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'That would be pretty cool.'

For anybody interested in the future of Tumblr, The Verge did a podcast interview that I can recommend with the CEO of Automatic (Wordpress) about the acquisition. One of the interviewers is a fannish user of the site and did try to bring that perspective to the chat. I found the CEO's ideas intriguing albeit necessarily circumspect. Also he has a really nice voice.

Anyway, well worth a listen if you like your information in podcast format, and they do also provide a slightly condensed transcript.

Somehow even the internet does not contain enough distraction to get me to Doctor Who time. Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie!

1.How did you name your pets?

I think the only pet that was properly mine and thus solely mine to name was a hamster I named Cotton Candy. Because it was soft and fluffy. I was, like, eight, don't judge.

A few of my plants have names, though not all. I have a little cactus named Fred, a palm named Clive, and an elephant foot palm named Curt Cobain, for obvious reasons.

And I had some influence in naming my mom's guinea pig, Albert. I generally like the conceit of giving pets (and plants) extremely banal, non-pet names.

2.Poirot or Miss Marpel?

Neither. Mysteries are the dullest genre; I never read them.

3.Do you have a FB account too?

Deleted that shit years ago when they were gearing up to conquer the world. Sure one time nobody actually bothered to tell me my cousin had had a baby because of course everyone's on Facebook and thus knew, but no regrets.

4.Books - hardcover or paperback

Ebooks, largely. Nothing like years of working in bookstores, physically slinging thousands of books around, to make you dramatically unsentimental about printed text.

5.Mobile(cell phone): Windows/Android or Apple?

Apple, currently. Android for my last two phones. iPhone again before that. Could well be Android next time. I live in a perpetual state of grass is greener. Anyone who wants a lengthy philosophical debate about the relative merits of the two platforms, hit me up.

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Well, that's killed a good fifteen minutes. Is it Doctor Who time yet?

Questions from

thefridayfive via

ironymaiden.

Hello new friends!

Welcome. Please feel free to stop in and introduce yourselves. I've subscribed to everybody who's subscribed to me. Some of you have also granted me access to your locked entries. If I don't previously know you, I have not done the same. If you stick around I'll change that. I don't lock much, mostly stuff that could locate me in space. Though, fair warning, I don't post much either. Never quite got the hang of personal journaling, so I mostly just live in people's comment sections.

If you're new to DW or just new to using it seriously, I cannot recommend enough actually reading the official site announcements on

dw_news and

dw_maintenance. These are infrequent but pretty much always substantial, informative, refreshingly transparent, and they mean new goodies! They've just posted a welcome/orientation post for all the new people. I was planning to make a few quick posts suggesting basically everything

denise suggests doing towards the bottom of the page (claim your Open ID, enable the beta features), so just go read what she says and do it.

Note: comment notifications are always delayed a few hours when they put up a news post because the system has to push it to everybody.

It's also worth your while, if you've not been around much, reading through some of the back-catalogue on

dw_news. It's a good resource to understand how Dreamwidth works (philosophically and technically) and the features they've added on top of LJ's codebase.

Small self-pimp for people who've added me in the last few months: back when LJ moved their servers, I wrote a post about How to Move to Dreamwidth and Like It, with my accumulated wisdom about making the switch. It seems to be making the rounds, so that pleases me.

Last but not least: DOCTOR WHO TEIM SOON EHRMAHGAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frankly, I'm not that cut up about the phone. I'm just pissed that I now have to deal with replacing it. Ugh.

News for TV Majors does what it says on the tin: collections of links on tv-related topics, intended for people who actually get to study this stuff. Some of it is quite industry inside-baseball stuff: advertising trends, analysis of cord-cutting news, upfronts, etc. Other entries skew more towards fannish interests: picks of articles by tv critics, episode analysis, trends in current tv content. I've found a lot of great articles through this site, which I've been following for years.

The highlight, however, is Good TVeets, a (mostly) daily round-up of the funniest tweets about tv shows. Because we all need more of that in our lives.

Ghostery is like a next-level adblocker. It's an extension for your browser that can block not just visible ads, but all of the trackers and plug-ins that litter modern websites. Why would you want to do this?

1) Privacy: Pretty much every website on the internet is spying on you, often in sophisticated networks that follow you around the web. Ghostry helps shield you from these tracker networks.

2) Security: Some website plugins carry malware that can do you active harm.

3) Speed: A major portion of the data load of a lot of websites is in trackers and plugins. It's amazing how fast some of these sites load when you cut that crap out.

4) Clutter: Ghostery removes a lot of the extra cruft from websites that can distract from the content. Not just ads, but things like those social media sharing buttons, media players, and buggy, slow-loading comment sections. Now, some of these things are useful, but Ghostery lets you turn them on and off at will. Maybe you want the Facebook share buttons but not the Twitter or Linked in ones--you can do that. Maybe most of the time you just want to read a site's articles but sometimes you want to comment--you can load them only when you want to.

5) And it blocks ads too.

( Some notes on using it: )

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