By Slanted Light

Does anyone know how to take underlining off links in an lj post? For just that post? It's driving me maaaaad!

Also - is anyone else having problems with google/mail? Or is it just me?!

Good morning! Feeling much more alive - now that it's time to go back to work... *headdesk* Actually I did yesterday too, and got lots of sort-y out things done, which was fab. And then just as I was going to settle in to catch up on emails...

Is anyone else having problems with googlemail? My googlemail is ridiculously slow right now - it's sort of pausing before it does anything... Anyone else, or is it just me and I need to be really worried? (A quickscan hasn't picked up anything nasty, I've got a bigscan running right now...)

OTW people - can anyone tell me how the hell you let someone know there's mistaken/misleading info up on a page at Fanlore? I spent an hour surfing around trying to find out how yesterday, to no avail! It's great to see that the person editing the Pros page has included Palelyloitering, but it's neither a list like the Yahoo lists she's grouped it with, nor is it a "gen and slash" list - it's very much slash-based with gen thrown in to help slashers avoid it! Gaaaah! Yes I know I could register and spend hours figuring out how to edit the pages myself etc etc, but I'm already behind with so many fandom things, and if I take on one more thing I'll explode - never mind doing even fewer of them well. And yet I don't like being misrepresented either. Surely there must be somewhere people can point out inaccurate information?

Red Shirt Press posted a very disappointed post the other day about cancelling their forthcoming Pros zine through lack of submissions. Apart from their single post to Safehouse, did anyone see any publicity about it anywhere else? Did anyone think about submitting? They're blaming the internet culture in Pros for lack of submissions (I commented to suggest that more publicity might have helped) but I kind of think a better job might have been done in asking us to submit! After all - who are they?! I even flisted their lj and didn't see any further posts about the zine (reminders, requests, etc) after their first one. Gaaaah!

And finally - ooh, this has turned into a bit of a grump again! - the Amazon thing? I see they're now blaming an employee in France. WTF?! I've been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt to some extent so far - everyone fucks up now and then, as long as you're honest and you fix it then I can understand and forgive - but why in the world make the point/imply that the employee was French? What relevance does that have to anything except to make a more villainous scapegoat (France still being en vogue as a baddie, I've noticed) and to distance Amazon.com itself from what happened? No, it wasn't us, it was some idiot in France... I don't think so! I'm peeved - I want them to work this out, but they've just made it so much worse in my eyes!

On the bright side - I'm going to catch up on stuff today, I am! Off to loiteringpalely! *g*

Nicked from everyone who did this last week - I did it on Friday too, cos fun meme, but I didn't get a chance to post that day, and of course since I'd done it at work... in my break, obviously. Like now. *g*

1 - Go to a random wikipedia article — The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations" — The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to Flickr's "explore the last seven days" — Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop, MS Paint, or similar to put it all together.
5 - Post it with this text.



So... does anyone out there use GIMP instead of Photoshop or whatever? I've just found out that it's a free downloadable thingie, and thought I might - has anyone tried it? What d'you reckon to it? It's on all the computers here at work, and I used it for this, and it seems quite good...

...have the comm graphics vanished, or is it just me? I can't see the banner, or the icons for the calendar partway down this page" or most of the graphics on the User Info page.

Waaaah?

ETA - bum, just me then... and I've not only cleared my cache and my cookies and refreshed and refreshed, but I've re-booted twice since they first seemed to vanish... *headdesk*

Is it a coincidence that the scanner and copier parts of my printer-scanner-copier aren't working..? Worst timing in the world! *headdesk*

I CAN HAZ INTERWEB!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got it! It's there! The little interweb symbol in the corner of my lappie, and it's just staying there and being all connected-y, and don't you just hate people who are over-excited and use far too many exclamation marks and capital letters and silly ways of saying something?!!!!!

*breathes*

And yet, tis true - I can haz broadband interweb, through shiny wireless router that brings it zinging into house and up to room - thank you thank you wireless router girl who knows who she is (even if that first step was such a long time ago you've probably forgotten sending it... lightning has alot to answer for around here... *g*) and thank you Landlady for being out today and thank you Mobile Interrubbish Connection that made me so frustrated that I went to try without waiting for Landlady to come home, because...

I'm all broadband upped again!

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

(And sorry - clearly way too overexcited, and should go and pick blackberries, despite huge temptation now to sit here all day and night... oh, and just in time for tonight's ProsWatch too... hurrah!)