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tcpipcheshirenoir cracked it at me at the length of my posts. In a futile attempt to please everyone I’m going to try shorter posts, but more often. El-jay cut won't work because I feel my posts are abbreviated enough already.
Thursday at Borderlands; backups, fixed a dodgy aDSL connection and mucked up a restore on the proprietary database system they use. Finished hacking out the final elements of a webserver for several hundred sites late on Friday. On Saturday, started sysadmin work for RDBMS. Hoping to hear back from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kimeros about outsourcing some of the web development work soon.
Earlier on Saturday convened Labor for Refugees (Victoria) with Pamela Curr from the Greens speaking about some of the terrible legal norms that are now embodied in the immigration act under the title "Human Rights Overboard". Some thirty people in attendance, a good turnout. New black and gold t-shirts were very popular, internal ALP and external public campaigns well underway. State Conference is coming up soon, we intend to make a bit of a show.
Just returned from the Unitarians, where Florence Wathen gave an excellent reading on The Origins of Mother's Day. Read all about it – it's a day of recognising the activism of mothers against war and slavery. Afterwards, Elizabeth Young gave a presentation on her recent visit to a leprosy hospital in central India.
Ironically, because the church is too democratic and their committee meetings go too long, I missed a Mother’s Day picnic withseverina_242 and family.
Have recently received and read Hero Wars and will review soon. In short, it is a work of flawed genius. Latest episode of Ten Thousand Islands has begun, based around the Indonesian myth of The Queen of the South Sea.
That's it for three and half days. Is this short enough?
Thursday at Borderlands; backups, fixed a dodgy aDSL connection and mucked up a restore on the proprietary database system they use. Finished hacking out the final elements of a webserver for several hundred sites late on Friday. On Saturday, started sysadmin work for RDBMS. Hoping to hear back from
kimeros about outsourcing some of the web development work soon.Earlier on Saturday convened Labor for Refugees (Victoria) with Pamela Curr from the Greens speaking about some of the terrible legal norms that are now embodied in the immigration act under the title "Human Rights Overboard". Some thirty people in attendance, a good turnout. New black and gold t-shirts were very popular, internal ALP and external public campaigns well underway. State Conference is coming up soon, we intend to make a bit of a show.
Just returned from the Unitarians, where Florence Wathen gave an excellent reading on The Origins of Mother's Day. Read all about it – it's a day of recognising the activism of mothers against war and slavery. Afterwards, Elizabeth Young gave a presentation on her recent visit to a leprosy hospital in central India.
Ironically, because the church is too democratic and their committee meetings go too long, I missed a Mother’s Day picnic with
severina_242 and family.Have recently received and read Hero Wars and will review soon. In short, it is a work of flawed genius. Latest episode of Ten Thousand Islands has begun, based around the Indonesian myth of The Queen of the South Sea.
That's it for three and half days. Is this short enough?
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Date: 2005-05-08 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 02:09 am (UTC)I know, but I'll be sending them out twice as often...
I guess it's all about sound-bites in this postmodern world.... I still pretend that the web is a virtual book, when it's something quite different...
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Date: 2005-05-08 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 04:22 pm (UTC)*looks at friends list*
Hmmm.... Explains why I don't watch much TV...
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Date: 2005-05-08 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 04:02 pm (UTC)That's the idea I suppose. Hang on, a whole page? Heck, what resolution is your screen on? Or were my posts really that long?
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Date: 2005-05-08 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 07:55 pm (UTC)OK, fair enough. Shorter posts, more often.
I like the idea of using 16pt Arial. No more squinting at the screen!
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Date: 2005-05-08 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 10:21 pm (UTC)Heh, close... The studies I've seen suggest Verduna first, Helvitica send and Arial third ;-)
But yes, I'm a typeface bigot as well. And a design bigot. If a blind person with brain damage and paralysed on their right-side using a 2400 baud dial-up modem attached to a PDA and lynx as their browser can't access the information on site, it's a not a "real" website.
Information for all.
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Date: 2005-05-08 03:22 am (UTC)The lj cut is for the boring, pointless, inane posts that most of us(myself included) foist apon our friends pages. You entries are none of the above as such I don't mind large chunks of your text dominating my friends page. It's that or porn.
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Date: 2005-05-08 03:55 pm (UTC)Heh. Thanks for the kind words.
Of course, one of the great problems with el-jay cut is that the people who need to use it (i.e., those who make long rambling posts about nothing in particular, or repost magazine articles), don't know how to use it.
Now, if el-jay cut was automated and there was a command to disable it....
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Date: 2005-05-08 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 04:09 pm (UTC)Well, yes. It's one's journal and they can post what they damn well please. That's a political right.
Of course, if someone constantly post things which are lengthy and inane one can apply some sort of aesthetic judgement on their character...
BTW, from my experience it's a rare moment you make long rambling posts. And I do read them!
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Date: 2005-05-09 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-09 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-08 04:05 pm (UTC)Yep, that makes sense as well. Usually if I've had a particular bee in a bonnet for a few days however this will invariably end up as an off-site rant.
Speaking of which, I must compose a short list a queries I have about Hero Wars. I must say, I quite like it in many ways....
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Date: 2005-05-08 12:44 pm (UTC)That said, my LJ friends list isn't as busy as others and the people on there seem less likely to post their latest "Which fungal disease are you?" and "Which Batman costume component are you most?" quizzilla results. Your one entry once in a while posting style would certainly get lost in the clutter of that sort of page ;-).
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Date: 2005-05-08 04:12 pm (UTC)Good point - and yes, your posts do indicate a busy person, but I've never found them particularly wordy. Maybe we're both used to reading books (heh, remember books?)
I must confess that I have posted a couple of quizzes in the past however. But it's preferable to keep them to a minimum.
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Date: 2005-05-10 08:09 am (UTC)Or not. :D
As for Hero Wars - are you reviewing Hero Wars, or the new HeroQuest? Either way, tear it a new one!
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Date: 2005-05-10 04:33 pm (UTC)Hero Wars. I wasn't prepared to pay the enormous number of Australian shekals when it came out and I recently found it on special, so I snapped it up.
Hopefully I'll get the review done later today.