I don't know you, Lox, but if I were going to meet anyone from the board, I'd carry a sledge. Never know when you'll need to thwap someone...What? Oh, a sled, eh?
Travis
- Thu Sep 30 21:44:38 2004

 It's a bit different, yes. The original one you wrote is still going strong as well, as far as I know.
John
- Thu Sep 30 17:00:57 2004

 You're making a subtitle renderer in DShow? Does this mean you've ditched the one I made years ago? Or is it for a different purpose altogether?
Jimmy
- Thu Sep 30 13:01:25 2004

 Is that like a sewer? A Dump Pipe.
tom
- Thu Sep 30 11:32:00 2004

 Mmmmm pipe dump.
John
- Thu Sep 30 10:33:50 2004

 My favourite constant of the day: SQLDMODevice_PipeDump = 6
dsp
- Thu Sep 30 10:26:49 2004

 I know I'm days late, but tom, you're better off with mingw than cygwin for compiling under windows. Although that free MS thing is probably pretty good too.
Graf
- Wed Sep 29 20:00:46 2004

 Have you lost that success token Jimmy? I think I may have taken it, after several miserable days fighting with DirectShow, my crappy subtitle renderer thingy has just started working.
John
- Wed Sep 29 16:50:49 2004

 Smelly old pants. Nothing works today.
Jimmy
- Wed Sep 29 16:25:11 2004

 It's not raining, is it. I've not brought a coat with me.
Mad Mumsie
- Wed Sep 29 16:08:25 2004

 Amusing as that would be, it's probably not necessary... More appropriate today would probably be flippers and an aqualung.
John
- Wed Sep 29 15:14:22 2004

 I zeeeeeee... what's the weather like in England now? Do I have to come with dogs, a sledge and a thick white Bear fur or is it ok still?
Lox
- Wed Sep 29 10:09:46 2004

 Calling Doctor Freud...
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 29 10:07:44 2004

 Well it's her former tutor, she graduated a couple of years ago now and is just working now.... but I think Gyosei is quite a close knit community so they tend to stay in touch.
John
- Wed Sep 29 09:50:11 2004

 Actually..... after reading CAREFULLY your message I think that I'd have to rule out the POTENTIAL girlfrind bit, and replace it with a more cautious, interesting BLOKE one.... :) In any case I am sure that he's cool... What is Chie studying now? Econ?
Lox
- Wed Sep 29 09:36:46 2004

 Errrrr..... HE's Japanese, a world renowned expert in economics etc.
John
- Wed Sep 29 09:36:00 2004

 Wooooooo you are talking about a POTENTIAL girlfriend here!!! :) The idea was to come up the 7th and 8th to work. From the 8th evening I am going to be free so I could join no problem... Let me speak to my agent again she's arranging all the appointemtns...
Lox
- Wed Sep 29 09:31:57 2004

 I think you'd like Chie's tutor - he's Japanese, a world renowned expert in economics, a bit of a wine buff, and has recently been to Italy. I'm pretty sure you ought to be able to find something to talk about amongst that lot!
John
- Wed Sep 29 09:26:25 2004

 Lorenzo - so just to clarify, when exactly is it that you might be in England? Are we talking Friday 8th / Saturday 9th? Me and Chie are dining out with Chie's tutor and his wife at a "posh" restaurant on that Friday... You would be more than welcome to join us if you wanted! Tell you what, maybe I'll send you an email...
John
- Wed Sep 29 09:24:00 2004

 MAIDO! (sort of " 'morning" in Japanese)
Lox
- Wed Sep 29 08:36:46 2004

 'moring all!
Jimmy
- Wed Sep 29 08:34:28 2004

 Cool!
tom
- Tue Sep 28 18:58:49 2004

 Lox - that would be great...!
John
- Tue Sep 28 17:48:50 2004

 Tom - how about using the VC++ toolkit - it has just about everything you need to write windows software, and it is totally free! http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
John
- Tue Sep 28 17:46:53 2004

 No. me neither usually.
tom
- Tue Sep 28 17:16:37 2004

 Tom, sorry mate, don't compile windows.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 28 16:43:34 2004

 Lox! Excellent. Not around on Saturday night (or most of the day) but will be around on Sunday from Lunchtime onwards.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 28 16:43:07 2004

 What windows compiler do you lot use? If I install cygwin and gcc, will I be able to build 'normal' windows binaries?
tom
- Tue Sep 28 16:42:58 2004

 My laptop arrived today! Mobile computing hurrah!!!
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 28 16:41:55 2004

 Guys I MIGHT be coming to London next week and maybe I can stop over at John's (if possible) on Friday night + Saturday.... I will have a final confirmation later this week..
Lox
- Tue Sep 28 16:41:04 2004

 Ok no probs! Thought it was worth asking, just on the off chance... We really ought to actually arrange (in advance) a night to meet up then...!
John
- Tue Sep 28 16:02:45 2004

 Sorry mate, Icar on Tuesday. Bit late to cancel.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 28 15:19:41 2004

 Yes. But I can't. Damn.
tom
- Tue Sep 28 14:48:05 2004

 I will be in Reading early this evening... Might anyone else be in that area and fancy a quick drink...?
John
- Tue Sep 28 14:28:58 2004

 Just Chris, I think.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 28 13:24:06 2004

 Er ... exactly how many of you lot are at uni? And which are lecturers? And which are students?
Jimmy
- Tue Sep 28 13:14:42 2004

 back to uni today....yay!
Chris Rowan
- Tue Sep 28 12:38:38 2004

 He didn't mention names, but they were numpties, aparently.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 28 10:51:29 2004

 Who from Diddicot?
tom
- Tue Sep 28 10:47:09 2004

 Erm, even I'm not sure what I was trying to type there.
John
- Tue Sep 28 10:18:42 2004

 Slough: "She"
John
- Tue Sep 28 10:18:23 2004

 Bog-brush of Berkshire, more like!
Jimmy
- Mon Sep 27 18:08:27 2004

 Reading, the "Pristina of Berkshire".
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 16:54:25 2004

 No, no - that wasn't where I went for my holiday- I was just expressing an opinion. The holiday was at lake Orta, and extremely nice it was too!
Jimmy
- Mon Sep 27 16:45:55 2004

 Swindon: "The steaming-heap-of-shit-in-the-middle of Wiltshire"
Jimmy
- Mon Sep 27 16:44:40 2004

 Birmingham: The Calcutta of Midlands!
Lox
- Mon Sep 27 16:32:10 2004

 Reigate: "The Casablanca of Surrey".
John
- Mon Sep 27 16:20:25 2004

 St. Louis, the Basingstoke of America.
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 16:15:59 2004

 Didcot: "The Chicago of Oxfordshire".
John
- Mon Sep 27 15:57:39 2004

 Harsh! I got into the house at 7pm. I didn't drive but next year I will - split it between Nick and I. Poor bugger had to drive all the way there and all the way back. Not only that but he got stuck with a couple of Numpties from Didcot.
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 15:17:46 2004

 What time did you get home Rob? I got home at about 1930!! Which, after a 0500 start is not so good. I had to drive th minibus back with the sun full in my face for an hour. Grr.
tom
- Mon Sep 27 15:08:12 2004

 Rob: Definietely September or April-July (though from June it starts to be VERY HOT indeed). Anyways let me know when you are coming I am sure that we can meet there (I can come back to show you around a bit), plus if we have the chance you can stay with me at my mum's! How long were you planning to stay? Tin: Unfortunately we only deal in Cottons and Linens (plus some silks) so the hairy rugs would be out of question...Any chance I can interest you with a completely useless Viscose/Nylon article :) John: Question is, how do you call the real "Derby of Italy" (such as VEDANO OLONA?)...
Lox
- Mon Sep 27 15:03:58 2004

 Nice is the Bognor Regis of France.
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 14:57:53 2004

 Has anyone noticed the habit of attempting to describe other "foreign" towns and cities in terms of famous Italian ones. Like Brugges is called "The Venice of the North", Bourton-on-the-water is called "The Venice of the Cotswolds", and even Birmingham has been likened to Venice because of the stupidly irritating fact that it apparently has more canals. Anyway, I would like to buck this trend, by, in the future, tentatively describing beautiful Italian cities in terms of the many dull souless towns that litter our somewhat uglier country. So, as of now, Florence shall be known as "The Derby of Italy".
John
- Mon Sep 27 14:15:04 2004

 Rob, you want to be careful - Aircraft Rec - you could end up as another Chunky!
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 14:04:13 2004

 dsp: Yes, I recognised them as flying saucers, although Cyberdad thought they were mushrooms. I think the latter is a much more fun description.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 14:03:13 2004

 Lox, everyone I have talked to has said that they're favourite nation in Europe in Italy. Speaking of which, my gf parent's just got back from Florence with pictures. It looks beautiful!!! Kate (the gf) desperately wants to go - she has studied the architecture and art of Florence. It looks like we might be visiting next year. When is the best season to come?
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 13:25:04 2004

 Tom and I had a smashing time at the wing field day last weekend. He got the Gucci job of judging art (what does he know) while I single-handedly ran the Aircraft Rec compo. Compared to Middlesex wing (where mad mum is), the event had more going on but was much smaller and held in a hangar. My favourite bit was the 250 odd cadets marching past the Group Captain with the band playing at full volume. The officers yelling commands could not be heard by anyone but themselves!!!
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 13:22:31 2004

 Lox: Welcome back, any chance of a sample rug for my lounge? (I might order several thousand if they're nice!!)
Mad Mumsie: I think that the magic mushrooms are flying saucers hence the laser beams! You must have had a great time in Scotland ;-)
dsp
- Mon Sep 27 13:07:03 2004

 Ciao everyone! I am back from a splendid trip to Paris with my colleagues where we tried to sell some of these shitty rugs that we do... On the top of beign completely fed up with my boss, this company and so on this time spent in France was good to remind me how much I hate that country and most of its inhabitants (I am sure that there are some nice indigenous life forms in France too)...
Lox
- Mon Sep 27 12:39:08 2004

 Tom; don't admit to knowing anyone called Robert Lang
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 11:09:46 2004

 dsp: The whole thing was totally over the top, but we thought the magic mushrooms(!) with their laser beams shooting between them quite cool.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 11:07:03 2004

 ROBERT - I shall speak to you then concerning your remarks about CI's.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 10:59:25 2004

 I go to Scotland every year, and no-one believes me when I say that the weather is usually good. I was there in July and I only wore a jumper for one morning, the rest of the time it was short sleeves/sleeveless tops. I even got sun burnt. Mind you, we usually go to the East. This time we went to the West. I think we got the tail end of those hurricanes.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 10:57:14 2004

 Erm... probably the Wing dinner, mum. Got another Wing dinner this Friday. Tom, you going?
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 27 10:42:41 2004

 Mad Mumsie: Glad you enjoyed the lights in Blackpool. Which were your favourite? I'm very fond of Europe's largest disco ball!
dsp
- Mon Sep 27 10:34:41 2004

 This is the first time in thirty years you've experienced that sort of weather in Scotland...? Can I conclude from this you've only been to Scotland once in the last thirty years?
John
- Mon Sep 27 10:27:11 2004

 When are you coming home again ROBERT?
Mad Mumsie aka Super CI Lang
- Mon Sep 27 10:20:21 2004

 I'M BACK! For the first time in thirty years I can honestly say the weather in Scotland was B...DY awful. Gale force winds, horizontal rain, hail, flooded roads, the lot. I was glad to get back to Blackpool where even though it was windy, at least the sun shone a bit - and the lights were wonderful.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 27 10:17:58 2004

 Oooooh Italy - that sounds nice... Whereabouts did you go? Any opportunities to use the immortal "Ci sono molti fiori nel giardiano!"...?
John
- Mon Sep 27 09:28:03 2004

 Hello everyone! I'm back from Italy, and really rather relaxed. Ah, yessssssss!
Jimmy
- Mon Sep 27 08:18:34 2004

 Yeah! Probably wouldn't go down too well...
tom
- Fri Sep 24 17:34:16 2004

 I imagine claiming to be a pacifist who is afraid of flying might also fail to tick some of the right boxes for you.
John
- Fri Sep 24 16:21:33 2004

 Keep your legs crossed. Don't bend over. Don't pick up the soap. Don't look them in the eye. Don't sit down when asked. Don't pass Go, don't collect £200. Don't answer any questions with the word wibble.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 24 13:16:42 2004

 ....errrr don't mention all that time you spent working for the KGB?
John
- Fri Sep 24 12:13:30 2004

 But I *am* converting to the dark side. I have my Board on 20th Oct. Any advice???
tom
- Fri Sep 24 11:16:00 2004

 I think they're back today or last night. I'm sur we'll hear about Scotland but I think the weather was poor for most of it.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 24 11:10:59 2004

 Isn't she on holiday Rob?
John
- Fri Sep 24 11:06:54 2004

 In ATC terms, it means Civilian Instructor layabouts! (Waiting for retribution from my mother, who is also one)
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 24 10:23:54 2004

 ...they are not particularly lazy, often dealing with throughputs of 30 or 40 megabits/second.
John
- Fri Sep 24 10:22:31 2004

 In DVB terms, CI stands for Common Interface, and is the term used for the PCMCIA connector you get on integrated digital TVs and the like, which would allow you to bung in a CAM (Conditional Access Module) or other custom bit of hardware.
John
- Fri Sep 24 10:21:37 2004

 These CIs are lazy types - never really do anything.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 24 09:47:39 2004

 Indeed. I'm driving the mini bus there.
tom
- Thu Sep 23 19:45:56 2004

 Well they'll need somebody to sweep up afterwards, I imagine...
John
- Thu Sep 23 17:01:04 2004

 Dunno what I'm doing. Nothing maybe?
tom
- Thu Sep 23 09:49:34 2004

 Yeah! Will be there. Helping judge the public speaking stuff with my (slightly barmy) boss.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 23 09:11:10 2004

 Kick ass Lang. :-) See you on Sunday Sir?
tom
- Wed Sep 22 17:24:54 2004

 I get 100KB/Sec download on my 1MB connection at home. Bloody. Hellfire.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 22 15:08:01 2004

 Then in that difficult social desire to enquire after people you don't care about, you might say "How's the wife?", to which he might say "Well, she actually took delivery of it. We're still trying to sweep her up."
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 22 12:50:57 2004

 Of course being English your neighbour would say "No, no trouble at all...", standing there in ragged clothes, with one arm hanging off, and covered in shrapnel.
John
- Wed Sep 22 11:51:37 2004

 LOL! Very good, John, very good.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 22 11:45:59 2004

 Leaving it next door... Hmmm that could be amusing - do you think you'd go through the "Oh I hope it hasn't been any trouble" routine when you go round to pick it up... from the smouldering ruins of your neighbour's house....?
John
- Wed Sep 22 11:37:05 2004

 At least they could guarantee same-day delivery. If you weren't in to receive it, they could leave it next-door.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 22 11:16:59 2004

 Would the still expect you to sign for it on receipt, if it had detonated and flattened your house...? I guess it's one way of proving it's not a dud, at least...
John
- Wed Sep 22 10:32:33 2004

 Nice John! I wonder if you could buy Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles, they'd have the following postal options: US/UK Post, UPS, FedEx, Launch It.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 22 09:47:49 2004

 Amusingly it said something like shipping free in the USA, but wordlwide shipping would be at an additional cost. One wonders if customs officers will expect duty to have been paid on surface-to-air missiles, weapons grade plutonium, etc.
John
- Wed Sep 22 09:28:49 2004

 Today whilst going through my normal spam clear out, I found an email (which the spam checker hadn't actually flagged) offering to sell me guns, rockets, bombs, missiles and things like that so I could, so I could "become a terrorist". Presumably this must some sort of hoax, just to get your attention (which unfortunately it seems to have succeeded in doing), and if you were stupid enough to go to the URL enclosed it is going to mysteriously redirect you to a site selling viagra, or something.
John
- Wed Sep 22 09:26:20 2004

 Have you ever seen the news program sketch: "Tonight there is no news". I can't remember who did it, I think it was a comic relief thing.
dsp
- Tue Sep 21 20:10:22 2004

 Surely whenever you receive some information, that is an indication that there is not an information shortage, and therefore, by default, at all other times it is safe to assume there is one. This may become deeply confusing and/or silly if at some point you are actually informed that there is an information shortage.
John
- Tue Sep 21 18:45:51 2004

 You just never know when there is an information shortage.
tom
- Tue Sep 21 11:48:42 2004

 Very good.
tom
- Tue Sep 21 09:16:20 2004

 Is part of the problem that intrinsically you're never informed about them...?
John
- Sun Sep 19 20:05:10 2004

 I hate information cutbacks.
tom
- Fri Sep 17 12:55:01 2004

 It was the best answer I could offer, given budget restrictions, etc.
John
- Fri Sep 17 11:24:12 2004

 Ah.
tom
- Fri Sep 17 11:09:48 2004

 Swindon...?
John
- Fri Sep 17 11:08:58 2004

 Where is Jon Ellis when you need him?
tom
- Fri Sep 17 10:47:14 2004

 Yes you're right about the blobby shapes. Secretly Rob makes them into a kind of puree and takes them intravenously.
John
- Fri Sep 17 09:19:47 2004

 Good caveat there Travis.
John
- Fri Sep 17 09:18:10 2004

 eheheheh I have actually developed the new "Lox's bread recepie" now it weights 249 tonnes and the italian government is using it to pave the motorway... :) (concrete is more expensive you see...) As for Mr. Blobby Pasta Shapes I am sure I have seen you eating them!! :) Oh well.
Lox
- Fri Sep 17 07:38:51 2004

 Well, the gaylords you have abroad are shite compared to the gaylords of the good ol' USA. Germany aside, of course.
Travis
- Thu Sep 16 22:33:34 2004

 I didn't eat that - jsut made it to wind you up. I was busy eating sausages. In bread. Speaking of BREAD, Lorenzo... I remember "What's the difference between Lox's bread and 400 tonnes of steel? It's possible to make 400 tonnes of steel float... etc"
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 16 16:40:27 2004

 Gosh, I though you meant you were still gay.... Oh well... Anyways Tim forgot to add that owens cook perfect lasagnas without even telling them to do it... Did I mention about women beign always horny and wanting to have sex? As for the sloppy shite, I seem to remember that I addressed such a comment to Rob's MR BLOBBY PASTA SHAPE that were drowned in ketchup and mayo!! I am feeling sick already! :)
Lox
- Thu Sep 16 15:21:55 2004

 Tom: The "I think so" referred to Guiness, not Gayness.
dsp
- Thu Sep 16 13:54:22 2004

 Mind you, the same was said about lots of things. In Italy the rooves don't leak and ruin high quality Italian shoes, the breadboards clean themselves, and cheese graters magically climbed out of the sink etc.
dsp
- Thu Sep 16 13:53:50 2004

 I think the Guiness suffers from the same export affliction as Italian pasta. I remember Lox proclaiming that in Italy, the pasta is much nice "than this sloppy shite!!"
dsp
- Thu Sep 16 13:52:20 2004

 Picture this: Lox. In a Pink Tutu. Shudder.
tom
- Thu Sep 16 12:40:16 2004

 No, actually I am considering turning gay, but I havent made my mind up yet... as for Guiness (beign a faithful drinker of such ale) I can say that all the Guinesses that I have tried abroad were rather distasteful compared to the English ones... Which brings another point, if Irish guiness is meant to be sooooo nice compared to the British version, then abroad you get the shite of the shite... Nice!
Lox
- Thu Sep 16 12:31:08 2004

 As in you think you are still gay, or you think that the Guinness is the same?
tom
- Thu Sep 16 11:53:09 2004

 I think so. I know that the draught Guiness we get here inthe UK in not a patch on what's served in Ireland.
dsp
- Thu Sep 16 09:07:48 2004

 Goodmorning gaylords, are you still gay?
Lox
- Thu Sep 16 08:16:54 2004

 Hell no.
tom
- Thu Sep 16 07:16:38 2004

 Spatio-temporal existence aside, any of you know if the Guinness Draught that we get in the US is the same as what you lot get over there?
Travis
- Thu Sep 16 00:20:22 2004

 When are we going to get drunk?
tom
- Wed Sep 15 17:50:41 2004

 Quorn. Yuk.
tom
- Wed Sep 15 17:39:45 2004

 Nice DSP. Nice.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 15:37:36 2004

 WHAT!? ME!? I am vegetarian!! SWEAR!!! I have always been!! Don't you remember the little QUORNS that I used to eat when I was at Radstock?! I mean if that's not vegetarian!!! Now that I think of it, we shall withdraw all troops from Iraq too! HAarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-issimo!
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 15:17:07 2004

 I'm expecting that half way through this canibal joke, Lox will change sides and become a vegitarian. Haaarrrrrr haaaarrrrr!
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 15:12:25 2004

 Mmmmm possible, I'll have to ask my mate Jeffrey Dahmer for details though.... :) (or whatever it's his name...)
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 15:07:12 2004

 Rob: The Sticky Pirate thing is absolutely stunningly fantastic! My best compliments, and congrats! I was laughing so loud my boss came in thinking that I got a big order.... HMS BRICK!!!! Class!
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 15:01:47 2004

 Now we're heading into new depths with Italian cannabalism-sexual-innuendo. Nowhere else in the world except the Main will you get that!
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 15:01:28 2004

 Sausages..... I knew that "the Hawkins" can only produce one sausage in a lifetime! (not a very big one too...) har har har har har!!
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 14:59:17 2004

 No probs, I'm a breast man myself.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 14:57:06 2004

 Do you prefer the dark or light meat? Save me a leg.
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 14:51:50 2004

 I actually perfer Hawkins sausages with bread. With ketchup. Every night of the damn week.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 14:44:01 2004

 Or coprophagous and elephants...
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 14:35:38 2004

 Rob you are forgetting that "the Hawkins" without yikes it's horrible, you must stew it for a couple of hours... Don't forget to scream "Yummy" in an high pitched voice for added pleasure....
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 14:33:09 2004

 It does beg the question as to whether the answers to all of our society's problems could actually be staring us in the face. Take obesity and canabalism, for example. Individually these present big problems to a society, but combine the two together in the right way and you have a beautifully symbiotic solution. The same could also be said for those people who feel the need to burgle others, paired up with those people who can barely move for all the junk they have in their houses. Or indeed people who want to commit arson, and old people who can't afford to heat their homes.
John
- Wed Sep 15 14:16:02 2004

 Yes, that does mean I'd eat John. But only served in a white wine sauce with truffle pate, shallots, obergines and spam.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 13:31:58 2004

 Rob: Does a conversation via an interpretor count?
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 13:30:52 2004

 John: No tricks mate!
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 13:30:03 2004

 Rob: So how would it work? I give you a brief and you come up with some ideas.
I'm after a logo for a web site around 150w x 50h, plus a smaller version to fit in a title bar and a 16x16 icon for the browser page icon.
How much would that set me back?
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 13:28:43 2004

 ...as well as presumably anyone who can't speak English.
John
- Wed Sep 15 13:27:58 2004

 Well Rob, that statement seems to give the green light to consuming large swathes of the population of this country, at least.
John
- Wed Sep 15 13:27:31 2004

 I wouldn't eat anything you can have a meaningful conversation with.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 13:26:14 2004

 Are you trying to trick me into saying "Now that's where you're wrong, My name's Greg Mitchell, and I've eaten human flesh and I thought- OH NO! I've dug my own grave, the wife's going to kill me..."
John
- Wed Sep 15 13:26:12 2004

 For a single logo, I would charge between 50 and 100 quid. For branding an entire company (fonts, logos, letterheads) I'd charge 300.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 13:25:09 2004

 I won $40, which I donated to the site that hosts the game and the competition. The webpage for the StickPirate setting is http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/rob/stickpirate/
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 15 13:23:57 2004

 John, that's daft, humans are made out of tasty steaks like a cow is.
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 13:23:03 2004

 Isn't that a bit like saying if banks aren't supposed to be robbed, why are they full of money? Anyway, aren't humans made out of meat...? Does this mean canibalism isn't so bad after all...?
John
- Wed Sep 15 13:15:24 2004

 How was it disguised? With a pair of glasses and a false moustache? Were you convinced...?
John
- Wed Sep 15 13:12:51 2004

 Good Point, and by the way dog tastes good, I have tried it in Korea (plus I think I have also had cat disguised as chiken in any Italian/Chinese restaurant, and it's good too....) :)
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 13:11:12 2004

 If we weren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 12:42:08 2004

 Rob: What did you win mate? I don't get it everyone is congratulating but... is there a webpage I can go and see? John: I'm in for cats!
Lox
- Wed Sep 15 12:37:36 2004

 Rob: What's the going rate for a logo design?
dsp
- Wed Sep 15 11:48:31 2004

 Ok clearly that has failed to spark the controversy I would have hoped for. OK, how about cats are better than dogs...?
John
- Wed Sep 15 10:30:45 2004

 I watched an interesting program about Latin the other day. Apparently dark age Britain was responsible for keeping Latin alive through the, errr, dark ages - at this time other countries were messing about with it, but Britain continued to use it in its pure form.
John
- Wed Sep 15 08:42:43 2004

 It's almost tempting to start a company...
tom
- Tue Sep 14 20:48:48 2004

 Well, it does sound a bit more glamorous than "pisspot" don't you think? It could be a fashion label couldn't it? Feragamo, Armani, Gucci, Orinale... Fits pretty well don't you think?
John
- Tue Sep 14 17:19:29 2004

 Rob, congrats. Just now saw that you won...I haven't been online much of late. I guess the good judges saw fit to see past your hastily thrown together document ;)
Travis
- Tue Sep 14 17:15:27 2004

 As a matter of fact it's an almost Latin word. ORINALE
Lox
- Tue Sep 14 17:10:07 2004

 Like "potino di piscoli", or something.
John
- Tue Sep 14 16:41:02 2004

 Yes, poor old Hector. Twatted by ASDA and then thrown out by a load of pikey insurers.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 14 15:17:16 2004

 ...I bet the Italian word for "pisspot" sounds really classy and sophisticated though....?
John
- Tue Sep 14 15:01:20 2004

 Poor Hector :-( I don't know what Mat is talking about though, there's none of *my* bogeys in the car!
Alex
- Tue Sep 14 13:47:53 2004

 Thanks dsp. It was not particularly hard fought but the kudos is mine HAHAHA! I had a lot of fun making the game, so that's what really counts.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 14 09:36:19 2004

 Mmmmm It's rather bad here as well, I guess I cannot complain though this place is know in Italy as the "Italian PISSPOT", not just because it's completely shite, but also because it happens to rain a lot.... WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE!!??!?!
Lox
- Tue Sep 14 09:35:48 2004

 Well the weather seems to have taken a turn for the worse... I think we might be turning our heating on this week, unless it gets better.
John
- Tue Sep 14 09:28:33 2004

 Rob: Congrats on winning with the stick pirate!
dsp
- Tue Sep 14 09:10:15 2004

 saaaaave the caaaaaaarrrrrrrrr there's plenty of miles left in it (and our bogeys)
mat
- Mon Sep 13 20:33:33 2004

 Ah, no. Instead of spending 344 quid on the car, they'll give me the 344 (minus excess) and break the car for free!
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 13 15:07:43 2004

 Watch out for that, the repairs could be more than £150 - the excess. "Once we started we realised that the flange bracket had sheared away from the crank sprocket."
dsp
- Mon Sep 13 13:29:05 2004

 Right. Food.
tom
- Mon Sep 13 12:05:07 2004

 They clearly read your BAAAAAAAA.... etc posting.
tom
- Mon Sep 13 12:04:51 2004

 Have now made a deal with Elephant and they're going to give me the worth of the repairs minus the excess. Which is not so bad.
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 13 09:36:49 2004

 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDS. Elephant Insurance are a bunch of charlatans. They're going to charge me 150 quid to pick up a car that doesn't work that I didn't damage.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 10 16:59:42 2004

 I'm off on holiday for two weeks. YIPPEE. I think we're going to Scotland - just as the winter gales set in!!!
Mad Mumsie
- Fri Sep 10 16:54:56 2004

 Yawn
Bored of Mr and Mrs XML
- Fri Sep 10 16:07:12 2004

 Now, Now! Mr. and Mrs. XML should talk through their problems together. What would happen to baby XML without a proper family environment (i.e. mother run off and taken the schema)?!
XML conciliatory service
- Fri Sep 10 15:29:37 2004

 You can keep Baby XML, I'll have the schema!
Mrs. XML
- Fri Sep 10 15:18:23 2004

 That's it! I'm leaving you!
Mrs. XML
- Fri Sep 10 15:17:33 2004

 That bastard mail protocol. How long have you been shagging SMTP, then?
Mr Xml
- Fri Sep 10 14:05:29 2004

 Ah! Must have been the XML postman, then!
Mrs. XML
- Fri Sep 10 13:51:38 2004

 Sod off, bloody cancer death stick dealer!
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 10 13:51:30 2004

 Ahh, the friendly cigarette selling man. Oh how we have missed you.
Kev
- Fri Sep 10 12:52:50 2004

 What the hell?....
Lox
- Fri Sep 10 12:23:52 2004

 Famous brand cigarettes with delivery ! Marlboro $13.95 / Kent $16.95 Camel $13.95 / 555 $17.95 WEST $12.95 / Pall Mall $12.95 BOND $12.95 / Prince $14.95 Davidoff $19.95 / Vogue $17.95 Magna $12.95 / More $12.95 Dunhill $21.95 / Rothmans $14.95 www.mcity4.com www.mcity4.com www.mcity4.com On-line cigarette shop !
mcity4
usa, - Fri Sep 10 11:50:15 2004

 Darling, I didn't come to bed last night...
Mr Xml
- Fri Sep 10 09:23:10 2004

 Arse..... I have to brush up my html because it's getting crappy... :) szorryyyyyy :P
Lox
- Fri Sep 10 09:13:51 2004

 Everyone asleep or

pretending

to do some work?
Lox
- Fri Sep 10 09:12:59 2004

 Phew! What a night, Mr. XML! Three times!
Mrs. XML
- Fri Sep 10 09:05:14 2004

 Oh that's alright dear. Come and give us a kiss! >
Mrs. XML
- Thu Sep 9 16:31:43 2004

 Well, I'm sorry about the snoring. And the bad breathe. I tried Dr RSS' Cure-All it does nothing for me.
Mr Xml
- Thu Sep 9 16:26:47 2004

 I hate it when you drink- you always snore and keep me awake. And you have bad breath in the morning, too.
Mrs. XML
- Thu Sep 9 16:24:30 2004

 Awwwwwwww, poor baby Xml. Don't worry about it. Mummy's just being neurotic. Go and play with XSL.
Mr Xml
- Thu Sep 9 16:24:24 2004

 I'm now scared by the warped mind producing this dialogue between personifications of a textual data structuring standard.
John
- Thu Sep 9 16:16:46 2004

 Mummy Daddy. Don't argue.
Baby XML
- Thu Sep 9 15:04:11 2004

 Drunk! DRUNK! After you finished of the 1979 Port Ellen, there's bugger all left in the cupboard worth drinking. Fine, go to bed early, if that's what you really want... Don't expect me to tip-toe round you when I come upstairs and undress with the light off.
Mr Xml
- Thu Sep 9 14:57:55 2004

 Well, you can watch it if you want, but I'm having an early night- and don't think I'm putting out for you if you come upstairs all drunk again!
Mrs. XML
- Thu Sep 9 14:51:33 2004

 Can I watch Ray Mears' Bushcraft tonight on Two after dinner or are you going to want to watch "Fat Nation" on One?
Mr Xml
- Thu Sep 9 14:25:43 2004

 Lorenzo - I have emailed you!
John
- Thu Sep 9 14:13:37 2004

 Not actually from Lox, this is John just testing.
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 14:12:19 2004

 Yes, dear- with salad and yoghurt (there's also some potato wedges for later on, in case you get all peckish again).
Mrs. XML
- Thu Sep 9 13:38:18 2004

 I though he said the password was: Curlywingymoanywussie.... now I am confused! :)
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 12:51:05 2004

 Lox: I think John said your password was lox_is_a_la_dee_da
dsp
- Thu Sep 9 12:32:29 2004

 In the bottle you don't loose anything, nor gain flavours etc etc etc... "No pain no gain!"... (errr John when are you going to give me that famous password? this 512 char limit is killing me!!) :)
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 12:26:44 2004

 Mmmmm I guess it has to do with all the flavours that it gets from the keg... Though with whiskey iy's particularly tricky as, if my info are correct, the more you keep it the less you have in the end. It's called "angel share" and it's the amount of whiskey that "disappear" once you decide to bottle the spirit. For example if you put 10liters to age after 20years you are likely to have 8 or 7 litlers..
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 12:24:50 2004

 I was gutten to find out that a whisky's age is how long it spend in the barrel. A ten year old malt, is still only a ten year malt, one hundred years after it was bottled. It is a one hunder year old, ten year malt.
dsp
- Thu Sep 9 11:39:56 2004

 Come on Robert - you've been brung up better than that. Drinking from the bottle indeed. Although I'm not a whiskey drinker, preferring Brandy, but aren't you supposed to swill it round the glass to get the aroma, or something.
Mad Mumsie
- Thu Sep 9 11:36:18 2004

 I agree, scarcity economics it's the base of our system, I am 100% positive that your bottle is going to be regarded as a collector item in the future (therefore the high price)... I dunno the details of his investment, I only know that he did it, I would not risk money in something like that unless I was a guru of whiskey! :) And I couldn't resist NOT drinking it!!!!!
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 11:25:05 2004

 I don't know much about Whiskey but I know that I like to drink it straight from the bottle.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 9 11:23:29 2004

 Macallan - well, I think this is where it is important to pick and choose your distilleries if you are going to invest in this way. So far as I know Macallan are still going strong, so it isn't going to have that same wow factor as a malt from a distillery that has stopped production. It is possible a 20 year old from Macallan bottled this year will taste the same as a 20 year old bottling you might be able to buy in 10 years time... With something like Port Ellen, on the other hand, there simply will not be any more of it, making it a lot more desirable (and therefore expensive!).
John
- Thu Sep 9 11:09:35 2004

 I think they also have a shop in South London somewhere. You could really spend a fortune there! I only buy whisky to drink, but I guess if you were one of those collectors who bought as an investment, you might be able to make a decent proft. Take Port Ellen, for example. My bottle was a mere 70 quid. As they stopped production in 1983 or thereabouts, this means that the last bottlings of any 20 year old expressions have already been made. I imagine there will still be a few casks being kept behind for older expressions, but I would guess within 10 years we are going to see those last few casks bottled. I would have thought once the entire stock is in bottles, the prices will really start to go through the roof. Already there is only a finite quantity of this stuff in the world, so the prices can only really go up.
John
- Thu Sep 9 11:02:06 2004

 Aaaaaaahhhhh Lovely! My boss invested 1000 euro on a McAllan whiskey but I think that it all went pear-shaped, still he's left with 3 kegs of 20 year old whiskey!!!
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 10:55:09 2004

 I bought it on the web: http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com
John
- Thu Sep 9 10:52:58 2004

 But logs are important, the connect people. Is it sausages again?
Mr Xml
- Thu Sep 9 10:52:48 2004

 Wooooo Then I MUST COME to pay a visit :)))) I have specialized in wines, my collection features a rather nice bottle of Brunello di Montalcino - BANFI 1997 (they said it was the best year in the past century for brunello)... I like whiskeys though, where did you find such an old bottle?
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 10:41:31 2004

 Stop going on about web logs, and come and have your dinner!
Mrs. XML
- Thu Sep 9 10:40:48 2004

 (hic)
Jimmy
- Thu Sep 9 10:33:56 2004

 Yes Lorenzo I have about 10 or 11 single malts at the moment, ranging from some fairly regular 10 years olds, through a couple of slightly harder to find 15 and 16 year olds, up to my pride and joy - a 1979 Port Ellen, it's as old as Chie, and the distillery has been closed for years, so it is a bit of a rarity.
John
- Thu Sep 9 10:28:03 2004

 Pity we're not storing everything in nice XML with XSL files, then we could conglomerate everyone's weblogs together. *sigh*
Mr XML
- Thu Sep 9 09:48:57 2004

 John I didn't know that you started a whiskey collection, I have a small one myself, so far the best that I have had is a Craganmore 15Years though I guess it's not as fancy as the indipendet bottled ones...
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 09:45:34 2004

 I seeeeeee I guess that I have to remove the feed from the reader then, or is it something that can be fixed?
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 09:41:43 2004

 Yea, it's a problem with the server, whenever I add a new article now, the script times out, so it doesn't get as far as updating the RSS feed...
John
- Thu Sep 9 09:31:48 2004

 BUG REPORT!(?) John, the WEBLOG RSS appears to be stuck to the metereological reprt thingy and it doesn't update with the new articles that are added to that section... I believe that it's not meant to work this way...
Lox
- Thu Sep 9 09:25:39 2004

 I'm trying to crack encryption codes: http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=25&id=440616
tom
- Thu Sep 9 07:20:56 2004

 (Doesn't know).
tom
- Thu Sep 9 07:09:57 2004

 (wonders when an English Lit. major will add anything constructive)
jeff <jffbrooke@yahoo.com>
texas USA, - Wed Sep 8 21:12:24 2004

 What does your product do? Print out "10"?
tom
- Wed Sep 8 17:05:15 2004

 Our product takes a while to compile - you could probably saw a coffee table up during it. The old product took ages to compile, you could do a dining room suite.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 8 15:18:48 2004

 Yea that would be great Lorenzo... If it does go ahead just let me know the date...!
John
- Wed Sep 8 15:13:03 2004

 I didn't know about the chair!! I wonder you could program the next windows with a "go saw a chair/wardrobe" before getting an hefty "timeout error XXXX"... Lovely!
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 15:10:51 2004

 Wooooooo there might (I underline MIGHT) be the chance that I will come to the UK to try to sell some of this company's crappy rugs, if you wait a week or so (I have to try to convince my boss) then we could hook up somewhere, MAYBE I could even dare to invite myself at John's for the weekend..... :)
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 15:07:44 2004

 Yea you're damn right Rob. Every time I recompile a Linux Kernel I am reminded of the time I wandered into the lounge to discover Tim with a saw, having almost cut a chair completely in half, his rationale being "because the kernel takes too long to compile...". It has since been a benchmark for me of things that take longer than they perhaps should - there is a danger area after mildly irritating your user, that you may prompt them to dissect an item of furniture.
John
- Wed Sep 8 15:06:23 2004

 Perhaps we should re-enact some furniture sawing. Come on, John, when was the last time you can honestly say you smashed up a perfectly decent chair?
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 8 14:59:44 2004

 At the risk of sounding horrendously melodramatic and downright faggy, I think we took 2 Radstock Road with us - there isn't really anything of what was good about it left in that building. The last time I walked past the house itself I felt nothing really... but you guys... Oh... I feel talk of a reunion coming on....!
John
- Wed Sep 8 14:50:24 2004

 (hic!)
Jimmy
- Wed Sep 8 14:32:33 2004

 I ran past it about 3 months ago. Running is the only thing to do there. Looks like they've put new windows in but apart from that, it hasn't changed. The '2' on the wheeliebin is still the same.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 8 14:30:12 2004

 Still it was a bloody good time living at 2 Radstock I really miss it! (sob sob)... Does any of you accidentally drive past there every now and then? I wonder if Mr.Ahmed is still the owner... :)
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 14:18:28 2004

 Well, after living with you, snitch, dsp, challacombe and flymo I wonder WHAT am I sometimes... :) Surely a strange mix of Italian/British/Japanese living beign!! :) As for the english " I speak good English, I ('ve) leaRRRnt it FROMABOOK!!" Marvellous!! :) Oh Craaaapppaaaaa!
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 14:15:57 2004

 Lox, are you SURE you'e Italian? Your English is just too bloody good. It's better than mine. Do you still say things are 'Crappa'? I miss that. :)
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 8 13:47:32 2004

 Though I would not adventure myself on guessing about the nature of the creamy substance, indeed I seem to remember that you were drooling cream after eating them. Hence the creamy substance must have been on mine too... I also remember you saying something along the lines of "Oooohh yesss that was nice!"...
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 13:26:06 2004

 Sorry, "their" should of course read "there". Idiot boy!
John
- Wed Sep 8 13:01:43 2004

 So just to make sure we've got this straight Lorenzo... You're telling us their is a creamy residue visible on the fagottino depicted below...?
John
- Wed Sep 8 13:01:01 2004

 NICE JOHN! Laughed out loud at the bank note! Brilliant. Harkens back to the days of SWEAM...
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 8 09:13:02 2004

 John: I think that the note was discontinued (actually it was never put in production) since it had a blatant advert to a NON-EU (read British) product , namely YIKES. As you can clearly see on the "fagottino" there is a distinctive sign of such dairy byproduct... :)
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 09:11:05 2004

 Tech question on the site: I might be completely useless (which is true) but I cannot find a RSS feed for the articles that you post every now and then... I assume that there is one, but that's just an assumption since I have been rather unsucessful in finding it... Plz help!
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 09:06:21 2004

 I firmly believe now that this was the original intention of the people who designed the Euro notes, they just forget to put in this vital detail at the last minute.
John
- Wed Sep 8 08:29:30 2004

 People in my office don't understand why I am laughing my head off since I got to work this morning.... They surely think I am a masochist! :) John you are my hero!!! :)
Lox
- Wed Sep 8 08:13:33 2004

 This sort of thing...

John
- Tue Sep 7 21:04:09 2004

 Or better still, one of Lorenzo eating that pasta...
John
- Tue Sep 7 17:34:21 2004

 I think Euros should have a picture of the food in that place in Varese printed on them, do you remember Lorenzo? The homemade pasta (fagotini?) with pear in...? (See here).
John
- Tue Sep 7 17:28:55 2004

 I'm quite surprised you don't have an iPod, Mr DSP. I thought you were an Apple person. And you can get a thing to plug into the iPod to copy pictures off digital camera memory cards. Maybe dsp has unknowingly passed the Mac torch to me now though...
Graf
- Tue Sep 7 17:04:12 2004

 end of work day grins http://www.nothingtodo.co.uk/redirect.php?id=381&PHPSESSID=e0cdd7eaf10ef981d888e2a83a8797d1
Kev
- Tue Sep 7 17:01:24 2004

 I may just buy me one of those mini disk players, at 99 notes, its a bargain!!
dsp
- Tue Sep 7 16:06:54 2004

 Exactely my point.... maybe it has a strange hidden meaning for the Germans or the French... as far as Italians are concerned we would have liked a nice statue of some naked woman instead!! :)
Lox
- Tue Sep 7 15:29:03 2004

 Bridges, I mean, what were they thinking? All this great European history and beautiful landmarks and they choose a bloody bridge. Idiots.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 7 14:30:13 2004

 Actually "better than having bridges AS printed on our Euros"... :)
Lox
- Tue Sep 7 14:28:15 2004

 Actually "better than having bridges AS printed on our Euros"... :)
Lox
- Tue Sep 7 14:28:15 2004

 Better than having bridges printed on our Euros... :)
Lox
- Tue Sep 7 14:27:25 2004

 Thanks John!! I think it's too complicated though, MDs are nice but they never got a good solid compatibility with other storage supports.. I mean they made the DATA MD thingy but why divide them from the normal MDs? Oh well... :)
Lox
- Tue Sep 7 14:24:38 2004

 But John, it's got three legs!
Mad Mumsie
- Tue Sep 7 14:05:00 2004

 Most of my currency is from the isle of man. It weighs less.
John
- Tue Sep 7 14:02:27 2004

 99 of Tim's English pounds? What about your British pounds, John? You know, the ones you printed with HM The Queen snogging Phillip on the front.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 7 13:55:10 2004

 Tim: They seem to be only 99 of your English pounds now on Amazon.
John
- Tue Sep 7 13:53:22 2004

 D'oh: Should read 'spotted'. Not just you who can't type today Jimmy.
dsp
- Tue Sep 7 11:44:15 2004

 I knew it. Look at the W3 URL Rob posted, and you'll see the Tom Rowan has secretly been working for the consortium. I knew it all along. ps. John: Not got round to buying one yet. Like the sound of downloading from camera straight to MD. Stopped a player on sale in Debenhams for 150 notes. I was tempted. Saving up first, gone are the days of disposable student loans.
dsp
- Tue Sep 7 11:43:37 2004

 John, no, there simply isn't time. And now onto the Swing at Bolton...
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 7 11:19:52 2004

 Indeed, a right bugger. Had not heard about SVG but it looks fab! Thanks for the knowledge on that one. Here's the link to the World Wide Wanker Consortium for anyone who wants it. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 7 11:16:02 2004

 Streuth! I really *cannot* type this morning, can I?
Jimmy
- Tue Sep 7 11:12:44 2004

 Ah- perhaps I did nto explain myself. The (allegedly) emerging graphics standard for the www, is "SVG". Now, SVG is an XML-based vector-graphics description language. The trouble is, the SVg has to go in an ".SVG" file, and you have to reference the .SVG from within the HTML to make the grapihcs appear (much as with a .JPG ro .GIF). Howver, as SVG is an XML instance, it *should* be possible to put the SVG tags directly into an XHTML document, and hence ship oinly a single file, rather than a collection of files. The trouble it, you can't. Well, not with any browser I've tried, anyway. Bugger, eh?
Jimmy
- Tue Sep 7 11:11:47 2004

 Can I just interject and say namespaces at this time?
John
- Tue Sep 7 11:06:59 2004

 Jimmy, you can inline the XHTML in the XML and then treat the XHTML as tags to process and convert or shove straight to the screen. Therefore, you can process DIV type tags and spit formatting tags (I, B, BR) straight to the screen.

Thus, as XHTML is a subset of XML, you can rip the XHTML tags out to the output and then process the inline XML. Also, you can have the XSL in the same file but I've not really dealt with that. Having on stylesheet to control the design of about 60 pages (on the Icar site) and the data being in a standard, future proof format is just lovely.
Rob Lang
- Tue Sep 7 10:50:42 2004

 Take a look here: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/sony-himd-memory-card-reader-019285.php
John
- Tue Sep 7 10:41:59 2004

 Whilst trying to find out about Hi-MD I came across a little gadget to do exactly that. I don't think you'd be able to connect directly from the MD player to the camera, but you could take the card out and put it in this little gismo and it would have the same overall effect...
John
- Tue Sep 7 10:41:12 2004

 Question. Do you know if you can hook up a DC to one of thoose walkman to download pictures from the camera to the MD? I see that on the specs there is a one touch d/l but maybe it doesn't apply to DCs....
Lox
- Tue Sep 7 10:38:47 2004

 Tim, have you bought one of those Sony MZ-NH600 walkmans you were talking about yet...? I am bordering on making a purchase, but am a tiny bit unclear about where you get these Hi-MDs from....
John
- Tue Sep 7 10:07:27 2004

 Yes, but can you *inline* the xml in xhtml, and view it with SVG (rather than linking to an external file)?
Jimmy
- Mon Sep 6 17:13:03 2004

 Rob, you are The One!!!!!
Morpheus
- Mon Sep 6 17:00:51 2004

 Redesign the world as XML and then see it with XSL. Oh yes. My loins twitch at the thought of it.
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 6 16:52:01 2004

 Congrats to you and Hester, Andy!
dsp
- Mon Sep 6 14:00:11 2004

 We haven't set a date yet - we were thinking of trying to get married sooner rather than later, maybe January, but it depends on how booked up things are (We're hoping that things don't get too booked up in Jan - this may be wildly optimistic)
Graf
- Mon Sep 6 13:55:12 2004

 Congratulations! My weekend was fairly good too. Alison got confirmation for her new, spangly, beter-paid job. So we went down to the south coast for a bit of a celebration. The beach was wonderful, we stayed in a really nice hotel, and had a great slap-up Chinese for dinner. Also, the weather was extraordinarily good, so we could cruise around with the roof off, which was also thoroughly enjoyable. On Sunday, I went flying in a tiger moth.
Jimmy
- Mon Sep 6 12:50:32 2004

 Congrat Andy! When is the big date going to be?
Rob Lang
- Mon Sep 6 11:43:14 2004

 Aaawwww, how romantic! I hope there was low lights and soft music. Congratulations.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 6 11:34:28 2004

 Though I don't personally know you CONGRATS ANDY!!
Lox
- Mon Sep 6 11:32:02 2004

 Welldone!!! Dates for the dairy? (Clearly, my typing fingers are wondering about cheese for lunch...)
tom
- Mon Sep 6 11:16:22 2004

 Incidentally, have you seen the otherwise dreary romantic comedy "The Bachelor"? The proposal scene in that is nothing short of a blueprint for how everyone should do it... I believe the line was "shit or get off the pot". Beautiful.
John
- Mon Sep 6 10:58:41 2004

 Congratulations Andy!
John
- Mon Sep 6 10:54:12 2004

 This isn't strictly a "what I did at the weekend" post, but I'd like to announce on this here board that Hester and I are engaged. I proposed to her on Wednesday, which was our 4th anniversary of "going out".
Graf
- Mon Sep 6 10:23:42 2004

 On the other side on Saturday I was in Florence having a great time with all my friends, and ate a huge pizza in a new restaurant in Florence... TOP SCRAM!
Lox
- Mon Sep 6 09:48:18 2004

 I spent 3 hours in IKEA trying to convince Marta that buying a wardrobe cannot take that long, after succeeding we found out that the car was to small to carry it and eventually returned the bleeding piece of wood! Wonderful!
Lox
- Mon Sep 6 09:47:18 2004

 Did everyone have a really splendid weekend. I did absolutely nothing but sit in the garden. Wonderful.
Mad Mumsie
- Mon Sep 6 09:23:20 2004

 (how dull - yawn)
tom
- Fri Sep 3 18:27:05 2004

 John, Kev, I have a question for one of you to put to Jason (the ultimate cable-guy). We're looking for dvi-i connectors, so we can make our own dvi-i -to- analogue splitters. You can buy adapters, but it seems that actual dvi-i connectors themselves are not for sale anywhere in the world(!). Can you please see if Jason knows where to get some? Ta!
Jimmy
- Fri Sep 3 15:47:36 2004

 Correct answer John :)
Kev
- Fri Sep 3 15:24:11 2004

 John- I don't finish work 'til 6, so that could be a problem. I can try to be there for 7, though. Do we still have the (many)Carsons?
Jimmy
- Fri Sep 3 15:15:20 2004

 Turin Brakes Kev! I think the song is called "Future Boy".
John
- Fri Sep 3 14:57:34 2004

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index_5.shtml?big_thinker
tom
- Fri Sep 3 14:52:51 2004

 ok try this one... I’ve got a sister with an open mind and my friends are all junkies But they’re still my friends...
Kev
pangbourne - Fri Sep 3 14:52:26 2004

 Antiquities Hall... as standard? I (and perhaps Kev) will be there from about 6:15 or 6:30 I would have thought...
John
- Fri Sep 3 14:47:17 2004

 I guess we're still on for tonight... Where shall we meet? And when?
Jimmy
- Fri Sep 3 14:43:50 2004

 Kev is the winner! Well done. It was Cypress indeed. Your turn...
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 14:41:29 2004

 My guess is...... Cypress Hill
Kev
Pangbourne - Fri Sep 3 14:39:53 2004

 As in, insane in the membrane....?
John
- Fri Sep 3 14:39:51 2004

 A clue: The same band that were mad in the cellular wall.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 14:32:51 2004

 You're all so close!
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 14:15:26 2004

 Val Doonican?
Jimmy
- Fri Sep 3 13:50:18 2004

 The Proclaimers?
dsp
- Fri Sep 3 13:41:24 2004

 It bears all the hallmarks of Culture Club, but I'm going to plump for Bananarama.
John
- Fri Sep 3 13:39:52 2004

 Guess the band: "Wot de fuk I'm rollin' in a Mac truck that stolin'. Guess what I'm holdin': ammo to bust to my load, still I'm easin' on down the yellow brick road!
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 13:11:29 2004

 Yea I was surprised by how factual I was with visual descriptions of things - I'd always thought I would be a bit more "out of the box". I consoled myself with the thought that I know deep down there is a degree of abstract conceptualism in "paperiness".
John
- Fri Sep 3 11:25:14 2004

 Indeed John! Another thing that I found was that they didn't show the personality test failing and where it cannot be applied. They seemed to choose the best case scenario for their test - taking the extremes. Although they showed the psychologists failure in prediction, they didn't show where the written personality test does not work at all. I would have liked to see that to give a more complete picture.

It was quite interesting when Kate was watching the bit where they were going round the supermarket and that bald chap 'Dave' was running with the trolley, Kate said "That's so you, that is".

I described the tea bag as a life of persecution as I don't drink the stuff and must get asked about 400 times a day if I want a cup.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 11:20:14 2004

 I think the only criticism I have of it is that the categories are all a bit too positive - I imagine this is done to get a more accepting response from the audience. If you tell people good things about their personality, they'll say "Yea, yea, that's exactly how I am", but then say something negative and they come back with "Well I don't think I can be pigeon holed like that". So I can't help but wonder where "party pooper", "irritating sod", "lazy good for nothing sloathful waster" and "downright git" work their way into this scheme.
John
- Fri Sep 3 10:50:12 2004

 Rob, you've got to be chuffed with your highest attribute as Strategist, although you had probably already expected I'd say that (and indeed this).
dsp
- Fri Sep 3 10:48:13 2004

 Yes indeed, it seems we are. I was right on the cusp of head/heart. Byrnie came in category x, which is perpendicular to flat result space.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 10:36:32 2004

 So actually we're in a pretty similar category then Rob - just the third bit is different (head/heart).
John
- Fri Sep 3 10:28:42 2004

 I was in a seventeenth category, which doesn't have a name.
Jimmy
- Fri Sep 3 10:23:50 2004

 We watched the program last night too, I'm a Big Thinker http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index_5.shtml?big_thinker Kate was a Mentor.
Rob Lang
- Fri Sep 3 09:51:08 2004

 Apparently I'm an innovator... http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/whatamilike/index_5.shtml?innovator
John
- Thu Sep 2 21:46:58 2004

 Whatever happened to: Andy Lehane?
tom
- Thu Sep 2 19:49:11 2004

 AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Captain Stickbeard
Doom Stick, Stickiebean - Thu Sep 2 17:33:06 2004

 Rob.. no link to the competition? (Your entry rocks - sharp jaggedy, ship sinking rocks - by the way!!)
tom
- Thu Sep 2 13:09:38 2004

 ... so will Kev be joining us then? Hooray! Also: StickBeard looks rather ace. I followed the link to the pirate ship name generator, and that was fairly spangly also. Pizza it shall be!
Jimmy
- Thu Sep 2 12:39:53 2004

 Yes well that is sort of on the cards as well.
John
- Thu Sep 2 11:47:27 2004

 A change of scene is often a good idea, even thought Pangbourne is NICE.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 2 11:26:06 2004

 Yes, well that is sort of on the cards...
John
- Thu Sep 2 10:56:45 2004

 How about a change of job, sir? Get out of that comfortable little rut you've burrowed for yourself and try somewhere new?
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 2 10:14:36 2004

 I'm having one of those "I don't want to be here" days at work. I think I really need a holiday... the sort where you end up not bothering to come back.
John
- Thu Sep 2 10:13:09 2004

 More of a swordfish then....?
John
- Thu Sep 2 09:57:10 2004

 Haw haw. A poisson distribution is a very narrow point.
Rob Lang
- Thu Sep 2 09:07:36 2004

 That should read graph there, not map. Clearly I panicked.
John
- Wed Sep 1 17:14:38 2004

 I always preferred Poisson distributions myself - presumably they look fish shaped on a map.
John
- Wed Sep 1 17:11:30 2004

 Just re-read my last post, I really do sound like I know what I'm talking about, don't I?
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 1 16:58:30 2004

 I think that would serve as a mean but really there is a non-Gaussian distribution about that mean, so I think that it would be unwise to quote the mean itself. Let's just say those are the bounds of the range and leave it at that, lest we descend into probabilistics.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 1 16:58:02 2004

 So, very approximately, around 3.5456654564456323982371239827789912873981274 then?
John
- Wed Sep 1 15:57:41 2004

 Mine's rating between 3.5456654564456323982371239827789912873981273 and 3.5456654564456323982371239827789912873981275
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 1 15:54:12 2004

 Is anyone else's afternoon as dreary as mine (just in case you need a specific measurement to compare against, I'm at 7.2 on the dreary scale).
John
- Wed Sep 1 15:52:43 2004

 Howled my ass off at the names, particularly Captain Swifty!
dsp
- Wed Sep 1 13:48:02 2004

 It's a setting for an RPG called Stickguy. It doesn't make a lot of sense on its ownbut you can get the flavour of it and impress at the graphics of it all.
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 1 13:40:06 2004

 Jimmy: news just in - Kev will be back by Friday night!
John
- Wed Sep 1 13:28:30 2004

 That looks very smart Rob, although I have to admit I'm a little confused as to what it is all about....?!
John
- Wed Sep 1 13:21:27 2004

 Last night, I finished my entry into the "Write a Stickguy setting" competition. It's all about pirates and written in a light-hearted way! http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/rob/stickpirate/
Rob Lang
- Wed Sep 1 13:08:19 2004

 I personally have no objections to the old favourite of Pizza Express...
John
- Wed Sep 1 11:21:36 2004

 Interesting... but somehow I'm starting to fancy the pizza.
Jimmy
- Wed Sep 1 09:53:49 2004

 I went to a Lebanese place in Oxford once before, and it was very nice... Can't remember which street it was on or anything, but just remember having to go up some stairs to get to it... Oh, and they said they have belly dancing some nights of the week. Hmmm....
John
- Wed Sep 1 09:23:10 2004

 Click here for Last Month's Messages.
John
- Wed Sep 1 08:59:35 2004

 (pronounced with some sort of a pirate accent, of course)
Jimmy
- Wed Sep 1 08:49:42 2004

 Hey- I managed the first post-of-the month. Ha-haarrr! In yer face!
Jimmy
- Wed Sep 1 08