This is what I did tonight instead of the many, many other things I could have been doing. I started out tagging bookmarks on Pinboard and ended up glutting myself on vids stashed on my hard drive. This does not represent all my favorites and, in the course of adding the links in, I actually discovered that I've been downloading a lot less lately, ( Read more... )

Alphas, Betas, Omegas: A Primer (2221 words) by
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So Diigo automatically marks private any bookmarks with certain words in them - words that their algorithm has on a list of "bad/inappropriate" words. Anatsuno brought it to attention on Twitter and here's a couple of links cited.

A request in the ideas forum @ Diigo: "[request to] stop arbitrary switching some bookmarks from public to private. ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen it yet, fortify yourself well with your chosen beverage before you click over. Network pages are gone, I only have, what, 40 bookmarks showing although it says I still have 4,356, there are no tag bundles, which have always been a Delicious selling point, subscriptions are gone (possibly replaced by stacks), and it's a hell of a ( Read more... )

(Okay, no I'm not, as I'm not used to develop x-rays. It's a, uh, long story.)

Oh, man, I don't actually know where to start. Okay, see, last Sunday I was in a web meeting and
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There is a particular thread I've been tracking over at st_xi_kink where the readers have gotten a tad... pushy. As in, multiple comments every day demanding an update immediately. It's gone past cute and into the territory of annoying, particularly since tracking means I'm getting every one in my email inbox. The writer is being far more gracious than I ( Read more... )

• Something guaranteed to make me do a double take: a fic post with the fandom label NCIS/Pern in the title. NCIS/Pern?? I want to read it, and will eventually, but as much as I enjoyed various books of the Dragonriders of Pern series, I don't remember enough about the world to really appreciate a crossover. *sigh* I may have an SGA/Pern crossover ( Read more... )

Yesterday I weeded and spread out a bale and a half of wet hay over the garden, then pounded in a couple of fence stakes and a couple of smaller ones for, respectively, two tomato plants and two pepper plants. Not surprisingly (particularly as the larger stakes involved a sledgehammer and wet hay is damn heavy) my back has insisted that I take ( Read more... )

Fandom Cliche #01: "I was well and truly shocked to see this hadn't been recommended on _______________ before ( Read more... )