Technology: oy

[vilakins]

My finishathon story is due tomorrow and I just finished it, here at work at 6pm on a dark wintry Friday night after everyone else has gone home for the weekend. Why? Because we lost the internet at home last night and I have no confidence it will be restored before Monday. Shame on you, Orcon. That's twice in two weeks you've cut us off from the world.

I was also going to post photos of the great tree adventures and various cats but I have to choose a new place (Flickr or Photobucket) to host my photos now that LJ has removed the feature-rich Scrapbook and replaced it with a basic piece of crap, copying photos to it in random order and providing us with no way to fix it. Bastards.

Anyway, at least I thought to bring my story to work on a flash drive and finish it here.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Well done, anyway! Hope they surprise you by fixing the net fast. *crosses fingers for you*

(Er. Also when is it my turn next for b7friday? I kind of worked out it should be today, but I think redstarrobot comes before me?)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We've had to disconnect one phone line which we think Jasmin has gnawed. Although this may not be true. Anyway, the phone company is looking at it tomorrow morning so I may have maligned Orcon. I'm just very relieved to have the internet back. [hugs it tight]

Yes, it is your turn today! Sorry, I should have given you a link to the calendar (http://b7friday-calend.livejournal.com/12776.html). I was so disorganised I took Red's first turn because I was so late setting it up. She comes after you anyway. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah! \o/ Hmm, this isn't some sort of beginning of cats finally getting on and taking over the world, is it? ;-)

Aha. Well, I worked out it sort of ought to be, but, heh, yes, that is helpful. I've got it on my watch list & will never be caught out again. (Well, hopefully...)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the new Crapbook and yeah... what a step backward, so many things fubared. I particularly hate that they no longer can nest. And of course, they've lost some pics, but what else is new?

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Love the story, I just finished it

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What is it with cats and wires? Jasmin isn't the first, and they regularly disconnect the TiVo and DVD player. In fact I based Avon's fiddling with the wire in Pets on our late Tessa.

Just subscribe to the comm; it only gets posted to every quarter. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Crapbook is a great name! I had all my stuff organised in each gallery IN ORDER, DAMMIT, but no way to fix the random mess they've made. No re-ordering, no selection of preview pics (which they failed to bring over... I AM SAVAGE ABOUT IT!

Who the hell implements shit software without any testing? LJ, that's who! (rewrite of our company's ad tagline.)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I figured out a long time ago that the basic game plan of the current owners is to deliberately degrade performance to drive off the users they don't like. I got so fed up with all their garbage and lousy performance that I don't even remember to look at my flist most days. I'm just spending my time writing fic on AO3 & email chatting with Z.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

DW's all right!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

DW's great. I just never got into the habit of using it. I do have a paid account to show my support & to optimistically think that some day I'll get back into journaling, once my obsession with writing *something* every day for Iron Man/Avengers dies down.