Fantastic. As part of the may day protests it appears there's going to be a demonstration right outside the building where I work. Maybe a cue to have the day off.
John
- Mon Apr 30 16:05:05 2001

On the plus side though, I did enjoy a rather fine chunky KitKat at lunch time. Mmmmm.
John
- Mon Apr 30 15:21:54 2001

Fucking hell I'm bored. Ten pints of a beer of your choice to any man (or woman, in today's modern society) who can alleviate my boredom.
John
- Mon Apr 30 13:39:37 2001

John: Ok cheers!
Simon
- Mon Apr 30 13:07:04 2001

Simon, I shall check my arrangements and get back to you...
John
- Mon Apr 30 13:01:07 2001

Anyone heard of a virus that automatically replies to any incoming email you have with messages saying you're fat and stuff?
John
- Mon Apr 30 12:31:21 2001

We should book up a weekend so that we don't both suffer is problem ad infinitum.........any ideas?
Simon
- Mon Apr 30 11:58:49 2001

Simon, it could be a while I'm afraid! My next two weekends are booked up already I think...
John
- Mon Apr 30 11:35:01 2001

Rob! Sorry about disorganisation last night - but you should have come still! Tomochinko is very funny and I made one of the greatest roast meals ever ever ever. What about a replacement this week... Are you in London Wednesday night for RAF types of things? I have the gas engineer coming (yet again) early Thursday morning so I have to stay in London Wednesday night... what do you think?
John
- Mon Apr 30 11:33:53 2001

John: So when are you coming down to Wimborne then?
Simon
- Mon Apr 30 10:11:35 2001

Rob: I was only joking!
Mavis
- Mon Apr 30 10:04:59 2001

"I'd close my eyes and then go numb, but there's a cold wind coming from the top of the highest high rise today. It's not a breeze cos it blows hard and it wants me to discard the humanity I own, watch the warmth blow away. Now, do you think I should adhere to this pressing new frontier and leave in my wake a trail of fear? Or should I go upon a lie and throw a wrench in spoke by leaving the air behind me clear? So don't let the world bring you down, not everything is that fucked up and cold. Remember why you came and while you're alive, experience the warmth before you grow old." The Warmth, Incubus. Repeated verboten in a moment of pensive solitude.
Alone
- Sun Apr 29 22:41:58 2001

I'm not a Computer Scientist, thankyou.
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
Highmead Close, Reading - Sun Apr 29 22:32:19 2001

'You're all Computer Scientists. Eeeh!'
Mavis
- Fri Apr 27 15:22:54 2001

I did switch contexts there didn't i. I should have said "I'd be happier using vi and not makefiles and JDK, rather than JBuilder". Or whatever.
Graf <graf@anodyne.freeserve.co.uk>
- Fri Apr 27 15:19:53 2001

Ah You see, you were talking about Java (CAFEBABE) but now your talking about C. Ah.... Conversation Change.
Jon E
- Fri Apr 27 14:07:14 2001

printfs? Sorry to be pedantic but it's System.out.Print ("You Arse"); Never mind.
Jon E
- Fri Apr 27 14:06:27 2001

Yeah I know, I know. But what can you do - the guy who's evaluating the ide's moaned that jcreator didn't have a dialog layout editor. I mean how lazy can you get. I'd be happier using vi and makefiles and gcc than MSVC any day. And what's the point of having an integrated debugger? You should just put lots of printfs in your code to work out where it's going wrong....
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Fri Apr 27 13:37:01 2001

Graf: IDE???? Get off with you. Use ultra-edit as your text editor. (It displays pretty colours) and obviously use dos to compile up the java. Much simplier. Any other way is just taking the piss and making the experience less enjoyable.
Do you program your HTML in Dreamweaver? I hope not. Program it in Ultra Edit.

- Fri Apr 27 08:55:12 2001

Yeah John, Sunday might just be the very jobbie. What I shall do is phone you when I return into London. If I can kip at your gaff on the Sunday, we can sod about on Monday a bit and then I'll mosey on back to the shire of berks. What do you think? I bet you have some top-fab stories to tell and I hope you bought me back a free sample.
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
Highmead Close, Reading - Thu Apr 26 23:13:40 2001

JCreator is my favourite IDE. Get it at ww.JCreator.com It's cool. And I do some damn complicated stuff with it.
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Thu Apr 26 16:29:57 2001

Without wanting to start a holy war, I know some of you (particularly Jon Elllis) work with java... So what's the bestest Java IDE?
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Thu Apr 26 15:50:56 2001

If anyone's interested in the may day protests, you ought to take a look at the may day monopoly site.
John
- Thu Apr 26 13:59:58 2001

Yes Rob, it is very good if we could meet soon! Is this weekend totally out? Even like Sunday night or something?
John
- Thu Apr 26 11:38:55 2001

That would be Chie's. Whats all that 160 183 about? Or maybe I'm not actually interested.
John
- Thu Apr 26 11:37:48 2001

I'm not going to give up, John. At some point we will meet up. And when we do it will be *MOIDER*. I'll put my thinking cap on and magically come up with a day. Whose Birthday is it going to be?
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
Highmead Close, Reading - Thu Apr 26 00:47:05 2001

I'd say its probably about 163, or maybe 180.
Brother James
- Wed Apr 25 17:08:53 2001

I Also love Tim
Jon E
- Wed Apr 25 14:17:27 2001

John: How was your Holiday? Get cavity Searched by Customs on the way back and everything?
Jon E
- Wed Apr 25 14:16:36 2001

I love you John
Jon E
- Wed Apr 25 14:15:39 2001

I worry about you sometimes, Jon.
John
- Wed Apr 25 14:14:00 2001

Well Hello there.
JOn E
- Wed Apr 25 14:11:15 2001

Sorry. My alto-Ego managed to surface.
Jon E
- Wed Apr 25 14:11:00 2001

So you'll be going down on her all weekend then?
Rude Boy
- Wed Apr 25 14:10:32 2001

A week on Friday is a certain young lady's birthday I'm afraid, which means I'll be pretty much occupied all weekend I'm afraid...
John
- Wed Apr 25 13:39:04 2001

Ah, you're back. Sorry, I should have read the damn notice board. I am Flying this weekend. And K-dets is busy next week. What about post-cadets a week on friday nocking on to Saturday and then spilling over copious onto Sunday and, dammit, the rest of the week!
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Wed Apr 25 13:30:48 2001

When are you back? Just let me know and we'll do it! Perhaps next weekend or even before!!!
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Wed Apr 25 13:29:23 2001

Yes Rob, that sounds great to me! When are you thinking of...?
John
- Wed Apr 25 12:01:07 2001

I'm back in England again, suffering post holiday blues, my country is crap, cold, boring, dirty, full of the servants of lucifer, etc.
John
- Wed Apr 25 11:45:55 2001

Rob, I can't remember, do you take sugar?
dsp
- Wed Apr 25 11:37:48 2001

Yeah, I'll have one DSP!

Johnny boy, when you get back, let me know and I'll come on down and we'll spend an evening drinking, looking at photos, playing music and talking bollocks!
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Wed Apr 25 11:17:32 2001

Would anyone like a cup-of-tea?
dsp
- Tue Apr 24 11:31:17 2001

Oh and also the 12th.
John
- Sat Apr 21 17:13:49 2001

I uploaded some more Japan pictures - there's now the 9th, 10th and 11th available. Only a few days left now before I go back to England!
John
- Sat Apr 21 16:58:43 2001

Just did Karaoke - it was surprisingly good. That last message seems to have understated the greatness of I-Mode - my benchmark for a good internet platform is how well it can access the message board and it was actually pretty great. Oyasumi!
John
- Sat Apr 21 16:02:39 2001

im using i-mode!
john
- Fri Apr 20 15:01:59 2001

Spent this afternoon in Akihabara - Tokyo's Electric City - nice!
John
- Thu Apr 19 15:38:25 2001

Tim: I've heard that your a faggot and that you infact like to check out men at your gym.
Jon E
- Wed Apr 18 09:57:55 2001

Actually, if the truth be known, its more like £4.95!!
dsp
- Wed Apr 18 09:02:28 2001

I believe that Jon Ellis is a bum hole.
Oh shit! and I owe him £20.
But its not for what you think!!
dsp
- Wed Apr 18 09:01:53 2001

John REMEBER to force your girlfriend to take you to a TABEHODAII + NOMIHODAII, they are those resturants where you eat and DRINK as much as you can, I remember that in 1 year spent in Japan us students were going to this kind of resturants every other day!

Lox
Lox
- Wed Apr 18 08:47:31 2001

Well, in all, I've had a really shit weekend. I hope all of yours fared much better.
P.S. John H, KT has had a new boyfriend. I think your information is a little dated!
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Tue Apr 17 09:38:22 2001

Bugger, that previous link should be to here. Sorry!
John
- Fri Apr 13 16:36:36 2001

Not sure if anyone is interested, but there's a second days worth of Japan pictures now on the site.
P.S. Hi Lorenzo! I had went to an Italian restaurant here in Japan earlier - very odd!
John
- Fri Apr 13 16:35:09 2001

John do you remember now when I was telling you that Japan was cheaper than England when it came to electronics?!

Lorenzo
Lox
- Fri Apr 13 16:32:53 2001

AHA! So you HAD a Japanese girlfriend Rob. I understand now, what escapes me is HOW she got bored of you, I really find that hard to imagine..... As for John yep I've spent an year in Tokyo and with this new job I am going to trave to Japan and Asia in general a LOT (Woooo hooo!!), plus you forget the 4 years of Japanese studied (?) at Reading... TIM: Whattssup man? Are you still in Blackpool? by the way my address (just to remind you guys if u wanna write) is stalflare@tin.it (why didn't I put it in the e-mail field will remain unanswered).. Ok time to go, Ciao a tutti, or maybe I should say

Jaa Mata Ne! Kiwotsukette kudasai!

Lorenzo
Lox
- Fri Apr 13 16:31:04 2001

Hmmm I didn't buy anything today in the end, given that, despite the seemingly great reductions in price of electronics here, they come with the hidden cost of having to understand Japanese to be able to use them. Doh!
John
- Fri Apr 13 16:09:09 2001

Whoo its all gone blue
Whooo
- Thu Apr 12 15:17:06 2001

Hey err its about 11AM there now is it? I'm in Hiroshima now. Going to buy some unnecessary electronics gadgetry I think, the selection/value is so much better here, I've realised@how utterly shite England is for anything like that. Tottenham Court Road is so irritatingly crap!
John
- Thu Apr 12 11:19:48 2001

Glib Glob
Old Brother Tiberious
- Thu Apr 12 09:09:14 2001

To Tim:

Thanks but you've got it wrong (again). It's in exactly 1 english month.
But heah, it's still nice.
Jon
- Tue Apr 10 16:02:14 2001

To Jon Ellis:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
dsp
- Tue Apr 10 13:20:04 2001

Wow John, looks like you're having a super duper time in Nihon! Lox, I did have a Japanese girlfriend (as friend of John's girl) but she got bored of me. I can't imagine how.
Rob Lang <r.i.w.lang@rdg.ac.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Tue Apr 10 11:11:00 2001

Actually, the first Japan pictures page now works entirely, even with sound effects. Well, effect. Im off to Kyoto again now for some temple spotting or something. Hey Lorenzo, didnt you spend a year there? Sugoi, ne?
John
- Tue Apr 10 05:49:37 2001

Ok well at least all of the thumbnails are there now - I think this is a slightly dodgy connection to the net as FTP keeps disconnecting. Oh well. Ive since taken loads more pictures which I shall upload at some point... Im having a very nice time, except for the slight difficulty in eating out... Weather lovely here - its like summer!
John
- Tue Apr 10 05:41:31 2001

I recommend the latter.
Simon
- Mon Apr 9 12:56:15 2001

Hi! I'm in Japan now! I've tried uploading some pictures taken so far but it seemed a bit fucked up, anyway, you can get at some of them here, maybe I'll try and fix this later, or maybe just enjoy myself instead!
John
- Sat Apr 7 13:22:09 2001

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A small piece of cardboard
- Fri Apr 6 17:38:58 2001

One hundred and twenty four.
Sink Plunger
- Fri Apr 6 15:15:54 2001

Hey Lox!!! GOt to hear from you! Good luck in your new job in Homo!! (smirk)
dsp
- Fri Apr 6 13:23:57 2001

HEY JOHN!!!! YOU BASTARD!! You are going to Japan and you don't say anything to me?!? Oh well I guess I should have come to the board a little more often than I usually do.... How are you all by the way? I couldn't help but noticing that some of you are writing in Japanese, that's cool guys, I mean John's got a Japanese girlfrind and that's ok, but ROB how and where did you learn Japanese? Unless you have a Japanese girlfriend too.... Mmmmmm..... By the way (just to let you know in case you care), I am moving away fro Florence (yet again) and I am going to work near Milan in a place called Como. That's why I couldn't check the board.... :P

Ciao ciao

Lorenzo
Lox
- Fri Apr 6 12:44:24 2001

Just think, that bastard is going to a country full of fit women. The bastard. And to think I leave tomorrow for a place not reknowned for its fit women. The Somme. I must be doing something wrong. :(
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Fri Apr 6 10:40:35 2001

Right... leaving university (and ergo, web access) now... Bye everyone!
John
- Thu Apr 5 21:10:39 2001

No, John, you fool. I mean bring me back a woman. Get hold of the plot, man!
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Thu Apr 5 16:34:51 2001

I've seen carton man, and yes he's very cool
Simon
- Thu Apr 5 16:23:09 2001

Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Middle Aged Man, Partially made of wood
- Thu Apr 5 16:09:17 2001

Hello!
Simon
- Thu Apr 5 16:08:26 2001

There are now a sum total of no students in my class. I think that might be my cue to leave.
John
- Thu Apr 5 15:40:30 2001

Going back to Flat Eric / faddish pop icons from earlier, has anyone seen that Blur video with the cute little milk carton with arms and legs. Is he cool or what?
John
- Thu Apr 5 15:03:04 2001

Doh! I meant happee!! Simon? Don't know where.
I guess that's a bit like Where's Wally.
DSP
- Thu Apr 5 14:49:50 2001

Where is Simon?
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:47:46 2001

Do you work in the yoghurt industry now Tim?
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:46:41 2001

Is there a company or something called Harpen? Or maybe I am just thinking of Önken...
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:46:08 2001

A happen employee? Erm, do you mean happy? Happening? Hapless? Harp-playing? Alpen? Hark the herald angels sing?
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:36:46 2001

Its really good thanks. I'm busy doing interesting things. Which is nice. For the first time in ages, I am what you would describe, as a happen employee!!!
DSP
- Thu Apr 5 14:30:27 2001

Sorry, I kind of missed my name out of that last one.
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:24:57 2001

Tim - how are you enjoying your new job?

- Thu Apr 5 14:24:16 2001

Of what exactly... Nihonginetta???
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:23:39 2001

I have to agree with Tim, mate! Have a super duper time in Nihon. Bring me back a free sample!
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Thu Apr 5 14:18:04 2001

Now I know how the staff at Reading felt when no-one turned up to their lectures at the end of term... Oh well!
John
- Thu Apr 5 14:17:08 2001

John!! Hope you have a good time in Japan mate!
dsp
- Thu Apr 5 12:24:36 2001

Hello good evening and Bon Voyage!!
I'm back at work and on the internet.
In true hosting ability, I've setup a forwarded that sends to my work address, thastings@ryder.co.uk

dsp <tim@nonhostile.com>
New Office, New Company (stylish loft conversion), Blackburn - Thu Apr 5 12:23:17 2001

Yep, sorry Rob I definitely won't be around for your Birthday... Gome nasai! (No idea how to spell that) I hope you have a good one nonetheless...
John
- Thu Apr 5 11:41:41 2001

Well, today is my last day in old blighty really, I get the plane tomorrow from Heathrow at about 10AM, just in case anyone is planning one of those film-style romantic encounters where you rush to the airport and beg me not to leave. Errrrr. Bear in mind though I will probably have gone through the gates by about 9AM though... Yea. Anyway, its been nice knowing (most of) you all.... byeeeee!
John
- Thu Apr 5 11:39:54 2001

Johnny boy, nanji ni Nihon o ikimasuka? (When are you going to Japan?) Chances are you'll be still over there but it is my Birthday on the 16th and there is going to be a little visit to the Fez. Hurrah.
Rob Lang <icar@icar.co.uk>
MADLAB, Reading - Thu Apr 5 10:20:45 2001

Aardvark.
Mister Stibbs
- Wed Apr 4 16:56:19 2001

You're a bit odd.

- Wed Apr 4 15:07:52 2001

All seems a bit odd.
John
- Wed Apr 4 14:27:45 2001

Mini Cheddars are nice.
Simon
- Wed Apr 4 12:59:46 2001

We do chicken too.
Mr Cod
- Tue Apr 3 19:54:48 2001

We do chicken too.
Mr Cod
- Tue Apr 3 19:28:26 2001

EEuuuuuwwww!!
Simon
- Tue Apr 3 16:08:24 2001

I'm quite tempted to set up a a URL of maison-de-stiff but it will probably attract necrophiliates.
Jon E
- Tue Apr 3 13:34:56 2001

Tim, you seem very distant at the moment, Fancy saying hello?
Jon
- Tue Apr 3 13:33:59 2001

End of the week isn't it.....oh and ww...w.wwww.wwwww.wwwhy did you leave a message at such an early hour?!?
Simon
- Mon Apr 2 13:44:24 2001

...So you're just about getting ready for Japan then....nice......I shall look forward to a photo fest when you return!
Simon
- Mon Apr 2 13:42:53 2001

At least it isn't just after 6AM then.
John
- Mon Apr 2 06:11:40 2001

Temptations at home...? Whats all that about?
John
- Sun Apr 1 19:09:46 2001