stormerider

I've set most of my posts to be friends only after various dramas. Occasionally I will do a public post if I want to cross-post it to Facebook.

Comment if you want to be added, and I'll let you know. At this point, I have the following filters:

• General
• Gaming
• Politics
• Sexuality
• Religion
• Health
• Writing
• Family Issues

I will add people to the General, Health, and Writing filters by default. Please let me know if you want to be added to any of the other filters.

This entry was originally posted at http://stormerider.dreamwidth.org/167245.html. Comments:

So, I've been meaning to post this for a while, but finally found the spoons to do so today. It's health related, but I'm going to leave this unfiltered because it's got a lot of good/important info in it, if you're up to reading it.

( 30 Things About My Invisible Illnesses )

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I'm seeing a bunch of my cross-posts stuck right now. I had "Disable Auto-Formatting" turned on, and I went to disable that for the last two posts, because they're walls of text. But they look fine in DW and are un-altered in LJ. I did more edits to the MUD post and it's still unchanged. I turned on notifications for cross-post success as well as failures, and did an edit, and see nothing.

Is there a page somewhere that I can check the status of the cross-post queue? I know you can check the import queue, but I'm not importing my journal. (And I dunno if xposting is affected by the import queue or not.)

Thanks, DWeamers. :)

Edit: Seems like they're going through now... probably just backed up for a bit with all the new people coming into DW. Also, I forgot that the auto-formatting setting can be set by xposting but will not update with an xpost, so I had to edit it manually on the LJ posts. But my question about seeing a status page for the queue still stands. :)

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If you migrate over to Dreamwidth and you're on my flist, can you let me know so I can friend you there and update my filters?

Thanks!

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Question for folks... what do you recommend for a laptop cooling pad? I need to replace the one I have and I want to get a decent one, since I spend a lot of time on my laptop these days. I know to avoid Targus like the plague (since they die quickly for a LOT of people), but I'm not sure what to look for. Thoughts?

Edit: I should add that I have the Antec notebook cooler pad currently, and the problem is that the cord is removable so you can put it away inside this little compartment. However, it doesn't have a good connection so unless you wiggle it around it doesn't get power. This has gotten worse over time and I pretty much have to hold it in a certain (uncomfortable) position to get the fans running. The aluminum pad itself helps, but nowhere near as much as when the fans were running regularly.

I know I haven't been posting much on DW/LJ lately, but I've been really busy. Between the MUD, working on the Plex app for the Roku, the occasional item for Romance Divas, the occasional thing for my WoW guild, and work for Livemocha, I've been pretty busy. I'm trying to get a bit more organized, and I picked up a Pro membership to Remember the Milk to help out with that. I like it, but it seems like the sharing feature is kind of weak... when I share things with paul_zap it seems like he doesn't get an email notification that there's a task shared with him. And while it's great for me to manage my own tasks, it would really be better if it helped with managing tasks across the entire household as well.

I have more to post about, specifically with the MUD, but that will be a separate post under filter.

This entry was originally posted at http://stormerider.dreamwidth.org/183221.html. Comments:

I just made a post to the sexuality / family filters. If you are not on them and would like to be, please leave a comment and I'll let you know if it's ok with me or if I'm not comfortable with it.

Thanks. I'll keep doing this for a bit while I get people properly settled into the various filters.

This entry was originally posted at http://stormerider.dreamwidth.org/171347.html. Comments:

I've made a couple of posts on the health filter lately. If you're not on it and want to be, please toss a comment here and I'll add you.

As a reminder, here's a list of my filters. Comment to be added on any of them that you want, and I'll do so (or let you know why not).

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So the Fall TV season is just around the corner (or in some cases, just starting). I feel a little weird about this this year-- normally I really look forward to it, but there's a lot of shows that I just don't know if I want to follow this year. Warning; spoilers will be mentioned in my explanations if you aren't current on the shows.

( Shows I'm definitely interested in: )

( Read more... )

( New shows I'm going to give a try: )

One thing that I'm really happy about is that I'm seeing episodes from last Fall on CBS showing up on Amazon Unbox (like Hawaii 50). CBS has been off of Unbox for the last 2 or so years, so seeing them return there is quite welcome. I know they've been on iTunes, but I won't buy TV from iTunes until they change their re-download policy (I don't feel like tying up gigs of HD space on my computer because they have a download-once-only policy). Rentals are one thing (though I can't stream them to my TV, I can still watch them on my laptop or desktop) but purchases are another.

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So, I've had my current monitor for 2 years. It's already had to be RMA'd once, and is in the process of being RMA'd again. It's a great monitor when it works, but I want a monitor that works reliably. 2 failures in 2 years is about 2 too many in my book.

The one I have right now is a Hannspree HF257H. It's a 25" monitor with 2 HDMI ports and 1 VGA port. It also has built-in speakers, but I never bother to use those. I lose the subwoofer if I do that ;)

I'm not looking to get this anytime soon; the warranty runs out in a year so I want to spend some time doing research and saving up before I make the jump.

Thanks for any recommendations.

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Originally posted by jamileigh17 at Signal Boost: Missing woman

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