For the fucking record. WordPerfect vs. HP bug.

For anyone who's frantically Googling around trying to find the answer to that problem with Corel WordPerfect 12 where the font disappears, becomes tiny, small, miniscule, displays as little grey dots, there are size problems displaying fonts, and I'm trying to pack as many Googleable keywords into this in the hopes that it'll help solve your problem, and this problem only showed up after you installed a Hewlett-Packard printer, or, specifically, the HP OfficeJet 6110 printer scanner copier fax machine on your system, especially with Windows XP...

...or even if it's on the same local area network with you...

Even if the bloody drivers are off your system, you still need to go into your control panel and make sure the printer is no longer listed as a system printer before it'll give you your font size back to something normal.

I have no idea why it does this stupid crap, but that's what it took to give me my bloody thing back. Sheesh.

Can't sleep, fonts will eat me

Couldn't sleep, after I'd slept for around two hours. So I got up in hopes of making a sign to put up at work, a sign to advertise Lewis Carroll's birthday.

Why just confine it to LJ, and why make up surreal stuff to post when you can go and create surreal stuff to happen? And when you can convince others off LJ to create surreal stuff to actually happen, that's even better.

What I want to put on the sign is something like this:

"Has life gotten somewhat boring? Liven it up by falling down the rabbit hole for a day. Join people across the world in celebration of Lewis Carroll's birthday and make your day ever so slightly surreal. Have a mad tea party! Converse with people beyond the looking-glass! Talk with rabbits! Do those silly things you wish you weren't too grown-up to do. Go ask Alice. I think she'll know."

In which both "barbeque lighting" and "engineer pissing contest" are redefined:

Barbeque lighting: http://www.mjc.com.au/unclepete/jokes/1165.html (stronger-than-average warning about food/beverages/bathroom/co-workers applies)
Parent website: http://www.mjc.com.au/unclepete/ (warning: frames)

Sadly, the engineer's website referenced in the barbeque lighting tale has been taken down, with a short note left. Evidently the Powers that Be weren't as thrilled as they ought to have been.

[Edit: Archive of said engineer's website, complete with boom-'splosion photos and all, link courtesy of amaliedageek]