Drivingy.

Jul. 3rd, 2010 02:46 pm
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Update on driving a car, pros and cons.

+ The part where it takes me half the time to go twice the distance?  This is Very Meaningful when it comes to being able to sleep in for an extra 45 minutes.
+ Suddenly, weather isn't as much of an issue.
+ And I can shop all the things, all at once.
+ I don't even have to think about the bus schedule.  Freedom from the tyranny of a perfectly fine public service.  *wry*
+ I can be of greater use to folk, like airport transportation.
- PARKING.
- All of this?  Costs.  Gas, car payments, insurance, title, maintenance, possible tickets, and did I mention gas?

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IN OTHER NEWS:

I just went to http://xtina.dreamwidth.org/2010/06/ to pull up my last entry about cars, and that page, that lists the subject lines of all posts by day, lists the tags!  Aa!  ♥

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.  Number of comments so far: comment count unavailable

Drivingy.

Jul. 3rd, 2010 02:46 pm
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Update on driving a car, pros and cons.

+ The part where it takes me half the time to go twice the distance?  This is Very Meaningful when it comes to being able to sleep in for an extra 45 minutes.
+ Suddenly, weather isn't as much of an issue.
+ And I can shop all the things, all at once.
+ I don't even have to think about the bus schedule.  Freedom from the tyranny of a perfectly fine public service.  *wry*
+ I can be of greater use to folk, like airport transportation.
- PARKING.
- All of this?  Costs.  Gas, car payments, insurance, title, maintenance, possible tickets, and did I mention gas?

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IN OTHER NEWS:

I just went to http://xtina.dreamwidth.org/2010/06/ to pull up my last entry about cars, and that page, that lists the subject lines of all posts by day, lists the tags!  Aa!  ♥
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The first day on Adderall after being off of it for multiple days (one part waiting to make sure I could afford it, three parts situationally crippling depression) is always strange.  Right now:

* I am capital-A Awake.
* My head is faintly buzzy.
* I still do a million things at once:
** Editing a page of improvements to the invoicing system.
** Adding things to my Half-Baked Ideas wiki page.
** Commenting on DW/LJ posts, woo.
** Confirming addresses for appointments.
* My leg is jiggling at a mile a minute.
* This is the first time this week I've been able to both listen to music and work.

Whoof.

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In other news!  I have a GM script set to redirect both DW and LJ links to &format=light, as I don't care for the styles.  (There's probably a setting somewhere that I've missed.  I'll look into it later.)  When I'm looking at an LJ post in format=light, and I comment, it goes to the non-light style first, before my script redirects it.

DW goes straight to the light style, as that's where I was goddamn commenting from.

<3 <3

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.
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(Not all of this post is about just the one post I link to.)

As I mentioned elsewhere in email, wrt the LJ versus DW thing, and a post by [livejournal.com profile] yuki_onna about LJ:

It's the social network equivalent of "I'm moving to Canada!", rolled
up with the tendency for liberals to sacrifice the good to the perfect
when going candidate-shopping.  "I realise that our opponent is a
dog-fucker, literally, but our best candidate... *used a sexist term*.
How could we ever support them?"  It's fucking exhausting.


I mention this because one of the reasons someone listed for not moving to DW was that one of the founders was part of some Russia-related wank.  (I haven't had the brains to look it up yet, so this remains hearsay.)  Oh yeah, LJ certainly can't measure up to that level of tomfoolery.

I mean, if you love LJ then you do, no worries, but this "DW has problematic things! I can't possibly move over there!" crap is crap.  DW, to my knowledge, doesn't have adverts that are actually spamware.  It hasn't yet put mandatory binary gender things into the code.  It has news posts that are actually informative -- none of this horsing around in the news post, only to find out way elsewhere about actual news about LJ.  And, bonus, it doesn't have ShareThis crap!  (I secretly strongly dislike that button.)

("But I bought a permanent account, so I don't see that stuff!"  Good for you?)

As for the comments re evangelising, (a) the loudest 2% of any group tends to be the assholes (see also feminism!), and (b) I haven't seen any of that in a dog's age.  Strikes me as a bit "the lurkers support me in email" anyhow, since it's always "I see people evangelising", but no... actual links.  Just an intuitive sense.  Mmhmm.

And I really do not understand this going-on about invite codes and how that's Elitist.  If it's elitism to not really care for acres of sockpuppetry, then so be it.  (As someone else noted, too, it's funny to combine accusations of elitism with going on about how Facebook and Twitter are all one-liners, but LJ has meaty discourse!.)


Frankly, I figure that part of it is a dislike of change, and part of it is "but all my stuff is here!".  That's what it tends to be for me.  I realise it's not fully rational, and I suck it up anyhow.


Edited to add links to the "DW is bad? Really?" section.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.
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(Not all of this post is about just the one post I link to.)

As I mentioned elsewhere in email, wrt the LJ versus DW thing, and a post by [livejournal.com profile] yuki_onna about LJ:

It's the social network equivalent of "I'm moving to Canada!", rolled
up with the tendency for liberals to sacrifice the good to the perfect
when going candidate-shopping.  "I realise that our opponent is a
dog-fucker, literally, but our best candidate... *used a sexist term*.
How could we ever support them?"  It's fucking exhausting.


I mention this because one of the reasons someone listed for not moving to DW was that one of the founders was part of some Russia-related wank.  (I haven't had the brains to look it up yet, so this remains hearsay.)  Oh yeah, LJ certainly can't measure up to that level of tomfoolery.

I mean, if you love LJ then you do, no worries, but this "DW has problematic things! I can't possibly move over there!" crap is crap.  DW, to my knowledge, doesn't have adverts that are actually spamware.  It hasn't yet put mandatory binary gender things into the code.  It has news posts that are actually informative -- none of this horsing around in the news post, only to find out way elsewhere about actual news about LJ.  And, bonus, it doesn't have ShareThis crap!  (I secretly strongly dislike that button.)

("But I bought a permanent account, so I don't see that stuff!"  Good for you?)

As for the comments re evangelising, (a) the loudest 2% of any group tends to be the assholes (see also feminism!), and (b) I haven't seen any of that in a dog's age.  Strikes me as a bit "the lurkers support me in email" anyhow, since it's always "I see people evangelising", but no... actual links.  Just an intuitive sense.  Mmhmm.

And I really do not understand this going-on about invite codes and how that's Elitist.  If it's elitism to not really care for acres of sockpuppetry, then so be it.  (As someone else noted, too, it's funny to combine accusations of elitism with going on about how Facebook and Twitter are all one-liners, but LJ has meaty discourse!.)


Frankly, I figure that part of it is a dislike of change, and part of it is "but all my stuff is here!".  That's what it tends to be for me.  I realise it's not fully rational, and I suck it up anyhow.


Edited to add links to the "DW is bad? Really?" section.
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I've imported my [livejournal.com profile] ladytabitha entries and comments into my Dreamwidth account.  After I do some spot-checking to make sure the data did import and accurately, I'll be deleting that account.

Now, tagging can occur.  Finally.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.
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I've imported my [livejournal.com profile] ladytabitha entries and comments into my Dreamwidth account.  After I do some spot-checking to make sure the data did import and accurately, I'll be deleting that account.

Now, tagging can occur.  Finally.
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I am testing three things:

  1. Will this post to both DW and LJ?
  2. Will all tags be used?  Including ones with a colon in it?
  3. Can I use the "more" tag as a cut tag in each?

Sooo:

ExpandRead the rest of this entry » )

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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Leelu Dallas multipost.

By which I mean to say, I now have it set to where this will xpost from WP to both DW and LJ, go me!

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

Last try.

Aug. 15th, 2009 11:09 am
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I am going to try this one last time.  I'm testing this Wordpress LJ-XP plugin, wherein I can crosspost my WP entries over to Dreamwidth.  So, good morning.

(Whoop, afternoon, actually.)

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

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For those who care...

There's a Greasemonkey script out there that automatically updates the date/time for a new Dreamwidth/Livejournal post.  The problem is, it continues to do so even if you are posting the entry out of order.  So, I updated the script.
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Oh god, this is just so much easier to look at.

Wrote a script to reorganise the crosspost section.  I've logged bugs/RFEs for this already, so it's not like I think the coderfolk are ignoring me, just my brain kept itching.

Things it does:

* Puts the tickyboxen to the left of the labels.
* Disables account tickyboxen on load, which it should do.  (You shouldn't be able to tick them until you've ticked "crosspost this".)
* Disables the "crosspost this" tickybox if you have no accounts set up.

*pleased*
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If you have the LJ Taglister Greasemonkey script installed, you may want to update it for Dreamwidth usage.

The first thing you do is add the following two includes:

http://*.dreamwidth.org/update.bml*
http://*.dreamwidth.org/editjournal.bml*


Second, edit the script to change Expandthese three sections. )
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Two signal boosts, and a test.

[livejournal.com profile] rosefox has posted two magnificent posts:

1) "So tell me: how financially screwed are you?"  It is, effectively, a safe space to vent about your financial suck.  "Safe" meaning safe from unwanted advice and criticism.

I found this post to be startlingly useful - despite all of the suck and woe within (mine included), it felt really good to not feel alone wrt finances, and it was such a relief to be able to post about my troubles without worrying that someone was going to yell at me or suggest things at me.

2) "What can we do to mitigate our screwedness right now, while we're still hip-deep in recession, and down the road, once the economy coughs and sputters and revs up again?"  The post for posting financial suggestions.

Mwaha, now crossposting with site-specificness in the user tag totally works.  *pleased*
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All of my words are tied up doing documentation and collections research today, so I link instead to posts by folk who I agree with, on this DW "versus" LJ thing.

* [livejournal.com profile] rho: On LiveJournal and Dreamwidth

* jadelennox: dreamwidth -- it's not all or nothing

* If you have concerns about policy stuff (apparently both denise and mark were part of the LJ abuse team): on being a Dreamwidth optimist, and on commenting, by the_shoshanna.

* If you like comparisons, check out the wiki pages Dreamwidth changes from LJ and LJ features not in Dreamwidth.

* rho: Lists, in no particular order

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One thing you, the DW user, may not know about is the "lj user" tag implementation here:

1) It is now <user name="name">, although <lj user="name"> still totally works.
2) It can also be <user name="name" site="livejournal.com"> (or other LJ clone type place), which is awesome.

Mwaha.

Alas, this is not yet easily translated over when crossposting, which means when I use any of the above, I'll probably edit the LJ post to show the right information.  I am picky cat, and so will do this.

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I am not sure where I stand on moving here versus staying at LJ.  I've been feeling discontented by LJ for some time now, partly due to personal fluctuating internet/LJ usage desires and partly due to LJ management.  I do know that I am still posting here, when it would be just as easy for me to not bother.  But I like it here.  *pats ground*

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As a random aside:

I hear people being annoyed by the invite codes thing.  To which I say: what?  That is the primary thing I missed about Livejournal, are you kidding?  A way to cut down on spam, socks, and bots?  A method for managing user influx?  Gosh, yeah, we can't have that!  *thpft*

Anyways, yes, hello.
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All of my words are tied up doing documentation and collections research today, so I link instead to posts by folk who I agree with, on this DW "versus" LJ thing.

* [livejournal.com profile] rho: On LiveJournal and Dreamwidth

* [personal profile] jadelennox: dreamwidth -- it's not all or nothing

* If you have concerns about policy stuff (apparently both [staff profile] denise and [staff profile] mark were part of the LJ abuse team): on being a Dreamwidth optimist, and on commenting, by [personal profile] the_shoshanna.

* If you like comparisons, check out the wiki pages Dreamwidth changes from LJ and LJ features not in Dreamwidth.

* [personal profile] rho: Lists, in no particular order

--

One thing you, the DW user, may not know about is the "lj user" tag implementation here:

1) It is now <user name="name">, although <lj user="name"> still totally works.
2) It can also be <user name="name" site="livejournal.com"> (or other LJ clone type place), which is awesome.

Mwaha.

Alas, this is not yet easily translated over when crossposting, which means when I use any of the above, I'll probably edit the LJ post to show the right information.  I am picky cat, and so will do this.

--

I am not sure where I stand on moving here versus staying at LJ.  I've been feeling discontented by LJ for some time now, partly due to personal fluctuating internet/LJ usage desires and partly due to LJ management.  I do know that I am still posting here, when it would be just as easy for me to not bother.  But I like it here.  *pats ground*

--

As a random aside:

I hear people being annoyed by the invite codes thing.  To which I say: what?  That is the primary thing I missed about Livejournal, are you kidding?  A way to cut down on spam, socks, and bots?  A method for managing user influx?  Gosh, yeah, we can't have that!  *thpft*

Anyways, yes, hello.

Ramblings.

Apr. 26th, 2009 10:20 pm
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* I, for one, am impatient for when Semagic totally works for DW.  It is an unreasonable impatience, and yet here I am.

* Today's "poly happy moment" - when I learn that both my partners are ahead of me in Gemcraft.  My arms are broken and it's really hard and shut up!  *amused*

* Whenever I get too opinionated about parenting, I go reread The Story About The Baby, and I realise (a) until I have a child, I am full of it, and (b) bwahaha.

Ramblings.

Apr. 26th, 2009 10:20 pm
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* I, for one, am impatient for when Semagic totally works for DW.  It is an unreasonable impatience, and yet here I am.

* Today's "poly happy moment" - when I learn that both my partners are ahead of me in Gemcraft.  My arms are broken and it's really hard and shut up!  *amused*

* Whenever I get too opinionated about parenting, I go reread The Story About The Baby, and I realise (a) until I have a child, I am full of it, and (b) bwahaha.
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