Tag: blogging

Archived LiveJournal

It’s been years since I posted to LiveJournal, but it’s a record of my twenties and early thirties that I’d like to hang onto…and I keep wondering when LJ is going to go the way of GeoCities (and I’m not the only one). I finally decided it was time to export the whole thing, and discovered that WordPress has a LiveJournal import tool. (Admin sidebar: Tools→Import→LiveJournal)

It took a few minutes to set up a new site (since I didn’t want to just exchange one third-party service for another), and another two minutes to import all of my posts and comments.

Nice! Now I have my own copy, and I can use WordPress’ much-better tools to actually find stuff. It’s as permanent as I want it to be. Continue reading “Archived LiveJournal”

Running Around

Sunday was mostly errands — replacing the lost rice cooker (In the rush to clear things out of the old apartment, I walked into the kitchen 3 or 4 times to grab or check things, saw a box sitting in an open cabinet, thought “I need to grab that on the next trip,” and promptly forgot about it each time), getting stakes to train the morning glories in the backyard to curl around something other than the patio furniture, getting a new welcome mat (which of course was missing a label, the last one on the shelf, and wasn’t actually on the shelf, so we had to guess which empty bin it was and convince the clerk that it was the correct one), etc. Groceries.

I also launched a new comics-focused blog to go with my Flash website. I’d started posting news on the front page, and wanted to simplify management, and realized I was basically building a mini-blog already. And then there was that domain name I picked up last year and couldn’t figure out what to do with. I had some other stuff I wanted to finish first, but I kept running into news items I wanted to post, and figured it would be better to have them on an actual blog. So I set up a new copy of WordPress, pointed SpeedForce.org to it, picked a suitable theme and and put together a few posts to get things started.

The annoying one

The annoying commenter is back with more tech support questions. alenxa convinced me I should be more diplomatic in my response, which is probably the right way to go. But I’ve saved the reply I wanted to make, just for its high snark content.

For the record, I don’t mind high-volume commenters if they’re on topic (like Kizi, for instance, who was only really high-volume while catching up on back posts and has settled into a regular-reader-and-commenter mode). I don’t even mind topic drift, but it really annoys me when someone tries to hijack a topic.

Maybe it’s just that I hate doing tech support, particularly when I can’t sit down at the computer and try to figure things out. It’s about 20% knowledge, 30% research skills, and 50% intuition — and that intuition only works if I can mess around with the computer in question. And I do more than enough tech support at work.

Catching up

This morning alenxa asked me if I’d posted anything on comic book time (the effect by which Superman and Lois Lane are roughly the same age now as they were in 1938). I’d actually started writing about it a while back, but never finished it.

Around lunchtime I took a look at the Drafts folder on my keychain drive, and I found it — a lot shorter than I remembered, and a lot more recent. I also found an epic I had written ages ago based on another of our conversations — one wondering about the dearth of sci-fi art films. This thing is several pages long, deals with defining sci-fi, fantasy, and related genres, and doesn’t even get to the art film issue, and predates our group blog by several months. In fact, it’s old enough that the first line starts off, “My girlfriend and I were having a conversation about movies….”

There was a footnote about popular derision of science fiction vs. popular consumption of it that I thought was worth posting on its own, although since it dealt with top movie grosses, it needed a bit of updating. This piece of weblog history can now be seen at Viewing the Impossible.

I dashed off some thoughts on several other half-finished pieces (including the time issue), as well as a new one I’d been thinking about while drifting off to sleep last night (or maybe drifting off to consciousness this morning). I figure on finishing and posting them over the next few days. Maybe I’ll start breaking up the epic and post that too. With a new opening line, of course!

Current Mood: creative

You know you’ve picked the right person when…

I was just looking through web traffic statistics for K-Squared Ramblings, had just finished reading the top 20 search terms people were finding us with, and started on the list of individual pages linking to the site. I muttered “Ah, direct hits,” and then, at the same time, alenxa and I both started saying “Krakow! Krakow!” (old “Calvin and Hobbes” joke).

The Harmony Hut

I just looked at the previews of available smileys…

Let me tell you, those things are scary! And I don’t mean the goth boy/goth girl sets, I mean the shiny happy bouncy cutesy etc… It’s like watching the hamster dance with flowers and happy fluffy bunnies and…

…and I still found it disturbing after spending the afternoon at a Disney park.

Well, obviously I’m not the target audience for most of these. I think I’ll stick with the plain, round yellow smiley for now.

Current Mood: 😉weird

First Post!

I finally decided what to do with this account (other than commenting and tracking). I’ve got a fairly long-running group blog with alenxa at K-Squared Ramblings, and I didn’t want to move all my stuff off of that. At the same time, I didn’t want to leave this blank.

After tossing out several options, I’ve decided this is where I’ll post memes and at least some personal stuff (not in the way-too-personal sense, but in the I-don’t-think-anyone-who-doesn’t-already-know-me-will-be-interested sense).