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		<title>Da Vinci Reversed Text For PC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Grump</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I am not satisfied until I discover something acceptable for my goal.  This goal would be to reverse all of the English text on my Windows PC in a manner consistent with Da Vinci&#8217;s unique backwards-right-to-left writing style.  It&#8217;s done for other languages on Windows, so I don&#8217;t see why it couldn&#8217;t be done [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I am not satisfied until I discover something acceptable for my goal.  This goal would be to reverse all of the English text on my Windows PC in a manner consistent with Da Vinci&#8217;s unique backwards-right-to-left writing style.  It&#8217;s done for other languages on Windows, so I don&#8217;t see why it couldn&#8217;t be done on English with some kind of a hack.</p>
<p>Somehow, I think reversing the video output horizontally (mirrored) would achieve a decent result without any side-effects other than EVERYTHING being horizontally reverse (including images and buttons, and all UI elements).  However, then I would have to get used to moving the mouse cursor to the left when I want to go right, and right when I wanted to go left.  Unless of course, there is a way to invert the mouse&#8217;s horizontal directions as well.</p>
<p>The closest thing I&#8217;ve found is a Da Vinci backwards font.  However, this doesn&#8217;t achieve the result of making all text read right-to-left.  Besides, the system actually uses many different fonts, and making it hacked to use a single font like that would take a lot of work, and make it darn near boring.</p>
<p>If you have any ideas I could try, please let me know! <br/><br/>
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		<title>New Gripes From The Grump</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 06:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grumpy gripes are back!  If you were missing the whole umpitygrumpity gripey gruffness, well&#8230;you&#8217;re about to see some more.
I&#8217;m driving down the road eating a simple little Powerbar Protein Plus.  I look down and what do I see?  A flippin little piece of the candy bar on my pants.  Can I scrape it off before [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://img4.realsimple.com/images/home-organizing/cleaning/0210/pants-glass_300.jpg"><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;" title="Pant stains" src="http://img4.realsimple.com/images/home-organizing/cleaning/0210/pants-glass_300.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="214" /></a>Grumpy gripes are back!  If you were missing the whole umpitygrumpity gripey gruffness, well&#8230;you&#8217;re about to see some more.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m driving down the road eating a simple little Powerbar Protein Plus.  I look down and what do I see?  A flippin little piece of the candy bar on my pants.  Can I scrape it off before it melts itself permanently into my nice khakis?  Nope!  It&#8217;s already too late.  There goes another perfectly good pair of pants and it&#8217;s all because candy bars all fricken hate me.</p>
<p>I mean, I suppose I could try and be more careful.  Naw..I mean, shoot, I am pretty careful already.  I guess pants should just be more indestructible.  They can make pants wrinkle-free (which I want some by the way), but they can&#8217;t make them stain-proof?  Come on.  If there are good looking affordable pants that resist wrinkles and stains both, please let me know.  I just freakin hate stains.</p>
<p>Now let me begin on another gripe.  This involves internet that costs like $50 a month for residential service.  You would imagine, at that price a person would have pretty dang good internet service.  Wow, I mean, what a price to pay. We get 10 mbit/sec download speed and hmm maybe 3 1/4ths of an mbit/sec up speed.  Sure the down speed is nice.  The games don&#8217;t play so nice though.  The connection is just as crappy for me as for Shane&#8217;s 1.5 mbit/sec service from the same company.  It offers laggy multiplayer gaming, and what &#8211; &#8230;<em>disconnects</em> to boot!</p>
<p>I sit here using my web browser and email and what-not for a while, and I kid you not.  I&#8217;ve had to reset this dumb connection about 10 times tonight.  What on earth causes the stupid thing to go off that much in the first place?  It&#8217;s not wireless!  I just don&#8217;t understand.  CenturyTel&#8217;s networks really SUCK.  If they don&#8217;t do something to fix the internet around here so that uptime is more than 75%, &#8230;I&#8217;m gonna crack&#8230;.CRACK!  I&#8217;ll go bonkers!</p>
<p>I wish internet could be something with more options to choose from around here.  CenturyTel is the best we&#8217;ve got.  Doesn&#8217;t that SUCK like&#8230;royally?  CenturyTel&#8230;.you are one lousy service provider, and money grubbing greedy to boot.  TO BOOT!  I wish we could totally give you the BOOT!  SUCKY company.  YOU SUCK. <br/><br/>
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