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Testing...
Jul. 26th, 2011 09:03 amFor some people, LJ posting/comment replying has been down for more than 24 hours. Unfortunately I'm one of those people. Testing a proxy to see if that will let me post...
Jul. 26th, 2011
So a proxy gets me around only one of the current bugs. The second, not being able to post more than a sentence or two, still hits me through it. I can't comment, click cuts, read comments, or do much of anything. Sorry to everyone I can't leave comments to!
...hopefully this is short enough to go through. I feel like I'm on damned Twitter.
...hopefully this is short enough to go through. I feel like I'm on damned Twitter.
PSA: Backing up your LJ on DW
Jul. 26th, 2011 04:10 pm(I've been trying to post this for more than 24 hours now. Lovely timing, LJ people. *sigh*
Sorry to everyone I didn't leave comments to. FB's ultrasound pictures!!, LAM's blueberries, everyone who had good or bad days. I couldn't leave comments, click cuts, or leave comments. Blah.
HOLY CRAP IT POSTED. 30+ HOURS OF TRYING TO GET THIS POST UP (pass the Viagra?). Gah.)
For the longest time, I said I couldn't move to DW because (among other reasons) I had ten years of posts on LJ. I'm still not intending to move, but with the LJ downtime/issues in the past few days and the LJ backup tool no longer being updated or supported, I was looking for other options.
Little did I know that you could import your entire LJ (comments, locks, and all) to DW with little more than a click of a button. Okay, you actually need to give your LJ name/password (which made me a little twitchy) and click two buttons plus select what you wanted imported from a checklist, but that's nearly the click of a button!
"RTFM!" Yeah, yeah, I've never read the DW FAQ. If I had, I would have found out about this sooner. Here is the FAQ page which contains the link to start from. It warns it might take up to a day to complete, but it's only 20 minutes for me and it's on the last step.
I'm not sure how I'll handle future posts (if I do at all), I've always updated directly on LJ and not on a client, but backing up all my previous entries makes me very happy. (The LJ backup tool still works for me, so I have an offline version as well, but it could die at any time.)
I'm kind of not happy with my DW journal. I was using it for Haken's IC posts for a time even though the account name is thistlechaser. I should have made a separate one for his... I guess if it ever becomes my primary blog I'll weed them out and put them somewhere new, but for now: Yay backup!
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Oh, and if anyone saw the Teenycom post from yesterday and wonder where it went, I deleted it. The seller replied to me right away (she did in fact send the wrong hat to the wrong person and the other buyer contacted her the same day as well). Either she's going to refund me all of the money and I'll keep the fugly hat, or the other seller and I will both return the hats to her and she'll send them out again. I'm waiting to hear which.
Sorry to everyone I didn't leave comments to. FB's ultrasound pictures!!, LAM's blueberries, everyone who had good or bad days. I couldn't leave comments, click cuts, or leave comments. Blah.
HOLY CRAP IT POSTED. 30+ HOURS OF TRYING TO GET THIS POST UP (pass the Viagra?). Gah.)
For the longest time, I said I couldn't move to DW because (among other reasons) I had ten years of posts on LJ. I'm still not intending to move, but with the LJ downtime/issues in the past few days and the LJ backup tool no longer being updated or supported, I was looking for other options.
Little did I know that you could import your entire LJ (comments, locks, and all) to DW with little more than a click of a button. Okay, you actually need to give your LJ name/password (which made me a little twitchy) and click two buttons plus select what you wanted imported from a checklist, but that's nearly the click of a button!
"RTFM!" Yeah, yeah, I've never read the DW FAQ. If I had, I would have found out about this sooner. Here is the FAQ page which contains the link to start from. It warns it might take up to a day to complete, but it's only 20 minutes for me and it's on the last step.
I'm not sure how I'll handle future posts (if I do at all), I've always updated directly on LJ and not on a client, but backing up all my previous entries makes me very happy. (The LJ backup tool still works for me, so I have an offline version as well, but it could die at any time.)
I'm kind of not happy with my DW journal. I was using it for Haken's IC posts for a time even though the account name is thistlechaser. I should have made a separate one for his... I guess if it ever becomes my primary blog I'll weed them out and put them somewhere new, but for now: Yay backup!
---
Oh, and if anyone saw the Teenycom post from yesterday and wonder where it went, I deleted it. The seller replied to me right away (she did in fact send the wrong hat to the wrong person and the other buyer contacted her the same day as well). Either she's going to refund me all of the money and I'll keep the fugly hat, or the other seller and I will both return the hats to her and she'll send them out again. I'm waiting to hear which.
I can post! I can post!
Jul. 26th, 2011 08:45 pmI feel like posting endlessly, now that I can again. Silly LJ, don't go down again!
Random tidbits:
- I had a parakeet named Tidbit. I have no idea why I named it that, but I sure did like that bird. I'd love to have another one sometime, though I love having a cat more.
- I saw a post about this on my friendfriends list: School District Won't Allow Black Valedictorian. I have no idea if the story is true or not (though that it happened in Arkansas makes me lean towards 'Duh...') because I stopped reading at this point:
"Although the high school is predominantly white, 46 percent of students are African-American."
...wait, what? If 46% of the students are black, then no it's not predominantly white. o.O White students have a slight majority. Words have meaning, people! (Edit: Now I'm questioning myself, and google/online dictionaries aren't clear and don't agree. Some say that a simple majority = predominant. I always thought it meant a vast majority, a large majority, not a 'by the skin of your teeth majority'. Am I wrong?)
- I have no idea what, if anything, has suddenly changed about Sealed Vial of Poison (I can find no mention of anything changing), but suddenly they're selling like hotcakes. All those that I went into Cata with?
They're finally selling! Woot! I started selling them at 100 gold and have been going up from there. Only a dozen or so left, sadly.
- I'm waiting to hear from a GM about getting a name freed. Dogcatcher was slightly amusing at first, but now it makes me mumble. There's a level 1 with a much nicer name, so I entered a ticket asking for it to be freed. The ticket has been escalated, which was a good sign in all my previous name freeings. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have my new Alliance AH mule! I kinda feel the same about the guild name. Team Jacob. It was kind of amusing in the beginning (what with worgens/werewolves all new), but now I'm kind of really meh about it. I'd consider selling it, but I have so much stuff in the bank. Maybe I'll like it more with a worgen wearing it, instead of human Dogcatcher.
Posting posting posting!
Random tidbits:
- I had a parakeet named Tidbit. I have no idea why I named it that, but I sure did like that bird. I'd love to have another one sometime, though I love having a cat more.
- I saw a post about this on my friendfriends list: School District Won't Allow Black Valedictorian. I have no idea if the story is true or not (though that it happened in Arkansas makes me lean towards 'Duh...') because I stopped reading at this point:
"Although the high school is predominantly white, 46 percent of students are African-American."
...wait, what? If 46% of the students are black, then no it's not predominantly white. o.O White students have a slight majority. Words have meaning, people! (Edit: Now I'm questioning myself, and google/online dictionaries aren't clear and don't agree. Some say that a simple majority = predominant. I always thought it meant a vast majority, a large majority, not a 'by the skin of your teeth majority'. Am I wrong?)
- I have no idea what, if anything, has suddenly changed about Sealed Vial of Poison (I can find no mention of anything changing), but suddenly they're selling like hotcakes. All those that I went into Cata with?
They're finally selling! Woot! I started selling them at 100 gold and have been going up from there. Only a dozen or so left, sadly.
- I'm waiting to hear from a GM about getting a name freed. Dogcatcher was slightly amusing at first, but now it makes me mumble. There's a level 1 with a much nicer name, so I entered a ticket asking for it to be freed. The ticket has been escalated, which was a good sign in all my previous name freeings. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have my new Alliance AH mule! I kinda feel the same about the guild name. Team Jacob. It was kind of amusing in the beginning (what with worgens/werewolves all new), but now I'm kind of really meh about it. I'd consider selling it, but I have so much stuff in the bank. Maybe I'll like it more with a worgen wearing it, instead of human Dogcatcher.
Posting posting posting!
