On 27 September 2011 21:40, Paul Tweedy p...@70cities.net wrote:
On 27 September 2011 17:18, Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk wrote:
Next you'll be asking if the permies got a pay rise this year or if their
pension fund[1] didn't get raided.
Actually, we permies did get a pay rise
On 21 September 2011 08:04, Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 23:21, Chris Devers cdev...@pobox.com wrote:
Man, if only there were a way to get radio programmes, like, directly from
the radio. Right?
Yeah. Especially radio programmes that you missed, so (a)
2009/9/29 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk:
Question: why do so many (british/possibly english) people drink so much
tasteless (bland?), yet reasonably alcoholic beer?
Advertising marketing budgets that, combined across all the large
brewers of mainstream lagers, easily stretch into the hundreds
2009/5/20 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Scott McWhirter wrote:
I'm not too familiar with london geography, but I'm looking for places
to stay/share/whatever that's a short commute to white city.
Define short commute. Then use
2008/12/4 Léon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/12/1 Léon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is today! Who's coming?
There will be a few of us from BBC FMT Vision there, don't know about
any other Perl-using BBCers.
Iain
On Monday, September 15, 2003, 9:15:39 PM, Steve Keay wrote:
SK A strange request, perhaps, but:
SK Does anyone happen to have a collection of old computers like BBC
SK micros, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, ZX 81, etc? My g/f wants to
SK photograph them for a book being published for the Reader's
On Friday, September 5, 2003, 3:50:07 PM, Andy Wardley wrote:
AW James Campbell wrote:
If God created the universe, who created God?
AW God didn't create the universe. God is the universe.
AW That's about the only thing that all the religious texts can agree on -
AW that God, or whatever
On Friday, September 5, 2003, 5:08:00 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/features/beginner/index.shtml
PM ``You have to believe that there is only one God, Allah, who created the
PM entire universe, and that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is his final
PM
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 6:27:04 AM, Mike Jarvis wrote:
MJ I like the idea of a slim, quick browser, but I think they may be
MJ getting too religious about it.
If you ever use That OS (even if it's just at work with an enforced NT
workstation or something), I can heartily recommend
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, 10:01:51 AM, Peter Sergeant wrote:
PS It's at times like this I realise my SQL skills only cover the basics...
PS I have two tables, 'user' and 'users_names'. I'm looking to deprecate
PS 'users_names', so I've altered 'user' to now contain a 'user_realname'
PS column.
On Friday, July 18, 2003, 2:28:20 PM, Chisel Wright wrote:
CW I've got a colleague here in the orifice, and between us we know how to
CW use fork() but don't understand it as well as we'd like.
CW Can anyone out there explain:
Assuming you're using a unix-esque operating system:
CW 1. what's
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, 3:59:35 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote:
TC oh sh-t.. I'm heading to Germany early next month and don't have any special
TC visa's or anything..
TC I've never really bothered with them before when visiting euro countries and
TC just waved my passport at people on the way
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 2:48:38 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to
PM LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
PM Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 3:49:35 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM What is your point? That the US currency is failing somehow because it
PM doesn't explicitly put its cents value on its coinage?
No, the point was that although there are dozens of slang words for
various monetary amounts in
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, 3:18:39 PM, Dave Thorn wrote:
DT And an acre, which is/was a measurement of the area a team of oxen could
DT plough in one day, or (4,840 square yards).
DT I wonder if they had a measure for oxen standards.
*.weights-and-measures, metric, imperial, american, the lot,
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, 3:27:21 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
2 pound round silver and brass
NC Has the inscription Standing on the shoulders of giants around the edge.
NC Anyone tempted to avoid code re-use (Not Invented Here should obtain
NC a £2 coin and read it)
Does it? Never
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 3:11:15 PM, Ian Malpass wrote:
beer in the convivial surroundings of 'The Hitchcock' on Whipps Cross
Road, E11, Paul Makepeace and my own decrepit self will be holding the
inaugural meeting of leytonstone.pm on July 8th. All welcome of course.
I'll be there from
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, 4:53:35 PM, Jason Clifford wrote:
JC On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Joshua Keroes wrote:
Perl is black.
JC Not so.
JC It is multicoloured:
Close, but no cigar.
JC shebang is purple;
s/purple/green/
JC directives/function calls are orange
s/orange/red/
JC variables are
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