Extra trains are running on the TransWilts line early on Sunday mornings in July and August, and on certain dates other activities are being arranged in conjunction with them allowing for the following days out ...
Sundays 3rd July and 17th July to 28th August 2011
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I've heard it said that chefs are a miserable bunch. And that it's understandable. After all, the go to a great deal of trouble to create a work of art, and just a few minutes later it's been destroyed. Reflecting on that, though, I'm not sure that I agree.
This week, Rachel's been on holiday an ....
It took me about 20 lines of code - just over 300 bytes - to come up with a Perl program which looks in the current directory and everywhere below for all files over a certain size. Have a look at the code [here] (opens in a new window).
Even on such a short piece of code, written in front of del ....
The Olympic Torch is being carried by 8000 people ... and without any particular one of them, it wouldn't reach its destination. If you look amongst the 8000, I'm sure you'll find some people who wouldn't get on with all 7999 of the others, but it's a team effort.
Yesterday afternoon, Wiltshire Co ....
What a wet Sunday ... and what a busy weekend too. Gypsy and I went out for a walk in the field in a brief respite between rail projects, answering emails, and investing in training up new 'occsaional' staff so that Well House Manor is even more robust. We came back soaked, the both of ....
I walked into Melksham this morning ... to visit five shops / services.
The first had closed down during the week I was away, from their already reduced hours. A sign on the door saying that it had closed thought lack of support from Melksham people, but that their Calne place is thriving.
In the ....
How much has Perl code mover forward over the years? A lot, and not a lot. To some extend, programming languages are the eye of the storm of technology - and that's because people who invest in code want it to be good for many years, so the same tools are used for several generations of products, ....
"How do I find the 100th line in a file" - a common question for newcomers to coding. The short answer is to open the file, and loop through to read lines until the one that you want. Although most languages have a seek command or function, that works by bytes and with a typical text / ascii fi ....
Six beds (and seven bedrooms) in six nights ... this is one heck of a week if you wondered why my blog has dropped to a trickle. Sunday night at home, Monday in Cheltenham where (for the first time in my life) I complained at checkin ("oh yeah - it might smell - they've been working on the drains"), ....