Hello To The Spammers!

Just a quick hello to all the idiot spammers who keep posting crap about prescription pills, part-time jobs where I can make a bazillion dollars and things to increase my 'manhood' to my blog. Hello cretins!

Amateurs @ the Post Office

Eugh. The run up to Christmas. Tons of unwashed masses at the Post Office with their parcels, incomplete/non-existant forms deliberating for hours over which rate they want.

And then there is me. Nineth back in the line. Form ready, waiting for amateurs to stumble through the process of mailing a gift to Manitoba with more angst than NASA needs to get cargo to the ISS.

I hate the festive period. :(

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Missing blog

Thanks to some asshats who keep abusing the blog-script on my front page I've had to remove it.

It bastards kept injecting urls into my legitimate html source which would lead to Google and others reporting that my site was laden with evil.

Assholes.

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Success & Whoops

I'm dead excited to report that using SynCE I've got my Windows Mobile device to talk to Evolution on Linux.

The downside is that rather than taking the contacts and calendar from my phone and moving them to Evolution, I took the nothing in Evolution and blew everything away on my phone. Ooops.

If you call me or I miss an appointment, Im sorry - my phone has temporary amnesia until I can restore from a backup.

Love, me.

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Migration to Linux Almost Done

For a few years now I've been going back and forth to Linux trying to figure out if I can get Floating Point into the Open Source world.

I'm quite excited that for the last week things have been going 'OK'.  Not fantastic I'll grant you but OK.

The major obstacle is that all of my current designs and client-base are heavily entrenched into Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw, so to get around this I'm running a virtualized Windows XP environment via VMware server under Linux.  Although a little sluggish on my laptop it's tolerable and I have my XP workstation to fall back on if things get very tedious.  Aside from Quickbooks and the software that drives my label printer everything else has been migrated to Debian.

There are still some quirks.  I haven't got my Windows Mobile Palm synchronizing with 'Evolution' yet, but I'm getting there.

Generally speaking things are more clunky under Linux, but on the whole routine tasks are much faster than Windows.

I'll keep you posted...

Leighton, Owner Floating Point Digital Images 403.510.4793, www.fpdimages.com

Test upload from my phone

Ooooh, the unbridled excitement of mobile blogging...

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Free Bumpersticker Template Fixed!

Hi Folks,
A couple of weeks ago I updated the free decal template on my website and screwed it up in the process.

I've now fixed the problem - just in case you were wondering what I was playing at.

Thanks (and sorry!) :)

Open Systems Banner

...just updating the Open Systems Banner here tonight. Mark Farina is spinning on the CD player so all is good. More RAM in use than you can shake a stick at.

A quick 'hello' to all my friends in Europe (and one down in the US) who have ordered the monster banner of open-system loveliness.

Take it easy, people...

'Oh, hi, Jesus. You free for dinner Wednesday?'

Jesus
Whether or not he shows up will sure answer a lot of questions for people worldwide.

My grandad
Died long before I was born. It would be great to meet the only one of my grandparents I never knew. It would let me talk to the man who my grandmother use to speak about so lovingly.

I'd fit in well in 'Casablanca'

I like Rick. He's a hard, no-nonsense kinda guy but at the same time is pained and vunerable. I like that he sees the big picture and knows that Ilsa is better off with Victor than him, and that Victor needs Ilsa to help with his work.



Captain Renault I quite like. He spends most of the movie playing both sides of the argument, not favouring one or the other, but doing what seems best given the circumstances.

Please, Use The Curtains

A cautionary tale, folks.

I've just finished up with the plotter for the evening, and it's 2230, so - obviously dark outside.

I look up, and to my horror across the cul-de-sac, one of my neighbours is merrily changing the sheets on his bed, with the light on, the drapes (curtains) open, stark-bollock naked.

You just can't make this stuff up...

Fortune Cookie

Thanks to 'Fais' Chinese Take-Out' for this one:

"Good ideas will spring forth naturally from your mind in the coming week"

Fantastic ;)

I'm hoping this happens before my arteries clog from the gingerbeef and deep-fried chicken-balls. Heh heh heh.

Gadget wish list, please

Top gadget? Right now I've got my eye on a 'HeadPlay' (www.headplay.com). My plan is to again become James Bond on my PS/2 that sits idle for a large part of any given month ;) Late last year I finially finished off 'NightFire' after two years of on and off tuxedo clad coolness.

After that, I'm after a Garmin GPS so that myself and my wife can get into GeoCaching. There are tons here in Calgary as well as outlying communities so that'll get us out and about before winter shows up again. Last weekend we tried it but there was 18" of snow on the ground and that made things somewhat tricky.