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[fivemack]

[Poll #518184]

I may have missed out some really obvious destination 'near' Australia; never sure as to the value of 'near' to use in that part of the world.

I never cease to be amazed at the number of huge cities in Indonesia whose names are not household words; Bandung's bigger than Liverpool, Ujung Pandang the size of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. And just how big places that you know as 'what's the capital of Sudan?' pub-quiz answers are: more than seven million in Bogota or Lima or Kinshasa; nearly six million in Khartoum, which I know only as a small desert settlement in a Flashman novel.

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[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Could be; but I'm drawing a blank on who you are? ;)

[meirion.livejournal.com]

if the word "wxwindows" means anything to you, then you're who i think you are; and i've have thought that might be enough to identify me, too ;-)

-m-

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

I've certainly heard of it, and it was a competitor to the product I worked on (Qt/Embedded) :) Still drawing a blank though; poke my ailing memory with a stick?

[meirion.livejournal.com]

i believe we corresponded for a while over the legality of a wxQt port.

sorry for being so cryptic; i try not to let my LJ get connected with my offline persona.

-m-

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Oh! I remember now :)
Let me add you back, always good to have more techies on the friends list *grins* though most of the time it's more about non-tech stuff.

Have we talked elsewhere, maybe on IRC/#afp? I don't think the person I'm thinking of from there is you, but I thought I'd ask.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I note with interest you're poly and that we have some mutual Oxford-circle friends, too ;) I lived with ~beingjdc for something like a year and a half before moving to the US.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

yes, i think our paths have crossed on uk.people.poly, and i believe we're both on OxLUG ....

i'm not an afp-er (although alarming numbers of my friends are) so i'm not the person from IRC.

-m-