perlmonger
- 36 years on from this essay on cars in society by André Gorz, and it's if anything *more* pertinent: about 7 hours ago from Echofon
- RT: @: Foreign newspapers consider blocking UK access because of libel laws: don't blame them 5:33 AM Nov 9th from Echofon
- wondering how many "outraged" people have thrown the cost of one call at the production company, let alone dozens :) 1:14 PM Nov 8th from Echofon
- Heh. That's (again) what you get engineering a prog for max phone-in income, pretending the result has anything to do with singing 1:06 PM Nov 8th from Echofon
- Hope that's true: I got taken up there by my parents when I was Very Small; I remember more about the lifts than the revolving top :)9:17 AM Nov 7th from Echofon
- RT: @: Mark Gatiss informs me that the revolving restaurant in the Post Office Tower is about to reopen. London will swing again9:16 AM Nov 7th from Echofon
- …before going back to being a soft Northern jessie in the interminable flatness of 6:39 AM Nov 7th from Echofon
- cycled up Ashley Hill, past the top of St Andrew's Park, down Glos Rd, and up Zetland Rd/South Rd for what may be the last time ever…6:38 AM Nov 7th from Echofon
- @ of course, lynching saves an awful lot of trouble and public expense. 1:36 AM Nov 5th from Echofon in reply to dnotice
- @ looks a bit funny, therefore suspicious, therefore arrested, therefore guilty and convicted; therefore publicly executed. 1:35 AM Nov 5th from Echofon in reply to dnotice
- @ aargh! where to start? :) not something that'll fit into a tweet, for sure; Google "semantic markup" or try eg 8:08 AM Nov 4th from Echofon in reply to JeanAnnVK
- @ proper semantic markup (ie. structure of content matches the content itself), so screenreaders can make sensible decisions.7:12 AM Nov 4th from Echofon in reply to JeanAnnVK
- @ /me cries7:06 AM Nov 4th from Echofon in reply to Codepope
- @ it's a status return, wanted to hang details off the value; "if (ok==false) f(ok.detail)" AOT "if (!ok) f(ok.detail)" is ugly.5:04 AM Nov 4th from Echofon in reply to davemjohnson
- language design FAIL if you can't write "if (Boolean_object) {}" and have it work as you'd expect.3:33 AM Nov 4th from Echofon
- Never had reason to use Javascript Boolean objects before; turns out they always evaluate to true (need valueOf() method to get a false out)3:32 AM Nov 4th from Echofon
- @ it's not good enough; I expect better aim next time an opportunity arises.2:09 AM Nov 4th from Echofon in reply to dhmorton
- RT: @: Sting plays Tashkent for Islam Karimov’s daughter... [I think "utter shit" sums him up pretty well]1:58 AM Nov 4th from Echofon
- @ considering the Mail's affiliations 70-odd years ago, falling foul of Godwin in the main article is a mite foolish1:56 AM Nov 3rd from Echofon in reply to dnotice
- Happy Birthday to @, my best friend, partner in life and work, and fellow catslave11:31 PM Nov 2nd from Echofon
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- Name Pete Jordan
- Location Long Ashton, Bristol, England
- Web http://perlmonger...
- Bio own teeth and state machine; domestic extremist
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