The lesser mabinogion
From the monthly archives: June 2007
On the right is my suit for the Conflux Regency Gothic Banquet. Or at least it will be once Emma has actually made it.
The dark green is velvet for the tailcoat, the yellow is silk for the waistcoat (I had my reservations about the colour, but Emma insisted, [...]
There’s nothing like downloading 1 Gigabyte of demo, for 15 minutes of play.
Especially since the crappy budget video card in this machine meant that I probably only needed a hundred meg or so of that.
However, I think it was worth it. Though now I’m contemplating putting a decent video card in this [...]
I had intended to spend the weekend trying to get a little ahead with work, but instead I ended up spending the whole weekend eating chocolate and reading Georgette Heyer novels in an attempt to avoid thinking about how to reply to a particularly irritating email.
I am usually more than willing to help people [...]
I cannot think of the Federal Government’s Lifetime Health Cover scheme as anything but extortion.
If they wish to encourage me to take out private health cover earlier in life, then why don’t they make the threshold for the Medicare levy surcharge related to age?
The very idea that if I don’t take out [...]
I can tell, because we’ve just had our first foggy morning, and I’ve been called on to help jump start two cars due already….heh.
Why would anyone releasing an IDE style application in 2007 still use a Windows 3.1 style MDI interface with a “Windows” menu complete with “Tile Horizontally”, “Tile Vertically” and “Cascade” and no other way of displaying two documents simultaneously? It’s not 1994 any more.
All I want to do is edit the CSS source [...]
