Some interesting figures from a bus operator - the Go-Ahead group - telling us where their income comes from. This is NOT a company that serves Melksham (their nearest company to us is Wilts and Dorset, who operate to Devizes from Salisbury). Annual income relating to bus operations:
1.80 billion ....
There's controversy in Melksham at the moment - Wiltshire Council is proposing the transfer of sports, swimming and library, youth and other facilities from various locations dotted around the town to a new single site campus on the Devizes road, out of the town centre and next to the Melksham Oak s ....
During the Tcl course I was running earlier this week, we got involved in a number of interesting topics such as
• How to clean up input lines into lists of fields (use split)
• How to reformat awkward fields (use regexp and regsub)
• How to combine files that vary in format from year ....
I gave a flippant answer to a question Lisa asked me earlier - "when did the 1891 census take place" and I answered 1891. ;-). Of course, she was looking for the date within the year. That wasn't as easy to find as you might expect - so here's a full list:
1801 - 10th March
1811 - 27th May
1821 ....
What do http://www.popjustice.com/, http://www.alienexperience.com/, http://bbs.freetalklive.com/, http://forum.virtuemart.net/ and http://www.btiteam.org/ have in common? Need a further clue - the things that's in common is not shared by http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/. Still not got it ;-) ?? ....
In Tcl, every statement is a command - with the parameters separated by spaces. Elements which are written in square brackets are commands which are evaluated before the rest of the statement, and elements which are written in curly braces are deferred - held back - and are only evaluated (if at a ....
Yesterday, I received an invite to a community meeting that takes place next Monday morning at 10:30; the meeting is for people aged over 55 - that's retired people, and also men who are still working (but into their last 10 years), and women who are into their final stretch too. It's a consultat ....
I was struck by the contrast in a picture I took at Melksham station in the summer of 2005, and one taken 5 and a half years later from a simialar viewpoint.
In the summer of 2005, the train ran behind the derelict warehouses that used to be home to Spencer's / GEC Mechnical Handling. Apart from t ....
Twitter has become a useful flow of updating information - an alternative headline source from an RSS feed. How do you incorporate such a flow into your web site?
There are Javascript widgets which you can incorporate into your page, available from twitter (so much less prone to spec change than a ....
From Melksham, via Devizes, Wootton Bassett, Cirencester and Gloucester to Hereford. Back via Monmouth, Tintern, the old Severn Bridge, the M4 and Box ....