Blog of Alexander Mamchenkov … mammoth cave …

• Krombacher enhancement to unexpected day off :-) (@ The Ship Inn) [pic]: http://t.co/Qe7Bppi #

• I'm at The Ship Inn (1 28 Oktovriou, Limassol) http://t.co/EPdqPQJ #
• Some live jazz (@ Avrora) http://4sq.com/qS9rn5 #
• I'm at The Ship Inn (1 28 Oktovriou, Limassol) http://4sq.com/pDMza9 #

Whenever I need to point somebody to some place on the map, I use wikimapia, since it is very handy for such things. Today, when I went there, I decided to see what’s around me and found this: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=34.5871849&lon=32.9922009&z=15&l=0&m=b

It is a very nicely described Akrotiri RAF. Almost every small building in a guarded area is pretty well described and labeled. That’s kinda cool.

• I'm at The Ship Inn (1 28 Oktovriou, Limassol) http://4sq.com/q1MLvg #
• I'm at The Ship Inn (1 28 Oktovriou, Limassol) http://4sq.com/ogh9ic #
• I just unlocked the "Local" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/p98wfZ #
• I'm at The Ship Inn (Limassol) http://4sq.com/ovE884 #
• I'm at Chester's http://4sq.com/pZXAyP #
• Bavarian platter is what I need (@ The Ship Inn) http://4sq.com/ne4Osy #
• 2.5 hours no power in hot room. Battery flat 10 mins before power up. #
• first power cut at 11:30 for today. Will see how long it will last and how many will follow… Getting hot in the room even after 20 min. #
• I'm at The Ship Inn w/ @mamchenkov http://4sq.com/p7N55d #
• back online with electricity. laptop battery survived for 2.5 hours and went flat 5 mins before power came back #
• First power cut. Hope that we will not have 3 cuts like yesterday #
• two power cuts 4.5 hours in total. Adding time to cool down and guess how much work can be done… #
• Pork chop in beer and guiness (@ Molly Malones) http://4sq.com/oX2qOL #
• 2.5 hours again. Hot ones. Back online #
• light hangover, 2 beef kebabs in greek pita bread, 2.5 hours with no electricity in hot office… #
• back online, 10 minutes earlier than expected. By 12 pm will have room cooled by AC. #
• First electricity cut off for today. 10 am to 12 am I guess #
• back online. How many power cuts will be today? #
• Beers with Sergey (@ The Ship Inn) http://4sq.com/qexiZ4 #
• I'm at The Woodman Pub (Georgiou A') http://4sq.com/odX6Gg #

Just a short note on Perl strict refs. I had to dynamically load a module and call a function in perl while using strict mode. Originally tried this way:

my $module_name = "Blah";
eval("require $module_name;");

if ($@) {
  die "Failed to load module: $@\n";
} else {
  my $func_name = $module_name . "::do_something";
  &$func_name("some args");
}

But got a warning that I am not allowed to do this while in strict refs. To fix this, had to change the last block to

  my $func_name = $module_name . "::do_something";
  my $func_ref = \&$func_name;
  &$func_ref("some args");

And all went fine. One other alternative was to use the next setup:

  my $func_name = $module_name . "::do_something";
  { no strict refs; &$func_name("some args"); }

Which would cancel strict refs in a short scope. But I didn’t like it :)