Urgh

Kevin made those great pastries last night, but today I'm just a little, um constipated (Kevin had the runs early morning). Worse than diarrhoea, as that tens to be over quickly.

The Church on Digg

I do like DIGG Radio. They're playing The Church on it just now, and it's not Under the Milky Way or An Unguarded moment (in fact, it's from a much later album). Nice and ad free too!

LJArchive

Just in case you didn't know, LJArchive is a windows application that can back up an LJ type journal or community (you have to own the journal or be a member of the community though). It runs under Microsoft's .NET Framework (you have to have at least .NET 1.1 installed) and acts as a browser for downloaded and backed-up comments.

It backs up the text of the entries only, not any image or youtube files that might appear in those entries, though the coding is still intact and if either is still on the web it'll show them with the entry. You can also backup comments to entries as well.

The current version doesn't back up tags, but the search function (see screenshot above) works on a text basis and can quickly identify old posts if you can remember what you were talking about. There's also statistics and such like.

As a number of my LJ friends have either left LJ, or considering leaving leaving, I thought that this might be useful in backing up what you wrote, or read. So, Linux users (like rashelleym) want to post a comment with a link to a Linux equivalent?

SeMagic

The other handy LJ thing that I use is SeMagic, an LJ client for your dedicated computer (rather than using the browser based posting system).

The advantage of the browser based method of posting is that you can do it at any computer that you're logged onto LJ with. The advantage of using a dedicated client (and it's the same with e-mail clients) is all the extra stuff that you can do with it. You can find a list of downloadable clients (for different platforms) at the LJ site.

You'll find a community page for SeMagic at ljwin32_sema and there's a download page too. SeMagic is Windows only, but it is feature rich. The "about" help file page says:

In comparison with web interface, the client offers additional editing operations including WYSIWYG editing, macro shortcuts, autoreplace, spellchecking in different languages using either MS Word ( or OpenOffice) or internal spellchecker, saving and loading entries to/from files including preformatted drafts and autosave. Also the client can notify about friends’ birthdays, track changes of friends list and notify about updates at friends’ journals using checkfriends protocol.

I think I like it because I can fiddle with my entries so much, and I especially like the History function (see screenshot below) as I can easily search for old posts and get URLs for them.

You can also set up more than one account, and on more than one server (like LiveJournal and Insane Journal, see pic below) and also post to multiple logins/servers. For folk thinking of migrating from LJ, this is one way of still keeping the ones they left behind up to date.

So, do you use an LJ client too? If so, which and why?

Spirited Away

SBS are showing Spirited Away again, right now. It's no accident that they had a documentary about Walt Disney on before it.