[plug] [andrew at neep.com.au: [first_wednesday] September meeting: Wed Sep 3rd, 6.30pm, Moon & Sixpence]

[Kimberly Shelt]

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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:10:58 +0800
From: Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au>
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	September meeting: Wed Sep 3rd, 6.30pm, Moon & Sixpence

[in brief]  

Meeting from 6.30pm Wed 3rd Sep 2003 @ Moon & Six, Perth
All welcome, even the only vaguely technically-inclined


[in excruciating detail and with needless verbosity]

Mellow greetings all ye First-Wednesdayians.

Another low-key event is planned for this month's meeting.  We haven't
secured a speaker for September, nor for October (yet) but we do have a
proper talk lined up for us in November.  

What I thought we'd do this month is have a round table discussion*
about tools that we use in our work.  What do you use?  I've found that
some of the most useful bits of software and clever techniques are
either discovered when you're desperately searching the Web for a
solution to a critical problem, or discovered by osmosis from your
colleagues.  I have a number of friends who email me when they find out
something new that they think would interest me.  Sometimes it's
something that I've known about for years; other times it's completely
new to me and I'm very pleased to learn about it.

So I suggest everyone prints out their bookmarks file(s) and bring them
along this Wednesday, as well as your usual head full of good ideas.
You might really make someone's day with that simple script you wrote a
few years ago, your innovative use of Gaffa tape to improve a computer's
network throughput, or that obscure website you visited once that had
some useful stuff on it.  Special prizes may be awarded to the people
with the most innovative/entertaining/bedazzling things.

The usual idealogical debates (vi vs Emacs, Windows vs !Windows, etc)
will not be entertained.  Thanks.  ;)

If you are subscribed to this list but are also a member of another
organisation - PLUG, SLPWA, TRS-80 Users Anonymous or whatever - please
pass this message on.  We'll be meeting informally in the back room of
the Moon & Sixpence pub in Murray Street, Perth between 6pm and 6.30pm
this Wednesday, September 3rd 2003.  Simple directions to the venue can
be found here:

  http://www.neep.com.au/first_wednesday/

In closing I would like to thank those who have sent me suggestions for
things that they would like to see/hear/experience in future meetings.
Please, if anyone else has ideas, send them through!

Andrew.

PS. When I say "special prizes may be awarded", don't get too excited.
    Depending on your luck it could be three boxes of old computing
    magazines from my cupboard, or your choice from a collection of
    Toivo's old running shorts!


 *  Yes, I know the tables at the Moon & Six aren't round.  If you're
    the kind of person who would need to point that out to me, please
    just keep it to yourself.  =)


-- 
Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au>                   http://www.neep.com.au/

"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there?  Well I'd like to meet him.  I could do with a good laugh."
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