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Culture and Sociological Experiments: LiveJournalNote: This is from my current active journal, which is here. I decided to post it to my old LJ, since it's actually about LJ. I hope I cut-tagged this correctly, it's been a while since I used this thing.It's interesting to me that LiveJournal is about to move to an open membership base. I am very curious about how the great sociological experiment that is LiveJournal is going to change because of this decision. ( A Curious Economy )
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Just to let people know - if you notice that I have dropped you from my friends list, please do not be offended. I have very little time these days for reading at the computer, and very few journals which I actually read frequently. The ones I read the most have remained. Most of my original friends list has been cleared out for this reason - this is no reflection on any one or for any particular reason other than my own time and convenience. Thanks, guys. BTW - still posting frantically over here. More than I should be, considering the aforementioned lack of time. It's an addiction, whatcha gonna do? |
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haven't been around for a while, I know, and for those who have been reading my private journal, here's the scoop: our domain name got hijacked! Stolen right out from under our noses with 11 months left on the registration we paid for. After much wrangling, arguing and swearing, we managed to get a new domain FREE from the company that sold us the last one. We're not real comfortable with this, since apparantly they are completely unable to do a damn thing about it if someone steals this one, too. *sigh* THEN, after still more wrangling, I finally got my journal back online yesterday. So, if you have been reading my "not-livejournal" journal it is now at http://www.negative-g.com/mental_rose , NOT http://www.negative-g.net. Paul's journal, for those who've been reading that, is now at http://www.negative-g.com/Paul/Blog/blogger.html . Just a note to those folks on my friends list: I do still read my friends list on a fairly regular basis. Things here have been nuts, and I just don't make comments much anymore, as my brain is full of Christmas and a husband who is now having some minor (we hope) heart trouble and a toddler and a business and unmedicated panic attacks and idiot jerk insurance people and so on. But I do read, and enjoy reading what you've written, so I hope folks don't take me off their friends lists anytime soon! |
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Well, I finally found a journalling software that I can use with our provider. I couldn't use MoveableType (although I really wanted to) because our server doesn't have the correct version of SQL available. I can, however, use Greymatter. Turned out to be not too-terribly hard to install on the server, and I'm having pretty good luck with the whole "design your own template" thing, which I haven't tried before - I've always modified existing LJ templates. This one is pure me, which explains why it looks like it needs some polishing yet. It does. But it's a good start. SO, the upshot of that is that I'll be moving my main journal over to the new site, which is at http://www.negative-g.net/mental_rose . I'll still be checking in on LJ, there's too many people here that I really don't want to lose track of, but for anyone who's got a link to me or a bookmark, it's time to update 'em, because most of my stuff will be at this new site from now on! |
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working with my styles again. Helps me to focus myself, get back into a good frame of mind and ready to move back into the world. My graphics are getting better; a combination of brand-new, up-to-date killer software and tons of practice with the cards and the site. We went into Owensboro today and had chinese at House of Canton. Bond is an eggroll junkie. We even got him to try a California roll, but the kelp around the outside turned him off, I think. We were going to go to Hobby Lobby - this is Paul-style romance, he HATES craft stuff. I was going to get to browse the sewing gear and look for trim for the gown I've had to put off - I have to get back in gear on it, or it will NEVER get done in time for Twelfth Night. Also, I was going to get another opportunity to drool over the Uber-Easel, a fabulous box easel with drawers and compartments for everything and the cat, and which costs over $100, so I'll never never get it. But, Hobby Lobby was closed, so instead we went to the bookstore, and I drooled over the 5-inch-thick book on how to use my new software. The one that cost $50, which means I can't buy it, either. Along with several hundred dollars worth of books on HTML, Java and Flash how-to's and a stack of fantasy novels and manga. Does anyone notice a pattern in the things I want lately??
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Dervish - Peigyn mo chroy | |
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Thanks, it's November and I don't appreciate having to worry about tornadoes at this time of the year. Whoever's working the storm switch this evening needs to stop drinking and get back on the job right now. |
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I have a dilemma. I like LiveJournal - I really, really do. I tried all kinds of journaling sites before I stumbled onto this one, and I hated them, they were a large pain in the ass. I really like my friends lists, and the communities. On the other hand, LJ has its limitations, and those limitations are starting to feel like a too-tight, itchy skin. There are things I'd like to try that just DO NOT WORK on LiveJournal for one reason or another; it may be that at my level of programming ability (really, really really low), they won't work for me anywhere, I don't know. In any case, I'm thinking of moving my main blog off of LJ and onto Paul's web space. Not like a secondary blog - those that I start, and I start plenty, believe me, all flop for lack of time. I think I just like making them. I am outgrowing this space somehow, I think. Anyway, I'm curious - how many of my friend's list would continue to read, were I not on LJ? Would I need to continue to back up entries here, as some others do, to keep others up-to-date? So, just because I like playing with the poll creator:
Poll #74244
Quick survey
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11
If I took my main journal off LJ and published it elsewhere, would you read it?
View Answers
| yes |
   7 (63.6%) |
| no |
| 3 (27.3%) |
| I'm only voting in this poll because I'm trying to take all the polls on LJ (if you're not even remotely interested in my journal and are just 'poll surfing', PLEASE use this option!) |
| 1 (9.1%) |
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Def Leppard - Now | |
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to let folks know that I'm still around. Every so often I just need to disappear, when things are really bad for me. I promise i'm healthy and fine; I just needed to be away from people in general. I did read, and appreciate, the offers of help and friendly ears from everyone that offered on and off LJ, and I hope no one was hurt when I didn't take them up on it - I just needed alone-ness on this one.
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There's a lot in my head today, and none of it is coming out very well. I feel like my brain is running around in tight little circles today - frantic. Not to worry anyone, but I think I'm approaching my saturation point lately. I feel ready to run.
The funny thing is, nothing is bad. Oh, we're pretty tight here, moneywise. There's not a lot to be had, and large bills to pay all the time. A couple of fairly forceful requests for payments. It never seems to end. But, there is also enough money coming in to pay them, and everyone gets something. So, that's not bad. S&D is taking up lots of my time, which is a good thing, if stressful. Bond is . . .well, he's two, and all the good and bad things that come along with being two. Paul is being so supportive of this business venture, and so loving about helping me with ideas, it's amazing. I have friends, too. Real friends, who can listen to me bitch and watch me lose my temper with them and then forgive me and come back for more.
My life is good. Why am I so afraid? Why do I feel like crying so much lately? I don't understand, and I'm tired. I just want it to stop. It's these times that disappearing seems like a viable option to me. I can't, I won't . . .but I want to. |
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Paul fixed the soundcard and the video card on my machine this evening. This is a Good Thing; I can now listen to Shoutcast on my machine, and can play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 when I have a spare second. Which isn't often. I am pleasantly relaxed this evening for the first time in days and weeks. While I don't expect it to last long, I am going to revel in it while it's here. And to go along with that, I'd just like to say that Parmesian Cheese Popcorn is fantastic.
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Enigma - Mea Culpa | |
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