Re: Fruit flies like a banana

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, AEF wrote: > ...a real interactive fruit fly would be fun. Webcam, food and other > stuff controlled by people browsing the site... bringing insect torture > into the 21st century. Ooooh, don't tempt me... *grin* L. "We've got armadillos down our trousers. It's really qu

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:07:16PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > Well, Arthur C Clarke claims it's a pure coincidence, but if you take the > letters after each of H, A and L - you get IBM. If you take the letters VMS and shift 'em one, you get WNT, a popular Redmond OS one of whose lead architects

Re: Fruit flies like a banana

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > There's an interactive fruit fly on the interweb. I don't believe you. > Really! Nope. > http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm No, this is just a website. However, a real interactive fruit fly would be fun. Webcam, food and other st

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > Really? How many flies do you have? One on each pair of trousers. Except track-suit bottoms. Tony

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote: > >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > > > > Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those > > expansion plans really are short-term. > > > > > Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "Put down those Win

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote: >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > > > Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those > expansion plans really are short-term. > > > Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Put down those Windows disks Dave Dave? DAVE!!" > > --

Re: Fruit flies like a banana

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:17:13PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Yeah, like where they knock out the alcohol dehydrogenase gene and get all > the flies absolutely bladdered :-)) I think that having extra legs growing out of your head would be weirder than being drunk all the time. Not that I've

Re: Fruit flies like a banana

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > Antennapedia is my favourite mutation, but I expect Lucy > knows some better ones :-) Yeah, like where they knock out the alcohol dehydrogenase gene and get all the flies absolutely bladdered :-)) L. "Master of all our zones."

Fruit flies like a banana

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:05:21PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > AEF sent the following bits through the ether: > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > Love and fruit flies, > > I only really want /one/ of those things... > Really? How many flies do you have? There's an interactive f

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

Tony wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > Love and fruit flies, > I only really want /one/ of those things... Ditto. And I have the wrong one... Love and grapefruit, L.

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

AEF sent the following bits through the ether: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > Love and fruit flies, > > I only really want /one/ of those things... Really? How many flies do you have? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europe...

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Love and fruit flies, I only really want /one/ of those things... Tony

Re: Houston, we have a problem [was] Re: ISO8601 [was] Re:Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Niklas Nordebo wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:48:42PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? > > It's IBM with each letter shifted once to the left. Clarke plausibly denies that he noticed this before writ

HAL (was: ISO8601 (was: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.))

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:48:42PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? Supposedly because join ("", map chr(1+ord), split"", "HAL") eq "IBM" though apparently that's accidental. "When someone pointed out the spurious association

Re: script archive naming

From: "Robin Houston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 23 March 2001 17:51 Subject: script archive naming > > Your search - "london script archive" - did not match any documents. > > .robin. > so how about londonscripts.com/org then /Robert

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote: > and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? I'm not even going to bother answering that ;-) Love and fruit flies, L.

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:48:42PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL? It's IBM with each letter shifted once to the left. -- Niklas Nordebo -><- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The day is seven hours and fifteen minutes old, and already it's c

script archive naming

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:40:21PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: > > and I can tell you that ezscripts.org is still available There is already a site called ezscripts though: http://www.bytchandbytes.com/ezscripts/ Simplescripts is http://www.simplescripts.co.uk/ - they sell perl script

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those expansion plans >really are short-term. > Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Put down those Windows disks Dave Dave? DAVE!!" > -- HAL 9000 and for a bonus half point (cos i

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or, even, 'EZScripts') and I can tell you that ezscripts.org is still available the .com is a parking page and the .net doesn;t resolve. -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Matt's Scripts Replacement - The name and sundry other things.

> I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or, even, 'EZScripts') had most people's > approval. I thought it ws alright - well, taking the target audience > into account :) ...which is the *only* important factor in this equation. I'm still enough of a newbie (those on IRC will have just experienced my joy

Re: "That book"

Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or, even, 'EZScripts') had most people's > approval. Well, if anything, we should choose a name which isn't already taken with some bad scripts. Google first, guys! Leon -- Leon Brocard...

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Natalie Ford wrote: > >How at http://london.pm.org/scripts/ > > 404... > (Who will do some HTML this weekend) Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name => 'Mark Fowler',Title => 'Technology Developer'

Re: "That book"

>How at http://london.pm.org/scripts/ 404...

Re: "That book"

Dave Cross wrote: >At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > L. said: > > > > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > > > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script > > archive it won't be. > > > > Ideas to the usual address. > >

Re: "That book"

MBM wrote: > > > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it > > > > won't be. > > The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is to make it > relate to buffy in some way :) Or beer. Or both ;-) Lucy.

Re: "That book"

> At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > > > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script > > archive it won't be. Might as well mention London.pm, tho' "London.pm's Script Arcives" is

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it > > > won't be. > > I don't think we

Re: "That book"

At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L. said: > > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script > archive it won't be. > > Ideas to the usual address. > > *Please* I thought that 'EasyS

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it > > won't be. > > I don't think we tried "London.pm's Script Archive", did we? :)

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! > Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it > won't be. I don't think we tried "London.pm's Script Archive", did we? :) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +44

Re: "That book"

L. said: > World domination is ours. Muahahaha! Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script archive it won't be. Ideas to the usual address. *Please* Later. Mark. (damnit Jim, I'm a Technology Developer, not a Copywriter) -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > Here's an extract from an email I've just got from Elizabeth Castro, > the author of "Perl & CGI for the WWW - Visual Quickstrt Guide". > She's talking about the second edition which should be out in a couple > of months. > > "I am using many of your sug

Re: "That book"

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > Here's an extract from an email I've just got from Elizabeth Castro, > the author of "Perl & CGI for the WWW - Visual Quickstrt Guide". > She's talking about the second edition which should be out in a couple > of months. > > "I am using many of your sugg

"That book"

Here's an extract from an email I've just got from Elizabeth Castro, the author of "Perl & CGI for the WWW - Visual Quickstrt Guide". She's talking about the second edition which should be out in a couple of months. "I am using many of your suggestions, including use strict, -w, and CGI.pm. I th

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:50:28AM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > [if the server] was set up correctly.. e.g. had Mail::Audit installed World domination is mine, at last. -- I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. -- Ste

Re: Perl Training Courses

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:37:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (BTW does anyone know of any open source memory leak detection > tools?) GNU checker is surprisingly good. Unfortunately, I'm in offline mode right now and can't find a URL. It's gccchecker in Debian. -- It's 106 miles from Bi

Re: Contract market these days?

>Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now. >... what the overall feel of the market is right now whether people >are knifing coming in and out of interviews or if it's pretty easy >to find IT work, etc. It seems to be quite strong, but definitely not as buoyant as it was. A number

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:45:54PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > > > > And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html > > http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:30:10AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:31:56 +, Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > >For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry > > >appeared on? > > > > Tiswas !

Contract market these days?

Just wondering what it was like in the UK right now. My brother's on the point of quitting his current gig as web architect, designer, producer, JavaScript hacker (of quite some skill at this point), linux admin, and general "buck stops at me" type of gig. I know that hardly describes anyone here

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:46:07 +, Marty Pauley wrote: > The > interplanitary URL is sufficient for our short-term expansion plans. > Unfortunatly the actual specification of the scheme is a millitary > secret, but I can target your house with the following: > ipbm://3/401392692/759227092/5 We

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

> According to , I'm > right. New Faces was first, then The Fosters and Tiswas and > only later, The Black & White Minstrel Show. Aye, fair play. I must admit that yoiur trick question got me and for some reason I added "on a regular basis" to the

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

> > Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White > > Minstrel Show. > > Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was > New Faces. http://homepages.go.com/~chefjunkie/Lennysnotlaughing.html http://ayup.co.uk/gods/gods0-4.html Search for "Minstrel". Okay, so

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:31:25 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:19 -, Matthew Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry > > > appeared on? > > > > Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:19 -, Matthew Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry > > appeared on? > > Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel > Show. Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

Dave Cross wrote: > For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry > appeared on? Black and White Minstrel show IIRC . Although I think he was a on a couple of talent shows first.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:31:56 +, Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > >For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry > >appeared on? > > Tiswas ! Sorry. Wrong. Thank you for playing :) > Actually - I think this was whe

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

> For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry > appeared on? Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show. Ph3@r my Lenny Henry trivia skills! -- matt "'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today? hey, baby, don't be pulling on my

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

> Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was > probably Three of a Kind (remember that?), or another programme > with Lenny H. in it. Tiswas. T McD was on Tiswas. I remember, becasue Trevor McDonald turned up and gave Lenny a pie in the face for his troubles. -- matt "'scuse

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: >For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry >appeared on? > >Dave... Tiswas ! Actually - I think this was where McDoughnut first appeared ? Simon.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:20:56 -, "Andrew Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "James Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor > > McDonald called "Trevor McDoughnut"? > > Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was p

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

At 10:05 23/03/2001 +, James Powell wrote: >ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald >called "Trevor McDoughnut"? Three of a Kind I think. Lenny Henry created the character anyway. SImon.

Re: Perl Training Courses

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:37:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry, but I have to disagree. Firstly, I don't see how a debugger > > (visual or not) is much use with the 2 cases you cited. For memory > > leaks there are specialised tools like Purify & > >

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

From: "James Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald > called "Trevor McDoughnut"? Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was probably Three of a Kind (remember that?), or another programme with Lenny H. in it. For a

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:45:54PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > > And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen: > http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html > http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645 > Excellent, Trevor McDonald style "And finally"

Re: Perl Training Courses

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:37:13PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, but I have to disagree. Firstly, I don't see how a debugger > (visual or not) is much use with the 2 cases you cited. For memory > leaks there are specialised tools like Purify & > Boundschecker. Commercial and not cheap I

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:26:35PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > Oi! stop testing your filters on the list > > /J\ Well, if London.pm.org (server) was set up correctly.. e.g. had Mail::Audit installed then it wouldn't have been a problem! (it does now btw - thanks Jo) Seriously, sorry,