Leipzig train

Its officially getting closer, I've just booked my outbound train ticket from Berlin to Leipzig!

As we were not able to take advantage of the "Sparpreis" offers, which come with standard return bookings, I figured at least that I would be able to take advantage of getting the outbound ticket earlier ie not having to wait until 89 days before the return journey.

However, I checked the website out of interest today, getting my dates muddled and thinking that tomorrow would have been 89 days and found that not only could I book my outbound trip but there was already no "Germany-special" tickets for our train of choice!  Instead have had to go for the 5pm train and a long wait at Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

Will just have to buy the biggest ice cream sundae that Eiscafe Zanetti have, just to while away the hours! :-)


anyway, anyone else in a similar position and purchasing single tickets.  I'd recommend checking asap. Also, best to do it online.  I did originally enquire at Deutsche Bahn's UK office and not only did they say the tickets would be £35 each (instead of 31 euro online), there would be an additional charge for credit card use.  They even insisted that this was the same price as available on the website, trying to explain the extra cost was for seat reservation, which is included in the lower ticket cost of my online purchase.

Geek question (work related!)

anyone know anything about working with Microsoft Visio and converting drawings into an image file for use on the web?

Been tasked with trying to get this resolved for our departmental website.  One of my predecessors created an important page of the website in Visio (its a big flow-chart with lots of links leading off it)  and I guess must have uploaded it to the site directly.  These days however there is a more structured system re the websites using CMS (not sure about the technicalities of this but it appears to work in a similar way to LJ's rich text editor) and I need to upload the image as a jpeg or similar.

Have spent the last few weeks playing around with Visio and am not getting any closer!  No matter what format I save the drawing as, the quality degrades really badly, as if extra pixels have been added; creating fuzzy lines and halos.
It does convert to pdf with no problems but not to jpeg, gif, bitmap etc.

Any ideas?  Anyone?  Please?

Icon of Coil at WGT - its official!!!

YaYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*runs round room screaming and bouncing off the walls*

Finally got the first official WGT announcement and Icon of Coil are on the list!!!!!!!!! Squeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Along with Combichrist and Scandy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I get to see Andy CC play in one band or another 4 times in one week!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*just a little bit excited*

First official listing of bands as follows:

ADORATION (GB) , A SPELL INSIDE (D) , AKANOID (D) , ALICE IN VIDEOLAND
(S) , AMNISTIA (D) , 
ASP (D) , ATARGATIS (D) , AUTUMNBLAZE (D) , AVA INFERI (P) , BLITZKID
(USA) , BRILLIG (AUS) , BURN (D) , BUSHART (GB) , CALABRESE (USA) -
european premiere , CAT RAPES DOG (S) , CLAN OF XYMOX (NL) , CLIENT
(GB) , COMBICHRIST (N) , CONTAINER 90 (S) , CORDE OBLIQUE (E) , CRANES
(GB) , CUMULO NIMBUS (D) , DER BLAUE REITER (E) , DIE ART (D) , DIE
FORM (F) , DIE PERLEN (D) , DIE SO FLUID (GB) , DIES ATER (D) ,
DRACONIAN (S) , EDEN WEINT IM GRAB (D) , EDENBRIDGE (A) , EGOamp (D) ,
EISBRECHER (D) , EISENFUNK (D) , EYES OF EDEN (D) , FABRIK C (D) ,
FANG ON FUR (USA) , FEINDFLUG (D) , FETISCH:MENSCH (D) , FEUERSCHWANZ
(D) , FGFC 820 (USA) , FLIEHENDE STÜRME (D) , FROZEN PLASMA (CH) ,
GEISTFORM (E) , GREIFENKEIL (D) , GRENDEL (NL) , HOLLENTHON (A) , ICON
OF COIL (N/CDN) , iLiKETRAINS (GB) , INKUBUS SUKKUBUS (GB) , IWR (IL)
, KATRA (FIN) , KMFDM (USA) , L`AME IMMORTELLE (A) , LACRIMAS
PROFUNDERE (D) , LAHANNYA (GB) , LEANDRA (D) , LETZTE INSTANZ (D) ,
MDM (CDN) - german premiere , MEGAHERZ (D) , MELOTRON (D) , MINERVE
(D) , MODCOM (GB) , MONO INC. (D) , MY DYING BRIDE (GB) ,
NACHTGESCHREI (D) , NOCTIFERIA (SLO) , NOSFERATU (GB) , NURZERY RHYMES
(D) , PATENBRIGADE:WOLFF (D) , PSYCHE (CDN) , QNTAL (D) , RAPPACINIS
TOCHTER (D) - Musical , RISQUE (E) , SAM (D) , SAMAEL (CH) , SARA NOXX
& FRIENDS (D) , SCANDY (N) , SCARLET & THE SPOOKY SPIDERS (I) , SCARY
BITCHES (GB) , SCHELMISH (D) , SCHNARPH (D) , SCHOCK (D) , SECTION 25
(GB) , SOLITARY EXPERIMEMTS (D) , SONAR (B) , SonVer (GB) , SPECIMEN
(GB) - original lineup , STATE OF THE UNION (USA) - german premiere ,
STEVEN SEVERIN (GB) , STOA (D) , T.A.N.K. (D) , THE ETERNAL AFFLICT
(D) , THEATRE OF HATE (GB) , TUNES OF DAWN (D) , TURNBULL AC`s (S) ,
TYR (FO) , TYSKE LUDDER (D) , UNDEAD (USA) , UNSUN (FIN) , UNTERNEHMEN
STAHLKLANG (D) , VENDEMMIAN (GB) , VNV NATION (GB) , VOLKMAR (A) ,
WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW (A) , WINTERKÄLTE (D) , YELWORC (D) , ZIN (D)


A fair few others on there that I want to see too, but of course 3 bands are the priority!  
Hope to get to see Turnbull AC's too; not gotten round to getting the CD yet 
but if live performance is anything like Spetznaz it will be worth seeing.

Tickets also on sale too.  66 Euro *gulp* my credit card really will be crying this month.

But its all going to be worth it, just to finally see Icon of Coil again.
Very, very happy indeed. :-)