Perl allows pretty much any value to be evaluated in a boolean context: if ($something) { … } No matter what $something is, it will safely evaluate to either true or false. (With the exceptions of a few edge cases… […]
Recipe for a fun afternoon
Ingredients
400 g milk chocolate
1 punnet of raspberries
1 tin of mandarin segments, drained
1 packet of sponge fingers
1 packet of marshmallows
1 DVD of Frozen
5 five-year-old girls
1 three-year-old boy
Equipment
Chocolate fondue maker
TV
DVD player
Frozen karaoke tracks
Method
Stir for three and a half hours.
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Woolly & Tig “Going to School”
Oh man, I can’t believe I missed the latest Woolly & Tig special. It was apparently broadcast the same day we went off on holiday.
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Another Film-related Post
What film am I thinking of?
Two sisters who grew up in isolation from each other. One of them cute and warm-hearted. The other dresses in blue a lot, has white hair, is kinda magic, and is… shall we say… a little frosty. An unusual winter threatens the land. In trying to stop it from destroying […] […]
MP3+G to MP4
Let’s convert an MP3 file with accompanying CDG to an MP4 video. […]
Planet Moose – May 2014
Welcome to Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose in the past month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the #moose IRC channel,… […]
Postman Pat: The Movie
Went to see Postman Pat: The Movie today. While most of the action revolves around Postman Pat, his family, and various new characters introduced in the film, I was glad to see that all the old favourites were in there. I noted:
Mrs Goggins (but no Bonnie?!?!);
Alf, Dorothy & Bill Thompson;
Ted Glenn, who always seemed to […] […]
Enumerations in Moose
It’s quite a common pattern in object-oriented programming to have an attribute which takes a string as its value, but which only has a small number of valid values. For example: package Shirt; use Moose; # “S”, “M”, “L”,… […]
Anna Acton in Eastenders
I’ve been missing Topsy & Tim, which left off on a bit of a cliffhanger. But clearly their mum has important work to do supporting Ian Beale:
… so I’ll need to be patient.
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Planet Moose – April 2014
Welcome to Planet Moose, a brief write up on what’s been happening in the world of Moose in the past month, for the benefit of those of you who don’t have their eyes permanently glued to the #moose IRC… […]