English Over The Sleeve

You may remember that there was, last year, a small buzz about the French anti-2007 resistance. Guess what? They’re coming to Paris!

Check out fonacon.net, and go to Montmartre this evening if you want to see them in action.

I have been (very intermittently) trying to make a script add a prefix to a filename for about 18 months now. With very little success.

But today, I can finally say “All your basename are belong to us!” Or is that “All your `basename` are belong to us”?

So here’s jpgshrink3 - the logical continuation of my previous efforts. jpgshrink3  actually does a bit more than just shrink jpg files - it also moves them to a user-specified folder and creates a thumbnail in a thumbnail folder for each jpg. Very useful for phpwebgallery, that I use here.

The Script page.

For various reasons, I have to go to Vienna, Austria, in April 2008, and in a spirit of economy, I chose to fly with Niki. Niki being low-cost, they don’t give you a paper ticket - you just get an email.

Imagine therefore my surprise when I received a large envelope from Austria this morning - when I opened it, there was, without a word of explanation, a rather large Niki-branded blow-up aeroplane.

My question is, do I have to present it at check-in? And if so, does it have to be blown up?

The only use for it that I could see was if the plane had to land on water - I could float away to safety. There are just two problems with that: one, the thing specifies that it is not a safety device, and two, there isn’t really much water between Paris and Vienna anyway.

Anyway, I’ll put some photos up here if/when I get someone to blow it up round to blowing it up.

Interested parties may like to note that my tickets cost me less than €100.00 return.

That’s what I need. Shopping time. Also a longer bus trip if I want to blog…

Blogged on bus 128.

• For some time now, I’ve been looking (in my professional capacity) for a chess set supplier who doesn’t actually demand the payment of an arm and a leg for 32 pieces of injected plastic (and your first-born for an industrially printed vinyl ‘board’). I think I’ve found one. If I have, I’ll let you know. If you are a chess set supplier and want to do business with me, let me know in the comments!
• Warehouses are complicated to build and furnish. This, in conjunction with a heavy workload, gastro-enteritis and the discovery of facebook (I know, only a few years late!) may explain the recent absence of posts here. So sue me.
• Who does quite small (less than a hundred) runs of thermomoulded plastic parts, working from a model (and preferably in Europe)? Answers in comments, please. (Please note that 42 is not an accepted answer to this question.)
• I rented a Renault Clio the other day, for a week. But when I got to the agency, they apologised and gave me a Ford S-Max. You probably don’t care - but hey! I’m telling everyone!
• I’ve got a new phone, of the sort that would theoretically allow me to BoB - Blog on the Bus (TM). Don’t hold your breath for that… but the phone itself is pretty cool.
• Christmas leave is coming up waaaaay too fast. When can I find the time to go christmas shopping?