Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


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Jessica - Jan 20, 2006 9:43:20 am PST #6710 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Gmail finally has a delete button! (WHY did they think this was such an optional feature for so long? Why??)


sumi - Jan 20, 2006 9:53:10 am PST #6711 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Have we really lost all our locked posts on lj or have they just gotten rid of the icons that tell us that our posts are locked?

Because I don't think that the posts that I am seeing on my lj were all public, yet they no longer tell you what level they are at.


flea - Jan 20, 2006 9:55:08 am PST #6712 of 10003
information libertarian

I think they are in mid-tweak, and things haven't settled out yet.


amych - Jan 20, 2006 10:06:49 am PST #6713 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Gmail finally has a delete button! (WHY did they think this was such an optional feature for so long? Why??)

Because of course merely having the space means that you actually *want* to have every stupid me-too response to anything ever?

(It confused the hell out of me, actually, because I'd installed the Greasemonkey script to give myself a delete button, and then all of a sudden I had two.)


§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 10:46:55 am PST #6714 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wireless USB.

I do like that. A lot.


le nubian - Jan 20, 2006 12:22:31 pm PST #6715 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

That price needs to come down some, but I like the idea. Wasn't that one of the prize winners at PC World?


Ginger - Jan 20, 2006 12:24:24 pm PST #6716 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I might pay that to get rid of the horrifying nest of wires under my desk.


Consuela - Jan 20, 2006 3:45:28 pm PST #6717 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I'm having an LJ problem. I have cookies disabled on my work computer, except for a cookie for www.livejournal.com. And now I've added one for myljname.livejournal.com. This allows me to read my flist. But when I go to click on a locked post on a friend's LJ, I cannot open it -- because I don't have a cookie for that LJ domain, just mine.

Is the only way around this to just enable cookies universally? I tried to tell Firefox to grant cookies to *.livejournal.com, but apparently it didn't work.

And does my question make any sense?


amych - Jan 20, 2006 3:47:43 pm PST #6718 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Does it work using just livejournal.com?

edit: my guess is no, but there's a firefox extension that will do it for you: [link]


tina f. - Jan 21, 2006 10:00:30 am PST #6719 of 10003

PC question from a PC-ignoramus:

I have a not-very-tech-literate friend who is looking for free software to rip music from his iPod to his PC. Any recs?

I use (and am mostly happy with) Senuti on my Mac but it is not available for Windows. I ask especially because I want to find something super user-friendly for him due to his not-very-techness and I don't know anything about PCs.

Also - iPod users - it is possible to have your iPod cross-formated for both PCs and Macs, correct? Are there problems with doing that?

I just gave him my old iMac because he is computer-less, but his iPod has only ever been used with his folks' PC. I just wondered if I should warn him about potential problems. Or if it's just not possible at all.

Thanks.