Are we having fun yet? (Um, no.)
Why am I not surprised that the promised 'clarification' or whatever on lj_biz never materialized?
bubble_blunder is my hero, for this open letter to LJ/6A, which you should all read because it is awesome and pretty much 100% expresses my views on this nonsense, only, you know, politely.
My favorite bit from the post:
"We are not arguing your rights to make rules regarding what content that you are and are not willing to host. And we would gladly make an effort to follow those rules, if we actually understood what they are. Unfortunately we don't." (emphasis mine)
I spent until about 4AM last night/this morning using Lj-Sec to back up this journal to my GJ. And this was after, mind you, spending all fucking day downloading .NET and ljArchive (because I want to keep my comments in some format, too, damnit)
Backing up the journal really wasn't a whole lot of fun. I'm cautious, so I did a chunk of recent entries first as a test. That all went well, so I told the program to transfer all the remaining entries, picked up my book, and settled in to wait.
Forgetting, of course, that while the program would have no problem transfering that much stuff at once, my internet connection might take exception. It did- the connection's too slow for LJ-Sec, apparently, as it got dropped at the LJ end, then the GJ end. And somehow in going back and trying again, I ended up with two of half my posts.
Cue an hour and a half of 'edit, delete, edit, delete, edit, delete'... I finally just got rid of all of it because it was easier, then went back and posted in chunks of 30-40 entries. I have 719, so you can just imagine how long that took, and how much fun it wasn't.
I think I got all the posts up, but there were two at least I know of that I couldn't get to transfer, so I need to go back and check to see what else I missed. Oh, and go edit a bunch of entry titles, because everything after the 'and' symmbol (which along with the number seven, I can't type at the moment and have to c/p because my keyboard is being evil again) didn't make the transfer. I use the and symbol a lot, apparently, to judge from the many suddenly nonsensical entry titles.
I'd like to express a general "BAH!" (and two upraised middle fingers) to LJ for these hours of joy and contentment (<--- sarcasm) because I pretty much blame them for this.
Oh wait, I do blame them.
Next post or two: An update about my *gasp* real life.
Also: a bit late, but better late than never: my take on HP and the Deathly Hallows. Which I seem to still want to keep typing as 'Hollows'.
bubble_blunder is my hero, for this open letter to LJ/6A, which you should all read because it is awesome and pretty much 100% expresses my views on this nonsense, only, you know, politely.
My favorite bit from the post:
"We are not arguing your rights to make rules regarding what content that you are and are not willing to host. And we would gladly make an effort to follow those rules, if we actually understood what they are. Unfortunately we don't." (emphasis mine)
I spent until about 4AM last night/this morning using Lj-Sec to back up this journal to my GJ. And this was after, mind you, spending all fucking day downloading .NET and ljArchive (because I want to keep my comments in some format, too, damnit)
Backing up the journal really wasn't a whole lot of fun. I'm cautious, so I did a chunk of recent entries first as a test. That all went well, so I told the program to transfer all the remaining entries, picked up my book, and settled in to wait.
Forgetting, of course, that while the program would have no problem transfering that much stuff at once, my internet connection might take exception. It did- the connection's too slow for LJ-Sec, apparently, as it got dropped at the LJ end, then the GJ end. And somehow in going back and trying again, I ended up with two of half my posts.
Cue an hour and a half of 'edit, delete, edit, delete, edit, delete'... I finally just got rid of all of it because it was easier, then went back and posted in chunks of 30-40 entries. I have 719, so you can just imagine how long that took, and how much fun it wasn't.
I think I got all the posts up, but there were two at least I know of that I couldn't get to transfer, so I need to go back and check to see what else I missed. Oh, and go edit a bunch of entry titles, because everything after the 'and' symmbol (which along with the number seven, I can't type at the moment and have to c/p because my keyboard is being evil again) didn't make the transfer. I use the and symbol a lot, apparently, to judge from the many suddenly nonsensical entry titles.
I'd like to express a general "BAH!" (and two upraised middle fingers) to LJ for these hours of joy and contentment (<--- sarcasm) because I pretty much blame them for this.
Oh wait, I do blame them.
Next post or two: An update about my *gasp* real life.
Also: a bit late, but better late than never: my take on HP and the Deathly Hallows. Which I seem to still want to keep typing as 'Hollows'.