In case anyone is dying to know what I think is good on the internet, here is my Google Reader shared feeds feed.

In the interest of recording a snapshot of life's everyday minutiae, here is my morning internets routine (typically repeated in the afternoon and late evening):

-check gmail
-check Google calendar [I usually skip that step as I know there's nothing on it]

-read livejournal friends page

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I've got a computer again! YAY!

I'm very annoyed at Microsoft for not making it possible to format your own hard drive. Instead I had to have it done by professional-type folk (who presumably just had to take out the hard drive and plug it into a computer from which they could do their business).

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I got a free book (Telephone Ringing in ( Read more... )

AAAH!

Posting from froggy_dear's computer.

I'm well past the point where I'd be happy and relieved to have my computer reformatted and OS reinstalled. Can't even do that.

Oh hells.

Holy crap.

Technology can do that sort of thing, and yet it still takes 10 seconds to load a simple web page. Somebody's holding out on us.

I just bought a scanner. That means that I'm able to get an image of my Peanut Butter Sammiches cartoons that's clear enough to be colored on the computer instead of with crayons. And froggy_dear's away on vacation, so I need to get second opinions on how to do this from the livejournal. (That's you.)

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Okay, no more of that Bloglines rubbish. I went and made myself a webpage for my web comic: peanutbuttersammiches.googlepages.com. (Yeah, it's lame that "googlepages" is my domain, but that is the price of free, ad-less web space ( Read more... )

I finally gave in and got myself a Flickr account. Because I'm one of the cool kids. And I uploaded almost all of the good pictures that I have.

So go look at my pictures.

I have a Xanga account now. A couple people I know have them, and you can't comment on them unless you have a Xanga account yourself (this just one of many horrible flaws with Xanga (For instance, ever noticed how sparse Xanga profile pages tend to be? There's no incentive to fill out your profile because none of that information is even seachable ( Read more... )

So I have a facebook account now. I don't like the way the site works as far as needing an email to belong to a "network," and not being able to see anyone's profile unless they specifically let you. I understand that people might be concerned about their privacy, but I can't figure out why privacy settings wouldn't be optional. For instance, I ( Read more... )