Where do I go to, my lovelies?

[einekleinerob]

Just to make it plain: if I don't post here very often it isn't that I'm being rude or neglecting you guys on LJ, it's simply that I already have a well-established blog over in the terra incognita (from whose Bourne no Jason is returned, with or without golden fleece) that is Blogger. The puns are no better there, I assure you, but should you wish

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[einekleinerob]

Friendslocking - I can guess what it is but no, haven't a clue. Bear in mind that a few weeks ago I didn't even know LJ existed. Clearly this is a whole way of using LJ I haven't encountered, as Blogger doen't work in that way.

I figured chiron14 was Andy, though I've comprehensively lost touch with him. (I exchange the odd card with Graham Peters though.) Haven't seen the Eyre kids for a while so not sure how much point there would be in linking them in. Still, why not?

I have heard only a deafening silence out of Selby for some time: nothing last Christmas though I note Chris is still doing Compuserve stuff so hasn't totally crashed and burned yet. I am aware that Chris had, er, issues but last time I had contact there was an air of cautious optimism. I take it that has evaporated.

Do tell me how to lock the hoi polloi out of our exchanges (or give me an email address) and we can speak further on the business.

Poor Mary. That must be sore. I managed to foul up my shoulder with excessive violin playing recently and have been having physio. As you say, age...

[gillo]

Friendslocking - I can guess what it is but no, haven't a clue. Bear in mind that a few weeks ago I didn't even know LJ existed. Clearly this is a whole way of using LJ I haven't encountered, as Blogger doen't work in that way.

OK. You can select how visible any post is individually on the page from which you post a new entry. There's a drop-down menu which allows you to choose different settings:



Or you can go into the "Admin Console" and set a higher security level as standard.



shows the bar at the top with all the drop-down menus which give access to all the bells and whistles. You can also create a custom filter - or several - so that your posts only reach the people you choose - if I have a personal post I may not want it to be read by people who are only interested in reading my stories - or vice versa. I've created a filter for just you and will make a post in a minute to demonstrate it working - and fill you in a bit more.



There are a lot of FAQ pages to help you sort such things out - the basic URL is http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=6, where the number "6" can be replaced with rather a lot of others. 24 is particularly helpful in this respect.



Does that make sense? There will be a test at the end of term...

[sartorresartus]

Apologies for the silence. We haven't sent Christmas cards for a year or two. We have so much else on, they get neglected I am ashamed to say. Suffice it to say, your ears should burn fairly frequently, and certainly every time I pick up the Times Crossword (I was getting quite good at it until I got too daft to concentrate) and see adverts for the Edinburgh Festival. IPOF I use the Times2 as a touchstone to keep my brain working forwards at all, and have the Ward now hooked on getting the main word on the Polygon each morning.