The Melbourne City Romp looks cool. I might make some sort of effort. However, it is on October 14. October 13 sees the flat warming of flat de MCS, Nina & I. And we all know that means I will be too hungover for running around a city with a start time as ludicrously early as midday. You’re invited.
(He’s asleep you see)
If you have trouble installing the GIMP, and by trouble I mean you get errors saying that libgimp-2.0.0.dll, libgimpbase-2.0.0.dll, libgimpui-2….. etc etc are missing or can’t be loaded make sure you ran the install with ADMIN privileges.
My installation worked fine (ie no errors), but when the program started up, I got hundreds of errors relating to missing DLL files. You can escape through and ignore the errors (hold down escape key for 20 seconds every time you run Gimp FTW) and the program seems to run perfectly, but yah, annoying.
So, run install as ADMIN and you should be fine.
Oh I am THIS excited! RAGE is coming to Melbourne. ROCK ROCK ROCK!
I am a happy little bastard tonight. As I scrolled through The Age (.com.au) I spotted it, and did a little double take. Oh yes! And probably going to headline the BDO as well. Which I can cunningly afford to go to as well thanks to the “living in the same city as BDO, not the same country” situation I got going on at the moment. Woooo.
Come on over Hamish, the waters lovely.
(Yes I know those lyrics aren’t RAGE originals, but I care not)
Instead found a sticker “Google My Space, and I’ll come on your Face Book” laughed long and hard. Giggled slightly. It is a real group on Facebook I’m told. Named quiz team in honour. Got good mileage from it. Almost a jug of beer. Almost spelt beer bear. Oops.
Melbourne ain’t so big, whilst walking home (an hour, so OK, it is kinda big) from party ran into Jessa, or rather, ignored two guys and girl walking towards me until greeted by said Jessa, then today whilst waiting at the train stop (long story, don’t normally take trains to/fro work) I was accosted by a Debs. Which I’m rather impressed by. The meeting, not the accosting. Fun fact, both the mentioned girls have hoisted me onto their shoulders.
In other brief news, Nina is a good flat mate. We did well. Took a flat road trip to Bunnings. Had ALL the fun of the super fair.
Finally, the word I spent the evening trying to think of was “interdict.” All I could think of was that is was some kind of cross between being exiled and being indoctrinated. So, the “in” bit was right, but the exiled bit was a bit off target. Managed to recall it watching Denny Crane in my standard post Quiz sit down. Quiz was the winner, we weren’t.
Avast.
PS. Will has a blog. He’s in Germany. Penelope has a blog. She’s not.
PPS. My blog fucking rocks.
I’m now officially one of the “wears sneakers to and fro work, swapping into serious shoes when I get there” types. Of course in my case my “serious work shoes” are my steel toed CATs, but still… What have I done.
Was scanning the “Terms of our Rate Agreement” that TNT provided me as I was setting up a corporate account with them and the words “Warsaw Convention” jumped out at me. Shortly there after “gold francs” hove into view. Wha…
12. International carriage of goods by air
12.1 If the carriage involves international carriage of goods by air the Warsaw Convention may be applicable and the convention governs and in most cases limits the liability of the carrier in respect of loss, damage, or delay to cargo to 250 french gold francs per kilogram or 17 special drawing rights, unless a higher value is declared in advance by the shipper and a supplementary charge is paid.
12.2 Under Australian law the liability limit of 250 gold francs per kilogram is 17 special drawing rights…
Gold Francs people! A quick Wiki sheds some light on the matter, indeed, the Warsaw Convention is all about international carriage. And teaches us (I think, and assuming Wiki is accurate) that if your airline loses your bag they owe you (no less than)…. ~$1.5US per kilogram. Meaning that if you max out your luggage to 20K, you could get back a hefty $30US. Now that’s some good consumer protection right there (right there). Also, WTF is a “17 special drawing rights”? Ah well.
Last week, for fun times, I read a 60 page draft legal contract from Telstra and discovered that there exists “Australian Standard AS1020 – The Control of Undesirable Static Electricity” which allays my fears regarding undesirable… static electricity. Although there wasn’t a great fear that needed allaying.
Tomorrow, photos galore (for values of galore equal to three).