MOT
Mileage: 18991
MOTed by Roger in Catford. Passed.
18000 Mile Service
Mileage: 18133
Standard 18000 mile service at Carl Rosners again, plus new rear EBC again, and strip and clean front calipers*. Also new chain and sprockets. £525. Ouch. Rosners overfilled the coolant, and didn’t bother to check the brake fluid after de-binding the front calipers – so that the brake lever was pulling right back to the bar. Tch tch. Put new brake fluid in and bled the system myself. Good news is the brakes are good again after months of being crap. I’m too lazy.
First MOT must be due soon.
* Edit 02/08/10 - I’ve just had the calipers off and found that this hadn’t been done either. I wonder what else they didn’t do properly. Last time I use Carl Rosners.
OT: CS4, AS3 and dynamically embedding fonts
This is a classic example of the kind of frustrations yer average amateur punter can face when using Flash CS4.
You’re trying to use an embedded font which ( you think ) you have added to your library, and set to export for use with Actionscript. However, when you try use that font dynamically with either TextFormat() or a StyleSheet() or whatever, the font will not display. It usually happens with fonts like Helvetica, Frutiger etc. You end up jumping through hoops and using ‘alternative methods’ to get your font to display correctly – and it’s a enough to make you want to jump out of the nearest window.
Well I finally figured out what is going on… (more…)
12000 Mile Service
Mileage: 11114
At Carl Rosners – standard 12000 mile service, plus new rear EBC’s and strip and clean the rear caliper.
New front tyre – Bridgestone BT020
Mileage: 1075?
Decided to mix a fully road-focused front with the 70/30 Tourance on the back – to see if I could get quicker steering / more grip out of the front end. Lets see how we go….