Oh look! A print of my all-time favourite A Softer World strip. Isn't that neat? (They also have pretty keen t-shirts, too ( Read more... )

I have previously mentioned Jorm's excellent (if flawed) discussion on / guide to social interaction. I was impressed enough with this that I thought I would at least try to bear some of the points in mind when in social situations. Three things I have noticed about this (one of which I'd posted as a comment in tongodeon's journal some time ago):

• If you are ( Read more... )

Via tongodeon, " The Short Bus of Social Interactivity". Go read.

As previously mentioned, I've been going back through old LiveJournal posts applying the Web two-point-oh tags (and thusly building a votagulary); occasionally I stumble upon myself being sufficiently funny to make me laugh out loud, which fact I even commented on back in November 2004. Anyway, I am reposting an excerpt here from a December 2004 ( Read more... )

Fiddling with the tags on my LiveJournal entries just now, I figured I'd use the "rename tag" feature to merge those tagged with quote (3 entries) into those tagged with quotes (57 entries). So I renamed quote to quotes. And was presented with quote: 1 entry, quotes: 57 entries. Er. So I manually edited the one entry that was tagged with quote, ( Read more... )

In the past week or so, it has been independantly noted that I am very bitter and I am cynical beyond repair. Sorry if you were on the receiving end of that. Also, sorry if you encountered Cranky Waider this week, as he was in pretty full effect due to some technical stuff that was going the wrong way down a one-way street, and doing so while ( Read more... )

I've just seen the buzz going around about LiveJournal being sold to SUP, the Russian company that was operating LiveJournal Russia since some time in 2006. I have additionally seen far too many "In Soviet Russia..." gags on this topic already, but handwave. I am curious to see how this develops; various people have expressed concern about their ( Read more... )

Those snapshot things appearing on livejournal links wouldn't be so bad if they were click-to-load. The fact that they pop up on mouse-over is pretty much unbearable when my wimpy laptop is any way busy. So, DIE DIE DIE.

Every so often some combination of prevailing wind, stock market averages, and, uh, butterflies a-flappin' their wings results in me apparently losing my login credentials cookie at livejournal.com. Typically, I don't notice this until after I've posted an anonymous comment. Of course, because this is an intermittent occurrence, I have yet to ( Read more... )

I got tired of the hack I'd added that resulted in "Dublin, IRELAND" in the last few posts. Now it'll only trigger if I'm not actually in Dublin.

And posting with my laptop.

Which is less likely than it seems, since the laptop tends not to leave the house much these days.

Oh well. It's the thought that counts, right?