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Finally, I’ve found myself an image gallery that seems to be relatively easy to use. It’s just a simple thing that scans the directories that I tell it to, and makes up an image gallery from them. It doesn’t make the thumbnails automagically, or anything like that, it just displays the images in a way that’s easy to see – I got it from LazyBoy and it’s called the “Lazy Gallery Plugin“

It sounds a bit weird, but yes – the first engine is in the gemini. As I I’ve mentioned before, I bought a second engine for the gemini on the cheap, and that’s the first one going in so I can set up the EFI and all the other things I’m putting onto the good engine. This means that when it doesn’t start first go, and everything’s slightly out of whack, it doesn’t cause problems on the engine and do horrible things to it.

So I drove up to Madhatter’s house at Mount Tamborine today, nearly boiling the pimpmobile’s engine, but that was fine. Not long later, it was down the mountain again, with Madhatter sitting beside me and the giant yellow engine crane of doom in the back. Up to the workshop, engine crane out, various gubbins out and time to lift up the engine and drop it in. Ok, so the first time we tried, the boom wasn’t far enough out, and MH had picked up the engine backwards (yes, I should have noticed too, but he’s the professional, so it’s his fault!) but after fixing those problems, it was a case of lift, move over the bay, then drop it onto the mounts, basically straight on and done in one go.

There was much rejoicing, having the engine in is a big step on the way to getting it running. I slid the injection manifold onto the intake side of the engine to see how it goes, and by how much the intake runner studs are. They are WAY too short, so it’ll be off to the bolt company on monday to try and get some that’ll suit. I’m definitely going to have to paint the plenum a different colour, the red that’s on it now is super-ugly.

Tomorrow, I’ll be off to supa-cheap to try and find some cabling to start doing the loom with – it’ll probably go through an evolution or two, but I’ll at least be able to plan what I have to wire up, and where things will go. I’ll probably also put the 2″ exhaust on the car, since I’ve been meaning to do it for ages, and start working out where the fuel lines and so forth go. If I get over-zealous, I might even put one of the flywheels on the engine, and try to get the gearbox under the car – something I should have done BEFORE the engine went in, but meh. That’s pretty usual for me, and there’s plenty of room to jack the car up anyway.

Yes he is.

Ok, so I’m a supervisor at work – that means, when I’m doing the supervisor thing, that I have to look out for the people on the floor, take calls that are too long, talk to idiots that think a supervisor’s going to fix their life etc. So I wander over to check on a call that had been going too long, and Lauren’s crying. Ok, so this is different, it takes a fair bit to shake her, so this guy has to be a complete ass. He guy had basically been insulting her, the company, everyone he could think of for ten straight minutes, and being a general pain because he felt like taking his lack of humanity out on someone else.
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Ok, so I installed Sylpheed, and I played with it. I run my own web/mail server, so I just leave whatever mail I receive on the server so that I can get it whenever I want it by IMAP. My local client already knows what it’s downloaded, so it’s not like I have to download the full 30+ megabytes of email every time. Sylpheed quite quickly downloaded the 4000+ messages that were on the server, and didn’t have a single problem displaying every single header in the inbox when it was done. Filtering messages was processed blisteringly fast and without error – other mail clients sometimes have issues with my filters – and making filters was easy. Navigating between folders was fast, quite frankly I can’t get over how fast this client is, it’s great!

Now, there’s some things that just annoy the hell out of me. Sure, text-only emails are fine, I use them nearly every time I’m sending emails because it’s a smaller message, it’s readable by any client so on and so forth. But a lot of the email lists I’m on have HTML emails, and they are useless without it because of the fact that they are either auction, forum or other “lots of visual information” sites. Sylpheed’s HTML rendering sucks. I couldn’t work out if it was a settings issue or something else doing it, but it was horrible, nasty and didn’t render anything properly. There was only one setting I could find, and that was “render HTML as text” which basically showed you the raw html.

Another problem I had with the program was the font used to display the contents of an email. I couldn’t find any settings to change it, which could have been my fault or reliant on Gnome’s default settings or something, but damn! It’s something horrible like 18 point courier new – huge and hard to read!

The “Junk Mail Filtering” option was a bit of a worry – if you turn on the “filter when it receives” option, it’ll also – from what it says in the option box – delete the messages it thinks is spam off the server. This is a worry for me, because junk mail filtering’s always a bit wrong to start with, and every time it’s wrong, it’ll be deleting something off the server that I wanted. Not nice! There’s another option in the menus allowing you to filter the junk mail out of the folder you’re currently in, but no matter what I tried, it wouldn’t actually do anything other than make the program slow and hang a bit while it was doing whatever it was doing.

Ok, so it’s fast, it’s clean, it’s relatively easy to do some things, it’d be great if I didn’t get so much porn spam, and it’s really ugly to look at. That’s what I think. I’m going back to Evolution until something else comes along.