Faster than the speed of night
Well, there was a total lunar eclipse this morning.
Even though I think I was actually awake at that time, I missed it due to not thinking I was awake, but, nevertheless, something resembling a journal update follows:
Over the past few weeks, I did a few sporadic backups from the other journal. I will be cannibalizing those entries shortly, for a number of reasons.
1) considering what LJ's unwritten policies which nevertheless must be obeyed are like, I don't particularly want my relatively personal content on their servers
2) if I ever really wanted to have an online, offsite backup of stuff, I'd be better off dumping into a password protected zip file with a couple of pars and stashing it on my own hosted space, which, considering that I actually pay for my own hosted space, I should be doing it anyway
2a) same with mirrorring, and I'd use Serendipity, or WordPress instead of LJ, because they've both better features for actual blogging and not, say, stalking people online
3) they clutter up this journal with redundancy and since I'm only using this for basically doing stuff I don't want to clutter up the journal service I actually use for journaling with, I don't really need extra mirrors of those entries every time I do an ljdump of this one, which is almost as good as CVS for keeping old versions of drafts around and accessible
With that in mind, I'll be emptying out their contents and reconfiguring those entries into holding spaces for whatever I feel like working on that I might possibly want to access when I'm away from the laptop and/or dumped someplace I can't currently find because it was part of the last backup/home folder cleaning purge.
That actually happens fairly often, though less often now that I've started titling things descriptively enough that EasyFind actually has a decent chance of finding them.
The problem with having a bunch of non-linear entries scattered around is that it makes it tedious to scroll through them looking for whatever one wanted. Tags and memories, while useful, are only helpful if one actually visits the site fairly regularly, which I would prefer not to, due in part to having discovered that LJ loads more than 116kb of JavaScripts for who knows what with every page.
Therefore, I'm also going to consolidate them all into one place. I briefly entertained the notion of marking raw notes by setting them as private, and then more fleshed-out drafts-in-progress under f-lock, and finally making nearly/completed stuff public, so that I could use the calendar month view with its subject lines and the little lock icons by each entry to have a quick view of what exists, and at what stage, but that doesn't work when I'm working offline. Plus, it's rather tedious having to set the security of each post individually, and not really that useful compared to having decent [DESCRIPTION] prefixing the subject line.
Also, the 116kb of LJ JavaScript is, as mentioned, a turn-off.
Therefore, to make things easier when using xJournal's very nearly excellent History function, I've just decided to move them all to the same day, perhaps set of days depending on completion status.
xJournal's History is merely nearly excellent because it only works on the journal you have set as your primary account, the app itself only interfaces with LiveJournal itself (which is technically a separate complaint), and it does not show you an easy scrollable listing of all your entries at once, or even by month/year.
Instead, what it does do is show a kind of collapsed tree of year/month/day, in which one keeps drilling down through columns until one locates the entry one wants.
However, it does have certain niceties like preserving all the Music/Tags/Mood/Location metadata (of which tags are the most useful and important), showing the actual URL of the posted entry, and, of course allowing convenient offline viewing and editing of each post.
And it will show everything that was posted on the selected day as the simple list of subject lines, complete with distinguishing lock-status icons.
Thus, by redating all my drafts to the same day, I can easily scroll through them all, just like I wanted.
There was going to be more, but I could use some sleep and I think this covers the essential stuff.
Even though I think I was actually awake at that time, I missed it due to not thinking I was awake, but, nevertheless, something resembling a journal update follows:
Over the past few weeks, I did a few sporadic backups from the other journal. I will be cannibalizing those entries shortly, for a number of reasons.
1) considering what LJ's unwritten policies which nevertheless must be obeyed are like, I don't particularly want my relatively personal content on their servers
2) if I ever really wanted to have an online, offsite backup of stuff, I'd be better off dumping into a password protected zip file with a couple of pars and stashing it on my own hosted space, which, considering that I actually pay for my own hosted space, I should be doing it anyway
2a) same with mirrorring, and I'd use Serendipity, or WordPress instead of LJ, because they've both better features for actual blogging and not, say, stalking people online
3) they clutter up this journal with redundancy and since I'm only using this for basically doing stuff I don't want to clutter up the journal service I actually use for journaling with, I don't really need extra mirrors of those entries every time I do an ljdump of this one, which is almost as good as CVS for keeping old versions of drafts around and accessible
With that in mind, I'll be emptying out their contents and reconfiguring those entries into holding spaces for whatever I feel like working on that I might possibly want to access when I'm away from the laptop and/or dumped someplace I can't currently find because it was part of the last backup/home folder cleaning purge.
That actually happens fairly often, though less often now that I've started titling things descriptively enough that EasyFind actually has a decent chance of finding them.
The problem with having a bunch of non-linear entries scattered around is that it makes it tedious to scroll through them looking for whatever one wanted. Tags and memories, while useful, are only helpful if one actually visits the site fairly regularly, which I would prefer not to, due in part to having discovered that LJ loads more than 116kb of JavaScripts for who knows what with every page.
Therefore, I'm also going to consolidate them all into one place. I briefly entertained the notion of marking raw notes by setting them as private, and then more fleshed-out drafts-in-progress under f-lock, and finally making nearly/completed stuff public, so that I could use the calendar month view with its subject lines and the little lock icons by each entry to have a quick view of what exists, and at what stage, but that doesn't work when I'm working offline. Plus, it's rather tedious having to set the security of each post individually, and not really that useful compared to having decent [DESCRIPTION] prefixing the subject line.
Also, the 116kb of LJ JavaScript is, as mentioned, a turn-off.
Therefore, to make things easier when using xJournal's very nearly excellent History function, I've just decided to move them all to the same day, perhaps set of days depending on completion status.
xJournal's History is merely nearly excellent because it only works on the journal you have set as your primary account, the app itself only interfaces with LiveJournal itself (which is technically a separate complaint), and it does not show you an easy scrollable listing of all your entries at once, or even by month/year.
Instead, what it does do is show a kind of collapsed tree of year/month/day, in which one keeps drilling down through columns until one locates the entry one wants.
However, it does have certain niceties like preserving all the Music/Tags/Mood/Location metadata (of which tags are the most useful and important), showing the actual URL of the posted entry, and, of course allowing convenient offline viewing and editing of each post.
And it will show everything that was posted on the selected day as the simple list of subject lines, complete with distinguishing lock-status icons.
Thus, by redating all my drafts to the same day, I can easily scroll through them all, just like I wanted.
There was going to be more, but I could use some sleep and I think this covers the essential stuff.