... is this thing on?

[gothwalk]

Yet another I-am-going-to-post-more-here!-post.

Alright. I have more or less removed myself from Facebook, except for the groups I need to have access to make my SCA stuff go. I'll find ways to escape those over time, but having bookmarked the groups and not having to look at the feed is already reducing the irritation with the internet. Oddly, Twitter doesn't do the same thing; it can certainly be rage-inducing, but that's because of the stuff I see happening via it, not the stuff happening on it.

So the next trick is to write stuff here, and occasionally poke other people into doing the same. Several of us are doing this at the same time, so that should provide some ongoing encouragement. And I need to update the various profile bits and make them into something that aligns better with me now than with me a decade or more ago. That'll come soon. Meantime, onward, with a daily-entry-type thing in the next post, and we'll see how long that keeps rolling.

But I gotta say that being able to type HTML and have it go is an incredibly comfortable thing. I'd forgotten.

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[alays]

And I have never typed in HTML in my life. I realise now that I should be able to do it in Outlook which I use for work as sometimes I need to choose HTML as mail format to attach tables and not loose formatting. Yes, techie newbie here. That`s why DW looks intimidating to me.

[phantom_wolfboy]

It's nice to have you back.

[gothwalk]

Good to be back!

[malinaldarose]

I find myself trying to type HTML in Word documents before I remember to switch gears and use the keyboard shortcuts for the same function. Also, welcome back. I have been thinking of late, looking at my flist, that most of the folks I know from TH had abandoned ship.

[gothwalk]

I type in a weird mix of HTML and markdown these days, and sometimes different kinds of markdown. What's represented by the i tag in HTML is text bracketed by asterisks on Reddit, and underscores on Slack. But mostly I can remember where I am, and HTML is the most deeply embedded one.

A bunch of us here in Ireland are putting in some effort to get off Facebook and onto other media, and some of us realised there was a lot of "back on LJ..." floating around. So korpikuusi, avenueyew, alays, and annaw are all new accounts here, although some of them were on LJ before.

[malinaldarose]

I do miss LJ -- a lot of people did not migrate to Dreamwidth. But I guess I don't miss it enough to go back.

Alas, I do not believe I have met any of the folks you name.

[gothwalk]

I would be astonished if you had. :)

[m_nivalis]

Glad to see you here. Hopefully once the PhD is done and I can have my brain back, I'll start posting stuff again.