Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-23 Thread Andy Wardley
quot; and gave up trying to understand your email. :-) Actually, on a related, but wildly off-topic matter, does anyone know if there's any known relationship between the Plank length and c? A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated.

Re: Stupid Email

2001-01-26 Thread Andy Wardley
t;manager" in this context. He's far too intelligent for a start :-)= A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: Stupid Email

2001-01-24 Thread Andy Wardley
y weren't the first ones up against the wall when the revolution came. Such is the way. Nevertheless, I was amused that I went from being 13 layers of management separation away from Peter Bonfield, the man at the top, to only 4 away. But he still didn't answer my calls or accept the

Stupid Email

2001-01-24 Thread Andy Wardley
some point in future. :-)= There was a moral in this story but I forgot it in the process of rambling on. Probably something about munging Reply-To, or putting all middle management up against a wall and shooting them (which ICL did a short while later). A -- Andy Wardley <[EMA

Munging Reply-To

2001-01-22 Thread Andy Wardley
e list. Therefore, the current behaviour is wrong, even according to the "Munging Reply-To considered harmful" arguments (which we don't necessarily accept as valid). A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTE

Conslutency Location

2001-01-22 Thread Andy Wardley
one a nice laptop and have desks with monitors, keyboards and telephones in the offices. They can work in one or other place, depending on where they are, what they're doing and/or who they're currently working with in terms of team members and/or clients. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMA

Re: Conslutancy

2001-01-22 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 22, 3:33pm, Andy Wardley wrote: > Please consider yourself emailed. Damn, damn, damn! OK, it was my stupid mistake that I didn't check the headers before I clicked send, but I can't help thinking that the default Reply-to header should be to the sender, not the entire group

Re: Consultancy company

2001-01-20 Thread Andy Wardley
> > Agreed - why work in London - what about telecommuters ? > I'm *really* unsure about telecommuting. For me, telecommunting is fine for maybe 50% of my week, but unless I'm working on a very singular project (i.e. running in deep hack mode), then I need to have the human company gained from

Re: PIMB THC-shirts

2001-01-19 Thread Andy Wardley
ubstance abuse. Be warned people! Stick with tobacco, alcohol and the other drugs which have been deemed safe enough for us to be trusted with. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

RE:Consultancy company

2001-01-19 Thread Andy Wardley
p to London for this month :-) A Pipe dreamer. -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: techmeet aftermath

2001-01-19 Thread Andy Wardley
nother home for them. The slides from my talks are online at: http://www.tt2.org/london.pm/pod_pom http://www.tt2.org/london.pm/xml_schema Info about Camelot is at: http://www.tt2.org/camelot/ And a big thanks to Alex and Area 51 for having us and providing the refreshments. A -- Andy

Re: What's a perl person then?

2001-01-19 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 19, 10:35am, Greg Cope wrote: > perl person: Hacked a drawing program in 2 hours. s/2 hours/1 line/ A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-18 Thread Andy Wardley
o reiterate anyway. August is almost certainly likely to see fewer natives and more tourists in London and the environs. Venues and accomodation will be hard to find and expensive. Mid September would be much better, IMHO. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating.

Re: apologies

2001-01-18 Thread Andy Wardley
:-) A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: PIMB THC-shirts

2001-01-18 Thread Andy Wardley
t takes an hour or so to notice the effects coming on and when they do, there's no way to stop them. So you might end up ingesting twice as much as you planned, which you may (or may not :-) consider wasteful if half as much would have had the desired effect. Or so I've been told.

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Andy Wardley
x27;t waste time getting nowhere with the latter. In my case, Japanese was very much the latter. I have deep respect for anyone who can master it. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the thread is dead. Hitler!)

2001-01-12 Thread Andy Wardley
ne, for adopting a name like "Rope". Or "Dope", of course :-) A [1] Did you know that "Canvas" is a derivation of "Cannabis"? (or vice versa, I forget - my short term memory isn't, erm, what was I saying?) -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 12, 3:57pm, Greg Cope wrote: > Is such a thing as Apache::Template being done or is it a pipedream [TM] No, it's real, just not officially finished or released. Someone sent me some new code for it which I'll be intergrating and releasing in the next week or so. A --

Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-12 Thread Andy Wardley
can do so with the minimum of fuss. I have to stop writing now. The nice men in the white coats tell me it's time for my medication. Hope that answers your rhetorical question :-) A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: From whence cometh www.fnord.demon.co.uk?

2001-01-11 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 11, 3:54pm, Robin Houston wrote: > See http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/rsa/ for an explanation > of that particular cryptic 3-liner :-) D'Oh! I really could have guessed that if I bothered to engage my brain! Curiosity satiated. Ta. A -- Andy Wardley <[E

Re: From whence cometh www.fnord.demon.co.uk?

2001-01-11 Thread Andy Wardley
tedly contemplated installing the plugin, but it turns out that I need to register with AOL/Netscape before I can download it. And alas, the user name "FuckOffBastard" has already been taken. :-( A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: the list is dead, long live the list

2001-01-11 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 11, 1:49pm, dcross - David Cross wrote: > ...and besides, there's a rumour that Andy Wardley has a hacked version of > mailman that doesn't have the 'Powered by Python' logos :) Sir, I must protest. You imply I hack Python! But I do have a modified "

From whence cometh www.fnord.demon.co.uk?

2001-01-11 Thread Andy Wardley
on a front page. http://www.fnord.demon.co.uk/mt/fifth/ Some time later on the same site I came across a reference to Mark being a "Meeja Hor" and it rung a London.pm bell. Anyone? Class? Anyone? A [1] Although I would like to suggest a version of the site that doesn't requ

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-11 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 8, Andy Wardley, thricefold decorated in the Winky Wars wrote: > How about I do a 20 minute session on Pod::POM and TT views, take a break > while Alex talks, and then do another 20 minutes on XML::Schema? No-one has said otherwise, so I'll assume that's OK Now, can

Re: Perl 6

2001-01-09 Thread Andy Wardley
development process. It would give us, er, I mean *them* somewhere to rant without bothering too many people doing the real work on crafting Perl 6. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Print on Demand (Re: one liner)

2001-01-08 Thread Andy Wardley
g about it as far as I know. Most probably because they haven't figured out where the content would come from. But with the right partnership(s) between authors/publishers/printers, the idea might fly. A [1] that's Printing On Demand, not Plain Old Documentation. -- Andy Wardley

Re: Teaching Java and Perl

2001-01-08 Thread Andy Wardley
e next job. Just my 2 bits, of course. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-08 Thread Andy Wardley
ent with not a lot to show for it, but I'd like a chance to feed some of the ideas into peoples' heads to see what they make of it. In the mean time, interested parties can look at http://www.tt2.org/camelot/ . A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. P

Re: copious free time

2001-01-08 Thread Andy Wardley
cruiting (but probably should :-). A [1] well, pitch-n-putt [2] Her Majesty -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/

Re: copious free time

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 5, 2:05pm, David Hodgkinson wrote: > Now see, if you'd come to the meetings... It's the spending more time travelling than drinking that gets me down. I'd re-launch Surrey.pm and hold meetings in Guildford if I thought there'd be anyone there but me... :-(=

Re: copious free time

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 5, 1:58pm, David Hodgkinson wrote: > What happened to h2g2? What happened to EmapOnline? Well, I can guess from the recent postings, but does anyone care to shed any light on the inner machinations? A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Plea

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
ars, they're going to promote me[1] and give me a pay rise. I think there are more exciting things on the horizon that I should probably be doing in the long term, but for now I've still got a desk and they're still paying me to write Perl code. A [1] Senior Perl Wanker -

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
On Jan 5, 11:46am, Neil Ford wrote: > Save having to swap laptops with the projector and Dave wouldn't have > to time the lightening talks. But then when would I get to drink cold beer? :-) A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Ple

Re: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread Andy Wardley
s using the Template Toolkit. Silly, but chilly lighting talk. A -- Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/