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I got a great Christmas card today with a great stamp on it.
Now I might be wrong, but is that not Santa shitting down a chimney?

I needed to create drop shadows on around 200 images. I didn’t really like the idea of doing it with Gimp as that would have taken hours! It is really simple to do it using Imagemagick

convert
\( +clone -background black -shadow 80x3+5+5 \) +swap -background white -mosaic

I needed to convert a whole directory, so it’s just a simple case of wrapping it around a loop

for a in *.jpg
do
echo $a
convert "$a" \( +clone -background black -shadow 80x3+5+5 \) +swap -background white -mosaic "shadows/$a"
done


I received this e-mail from HSBC earlier today telling me that I’d given HSBC my e-mail address but not the permission to use it. Yes that’s right HSBC. I haven’t given you permission to use my e-mail address.. SO DON’T FUCKING USE IT!

Wahoo, I’m back! You’ve probably noticed that Deaconsworld has been down for the last few days. I’m really sorry about that, but everything back and working now.

Pipex have upgraded my line from 1Mb to 2Mb but things didn’t go well as they allocated me a new IP range. All sorted now though. Thanks to Suzanne in Business Retentions.

Anyway still having problems with e-mail or their website please drop me an e-mail.

So the US have finally got their way and closed allofmp3.com. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years, allofmp3 is a Russian site that sells very cheap, none DRM‘d MP3s. This was great for consumers, but not great for the RIAA as Russian law allowed allofmp3 to only have to pay 15% in royalties.

As the xenophobic US Government doesn’t like anyone who isn’t a full paid-up, flag waving American they started to put pressure on the Russians to close the site, even though it was operating within Russian law.

What really annoys me is what gives the US the right to bully, invade and impose their laws on other countries. Just because the US doesn’t like something doesn’t mean it wrong, evil or funding terrorism!