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[cjsmith]

It's almost not worth updating LJ any more. I want to title my entry, and I know I can't, so I don't bother posting at all.

Fifty-six sequences written as of last night. I want 128; going by previous stats I'll be okay with between ninety and a hundred. If I write ten today, ten tomorrow, and ten each day next weekend, I'll make it. If I can do one each work day as well, I'll even have some safety margin. I almost want one of those little progress bars that slow my entire friends view to a crawl every November.

All of this planning presumes I don't get sent somewhere for work in the next week, a very real possibility. I may soon have to face the fact that I cannot both have a startup job and be a C4 square dance caller.

Tasty breakfast this morning. Yesterday I took a break from writing choreo to go to the bank and the store. Got a baguette -- well, what Californians who've never lived in France seem to think is a French baguette (it's sourdough) -- and some cheese. Yesterday's lunch was fondue. This morning I'm eating the last of the "baguette" with butter.

Back to work. This choreo won't write itself.

Comments

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Nope. It used to have the icon in the tool bar flash, but it doesn't do that anymore--I actually kind of miss that feature. It was subtle but just noticeable enough to catch your attention if you wanted it to.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Actually it still does all of the above ... but only if you want it to. It's highly configurable. I use the popup that tells you a friend has posted something, but I have it set up for only a few particular people, not my whole friends list. (I started with just my daughter's journal (http://woofiegrrl.livejournal.com/), then later I decided to add someone else (CJ, actually!), and have since added a few more whose posts I want to follow even if I don't actively read my friends list.) You can have a popup and/or a flashing icon in the toolbar and/or a sound for notification, or no notification, which is the default.

Go into the Options window (under the View menu) and click the Friends tab. Under Notification method there are checkboxes to click, including one for "Flash tray icon". Yours must have reset during an update at some point.

CJ, I don't think of it as using a separate program in order to use a website. I think of it the same way as I view the Firefox add-ons that extend the functionality of Firefox. Semagic is just an add-on that extends the functionality of LJ.

I do know what you mean, though. A lot of people have downloaded Picasa in order to use Google's photo site. I use my photo site without any additional program, and having to download a whole 'nother program to use a website annoys me too! But an awful lot of people have done it without blinking an eyelash, and if I didn't already have a photo site I'm happy with, I would have done it too. I would have grumbled a bit at having to use the extra program ... but once it's was downloaded and installed it would just become a normal interface to the website.

Oh, thanks!

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

I had no idea--I'll play with it at the office tomorrow.