Saves time, I guess. The same reason you'd wanna use something like `howdoi` to get StackOverflow answers directly inside the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14286317/544059

Exactly. The City of London is administratively a city and a county. Looking at these boundaries, it is the smallest English city [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Geography

That's somewhat different, though. The City of London is not London, the capital city of the UK. The latter is formally Greater London, consisting of 32 London Boroughs and the City of London. The two are different administrative entities entirely, with City of London e.g. having its own Lord Mayor separate from the Mayor of London, and with the ceremonial country of Greater London explicitly excluding City of London.

Nested administrative boundaries is a UK speciality (e.g. England, Wales and Scotland are countries within a country).

The 'City of London' is a quirk it is actually a very small borough within the city of Greater London, which has a population of something like 8 million and is very roughly up to zone 6 on a tube map. For the regional population I vaguely remember a statistic that there are 20 million people within 30 miles of trafalgar square, but I can't back this up right now.

That City (big C, the administrative area) is indeed tiny, population 8,000, and is distinct from the geographical city of London (small c) population 8,000,000.

And, notably, predates the English monarchy and technically exists somewhat separate from the UK...

Have you used Name.com, perhaps?

I haven't used their API, but I have used their domain registration and SSL services in the past.

OK, thanks. Yeah, we'll look into the Name.com API if we don't get some more prompt responses from DomainBox (with whose customer service we're chatting for the past two weeks to get even the most basic API calls working).

NameCheap seems to have an XML-based API:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/intro.aspx

Not something that fills me up with joy :/ There's an unofficial Ruby wrapper that hasn't been touched in a year... https://github.com/parasquid/namecheap

Does anyone have any other recommendations?

With CloudFleet, we're trying to provide the complete self-hosted service for Mailpile.

https://cloudfleet.io/

(currently in development - looking to launch around November)

My thoughts exactly. Wonder how much CO2 was emitted just to power the animations in the background :P

If you assume staying on the page for 15 minutes with an Mac Book power supply of 85w, it's about 0.05 kg to 11.3 kg depending on where in North America you are.

At 20 deg C, 1 atm, and using the high estimate of 11.3kg, PV = nRT, which is

V

    n = 11300 g / 44 g/mol = 256.82 mol
    R = 8.314 L kPa K−1 mol−1
    T = 293 K
    P = 101.3 kPA

 = (256.82 * 8.314 * 293 / 101.3) L

 = 6175.8 liters

 = 3087.9 uncapped coke bottles every 15 minutes (high estimate)

At the low estimate:

n = 50 / 44 = 1.13 mol

So:

V = 27.33 L

  = 13.7 uncapped coke bottles every 15 minutes (low estimate)

Where did you get the mass estimates from?

The EPA and Environment Canada.

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