They're breaking at your door.

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Friday night was the eastlondongoths meet at the Prospect of Whitby in Wapping. Present were myself, arkady, valkyriekaren, mr_eleganza, latexiron, kjersti, gothbabe, squiddity, hairyears and _whitenoise. The pub is small and cramped and all the other patrons must be killed, but the beer is unadulterated and the food is good and huge. On the way home hairyears told us appalling tales of how to set fire to bike thieves when you only meant to zap them across the bollocks. "Spark plug voltages teach bike thieves new respect." We also saw greap on the train.

Yesterday was spent with the lovely redcountess and Bright Young Things, apparently a movie about Slimelight in the 1930s.

I also spent some quality time with my lovely new FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 install. The native FreeBSD Firefox is crashing like a maniac, which is supposed to be one of those things that Never Happens. So I decided to try the Linux binaries of Thunderbird 0.8 and Firefox 1.0PR instead. So I installed linux_base-8 (a pile of Red Hat RPMs). And then linux-gnomelibs. And then linux-gtk2, and linux-gtk as well just in case. And then linux-atk. And then linux-pango. And then linux-glib2. And then linux-fontconfig. Then Thunderbird started. Then I fixed a bug in linux-pango by hand. (The bug's only been waiting since June; that you won't be able to run any recent Linux GNOME binaries without it being fixed certainly doesn't mean it's needed for 5.3-RELEASE.) Then the Firefox installer would run. Linux Firefox has been stable, except that it reliably crashes whenever you hit 'preview' when posting to LiveJournal; this entry was posted with Mozilla 1.7.2 for FreeBSD. Possibly it's time to get a Macintosh.