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What type of Fae are you?

I just don’t know how to explain how amazing tonight was. Robyn sent me a link to a random Japanese “popping” dance video and somehow I ended up at a link to Cirque du Soliel’s latest Australian tour - Dralion.

It took a few seconds to realise that I had about a week until the show finished, and that I could actually afford to go this time. Every other time they’ve been in Brisbane the planets haven’t been in the right position for me to have the spending money to be in the right place with a ticket in hand to see one of their shows. This year, it was RMB’s birthday AND I could afford it.

So, to find the last five IP’s a user called “user” has logged in as, do this from .. well, a commandline.

last -i | grep user | head -n 5

• Last shows the last (lots) of users that logged in,
• The -i shows IP’s,
• Use grep to filter by the word “user” and
• Head shows the top five.

Yay, all done.

Your rainbow is strongly shaded green and red.What is says about you: You are an intelligent person. You appreciate energetic people. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

I don’t really know why I do these things, I know me already.

I just had one of the best rides in the wet since my first night on the bike. I basically said to myself “shut the fuck up and ride” and did so. I loosened my typical vice-tight grip on the bars, tightened up my knees like one should on the bike and just rode it smooth. Remembering to think less about the fact that I had a bit of water on my visor and just watching the road was a good thing too.

On Mon Aug 25, 2003 ******** wrote:

“Hello, I am a ‘generously proportioned’ male (375 pounds) with a less than generous penile length (4 inches erect). I seek a vendor of quality inflatable sheep who can give away free samples as I am unemployed. Best regards.”

Found in my message history as I went to say something to a friend. 🙂

So, I love running GIMP, it’s good fun. Easy once you learn it, lightish on resources and best of all it’s free. The PortableApps.com edition has been getting some loving from me of late - who can complain when it brings your settings along easily! 😀

I tried opening an eps file the other day and ran into a problem - GhostScript isn’t installed as standard.

After installing the 64-bit version for windows from here, there was only one more thing to do. Google-fu got me to a german-language page (translation here) that showed me most of how to fix it. Below is a sample default.env file to show the Gimp where to go 😉 The file has to be %GIMPFOLDER%\App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\environ\default.env and has to have all the extra newlines according to the original page (and it worked after I did that, don’t ask.

Probably should refer to the previous post about the job market. Probably shouldn’t point out that I’m wondering why I can’t seem to get a job. Who’s putting the kybosh on me?

I’ve got too much experience for a low level job, and not enough for high level? Great. And I’m working in a casual job so I can’t really afford to study. Yay.

You heard it here. It shits me. It seems that with my weird and wonderful assortment of experience and skills that I don’t actually fit into any box they have, so I can’t get a job and I’m stuck in pizzaVille.

Fuck.

I’m going to start applying for slightly-less-smelling-like-garlic shitkicker jobs, prodding more people at random and hoping for the best. This hasn’t worked so far, but others are saying to keep doing it, so on with the poking.

It seems that on the “upcoming events” module of JCal Pro it shows “(All Day)” if you’ve got an all day item. It’s ugly and I was asked how to remove it. Here’s how to do it:

Edit modules/mod_jcalpro_latest.php

Comment out this line:

$returnstring .= ( $EXTCAL_CONFIG['show_times'] ) ? ' (' . $start_time . ( ($EXTCAL_CONFIG['show_times'] == 3 || $no_end_specified) ? '' : ' - ' . $end_time ) . ')' : '';

Replace it with: