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...when the recipient is only able to bring themselves to type occasional mis-spelled squeals of delight (plus one jumble which I interpret as being “Presents!”) in response. (-:             The above is a woefully inadequate sampling. Fremantle, Melville by Leon Brooks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License .

The Deadly Treadly had done in some rear spokes, so I took it to Bike Force Myaree for repair. This turned out to be not a few spokes & a re-trueing, but a new wheel, new hub, many new spokes, a straightened derailleur & a handful of other things which again demonstrated a committment to doing a proper job. The end result is that the bike feels brand new, & is once again a joy to pilot. (-:

...on a shiny new Canon a470 on special ex Hardly Normal. I upgraded my laptop a distro version , had a handful of small problems en route , all sorted & saddled now. Updating websites via Konqueror is splendidly easy & safe ( media://dev/sde1 versus fish://host.name/path/to/directory , drag, drop, rename, whatever). I am also getting rave reviews for individual shots, & one viewer in Chicago (a city-dweller who likes sunrises & sunsets) is highly pleased to chase a favourite (virtually life-saving) obsession by remote control. WestOz has plenty of amazing sun activity to share, of course, at midwinter temperatures which flabbergast folks from the northern USA, ’coz they’re as warm as their own midsummer days, once translated to Fahrenheit . Said viewer also enjoys shots of things like a Qualup Bell plant in flower (thank you, King’s Park ).

At the moment, Perth is having trouble supplying cheap bed-frames for financially disadvantaged people to use in their homes (which are expensive enough already). The place I’m staying at (-: thanks, Eddie :-) has a full woodworking tool-set, & is located near a small industrial area, from which I can obtain pallets & packing crates which would otherwise be discarded. As a charitable enterprise, a work project, & a component of the green revolution, I’m investigating the possibility of splitting apart these assemblies & building furniture from it, starting with bed-frames. The first few runs are of course going to look rough, but I hope to learn enough about woodworking to efficiently sand, plane &/or stain it to look better (& splinter less) as well. The idea is to produce easily-accessible plans so that any bunch of randoms across Australia (conceptually, any industrialised country) could spend a few tens or hundreds of dollars on tools, & join the crew, h

...make sure that the package sources are also updated. Why? ‘Coz when the plug-pack charging your laptop fails, so you have to borrow the server as a workstation, you can install things like a Flash plugin, else certain features of a(nother) ’blog system you use simply don’t work. Mind you, I guess stuff like working security updates would be good, too. WRT the other ’blog, after carefully explaining (up until mid June) to 10 other Australian women that they had better options than marrying me, I now have 7 newbies from all over the world (including Oz) who’ve selected me themselves (3 of them so far are making rampant sex a required part of the deal, all are quite pretty, a non-overlapping 3 are absolutely stunning), & have also had women from 7 different countries (including 2 of the above) explain that a certain liar in Tasmania can’t do what they’ve done. A well-qualified Oz insurance consultant notes that they might very well have done it, but is struggling to believe that t