Missed something. At this point he described the necessity f

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:37:19PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Could you kindly post a summary to the list? I know I'm not the only one > who was interested but didn't snag a seat in time. I'll be at the other > one too (possibly) with mstevens. Cool. OK. The audience for today's lecture was a

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:10:22AM +, Ben wrote: > > I'm going to both; anyone else? Pub beforehand perhaps? > > I've got tickets for the Tuesday one. I'd be up for meeting beforehand, and > certainly pub after. I'll be at the venue for today's one at 4pm, if anyone else is going and want to

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Earle Martin
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:03:14PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > XSLT Cookbook "The XSLT Cookbook provides an ideal companion... for developers still figuring out XSLT's template-based approach who want to learn by example" Bagsy. -- rare aliment

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-11-22 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:28PM -, B. N. Moran wrote: > People might like to know that Richard Stallman will be speaking at the > London School of Economics on 2nd and 3rd of December. I'm going to both; anyone else? Pub beforehand perhaps? -- latin reamer

[ANNOUNCE] Wikibot 0.21

2002-11-22 Thread Earle Martin
As promised at the technical meeting, Wikibot is now available for you to play with. http://downlode.org/perl/wikibot/ Thanks for the warm welcome yesterday. It wasn't half as scary as I thought it would be. -- irate arm len

[JOB] in Edinburgh

2002-11-12 Thread Earle Martin
Just spotted the following: "Perl programmer work in edinburgh I'm looking for someone with very good experience with: perl, html(+javascript,css etc), sql, linux admin, samba and some windows 2k to work part time on an ongoing programming project. Hourly wage is negotiable and working hours are g

Possible venue?

2002-10-19 Thread Earle Martin
Having recently been to the Windmill pub in Mayfair[0] with DrHyde, I reckon (as did he) that it could be a good location for future socials. Therefore, I propose an emergency meeting to check it out at the next convenient opportunity (next weekend?). Yes, I know, herd the cats, herd them. I'm an

Re: ADSL again

2002-10-18 Thread Earle Martin
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:22:51PM +, belkajm wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --_b31f983ea3f4979760d29a7abe2f75bad > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Please don't. -- marlin eater

Buffy at Borders

2002-10-03 Thread Earle Martin
No, not SMG, but the latest issue of Ansible[0] informs me: 21 Oct READING AT BORDERS, Oxford St, London. 6:30pm. With Pat Cadigan, Roz Kaveney and others going on about _Buffy_. La Diva Loca warns: 'juicy hints about the upcoming season will be dropped. Anyone not there won't be In The Know. How

Re: Discount Cigarettes (fwd)

2002-10-03 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:45:12PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > > Anyone else received one of these ? > > Variations of it, yeah -- ${rand}@smoking.com.cn sent me > two or three mails in the past few days, to this address. I just got one to my (void) address.

Re: Books

2002-09-27 Thread Earle Martin
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:29:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Oh, yeah, the IRC people have reminded me that no-one has actually said in > public that I am now the Bookhenchman. So, errm, consider yourselves told. 'Twould be groovy if you could you put my review of "Web Design in a Nutshell"

Re: FYI: Bodyworlds extended to 1 December

2002-09-25 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:00:05PM +0100, Patrick Chamberlain wrote: > I went today, impressive ... How long did you have to wait to get in? http://www.bodyworlds.com/EN/wartezeiten_diagramm.asp

Re: [Job] ["Russell, Emma" ] Perl Role ?30k Watford

2002-09-25 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:26:12PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Although Intershop is a total arse. Ack. Probably as crufty as > Interwoven. Ah, Intershop, the ecommerce solution that you can crash by nesting as many as *three* simple templates inside each other!

Re: networks and scalability

2002-09-24 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:48:31AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > snogweb.com ;) Sounds like http://www.attrition.org.hosted/sexchart/

Re: BodyWorlds

2002-09-24 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:23:27PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > So the infamous anatomy/art exhibition[0] shuts on Sunday, and I still > > > haven't been *slap wrist*. Anyone interested in a field trip? > > > > Yes. I'd love to. We can do curry afterwards too. Pick a day. > > Mmm, curry.

Re: networks and scalability

2002-09-23 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:51:22AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > The basic idea is to try and map the topology of the London > nu-media-and-related-industries community. Yay. muttley++ /me wonders if the kind of information people put in their FOAF files[0] could come in handy (works for, etc.)

Heh.

2002-07-10 Thread Earle Martin
As seen at http://brunching.com/selfmade/meninblack2.html : "It's like they got lazy. The weirdest thing for me was David Cross. In Men In Black, David Cross plays the morgue attendant who eventually gets glued to the ceiling when Vincent D'Onofrio kills him. It was a funny bit. So in Men In B

Re: Book reviews

2002-05-30 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:53:24PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > I note that you are careful not to say "across" the river. > Is any view of Ken's new gherkin considered fine? > [I have heard someone describe the shape of the new London assembly > building a gherkin] It doesn't look quite as muc

Re: Too much time on my hands?

2002-03-21 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:53:04PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > Earle Martin wrote: > > http://downlode.org/perl/surfing_usa.txt > > I think qw doesn't do quite what you seem to think it does. Bummer. I got distracted trying to learn perl, I guess I should have s

Too much time on my hands?

2002-03-15 Thread Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/perl/surfing_usa.txt -- Like everything in life, Dada is useless. - Tristan Tzara, "Dada Manifesto"

Re: book reviews

2002-02-26 Thread Earle Martin
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:37:59PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > One obvious way of improving review return rates is only to give books > to people who have no outstanding reviews, i.e. have reviewed all their > books or have never been given any. If this is your first time at Review Club..

Re: Is it a bird ?

2002-02-20 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:14:08PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > blah Note to self: you are catching up on old traffic. Don't bloody reply to it. Sorry. -- feel the city inside you feel the city define you

Re: Is it a bird ?

2002-02-20 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:25:18AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > I while back -- several years now I guess -- I saw an example program that > would run under, among a few others, iirc Perl C and Shell. Maybe things > like Basic & Cobol too. > > Does anyone remember a sample like this? Have a copy?

Re: [plug] grubstreet

2002-02-07 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:35:51PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > > If this interests you, you can find it at http://grault.net/grubstreet/ . > > Dipsy knows more than grubstreet. Why the wiki? a) You can't browse dipsy. Dipsy's sort of like an idiot savant - the right keywords will produce a stre

[plug] grubstreet

2002-02-06 Thread Earle Martin
Apologies for the crosspost. Following a notion by Kake, I've set up a wiki intended to act as a sort of H2G2 for London, except (hopefully) without the lameness. Along with blech, we've been putting in some content; now it's time to invite you to contribute. You're free to comment on anything Lo

Re: Roleplaying

2001-12-19 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 02:31:39PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > Well we talked (yet again) on IRC today about running an AD&D campaign > in London.pm > > If you are interested and are happy to block this evening off in your > diary, please reply _on list_. That way everyone gets to see the

Re: That London: list

2001-11-28 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:10:48PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > If this floats your boat, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > ^ > > I'm more worried by that. Yeah, I know, I know. I'm going to install mailman RSN :) -- Seven mountai

Re: That London: list

2001-11-28 Thread Earle Martin
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:43:06PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > But if all the fun is happening on that list, people from > places-that-are-not-London will also join, if only to see who got all drunk > at the last meeting and threw up in someone else's lap. So we'll be be in > the same place we

That London: list

2001-11-28 Thread Earle Martin
Apologies for spam and lack of substantiveness. Having seen various on-list (london.pm and (void) both) postings by people announcing stuff happening in London, and then the inevitable flurry of replies saying "I would, but I'm in $place_that_is_not_london", I've just made a mailing list specific

Re: More Books

2001-11-12 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:49:49PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > Web Design in a Nutshell I'll have a crack at that one. -- For inasmuch as thou hast made the Law of Freedom thine, as thou hast lived in Light and Liberty and Love, thou hast become a Free-man of the City of the Stars.

Re: More Books

2001-11-12 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:49:49PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > Web Design in a Nutshell I'd like to have a go at this one, but since my first attempt to claim it was sent from the wrong address, someone else may have got it first. If so, nolo contendere. -- For the wanderer, each person one me