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Ok, so previously I’d been able to put the manifold on the head and see how the engine goes together. I haven’t actually tried to make it fit since we bolted the gearbox in. Stupid me, I went to test fit things yesterday, and realised that all was not well.

The intake manifold that everyone’s said to use through the different EFI threads on the forums and so forth, doesn’t fit. In saying that, it doesn’t fit without a bunch of modification. Ugh.

Well, I got bored and needed something to do tonight, so I went to JB and wandered around for a while. Bought myself a copy of Reservior Dogs Collector’s Edition, on the recommendation of my good friend Mitchell, and a copy of 28 Days Later, a movie I’ve loved for a while. Cost me less than thirty bucks, so that was cool.

I live on Brisbane’s South Side, and my project car’s in a mate’s garage in Clayfield - making it a bit hard to find a decent amount of time to work on it on my days off - it takes about an hour to get up there and back, not to mention fuel prices :S

So, if anyone has/knows someone with either a spare single garage/shed (lock up) or some sort of workshop with space to work on a car that they would be willing to let me use (and possibly pay for) for a month or two until I can at least get it going I’d love to hear from you. As per the topic title it has to be on the southside, and preferably close to springwood.

This may well be the coolest gun EVER! The Barrett XM109 25MM Payload Rifle. This thing is a man-portable 25mm anti-tank … semiauto rifle. You could theoretically shoot thirty rounds a minute with this thing, if you could get around the fact that your shoulder would be somewhere near your ass, and reloading the pair of five shot clips three times in that minute. Bastards Inc. has a bit more info (and some hilarious comments from the users) on the gun.

I can’t be bothered whinging too much about it now, but this fuckwit “oldholdensneverdie” who I assume is the store for American Autos took ages to fulfill my order. The “Buy It Now” was clicked and submitted on 20/12/05, I’d sent payment by the next day, including shipping. I sent a message to the seller when that was done, including the payment details. Not hearing anything by the I sent a message asking for when the item was sent, and asking for the tracking number.

Finally I got my replacement fuel pump! I’ll do the full rant about the problems when I get home tonight… but yay! 😀

I’m super bored… how are you all? It’s raining. Again. I’m sure that my car’s probably full of water again, and I’m just killing time until I can get my ass in gear to get ready for work. At least I’m floor manager today, that means I don’t have to do much unless it gets hellishly busy. I should go find a book to read, I’m recompiling EVERYTHING on my gentoo desktop machine so that hopefully some of the weirdness will go away.

Ok, so my Uncle is quite a good photographer, has come out with some amazing shots at times, and is sick of building boats and navigating them all over the place. So he’s come to the conclusion that opening his own studio to exhibit and sell his photos is the way he’ll go in the future, and that’s happening on the first weekend in February. This is a seriously cool thing to me, and I, along with my parents are going to go down to Culburra - an aparrently sleepy little town on the coast near Nowra in New South Wales.

I can’t work out why it’s not compiling - there’s no posts anywhere online that I can find that tell me how to fix it… how am I cross compiling?

checking for sys/utsname.h... yes
checking for sys/ipc.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for fopencookie... yes
configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /storage/portage-tmp/portage/php-4.4.0-r4/work/php-4.4.0/config.log

!!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 495, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Well, it’s officially too damn hot, and today marks the start of the new dress policy at work. I guess we’ll see how it all goes. I’m sure the operations manager at work’s going to avoid the place like the plague, since it’s going to start a few fights over interpretations of the new rules and what’s right/wrong.

Personally, they can go f*#k themselves. I don’t mind buying new clothes, but telling us the week before christmas that we have to have all new work clothes by the fourth of January is just moronic. I’m going to keep wearing what I’ve been wearing (sometimes fitting in the policy, sometimes not) until I can afford to change.