I seem to be entirely incapable of talking to people without pissing them off lately. I honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry. I just hope my head does something about it before Friday ( Read more... )

I took almost 200 photos today. And watching them import, one by one, it turns out the vast majority of them are slightly out of focus. Some of them are just soft because I went cheap on my 300mm .. but there’s enough that are genuinely out of focus, after I concentrated on focusing, that I have to spot the pattern. It’d appear I have to setup a ( Read more... )

so you're [insert chinese whispers here] ?
err .. no
but [name] was?
err .. no
wow .. I thought my source was pretty good.

Are these people really so dull that they can fill gaps in their lives with gossip about mine?
What the hell. I don't belong in a little town.

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

Gandhi

That said, I think it's finally time for some people to butt outta my life. The fact that it's people not person may confuse said people, but there ya go.

'nuff said

This is a very sad day for democracy, and casts a very dark shadow over the European Constitution, which will give the Council even more power.

Europe has become a Banana republic.


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The darker the skies are, the more greatful you are for those bright spots.

Thanks for the bright spots :)

Everyone adapts to their environment .. it's how people function. I tend to believe you learn the most about a person when you introduce something exceptional to that environment. What I'm not sure of, however, is how you handle what you learn. Once you've seen someone adapt, and take a form you can't handle .. how can you pretend to know them ( Read more... )

Finally backported a current gaim version. So I'm finally back in sync with upstream, at 1.1.4

People have never been my strong point. And the single hardest thing to deal with is people putting a wall up. I know I do the same, and I know others' fustrations with it .. but how on earth do you help a great friend when they try to hide their worries.

Spam.

Bloody gits. I've had comments on my photos for 6 days, and they're being spammed already. That just takes the .