Sorry about this -- the comm's been a bit flooded with these of late. But... north-east England, Newcastle/Durham area? Anyone know anyone brilliant? We're going for colours on a touch-up, possibly part-coverup, and if s/he's known for freehand awesomeness it would be a bonus.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
UK COMICCON
I was out for drinks last night with someone who mentioned there was a similar type of comic con for London but didn't remember the name - anyone know what they meant?
I was out for drinks last night with someone who mentioned there was a similar type of comic con for London but didn't remember the name - anyone know what they meant?
Hi All.
I want to write a simple utility (using Java) to upload pictures in LiveJournal Scrapbook directly from my PC (or, say, a cellphone???). I need some help to get started, i.e.
What documentation I should go through.
What APIs I can use.
The general method to accomplish what I intend to accomplish.
Just an outline would be enough; I will find out the rest.
Thanks.
Dexter.
I want to write a simple utility (using Java) to upload pictures in LiveJournal Scrapbook directly from my PC (or, say, a cellphone???). I need some help to get started, i.e.
What documentation I should go through.
What APIs I can use.
The general method to accomplish what I intend to accomplish.
Just an outline would be enough; I will find out the rest.
Thanks.
Dexter.
- Mood:
curious
does any one know of a good black and grey portrait artist preferably in the san francisco bay area? if not around sf then i'm perfectly willing to travel to southern california as well as maybe oregon, nevada, or arizona.
cross posted.
cross posted.
I just got my letter in the mail saying I was approved to sponsor!
So happy ..we sent it in June 15 and it says July 16 was the approval date :) I wonder how long the rest of it is going to take seeing as that was so quick!
- Mood:
giddy
- Music:Dragonforce- "Lost Souls in Endless Time"
TV dinner
I love these cartoons, they're such a cute series!
This seems to be the first time I've had access to the computer in the last three days! Patrick's been using this Lego designer programme he's got to design a model of Starbug from Red Dwarf that he want to build when we have a bit of money coming in.
I've spent the last three or so days mostly asleep in the daytime thanks to a combination of not being able to sleep at night and the powerful painkillers I'm having to take which make me really drowsy.
I've also finished reading "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King and I'm now on to "The Devil you know" by Mike Carey. xxx
I love these cartoons, they're such a cute series!
This seems to be the first time I've had access to the computer in the last three days! Patrick's been using this Lego designer programme he's got to design a model of Starbug from Red Dwarf that he want to build when we have a bit of money coming in.
I've spent the last three or so days mostly asleep in the daytime thanks to a combination of not being able to sleep at night and the powerful painkillers I'm having to take which make me really drowsy.
I've also finished reading "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King and I'm now on to "The Devil you know" by Mike Carey. xxx
- Mood:
okay - Music:Cheap Trick – I want you to want me
I mopped Sunday, and vacuumed Saturday and yesterday, yet today when Sigrid crawled from one side of the living room to the other (it's slow, but steady!) her hands and pants got covered in all sorts of crap. Mainly cat fur, I presume.
Tell me there's some sort of magical solution because I am *NOT* cleaning even more than I already do.
Tell me there's some sort of magical solution because I am *NOT* cleaning even more than I already do.
Ok, sorry for being a pest, last post i promise!
I can't get the links bar to stay on in IE7 - i've googled this so to this end i've removed all yahoo toolbars and shit on here, also done a full virus scan to remove any adware... it still won't stay on. Everytime i open a new tab or open the browser for the first time it disappears :o( Any ideas?
I can't get the links bar to stay on in IE7 - i've googled this so to this end i've removed all yahoo toolbars and shit on here, also done a full virus scan to remove any adware... it still won't stay on. Everytime i open a new tab or open the browser for the first time it disappears :o( Any ideas?
This might seem like an odd request, but i'm looking for lasagne recipies, specifically ones without too much veg. I'm making it for the first time for my partner, but he's very fussy, he doesn't eat any veg you can feel in your mouth, if that makes sense. I've also never made lasagne before, so the easier the better, i'm not a bad cook so i'm sure i won't screw it up, but easy is good!
So, one of my colleagues has managed to change the password on a lovely MS Word document and can't remember what it is. Brilliant.
There seem to be lots of tools out there for removing or revealing passwords for Word documents, but would anyone recommend a free, and preferably online, service?
Thankingyoumuchly.
And an update
Thanks to all for the suggestions and offers. Turns out some of our forensics software has a bolt-on that does the necessary, so helped my colleague out of this particular mess. Still haven't been able to find a free online service, or a portable application as yet.
There seem to be lots of tools out there for removing or revealing passwords for Word documents, but would anyone recommend a free, and preferably online, service?
Thankingyoumuchly.
And an update
Thanks to all for the suggestions and offers. Turns out some of our forensics software has a bolt-on that does the necessary, so helped my colleague out of this particular mess. Still haven't been able to find a free online service, or a portable application as yet.
The usual Cambridge background noises of Tarquins twittering about rowing and horses, Young Conservatives electioneering for David Cameron and the loathsome yowling of the god-squad were all brutally shattered once again last night... and the absence of the stoner crowd meant flying the Epykk Heathen Flag Of Hate high once more. For most of the set, anyway.
Here's what you all missed.
22.07.2008 2215-2230
MAEL MÓRDHA - Winds Of One Thousand Winters
PRIMORDIAL - As Rome Burns
PARADISE LOST - Colossal Rains
I - Cursed We Are
AMON AMARTH - The Beheading Of A King
DARKTHRONE - A Blaze In The Northern Sky *
MOONSORROW - Kylän Päässä
FINNTROLL - Kitteldags
ELUVEITIE - Tegernakô
THYRFING - Over The Hills And Far Away *
ENSIFERUM - Wanderer
IRON MAIDEN - Moonchild
JUDAS PRIEST - One Shot At Glory
ONKEL TOM ANGELRIPPER - In München Steht Ein Hofbräuhaus
You all know what * means. I have also succeeded in introducing![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
fiona_kitty to the joys (if that's the right word) of Primordial. Mission accomplished.
Here's what you all missed.
22.07.2008 2215-2230
MAEL MÓRDHA - Winds Of One Thousand Winters
PRIMORDIAL - As Rome Burns
PARADISE LOST - Colossal Rains
I - Cursed We Are
AMON AMARTH - The Beheading Of A King
DARKTHRONE - A Blaze In The Northern Sky *
MOONSORROW - Kylän Päässä
FINNTROLL - Kitteldags
ELUVEITIE - Tegernakô
THYRFING - Over The Hills And Far Away *
ENSIFERUM - Wanderer
IRON MAIDEN - Moonchild
JUDAS PRIEST - One Shot At Glory
ONKEL TOM ANGELRIPPER - In München Steht Ein Hofbräuhaus
You all know what * means. I have also succeeded in introducing
fiona_kitty to the joys (if that's the right word) of Primordial. Mission accomplished.Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my father. It may have something to do with my impending visit to Perth in October and it may have something to do with wanting to finally close that chapter in my life.
The fury I felt when I found out he’d been in London and not even come to visit me or even call me faded rather quickly, like a summer thunderstorn all lightning and thunder, but is over in a few minutes and the sun comes back out as if nothing had ever happened! This proved to me that the years old anger I had carefully hoarded for him had softened to just a memory of my childhood past. The memory is now like an old keloid scar, it’s all healed over but the ugly, familiar lumpy skin is there to remind me now and then.
I long ago realised that my faulty relationship with my father affected how I see, and interact with, my personal relationships with people. I think I’m finally ready to make peace with this part of my life and let go. I’ve realised that this is the only way I can make progress and move forward.
I sometimes wonder what kind of person I would be if my father had been a kind and loving man, instead of the twisted, violent and abusive person he was (is?) when I was growing up. I quickly came to the conclusion, from a young age, that you did not owe anything to your parents, you did not have to love and respect them simply because they looked after you, gave you food on the table and put a roof over your head. All that meant nothing to me if with one hand my father fed me and clothed me yet with the other punched me.
He thought my attitude as a teenager was all that I was. He never understood that if you push and prod someone, that someone will one day get tired and push and prod back in any way they can. At 9 I began to defend myself, in little ways at first but as I got older I got stronger and it became my armour. Of course I became a problem child! Of course I would talk back and be angry al the time and say nasty things to get my own revenge on his abuse. I wanted to make him hurt as bad as he made me hurt!
What do you expect father???? I lost all love and respect for you, if you punch and strangle and slap and threaten, how the hell do you expect a kid to grow up NOT being a defensive emotional retard? When I overheard you, at age 15, saying that all I needed was a good fuck, did you ever stop and think, oh my god that’s my daughter I’m talking about? No you didn’t did you?
It’s crazy when you think about how much damage you can do to your child in the formative years. The physical and psychological abuse my father heaped upon me has fashioned who I am now today. I am not perfect, nor do I wish to be, but in the small hours when all is quiet and my mind wanders, I wonder. I would be less aggressive, less sensitive, and less introspective? Perhaps I would be less insecure about myself, less doubting about my abilities. Would I be more ambitious? Would I have done better at school? Would my intimate relationships have been more successful?
When I was growing up I would watch my friends with their fathers enviously. They would hug their dads and kiss them and joke with them in an easy manner that had me staring at them, heart clenched in my chest in shock and disgust at the thought of me doing anything like that with my own dad. It was alien territory, one that I would push as far away from me as I could.
Yet I would yearn so much to be able to have a normal, loving relationship with my father. I would make attempts as a teenager to try to bridge the gap, but they were slapped aside, ignored and belittled. I would spend hours in the refuge of my room crying from frustration, fury and self defence. Those three states of mind were my armour growing up; they sustained me throughout my teenage years. Until I was forced out of the family home, sick of the abuse I moved out at 18.
So now here I am at 34. I’ve not spoken to my father for 9 long years. I have a ticket booked for Australia, and I feel ready to make peace with the violence of my past. I feel ready to speak to my dad. I hope he will want to listen to me. He is, and always was an incredibly stubborn man. He is locked in his own mind, firmly believing that he never did any harm to me. He never really knew me, never really wanted to get to know or understand me. I feel sad for him because we could have been the most amazing of friends. If he had just stopped the cycle of abuse his own father had begun in him, life would have been so, so different for him.
But I know one thing for sure the cycle of abuse will not be perpetuated in me. The cycle of abuse stops with me. My children will not go through what I went through as a child, that is why this reconciliation is so important to me now. I want to be a healthy mum, I want a loving stable relationship and I want to have a family of my own, free from the shadows of past mistakes.
But I know one thing for sure the cycle of abuse will not be perpetuated in me. The cycle of abuse stops with me. My children will not go through what I went through as a child, that is why this reconciliation is so important to me now. I want to be a healthy mum, I want a loving stable relationship and I want to have a family of my own, free from the shadows of past mistakes.
I will talk to him and he will give me the courtesy of listening because I know he wants to see me. I know somewhere in his withered heart he knows he is guilty but will never recognise it. It is enough for me that I know that he hopes to see me. It is my choice now whether or not I want to see him, but see him I will and I will say my peace, and he will listen to me because he has to and because I need him to.
- Mood:
hopeful
Two interesting articles, both relating to the Italian judicial system.
Italy has passed an immunity law that stops their top officials from being 'distracted' from their jobs, by possible prosecutions.
And who could surely argue against that? I think we can all agree that sometimes, it's just so time consuming having to fight a prosecution for a crime you probably have committed.
Article
This story i found especially interest. Apparently Italy had ruled 10 years ago that a "woman wearing tight jeans cannot by definition be raped or sexually molested because the removal of the garment requires her“collaboration and consent”.
But yesterday, this ridiculous ruling was reversed not reserved as i put earlier (i should proof read my posts first, but i was in a rush, sorry!!) - article
Interesting piece by the BBC shows that according to recent scientific studies, rock drummers are near the top of physical fitness. Their heart rate averages around 150 BPM and they burn 400 to 600 calories during a one-hour set.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/75188
Personally, I'd really like to see the study repeated with someone like Hellhammer...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/75188
Personally, I'd really like to see the study repeated with someone like Hellhammer...
WATAIN will team up with WITHERED and BOOK OF BLACK EARTH for a North American tour in October/November. Confirmed dates are as follows:
October 3 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
October 4 - Montreal, QC @ Katacombes
October 7 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East
October 8 - New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
October 9 - Pittsburgh, PA @ 31st St Pub
October 10 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
October 11 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club
October 12 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
October 13 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
October 14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
October 15 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
October 16 - Portland, OR @ Rotture
October 17 - Oakland, CA @ The Metro
October 18 - Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
October 19 - San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle
October 20 - Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
October 21 - Farmington, NM @ Gator’s
October 23 - Dallas, TX @ Reno’s Chop Shop
October 24 - Victoria, TX @ Mario’s Ballroom
October 25 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
October 26 - New Orleans, LA @ Red Dragon
October 28 - Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug
October 29 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
October 31 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
November 1 - Allentown, PA @ Sterling Hotel
October 3 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
October 4 - Montreal, QC @ Katacombes
October 7 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East
October 8 - New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
October 9 - Pittsburgh, PA @ 31st St Pub
October 10 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
October 11 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club
October 12 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
October 13 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
October 14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
October 15 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
October 16 - Portland, OR @ Rotture
October 17 - Oakland, CA @ The Metro
October 18 - Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
October 19 - San Marcos, CA @ Jumping Turtle
October 20 - Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
October 21 - Farmington, NM @ Gator’s
October 23 - Dallas, TX @ Reno’s Chop Shop
October 24 - Victoria, TX @ Mario’s Ballroom
October 25 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
October 26 - New Orleans, LA @ Red Dragon
October 28 - Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug
October 29 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
October 31 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
November 1 - Allentown, PA @ Sterling Hotel
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