I've decided to have a trip to NYC next spring, for various reasons.
According to Expedia, there are lots of good deals in March. I'm going to
tempt organisational doom and ask if anyone fancies coming along.
Alternatively, any advice on where to stay, what to see, etc?
L.
Highway code -
Philip Pereira wrote:
By-the-way, does anything special happen at Christmas with the London.pm? A
special pub meet? Just curious!
People drink. Um, that's not very special. Last year I brought cake.
How girlie. I don't know if I'll make it next week. Shall be in a
course till late and am
Chris Benson wrote:
Graham Barr wrote:
Well as I said I am in Guildford, now. But soon I will be moving
to Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.
Flat, very flat, Norf^WNorth Cambs.
Well, make sure you turn up to cam.pm.
L.
Cambridge Mountain Rescue.
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Dave Cross wrote:
Chris Ahh, the stories that have been told about Data Munging Dave
Chris I bet someday they'll even make a movie about him
But who would play Dave?
Either Al Pacino or Tom Conti if I have any say in the matter :)
I was going to suggest Al Pacino.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~lucifer/photos/yapc/
L.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
I've been working on this http://thegestalt.org/simon/remove this bit
between these two slashes/gestalt/
snogweb.com ;)
L.
I'm thirty-three, single, with neat hair. Even I think I'm gay.
So the infamous anatomy/art exhibition[0] shuts on Sunday, and I still
haven't been *slap wrist*. Anyone interested in a field trip?
L.
BSc Anatomical Sciences
[0] http://www.bodyworlds.com/
[Warning, cross-posted]
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Leon Brocard 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. I'm guessing
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
The list has 286 regular and 32 digested members including (but not
limited to) people from such diverse companies as the beeb, eidos,
blackstar, thomson holidays, EMI music, Emap and motorola.
What about prestigious universities, and crucial science
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Andrew Bowman wrote:
What about prestigious universities, and crucial science tools?
Lucy, do you know anyone that's involved with a prestigious university? ;-)
FSVO prestigious. This is my third, anyway.
L.
The internet is powered by banana milkshake.
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
This very morning I was reading about an otter disguising itself as a fox.
Unfortunately not pop science, but kiddie fantasy by Brian Jacques. It
keeps me occupied till JK finishes the next HP book.
Would that be Mossflower then?
I loved
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
was more adult, and I still haven't read the final volume. To veer this
towards on-topic, anyone ever read Skallagrigg by William Horwood?
I surrender. And the topic is actually 'advocacy', just to add insult to
injury. :-0
Sorry?
L.
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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:32:23 +0100
From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [cam.pm] My public solution
This is not an entrant, but just to show that I think it's possible to do
something
This of any use to anyone?
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Date: 21 May 2002 15:46:13 -
From: Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Perl Jobs] Developer for Digital Advertising - perl/cgi/flash
coding/java - London (onsite), United Kingdom, London
Online
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote:
Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo.
Double boo. Did I mention there's a beer festival happening in Cambridge
*right now*?
Alas, the food was not universally considered good.
Food is for wimps ;-)
On 12 May 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In that case, if anyone's interested, I might have to organise an
emergency meeting on a more convenient day (on which I don't have to
leave early and get back to Cambridge) sometime.
Mike it when I'm
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
On 10/05/2002 at 12:01 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
(otWouldn't it be nice to not *almost always* have London.pm meetings
on Thursdays?/ot)
Nah. Of course if somebody wants to arrange emergency meetings that's
fine by me.
In that case, if anyone's
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
EARTH IN DANGER
Asteroid on collision course
Funnily enough, I've just finished reading Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and
Pournelle. Excellent end-of-the-world fiction.
L.
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Mark Fowler wrote:
The Nick Cage drinking game
Do elaborate.
L.
Fruit flies like a banana.
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Tim Noll wrote:
Does anyone know of a bookstore in Central London that sells the Linux
Journal?
Borders on Oxford Street or Charing Cross Rd?
L.
We scare because we care.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Alex Gough wrote:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Speaking of which, has anyone seen Iris and did you notice Paulin McGlynn
(Mrs Doyle from Father Ted) as nurse?
Yes, and no.
Iris was fantastic though, and is worth being seen.
Rah. Judi Dench for Oscar
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, the hatter wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, jo walsh wrote:
this has been an irrelevant post. i bought a book about neural networks
today. are they any cop?
They have their uses. Though they're used for lots of things which
they're not ideally suited to. Possibly
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I don't *expect* anyone will be interested in this, but if anyone
does want to spend two days packing CDs into boxes (or whatever) for
5ukp/hour in Abingdon, let me know :)
Try s3ending ti to oxford.pm. Or am I confused?
L.
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 think I could fit all my required
girly stuff in hand luggage.
Tony
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Anthony Fisher wrote:
Lucy McWilliam 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 think I could fit all my required
girly
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Steve Rushe wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:47:46AM +, James A Duncan wrote:
MMS = Michael Marshall Smith. Great author.
'Only Forward' was my favorite book for a very very long time.
It's still in my top ten.
The next one appears to be a departure from
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
I remember Milan. I had to change planes there twice. On the way there, I
had one hour to change planes, and the first plan was an hour late. Result:
the lady from the checkout desk ran with me down the walkway when she saw me
approaching and
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
people staying at the MMS have a good stay, so I'm going to
I blame NMS for the above, it should of course of been MMA.
MMS = Michael Marshall Smith. Great author.
L.
Everyone deserves a happy ending. Even me.
If anyone wants a last minute excursion to Cambridge, then Dave Green of
NTK fame is giving a talk to the computer society, followed by drinking.
L.
-- Forwarded message --
This week's CUCS talk will be delivered by Dave Green, editor of UK
internet newsletter NTK
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Dave Cross wrote:
Barclays Capital are looking for web support engineer. It's a permie job
and will pay up to £80k.
!!! Whimper. How was the social?
L.
Pick a card. Any card. No, not that one.
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Newton, Philip wrote:
Barbie wrote:
I don't suppose every group leader for the UK user groups
are subbed to London.pm.
If you feel cam.pm, bath.pm, birmingham.pm or younameit.pm needs to read
this, feel free to forward the use.perl URL in my original message.
Did it
Might as well ask you lot as well...
Some of you have probably noticed I'm attached at the hip to an O'Reilly
rucksack-type-thing in which I carry around my life and which is now
falling apart at the seams. Given that I can't afford to go back to
the conference just to get a new one, and I
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
But I don't want to say Powered by nms Perl scripts because I don't have
any perl scripts on my site. I'd like to say use nms Perl scripts or
something like that, something with text that matches typical search terms.
[no, not a
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Robin Houston wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:38:06PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
I'm tempted to do a lightning talk (good practise for my viva) but I don't
actually do anything astonishing Perl-wise, it's just the biology/methods
that are quite fun.
Oh yeah, do
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:28:01PM +, Chris Carline wrote:
The structure of the HTML page is also extremely important in how
searched-for words are weighted in the engine - namely, if search
terms appear in titles and headers, or in bold, or
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Chris Benson wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:26:14PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
Google promotes sites based on being linked to.
From this it follows that everyone who runs a website should link to nms
from their homepage, or as close to it as possible, to get it
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Do we have a nice bit of official standards compliant HTML for a link
for cargo cult web page writing? :-)
[Better still, do we have one to put on the NMS page to encourage people
to link to it]
Try reading the nms page ;-)
L.
Asase - an enzyme
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Dave Cross wrote:
The vast majority of companies don't use Perl at all. And until we do
something about advocacy for Perl 6, that situation won't change.
Meanwhile, Perl is earning a good name for itself in the scientific
community. Then again, this might just be saying
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Meanwhile, Perl is earning a good name for itself in the scientific
community. Then again, this might just be saying summat about scientists
;-)
And remember this years YAPC::Europe is Perl
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Chris Ball wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:06:41AM -0500, Tommie M. Jones wrote:
The From/Date show up as light grey on light blue in Konqueror, and are
unreadable. You haven't implemented threading, which is highly
important for a mailing list.
In Netscape the
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Redvers Davies wrote:
I hate to poke my head above the parapet, but just where did English get
this 'difficult to learn' reputation? English is not tonal, not
Consistancy. English has none.
How about spelling? ;-)
L.
Kill the bad guy, rescue the damsel in distres,
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
I have only one dimpled pint glass, commonly known as a jug, however
it has developed a crack. I now need to acquire at least one in order
to satisfy my proper beer from a proper glass insanity. If anyone
knows where I can buy/steal/acquire such a
Paraphrasing Paul Mison:
Tech meet: 24th Jan, Codix.net
Social meet: 7th Feb, Cittie of Yorke
Unless I'm very stupid I can't find directions for these on the web site.
Non-lazy people may use their initiative and look at codix.net and
pubs.com, but that goes against programming tradition ;-)
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Does anyone remember HH amps? Figure some of you might be old enough ;-)
Been there and blown them up :) Nasty solid state things but they did
pioneer the blinkenlights on amplifiers ... My amp
On 11 Jan 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote:
This ep is important in buffydom because it's the first time that
anybody cared about somebody dying in 5 years of carnage. There was a
lot about this one that was great (Buffy seeing/hearing things, Santa
isn't a myth, Anya doesn't get it).
Hmm. I'm
On 10 Jan 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd love the bass if it were a good one but the provenance would mean
nothing to me - I mean I have a bass amp that was first gigged in the
sixties with a band that supported Hendrix but all I care about is
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Anyone with an aging RH6.2 might want to rpm -V the following:
I know what you're going on about know. Yay.
L.
It's a bit clangy and a bit jammy
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Barbie [home] wrote:
1) Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
I got to hear of the song because of Peter Gabriel, when I started finding
out who Steve Biko was back in 1980. Needless to say it impressed the hell
out of me then and still moves me when I hear even now.
The student
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Leon Brocard wrote:
Lucy informs us that the dromedary (one humped) camel is Camelus
dromedarius and the llama is Lama glame, and that the two are cousins.
No, I don't know why she told us, either:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Taxonomy/wgetorg?name=Camelidae
Lots of people listed lots of songs:
Glad to see london.pm have taste. But I think you should do even more of
as Rob Gordon and say where and why you'd place them in an autobiographical
ordering.
L.
Is it better to burn out or fade away.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
So top 5 films for london.pm .. ;-)
*indecision* I'd have to include my entire video collection.
L.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling
something.
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
yes, i'm a stupid person who can only handle one topic at once, of
course it was meant to be top 5 films for london.pm (as is repeated
throughout the blooming film)
Don't you mean songs? I can't think of any appropriate atm.
L.
Finished with my
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* nik butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
- Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling
- something.
But quoting from Princess Bride leads the crowd to believe ???
Well it is an australian film
It is?!
so to know of it she
Saw this on perl jobs and thought people might be interested. Oh, and
Merry Christmas!
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How painful is it to make a machine Win/Linux dual boot (apart from
finding another license)? It would make my research s much easier.
Anyone got any convincing arguments for my superiors?
mumble mumble mumble
L.
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, the hatter wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
But, using vmware sounds much better - why do dual boot when you can
simply run both OSes at the same time?
I'd forgotten about them. I'll have a look. Not going to do anyhting
about it till after Xmas
www.camels-camels.com informs me the scientific name for the Dromedary
(one humped) camel is Camelus dromedarius. www.llamapaedia.com tells me
the scientific name for a llama is Lama glama. The NCBI's taxonomy
database tells me the camel and llama are cousins. If you're confused,
you missed
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Ivor Williams wrote:
Just curious, what does perl actually stand for, or is it not an acronym?
Practical Extraction and Reoprting Language. Allegedly.
L.
I am just stoned?
If you want to understand this genetics lark, then watch the Royal
Institute Christmas lectures on Channel 4, given by John Sulston (former
Director of the Sanger Centre).
Original Message
You might know that John Sulston is presenting the Royal Institution
Christmas
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:29:00PM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
Richard also talked about the undead, or what happens when your
increase the refcount of something during global destruction.
Interesting stuff.
I thought Richard would be more interested in mead, wenches and babies on
spikes.
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
Oi! Leon! No!
Oi! Paul! No! ;-)
So, how would people feel about a one-month-only move to a Friday
meeting, on the fourth of January? (This may help the out-of-towners
make it in for a social. Possibly.)
Can I tempt people with a Winter Ale
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
had to sit on the front row of the largest cinema in Cambridge. And did
I think I know the cinema you mean - you can reach it through a shopping
centre, yes? Well I went to see the full monty
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'll bring thme along to the social meeting on Thursday
I thought the next social meet was far off, is it this thursday?
Thursday the 13th, which is
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Anthony Fisher wrote:
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
have
If you can cope with yet another channel, irc.openprojects.net has
#bioinformatics, which is a bit quiet at the mo and I thought I might drag
people on sometime. Erm, still writing that article. But now I'm going
for a curry.
L.
www.marssociety.org.uk /plug
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
My book showed up last night! :)
It seems to be *very* introductory on the Perl side -- actual [tongue in
cheek] bullet points from chapter two:
* What is a computer program?
* What is a programming language?
* What is a computer?
Us
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Dave Thorn wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:50:37PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
# Where is DTG when you want him ;-)
'ello darling
How're YOU doin'? /joey
So to make this a non-one-liner, are we doing aything special for the
December meet?
L.
The wonderful mating
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, anathema wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That rebuttal got me kicked off a mailing list.
You sound surprised.
Well, it was a mailing list of *goths*, so it was to be expected...
Sluts, tarts or neither?
L.
-*- love is a four letter word -*-
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:29:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I'm looking for some sort of general diary / log recording software.
Don't most of us use our use.perl journals for that :)
How do you/I know if anyone actually
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Lucy, OTOH, seems to manage not to organise a pissup in a pub. :-)
http://cam.pm.org/archive/2001-November/000414.html
Bastard ;-P
L.
F*** the one liner.
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tony Bowden wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:45:04PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
Five or six bits of fresh content each month may sound a bit stiff
(Wussies ;)), and in a group the size of London PM it'll be hard
keeping the pace up but if we could get a couple of
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, aef wrote:
Simon Wistow wrote:
ankh-morporkdark blue
Does it come on a stick?
Inna bun. Onna string. In the interests of equality, are there any nice
piccies of male people modelling said t-shirts?
L.
Big manly men in the fullness of their manhood.
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Alex Page wrote:
I don't subscribe, I buy it each month in Borders - I've got the Nov 2001
issue on my desk, with a price sticker saying 4.95 on it.
I'm assuming that's Borders in Oxford. I've looked for it in Cambridge
but haven't had any luck yet.
L.
Watching burly
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Tony Finch wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:21:40PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
I am not sure of the relative merits of the libraries of our foremost
universities but I would be interested as to which provided the most
function as opposed to some bizzare aesthetic
Do any of you trained compscis (or otherwise) know of good methods
for visualising large matrices of data? Gene expression data - one
value per gene per experiment - is usually represented as a line plot[0]
(icky when many), or as a colour map[1].
L.
Goth/age/blonde* is a state of mind, not a
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
well with your nod we now are half way there,
list snipped
I'll cheerlead when I'm in the appropriate city. And maybe
cheertelepathise when I'm not.
L.
Walking in a Wirral wonderland
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
...That YAPC::Europe 2002 dates will be Sept 18-20. Right before
the Oktoberfest.
Right. I'm going to this one. Let it be recorded that I give
you all permission to drag me along by whatever means necessary.
L.
Currently being leghumped on #perl
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, robin szemeti wrote:
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 16:15, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Hmm, this is where admit I'm crap and provide the CFT club with something
to ponder. I have made pairwise comparisons of a few thousand flies
and stored the similarity scores in a *large
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Wilson, Andrew (Belfast) wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
p.s. i have double checked and it is nobody's birthday on sunday ;-)
Not true, lots of people will be having a birthday on sunday. You
may not be concerned about them, it will still be
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Newton, Philip wrote:
Sue Spence wrote:
Turn your own keyboard upside down and see what comes out. :)
Mostly eyelashes/eyebrow hairs and dead cells that might be dandruff.
Especially if you're Ethan Hawke.
L.
An eyelash! How could you be so careless?
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Newton, Philip wrote:
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
if ($n) {
print OUT $key\n;
} else {
print OUT $key\n;
}
Huh?
if(condition) { do stuff } else { do same stuff anyway } ?
Oops, I deleted a bit to make it more readable for you non
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, anathema wrote:
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun type 4 keyboards are very good indeed. If you want a PeeCee
keyboard, the best I've used is an old IBM PS/2 jobbie. Presumably
the same mechanism as in the AT hunk o' steel.
Does it stand up to soup? I
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cliff Stoll's book?
And the cookie recipe is really good too. I've tried it. I'm not sure
if that makes me more or less sad.
That reminds me. I should see if any of the recipes in the Little Book
of
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:49:10AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
^^
=head1 STATUS
Crack induced - If this is too common a classification for Perl RFC's
please let me know, and I can find another status that
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:59:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
looks at www.paulyshore.com grimaces at music
Oh, the I'll be ba-ack guy from 'California Man', known (for some
reason) in the US as 'Encino Man'.
So as not to confuse the EVIL
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
I kind of liked AI. I had to feature a teddy in my summary. Greg and I
both think the teddy is the cutest part of the film and can't wait to
get one.
I saw Enigma this evening. It doesn't feature any teddies, but it does
have a big shiny calculating
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:09:55PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote:
What pretty pictures are those? we got plain colored lights and lights
that actually say walk and don't walk.
I have some vague memory of somewhere where the signs helpfully say
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:45:52PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
I should also point out that I haven't paid much attention to the lights
as anything other than vague guides since I got hit by a taxi while I
had the right of way when I
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
There are good american beers and chocolates. You're
just not very likely to get either one over there.
Ghirardelli makes decent chocolate.
IIRC a number of us visited a Ghirardelli shop on Cannery Row
in Monterey last summer. We liked it.
On 24 Sep 2001, Steve Mynott wrote:
Some of the books are quite good as well, particularly the Brogden SCP
book and the new ORA Java Cookbook.
Mr Bunny's Big Cup o' Java ;-)
L.
We're talking about funk and justice, funk and justice for all...
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension
Aargh. Does anyone have this is in a convenient viewing format? It's one
of those films I've been dying to see for ages.
The Princess Bride
Just stayed up all night reading the book, and am
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:
2001 totally overhyped...
snip
Speaking of which, I saw Battle Royale last night. Sick, sick film.
Especially the 2001-esque bit.
L.
Foo bah humbug.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Just seeing if the list is down or if it's just been increadibly quiet.
I've been coding through the night without so much as an electron in my
Inbox. Phew! The drought is broken. I can sleep in peace ;)
Aww. Everyone (in the entire world) was at the
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote:
How about the worst
How about the 'so bad they're good'?
L.
I suffer from acute nymphomania and own a brewery.
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote films (and I've added comments):
das boot - everybody dies!
fight club - mad, mad, mad...
terminator 2 - huzzah! C5 are showing it this week and have a
surprisingly good trailer for a change.
L.
If we don't get no tolls then we don't eat
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Andrew Wilson wrote:
You're bored aren't you Greg?
Beat me to it ;-)
The Shawshank Redemption, The Blues Brothers, True Lies, The Usual Suspects
The Princess Bride, Rocky Horror Picture Show, This is Spinal Tap
Agreed. Not saying the following are the greatest, but
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
Contact,
I liked it, but couldn't help thinking it was just a cheaply annotated
review of the (to me) much more interesting pretty 2001
:-P
Fifth Element,
who was the black host, he was wonderful!
Chris Turner, possibly the single most
On 15 Sep 2001, Chris Ball wrote:
My experience is that CS grads can be very good however most are only
about average. If you do get a programmer who has a degree in some other
subject then usually they are better than the CS student as they are
thinking out of the box whereas CS students
Mark Fowler wrote:
While we're waffling on about us lot getting reported on and stuff I
should point out that no-one else has pointed out that our nominal
leader has something about using 'tie' on perl.com.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/04/tiedhash.html
*wonders* Wouldn't it be a
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Anna Langley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By way of intro, I'm a Unix SA with a creeping NT job
responsibility working for an investment bank. A lot older
than a lot of you have owned up to at 39.
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