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Lots of changes have been coming up in my life it seems the past year or so. The newest of these is a change in jobs, I will be leaving my current employer of over 3 years to take a development/admin job for a sister company. I am looking forward to it, and the atmosphere should be a little better for me I think.

Other than that I have been keeping busy with work around the house. Spent all day yesterday cleaning up the yard and trimming trees. Its been a very yard work weekend as all the yard stuff has to be out on Monday morning. I took down the old umbrella style clothes post in the back yard. It was actually a pretty big job for one person since the large cement glob in the ground had to be dug up and moved out of the hole. Manged to get it out and everything looks good, but now I need to find away to get rid of said cement glob.

On the toy and gadget front I ended up getting a Electronic drum kit (For some reason every picture I can find right now has the double kick in it, which I don’t have. I still have issues with working the one kick for now). :)

Its been fun and a pretty good stress relief. Epibeta has been giving me some beats to work on every now and then. I will maybe see about adding the beats to posts as I am learning them.. Might actually be helpful to others.

I recently made the switch from Pidgin to Gajim and have been using a jabber server that supports transporting of msn, icq, and aim to talk to the people that refuse to support jabber.

I have been pretty happy with the switch to Gajim and in actual fact it is not much different on the surface than Pidgin. One thing I did notice was the iconsets for transport protocols do not work unless you turn on Preferences -> General -> Interface Customization -> Use Transports iconset.

After turning this on it reports the correct status of any users in the transport group, but uses a different icon image than all your jabber contacts. To correct this I copied the contents of “/usr/share/gajim/data/iconsets/jabberbulb/” (jabberbulb was the icon theme I was using for the jabber contacts) to “/usr/share/gajim/data/iconsets/transports/msn/” (for msn, do the same for aim, icq, etc). I didn’t know if this would work since MSN has a lot more status icons than the jabberbulb set, but it seems to be happy and everyone on my contact list now looks like a jabber user (best as I can get for now till everyone sees the light and switches).