Laura Seabrook's Ramblings

Dreamwidth »» LiveJournal »» Facebook.

Neat eh? It means I can keep the friends on each up to date on stuff I do want to write about, which mostly is personal stuff happening in my life. But not having to go into Facebook to do that means less distraction and less bullshit, which has been a major issue for me for sometime. The pages I created there are now run by "Avatar accounts" (ones I created for my SecondLife avatars) but they have a small list of friends mainly so I can still play word games there.

I know it sounds odd, but it's working for me. :)   Here's my new cover image for Facebook:

Stylish is "a Firefox and Thunderbird extension that lets you install and manage user styles". I found this really cool for Facebook. See the example below, which is the AERO style:

It also works with Youtube and Live Journal, though so far the LJ styles haven't impressed me much, a sthey tend towards altering things like buttons and the size of comments text..

I got bored with the previous style and changed it to this...

...which is perhaps less "stylish" but more practical. It's one of the  Minimalism  styles and each entry has edit entry and edit tags for my own posts, which I like. Pretty plain and straight forward otherwise.

I've decided not to renew a paid membership to Live Journal. The main thing I liked about having that was the range of icons it gave me. A free account only gives you a range of six. However, nothing stopped me from uploading userpics to Photobucket, and then using either the autoreplace function on SeMagic, or FoxReplace (a Firefox add-on) to access those icons easily.

The follow is the current set I've created using this method. It was a little fiddly to set up, but I can even add then to non-LJ comments:

As reminded by stephen_dedman's post (I did the same thing last year).

Instructions: Copy the first line of the first post you did in LJ each month (optional - add a link to that day).

January

It's here

February

Just phoned the distributors of the EasyRide. If I can get it there repairs will be $35 for parts and $25 for labour. If I can't get it there they can transport it for an extra $20.

March

Well, they turned up eventually, and I got down to Erica's, and much later marched Last night.  Day's post

April

Felt ill for most of today.

May

I went to Jenny's and was with her for over four hours. It was the most stressful time I've had.

June

I say ... and you think ... ?

July

Well I'm back from my trip I spent about two days down at Erica's and about a day and a half at Jessica's in Bathurst.

August

It's s-o-o-o-o-o windy today.

September

Just moved a lot of furniture and bought a lot of stuff.

October

I just discovered that En Garde! - a role- playing game set in 17th century Paris and on which I used to run postal games with about 40 players in the late 70s - is still around!

December

I was trying to do something like this three weeks ago, but didn't have the right software (I used DVD slideshow GUI and ImgBurn) or frame of mind to accomplish it.

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Now here's the thing - I can't remember.

I have my suspicions, but I can't be sure. The first entry I ever did was on the 8th June 2003 in the octobrianaoz journal. Now this entry is about seeing the first sequel to The Matrix, and of staying up late to research Blogs for my TAFE course.

I was studying library science at Newcastle (actually at Islington) TAFE at the time, and I think on top of everything else I raided various sections of the TAFE library. One section I went through was 741.59 or there-abouts, and found an interesting book about web comics. Another section was the low 001s which was computer and in that I found the rough guide to Blogs. That may have been where I heard of LJ. However there are two other possibilities.

I had just discovered The Matrix Explained Forums which was a hotbed of hysteria over the possible meanings of the end of the sequel (was Zion a real place or another layer in the Matrix? How come Neo could stop the hunter-killers with a wave of his hand, would Trinity have a baby in #3? - that sort of thing). It may have been that someone there had an LJ account.

I was also (and still am) on the Wombat list, and there was a cross-over between people on that list and on LJ.

Puzzling, but I won't lose any sleep over it.

I may have done this one before, but am biting again. Infected by merlot_winters.

This meme finally hit critical mass with me, and it must be done.

Comment and I will:

1. Tell you why I befriended you.
2. Associate you with something -
   fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favourite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ