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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:

I’ve been considering storage solutions for on my bike - ventura racks and bags and so forth. As a small, portable solution I’ve been looking at a magnetic tank bag as they’re removable and relatively cheap (not to mention easy to get, since they’re not model-specific) and allow me to use my gps and or see my phone while riding.

I went down to Springwood Suzuki and was reccommended the Oxford brand, and I agreed - purchasing one of these. Well, borysSNORC did anyway 😀

Here’s my current fun with a certain unnamed hosting provider. Feel free to traceroute this site’s domain name if you want to know which one.

me: “please do this specific thing to twenty domains.”

them: “ok, like this?”

me: “no, do it how I asked!”

them: “oh dear, we need someone smarter… I’ll send the request somewhere else”

[ 24 hours goes past ]

me: “hello?”

them: “sorry, ok, done”

me: “but you didn’t do it, and I had to create a new ticket to ask you to do it again, properly!”

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Just a quick post - these boots are super-comfy! I’ve had them for just over a week now and have worn them every day, including a full day of riding on the 13th (which I really should post about)

Suffice to say: they’re worn in, they fit nicely, they aren’t great for walking long distances in and they hold in all the right places for a well made boot. I’m going to have to watch the big velcro section to make sure it doesn’t fill up with fuzz - but other than that it’s all looking good 🙂

So, I’m going down the route of trying to make motorcycling the cheapest I can. I’m planning on doing as much repair and maintenance as I can, so that includes things like adjustments of controls, and oil & filter replacements 🙂

A couple of days ago I adjusted the throttle free-play, something that’d been plaguing me since I got the bike. It had about 1/8th of a turn of play :S

Being 6'9″ tall with size fifteen-ish shoes makes it interesting to buy shoes at the best of times. It’s basically “what have you got? I’ll take it!” for dress shoes and joggers it’s “what do you have that’s not a basketball shoe? I’ll take it!”

Searching for motorcycle gear’s been a challenge, because it’s specialised and they don’t sell that much. I’ve found three pairs of boots that fit, and only two that fit comfortably without plans to take them to a bootmaker. Both of them are made by RJays and the ones I bought todays are their “Edge” model in a UK size 48.