Read Between the Lines

[ling]

Remember last month when I talked about how my laptop decided that it was slowly kicking the bucket? Well, over the weekend a fourth line appeared. And even though I'd said that I'd wait until the fifth line appeared, I was sort of worrying that it would just kick the bucket. So I went out and got a new monitor. It's nothing fancy, but it is nice. At least for what I need it to do, which is surf the net and write. Maybe the occasional game.

Since my previous computer was a laptop, it meant that I couldn't hide it somewhere like a tower. I've decided to keep the laptop open the whole time because I have it set to go to sleep when I don't use it for a while. I'd have to open it back up anyway to turn it back on. It's best this way. At least I won't do anything with the hinges. When/if this laptop completely dies and I can't do anything with it, I'll get a desktop next. At least then I could use the space under my desk for the tower. Right now, the setup is cruelly inefficient.

Also, I noticed that I didn't actually update the wordpress properly so it was sort of broken and nobody had noticed. But that's ok, I think most everyone reads through LJ anyway. If, for whatever reason, the wordpress site is down, you can always read my ramblings there. It's been mirrored there for a while now and most people comment over there too.

Comments

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Question: how are you posting to both WordPress and LJ? How do you keep f-locked entries from appearing on WordPress?

I've been meaning to integrate the three blogs I have -- but I haven't been successful at it yet.

[lingtm.livejournal.com]

I only upload the f-locked one's to LJ (though you can set up WP to have private entries. I haven't bothered to do that though since there aren't any registered readers on the wp site). Right now, I'm using the email updates for both wp and lj. I've set up a template for them in my email program. None of the desktop bloggers handle the different platforms properly, so I gave up on them. It isn't a perfect solution, but it's the best I've got for now.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- now you know why I haven't bothered. :)

I've considered a technological hammer for it, though.