From tom at eborcom.com Tue Aug 7 08:50:11 2007 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:50:11 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's Message-ID: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> Kake just mentioned that Wetherspoon's offer free Wi-Fi with drinks: http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/magazine/viewarticle.php?ID=23 You need to buy a drink, and the connection only lasts for 30 minutes, but I thought I should mention it. Conveniently, we next meet at Wetherspoon's on Tuesday 21st August, not Tuesday 28th due to YAPC::Europe. This means you can spew bile at the bar staff for having a PHP Web site a full 7 days earlier than scheduled. Tom From I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk Tue Aug 7 09:04:38 2007 From: I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk (Ian Cameron) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:04:38 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <200708071604.RAA21733@damson.open.ac.uk> Tom Hukins said: > Kake just mentioned that Wetherspoon's offer free Wi-Fi with drinks: > http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/magazine/viewarticle.php?ID=23 > > You need to buy a drink, and the connection only lasts for 30 minutes, > but I thought I should mention it. Excellent! Do you mind if I forward this to the MKLUG list Tom? That's not too bad really, half an hour per pint is reasonable I think. I wonder what the expiry policy is? I think I'm due a session on the 18th of August over at the MK one, so I could stock up on vouchers :) -- Cheers, Ian. From peter at dragonstaff.com Tue Aug 7 09:09:10 2007 From: peter at dragonstaff.com (Peter Edwards) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:09:10 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: <200708071604.RAA21733@damson.open.ac.uk> References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> <200708071604.RAA21733@damson.open.ac.uk> Message-ID: <000601c7d90d$5ec6fd50$0301a8c0@DRAGON1> This may lead to the dreaded "left laptop in bar" syndrome ... ;-o -----Original Message----- From: miltonkeynes-pm-bounces+peter=dragonstaff.com at pm.org [mailto:miltonkeynes-pm-bounces+peter=dragonstaff.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Ian Cameron Sent: 07 August 2007 17:05 To: Tom Hukins Subject: Re: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's Tom Hukins said: > Kake just mentioned that Wetherspoon's offer free Wi-Fi with drinks: > http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/magazine/viewarticle.php?ID=23 > > You need to buy a drink, and the connection only lasts for 30 minutes, > but I thought I should mention it. Excellent! Do you mind if I forward this to the MKLUG list Tom? That's not too bad really, half an hour per pint is reasonable I think. I wonder what the expiry policy is? I think I'm due a session on the 18th of August over at the MK one, so I could stock up on vouchers :) -- Cheers, Ian. From tom at eborcom.com Tue Aug 7 09:14:16 2007 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:14:16 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20070807161416.GA7787@eborcom.com> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:04:38PM +0100, Ian Cameron wrote: > Excellent! Do you mind if I forward this to the MKLUG list Tom? Go for it. Kake mentioned it on Birmingham.pm so I thought I'd pass the word on. > I wonder what the expiry policy is? I got the impression it's from 30 minutes of buying the drink, but it's not totally clear. Tom From michael at galton.ucl.ac.uk Tue Aug 7 09:15:54 2007 From: michael at galton.ucl.ac.uk (michael) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:15:54 +0100 (BST) Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: <000601c7d90d$5ec6fd50$0301a8c0@DRAGON1> References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> <200708071604.RAA21733@damson.open.ac.uk> <000601c7d90d$5ec6fd50$0301a8c0@DRAGON1> Message-ID: <20070807171351.M60105@diamond.gene.ucl.ac.uk> And evermore eccentrically written code as the everning wears on X-) On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Peter Edwards wrote: > This may lead to the dreaded "left laptop in bar" syndrome ... ;-o > From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Tue Aug 7 09:18:42 2007 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:18:42 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: <000601c7d90d$5ec6fd50$0301a8c0@DRAGON1> References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> <200708071604.RAA21733@damson.open.ac.uk> <000601c7d90d$5ec6fd50$0301a8c0@DRAGON1> Message-ID: <46B89B62.3040301@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Peter Edwards wrote: > This may lead to the dreaded "left laptop in bar" syndrome ... ;-o It would be amusing to invite a member of the 'intelligence' services along - they're famed for leaving them in taxis... Gavin (sent from correct email address this time!) From I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk Tue Aug 7 09:24:14 2007 From: I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk (Ian Cameron) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:24:14 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: <20070807161416.GA7787@eborcom.com> References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> <20070807161416.GA7787@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <200708071624.RAA21821@damson.open.ac.uk> Tom Hukins said: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:04:38PM +0100, Ian Cameron wrote: > > Excellent! Do you mind if I forward this to the MKLUG list Tom? > > Go for it. Kake mentioned it on Birmingham.pm so I thought I'd pass > the word on. Thanks, it has been done. > > I wonder what the expiry policy is? > > I got the impression it's from 30 minutes of buying the drink, but > it's not totally clear. Hmm, well unusually for me, I have my laptop here at work with me today, so a stop in JDW on the way home might be in order... -- Cheers, Ian. From I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk Tue Aug 7 09:26:50 2007 From: I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk (Ian Cameron) Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:26:50 +0100 Subject: Free Wi-Fi in Wetherspoon's In-Reply-To: <46B89B62.3040301@gavinwestwood.co.uk> References: <20070807155011.GB7574@eborcom.com> <200708071604.RAA21733@damson.open.ac.uk> <000601c7d90d$5ec6fd50$0301a8c0@DRAGON1> <46B89B62.3040301@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Message-ID: Gavin Westwood said: > It would be amusing to invite a member of the 'intelligence' services > along - they're famed for leaving them in taxis... He he, that crossed my mind too, funnily enough :) -- Cheers, Ian. From tom at eborcom.com Tue Aug 14 14:30:44 2007 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:30:44 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 21st August 2007 Message-ID: <20070814213043.GA91928@eborcom.com> So, I'm sat lazily in my armchair drinking tea, enjoying the novelty of using my household electricty supply as an Internet connection. And it's about time for another announcement: Milton Keynes Linux User Group and Perl Mongers will meet this time next week on Tuesday 21st August. In recent months our numbers have increased steadily, but I can just about remember everyone's name. As usual, we'll meet in Wetherspoon's near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome). I'll show up around 8pm, but feel free to arrive whenever suits you: http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes If you've not been along before and you would like my mobile number to help find us please ask off list. Don't worry how much you know about Perl or Linux: the conversation meanders between various things related to open source, computers, beer, stuff, things and trying to guess where we recognise each other from. See you soon, Tom