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I've been offline, communication-wise, for a couple of weeks now. I have not the slightest idea why; the urge to communicate that I normally have in such large amounts just dried up. This is having unpleasant effects elsewhere, effectively making me grouchier, snappier, and more distant than usual. Or perhaps that's the cause, and the offlineness the effect. So this is an attempt to get back to actually communicating.
Dark Age of Camelot
I've been playing DAoC quite a lot since the European discs arrived. It's an excellent game - I wrote an article about it on Duke Street before communications shut down, and all of that is still true.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
inannajones is happy to watch the game as well, which makes it a hellofalot more attractive than any other MMORPG I've encountered before. I have one 7th level character, who's reserved for multiplayer when mr_wombat is online, and one 9th level character - just short of name level at 10th - who I've been playing in my own time. Madoine has just become a member of a guild, Mystical Warriors. The generosity of players in this game never ceases to amaze me; the guy who gave me the guild invite also gave me about 30 gold in coin and goods, and I understand there're chests in the guildhouse from which you can get stuff for free.
Comment Spam
Speaking of Duke Street, comment spam there has reached a ludicrous high - up to ten new comments a day, many of them linking to non-existant sites, which makes no sense at all. I'm going to have to do something about that - I'd like to still have comments enabled, but the spam is too much of a nuisance.
Google Ads
There are ads by google on Duke Street, which fascinate me. The system responds so fast it's scary - when I put up the article on DAoC, there were relevant ads showing by the time I viewed the page. And they're almost always interesting. It's advertising that works on me, to a rather frightening degree. The ads aren't really making money yet, but I'd imagine that as I slowly add more content, they will.
Rearranging
We spent some of the weekend rearranging furniture in the house. This has resulted in a new set of shelves (or at least a rebuilt set of shelves) forolethros, the dining table moving to inannajones' and my bedroom, and the dining room being turned into a guest room. So we now have a room there, with a real bed, for people who come to stay. So you've no excuse now. Next on that subject is a cleaning of my study and perhaps the purchase of a desk, or more shelves, now that the parts of the bed are out of that room.
SCA
There was the demo at P-Con, which went very well, and a practice just this weekend gone, which went even better, from my point of view, in that I realised a few things I've been doing wrong and can now correct - with immediate effect, such that I was able, for perhaps the first time ever, to leave my shield arm to operate on instinct, and think about offensive moves myself.
Right. That looks like communication.
Dark Age of Camelot
I've been playing DAoC quite a lot since the European discs arrived. It's an excellent game - I wrote an article about it on Duke Street before communications shut down, and all of that is still true.
inannajones is happy to watch the game as well, which makes it a hellofalot more attractive than any other MMORPG I've encountered before. I have one 7th level character, who's reserved for multiplayer when mr_wombat is online, and one 9th level character - just short of name level at 10th - who I've been playing in my own time. Madoine has just become a member of a guild, Mystical Warriors. The generosity of players in this game never ceases to amaze me; the guy who gave me the guild invite also gave me about 30 gold in coin and goods, and I understand there're chests in the guildhouse from which you can get stuff for free.Comment Spam
Speaking of Duke Street, comment spam there has reached a ludicrous high - up to ten new comments a day, many of them linking to non-existant sites, which makes no sense at all. I'm going to have to do something about that - I'd like to still have comments enabled, but the spam is too much of a nuisance.
Google Ads
There are ads by google on Duke Street, which fascinate me. The system responds so fast it's scary - when I put up the article on DAoC, there were relevant ads showing by the time I viewed the page. And they're almost always interesting. It's advertising that works on me, to a rather frightening degree. The ads aren't really making money yet, but I'd imagine that as I slowly add more content, they will.
Rearranging
We spent some of the weekend rearranging furniture in the house. This has resulted in a new set of shelves (or at least a rebuilt set of shelves) for
olethros, the dining table moving to inannajones' and my bedroom, and the dining room being turned into a guest room. So we now have a room there, with a real bed, for people who come to stay. So you've no excuse now. Next on that subject is a cleaning of my study and perhaps the purchase of a desk, or more shelves, now that the parts of the bed are out of that room.SCA
There was the demo at P-Con, which went very well, and a practice just this weekend gone, which went even better, from my point of view, in that I realised a few things I've been doing wrong and can now correct - with immediate effect, such that I was able, for perhaps the first time ever, to leave my shield arm to operate on instinct, and think about offensive moves myself.
Right. That looks like communication.
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The thing that made DAOC unique to online gaming, at least on my server, was how polite and cooperative people were. Just like real life, if people are cool you will want to hang around them.
I got to about level 30 and finally tired of the game. My friend and I gave all our equipment and money away to random newbies and disappeared.
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Would 'helping' count...?
When I try to access her LJ, my computer freezes up. Honest! And I asked 'LJ Help.' But what they suggesed, was of no use. I was told to clean out my history/cache and I do that, _every_ time I use the computer and always have. And I was told something about not have enough 'something.' But I'm on a nearly brand new Mac and I 'have enough stuff.'
This does not happen with any other LJ. It's fully weird but it seems to be something between my computer and her LJ. We can do e-mail successfully, so it's not between my computer and her computer. Did you ever hear of anything like this???
[sigh]
Help!
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/aellia/
look at:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/aellia/?style=mine
... because that tells LJ to use your style, not aellia's, and your computer is probably pretty happy with your style.
Let me know if that works - if not, there are other things we can try.
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Your idea, already makes more sense, than the LJ Help. >,-)
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But when I tried to click on 'reply,' there. And tell her this good news... My Mac froze up again. Hmmmm....
But I am soooooo proud of myself!!!!!! You [computer geek of the highest order] said the same basic thing as I had... That it is something between my Mac and her LJ. Well, you said it with more clarity but... I _had_ used common sense to come to the same basic idea. :)
We won't wait for me to get any *more amazing* with this stuff. But I do have to crow, when I am right in any way, concerning computer-eez. :)
And again thank you, for working on this.
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We're now running into the problem that I don't know much about Macs - I know what to do to get around this problem on a PC, although it's tedious, and needs to be done each time you want to comment. I'll enquire as to how you can get the same effect on a Mac. In case you've someone there who might know, here's what to do on a PC, in Internet Explorer:
Right click on the comment link, and choose "copy shortcut" from that menu. Paste this into the URL bar, and add "&style=mine" on the end, before hitting return.
However, the best and most effective way for this to stop happening is for
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Now, I have no idea what that was or why but..... I suppose that whatever she
*changed to*, is what my Mac doesn't like.
And of course, she doesn't have to change her style, which everyone else's computers are happy with... just for me. Just to have an answer, is a big thing! For me anyway. Because for she and I, it was just weird.
I suppose I should put this info, in LJ Help. And maybe others are having the same problem. And....... Well, at least they wouldn't feel alone. :)
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Are you using Internet Explorer or Safari?
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Glad you understand. :)
I use Internet Explorer. But Safari is installed and husband tends to use it. But like I said, I always clean out everything. Could Safari somehow be still running or something? Because he doesn't do the cleaning I do. And it could be messing with this issue???
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Hold down control amd click on the comment link, and choose "copy shortcut" from that menu. Paste this into the URL bar (where it says "http://...."), using cmd* + v, and add "&style=mine" on the end before hitting return.
* is the "command" key, the one with a little symbol a bit like # on it.
Let me know if that works.