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Was backreading my t-list a bit this morning, and I thought some of you might find this helpful.

ljArchive is a tool for downloading, browsing, and analyzing journal entries and comments from LiveJournal (or LiveJournal clones). Basically, you can back up your entire LJ contents with it; you just need to remember to do it regularly.

LJBook will let you convert your entire LJ into a pdf file, with lots of customizable settings.

If you have a Dreamwidth account, you can import your entire LJ into it, with comments and everything. (But note that if you already had stuff in your Dreamwidth account, that'll be overwritten... I think.**) You can then use Semagic, or the integrated Dreamwidth tool, to mirror all future posts on both sites (though of course not all comments, unless you restrict them to one place).

If you want a Dreamwidth invite code, I have some; just say.

**ETA: see first comment on this post: I was wrong.

Well, not much stuff. I've been pretty much incommunicado during the time I spent in Germany, partly from choice and partly because I find it difficult to form coherent thoughts when three people are talking to me at once.

The weather was lovely throughout, and it was really depressing last night to come back to a typical Scottish evening (followed by a typical Scottish morning, and a wet kitten on my bed. Well, the kitten was kind of nice).

I discovered the joy of ice cream cups. With cream and chocolate sauce and fruit and, ideally, liqueur. Why couldn't I discover the joy of raw celery? Or pickles? Huh.

Also huh: GOING! and the accompanying PV. Or rather than 'huh', perhaps the operative phrase is 'WTF is that??' Guys, if I wanted to see/hear NEWS or Arashi or HSJ, I'd be a NEWS or Arashi or HSJ fan. SRSLY. I haven't found one of their A-sides so sucky since... actually, that must have been before I was in the fandom. In fact, that may have been YOU. What a co-incidence. :-/

A kind-of sort-of PSA for those of you who are in Germany: for something my mother was doing, I hunted up the German equivalent to our Say No to 0870 (a consumer service which helps you avoid calling horribly expensive 'customer service' numbers); it doesn't seem to be very well known in Germany, so here it is in case you want it: Das 0180-Telefonbuch.

While I was away, we uploaded our kizuna_exchange story Amigo to our own fic journal and also to our abode on AO3. Summary: Kame rings in the years with angst, some abandonment, and a cosmopolitan. Akame, 9,000 words, Teen-rated; betaed by ina. Thank you again, Ina, you were great! :-)

I think I still have comments to catch up on. It feels weird to be going back almost a week. It also feels weird to be looking at my KAT-TUN calendar and deciding that I don't want to miss out on some of the pics for which the dates are officially over, so I'll be catching up more slowly there. Today is the 26th. :-) I think I'll be back on track by 3 May. And kriszeth, I'll be getting back to you well before then!

Finally, question. Well, back-story first. I use Firefox as my main browser but I can't run two instances at once on Win7, and for complicated reasons I need to have two separate browsers running quite frequently; otherwise this wouldn't be an issue. Now, is there a way to stop moving animated images in Google Chrome? Preferably after allowing them to do their animation thingie once? Basically, to do what in Firefox, setting 'image.animation_mode' to 'once' does? Or failing that, I'd be grateful to be told just how to turn the bloody things off entirely. Icons that constantly move at the edge of my vision give me migraines.

Oh, and while I'm at it, does anybody know how to force Chrome to override any given site's font settings? I know where I can set the fonts I want to have displayed as defaults, but that seems to work only when the site itself hasn't set specific fonts. (AO3, I am looking at you. I do not like your swirly serifs.)

I won a poem during the help_haiti auctions, and the writer, just_the_ash, sent it to me a few days ago. I was extremely unhelpful (if truthful) where prompts were concerned, meeting all her suggestions with a 'hm, not really, I just like the idea of a poem, you know...'. My only specifics were that I didn't want stuff about mothers and babies, and don't like sentimentality. She was very patient with me.

Anyway, here's 'my' poem, and it was a veritable steal!

( On the Inevitability of Spring After Winter )

In completely different news, something's buggering up megaupload for me and clicking the links leads to nothing but blank pages. I've been doing some investigating, and it's either that my ISP has blocked it or that something's gone wrong with their routing and who knows when that'll be fixed.

Fortunately, I also found a workaround on one of the fora, so if anyone here also happens to have problems with megaupload, try the following: where it says 'www' in the URL, substitute 's-ttp'. That's all. It works for me.

Spammity spam...

I will shut up again soon enough, but since it's just taken me a little while to find a place where I can download the YamaNade manga (why does one manga need to have three names? Why?), I thought I'd share: Vols 1-15 here.

Haven't found anything reliable for volumes beyond 15 yet. This site purports to go to volume 19 but is generally a wreck and half the links don't work.

( Some ch. 20 and 21 links here )

It's the English version, called "Perfect Girl Evolution". (Why YamaNade why Wallflower why PerfectGirl why?) Haven't found a good site for raws. Did y'all notice MININOVA IS DEAD??

Since all the cool kids are doing it...

I'm now stating my posting policy in my userinfo. What it amounts to: currently I post to InsaneJournal as solo and I mirror everything on LiveJournal as solo____. I just stopped crossposting to GreatestJournal. Once I start posting fiction to InsaneJournal, I'll mirror it on LiveJournal, too, until they kick me out for Kamui being fifteen.

I check friends lists on InsaneJournal and on LiveJournal. I pull a few feeds from GreatestJournal into my InsaneJournal friends list.

It would be very helpful to me if you could tell me what your current posting policies are. ( Here's a poll for the most straightforward configurations. )

I made myself a little file with all these useful links, but then it occurred to me I might as well share.

How to leave LJ and take (most of) your stuff with you.

brown_betty has a very useful post here which covers:

1. backing up your LJ with LJ-Archive
2. transferring your old entries (with tags etc, but not comments) to InsaneJournal or GreatestJournal with LJ-Sec.

Snapetoy @ Greatestjournal has a post explaining in detail how to make Semagic let you post to multiple journals.

Bookmarklets like style=mine and style=light work across platforms. [ETA: mostly].

ETA: There's a poll here about where fandom might be heading next.

ETA2: Another roundup of useful links (some which I have above but some in addition to that) and some good news about the InsaneJournal owner: apparently they are very fandom friendly.

ETA3: rahalia_cat has a step by step guide to backing up with LJ-Archive