Q What cost me 28p in 2004, but will have gone up to 60p by the end of April [2012]?
A The cost of sending a first class letter within the UK.
Q What cost me around 78p in 2004, but is now priced at 145p?
A A litre of petrol
Q What was usually free in 2004, but now incurs a monthly charge and / or ....
You will have seen the longest gap so far - I think - in this blog over this week. That's not lack of interest, but rather a lack of time and energy after everything else.
On Monday, as a member of the Melksham SCOB (see http://www.melkshamcampus-scob.org.uk/) I went to Chippenham's Riverside Cen ....
Should I go "object oriented" with my code, or use functional coding? That's a big question, and the answer depends on the application you'll be writing, the language you'll be writing it in, the programmers concerned, the expected life cycle of the application, and whether you'll be able to reuse ....
Melksham's no tiny village - it's the fourth largest town in the Wilsthire unitary area after Salisbury, Trowbridge and Chippenham - and yet it has a lousy train service with just two trains each way a day, at times which are next to useless for business visitors to the town, or for people to commut ....
* Future of rail services in Wiltshire until 2026 (upcoming franchise) - currently under consultation. See http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/dft-2011-36/.
* Currently 2 trains a day each way, Swindon <-> Salisbury via Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Dilton Marsh and Warminster. Po ....
We get a lot of traffic on our web site, but where does it come from? Our raw log files tell us a great deal, but there is just so much data there it's very hard to manage, so we're using Google Analytics as well. I'm delighted to read reports of xxx visitors from Sweden, yyy from Romania and zzz ....
If you want to iterate through a list in reverse order, you can do so by stepping over (iterating through) the indexes of the list in reverse order. So in Python, for example, you would use range (or xrange for a potentially long list) with an increment of -1, giving the final index number as the s ....
What's there to see? Something new over there?
The new concourse at King's Cross opened on Monday ... and a spare hour as I'm passing through has allowed me to look around, take pictures, and recharge my batteries. And to share my pictures.
The biggest pleasure? Seeing happy, smiling, chatti ....
View from the walk between my hotel and my place of work in Cambridge this week. It's all modern, and we have some scenes here from which we can learn for Melksham. I note especially the current question concerning artwork and other associated development alongside housing - community elements - ....