Looking back, I didn't put (m)any pictures of Ephesus up on my blog when we visited Turkey in 2004 on a "Geek Cruise". But that was a very timing week, with places to see, lectures to attend on Perl, PHP and MySQL, notes to write up, and a business to run from the Wifi connection in the ship's bar. ....
I find it very hard to read fine type that's all in a single paragraph, and I also find it hard to follow text when it's all capitals - so I have taken the "Small Print" of an invitation from the "World Trade Register" and reformatted ot to make it more readable ...
The signing of this document rep ....
"If it's Friday, it must be Italy". We're in the middle of four days of seeing four different new places; call it "broadening the experience" if you like. Broadening the experience is like research - you don't know what you're going to learn until you learn it, and you don't know what use (or unuse ....
Walking around yesterday, snapping pictures with lots of other folks, I found myself wondering "what can I DO with these picture?" ...
These are ones that I quite liked ...here for no other point ... please click on any of them to enlarge them in a new window if you like them.
Open Sourc ....
Python's str.format method provides functionallity to convert values into string representations - typically for output. Taking (for example) the resukt or dividing 1 by 7 - a recurring decimal - and rounding and truncating in to 2 decimal places if it's a price ...
value = 1.0 / 7.0
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Python's lists are indexed collection objects. That means that they're rather like arrays in that you look up elements by their position numbers, and the number start at a fixed point (0 in the case of Python); they're not totally like arrays in that they are not stored at unchanging sequential mem ....
Over the past few weeks, the Casey Anthony trial has been underway in Orange Counry, Florida. Casey, now aged 25, was on trial for the first degree murder of her daughter, who was 2 years old when she died 3 years ago, and for two alternative lesser charges on the death (a lesser murder charge, an ....
We've spent the day in Gibraltar - seeing the sites and scenes / doing the tourist "thing" with just a few hours to look around. Gibraltar is a bustling place, and I was surprised to hear of a population of just 31,000 - putting it a little smaller than Chippenham or Trowbridge, and slighlty large ....
Some things change ... and some things stay the same.
This is the third time I've cruised - 2000, 2004 and now 2011. I still walk around the ship, tripping over people - who seem to be 10% older, 20% smaller and 30% slower than I am. The age thing - more and more - has become a concept thing, I fe ....
Travel times and distances to and from Melksham - [link]
Weather and climate in Melksham - [link]
Pictures of Melksham and links to places around - [link]
Melksham Slide Show - [link]
Melksham Hotel -[link]
Morning Coffee, afternoon Tea - [link]
Melksham Chamber of Commerce - articles - ....