life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

The weather is quite horrible at the minute. It's more or less constant downpour, and roads have been flooded and kids having to be rescued from mountain campsites because their route out is now a riverbed.

The postman we have at the minute is a pain in the neck. I live in number xx5, and last week I got a letter for xx7, and today two for xx9. It's not that I mind running up the road and sticking them through the right door, it's not like it's in the ountry where the next-door neighbour is half a mile up the road and two lanes, but it does make me wonder where my post is going. I was expecting a letter from occupational health, and nothing's come yet.

For those who cannot keep up with LJ's 8787 official announcement communities (I hadn't heard of these two either until __kali__ pointed them out):

Change to Suspend Journal--looks like a one-post lock-down

A load of stuff, including the long-promised journal search and stats, although the way they're implementing it looks more like stalking than stats (there is an opt-out) All I want to see is my referrals, LJ.

selenak posted that she has just passed her 5-year LJ anniversary, which made me realise that mine was last month. (Ooops.) I started this journal on 03/04/03. In one way it seems like a long time ago, but in another, no.

The weather here is beautiful, really summer-like. And Ben and Jerry's in Castlecourt was giving out free ice cream today, yay!

Is it just me, or has Livejournal been a bit quiet the last few weeks?


I tell you what. Rec me someone you think should be on my flist but isn't.

We finally got a mass privacy editing tool!

Plus a lot of other stuff, including ads on site pages to logged-out users, sigh.

We're getting an LJ search feature at last! Post in news. Of course, we're also getting ads on the front page when not logged in....

Current Rank



My dad has bought nine pairs of jeans. He says he's going to make them last for four years. I'm being tempted to do the same with slippers, because they have some nice ones in Next and normally it's so hard to get ones that don't fall off or look granny-ish. But I'm already going to be broke after I pay for going to this wedding and for new stuff for my room next month.

This is a nifty tool available from http://fawx.com/ljArchive/


The month I posted most was November, 2003 at 69 entries. Least (not counting current month) was September, 2004 with 8.

Uncommon words I used most: Harry (311)
Luke (289)
Leia (264)
[sueparsons's AIM screen-name] (229)
Hermione (180)
Ron (174) (close to Hermione :-D)
Han (168)
[ivylore's AIM screen-name] (152)
Anakin (143)
Doctor (124)
Rose (123) (It must be an OTP!!1)
Ginny (118)
anyone (112)
star (105)
fic (103)
interests (101)
stuff (100)
actually (99)
wars (98)
jediowl (95)
jedi (95)
potter (94)
jack (93)--okay, it can't all be Harkness. And I shouldn't have thought it was Sparrow either. Aubrey?
lot (86)

Okay, bored now, I'll do the highlights:

padmé is 70, hornblower 60, skywalker and keitin 50. bail is 45, so is neville and draco is 44. (By that reckoning they're a better ship than R/Hr. This is all ajhalluk's doing.) Chocolate is 41, canon, Wedge and TARDIS (!) are 40. Vader is 29, Solo 29, Adam is 27 (bwah?), natalie is 17, luna is 15, mickey is 12, artoo is 10.

I used bloody 18 times, icon 34.

Comments: ladyaeryn (87) and ravenclaw_devi (82) are in first and second place, ivylore (60), snarkel (55) and padawanroo (54) are well up there, and yubsie's (49) determined spamming campaign (no one does it like the HM's) has let her overtake doyle_sb4 (44).

LiveJournal have disabled logging in as a community, and there's no way to switch user when using http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console. So rather than pasting in one text file of commands to change the URLs for the moodtheme of lukelovers, I have to use http://www.livejournal.com/manage/moodthemes.bml, and paste in the URL 132 times. And the stupid thing doesn't work half time and wants to inherit moods from others and won't save changes.

Grrrr.

I looked at my To-Do List, and realised that there's nothing on it since my graduation on the 9th of July. A to-do list on a computer is very useful when you're sitting at a computer all day, but not otherwise. I should delete the stuff, but it makes me feel productive.

Also, has anyone ever come across such a thing as a floor plan of the Millennium Falcon? Also a map of the GFFA, like the ones they have in the endpapers of the NJO books. I refuse to buy EU just for the map!

Gakked from perceval

I am 69.4% LJ ADDICT! Can You Beat Me? View Info In Detail Take the LJ Addict Quiz Today After All, jediowl did.

ETA: Yesterday doyle_sb4 told me that connorbeast spotted me in the Science Library. He knew it was me because 'there can't be two girls in Queen's with a livejournal with a picture of Mark Hamill on it.'
Hem. Well, it's kind of amusing. I have actually met connorbeast in the flesh a couple of times, but I don't know his real name. *grin*