Re: YAPC::Europe

2001-06-14 Thread Barbie
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] So how many people are bringing partners to YAPC::Europe? I did ask, but she doesn't fancy it. So I get to party :) Barbie

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie
thought. Grumble grumble. At least they only claim to be the maintenance team. Almost like boasting about being the team sent in to fetch the team sent in to rescue the hostages. If on the other hand you want the dev team, I'm sure Barbie and I could figure something to tell you for the right

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie
From: Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beer good. But Guinness is better ;) Barbie

Re: Training anyone ?

2001-06-13 Thread Barbie [easynet]
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Barbie wrote: They probably could only get away with saying they maintain it due to the amount of complex stuff in there, and potential legal implications if they said they designed it. But I'll agree with The Goth here, do we

Re: General Election

2001-06-03 Thread Barbie [easynet]
to get the Dylan Songbook to learn the words ;) Barbie PS: I have several albums by Billy and Bob, but I still don't class them as folk singers. The Houghton Weavers, The Spinners, The Knigston Trio, My missus now they're folk singers.

Re: General Election

2001-06-02 Thread Barbie [easynet]
a folk singer. His more aptly titled moniker of Bard of Barking is probably more representative of what he does. Tells stories set to music. he might not be the best singer in the world, but then it never stop Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix. each to their own I suppose. Barbie.

Re: Religion

2001-06-02 Thread Barbie [easynet]
have this feeling that maybe we ought to get a Morris Side together for next years Jack in the Green festival in Hastings, This will be an amusing thing. Now I'd pay to see that :) Barbie.

Re: General Election

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie
There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the first verse and chorus of The Red Flag will not be admitted :) Is this the modern doctored version or the traditional version? Barbie.

Re: crazy golf

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie
in the year when I was living that other life, blissfully unaware I was about to be made redundant :) Barbie.

Re: crazy golf

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie
the year. Plus they don't glorify death and have a healthy celebration for life. Barbie.

Re: General Election

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie
Gaughn on BB's mini-album The Internationale. If you haven't tracked down an mp3 by next week, remind me and I'll play it to you. Have it on virgin vinyl with free limited edition 7 thanks :) Barbie.

Re: Religion

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie [easynet]
the Crusades? Jon, thinking Paganism and Christianity should co-exist happily as do Art and Science. One celebrates life, the other glorifies death. Art and Science are not so extreme. BTW I'm not a Pagan, just in case you're wondering. Barbie.

Re: crazy golf

2001-06-01 Thread Barbie [easynet]
From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Barbie wrote: the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism Nice try. Are you saying it isn't a religion or there is another one? Barbie

Re: Windows Perl - how?

2001-05-31 Thread Barbie
) they had both the explanation about the installer and a direct link to it on the M$ site. Even the install notes page makes no mention of it. Pretty poor if you ask me. Barbie

Re: [PUB] Possible candidate

2001-05-30 Thread Barbie
and the cash prize is no longer awarded, Doggett's decree continues to be fulfilled. This internet thing is quite interesting really once you get the hang of it. Do I get half a pint for knowing the coat was originally orange? Barbie.

Re: [PUB] Possible candidate

2001-05-30 Thread Barbie
From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Btw, the coat is red. And for anyone bored enough, the coat looks like this: http://home.planet.nl/~pdavis/Doggett.htm Barbie.

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Barbie
and the whole audience cheering when SS got killed. I thought I was the only one :) Barbie.

Re: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

2001-05-24 Thread Barbie
decides his wife (played by Julie Andrews)should go topless to increase the film's rating and the director's flagging career. Oddly enough the film is directed by Andrew's husband at the time, Blake Edwards. Life imitating art or visa versa? Barbie.

MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Barbie
), but it doesn't seem to want to respond to me today :( Barbie. sub parseMIME { $myfile = shift; use MIME::Head; ### Parse a new header from a filehandle: $head = MIME::Head-from_file($myfile); ### The content type (e.g., text/html): $mime_type = $head-mime_type; return split

Re: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Barbie
your input. So it seems it's taken a best guess, because it didn't understand the encoding. Back to the drawing board. Barbie.

Re: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Barbie
mind, I will have to investigate further for future use. Thanks for the help. Barbie.

Re: MIME stuff - Am I missing something?

2001-05-22 Thread Barbie
a Linux box too :) Barbie.

Re: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

2001-05-21 Thread Barbie
lairs and work they're way up from there. Barbie.

Re: T-Shirts

2001-05-17 Thread Barbie
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...and then sunny Birmingham .. You must have been dreaming! Barbie, currently sitting in a high-rise office block in rainy Brum.

Re: pc components

2001-05-17 Thread Barbie
Thinking of big hard drives... http://www.dabs.com/products/compare.asp?action=selectedprodtype=14 Nice feature. Bugger I bought a 41.1Gb IBM Deskstar the other month from Dabs and now they've drop their price by £25. Barbie

Re: Latest Perl Journal

2001-05-16 Thread Barbie
or one found in the wild? Subscribers copy. Arrived transatlantic this morning. Barbie.

Re: A look over the shoulder of an XP programmer (auf deutsch)

2001-05-16 Thread Barbie
From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 16 May 2001, Barbie wrote: sysadmin, being the shortsighted Solaris guru that he claims he is, has deemed outgoing and ingoing ports that aren't for HTTP, FTP be blocked :( dare I enquire how you sent this mail, then? :) Oh yeah

Schroedingers Computer

2001-05-11 Thread Barbie
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-6.html So far, demonstrations of quantum computing have been limited to the most rudimentary of calculations, involving only two or three bits of information. I'm sure Damian could them straight on that one ;-P Barbie

Re: Monitors

2001-05-11 Thread Barbie
Currently just Tux, who thankfully doesn't get used as Nerf gun target practice since leaving tw2. Barbie.

Re: mod perl

2001-05-10 Thread Barbie
) work here? Barbie.

Re: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Barbie
from Heathrow to San Diego for just over £680 for the month of July. Discovered that I can get an extra 20% off the cost of the tuts and stuff though, so an extra discount on the flight and some cheap accomodation and I'll be in for definite. Barbie.

Re: Good Accountants

2001-04-27 Thread Barbie
Manchester was the centre of the Universe. Shame about the footballs teams though. Barbie.

TPC5 Attendees

2001-04-25 Thread Barbie
anyone be interested in sharing a room with a Birmingham.pm'er? Or know of any other hotels (within walking distance from the conference) that are cheaper? Barbie.

Re: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread Barbie
hile missus goes off practicing with her band can be a pain sometimes. Barbie

Re: Komodo

2001-04-18 Thread Barbie
about PPM is that it does all the installation for you. the bad thing is that it doesn't run any tests. Then again seeing as they've done the job of porting the package you'd hope it was tested at their end. At least that's what _I'm_ hoping. Barbie.

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-06 Thread Barbie
From: "Dave Hodgkinson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Barbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quite. I'm 35 and was given a good basic education at Primary school of the english language, together most of it's idyosyncrasies. I was lucky enough to go to a Grammar (when there were s

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-05 Thread Barbie
reer after only ever having seen one 30 minute lesson. /RANT Barbie. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [my new homefor now]

Re: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-05 Thread Barbie
Sun 25th Feb Emergency Social Meeting (Damian Conway) Mon 26th Feb Emergency Technical Meeting (Damian Conway) This could be worth having a holiday for. See you there :) Barbie

Birmingham Perl Mongers

2001-01-05 Thread Barbie
round the corner from St Phillips Cathedral on Colmore Row). Have fun! Barbie