Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Geoff, Could you then please put your survey results on your website with a link? Much easier to read that as a poor text file at the end of an email. In all fairness to Dave, he did say that the email was in HTML format and quite large. Unfortunately, it seems that the list prevents

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Norman Dunbar
Dave, As I thought, only George and I read my articles on QL Assembly Language! ;-( You read your own articles? Isn't that like laughing at your own jokes? :P But of course. Don't you know that's one way to double my readers! Plus, I get to find all sorts of mistakes that I didn't see when I

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I agree with a lot of what you say about the importance of websites, but that is not what QL-ers appear to want. On the last published figures only 21 UK Quanta members out of 154 have opted to receive the magazine electronically. The equivalent figures for overseas members is 9 out of 23 and

[Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils or leeks and eating 'cawl' soup or Welsh Rarebit to celebrate. If anyone doesn't know what I'm on about, visit my website and click on the links there. I've even put a link to a Welsh society in USA (unfortunately not in

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread peet vanpeebles
--- On Tue, 1/3/11, Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk wrote: From: Dilwyn Jones dil...@evans1511.fsnet.co.uk Subject: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day To: ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 13:25 Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread Dilwyn Jones
vanpeebles wrote: Happy St Davids day to everyone. I Have a good one! I hope you will be drinking plenty of Double Dragon ale too ;) Peter. Never actually tried that stuff. I think it's brewed by FelinFoel brewery down south Wales. Others have told me it leaves you FeelinFoul

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:33 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Could you then please put your survey results on your website with a link? Much easier to read that as a poor text file at the end of an email. I DOOO agree, no more informative than the non appearing results of the '95 survey, ie none atall.

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 13:25 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils or leeks and eating 'cawl' soup or Welsh Rarebit to celebrate. So today's (not Toasay) the Dai, I occasionally wondered. I suppose it's not the right season for lava bread ?

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread Dilwyn Jones
At 13:25 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Happy St Davids day to everyone. I hope we are all wearing daffodils or leeks and eating 'cawl' soup or Welsh Rarebit to celebrate. So today's (not Toasay) the Dai, I occasionally wondered. I suppose it's not the right season for lava bread ? Might be, if

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 12:11 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: The QL community is a good deal more conservative that we probably would like to think, Strange one this - conservative in some respects yet not in others. We do have to bear in mind that as a community we are using a base computer which is not far from 3

Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day

2011-03-01 Thread Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message - From: Petri Pellinen p...@iki.fi To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Happy St Davids Day As a former Dragon 32 user I can only say: Cymru am byth! Doesn't help much in the getting-back-on-topic-department, I'm

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread David Tubbs
At 08:54 01/03/2011 +, you wrote: Someone scanned in one issue recently - check the list archives - and it came to around 50MB for a text searchable pdf. That was during a long run of emails on why can't we get a pdf copy of QL Today? - which has been covered here, in the magazine and I

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Lee Privett
Heck, next thing you'll be saying is 'do away with a postal one altogether make it all electronic and then Monthly!' :) Lee - Back to the QL- - Original Message - From: David Tubbs To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Lee Privett
Noel Edmonds found that out to his shame with 'Gotcha Oscars' So how about the Cue Ella's Lee - Back to the QL- Also, how about an annual award ceremony for best new h/w, software, utility, lifetime achievement awards - so we can all pat ourselves on the back? *grins* Heck, I might

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Lee Privett
Ladies and Gentlemen its the 'QLimb that Mountain' Awards 2011 Lee - Back to the QL- - Original Message - From: David Tubbs To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results! Suggestions Qlutz of the year

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Dave Park
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.ukwrote: In all fairness to Dave, he did say that the email was in HTML format and quite large. Unfortunately, it seems that the list prevents HTML postings and has converted it to plain text - with all the attendant formatting

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Geoff Wicks
-- From: Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:50 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results! On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.ukwrote: In all

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Lee Privett
Mind you is does depend on how you would treat the awards, as prestigious or turkeys The 'Clive's C5s' has nice ring to it but not necessarily a good connotation Lee - Back to the QL- Also, how about an annual award ceremony for best new h/w, software, utility, lifetime achievement

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message 4d6cb2c2.7020...@dunbar-it.co.uk, Norman Dunbar nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk writes Hi, I think that the argument is that it is a preference to have a physical magazine to read, rather than an electronic imitation. I do receive another magazine in electronic form, which is very well

Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results!

2011-03-01 Thread Dave Park
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Geoff Wicks gtwi...@btinternet.com wrote: -- From: Dave Park plasticu...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 7:50 PM To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The First Survey - Results! On Tue,