Plus ca change....
Dec. 31st, 2011 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerwenchWell, here we go again. Hello, world. Yes, I'm trying an alternative to LiveJournal, where I've had an account for almost exactly seven years. The latest LJ 'improvements' have removed my ability to comment on a number of my friends' posts, and my own posts as well, so here I am.
It'll be interesting to see how many, if any, of my LJ friends have blogs here.
Please feel free to add/comment at will. For now. As I find out more, I may alter the privacy settings, I might not stay around, who knows?
Oh, and Happy New Year's Eve, and Happy New Year.
Random observation:- I just watched the 1951 movie 'Hornblower', starring the gorgeous Gregory Peck. Very loosely based on the eponymous hero of C.S. Forester's books, it had the required Hollywood romance thickly smeared over a Ripping Yarn of wondrous improbability, but the music caught my ear. Surely... surely... pum-pa-paaaa...pa papapa pummmm.... 'the engines'll niver tak' it, Captain!' Yes, the first six notes of this noble theme are identical to TOS Star Trek. The lush orchestration was also eerily similar. For polystyrene boulders and ever-shrinking velour TOS uniforms, read backdrop with visible paintbrush marks, and wonderful toy sailships bobbing very unconvincingly on a dead calm surface... glorious stuff. Apart from the jaw-grittingly unlikely and inappropriate Romance element, of course.
Anyway, time to explore. A bientot, mes braves!
It'll be interesting to see how many, if any, of my LJ friends have blogs here.
Please feel free to add/comment at will. For now. As I find out more, I may alter the privacy settings, I might not stay around, who knows?
Oh, and Happy New Year's Eve, and Happy New Year.
Random observation:- I just watched the 1951 movie 'Hornblower', starring the gorgeous Gregory Peck. Very loosely based on the eponymous hero of C.S. Forester's books, it had the required Hollywood romance thickly smeared over a Ripping Yarn of wondrous improbability, but the music caught my ear. Surely... surely... pum-pa-paaaa...pa papapa pummmm.... 'the engines'll niver tak' it, Captain!' Yes, the first six notes of this noble theme are identical to TOS Star Trek. The lush orchestration was also eerily similar. For polystyrene boulders and ever-shrinking velour TOS uniforms, read backdrop with visible paintbrush marks, and wonderful toy sailships bobbing very unconvincingly on a dead calm surface... glorious stuff. Apart from the jaw-grittingly unlikely and inappropriate Romance element, of course.
Anyway, time to explore. A bientot, mes braves!
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Date: 2011-12-31 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-31 08:31 pm (UTC)It seems the block on commenting only happens on SOME of my friends' journals (including my own!), and it's something to do with Firefox - but I even used the loathed Internet Explorer, and it STILL was blocked. Just so frustrating!
I've been thinking for some time that I should find a place for writings - expand a bit - after all, I've been on LJ for seven years as of midnight tonight. I'll continue posting there, but I want a place for writing.
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Date: 2011-12-31 09:30 pm (UTC)When it comes to finding a place for writing, though - have you read the terms of service and privacy policy? It looked to me as though they reserve the right to edit and redistribute and our works, under creative commons license. (LJ doesn't, as far as I know.)
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Date: 2012-01-01 02:07 am (UTC)I know there are some add-ons which are reputedly interacting badly with the new LJ code. Or, rather, the new LJ code is so broken as to interact badly with the add-ons. If you'd like me to try to dig up some of the fixes, I can take a stab at it, but if it's too much of a hassle, I understand that, too. O:>