Went for a stroll round Ainslie the other day, and took some random shots, just for the fun of it.

Some are of houses I liked, some I didn’t like, and a few sunset shots.

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I promised Alli I’d put up some photos of the house looking nice, so here they are. These are from a few weeks ago (when I wasn’t sick!) when we thought we were having an inspection. As it turned out we never had the inspection, the agent forgot, but at least the house got cleaned up.

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There’s a manky bug in QT 3.3.3 that causes my mailer to convert tabs to spaces. Needless to say that’s a little annoying. It’s fixed in QT 3.3.4.

I got sick of waiting for the official 3.3.4 Debian packages so I rolled my own. These aren’t Debian Packages®™, they’re packages for debian, or in other words they work for me and other than that I wouldn’t know.

Get ’em for x86 here.

ps. Before you say anything, my sources tell me this bug doesn’t affect fvwm so you’re safe.

Just a brief note to all my fans, despite the Lyme’s best efforts I’m still breathing.

I’ve been laid up in bed, and on the couch, most of the week, but am back at work today, feeling a bit better. Still quite fatigued, easily puffed and generally not very energetic. But on the mend.

I’ve got a patch I went to get sorted, tested and out the door before it’s too late for 2.6.12, so I’m keen to get back on the wagon. At the same time I’ve still got probably a fortnight’s antibiotics ahead of me and plenty of bacteria to kill, so I might work from home a bit here and there to help keep my energy up.

So it seems that one of the Ticks I brought back from the coast a fortnight ago was carrying Lyme disease and has now kindly donated it to me.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection treated with antibiotics, I’m currently taking Doxycycline for it. Out on the net there seems to be some disagreement as to whether it can be eradicated with antibiotics, some doctors believe it may be able to hibernate (my word) and cause recurring infections. Let’s hope not.

Symptoms are fairly varied and vague, something that has lead to Lyme being mis-disagnosed as chronic fatigue, MS and Rheumatoid arthritis. Currently I’m experiencing a non-descript rash (not Bull’s-eye), aches and pains, and extreme fatigue.

Perhaps interestingly I only went to the doctor after reading about Ticks and Tick-borne infections on Wikipedia, so thanks to the folks at Wikipedia.

No thanks to the folks at ebay (and Google pull your head in!):

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