Behemoth Voyaging

In view of the current non-functioning of LJ's syndicated feeds, I would just like to point out that the feeds on Dreamwidth are working fine, that you don't need a paid account to create your own, and that, if anyone would like an invite code, I have some in hand, so feel free to drop me a screened comment with your email.

It's raining gently, and the sun is shining a little, but if there is a rainbow we can't see it from the east- or west-facing windows.

LJ seems to be letting me in today, so I've been able to scan my f-list for the first time since ... Thursday?

Thanks to jrittenhouse, who linked to this, I have now tweaked my style to fix the tag-list problem with Firefox 3.5.

In case anyone was wondering, LJArchive seems to work fine with Dreamwidth.

Somewhat to my surprise, after a few days of open-IDing, I found myself invited to set up an account here. So here I am! I don't know quite what I'll do with it yet, but I'm happy to be a beta-tester.

It's been a day of small annoyances with inanimate objects and cyber-constructs. (For instance, I wasted an hour rediscovering how to log on to a certain site, only to find that Firefox on the desktop had the login details all along and that the official materials I was supposed to get there weren't yet available.)

The latest trainwreck over in news is making me wonder whether I should be finding a different online home, but as long as most of the people I like to read are here, and as long as I don't suddenly find ads plastered on my permanent account, I don't have any immediate plans to go anywhere.

On the other hand, it's supposed to warm up tomorrow, and there's a three day weekend coming, and I finally disposed of one small but long-standing worry yesterday, so things could be worse.

Now I need to find something to read that isn't horrific fantasy -- even good horrific fantasy. Three of those more or less in a row is a little much.

I'm officially not-sick today, but still rather tired, so I'm not going to attempt a book roundup post.

The latest lj release actually has some nice things. LJ Mobile is nifty, and works on my Palm -- it doesn't actually require a phone. And comment editing! ( gratuitous snark )

I watched a lot of DVDs yesterday -- well, three episodes of SG-1 and one of Voyage, anyway. I think I still have whiplash from going from the goofy self-referential fun of "200" to the high drama of "Counterstrike." I do have to wonder, though, how all those planets with populations measured in the thousands -- all living in one village within walking distance of the Gate -- managed to stay that way for centuries. (No, this is not the first time I have wondered this.)

It also occurs to me that with two -- well, three, but one of them is not in the room with the TV -- DVD-capable computers and a DVD player, I could do 3-way frame-by-frame comparisons to try to unravel the layers of recycled footage in Voyage episodes like "No Escape from Death." (If they proclaimed that one as "All New" when it was first aired, they were skirting pretty close to false advertising.)

A bit feeble, but at least I got them upstairs.



The mysterious peripatetic ache seems to have settled back in my left shoulder where it belongs, and also seems to be easing up, possibly because we're back to semi-civilized temperatures.

Also deleted my first-ever bit of livejournal spam today, on a comment from last month. This is why I screen anonymous comments.

I was rather fond of my customized Opal layout, but the friends view seems to be fragile these days in ways that the newer layouts aren't, so I thought I'd try something different. (Now, if I could just get my picture of the week to display in a custom sidebar module, I'd be happy; also, I'd really rather anglicize my date display, but that's a minor annoyance.)

Then I messed around some more, and thanks to a post by sbisson in s2expressive I found exactly what I wanted. The blue flower background was an accidental default, but I like it.

Also, I had to give up on the old Xcolibur site view because it suddenly started not working in the photo album managment area.

I'm on vacation at home for the next couple of weeks -- hence, limited bandwidth. Possibly less than that, if I didn't succeed in fixing the dialup by my maneuvers with MS patches the other night.

I'll be using the low-bandwidth style, and there will be no photos for the duration -- but probably lots shortly after I have broadband access again!