More Natives

I thought it had all blown over. Chris had even started being civil to me again. But over the weekend bk (who was the one who started it all) posted the following: = Yea, I usually _AM_ the right one. WOW, I was wrong _1_ _fucking_ _time_. Ooohhh, Davey intimidates me! That's why

RE: Review of Data munging with Perl on Slashdot

From: Dave Hodgkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 8:50 PM > "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Too late! > > > > Dave... > > [feeling smug] > > Enjoy it while it lasts... Well, it lasted a couple of days. And in a dramatic misuse of the slashdot effect,

RE: London.pm@london.pm.org

From: Paul Makepeace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:10 AM > Here it is, > > http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/london.pm > http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/ -- I sent a couple to seed it. > > So I put in the final tweaks to get exim/mailman working > toget

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

From: Dave Hodgkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:28 AM > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Current version is at > > but it needs > > some tightening up and peer review. > > Remind me, what was t

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

> From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:07 AM > > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins. > > That wasn't the reason. The reas

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:57 PM > so .. who is the FormMail csar? ... I lost track of who was dealing with > what. Er... me. I think. > I spotted a few things in there and have comments .. or should i > just post em on the list .. ??? Just post 'em to the list.

TPC Travel

It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart last year, but I'm an optimist and am going to try again. Who's going to TPC? Shall we see if we can get a group together and perhaps get a discount on the flight? Dave... -- The information contained in this communicatio

RE: TPC Travel

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:30 PM > Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart last > > year, but I'm an optimist and a

RE: TPC Travel

From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:49 PM > So are any of you still thinking of going to NYC, while we're at it? Er... yeah. We got back yesterday! Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of

RE: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:51 PM > jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether: > > > well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May) > > is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather. > > It's

New Llama

A page about the new edition of Learning Perl has appeared on the ORA site: 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

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/

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

From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:43 PM > 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 > (an

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

RE: More revolting natives

From: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 4:07 PM > They really don't learn do they? > > The thread beginning with > http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4666 is a > hoot. I particularly like the post where our hero says: > > No,but its true-- st

RE: More revolting natives

From: Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 4:30 PM > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:17:25PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > Oh, and you've just gotta love the mentality that sees 'gay' as an insult. > > Gives a real feel for the kind of perso

Native Code Experts

Thought you might be interested in this post from our frind the Hereford Killer. Someone posted some code that used for(;;) loops. And this was bk's response: Erm, My eyes keep darting to your FOR loops. For is mainly used in javascript, and perl doesnt handle them, mainly because of the semico

RE: More revolting natives

From: Alex Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:09 PM > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:54:05PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:47:43PM +0100, Dean wrote: > > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:32:35PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:

YAPC::Europe

Don't forget that the deadline for proposals for talks at YAPC::Europe is getting closer. Proposals must be submitted by June 1st. When I checked over the weekend they had proposals from four london.pm members (totalling 7 talks - almost a third of the proposals) but there will always be room fo

RE: sing if you're happy that way

From: Andrew Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 3:18 PM > > From: Struan Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 08 May 2001 13:08 > > > > * at 08/05 13:04 +0100 Matthew Jones said: > > > Wisty - next T-shirt please: > > > > > > use strict > > > is gay > > > > > > Heh

RE: Buffy musings ...

From: Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:22 AM > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:20:36AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > > 2) Get Willow. Dammit. > > > I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get > > anyone who's cute. > > Get Willow then ;) /me

Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

From: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:55 PM > On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone > here into trad. Irish instrumental music? Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy almost any kind of Irish (and English) folk music. What

RE: Dim Sum?

From: David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:22 PM > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:02:52PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > Simon, if you are going to reveal next week's Buffy episode at least > > put SPOILER in the subject ;-) > > Oh, you people would just *love* to k

(Ab)Using substr

Mentioned this in passing to Piers and Leon last night and they seemed interested enough to justify posting it here. It's not mine :) #!/usr/bin/perl -w # how to (ab)use substr use strict; my $pi='3.14159210535152623346475240375062163750446240333543375062'; substr

RE: TBA?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:22 AM > is a venue decided on for tonights meeting, or is it still TBA? Yeah. Sorry. General crapness on the part of the webmaster :( We'll be meeting in the Penderels Oak tonight from about 6:30pm. I'll have a copy of

RE: Bah!

From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:18 AM [evildave's cv] > I've put plain-text and HTML versions up as well now. Bow down before > the awesome power of TeX! Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other format (like, perhaps, XM

RE: (Ab)Using substr

From: Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:25 AM > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w # how to (ab)use substr > > u

RE: Bah!

From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:57 AM > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:22:45AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > Do you write it in raw Tex/LaTeX, or do you generate that from some other > > format (like, perhaps, XML)? I'

Introduction to XP

Interesting stuff... 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

RE: Introduction to XP

From: Cross David - dcross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:47 PM > Interesting stuff... > > <http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/05/04/xp_intro.html> Should point out, that's Extreme Programming, _not_ Windows XP :) Dave... -- The inf

Tie::Regex::Hash

Sorry to drag us back on topic, but I thought you might like to tsee this which I just knocked up for someone on perlmonks. package Tie::Hash::Regex; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK); require Exporter; require Tie::Hash; @ISA = qw(Exporter Tie::StdHash); @EXPORT = qw(

RE: Monitors

From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:22 PM > How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Here - none (not sure why my mini-Tux never made it to Acxiom) At home - many things. But boring things like network hubs or CD backups or boot disks. And occasiona

RE: BOFHs requiring license

From: Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:41 AM > At 17:58 13/05/01 +0100, you wrote: > >At 17:38 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > >> > >>Which "intelligent people who understood it" would that be, then? > > > >Take a look around you. This list, being representativ

RE: BOFHs requiring license

From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:24 AM > I've always been pretty right wing, and as I get older I'm getting worse :-) > My prediction is that Labour will win again (a no-brainer I know), and that > the Conservatives will elect a new leader. Over the next 4 yea

RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)

From: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:08 PM > There are some contractors here, I understand, who might have something > to say about government policy on taxation. Heh. Can you be a contractor and hold on to your left-wing principles? Let's see... Whilst I'd seem

RE: like a phoenix from the flames

From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:49 PM > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:35:44PM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote: > > At 09:58 14/05/01, James Powell wrote: > > >The Perl Journal arrived this morning... > > > > Mine too! You read Dave's article and the credits at the

RE: Enough!

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However what i'd really hate is any restrictions placed > on the topics of London.pm , politics should be just as > welcome as BtVS. Or, even, Perl :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only fo

RE: T-Shirts

From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:23 PM > I was just wondering, have the secret T-shirt designs been sent off to the > printers yet ? The reason I ask is that I'd really like one of them to be > Hitch-Hiker related; or maybe we could have a special run of ZZ9 P

RE: Latest Perl Journal

From: Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:29 AM > Dave, > > Loved the footnote on page 78. Thanks very much. It's one of my favourite jokes. It was trialed at a london.pm technical meeting some months ago :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication

RE: A look over the shoulder of an XP programmer (auf deutsch)

From: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 3:52 PM > At 03:22 PM 2001.05.16 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > >That's not argument, it's just contradiction! > > Ahh, you must be looking for a different forum then. > > Try Castro's site. ;) "Sorry, this is 'senseless abuse

TPC Quiz Team

I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. This is our big chance to get revenge for the injustices of last year. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of

RE: TPC Quiz Team

From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:24 AM > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's > > Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference. > >

RE: Buffy ...

From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:57 AM > Robin Szemeti wrote: > > http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918 > > Yum. Pricey, though. Oh, I don't know. It's not _that_ expensive. I may have another look just before it closes tomorrow morning. If it

TPC Quiz Lineup

OK. The first response I got were from Paul Makepiece, Peter Haworth, and Leon. So that's the team. Simon was next - so he's the substitute (we'll use him if Leon gets stolen by Amsterdam.pm again). I'll go and register us now. If anyone else wants to play, there's nothing to stop you entering

RE: Ken Campbell is a god (was: pc components)

From: Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 2:34 PM > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:05:44AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > > Im nogat samting til ridim insait long pastaim Klingon! > > > > Damian (longlong tisa Perlpela) > > Lingua::TokPisin::Perlpela? Nooo! Damian - as

RE: pc components

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:04 AM > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > He was touring with Norman Lovett, who wasn't nearly as good. > > I found Norman Lovett really funny. Managed to keep the whole audience > laughing without actually saying anything for

RE: Sara Cox - was Re: FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women

From: Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:58 AM > From: "robert shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about > > a women are their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about > > men are: they're a bunch

RE: Election Manifestos

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:03 PM > According to the Register ... > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19112.html > > the Tory's want to repeal IR35, I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means We're going to rep

RE: Election Manifestos

From: Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:00 AM > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:49:48AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > Yes, there _are_ always round it, but some people don't have the time > > or knowledge to do that. > > You're more than welcome to snag this Java 1.1

RE: Election Manifestos

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:43 AM > Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > This, of course, presupposes that acmemail passes everyone's > > definition of a decent mail client. And if it does

RE: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

From: Matthew Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:05 AM > > > Wow, and she's got three kids by Steven Seagal. > > > > The eighties were a crazy decade and people did a lot of things they > > regret. I know I did :) > Well, would *you* say "no" to Steven Seagal? I strongl

wantarray and Tied Hashed

Apologies for dragging us off-topic again... Am I missing something obvious here? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; package Tie::Hash::Test; use Tie::Hash; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = 'Tie::StdHash'; sub FETCH { print "wantarray is ", wantarray ? "true\n" : "false\n"; return $_[0]->{$_[1]}; }

RE: [Announce] Hackspoitation film fest

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 12:07 PM > * Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Well, would *you* say "no" to Steven Seagal? > > > > I strongly suspect I'd say no to having his kids! >

RE: wantarray and Tied Hashed

[snip] An update - Calling FETCH like this: $scalar = tied(%h)->FETCH('one'); @array = tied(%h)->FETCH('two'); Does the 'right' thing. So it's certainly something in the tie interface. Dave... [contemplating searching the perl source code] -- The information contained in this communicati

RE: wantarray and Tied Hashed

From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 1:57 PM > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > package Tie::Hash::Test; > > > > sub FETCH { > > print "wantarray is ", wantarray ? &

RE: wantarray and Tied Hashed

From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:02 PM > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > my @array = $h{two}; > ^ > In perl 5 at least, *this* is your scalar context. Good point. But even if I ch

RE: wantarray and Tied Hashed

From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:25 PM > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:15:44PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > Anyway, as I said before, you can work around it with > > > > my @array = tied(%h)->FETCH('two'

Tie::Hash::Regex vs Tie::RegexpHash

I was just looking thru CPAN (and, yes, I realise I should have done that _before_ writing T::H::R[1]) and I found a module called Tie::RegexpHash. Having looked at it in some detail, I see it's doing the opposite of T::H::R and I think that's quite interesting. In T::H::R, the keys are always s

Friday Afternoon Fun

It's a slow day :) And you might enjoy this challenge: Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may

Forthcoming Meetings

Social Meeting: Thursday 7th June Unless anyone comes up with a better idea in the next 24 hours, we'll go to the Penderels Oak for this. Technical Meeting: Thursday 21st June Need a venue for this please people. And speakers. If any speakers want to practise TPC or YAPC::E talks, then this mi

RE: SQL statements to DB Schema (dia ?)

From: Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 7:33 AM > Dear All > > This is not perl related, but I hope to tap your collective knowledge. > > I'm involved with taking on a project started (and nearly finished) by > an Agency writen mostly in PHP and Delphi. No statements t

RE: [PUB] Possible candidate

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:00 AM > Was meandering aimlessly round by Southwark/ Blackfriar's Bridge/ Tate > Modern area last night and ended up in a very nice pub by the river > called Doggets Coat and Badge. I have the manager's business card at > hom

RE: [PUB] Possible candidate

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:16 AM > Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > I think it's too late to organise anything for tonight, but feel free to > > organise a recce for next month. > > Tonight? But it's Wednesda

RE: [PUB] Possible candidate

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:15 AM > Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > > > That's "Doggett Coat and Badge - a pint to the forst person to explain the > > name. > > > > c.f previous mail > &g

OSCon London

I got a catalogue mailed to me from ORA UK yesterday. Nothing unusual in that, I'm always getting catalogues in the post from O'Reilly. This one, however, had an advert on the from about the Open Source Convention. Not the San Diego Open Source Convention, but one in London on October 22 - 25. T

RE: OT,Joke : Forwarded from alt.humour.best.of.usenet

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:02 PM > Just plucked this out of alt.humour.best.of.usenet (originally from > the frasier newsgroup), and it made me curl up with laughter, maybe > its not everyones taste of funny but some may enjoy it [snip] Heh! S

RE: OT,Joke : Forwarded from alt.humour.best.of.usenet

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:25 PM > Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > [1] http://www.pair.com/spook [2] for those of you not yet acquainted with > > Mr Corley's particualt brand of madness. > > > > [2] At leas

RE: OT,Joke : Forwarded from alt.humour.best.of.usenet

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:32 PM > * Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:25 PM > > > > > Cross David - dcross wro

Inline::PERL

Another gem from Perlmonks. I'm thinking I should post this one to the Cookwood board :) >From the POD: =head1 DESCRIPTION Inline::PERL gives you the power of the PERL programming language from within your Perl programs. This gives you instant acc

General Election

You'll have noticed, I hope, that next Thursday is both our June meeting and a General Election. I hope you'll all go and vote before the meeting so you don't have to dash off before the polling stations close :) Someone (Paul?) mentioned a couple of weeks ago that it might be nice if we could a

RE: General Election

From: Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:51 AM > At 10:32 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: > > I suggest we leave the pub at about 9:30pm and get the tube > >back to mine, stopping at Threshers en route. > > Can't we just go to another pub that's got Peter Snow on th

RE: General Election

From: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:04 AM > "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 10:32 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: > > > I suggest we leave the pub at about 9:30pm and get the tube > > >back to mine, stopping at Threshers en route. > > > > C

RE: General Election

From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:02 AM > Does anyone know what time the result is usually announced Well, it's not official until one party gets a majority of seats, which might not be until 4 or 5am. It's normally pretty clear what's going to happen by abou

RE: General Election

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:10 AM > i'll be with you standing on his doorstep Jonathan, especially as > it was written by a member of the irish republic brotherhood ;-), > and we all know what results are important on thursday night - > thats right the

RE: crazy golf

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:10 PM > blech has just informed me, its 27/8/2001, which would make > the first annual grand London.pm crazy golf open on the 25/8/2001 > > now what do people want to do? go to hastings and return the > same day? stay over?

RE: crazy golf

From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM > (Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays? > I'd buy that for a dollar.) Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingois

RE: General Election

From: Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:46 PM > > There will, of course, be an entrance test. Anyone who doesn't know the > > first verse and chorus of "The Red Flag" will not be admitted :) > > Is this the modern doctored version or the traditional version? The New Labou

RE: General Election

From: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:27 PM Cross David - dcross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [The Red Flag] > > I prefer it sung to the original tune ("The White Cockade") as opposed to > > the christmas carol dirge that is mos

RE: LCN June

From: Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:31 PM > London PM have two meetings this month, the usual social meeting and a > technical meeting. The social meeting is on 7th June 2001 from about 6:30. > The location has not been confirmed yet so keep an eye on the web site. The

RE: crazy golf

From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:28 PM > On 01/06/2001 at 13:16 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > >Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday > >on Mayday and replace with something much more

RE: General Election

From: Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:56 PM [The Red Flag] > > There's a fine version of it to this tune by Billy Bragg and Dick Gaughn > > on BB's mini-album "The Internationale". > > > > If you haven't tracked down an mp3 by next week, remind me and I'll play > > it to

RE: BUFFY - SPOILERS , DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN SKY 1 LAST NIGHT

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 10:43 AM [there are actually no spoliers left in this post so I'm removing the spoiler space] > i'm a little worried that the next season will suck. > lets wait and see if the warning signs are there, more > weird settings i.e.

TPC Travel

I booked my TPC flights yesterday. If anyone fancies joining me, the flight details are: 21st Jul BA 2275 LGW 11:15 -> SAN 14:20 28th Jul BA 2274 SAN 16:40 -> LGW 11:00 (+1) Cost me £660, but I notice that this morning Ebookers are showing only £1200 seats left on those flights :( Dave... p.s.

RE: TPC Travel

From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TPC Travel > Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > I booked my TPC flights yesterday. If anyone fancies joining me, the > > flig

Tie::Hash::Cannabinol

Once an idea gets into my head, the only way to shake it off is to go away and write it :) Dave... package Tie::Hash::Cannabinol; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK); require Exporter; require Tie::Hash; @ISA = qw(Exporter Tie::StdHash); @EXPORT = qw(); @EXPORT_OK =();

YAPC::Europe Registration

I see that registration for YAPC::Europe has opened. They've also accepted both my "Perl for the People" and "Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit" talks :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confide

RE: *Buffy's Not Included

From: Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:25 AM > Sorry to go off topic... > > I was wondering what the pro's and con's are of using XML to structure ASCII > based data files. > > What are peoples experience of using XML - particularly where you may have > to tra

RE: early peek at a bit of fun

From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 7:33 AM > Dave Cross wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:53:30PM +0200, Paul Johnson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'll have to be an honourary member since I'm in Switzerland > > > at the moment > > > > That's just do

Government Websites

Tired of government websites that only cater for browsers with non-standard proprietary extensions (cf . Don't jsut sit there complaining - do something positive about it! Dave... [who won't be a

e-smith

Tangentially on-topic for this list because of skud's involvement... I see that the new edtion of Linux Format comes with a copy of e-smith on the CD. According to the blurb, e-smith is a "complete, easy to use and install server/gateway system" that "manages mail, firewalling, file-sharing, pri

RE: Templating Solutions

From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:51 AM > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:20:37AM +0100, Steve Purkis wrote: > > David Cantrell wrote: > > > > > > Seriously, I agree 100% that you should strive to seperate application > > > from your presentation as much as poss