Ree's Xanga

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:18:52 GMT

Apparently I am required to post here to keep my account from being deleted. I have nothing else to say right now; my previous entry still applies: http://www.xanga.com/Ree/603659275/exit.html

exit

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:05:48 GMT

Heads up! I'm not going to crosspost to Xanga anymore. The automatic crossposter I used stopped working some time ago. I haven't dug up any other crossposters that work for all the APIs I need. I've been manually copy-pasting since then, but it's way too tedious.

So I'll detail some ways you can keep reading my blog entries. If you don't follow up any of them, then this is The End, because my Xanga is getting zero updates after this.

The blogs I can still crosspost to are my Tabulas and my Livejournal. Both of these have a friends' page, similar to the Xanga subscriptions page. If you have an email subscription and would prefer to keep getting my entries in your email, go here and enter your email address.

Both blogs have syndication feeds. Tabulas has RSS and LJ has the Atom option. Both of these feeds can be added to your My Yahoo, Google, or other customisable homepages. They will display a list of my most recent entries each time you view your page.

Personally, I think you should take this opportunity to register at Bloglines, a web-based RSS and Atom aggregator. It's like Xanga subs or an LJ friends page, except it's for the entire Internet -- all the 'net that offers RSS feeds, anyway. It is awesome and I check it more often than my email precisely because it is awesome. You can do email subs in Bloglines, too. Rock.

Goodbye, my Xanga, and thanks for all the... um... no, actually, I'm feeling pretty ungrateful at the moment. So never mind.

memorabilia

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:00:27 GMT

My mother was just organising her garage and found something of mine: half a sewing needle, blackened, taped to a tongue depressor. It spent a month in my foot.

That was not a fun month.

A doctor removed it fourteen years ago. Exactly. How bizarre.

Hey, you have your stories, I got mine.

serendipity

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:07:58 GMT

A few days ago, I killed some brain cells trying to do a specific stupid website trick. Turned out I couldn't do it on my current hosting plan.

But almost as soon as I figured that out, my host upgraded cPanel and now I can. Too cool.

... so Xanga's back but still not auto-crosspostable? Oh Xanga, you so silly. And irritating. Like scabies.

eight oddities

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:11:33 GMT

RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 8 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 8 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 8 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs. (Tagging can go bye kthx.)

1. My ankle has an "eye" -- a nifty juxtaposition of a mole and a curved scar. Together they quite resemble a "bird's eye".

2. I wiggle my toes when I'm awake but very sleepy. I never knew this until I shared a house with kittens. Claws in toes will wake you up right quick!

3. When I was a schoolkid, I absolutely hated creative writing assignments because I never knew where to begin. I've done a 180 since then.

4. Without corrective lenses, not only can I not read a standard eye chart, I can't even see the E at the top.

5. I like toads. I think they're oddly cute.

6. Occasionally I pick a horrible television show to follow out of sheer schadenfreude. Currently it's Painkiller Jane, which is still a step up from the rather horrible TV movie version.

7. I eat white rice for breakfast more days than not. It tastes better than dry cereal and it easy to prepare in my little rice cooker.

8. Bugs bite people, but they devour me. Many's the summer I went leopard-spotted from mosquito bites. When I say "spotted" I mean that one leg, between ankle and knee, had at least three dozen inflamed bites. That says nothing of the bites on my feet, arms, back, scalp, and even buttock -- which could only have been bitten through several layers of denim. I am bug candy.

interesting

Wed, 30 May 2007 19:45:28 GMT

LiveJournal is now suspending accounts that have "illegal interests" -- even if the account is for a fictional character and no illegal activity is taking place, and (I assume) even if the activity is illegal in the United States but legal other places. Way to go, LJ.

Heads up to anybody with an LJ, especially a character LJ. I've just spent time I couldn't really spare to remove character interests. I have a character based on a substance that is wholly illegal in the United States; poof goes her entire Interests block, and most of my others. Fantastic.

Word is they're also going to look for userpic keywords, but oh my sweet Dave I have to do non-stupid stuff sometime today.

(This still isn't going to crosspost to Xanga, is it? Argh. Stupid Intarwebz, wasting my time!)

whack tally

Sun, 27 May 2007 23:35:26 GMT

Today's injuries:

Nosebleed
Nosebleed Strikes Back
Tumble:
- Struck foot
- Skinned, bruised base of thumb
- Bruised hip

So not happy.

(Xanga is still not accepting crossposts. Manual crossposting makes Ree just plain cross. Dammit, Xanga, shape up al-fucking-ready!)

moving day

Fri, 25 May 2007 23:02:01 GMT

I helped my brother pack up house. He's staying with me for now; we'll see what develops later. Took two freaking days but we're done.

I'm not sure why I ache so much from this. The first day, I tried lifting more than I could sustain, but we took a day off in between and yesterday I was mostly just cleaning. Even so -- ow.

My summer class starts Tuesday, so I'm trying to wrap up my vegging out, but that didn't stop me from playing Lost Island of Alanna in one go. Forgot how irritating that final puzzle was, but a winner is me!

Probably should find some food before going sleepies. Yes.

(Xanga keeps not accepting my crossposts. Complain to Xanga, not me -- they're the ones who can do something about it. The latest post is always available at tabulas.com/~ree/ and msree.livejournal.com/ , because LiveJournal accepts crossposts, making it cooler than Xanga. No, I'm not annoyed or anything; why do you ask?)

naptime

Sat, 19 May 2007 03:57:48 GMT

Today my little nephew and I fell asleep, him splayed over me. Apparently I am comfortable. Yay!

(Beware of falling crossposts. Xanga is being a prissy little bitch. Damn it, Xanga, when I send you a post you are supposed to -- ohh -- POST. *fumes*)

Opera widgets gone bad

Wed, 09 May 2007 01:05:44 GMT

I am sick of Google not giving me answers.

My fellow Opera users, have you had this problem? I upgraded from Opera 9.10 to 9.20 and immediately my widgets hurt my eyes. Where widgets used to use Opera's font smoothing, it appears they now don't. I want my font smoothing back and I am willing to kill baby animals to get it. Or edit opera6.ini. You know, whichever.

I am on Windows XP, hardly an exotic platform, so I can't be the only Opera user who noticed this. Googling has told me that Opera for Mac now uses native Mac font anti-aliasing, which doesn't help me the tiniest bit. If there's no way to make Opera 9.20 smooth fonts in widgets, I intend to downgrade to 9.10 and stay there (security bugs be damned) until this is fixed, or else force myself to suffer Firefox's idiosyncrasies.

Recommendations of better places to ask this question would also be happily accepted.