A Series of Tubes

Well, it’s obvious to me that someone has too much time on his hands. It’s also obvious to me that the person’s name is Zib. Ya see, I’m on vacation. Tomorrow I’m going to see the circus, and I’m supposed to be filming a movie this week, but so far… it’s not happening. Oh well…

…There are a few products of my boredom, though. First of all, check out the top of the blog. Where the ELC Anemone is? Well, now refresh. And again. It’s randomized! Yeyz.

Also,

Lol.

I don’t personally like tacos very much, but this movie is hilarious. Thank you once again, YouTube!

Well, this is my WordPress blog. So far I like it, but not enough template customization. I don't think I'll switch over to this until they've got that.

Ok, this is really annoying me. Remember that tablet I got for my birthday? Well, it’s annoying the crap out of me. I can’t use it in The Gimp! It simply is not working. I can use it in any program, but then when I open up The Gimp it freezes up and the pen will only respond in Flash. Oy. I want to start drawing my comic, but my tablet isn’t working!

I sent a query to Adesso help support, but the response was that it has never been tested with The Gimp, and if it isn’t working it simply isn’t compatible. That really pisses me off.

The wierd part is, if I go to the ‘Input Devices’ dialouge in The Gimp, the stylus is listed there. There’s the mouse and the stylus, with a little arrow next to the mouse. If I can figure out how to switch it to the stylus, I can use it. But I don’t know how to do that. Anyone have a clue?

Well, today has had a few advances on the good front. Here’s what happened that was good, in chronological order:

• I got on High Honors in school. This means all of my grades this term were in the A range (A-, A, or A+), and that my effort and behavior grades were 1’s (4 is the worst, 1 is the best).
• A month ago, I took part in the National French Exam, a French comprehension test taken all over the country. Well today I got my score back, and I ranked 8th. In the country. I AM #8 IN THE WHOLE FRICKEN COUNTRY!
• My friend TikiMatt got his name and a link on the front page of Docking Bay 101, one of the best Star Wars fan sites on the internet. Woot!

So yeah, great day. 😀

In today’s This Day in History section in the Globe:

Sadly, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who was afflicted, as you probably know, with polio) died exactly 10 years before the cure for polio was announced.

Ok I’m fed up with having only 40gb of storage space on my computer. I am constantly in a struggle to get space, and a “victory” is if I get 6gb. I haven’t seen 10gb of nothing on this computer for months. So now I’m going to install a new hard drive.

I have a drive lying around from my first server, Tomato 1. I got an extra IDE cable to put it in the computer. I’m all set to go, except for one thing that keeps bothering me. The Ubuntu and Uru server installed on that hard drive. I’m worried that it will do something to my hard drive already installed here, and that I won’t have my precious data anymore. 🙁

So here’s what I’m doing. I’m first backing up everything important (My Documents. :P) on a DVD. Then I’m gonna install the drive and pray. Wish me luck!

I just had the idea to check out this page in IE (6), and I must say…it looks like crap. For one thing, the .png files don’t work. They aren’t transparent. For another thing, where’s my sidebar?! Oh yeah, that’s right. Down at the bottom where I wanted it. Wait- Oh that’s right, it’s not supposed to be at the bottom. IT’S A FRIGGEN SIDEBAR.
The Internet Explorer Homepage.
The way that banner should look.

Update: While the page looks better in IE 7, most of the sidebar is still at the bottom. Congratulations on getting png transparency working, Microsoft! Also, the Opera-style page zoom is cool, but you can’t remove the menu bar from a Windows app. It’s a tradition that doesn’t need to be broken.