A couple of unrelated questions

steve-pmbelfast at blackstar.co.uk steve-pmbelfast at blackstar.co.uk
Thu May 31 09:08:07 CDT 2001


lo all

I've got a couple of questions buzzing around my head so I thought
I'd ask around and see what comes up.

First the non-perl question...

  Does anyone know of any good reasonably cheap digital camera that 
  will happily connect to a mac? I'm thinking of getting one for
  someone's birthday...

Secondly the probably silly perl question

  Does anyone know of a semi-decent random name generator written in
  perl? I need to generate a whole bunch of random names and I'd like
  them to be reasonably sensible. I know I could just use gibberish
  but I'd prefer a decent solution. 

  I may just resort to providing a whole bunch of forenames and surnames
  and then getting a script to randomly group them together, but I'd
  like to gradually expand this to create a name that seems reasonably
  sensible for a given country.

  I have the feeling that I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and
  write this all myself with appropriate forenames and surnames for
  each country but I'm feeling lazy, which is a virtue!

So any ideas? Or thoughts?

And before Marc shows off his camera, I know you got it cheap, and yes
I'm annoyed I didn't get one now!

Steve




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