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irssi theme for mIRC

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:04:18 +0000

I’m stuck with Windows these days so I’m using the mIRC IRC client. It’s stable and memory-efficient, but the UI is horrendous and I just can’t get used to the available themes. So this is my attempt to at least make mIRC look like irssi, which I’m used to. Here’s a screenshot.

I don’t really understand the whole “theme engine” thing with mIRC (why is it all so complicated?) but as far as I can tell this is an “MTS” theme. I’m using the Kte theme engine which seems like a lot of trouble to go to for this but it does work.

Download the theme: irssi_mirc_theme.zip

I’ve just been to have a haircut and it cost £13! I wish I still lived above a barbershop.

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:32:45 +0000

I’ve just been to have a haircut and it cost £13! I wish I still lived above a barbershop.

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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:27:53 +0000

Just saw this scroll past on the BBC 6 Music DAB infotext: “Broadsword calling Danny Boy, come...

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:06:00 +0000

Just saw this scroll past on the BBC 6 Music DAB infotext: “Broadsword calling Danny Boy, come in, over!”

Bricklayers everywhere want assistants like this guy.

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:04 +0000

Bricklayers everywhere want assistants like this guy.

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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:11:29 +0000

If you receive the TFL weekly alert email about weekend engineering works (subject: “Weekend...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:58:00 +0000

If you receive the TFL weekly alert email about weekend engineering works (subject: “Weekend line and station closures”) then you might find this helpful.

I am no longer in London every weekend, so I thought I’d unsubscribe. Turns out there’s no unsubscribe link in the email itself (which apparently isn’t illegal, on the grounds that it’s an informational email, not commercial) so you’ll have to use their website. The alerts.tfl.gov.uk site has a login, and presumably if you can remember or reset your password (I couldn’t do either) then you can log in and unsubscribe that way.

If you can’t log in, then you’re stuck with using their contact form to ask them to remove your email address from the list. It took them 20 days to reply to my request, but I am now unsubscribed.

34 Different Ways To Lace Shoes

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:51:52 +0000

34 Different Ways To Lace Shoes: I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that there’s a website for this.

Another one of my heroes.

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:05:00 +0000

Another one of my heroes.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:34:05 +0000

Le cochon danseur, from 1907.

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:53:33 +0100

Le cochon danseur, from 1907.

Joe & Elliot’s “Me and Mandy” music video...

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:48:45 +0100

Joe & Elliot’s “Me and Mandy” music video just won “best budget video” at the 2008 UK Music Video Awards.

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:40:21 +0100

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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:09:29 +0100

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Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:59:12 +0100

Joe tries to eat 3 Jacob’s cream crackers in a minute.

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:05:48 +0100

Joe tries to eat 3 Jacob’s cream crackers in a minute.

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Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:18:00 +0100

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness. (via If Charlie Parker Was a...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:58:39 +0100

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness. (via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats)

Results of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:49:48 +0100

Results of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:

Always entertaining reading. I think this one’s my favourite so far:

“Die, commie pigs!” grunted Sergeant “Rocky” Steele through his cigar stub as he machine-gunned the North Korean farm animals.

From Benedict Redgrove’s series for Bertone.

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:54:50 +0100

From Benedict Redgrove’s series for Bertone.