Arrowette's Diary

Testing Zoundry Raven, a desktop blogging client. Using an image by Emma Vieceli to do so. You can find the print for sale here. Post2Blog never did drag and drop very well. I’d like a desktop client that was as smooth and easy as Tumblweed for Tumblr, to be honest, but there doesn’t seem to be one that clever and slick for Wordpress.

If the bumf is to believed, then swiping this image of Emma doing a bookstore PA should just paste in here:

(Sorry, Em, I’m using you as an experimental animal, but I had to google the link for your print shop and this was right underneath in the search results.)

Tumblweed is a clever app because it matches the intent of Tumblr: fast, easy scrapbooking for the internet. Wordpress clients tend to match the intent of Wordpress, as a place to write long blogposts. No matter how the theme of your Wordpress site actually changes that supposed intent. This site has gone through its tumblelog phases, but it’s hard to tumblelog in a big complex client, and bookmarklet apps don’t seem to work so well any more.

Anyway. Let’s see if this actually works.

EDIT: the Flickr image broke within moments, and on a subsequent post with four images in, it only posted one of them. Windows Live Writer, which has also been suggested to me, is currently refusing to post any entry containing an image, using any of three different methods.

I get a notification from Twitter that I'm being followed by "astrofag(leemichaelsanders)"

I tried to find him on my follower list and couldn't see him there. I don't know if twitterfon takes a while to update, or if he deleted the profile. I will have another look on my computer when I get home.

Right now, all I care about is getting drunk and getting a root. First is well taken care of, second is about to be.

If you're somehow reading this lee, I'm not impressed, I'm not intimidated, I'm not in any way convinced that I should have stayed with you. All you've achieved is to make me pity you.

Congratulations.

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• 23:43 I made a turkey and stuffing sandwich out of someone else's leftovers. I rock Thanksgiving! #
• 23:45 So, been thinking for awhile about what Im most thankful for, & in not trying to sound gay, it'd probably be the friendship Austin & I share #
• 23:52 Today's awkward comment: What does it mean if you find a gray nose hair? #
• 23:55 @Keisaru Sistah, don't even get on mah ass about tha shit...or do *sly look* #
• 23:56 @Keisaru No, seriously though...don't sex up my ass, that'd just be awkward. #
• 00:25 Randomly decided I had to hear Lene Nystrom for the first time in ages. Youtube removed her vid from my favourites ;( #
• 00:26 Has anyone actually looked back at their ancient favourites on youtube from a few years ago? It's kinda fun. #
• 00:35 MV Kerli: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6xi7VY8iDM old thing I had in my youtube favourites...she's certainly cute. Unique song kinda. #
• 03:35 I think this will be the last year I make fun of thanksgiving with a "Happy ____" pun...too many people are doing it that i can see now. #
• 05:06 Right now, some of you are in stores shopping. It's 5am, you all are insane, I'm going to fucking bed now. #
• 13:24 time to begin this frightful day... #
• 13:51 Hanging with F U C K E D U P Timmy & Rissa last night was rather hilarious and enjoyable...even if it made me sleep in greatly. #
• 15:12 I work at 130-930 sat. Im off sunday though #
• 21:32 Is FML todays twitter trend or something? Or is there just bad karma in consumerism? #

http://womenincomics.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-november-27-manga-edition.html

REVIEWS

Beast Master Vol 1

Black Bird Vol 1 Impression

Review: Color

From Far Away 1-5 by Kyoko Hikawa: A-

Merry Family Plan

COMMENTARY

Manga Salad: A History of Horrible Harmless Violence

GIFT GUIDES

All I Want for Christmas – Or the Manga Gift Guide – Boys Love Edition

Manga Bookshelf’s 2009 Manga/Manhwa Holiday Gift Guide

The Great Manga Gift Guide - Okazu Edition

2009 Manga Gift Giving Guide - Seinen edition

Manga Gift Guide 2009

Manga Gift Guide

Great Manga Gift Guide!

Coal For Your Manga Stocking

2009 Great Manga Gift Guide

http://womenincomics.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-november-27th.html

I don’t normally do this, because it usually turns into a clusterfuck. But the fine little Thinkpad X61 that Avatar Press picked up for me when my main computer died horribly last year… well, it’s been worked very hard, and is starting to cough a little blood. It’s also buzzing intermittently, after the last wave of Windows over-the-air updates made it do a fainting goat impression and then turn itself off.

I have, however, quite quickly gotten used to working on a laptop rather than the big desktop machines I’ve been using since the 90s.

(And I have to say, for a tiny machine, the Thinkpad is a terrific device. Its single real drawback has been that its recovery system will steal the entire hard drive if you let it.)

So I’m looking at new laptops, speculatively. I’m not going to have the spare money for one until next year. But, as much as I also need a new phone (the Nokia N95 8GB keeps randomly shutting itself off, which is not useful in a mobile device), a work computer is going to have to take precedence.

Being in the UK, I don’t have the selection of cheap and lovely things available to my US readers. But I would appreciate some suggestions for a big, powerful laptop that is unlikely to start jetting blood and asking for mummy in eighteen months’ time.

No Macs, no Linux: I have a lot of Windows-specific software and function that I need to maintain. Don’t even talk to me about partitions and Windows emulators and whatever, I’m a working writer who can’t programme a VCR and I Do Not Have The Time.

Build a ladder out of people
a skull for the last rung
And claim the cheapest of the prizes
of which the mailer sung
Then fight your way to the cashier
baubles tight in hand
The power of The Shopper
still at your command
Then wrap it up to give away
this present that you bought
to a friend that was at one point
a fellow shopper that you fought
A face you’d gladly have punched in
to get a treasured item
But soon of course you will much rather
celebrate than fight him
For now relax, let down your arms
until this day returns
When the turkey eating’s done
When The Shopper inside burns