two hours and twelve minutes....
that's how long it has taken me re-adjusting settings....and changing layouts....(not counting this mornings half-hearted effort in creating a dreamwidth account...which took about an hour!!!!) to realise that:
a) I can upgrade my account for free,
b) every time I selected a new theme my browser would get stuck, the laptop would freeze and I'd have to wait for about 4 minutes until everything started to go back to norm,
c) that I would have to say goodbye to my lovely purple background and font (which yes was very whimsical...but damn it I liked it!),
all of that because lj has decided to fuck around with reposting to bloody fb and tweeter and my all journal theme did not actually allow me to prevent this from happening no matter what I put in the bloody CSS box!!!!
on the other hand...I have a new layout which mildly morbid and reminds me of my favourite holiday (yes I believe in Christmas but I prefer my pagan holidays so yeah)...and I have just realised what lovely friends I have in lj in the form of solarbaby614 who kindly pointed out what to do (as most people on my stalker list have been doing as well) to fix this mess...and also stuck through my numerous attempts in this...only to finally realise how to check for the changes myself....yes I know...doing my stupid thesis yet being unable to use a blog...the irony has not escaped me either!
and since I have now 7 more free spaces for userpics...i shall dedicate this one to the lj geniouses who decided that this change was for the better....
a) I can upgrade my account for free,
b) every time I selected a new theme my browser would get stuck, the laptop would freeze and I'd have to wait for about 4 minutes until everything started to go back to norm,
c) that I would have to say goodbye to my lovely purple background and font (which yes was very whimsical...but damn it I liked it!),
all of that because lj has decided to fuck around with reposting to bloody fb and tweeter and my all journal theme did not actually allow me to prevent this from happening no matter what I put in the bloody CSS box!!!!
on the other hand...I have a new layout which mildly morbid and reminds me of my favourite holiday (yes I believe in Christmas but I prefer my pagan holidays so yeah)...and I have just realised what lovely friends I have in lj in the form of solarbaby614 who kindly pointed out what to do (as most people on my stalker list have been doing as well) to fix this mess...and also stuck through my numerous attempts in this...only to finally realise how to check for the changes myself....yes I know...doing my stupid thesis yet being unable to use a blog...the irony has not escaped me either!
and since I have now 7 more free spaces for userpics...i shall dedicate this one to the lj geniouses who decided that this change was for the better....