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Nov. 13th, 2010 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupSAM JOUSTS WITH TECHNOLOGY!
I once, famously, posted about my dislike of DVDs in the same post where I did a meme about "what decade are you" and it turned out I was the 1930s. Go figure. (I still don't like DVDs for a number of reasons, but I have accepted their presence in my life as inevitable.) I've taken a couple of programming courses and failed them miserably; I taught myself basic HTML when I was fourteen and that pretty much gets me where I need to go most of the time. My family has an illustrious history of Not Reading The Directions, and while I do often Read The Directions I understand my mother refuses because a) they won't help her and b) if she can't learn by doing, she won't learn at all. This makes Christmas morning at our house VERY EXCITING.
As a family, our motto could be "Theory is for Losers". Ironically, most of my early non-fanfic writing was applied theory -- in college I made a habit of researching the structure underlying ancient theatre and writing modern plays executed in ancient and medieval structures. I won an award for one of them, so I must have been doing something right.
Anyway, all of this is pure anecdote because I thought you'd like something more interesting to read than "testing, testing" while I tested out a new method for posting. As of right now, I multi-post in Semagic across four platforms, but I'm realising that every time there's an error in a post I have to go into the two that most folks read and alter it. With Dreamwidth's automated multi-post function, I can fix something in one post and it'll update the others.
There should be absolutely no change in reading for people on LJ, DW, or IJ, except that now usernames which were formerly all over the map will be correct and standard, and my DW entries will be tagged. LJ is still my primary platform, and the rare photo and text posts from my phone will still go only to LJ (Dreamwidth doesn't have that functionality yet). Right now I'm just testing to make sure link coding, formatting, usernames, icons, and tags all work as they should.
IN ORDER TO TEST THAT, have some reccs! If they don't work, don't tell me, I'm on all three platforms and already working to fix the problem by the time you read this. Just go have a cup of cocoa or something and refresh in about ten minutes.
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kayliemalinza wrote Calling In Sick ages ago, and it remains one of my favourite Ianto fics of all time.
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blue_soaring's Iron Man fic, Cool Blue Reason, is a Jarvis/Tony fic that makes the best use ever of non-newtonian liquid. (I don't read a lot of Iron Man but I have a soft spot for Jarvis, to nobody's surprise.)
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onyourmark seems to have completed The Elliot 'verse, a White Collar AU wherein Neal Caffrey is a deep-cover alias for a mischief-making FBI agent.
(Hooray. Links and usernames work! Tags and user icons work! Automated edit updates work! "Edit Last Entry" from Semagic doesn't though. Hm.)
I once, famously, posted about my dislike of DVDs in the same post where I did a meme about "what decade are you" and it turned out I was the 1930s. Go figure. (I still don't like DVDs for a number of reasons, but I have accepted their presence in my life as inevitable.) I've taken a couple of programming courses and failed them miserably; I taught myself basic HTML when I was fourteen and that pretty much gets me where I need to go most of the time. My family has an illustrious history of Not Reading The Directions, and while I do often Read The Directions I understand my mother refuses because a) they won't help her and b) if she can't learn by doing, she won't learn at all. This makes Christmas morning at our house VERY EXCITING.
As a family, our motto could be "Theory is for Losers". Ironically, most of my early non-fanfic writing was applied theory -- in college I made a habit of researching the structure underlying ancient theatre and writing modern plays executed in ancient and medieval structures. I won an award for one of them, so I must have been doing something right.
Anyway, all of this is pure anecdote because I thought you'd like something more interesting to read than "testing, testing" while I tested out a new method for posting. As of right now, I multi-post in Semagic across four platforms, but I'm realising that every time there's an error in a post I have to go into the two that most folks read and alter it. With Dreamwidth's automated multi-post function, I can fix something in one post and it'll update the others.
There should be absolutely no change in reading for people on LJ, DW, or IJ, except that now usernames which were formerly all over the map will be correct and standard, and my DW entries will be tagged. LJ is still my primary platform, and the rare photo and text posts from my phone will still go only to LJ (Dreamwidth doesn't have that functionality yet). Right now I'm just testing to make sure link coding, formatting, usernames, icons, and tags all work as they should.
IN ORDER TO TEST THAT, have some reccs! If they don't work, don't tell me, I'm on all three platforms and already working to fix the problem by the time you read this. Just go have a cup of cocoa or something and refresh in about ten minutes.
kayliemalinza wrote Calling In Sick ages ago, and it remains one of my favourite Ianto fics of all time. blue_soaring's Iron Man fic, Cool Blue Reason, is a Jarvis/Tony fic that makes the best use ever of non-newtonian liquid. (I don't read a lot of Iron Man but I have a soft spot for Jarvis, to nobody's surprise.)(Hooray. Links and usernames work! Tags and user icons work! Automated edit updates work! "Edit Last Entry" from Semagic doesn't though. Hm.)
