Re: Monads are like burritos

2009-12-15 Thread Steff Davies
Paul Makepeace wrote: Both sadly lacking from London.pm discourse and consumption*. Hereby corrected, http://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html Paul * Seriously, where in London sells decent burritos?! I always liked the ones at MexiCali on Berwick Street. S

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Steff Davies
Ash Berlin wrote: ...decent laywer? A lawyerist (and excellent cartoonist) of my acquaintance tells me that no-win-no-fee is unlikely to be attractive to most lawyers in this sort of case and that such cases can take a long (years) time to sort out. She does recommend someone though: Richar

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Steff Davies
James Laver wrote: I'm a huge fan of Model M series, to the point I had a unicomp expensively shipped in from the US, and what a fantastic keyboard. It encourages you to type properly because it's actually a real keyboard (particular hate focused at apple here, the latest apple keyboards (one of

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

2009-10-01 Thread Steff Davies
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 internet connection

Re: Anyone drinking at the moment?

2009-09-29 Thread Steff Davies
Ovid wrote: Gotta disagree on this one. IPA in the states is *awful*. I actually like it over here. Plus, US beers (even the quality ones) are often very fizzy. A bit too much for my taste. I know the microbreweries in Portland are fantastic, but they generally don't ship over here. I absolute

Re: Skype

2009-09-17 Thread Steff Davies
Bob MacCallum wrote: I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if possible? Fallback is through some central servers. That's what it says when you display the "technical info". I am not a network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!) Having used Skype ex