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| Kas Member Level: 25     Posts: 122/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Things in general are going great. Work is stressful at the moment - working for a communications (read: web sites) agency means that things need to be turned around really fast, so there's never time for uncompromising quality and you're always trading off for time. I'm finally being paid enough to live without having to think hard about how I'm spending money. 2005-2008 was really difficult because my wage meant I had to cut it very fine when it came to income / spending. In that respect, I feel good that all that hard work is finally paying off. When it comes to transition, I've been really successful. I don't get ridiculed by random insults in public any more, and any memory of what had come before has faded like a memory - like recovering from a traumatic experience. The last remnant of the problems I face are those that you face when you have to wear little or no clothes - for me, this means swimming and sexuality. I now feel intensely focused on sorting these things, pushing for my second opinion for surgery, working hard to lose weight so I can enjoy my body and my clothing more, and trying out erotica and sex-positive blogs and podcasts (such as Violet Blue's (NSFW) here: http://www.tinynibbles.com/) to explore my sexuality at little. A year ago, I would never have read a blog like Violet Blue's. To be honest, I still squick during some of her racier podcasts, but there's been a huge change in my thinking in the last twelve months. I used to be very conservative when it comes to my identity, my gender and my sexuality. Now, it seems like nothing is taboo - and I'm thinking about everything. I'm still not sure about how I feel about this, but the next twelve months are going to be the most stressful and exciting of my life  |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 123/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| We're predicted snow by the end of the week. Last time it came it caused chaos, as we had the most snow in one winter for about twenty years. Everyone ran out of grit, and it generally pissed everyone off. Sheffield had one day where it turned into a blizzard at about 6 in the morning and it continued for most of the day. I don't think I'll ever forget that, there's snow and then there's a lot of snow. It was very dark until about noon, and you could feel the strength of the weather. It was very different to the snow we're used to having in the UK. The busses stopped mid-morning and lots of people were stranded at work. One thing I hate about snow is when it thaws and re-freezes. This was very common last year, and we had several days when the footpaths were like ice rinks, literally. It would take three times as long to get everywhere because it was so slippery. I've since wanted to know how colder cities dealt with this, because I can't imagine people tolerating that in Scandinavia or Canada. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 124/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| It's been snowing in Sheffield for about twenty-four hours now, give or take a couple of hours' rest here and there. We've got another twenty-four hours of it to come. There's about three-to-four inches on the ground. This isn't unusual by last year's standards, but I can remember how in 1998 and 1999 most people in Britain thought bad winters were a thing of the past. By those standards, this is extremely unusual. But this is by no means something that doesn't happen in the UK - cold winters with lots of snow used to be quite common earlier in the 20th century. Normally I'd be happier with the snow, but I'm going to Manchester for an uber-cool gig on Friday, and home to Reading on Saturday. I'm really worried that the trains will stop, or the gig will be cancelled - as is the way with Britain and any amount of snow  We're really not used to this, despite it being our heritage. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 125/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Welp, that's the most snow I've ever seen. We've had another 3-4 inches last night, almost a foot of snow outside in total. All buses have been cancelled. All trains to Leeds, Nottingham, Rotherham and Manchester have been cancelled. Trams, as ever, are immortal - which means I go to work. I'll try to get some photos. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 126/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Today's snow is the most Sheffield's seen in the early winter since 1920. We've got a total of 10-12 inches. We've got drifts up to my knees in places, as well. I tried to get to work, but the trams were too infrequent to make it worth it. Here are my photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/56609017@N08/archives/date-posted/2010/12/01/ |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 127/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Originally posted by Colin Yeah. I've been in Reading over the weekend and heading back tomorrow. I'm hoping to bring the friction with me - it might be very icy up there. If we've had snow this early, it could be a sign of things to come - it could be the start of a very long winter... |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 128/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Read your contract. If they're in breach of the contract, you should be able to take legal advice. Also, never do any work on promised pay. If something is too good to be true, it usually is. Some people in business are ruthless, and sometime stupid to the point of breaking the law (to their own harm). |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 129/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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In response to this (http://bettween.com/xkeepah/tarale) thread on Twitter, I've decided to compile all of my thoughts regarding working with Mac OS X as a web developer. Editors and IDEs BBEdit http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html (Text Wrangler is a free alternative) Textmate http://macromates.com/ Smultron http://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/ Kod http://kodapp.com/ Eclipse PDT http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/ Netbeans http://netbeans.org/features/php/ Espresso http://macrabbit.com/espresso/ Coda http://www.panic.com/coda/ OS X is bundled with VIM for its CLI. BBEdit is a great bare-bones editor, and it's been going for an awful long time (I've got a Mac Classic with a black and white screen with BBEdit). The shortcuts are a bit non-standard, but then again BBEdit has been around as long as some of these standards, and it has its own to maintain. Textmate is the other major competitor to BBEdit and has many, many fans. Kod is barely out of beta, and a bit buggy. Eclipse and Netbeans are very heavyweight contenders, but the Eclipse PDT is very good for complex PHP projects with a lot of collaboration. BBEdit Textmate, Coda and Espresso are expensive, but many Mac-based agencies / development houses will have licences for them. MacPorts is a port system for OS X. If you've ever used APT or Portage package management systems, MacPorts is very similar. It has a large repository of programming tools such as SVN, LAMP stacks and other useful pieces of software. I found the LAMP stack a bit of a challenge but I did manage to get a full webserver and SVN server up-and-running on a G4 Cube with only a small amount of configuration. You probably won't need to use MacPorts at first, but it's always worth a look if you've exhausted other sources of tools. Development Environment XAMPP 1.0.1 http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Mac%20OS%20X/1.0.1/ (uses PHP 5.2 - newer versions of XAMPP use PHP 5.3 which some CMSs like Joomla and Drupal have not been updated to support yet). MacPorts http://www.macports.org/ Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) Filezilla FTP http://filezilla-project.org/ Cyberduck FTP http://cyberduck.ch/ Versions SVN client http://versionsapp.com/ OS X also comes with the SVN client for its CLI, which in my opinion is the best SVN client and is well worth learning. In my three previous workplaces, I've always been given a week to set up my development environment to my taste. Each company will usually recommend certain programs to you, usually because other developers use them and they already have software licences. This is the case for us, and we have licences for BBEdit, Textmate and Versions. Although you may not use SVN, it's very common in my experience. Every one of the companies that I've worked for have used it. If you get the chance, I'd recommend that you use the Terminal every now and again to pick it up. It's certainly not mandatory, but it's a skill that is worth its career weight in gold - it impresses employers and gives you a unique insight into how a LAMP platform project is structured, and how Subversion structures your working copies and its metadata. Versions is paid-for software, but you may find your employer already has a licence, or uses a similar piece of software. If you work for an agency, it's likely that they will give you an Adobe Creative Suite licence, too. Although I'm not a designer, I use Photoshop every day to take PSDs from designers to slice them up. If you're working with Macs, it's highly likely that you're working with Macs for this reason. If you need a graphics package at all, The GIMP is available but it's shit on OS X. It's outdated and outclassed by Photoshop in agency environments. If you just need to crop and resize JPEGs and PNGs, you'll find Preview.app that is bundled with OS X can actually do all of this out of the box, but most people quickly forget that. However, if you're expected to do any graphics work, you will be given a licence for something. That said, I find Acorn (http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/) and Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com/) to be the best lightweight image editing programs, and are fairly inexpensive. Other Useful Shit
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| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 130/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Thank you very much everyone :-) I've only just realised that I haven't been logged in for a while, so I have to pop around catching up with everything  I got myself a Freesat HD set-top box for HD Forumla One in 2011. All my workmates signed me a card, which my line managers signed in hypertext and ASCII hex codes  Going out for drinks tonight, probably stopping by our local rock club for some 2000s rock and metal, and some 1990s cheese and dance  I can't guarantee what will happen if the DJ plays Bomfunk MCs |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 131/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Thank you everyone :-) Went out for drinks in Sheffield last night. I don't remember any of the journey home - memory fades at the night club and comes back at home |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 132/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| http://www.katiefenn.co.uk/ I'm really pleased with the design, and the webserver that I put together especially for it (a second-hand Apple Powermac G4 Cube from work). I'm disappointed that I've neglected it, it's one of the best pieces of web work that I've ever done, and the first webserver that I've ever solely owned and operated. My boss said that he hired me on the back of the site design, so I should probably be very proud of it, but I can't help feeling humble :-) |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 133/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Aparantly the guy who filmed it has been digging a hole for himself on Facebook, insisting that she wasn't trans, and that she was a "pervert" and a "guy". I heard that he has since deleted his Facebook and Twitter profiles. What really surprised me is the amount of people in some news article's comment threads claiming that it was a racial attack, rather than motivated by transphobia. I've seen a lot of racist abuse from a lot of people in such comments. As a foreigner of the US, I've found that very surprising and alien. We have racism in the UK, but not nearly so intense. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 134/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Originally posted by Viola There is considerable precedent for the assault of transgender people, and toilets are a very common source of conflict. Also, bathrooms have been the centre of many recent political campaigns that seek to frighten people about who uses the bathroom with them. The actions and words of some of those present seem to support prejudice as a motivation. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 135/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Originally posted by Lady Crabbyboss I'm a big believer of self-support as part of transition. That is, going to college, going to uni, moving to a more tolerant place etc. You should aim as high as possible, if it's within your reach. That's very much a life lesson as much as it is a transition lesson, if you aim for the stars you'll clear the net. It's not always possible, though. Dependence on family is a huge factor if you're vulnerable. It's also highly dependent on your age and how much money you have. I'd also like to think that one day, if I was passing through on a road trip, I wouldn't be subjected to this kind of treatment. I wouldn't boycott Baltimore, but if I were driving east to west on a road trip, I'd definitely be drawn to places that were open and friendly to a diversity of people. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 136/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Chinese takeaway ordered; on its way. Hong Kong pork dumplings, pork fried rice, sweet and sour chicken Cantonese style. My favourite :-) |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 137/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| It's not going to get much cheaper, it's a forgone conclusion that fuel is just going to get more and more expensive. I'm pondering the possibility of holding out on buying a car until my first car can be electric. Within mainstream brands just beginning to market their first electric models, it's a distinct possibility. I figure that once I pass my test, I can probably rely on renting cars every now and again for visiting family and for trips, and use my bike and public transport for every other occasion. I believe in electric. I think it's not so much electric cars that will change our lives, but a revolution in power generation and power distribution. I believe nuclear fusion reactors are within our grasp technologically, and when the time comes that we learn to harness useful energy from them we are going to need an infrastructure and economy that is capable of harnessing it. Hence, electric cars. I have an almost religious belief in fusion power - it's such a fascinating and intoxicating possibility. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 138/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Jesus, that forum is ugly XD It looks like they've been doing some questionable things with the board software as well. Also, this made me chuckle:
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| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 139/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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Originally posted by @ I never use BBCode - I've used HTML formatting in posts since I learned how. I use the Quote feature for internal quotes, and yes, that's nice and easy. And yes, I did edit the post to add the horizontal rules - I am that anal As for XHTML-style tag closing, although it's not required by HTML5, it is allowed and is still considered the absolute best practice. It's a force of habit. Having said that, I did admire Acmlm's demonstration of how much he could condense HTML by consistently exploiting browser leniency. |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 140/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| So yeah, I've been feeling really repressed recently - you needn't read very deeply to gather that http://4walled.org/show-408700 But... I like it so much! |
| Kas Member Level: 25 Posts: 141/143 EXP: 87803 For next: 1817 Since: 07-28-07 From: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1024 days Last activity: 991 days |
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| Happy birthday |
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