Rag-tags

[vilakins]

I'm not tagging most of my entries, but I thought I'd at least tag my fiction and some posts in a few other categories. I have about 80 fiction posts, and I'm very annoyed to find that now I've gone to the trouble of tagging them all, the 'previous 20 entries' button stops working after skip = 60. Grrr. I'll only be adding to that category too. I've sent a report to LJ support and I hope they fix it.

I'm feeling a bit blah and that didn't help. The weather's crap (wet, grey, and so dark I had to have the lights on all day), and half my weekend seems to have disappeared without me noticing. The thought of having to walk to work next week in pelting rain like we had today doesn't fill me with delight either. I wish we had a mid-winter festival, or something to look forward to and brighten the months of unrelieved gloom. Never mind; next Friday, which would be Christmas Eve in a sensible southern world, I'll be at a pre-wedding girls' night out / booze-up at the Belgian pub in Mission Bay. That's something!

Right. I'll just go off now and cook up a yummy Thai red curry and watch some House and Who. Pity I've eaten all the chilli-chocolate Tim Tams...

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[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

*SQUEEZES*

I wish lj made a way to just to tag your Memories by a few clicks. I'm sure someone can write a bit of code to do that, damn it... I really don't want to go through hundreds and hundreds of Memories to tag them, even if tags are way better in whoring one's own fiction and opinions helping people find stuff.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I still think memories are better as they're all there on one page. It's how I'd find a past story, plus you can add memories from anyone's LJ. I had to find all my cross-posts from b7friday.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I hope you're soon unblahed.

A Belgian pub could be fun. The Belgians take their drinking seriously. :) I remember touring Belgian with a couple of friends many years ago. We found one pub in a place called Arlons that seemed to have about a hundred different beers with a different style of glass for each one,

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

This one does too! I've even had raspberry beer there (a nice drink in summer). But since it'll be the winter solstice, I think I've go for something a bit more fortifying.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I hope I'm not the cause of the blahness. Round here the female pre wedding outing is called a hen night. And success seems to be judged by the amount of alcohol consumed and I don't sympathise with premeditated hangovers.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, I only drink as much as I want to, and there will also be food, either there or at one of the many restaurants in the bay.

And of course you're not the cause of my blahness! It was weather and a combination of things like the house being a mess and lacking in the energy to do anything about it.

Got your latest story version, but I'm about to go out for brunch (the sun's out). I'll get to it today. :-)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

What's tagging for, then?

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Filtering. Say you want to see all your past entries on a certain topic, and nothing else, then tags allow you to do that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What he said. I thought it might be useful for people to just see my fiction, but it's all in my memories anyway. I see some people have tagged all their entries for every topic they've covered, but I'm just doing fiction (with ficathons and crossovers as an extra category), cats, and icons.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Sounds too much like hard work! Sort of like gmail would be if the little man in the machine didn't do the filtering so you can search by word or name and find everything related. Think I'll just use memories.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

As I've decided to now. Tags only work for about 60 posts and I have more than that for fiction. Also they have various other bugs.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could make it your new goal, to start a Midwinter Festival tradition for the southern hemisphere? Because there really should be one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

There should be! A few people (very few) have a midwinter Christmas but it's really just a big meal, not the widepread national festival it ought to be.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Christmas is too fixed to celebrate in June, but maybe Yule is available. I think it's Midwinter, the proper pagans will know if it's appropriate.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

All the religious festivals are at the wrong time of year, but I suppose it would be very confusing to shift them all six months. It's very hard to create a new one though. Yule's a good idea, but very mixed up with Christmas too.

We also need a positive national holiday. Most other nations celebrate themselves in some way; we just have a day of conflict, guilt, and resentment which isn't even a day off work if it's on the weekend; the same with Anzac Day which is about the fallen in war. Typical of us that we don't have anything that's actually joyous.

[kerravonsen]

Queen's Birthday?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's just a day off work; there's no mass fun like at Christmas and New Year. I don't know the woman anyway. ;-)