The first time trying to stop my USB hard-disk-drive I get the following “Could not find any processes locking USB device!”, great, the one program that advertises as “an enhanced and hassle-free replacement for Windows safe removal tool” doesn’t even work.

Back to directly unplugging the drive.

I chose Procion over Acid Dye due to being a little cheaper, and the specific Procion type I bought was Procion MX, a cold water dye, what I didn’t realise was a fixer/setter is also required in this case sodium carbonate (soda ash) as this added to the price.

Both items can be purchased from eBay seller prothree and including shipping cost $6 for the Procion (25g) and $5.50 for the Soda Ash (200g).  Acid dye (10g) can be purchased for $7.

The procedure to dye fabrics with Procion MX is fairly straight forward, what I planned to dye black was a pink top and grey skirt.

Procedure

1. First fill a container with about ten litres of water, add the Procion MX dye and stir to make sure everything is dissolved and mixed evenly.
2. Immense the cloths in the dye bath and stir for thirty minutes to make sure cloths are evenly dyed.
3. Add the soda ash and again stir for thirty minutes to make sure soda ash is dissolved and mixed evenly.
4. Remove cloths from dye bath and rinse with clean water to remove excess dye.
5. Once the majority of dye is removed, it can be machine washed to remove any traces.

Enjoy the newly coloured clothes.

• Phone calls to yourself and your tenant and to arrange tradesmen for your property,
• Correspondence posted to yourself and your tenant (things like routine inspection notices, breaches, tenant invoices),
• Printing and stationery cost,
• Bank fees charged for the collection of rent and transfer of funds by BankWest, and
• Access to the internet for use of email.

With all the items listed, I am surprised that LJ Hooker Belmont WA premises water and electricity is not also charged.

Stamp Duty
Cutoff [$]  Rate [%]  Duty [$]  Formula
0           1.9       0    0
120000      2.85      2280      =C3+(A4-A3)*B3/100
150000      3.8       3135      =C4+(A5-A4)*B4/100
360000      4.75      11115     =C5+(A6-A5)*B5/100
725000      5.15      28452.5   =C6+(A7-A6)*B6/100

Property Value        500000    
Duty                  17765     =VLOOKUP(C9,A:C,3,TRUE) + (C9-VLOOKUP(C9,A:C,1,TRUE))*VLOOKUP(C9,A:C,2,TRUE)/100

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Update, next day
This also works for Individual income tax rates;

Tax Rates
Cutoff [$]  Rate [%] Tax [$]  Formula
0           0        0        0
6000        15       0        =C3+(A4-A3)*B3/100
37000       30       4650     =C4+(A5-A4)*B4/100
80000       37       17550    =C5+(A6-A5)*B5/100
180000      45       54550    =C6+(A7-A6)*B6/100

Income               100000
Tax                  24950    =VLOOKUP(C9,A:C,3,TRUE) + (C9-VLOOKUP(C9,A:C,1,TRUE))*VLOOKUP(C9,A:C,2,TRUE)/100

“The tenant has informed me that the door handle from the passage leading into the lounge & Bedroom 3 can not be opened from inside the passage area and when you are in the Bedroom, this could be a fire hazard. “

As I was back in the country I managed to make an appearance and resolve this myself, I also noticed a number of things I wasn’t happy with.

Dogs

Firstly, the dogs stated in the tenant agreement were not Chihuahuas, but Staffordshire Bull Terriers (Staffys), I am not sure how you mix up the smallest breed of dog with a medium sized dog, but I assumed they were labelled as Chihuahuas so I was more inclined to be okay with it. When I spoke to LJ Hooker Belmont WA about this, they claimed the dogs must have grown in six weeks, interesting.

The breeds didn’t bother me but I requested the lease to be amended with the correct breed types. LJ Hooker Belmont WA first claimed that since the lease was already signed it couldn’t be amended, okay then, please notify the tenant of a breach in the Residential Tenancy Agreement. A few days later LJ Hooker Belmont WA forwarded me the updated lease.

Stickers

Secondly, on inspection the tenant had stickers on the walls, I informed LJ Hooker Belmont WA that the tenant was in breach of the Tenancy Agreement. LJ Hooker Belmont WA claimed Blu-Tack was okay, I had to show them the Tenancy Agreement;

“The Tenant shall not make any alterations or additions to the Premises or to alter any fixtures or fittings, furniture or chattels, or place any sign on, or paint the Premises, use Blue Tac or any other adhesive material, or drive any nails for screws into or deface any part of the Premises.”

LJ Hooker Belmont WA then claimed that the courses they were on wasn’t always up to date, I didn’t understand, had they never read a standard REIWA Residential Tenancy Agreement. I never followed up if this was resolved, though the Blu-Tack was never the issues, the issue was the tenant breached the Tenancy Agreement and I was never informed.

“Check the light”

LJ Hooker Belmont WA informs me via email;

“Could you pls let me know when someone can check the light and door locks to the property.”

I know about the door locks, but this was the first mention of a light, let me get this straight, I need to send somebody out, at my expense to “check the light”, no description of the problem, where it is located, what the tenant has tried. I ask for further clarification, LJ Hooker Belmont WA updates me with;

“Just been to the property and it’s the power point in the patio as he has an outside fridge waiting to be connected.”

I arrange for my electrician to visit the property, on return he emails me with;

“pointed out to Tenant that those 3 power points are for lighting only and can’t be used for plugging in a fridge”

So the Tenant unplugged the outdoor lighting, tried to plug in a fridge and then complained that the powerpoint was not working, I wonder why.

On further Googling it seemed that there were issues with the XRegExp library and jQuery 1.7.1, reported by other uses on IE 6 to 9. Schabse Laks posted a fix to the problem on his blog, though this gave me a new error, so I have modified it slightly, modification on line 271;

RegExp.prototype.exec = function (str) {
	if (typeof(str) !== "string")
		str = String(str);
	var match = real.exec.apply(this, arguments),
		name, r2;

Download the resolved SyntaxHighlighter files here
shCore.max.js
shCore.js

After using it to create and test more than one extremely complex regular expression, I thought it was time I gave RegexBuddy some ‘big ups’.

So what is so good about RegexBuddy,

Firstly, it allows you to create regular expressions using layman’s terms, “Non printable character”, “Match between zero and unlimited times”, “Create back-reference”, etc, no longer is there a need to remember the regular expression syntax.

Secondly, I can test my regular expression with extreme ease, I can show the full matched text and any matched groupings.

Thirdly, I can directly translate the regular expression to the programming language of choice, VB, PHP, JavaScript, etc, and not have to worry about the specifics of how to form a regular expression for that specific language.

I use RegexBuddy for PHP and JavaScript, I no longer need to ‘guess’ what the regular expression will be and constantly have to upload my code to the server to try it out.

Here’s an example expression I recently used in my WordPress plugin Slimbox2 Slideshow;

Download it from the WordPress Plugin Directory

Remember to enable “Link thumbnails to: Image File” on the WordPress Gallery settings page.

Head over to viamini-itxebook.com to read about it and many other cool mods.