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<HOMER>Doh Marge! But look at the pretty clock. Won't you let us live John? Please won't you just let us LIVE! </HOMER>
dsp
- Tue Feb 26 12:17:41 2002

<MARGE>Hmmmmmm the clock is very nice but is it possible to have a check box on the page to turn it on and off?</MARGE>
John
- Tue Feb 26 10:21:05 2002

dsp: the clock rocks :0) I may have to steal that...
rowanboy
- Mon Feb 25 16:10:53 2002

Email me to let me know asap please ;0)
rowanboy <tom.rowan@securityalchemy.net>
- Mon Feb 25 14:33:08 2002

Hi everyone,

It's Sarah's 30th this month (tomorrow!) and my 25th on 12th March.
We've been thinking of having a get together:

Depending on numbers the joint bash might be best on the 16th March -
We have looked into hiring out the local social club/hall as apparently the
booze is nice and cheap and we can hire some cheesy DJ to play us some
groovy tunes.

We will need to know numbers ASAP in order to keep our provisional booking.

If this isn't possible then we will book us a table somewhere
(if they can take us all) and carry on the evening afterwards with lots of
booze.

If Sarah has already emailed you, then ignore this!!
You are all welcome to bring partners.

Tom and Sarah
rowanboy
- Mon Feb 25 14:32:22 2002

Wow - after seeing the radstock photo archive I'm almost tempted to digitise the video we made when Ellis-boy and DSP came back to Reading after graduation. The one featuring Tim shaving his legs...
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Mon Feb 25 14:07:08 2002


dsp
- Mon Feb 25 13:26:29 2002

Hey boys and girls, the Radstock Photo Archive is now on the web. It's not quite everything I hoped it would be, but there's some nice pictures there nonetheless.
John
- Mon Feb 25 11:50:17 2002

Oooh it's such a lovely day today:-


graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Sun Feb 24 19:29:53 2002

Okee dokee Simon.... Hmmm it's very quiet today isn't it?
John
- Fri Feb 22 11:49:45 2002

John: It's when we are going out to Hungary
Simon
- Wed Feb 20 16:40:09 2002

Simon, I have a feeling I ought to know, but what happens on the 26th August?
John
- Wed Feb 20 12:22:44 2002

The Radstock photo archive is now finished! However, it's not on the web yet - I'm at Softel today so it's a bit awkward to do... Will maybe upload it all on Monday...
John
- Wed Feb 20 09:19:41 2002

Apparently, all that stuff about the london underground is a hoax, aka a steaming pile of s*ite.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Tue Feb 19 13:16:43 2002

London Travel News

If you are a regular traveller on the London
Underground, here are some facts which you are
going to wish you hadn't read.

During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at
the Department of Forensics at University College
London removed a row of passenger seats from a Central
Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness.

Despite London Underground's claim that the interior of
their trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the
scientists made some alarming discoveries.

The analysis was broken down. This is what was
found on the surface of the seats:

· 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
· 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
· vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
· human urine originating from at least 4 separate people
· human excrement
· rodent excrement
· human semen

When the seats were taken apart, they found:

. the remains of 6 mice
· the remains of 2 large rats
· 1 previously unheard of fungus

It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are
transferring, to your body, the natural oils and sweat from as
many as 400 different people. It is estimated that it is generally
healthier to smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one
hour a day on the London Underground.

It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently
flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe your hand on a London
Underground seat before eating.

It is estimated that, within London, more work sick-days are taken
because of bugs picked up whilst travelling on the London Underground
than for any other reason (including alcohol).

Ken Livingston
- Tue Feb 19 12:48:18 2002

Cheers John.....I have now added a few more pictures including the early morning pasta weekend! I think I found a bug on Photostudio, running it on W2000, if you rotate a picture 90 degress and then close it down I get a GPF, other than that it's well impressive and easy to use. Naaice.
Simon
- Tue Feb 19 12:26:50 2002

Yea Simon, you can fudge it with create external thumbnail - there's nothing to stop you making thumbnails twice as big as your originals if you really want! The new version, however, has a proper batch scaling thing, but I seem to be getting stuck in an infinite loop of, oh, I'll just fix that other bug before I put a release on the website.
John
- Tue Feb 19 10:04:03 2002

I have placed some random stuff on my section of the board. It is v.poo at the moment.
John: Whats the best way to batch reduce resolution if images (the images that come from my camera are too large for web use).....would it be using the thumbnail generator on photostudio only setting it to a higher res?
Simon
- Tue Feb 19 08:27:08 2002

I've added my first actually useful article to the 'maison weblog... It is surprisingly fun! Does anyone else want to become an author? Then you can add your own articles about whatever you want... Let me know!
John
- Mon Feb 18 13:34:30 2002

John: give us an email mate (thastings@ryder.co.uk)
Jon: Hiya mate!
dsp
- Mon Feb 18 11:26:49 2002

i always appear to be posting my website addresses on here....sorry..if u want me stop just tell me....lol www.tgnuk.co.uk can u tell me what ya think....
chris rowan
- Sun Feb 17 23:07:25 2002

Hi,John sann. Itsu mo arigato ne!! Thank you for helping my any of pc problems! I just came here to say "I am here some times!!!".
ageha
- Sun Feb 17 04:05:52 2002

What's all this posting without bothering to put your name in?
John
- Fri Feb 15 11:33:23 2002

I'd just like to say that Albert is serving as my bed side table.
Simon
- Fri Feb 15 10:46:17 2002

YES
Death
On Blinky, - Fri Feb 15 10:24:45 2002

Splinky.com, has it been taken

- Fri Feb 15 10:20:19 2002

Hmmmm, Chinese food. Hmmmmmmm

- Fri Feb 15 10:20:01 2002

Well at least none of us have invested in a Yak Farm and the Kazoo Industry.

- Fri Feb 15 10:19:39 2002

Bizzarre? Yes. Tantamount to devil worship? No.
Jon E
- Fri Feb 15 10:19:02 2002

I would like to take this moment in time.
Thank you.
Time Stealers R Us.
- Fri Feb 15 10:18:03 2002

It wouldn't work John. It's too hot in Hell. Sorry to point this one out. Saying that the investors probably wouldn't put any money into it. So I can't really see the project ever taking of.........


oh. I see.
Thick Boy
- Fri Feb 15 10:17:23 2002

Hmmm anything that is strictly UIish is MFC, but I've tried to keep separate from MFC for all the other bits so in theory, if I ever got round to it, a lot of the core processing stuff could be taken out and put into libraries to run on some dodgy unix platform. Of course, this probably won't happen until around the time an ice skating rink is established in hell.
John
- Fri Feb 15 10:01:08 2002

Oh, it's something to do with paragraphs... Well I'll neaten that up when I get a chance...
John
- Fri Feb 15 09:50:07 2002

Interestingly though, the message board (which I haven't changed) looks wrong in everything but internet exploder - all the text is blue - I can't find the missing </font> though!
John
- Fri Feb 15 09:15:01 2002

John, would that be MFC or native API calls?
dsp
- Fri Feb 15 09:14:02 2002

Jon: I managed to get Netscape to download and it looks fine.
John
- Fri Feb 15 09:12:21 2002

Tim: Yep it's all VC++ 6.
John
- Fri Feb 15 09:09:09 2002

John: Question for you regarding the UI for photostudio.
Was that done in VC++(6)? It looks very professional indeed.
dsp
- Fri Feb 15 09:05:01 2002

I am Bill's bitch, and Netscape blows.
dsp
- Fri Feb 15 09:00:37 2002

I like the new look and feel to the maison John, nice one!
dsp
- Fri Feb 15 09:00:19 2002

Actually that's Netscape being crap then:

  1. The header is a separate table, so should work independantly of the other bits.
  2. Netscape's download page is broken so I can't download Netscape to test it.
  3. The last time I used Netscape it was really slow and painful to use.
  4. Just to show I'm not Bill's bitch, I'm currently using Opera, in which the main page looks really nice.

John
- Fri Feb 15 08:57:43 2002

If you want a webmail type program, then it's a piece of piss, especially as I'm doing one for a company right now. Only problem is that it depends on what Objects we've got on the server (Shouldn't be too bad). Sending the mails is easy (Just SMTP, which we are already doing) Just doing a POP3 (getting the mail) is trickier, but shouldn't be impossible. If Microsoft can do it, then I'm sure we can. However, It's looking more and more like we need some kind of standard (In terms of coding and also look and feel). Obviously people's own areas (Rob / John & Tim) should be there own choice.
Standards Boy (JOn)
- Fri Feb 15 08:26:51 2002

Pity it's fucked under netscape. Kind of need a colspan=4 in the header, on the mainpage. Typical IE isn't following the w3c.org standards. Whinge. Whinge.
Jon E
- Fri Feb 15 08:21:06 2002

You might want to take a look at the main page... There's been a few changes!
John
- Thu Feb 14 19:30:20 2002

Aha! I think I've got GreyMatter working - although before editing the templates it's really pretty ugly!
John
- Thu Feb 14 16:35:48 2002

Got some way towards getting Movable Type (which looks really nice and doesn't need SQL) to work, only then to find it needs the DB_File perl module. Apparently you need to be a system administrator to install it. I'm getting really fed up with this!
John
- Thu Feb 14 15:39:34 2002

Hmmm I just connected to the maison directly by FTP no problems... Maybe you just need to try again?
John
- Thu Feb 14 13:44:55 2002

Can't you go through greenlightning instead?
John
- Thu Feb 14 13:43:59 2002

Fasthosts is crap, I cannot ftp to the maison.
dsp
- Thu Feb 14 13:41:52 2002

Back to the news thingy... Zope seems to be very nice, however, I don't know how we can get it running on the maison given we only have FTP access... Installation talks about reconfiguring IIS and stuff. I doubt we can do that.
John
- Thu Feb 14 13:15:42 2002

You mean, an innovative application built on solid design foundations, as well as some really good stock and finest hand-made dumplings?
John
- Thu Feb 14 12:47:38 2002

How about Stewdios
dsp
- Thu Feb 14 12:35:09 2002

What are the chances we can run a web-based mail service from the maison?
John
- Thu Feb 14 12:32:40 2002

I've been considering renaming photo studio (want to avoid clashes with ArcSoft, and Scott Professional, as well as others). I'd like to keep studio in there if possible. I've considered something like iStudio (i for image), pStudio (p for photo), dStudio (d for digital) and so on. There seem to be lots of iStudios on the web, a few pStudios and not so many dStudios. Any thoughts at all?
John
- Thu Feb 14 12:14:22 2002

Any chance the snow javascript program can be modified to form a celebratory US-style ticker tape shower?
John
- Thu Feb 14 11:59:02 2002

Nice one Mr. Ellis!!
John
- Thu Feb 14 11:54:24 2002

Oh ok, maybe I can't blame fasthosts then. I might do anyway though, just to be contrary.
graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Thu Feb 14 11:33:53 2002

Welcome back my friends.
Jon E
- Wed Feb 13 18:03:56 2002

WTF? Did anyone have a hand in this?
dsp
- Wed Feb 13 16:55:28 2002

Fasthosts? Craphosts more like...
Graf <graf>
- Wed Feb 13 16:43:13 2002

Got my scanner last night. Phase one of the Radstock image archive is going ahead as planned - already scanned getting on for 200 images, but I'm trying to do a really comprehensive set so there's probably around a thousand in total! I'm not doing particularly high resolution scans - really going for quantity rather than quality. I'll probably wait until I've got a really good chunk of them done before I put any on the web. Going to try and comment them all too. Was maybe even considering a simple system to let people add their own comments afterwards...
John
- Wed Feb 6 13:49:45 2002

I'm opening a boutique.
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Mon Feb 4 20:38:41 2002

I've just decoded a JPEG in Haskell.
For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's basically Miranda.
Imagine a JPEG decoder, but in Miranda.
Yes, it's quite sick.
I need a lie down.
John
- Mon Feb 4 20:04:19 2002

Well Brian, I just hit the ball, and there it was in the back of the net.
I'm opening at Boutique.
John
- Mon Feb 4 18:50:10 2002

Nerdy question: is it easy for someone to get PHP working on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server machine or is a a complete bastard with horns and everything?
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Mon Feb 4 16:42:04 2002

Hey tom, did you get that webbrowser i emailed you. FWIW it was dillo (compiled for Sun4m natch). It looks like quite a good prospect for a open-source browser (given that mozilla has disappeared into bloat-hell).
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Mon Feb 4 14:21:25 2002

i dont know if u have seen this site b4, but it is fairly amusing (the bloke who made it is apparently a complete nutcase) www.blankfrank.co.uk i hope ur all well etc. doing whatever u...er..do...l8r
Chris Rowan
- Sun Feb 3 22:57:13 2002

Hi John hope you're OK drop me a line at the e-mail address when you've got a mo will ya !! Catcha later
Dibble <chris@dabell.co.uk>
- Fri Feb 1 19:34:09 2002

Bork, Bork, Bork
Swedish Chef
- Fri Feb 1 16:28:33 2002

Why does it feel like installing the Microsoft Platform SDK is now a weekly task....?
John
- Fri Feb 1 13:49:02 2002

Yes, it is indeed quite great!
Simon
- Fri Feb 1 13:15:29 2002

May I recommend that anyone who hasn't already seen it goes to the Salmon Days website and download the MS Office paperclip mpeg file thingy. It made me laugh anyway.
John
- Fri Feb 1 12:33:38 2002

Last year in Germany, a man camped for two weeks in a giant pita (pitta?) bread. He had to leave when it started to decompose.
Mike
- Fri Feb 1 12:30:31 2002

In a sudden shock, and independant, but unnervingly relevant, realisation it just occurred to me that "pain in the arse" forms the acronym PITA, as in, the standard container for kebabs. Maybe they were trying to tell us something all along?
John
- Fri Feb 1 09:27:24 2002

Hmmmm....nice.....especially potent after chicken I imagine....Hmmm.....Kebabs.....Chilli sauce and ev'ryfing?
Simon
- Fri Feb 1 09:18:37 2002

To let you know what you are missing, I currently have a bad arse after consuming a chicken kebab (with mint sauce).
Salad, no chips, open. It was yum.
dsp
- Fri Feb 1 08:48:53 2002