New Llama
A page about the new edition of Learning Perl has appeared on the ORA site: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/ Should be out in time for TPC. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
RE: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
From: Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:36 AM Chris Devers writes: Cousin site to http://www.c-cup.com/, which seems to be down at the moment. Typical example: Charisma Carpenter Guide to Selected Linux Software http://www.c-cup.com/linux/software-that-works.html (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.c-cup.com/linux/software-that-work s.html) On the subject of C.C., let me just say that last night's Angel had her in a bikini for an exploitative commercial she was in. Aie caramba! For those of you following on Sky One, remember that you're only ten days behind the US right now - so that episode will be shown a week on Friday. For those of you following on terrestial TV - $deity knows where or when Angel series 2 will be shown. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:35:42PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of C.C., let me just say that last night's Angel had her in a bikini for an exploitative commercial she was in. You do realise that i have to wait for over six months to see this don't you. Bastard. :) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:14:18AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Cousin site to http://www.c-cup.com/, which seems to be down at the moment. It looks like its still down and the Google cache lacks images :( Typical example: Charisma Carpenter Guide to Selected Linux Software For those of you following on Sky One, remember that you're only ten days behind the US right now - so that episode will be shown a week on Friday. Now who do i know with Sky ;) For those of you following on terrestial TV - $deity knows where or when Angel series 2 will be shown. That would be me. Looks like the videos will be out before the show comes on. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th
* at 03/05 10:28 +0100 Mark Fowler said: On Wed, 2 May 2001, Struan Donald wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1307000/1307103.stm for those who don't get a kick out of seeing server errors :) Which we all know you don't ever get on news.bbc.co.ukeven when a page you're looking for doesn't exist good grief, neither it does. what can they be thinking? struan
Re: TPC Travel
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's about the same prices that I'm seeing on ebookers, deckchair and expedia. I may be prepared to pay a little more for a) a direct flight and b) a better known airline :) Virgin are trying it on: £1200! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: cocktails
Chris Heathcote wrote: Off the top of my head: ICA bar, Match (Noho/Farringdon/Sosho), lab (on Old Compton St.), aka... also heard about Smiths of Smithfield, but never been there. Smiths isn't really a cocktail bar IIRC. Cocktails at the Marriot (aka the old County Hall) aren't unbelievably expensive. For true geekdom go get cocktails go to Cynthia's Cyberbar http://www.cynbar.co.uk/ where you are served cocktails by a robot. As opposed to being served coffee by a drone at Starbucks.
Re: cocktails
* at 03/05 12:42 +0100 Simon Wistow said: Chris Heathcote wrote: Off the top of my head: ICA bar, Match (Noho/Farringdon/Sosho), lab (on Old Compton St.), aka... also heard about Smiths of Smithfield, but never been there. For true geekdom go get cocktails go to Cynthia's Cyberbar http://www.cynbar.co.uk/ where you are served cocktails by a robot. although poss not on a sunday afternoon. certainly no robotic serving of a saturday afternoon (although this was 1ish so maybe a bit early) plus all that shiny metal surface decor is very unpleasant very quickly. struan
Re: cocktails
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:47:25AM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: Off the top of my head: ICA bar, Match (Noho/Farringdon/Sosho), lab (on Old Compton St.), aka... also heard about Smiths of Smithfield, but never been there. Dunno about Sun afternoon opening on all those... The ICA bar is certainly open on Sunday afternoon, but will be serving more coffee than cocktails. I suppose they'd make you cocktails if you asked, but I wonder how expertly... .robin. -- You are bound to be in a state of mental unrest, even turmoil. And of course there can be no inner peace: be proud of it! -- Electric Posters, Piotr Szyhalski
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30
On 03/05/2001 at 13:56 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote parenthetically: some of London.pm were over in NYC - is anyone going to write a report? Yes, eventually; I sent a message about this earlier but forgot to mung the sender address so it'll need approving (Mr Stowe?) but the plan is photos and some text at some point. -- :: paul :: how fickle fate can be
Re: cocktails
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:42:40PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Chris Heathcote wrote: Off the top of my head: ICA bar, Match (Noho/Farringdon/Sosho), lab (on Old Compton St.), aka... also heard about Smiths of Smithfield, but never been there. Smiths isn't really a cocktail bar IIRC. Cocktails on the first floor there aren't bad. If you like an impressive view but condescending service, try Bar 24 in Tower 42 (ie Natwest). Otherwise I go with the Match recommendation. jp
RE: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
On 03/05/2001 at 09:14 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: On the subject of C.C., let me just say that last night's Angel had her in a bikini for an exploitative commercial she was in. For those of you following on Sky One, remember that you're only ten days behind the US right now - so that episode will be shown a week on Friday. Yes, I finally found out that new Buffy and Angel are shown on Tuesday nights in the US, the one day of the week we weren't there. (On that subject, thanks to David Adler for the hospitality, and to Lucille for all the organisation, and to NY for being big and not too scary, and to the other London.pm-ers who made it over so I wasn't freaked out by exploring something on my own.) I'll try to sort out photos (although I didn't take any at NY.pm) and some sort of documentary web page, for anyone who cares, at some point in the next, sigh, four weeks? Unlike celia, who's got some up anyway (and they're probably better too: http://shadowgirl.net/photos/NYC-apr-2001/). -- :: paul :: how fickle fate can be
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Paul Mison wrote: On 03/05/2001 at 13:56 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote parenthetically: some of London.pm were over in NYC - is anyone going to write a report? Yes, eventually; I sent a message about this earlier but forgot to mung the sender address so it'll need approving (Mr Stowe?) Done. /J\
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30
Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether: I missed the mention that london-list may be moving to london.pm.org at some point. There's no point in mentioning it again until it happens, surely. So, when's it gonna happen list-meisters? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... It's tourist season in Florida, bag limit two.
Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
Cross David - dcross wrote: I'll get my photos up before too long. But I do need to get them developed the old fashioned way, so if anyone wants to prevent photos taken on the Staten Island Ferry from being published then they still have a few days to approach me with an appropriate bribe. Well I could mention that you were a big jessie on the roller coaster at Coney Island ... except that I've jsut done that. Ah. ... Have I ever mentioned that I really like you and have always respected and admired you?
RE: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:47 PM Cross David - dcross wrote: I'll get my photos up before too long. But I do need to get them developed the old fashioned way, so if anyone wants to prevent photos taken on the Staten Island Ferry from being published then they still have a few days to approach me with an appropriate bribe. Well I could mention that you were a big jessie on the roller coaster at Coney Island ... except that I've jsut done that. Ah. At least _I_ was on the roller coaster at Coney Island - unlike some people I could mention. And I'm hoping that Gill has the photo to prove it :) Have I ever mentioned that I really like you and have always respected and admired you? Heh! That's more like it :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this
Cross David - dcross wrote: At least _I_ was on the roller coaster at Coney Island - unlike some people I could mention. And I'm hoping that Gill has the photo to prove it :) I'd have been on it too if I hadn't needed to go back to Manhattan. Gah, publish and be damned Cross.
Re: cocktails
* Chris Heathcote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on 3/5/01 12:48 pm, Robin Houston wrote: The ICA bar is certainly open on Sunday afternoon, but will be serving more coffee than cocktails. I suppose they'd make you cocktails if you asked, but I wonder how expertly... They always have one person on who tends to know what they're doing... I cannot recommend the ICA enough for cocktails, on many scouting trips before and after (don't ask why i need to scout afterwards) Y::E191c i had a variety of cocktails and they were all very very good. However the best place to get margharitas[1] is the argentinian steak bar called `gaucho grill', if anyone wants to leave early from the next social meeting to go there let me know and i'll book a table - its the best steak in the UK, beautiful rare, awesome chips with, very very nice indeed - never get the small steak as you will kick yourself when you taste it [1] i have no idea to spell them, all the letters seem to jumble together after a few of said drink -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Microsoft.FUKT
``Microsoft is preparing a broad campaign countering the movement to give away and share software code, arguing that it potentially undermines the intellectual property of countries and companies. At the same time, the company is acknowledging that it is feeling pressure from the freely shared alternatives to its commercial software.'' This is great news for people who aren't huge fans of Redmond Empire -- not only is the spinfo in the article largely wrong (but superficially plausible, typical FUD) but there's nothing they can do about it! They're in trouble and they know it. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html user/pass london.pm/london.pm Paul
Apocalypse Two
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/03/wall.html Some quite exciting stuff in there. Array dereferencing will be @foo[23] rather than $foo[23]. Everything will be an object (or at least work like one). No more typeglobs. User-definable quoting operators. And much, much more! .robin. -- I dreamt the other night that my nose had fallen off --john melesky
Re: cocktails
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: However the best place to get margharitas[1] is the argentinian steak bar called `gaucho grill', if anyone wants to leave early from the next social meeting to go there let me know and i'll book a table - its the best steak in the UK I have to agree with this. The bar isn't terribly large (at least not in the one off Regent's Stree), but the cocktails are *lovely* and the steak *gorgeous*. The theme is a bit, errr, loud (cow-style seats etc.) and it's fairly dark (err, intimate), but it's a lovely (not cheap) place. Oh, and I'm feeling generous, so I'll buy a drink for the first person to place the quote in my .signature ;-) Now if only I could find a copy of this... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
Re: cocktails
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:25:16PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Oh, and I'm feeling generous, so I'll buy a drink for the first person to place the quote in my .signature ;-) Now if only I could find a copy of this... ... Did you know there's a guy living in our closet? Real Genius. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
Re: cocktails
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:41:18PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: Ok, let's stop there: that's Roger, evildave, and Simon I owe drinks to. What I want to know is why university didn't turn up to be exactly like Real Genius... Yeah, it totally su.. fx: Chris screams and jumps out of the way of an out-of-control toboggan-y thing. :) -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You said Java, that's as bad as Belgium. --trj --
Re: cocktails
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:34:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete 10.0.2 shipped yesterday and fixed this, fyi... The burn CD button in iTunes is a pulsing biohazard sign just like Duke Nukem expansion pak. Too c00l. P
Re: cocktails
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: etc.) and it's fairly dark (err, intimate), but it's a lovely (not cheap) place. Oh, and I'm feeling generous, so I'll buy a drink for the first person to place the quote in my .signature ;-) Now if only I could find a copy of this... real genius as for the steak, i already have one off list mail booking a slot, so if you want a place mail me off list and i'll do a count and book on tuesdayish to firm up on details, it will cost about 20 quid a head unless you drink a lot of cocktails, and we will leave from PO about 9.30ish to arrive for 10/10.15ish at the steak place leon are you coming? if so mail me off list or else i get confused -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
