Miniblog articles for September 2004
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Tuesday 7th, 00:01
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- OpenOffice tip: PDF export currently only fully works with Acroread 5.
With version 4 transparent PNGs aren't transparent, and GIFs don't show
up at all. Printing to a file and then converting to PDF might help.
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Wednesday 8th, 10:58
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- CityLink sent us a package today that was destined for someone else—the
galley proofs for a book, with negatives (I think) of all the pictures.
Interesting stuff. We're getting it underway to its real destination though.
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Friday 10th, 08:01
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- Last night I released
version 0.02 of my Font::FreeType Perl module.
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Sunday 12th, 02:56
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- And now Font::FreeType 0.03 is available.
The major change is to make it more portable to older FreeType and Perl
versions. It now compiles and passes or skips all tests on Debian Woody.
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Thursday 16th, 10:04
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- “Hack on, you're in luck. No remorse. The light of True Hacker is with
you. Hunt down the bug, good fortune. …The radiance of True Hacker shall bring
you luck.” —Autrijus Tang, The Book of Hacking, YiJing::0x3f
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Friday 17th, 11:35
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- Today I learnt the fabulous word ‘markuping’. Found it in a man page
somewhere.
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Friday 17th, 21:52
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- “The burning flame of my heart… perhaps it is hell for evil doers.
Be burnt out for the sake of peace!” —Doggie Kruger,
High Noon Dogfight, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger episode 1x13
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Wednesday 22nd, 11:37
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- Went to Japanic in Leeds last night. You can have a pint of Timothy Taylor's
Landlord with some nasu beef or pork gyoza. Pure class.
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Wednesday 22nd, 12:07
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- I've survived a scary meeting with a client, and my Babylon 5 DVDs have
finally arrived from America (with an £8.70 customs charge, the bastards).
It's turning out to be a good day.
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Thursday 23rd, 10:21
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- Dave has launched the website for
the Grove Folk Club in Leeds.
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Friday 24th, 07:47
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- Fun Japanese word of the day:
風雨, fuuu, meaning ‘wind and rain’. The
kanji mean exactly that, but what gets me is how you're meant to recognize
the difference between two ‘u’ sounds and three in a row. (From About.com).
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