Belfry Images

Microsoft has released a service pack for VS2005 under Windows Vista, so maybe I can consider Vista when I eventually upgrade my poor Athlon XP 1600+. Now I just have to get over having to go through twice as many screens to use advanced settings, mess around with an over-simplified explorer interface, buy an enormous screen to make room for the Aero Glass widgets, wait for minutes to delete a file, and the fifteen billion other annoyances that I picked up with Vista after playing for 5 minutes. Easy.

I was looking for GUI designers for Eclipse (because Sian-lee’s got me thinking about Java) and found this animated blog entry about the GridBag layout manager.

So tomorrow we have four weeks until Carrie and I get married. That’s 28 more sleeps. Yep. 28. Married. Hmm. Yep. Getting close.

I’m not worried. Not at all. Just another day, really. Just another simple normal day, that somehow has been transformed into a monstrous Italian wedding. Two marquees, four tier wedding cake, flower girls with fairy slippers, a brass band, mobile fridge, helicopters, and ninjas attacking.

OK so none of us are actually Italian, there won’t be a brass band or helicopters, and I asked the ninjas to leave the swords at home (on the hand-made invitations). But seriously. The cake decoration? On top of the 4-tier cake? It had to be _ordered_. From _England_. That’s like, overseas and shit. I spent 20 minutes talking to Mum #2 about ties and handkerchiefs for the groomsmen. We needed to decide on colours. I’m thinking about going with pink. Like the bridesmaids dresses (and the fairy flower girls). Or maybe silver. Silver hankies, that makes sense, nothing like blowing your nose on a silver hankie. Swot gets me going in the mornings.

*gag* too sweet. going… to… be… *swallows*

Tell you what, she’d better be worth it. My formerly evil dark emperor friend has just turned into a saccharine romantic disaster movie.

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