You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


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Dana - Apr 08, 2008 7:10:57 am PDT #5522 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

There are message boards like voy.com, which have threaded topics.


amych - Apr 08, 2008 7:12:51 am PDT #5523 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

(Does this kind of thing follow me around?)

Nah, it's not just you.


Wolfram - Apr 08, 2008 7:13:30 am PDT #5524 of 25501
Visilurking

I thought about doing a blog, but it seems like overkill? I may end up going that route.

It just seems like a free short-term message board is the type of thing that should already be out in the interwebs. I just can't find it.


le nubian - Apr 08, 2008 7:16:00 am PDT #5525 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Wolfram, basecamp is indeed free and you can do forums and real time chat. If you want to store files - that's when it starts getting pricey.

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Wolfram - Apr 08, 2008 7:31:19 am PDT #5526 of 25501
Visilurking

Wow basecamp really hides the free there, but I finally found it. Or maybe I'm just daft.

Funnily enough, the 37signals thing sounded really familiar and I ran a search for it in my gmail. Found out I already have a free backpackit account which allows me to create writeboards on which people can comment. That may work.


Kevin - Apr 08, 2008 8:20:40 am PDT #5527 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

As just mentioned, you have to be really careful now with forums which don't require registration - they get spammed to hell and back within weeks of going up, to the point where it becomes unusable.


Sean K - Apr 08, 2008 1:56:13 pm PDT #5528 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

So, how do I get my old computer (the MacMini) to see the printer attached to the AirPort Express?


Sean K - Apr 08, 2008 2:14:27 pm PDT #5529 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Ah. The AirPort just needed to update like crazy.


Gris - Apr 08, 2008 4:55:17 pm PDT #5530 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Google/Yahoo groups are always an option for short-term discussions. I tend to think of them as mailing lists more than forums, but they can easily be set to read-online-only by default.


Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2008 7:55:19 am PDT #5531 of 25501
brillig

Not only does my husband's new laptop suffer from catlike typing, we've also had cat-like bidding due to Hubby leaving the screen on eBay and the cursor too close to the Buy Now button. We very nearly bought an engine for a Model-T, and it would have been very difficult to explain to the yacht company why we were having to back out of the deal to pay $300,000 for that very pretty sailboat. I don't think "My cat bought your boat" would fly.

Anyway, Hubby's been investigating cat-proofing software, and the big name, PawSense, is having a server configuration interruption in service. Does anyone know of any cat-like-typing blocking software other than PawSense? Yesterday Amon was saved from going through a window only because he couldn't figure out how to say yes to "Would you like to format your hard drive now?"