Today's thing I like: increasing efficiency. I've never had to add an event to the work Google calendar before today, and there were issues with I didn't have access, so I got access, and set it so's I can update it
from Thunderbird.
I also have it so that any LJ-posting tool I have has the capacity to force double-spaces. Deepest Sender does it automatically, I have Semagic do a pre-post find/replace, and I made a GM script to add an nbsp button when I post via the web client.
Pleasant.
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Today's way in which Boston and Portland are different:
So there's a long stretch of two-laned road, then a crosswalk, then a light. (The crosswalk is about 30 yards before the light. Yay shopping strips.) I try to time my crossing to when the light is red, so people aren't annoyed by stopping.
So a car stops in the lane closest to me, and there are two cars in the other lane that haven't yet stopped. I try to time it such that the car in back can see me, and let the first car go. And yet, the car in front actually stops. I am confused.
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Today's bout of LJness: Livejournal
has laid off a bunch of their employees. I'm not concerned. However, some backup tools (which may be slow to access, for the obvious reason):
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LJ's own export tool - web-based: "This feature lets you download your entire journal to a custom format for backup purposes."
- Catches all metadata, including that a custom group was used (but not which one).
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LJ Migrate (
also) - uses Python: "I've written a command-line tool for migrating journal entries from any LJ-style server to any other LJ-style server."
- Comments won't be synced, and entries won't be backdated, apparently - I'm hesitant to try it.
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ljArchive - .exe: "ljArchive is a tool for downloading, browsing, and analyzing journal entries and comments from LiveJournal (or LiveJournal clones)."
- Saves tags, mood, location, and music. Custom friends groups are, again, not preserved. Make sure you go to Tools > Options and
deselect "Sync on startup", espesh if you're on a slow machine or network. I don't know how to get comments, it won't do it for me for some reason. ??
...wait. I'm an idiot. I check the comments box on first creation,
adurr.
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LJ Book - web-based: "Enables Live Journal blogs to be exported to PDF format."
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LJ Sec - .exe: apparently allows you to export from LJ to any other site that uses LJ's architecture.
- Doesn't preserve comments or metadata, oddly.
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LJ Backer Upper - uses Perl: "It will store every post you've ever made in a
.txt file in the current directory."
- Gets metadata, and that you used a custom group. Doesn't get comments. Names the .txt files by subject, or by 'no-subject-#' if no subject, but at least the files are backdated correctly.
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LJ Backup - .exe: "The LiveJournal Backup/Search Utility is a tool which has been written to allow users of LiveJournal to download their journals for backup purposes."
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ljdump - uses Python: "This program reads the journal entries from a livejournal (or compatible) blog site and archives them in a subdirectory named after the journal name. Both the journal entries and journal comments are downloaded."
(If you're mad, you can
install LJ locally, for your backups.)
Please note: I have no dog in this hunt. It's up to you to worry about security of these tools.
[eta]
Now in pretty table format.
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I will not be doing the whole "I'm leaving!" thing because unless someone can guarantee me that (a) my entire social network will move to a new site and (b) this new site will be LJ-architecture-based, there is no point to going on about it. Every single time there's been a kerfluffle at LJ, there's "I'm leaving!" noise, and... nothing. Honestly, I'm more likely to see people moving to Blogger or Wordpress and then RSSing their entries through LJ than anything else.
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