london.pm xmas xword

Aaron Trevena aaron.trevena at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 12:49:05 GMT 2010


Still a couple more days more to do the crossword. I will post the
answers monday. You dont have to finish it to win. Happy new year.

On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:
> As requested some examples and how they work. 1)
> alt.binaries.northpole.help 3 letters. Elf. Play on usenet, linux
> executable format, helps santa at north pole. 2) sigma(err) if (tz eq
> Gmt - 12) . Summer. Sum er which is when xmas is down under. 3)
> s/em-($hyphen)/$1er/
>  Answer dasher. The reindeer. Sorry my phone has made it a bit hard to
> read.
>
> On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok. Some worked examples to follow this evening
>>
>> On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok. Will try and post some worked examples this evening. Thought a
>>> couple up. Hopefully enough to show how (little) my mind works.
>>>
>>> On 12/31/09, Richard Foley <Richard.Foley at rfi.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Aaron,
>>>>
>>>> How's about hosting a partially started crossword, with say four
>>>> representative answers filled in correctly, such that people get the
>>>> kind
>>>> of
>>>> thinking behind your clues.  I know the Araucuria and Custos crosswords
>>>> from
>>>> the Guardian (showing my age here) had particular styles which took a
>>>> little
>>>> getting used to.  Consequently one recognised the style and (hopefully)
>>>> enjoyed getting into the particular mind set to solve the puzzle.  Just
>>>> a
>>>> thought.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Richard Foley
>>>> Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen
>>>>
>>>> http://www.rfi.net/
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 31 December 2009 13:02:16 Aaron Trevena wrote:
>>>>> You only need to know what it stands for. As I keep on saying its not
>>>>> very clever. Mostly bad puns and silly geeky word play
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/31/09, James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Aaron Trevena
>>>>> > <aaron.trevena at gmail.com>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >> Still no answers in my inbox. Most complete will win if nobody
>>>>> >> completes it. Maybe I should have posted to a java or python group
>>>>> >> -
>>>>> >> they would have finished it by now.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Perhaps something to do with the fact that two of the clues
>>>>> > reference
>>>>> > vim, which the more sensible of us have no wish to use other than to
>>>>> > configure emacs where necessary?*
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --James
>>>>> > * And frankly I'd rather use nano
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sent from my mobile device
>>>
>>> Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons
>>> http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk
>>> LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my mobile device
>>
>> Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons
>> http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk
>> LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting
>>
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons
> http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk
> LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting
>

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