From stevengoodwin at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 12:01:13 2008 From: stevengoodwin at gmail.com (Steven Goodwin) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:01:13 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ Message-ID: So, as an idea, is anyone interesting in extending their stay in Brussels, to include a few days before or after the conference? This would give us time to see Brussels during the daylight, drink more varieties of beer, visit the museums of chocolate/beer/comics/music/etc, and take a day trip out on the train. I might be able to organise a private tour of the computer museum in the Unisys building, also. I'd suggest the week leading up the conference, since everything is closed on Monday, making it useful only for travelling and drinking. Any takers? Steev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081201/8f1efe8e/attachment.htm From ampers at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 12:13:12 2008 From: ampers at gmail.com (Andrew Taylor) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:13:12 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1228133592.6899.15.camel@ampers-desktop> My favourite bar in Brussels has over 2,000 beers from all over the world, and over 500 Genevers to drink. Very long opening hours, and run by the Flems, unlike the majority of places which are run by the Walloons. http://www.deliriumcafe.be/ At the bottom of the page is a Union Jack, if you click on that you will get the English version. ? Andrew "Ampers" Taylor ?Blog, ?Website, Photographs, Humour -----Original Message----- From: Steven Goodwin Reply-to: Social events/announcements To: social at gllug.org.uk Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:01:13 +0000 So, as an idea, is anyone interesting in extending their stay in Brussels, to include a few days before or after the conference? This would give us time to see Brussels during the daylight, drink more varieties of beer, visit the museums of chocolate/beer/comics/music/etc, and take a day trip out on the train. I might be able to organise a private tour of the computer museum in the Unisys building, also. I'd suggest the week leading up the conference, since everything is closed on Monday, making it useful only for travelling and drinking. Any takers? Steev _______________________________________________ Social mailing list Social at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081201/84760179/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081201/84760179/attachment.pgp From sanelson at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 12:26:40 2008 From: sanelson at gmail.com (Stephen Nelson-Smith) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:26:40 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: <1228133592.6899.15.camel@ampers-desktop> References: <1228133592.6899.15.camel@ampers-desktop> Message-ID: Hi, > http://www.deliriumcafe.be/ The first evening social is usually held there. S. From david at davidpashley.com Mon Dec 1 12:36:57 2008 From: david at davidpashley.com (David Pashley) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:36:57 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: References: <1228133592.6899.15.camel@ampers-desktop> Message-ID: <20081201123657.GR11044@femme.catnip.org.uk> On Dec 01, 2008 at 12:26, Stephen Nelson-Smith praised the llamas by saying: > Hi, > > > http://www.deliriumcafe.be/ > > The first evening social is usually held there. > "Usually" is a little strong. In the past it's been in the Le Roy d'Espagne, but we've outgrown it, so last year was in the Delirium Cafe > S. > _______________________________________________ > Social mailing list > Social at gllug.org.uk > http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social -- David Pashley david at davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. From stevengoodwin at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 12:40:55 2008 From: stevengoodwin at gmail.com (Steven Goodwin) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:40:55 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: <20081201123657.GR11044@femme.catnip.org.uk> References: <1228133592.6899.15.camel@ampers-desktop> <20081201123657.GR11044@femme.catnip.org.uk> Message-ID: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:36 PM, David Pashley wrote: > On Dec 01, 2008 at 12:26, Stephen Nelson-Smith praised the llamas by > saying: > > Hi, > > > > > http://www.deliriumcafe.be/ > > > > The first evening social is usually held there. > > > "Usually" is a little strong. In the past it's been in the Le Roy > d'Espagne, but we've outgrown it, so last year was in the Delirium Cafe > Indeed. Although I've sometimes led an expedition there in the past when Le Roy was full... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081201/da476077/attachment.htm From social at eco.li Mon Dec 1 16:25:18 2008 From: social at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:25:18 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20081201162518.GR8436@hades.eco.li> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:01:13PM +0000, Steven Goodwin wrote: > So, as an idea, is anyone interesting in extending their stay in Brussels, > to include a few days before or after the conference? > > Any takers? Bah. You say this *now*, after I've booked tickets. Anyhow, I'm arriving Friday evening, around 5.45, and leaving Monday around 2pm-ish. My plan for Friday is to check in to the hotel, have dinner, then head to the pub for BOOZE. Which, hopefully, means I'll manage to get to the pub before it fills up too much. Does anyone have recommendations for hotels around the centre? (Or where are other people staying?) Dan -- You have the body of a 19 year old. Please return it before it gets wrinkled. From rhowe at siksai.co.uk Mon Dec 1 16:33:29 2008 From: rhowe at siksai.co.uk (Russell Howe) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:33:29 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: <20081201162518.GR8436@hades.eco.li> References: <20081201162518.GR8436@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: <493411D9.4020109@siksai.co.uk> Dan Kolb wrote, sometime around 01/12/08 16:25: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:01:13PM +0000, Steven Goodwin wrote: >> So, as an idea, is anyone interesting in extending their stay in Brussels, >> to include a few days before or after the conference? >> >> Any takers? > > Bah. You say this *now*, after I've booked tickets. Anyhow, I'm arriving Friday > evening, around 5.45, and leaving Monday around 2pm-ish. Got my tickets already - arriving sometime Friday evening, leaving last train on Sunday night (gets to London at 10ish?) > My plan for Friday is to check in to the hotel, have dinner, then head to the > pub for BOOZE. Which, hopefully, means I'll manage to get to the pub before it > fills up too much. > > Does anyone have recommendations for hotels around the centre? (Or where are > other people staying?) Last year I used lastminute.com's "Secret hotel" thingie, which was quite good. We stayed at the Four Points by Sheraton - it was alright. Room only, but there was a coffee shop just around the corner which did a decent light breakfast. -- Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk From kake at earth.li Mon Dec 1 14:57:40 2008 From: kake at earth.li (Kake L Pugh) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:57:40 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec Message-ID: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> Hello! The December social of the London Perlmongers is this Thursday, 4th December. We're going back to the Bridge House, which is the Adnams place at the south end of Tower Bridge. We have the upstairs function room booked from 6:30pm. It's a short walk from both London Bridge and Tower Hill stations. People who prefer buses have the choice of the RV1, 42, 47, 78, 188, 343, or 381. Maps, more info, etc: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Bridge_House,_SE1_2UP The pub has a full range of well-kept Adnams beers, Aspall cider, and good food. The upstairs bar will be staffed for us. Standard blurb: Social meets are a chance for the various members of the group to meet up face to face and chat with each other about things - both Perl and non-Perl - and newcomers are more than welcome. The monthly meets tend to be bigger than the other ad hoc meetings that take place at other times, and we make sure that they're in easy to get to locations and the pub serves food (meaning that people can eat in the bar if they want to). They normally start around 6.30pm (or whenever people get there after work) and a group tends to be left come closing time. If you're a newcomer or other first timer (even if you've been lurking on the mailing list or on IRC) then please seek Leon out - we have a tradition that the leader of this motley crew buys the new people a drink (orange or not, either's fine) and introduces them to people. From ampers at gmail.com Wed Dec 3 12:20:04 2008 From: ampers at gmail.com (Andrew Taylor) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:20:04 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec In-Reply-To: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> References: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> Message-ID: <1228306804.8604.25.camel@ampers-desktop> Was it just me? This message took 46 hours to get to me? It was posted at 14:57 GMT on Monday and I received it just befor noon today. ? Andrew "Ampers" Taylor ?Blog, ?Website, Photographs, Humour -----Original Message----- From: Kake L Pugh Reply-to: london.pm at london.pm.org, Social events/announcements To: london.pm-announce at london.pm.org Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:57:40 +0000 Hello! The December social of the London Perlmongers is this Thursday, 4th December. We're going back to the Bridge House, which is the Adnams place at the south end of Tower Bridge. We have the upstairs function room booked from 6:30pm. It's a short walk from both London Bridge and Tower Hill stations. People who prefer buses have the choice of the RV1, 42, 47, 78, 188, 343, or 381. Maps, more info, etc: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Bridge_House,_SE1_2UP The pub has a full range of well-kept Adnams beers, Aspall cider, and good food. The upstairs bar will be staffed for us. Standard blurb: Social meets are a chance for the various members of the group to meet up face to face and chat with each other about things - both Perl and non-Perl - and newcomers are more than welcome. The monthly meets tend to be bigger than the other ad hoc meetings that take place at other times, and we make sure that they're in easy to get to locations and the pub serves food (meaning that people can eat in the bar if they want to). They normally start around 6.30pm (or whenever people get there after work) and a group tends to be left come closing time. If you're a newcomer or other first timer (even if you've been lurking on the mailing list or on IRC) then please seek Leon out - we have a tradition that the leader of this motley crew buys the new people a drink (orange or not, either's fine) and introduces them to people. _______________________________________________ Social mailing list Social at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081203/87426e06/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/social/attachments/20081203/87426e06/attachment.pgp From social at eco.li Wed Dec 3 12:54:45 2008 From: social at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:54:45 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec In-Reply-To: <1228306804.8604.25.camel@ampers-desktop> References: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> <1228306804.8604.25.camel@ampers-desktop> Message-ID: <20081203125444.GW8436@hades.eco.li> Nay - Mailman keeps holding these messages in a moderation queue because "Message has implicit destination". And I can't find any way of actually whitelisting this so it gets through automatically. As it stands, it has to be approved by a moderator. Dan On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:20:04PM +0000, Andrew Taylor wrote: > Was it just me? This message took 46 hours to get to me? It was posted > at 14:57 GMT on Monday and I received it just befor noon today. > ??? > Andrew "Ampers" Taylor > ???Blog, ???Website, Photographs, Humour > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kake L Pugh > Reply-to: london.pm at london.pm.org, Social events/announcements > > To: london.pm-announce at london.pm.org > Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - > Thurs 4 Dec > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:57:40 +0000 > > > Hello! The December social of the London Perlmongers is this Thursday, > 4th December. We're going back to the Bridge House, which is the > Adnams place at the south end of Tower Bridge. We have the upstairs > function room booked from 6:30pm. > > It's a short walk from both London Bridge and Tower Hill stations. People > who prefer buses have the choice of the RV1, 42, 47, 78, 188, 343, or 381. > > Maps, more info, etc: > http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Bridge_House,_SE1_2UP > > The pub has a full range of well-kept Adnams beers, Aspall cider, and > good food. The upstairs bar will be staffed for us. > > Standard blurb: > > Social meets are a chance for the various members of the group to meet > up face to face and chat with each other about things - both Perl and > non-Perl - and newcomers are more than welcome. The monthly meets tend to > be bigger than the other ad hoc meetings that take place at other times, > and we make sure that they're in easy to get to locations and the pub > serves food (meaning that people can eat in the bar if they want to). > They normally start around 6.30pm (or whenever people get there after > work) and a group tends to be left come closing time. > > If you're a newcomer or other first timer (even if you've been lurking > on the mailing list or on IRC) then please seek Leon out - we have a > tradition that the leader of this motley crew buys the new people a > drink (orange or not, either's fine) and introduces them to people. > _______________________________________________ > Social mailing list > Social at gllug.org.uk > http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social > _______________________________________________ > Social mailing list > Social at gllug.org.uk > http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/social -- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov From lists at frasco.org.uk Wed Dec 3 14:24:21 2008 From: lists at frasco.org.uk (Frank Scott) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:24:21 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec In-Reply-To: <20081203125444.GW8436@hades.eco.li> References: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> <1228306804.8604.25.camel@ampers-desktop> <20081203125444.GW8436@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: <20081203142420.GA26489@frasco.org.uk> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:54:45PM +0000, Dan Kolb wrote: > Nay - Mailman keeps holding these messages in a moderation queue because > "Message has implicit destination". And I can't find any way of actually > whitelisting this so it gets through automatically. As it stands, it has to be > approved by a moderator. > > Dan > I normally sweep the GLLUG lists for spam and orphaned posts once a morning so there will be a delay of up tp 24 hours for accepted messages. My internet connection was down yesterday which accounts for the extra delay. Frank -- .^. .''`. /V\ : ;` : Frank Scott Sutton, London /( )\ `. ''` ^^ ^^ `- From ampers at gmail.com Wed Dec 3 14:28:04 2008 From: ampers at gmail.com (Andrew Taylor) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:28:04 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec In-Reply-To: <20081203142420.GA26489@frasco.org.uk> References: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> <1228306804.8604.25.camel@ampers-desktop> <20081203125444.GW8436@hades.eco.li> <20081203142420.GA26489@frasco.org.uk> Message-ID: <1228314484.8604.38.camel@ampers-desktop> You can't do that very often then :-) I only get one email in about 200 with such bad timings ? Andrew "Ampers" Taylor ?Blog, ?Website, Photographs, Humour -----Original Message----- From: Frank Scott Reply-to: Social events/announcements To: Social events/announcements Subject: Re: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:24:21 +0000 On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:54:45PM +0000, Dan Kolb wrote: > Nay - Mailman keeps holding these messages in a moderation queue because > "Message has implicit destination". And I can't find any way of actually > whitelisting this so it gets through automatically. As it stands, it has to be > approved by a moderator. > > Dan > I normally sweep the GLLUG lists for spam and orphaned posts once a morning so there will be a delay of up tp 24 hours for accepted messages. My internet connection was down yesterday which accounts for the extra delay. Frank -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I suspect it has somethig to do with moderation on the various lists. -- Paul Johnson - paul at pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net From jns at integration-house.com Thu Dec 4 20:11:47 2008 From: jns at integration-house.com (Jonathan Stowe) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:11:47 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] [ANNOUNCE] December social - Bridge House, SE1 - Thurs 4 Dec In-Reply-To: <20081204174426.GF6965@pjcj.net> References: <20081201145740.GA6380@the.earth.li> <1228306804.8604.25.camel@ampers-desktop> <20081204174426.GF6965@pjcj.net> Message-ID: <1228421508.6811.33.camel@coriolanus> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 18:44 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:20:04PM +0000, Andrew Taylor wrote: > > Was it just me? This message took 46 hours to get to me? It was posted > > at 14:57 GMT on Monday and I received it just befor noon today. > > Yes. (Based on a sample size of two.) > > I suspect it has somethig to do with moderation on the various lists. > Yes, surprisingly some of the moderators actually have work to do. /J\ From social at eco.li Thu Dec 18 15:14:36 2008 From: social at eco.li (Dan Kolb) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:14:36 +0000 Subject: [Gllug-Social] FOSDEM 2009++ In-Reply-To: <20081201162518.GR8436@hades.eco.li> References: <20081201162518.GR8436@hades.eco.li> Message-ID: <20081218151435.GM8436@hades.eco.li> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:25:18PM +0000, Dan Kolb wrote: > Does anyone have recommendations for hotels around the centre? (Or where are > other people staying?) Well, I'm staying in the Novotel Brussels Centre Tour Noire. Where are other people staying this year? Dan -- Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.