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This is in response to a post in the Lounge[^] by Paul Watson.
As I said to him earlier, I don't really go much for reading people's blogs much. This is a list of people's blogs I have gone to because of the person rather than I was taken there by some link.
First on the list, and because this is the first Blog I ever consciously went to, is Anna-Jayne Metcalf[^]
The next two on the list are also fellow CPians, both photography enthusiasts and both South African. They are Paul Watson[^] and Megan Forbes[^]
Not exactly a Blog per se, but I do visit MSDN's Channel 9[^] and in particular look out for the videos by fellow Scot Bill Hill[^]. User Interfaces are a topic that I am quite interested in. I've always felt that it is short changed in the vast majority of software development. If you watch nothing else of Bill's videos then I really recommend What were the influences in your life?[^]
Occasionally I visit Don Box's[^] blog. If you have never seen him live then I really recommend that you do. I have never seen anyone so enthusiastic about what they do. And I also saw him at TechEd 2001 in Barcelona where he just sat for an hour and a half doing a totally unprepared presentation (the original speaker was ill) and he was just enthralling the audience with "Stunt programming in C#" done with nothing more than a laptop, the .NET SDK and eMacs.
That's about it. I used to have an RSS reader, but I didn't like it [I am open to recommendations - The main thing is that it should not delete old feeds unless I tell it to. And it has to be unobtrusive when tells me that new feeds have arrived.]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
Coming soon: The Second EuroCPian Event
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Okay - This is really early, the Spring EuroCPian was just two days ago. I thought I just post this here on my member's page so that things can sit on the back burner for a little while until it is time to get busy and arrange it properly.
Anyway - Some ideas to get started:
Date... September??? October???
Location... Edinburgh (Not my suggestion BTW so don't think I put this just to make it easy on myself)??? Amsterdam??? Prague??? Brussles??? Barcelona??? Dublin???
Anyway, if you happen upon this and have more ideas before the arrangements get into full swing just post a response to this message.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Gosh! I didn't think anyone would spot that so quickly.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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--Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
When Monty Python meets Star Trek The Next Generation: WHAT is your name? Captain Jean-Luc Picard. WHAT is your quest? I seek the Holy Grail. WHAT is the average velocity of a Bird of Prey? Romulan or Klingon? I ... I don't know AAAAAHHHHH!
Enumerators in .NET: See how to customise foreach loops with C#
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
WHAT is the average velocity of a Bird of Prey?
The real question is; can it carry a coconut from Africa to England? (I resaw that movie earlier today)
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If there was a problem, Yo, I'll solve it!
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it.
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- I came here on my horse!
- No you didn't! You've got two halves o' coconut and you're bangin' 'em togevva. Where'd you get 'em from anyway?
- We found them.
- In Mercia? Coconut's tropical......
Did you know that the castle at the end of the film is actually in Scotland?
--Colin Mackay--
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What is the title of the film translated in to Swedish? I've noticed that the (full) Spanish translation reads: Continuing the Madness of Monty Python with The Knights of the Square Table and Their Crazy Followers.
--Colin Mackay--
EuroCPian Spring 2004 Get Together[^]
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I don't think the title was ever translated to Swedish. I can't recollect a Swedish title, nor can I find it on the net.
Life of Brian was translated into Ett herrans liv. I don't think I can translate it back. The closest I can translate to is An adventerous life. The Swedish meaning is quite ambigous because it's context sensitive. If you were to bang on drums in the middle of the night, a week day, in the middle of the road in a suburb, I'd say you would be making ett herrans liv. If you've been doing everything that can be done between heaven and earth, I could say you've led ett herrans liv. I guess I could come up with other situations where you could use that phrase, but with a different meaning.
I've realized that Swedish is just as f'ed up as English and German.
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Howling winds keep screaming round, and the rain comes pouring down.
Doors are locked and bolted, as the thing crawls into town.
Nightcrawler!
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"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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