New Llama

2001-05-03 Thread Cross David - dcross
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

RE: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Cross David - dcross
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

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Dean
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. :)

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Dean
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

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-03 Thread Struan Donald
* 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

Re: TPC Travel

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
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,

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Wistow
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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Struan Donald
* 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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Robin Houston
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

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Mison
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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread James Powell
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.

RE: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Mison
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

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan Stowe
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

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-30

2001-05-03 Thread Leon Brocard
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

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Wistow
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.

RE: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Cross David - dcross
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

Re: Buffy? .. naah .. wait till you see this

2001-05-03 Thread Simon Wistow
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

2001-05-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
* 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

Microsoft.FUKT

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
``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

Apocalypse Two

2001-05-03 Thread Robin Houston
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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Leon Brocard
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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread David Cantrell
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. --

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Chris Ball
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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
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

Re: cocktails

2001-05-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
* 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