Scratching Post

Poking at some WIPs that have been sitting for a while, but my heart's not really in it. Out of nowhere, I really want to work both on my original stuff again, and a couple of WIPs that I have forgotten about for literally years because they are trapped on my dead laptop and/or on a thumb drive that I'm not sure our server will take.

Laptop was Windows-based and has a key stuck in a way we cannot get fixed. It reads as jammed, but we removed it and can't find any actual noticeable issue, even as it still registers as stuck. Partner was trying, and couldn't get it and everything keeps shorting out because you seriously cannot get anything but error messages out of anything. She set it aside, and now we're not sure where the power cable is, so even if I take it in, I'm not sure I could turn it on. Not to mention I am now spoiled with the battery life of my iPad versus the two hours that sucker could hold a charge.

Thumb drives should, in theory work, save for two things: The first is that they are formatted to Windows and we only have Macs now save for the dead laptop. The last time my partner tried one (which thankfully only had one thing on it), it tried to erase and reformat the thing. The second thing is that I am terrified of using a computer at like a library or something and getting a virus and losing everything.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas on this? Or a smack upside the head for being technologically inept when computers should totally be able to read a fricken word doc on any platform?

Why is it always the same three rather old LJ posts that get spam comments?

Eternals, I Can See Tomorrow from Here, and Only Say the Word and I Shall.

Anyone else not getting emails about LJ replies/comments? The inbox on the site itself updates, but nothing is sent to my actual email address. I have trouble remembering to reply to start with, and this is really not helping.

Apologies to the mods of the two communities I just tried to post my fic to. Apparently iPad has some issues with LJ and DW coding:
- On LJ, I cannot scroll through the available tags and can only see what's on the first page worth of the menu. When I try to edit the tags, it only shows me what tags I have already chosen as the available tags.

- On DW, it claims I have no tags if I try to edit the tags in any post, including those to my own journal.

IDEK.

I was able to log in to a desktop to correct the tags on one, but the other is a modded community and it would not let me go back. Awesome.

Edit: I think I have them all fixed now. Sorry!

Okay, so I have a ridiculously high number of invite codes for Dreamwidth because a) they just sent me two emails full of them for some reason, and b) I may have, possibly, forgotten to offer some really old ones a while back.

Comment or PM me if you want one/some, otherwise I am thinking of offering at least some to camelot_fleet’s bank for use at parties and other events.

Sigh… parties… I do miss them so. Maybe someone’s up for a hiatus-breaker party? Or maybe a just-because-we-can party? Or even a hey-the-sky-is-blue-and-I-have-chocolate party?

So apparently on top of the most recent random Dreamwidth code giveaway thingy, I had a bunch I never realized I had? Let me know if you want one.

I know LJ has been a pain for many lately while they fight whatever it is that is attacking their servers, so this is an alternative if you are interested, and does still allow cross-posting so you can keep your LJ as well (as this post can hopefully attest to).

Why did no one tell me how awesomely easy RSS feeds are to do on Dreamwidth? I was fighting with them over on LJ, but here it's pretty much "click here and you are done" and that just rocks. Mix that with the few feeds I have on LJ making the formatting wonky or cutting off images from the feed versus DW adding the framing code so you can just slide over to see the rest? Yet another reason why DW is awesome. *g*

Hey! I found our T4 page on the Wayback Machine! No idea if all the download links work or not. The background image is missing, so it comes across as light text on a light background though. Vids from Buffy, Xena, Farscape, Cleo 2525, Dark Angel, and SG-1 are there, as well as our charity vid that helped raise a couple grand (which is never a bad thing).

They have my Storypage too, but only archived to the end of 2008, so everything I updated in 2009 is lost. However, the majority of the SG-1 and SGA stories are there, so that's cool.

But hey! Pages! Especially cool considering who the fuck knows when access will be restored to the real thing.

Yep, it's down. Nope, no idea when it will be up again. Yep, it's very annoying.

It was having issues before we upgraded our server, and seems to have gotten worse after we did so. We have the server with the web stuff, D has the server with the mail stuff. Somehow, the great and powerful internet decided to point all beltran[dot]nu requests to his server, including the things hosted on ours, and thus everything is getting a not found error.

He was going to look into fixing this, something he said should not be that hard, several weeks ago. When asked this weekend, he said he had not gotten around to it yet. There is a reason why we call him Putz Boy, and there is a reason he answers to it.

In the interim, most stories are hosted here on LJ, except for the ones from my pre-LJ days. SG-1 fic is mostly available over at The Alpha Gate under my author tag of Cat. Xena stuff has hopefully faded into non-existence after all these years. SGA stuff has some here and some lost in the ether right now. Merlin and others should all be here under the tags. All the vids from T4 are lost until this is fixed.

Sorry for the hassle. Some day, maybe, if we're really good, the Internet Fairies will see fit to wave their magic wands at us once more and all connections will be restored. Maybe.

Sigh.

Just spent the last hour fighting with iTunes and shouting such things as "Why? Why can't I order my Metallica songs when you let me order my Nelly Furtado songs? Give me a reason!"

Also, for some reason, updating iTunes has shorted out my email. IDEK.

On the up side, I have access to our music server again, so there's that.

On the even higher up side, wolfie74 is about to take me out to Pagoda and there is never any bad in that. *g*