Oh hai thar, wonderful flist.
I'm using a Mac these days (because when you're in the final throes of writing a thesis, then of course that's when your computer melts and dies). And I need to know: is there any way of having Word display so it fills up the whole screen? By which I mean, on a PC, the actual application opens up as something which fills the whole screen, and the documents underneath are seamlessly joined on. Whereas on the Mac, the application part and the documents are visually separate entities, and the toolbars are kind of floating over the actual desktop. Which means that if a toolbar doesn't happen to stretch across the whole screen, I can see crap underneath it. DRIVING ME MAD.
This is an incredibly unfashionable thing to say, but what I basically want is for my Mac to behave more like a PC. Can anyone tell me how to make Word on the Mac less annoying?
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...can anyone think of well-known children's books published within the last 20 years which have kick-ass female protagonists? I particularly want books where the girl is the focus of the story rather than part of an ensemble cast (so Lyra Silvertongue is in, but Hermione Granger is out). And if you can think of books written by women, that would be especially good.
I'm pretending that tomorrow isn't 2010, because acknowledging the passing of time may bring on a fullscale panic attack over the unfinishedness of my thesis. But, you know, have a good time if you're acknowledging that sort of thing.
*smooshes flist*
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| 2009-12-09 02:20 |
| How sweet shall be the sound |
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Thanks so much to all the lovely people who sent me snowflakes <3 I didn't get to sending any before they melted away again, but they were much appreciated and I love you all.
Today had some particularly crappy moments, and it was a massive pick-me-up to look at my profile page and be reminded of how many lovely people are in my life.
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| 2009-11-15 00:43 |
| OMG OPEN BETA |
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The Archive of Our Own is in Open Beta NOW OMG!
We have over 500 new users already, and over 2000 extra works, and loads of new fandoms! Our beautiful, shiny servers WHICH FANDOM OWNS are holding up really really well, and although lots of bugs are still present (it is still Beta) people are loving all the shiny new features! IT'S AWESOME YOU GUYS.
This is the culmination of more than two years of work by a whole host of people - not just coders and systems people but also the people who designed it, wrote the terms of service, figured out the legal issues, created documentation, organised volunteers, raised money, wrangled tags, and much, much more. It has been a PHENOMENAL amount of work and I'm so proud of everyone, and honoured to be part of this amazing group of women. \0/ \0/
I still have an invitation to give away if anyone wants it. YOU WON'T BE SORRY! <3333 ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) azephirin got in first! I'll let y'all know if I get any more!
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| 2009-11-13 10:34 |
| Coming soon - the Archive of Our Own! |
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The Archive of Our Own goes into Open Beta TOMORROW!
Yes, after hearing me bang on about it for the last forever, it's finally opening up to fandom at large!
We're using an invitations system, because this is still very much Beta and we need to manage numbers. But as of 10:00 UTC tomorrow, you'll be able to sign up to the invitations queue and request an account. Existing Archive users will also have an invitation code to give away (just one for now) - if you have a burning desire for one, let me know! If other commitments keep you away from the internet tomorrow, it's totally cool to ask a friend to add your name to the queue.
You can read all the details at Announcing Open Beta on the OTW blog. That's also your first stop for the news about the invitations queue going live, although you better believe I'll be posting again here!
OPEN BETA OMG *flails and and bounces around a lot*
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| 2009-11-03 21:24 |
| Signal boost - learn computer science! |
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One of our senior coders, the lovely Elz, recently decided that she’d like to fill a few gaps in her knowledge of programming by working through MIT’s OpenCourseWare series Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. In the true spirit of fannish community learning, she’s set up a Dreamwidth community, intro-to-cs, so that anyone else who is interested can join in and support one another. If you’ve always wanted to learn computer programming, now is your chance – the course doesn’t require any previous experience.
You can also fill that burning desire to learn coding by volunteering for OTW coders – all abilities and levels of experience very much welcome!
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| 2009-10-31 20:19 |
| Google Halloween! |
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For those of you who haven't seen it, check out the Google logo today! You need to click on it a few times to get the full effect!
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I am back home in the UK after my trip to America! I've been back for a few days, but I was tiiiiired. And am still tired, so this will be a bit of a lame trip write-up, but I am sure noone will mind me doing a short write-up.
( New York: attack of the killer fangirls )
( Wincon! )
In conclusion, fannish meets are awesome, and there should be more of them in my life. *loves on you all* Now back to writing my thesis for me, alas.
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| 2009-10-06 14:04 |
| IMPORTANT WINCON QUESTION! |
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So, it turns out my flight back from Wincon is going to be earlier on Sunday evening than I thought. BUT, I can change the flight for not too much money. II need input ASAP!
#1. If I fly back on Monday instead, will people be around on Sunday evening?
#2. If I stay Sunday night, is there anyone who will have a spare bed in their room for that evening? I can probably extend my stay by a day, but it would work out a lot cheaper if I can bunk in with someone else, and maybe someone has a roommate who is leaving Sunday.
I need to decide this in the next few hours, so please comment or email zooey.glass04 if you have THOUGHTS on this!
NEW YORK TOMORROW OMG!
ETA CHANGED MY FLIGHTS! If you have a spare bed in your room Sunday night and would be willing to let me join you, let me know! Totally willing to pay my share, obvs.
EXCITING!
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Yikes and gadzooks! kamikazeremix fics went up aaaages ago, but I haven't had time to post anything about them.
kamikazeremix is one of the most awesome challenges around, for my money. I love remixes anyway, and in this challenge there's added piquancy because you get to nominate exactly which fic of yours should be remixed, and in return you get given a specific fic to remix. It's exciting and scary and really awesome.
This year I really struggled with picking out a fic to nominate for remix. For one reason and another, not that many of my fics are eligible, and then I had a couple that I'm not ready to let someone else loose on. I eventually settled on Dreams in Color, but I was a little worried that I was being unfair to my remixer, because the fic is quite heavily involved with an OFC. Still, I figured that there was plenty to be said about Sam, or about John's experience, or maybe the remixer would look at the way the events in my fic affected Dean later in his life. However, as it turned out I had no need to worry, because my remixer did an awesome job and engaged with the OFC head-on.
riverbella wrote What's In A Name [the Dreams in Color remix], and it's absolutely awesome. This is really my idea of the perfect remix - she picked up on the heart of the fic, in terms of exploring identity, and took a small detail and spun it out bigger, and completely captured the characters in a way that felt right to me. At the same time, she very much made the fic her own, and I think you could definitely enjoy it without reading my fic at all. You should all go and read it right away!
I wrote a remix of poisontaster's brilliant fic Forever In Vain, an AU in which Sam and Dean have a sister. It's part of a whole Winsister series which I really love, and I found it a really intriguing concept to work with. I was pretty nervous about writing it, because I fangirl PT BIGTIME (she was one of the first SPN writers I discovered, and is still one of the best for my money). However, as soon as I started thinking about it I had some really clear images in my mind, and I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. I'm still not sure it entirely captured what I was aiming at, but PT liked it and that is all that matters :D I'll be posting it shortly over here :D
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Happy birthday to the lovely and talented parenthetical!
You're a brilliant writer, an awesome coder, and the best friend I could possibly ask for. Have an awesome birthday! I can't wait to toast you properly in America \0/
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| 2009-09-18 21:03 |
| Grumps, glee, and Lego disco magic! |
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I am grumpy today, because I am tired and unproductive and I'm on an internet connection so slow that I am STILL waiting for SPN to download :( So I can't enjoy my boys, or read LJ in case I get spoiled *pouts*
HOWEVER, in news of GLEE, I am GOING TO WINCON \0/ I've been umming and ahhing over it, because both time and money are in short supply at the moment. But I REALLY wanted to go, so what the hell. parenthetical is also going, which is extra joy, although you must all make sure that we talk to lots of people and don't just cling together like scared little mice! SO EXCITED to meet everyone, OMG! For extra joy, we're also going to make a quick visit to New York to meet up with our OTW homies *glees*
If the news of my imminent travels is not sufficient to bring joy to your hearts, I leave you with this display of happymaking genius:
( Disco will prevail! )
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I have posted my kamikazeremix fic! Life has been so mad, I thought for sure I was going to have to post it unbetaed and then sneak a betaed version in before the actual reveal, but thanks to the awesomeness of parenthetical, sarahetc and wendy it is all done! *loves on them all immense amounts* I am SUPER nervous about it, though - my remixee is one of my favourite authors, and I'm completely overawed by remixing her fic. And it came out a little... odd. I'm not sure any of what I had in my head actually made it to the page. But still, it's done and it's in, and I can go die now!
In other news, parenthetical is a saint and a goddess. Seriously, you guys, I have to rave about her publically because I cannot do justice to how much she means to me. Life is getting on top of me on a semi-regular basis at the moment, and she puts up with me behaving like a crazy person and scoops me out of the pit on a regular basis, and she's just awesome. SHE IS THE DEAN WINCHESTER TO MY SAM*, PEOPLE.
That is all <3
*And at the moment, I am the whiny drunken crying Sam from S2, so, you know.
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Anyone on my flist available to do a super-quick Ameripick? It's for a SPN fic, under 2000 words - ideally I would like it Amerpicked tonight, but by the grace of the mods at kamikazeremix I could wait a few days if necessary.
<3<3<3
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| 2009-07-27 20:34 |
| Fic: Reconsidering the day (the generations of ink remix) (Harry Potter; Gen) |
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Remix authors have been revealed! My fic Carriage Return was remixed as The Gospel of Robert Singer (The Heavenly Choir Remix) by vylit - it's totally awesome and I highly recommend you all read it and tell her how fab she is!
Now that the anonymity is over, I am also free to reveal my fic, reposted below :D
Title: Reconsidering the day (the generations of ink remix)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Pairing/Characters: Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger
Disclaimer: Fun, not profit
Notes: Thanks to parenthetical for her awesome beta help, and to pinkfinity for being so kind as to let me remix her story :D
Wordcount: c. 2,250
Original story: A Day for Consideration by pinkfinity.
Summary: Three generations of Hogwarts letters.
The crisp green lines of ink glisten brightly, promising a new life.
This fic can also be read on the Archive of Our Own.
( Reconsidering the day (the generations of ink remix) )
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You guys, I just read the fic written for me in remix_redux09 and OMG IT IS AWESOME.
The Gospel of Robert Singer (The Heavenly Choir Remix) is a remix of my fic Carriage Return. The remix author has taken elements from that and remixed them into something completely new and different and WHOLLY AWESOME. There are multiple gospels of the Winchesters! Bobby dictates rewrites of the holy books! Heaven has no sense of humour! It is ABSOLUTELY genius and brilliant, everyone should read it.
I am too tired to give a more coherent review, but really it does not matter: all you need to know is that you should definitely read this fic :D
I can't wait for the author reveals!
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This has been languishing in my GDocs for longer than I care to remember, waiting for me to get my act together and tidy it up. Not for lack of love, though - this has wandered so far from canon that it may be of limited appeal, but I like it :D
Title: Just a fancy word for compromise
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG13
Pairing/Characters: John, OMC, OFC
Disclaimer: Fun, not profit
Wordcount: c. 3000
Notes: Sequel to Served Faithfully - it will make much more sense if you read that first. These characters took on a life of their own, so this is within a whisker of being original fic.
Title and summary from 'Served Faithfully' by Ani Di Franco. Much love to parenthetical for genius betaing and sarahetc for Ameripicking <3
Summary: You've got to read between the years; you've got to write between the lines.
This fic can also be read on the Archive of Our Own.
( Just a fancy word for compromise )
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