With an addition of some CSS to my LJ template, my images are now appearing as they do on WordPress, with correct alignment, and margins etc. This was the main reason for my decision to make new LJ posts temporarily private – to give me time to check and correct the formatting.
Filklore Posts
Normal service will be resumed when I get a chance to look at it. Meanwhile the Wordpress version of the blog is still full steam ahead (and looks a lot better) at http://www.filklore.com/
This is how my garden looked in 2007, when I first started this project:
Came across this today on last.fm, asĀ a semi-random connection to the Janis Ian songs I was listening to. I remember hearing this when it first came out as the B-side to Melanie’s “Brand New Key” and being much more impressed with it than the A-side.
On my 21st birthday, oh so many years ago (OK, if you insist – 1980), my parents bought me a new guitar. I had been learning on a second-hand Yamaha classical (which I still have) but wanted a steel-string for the kind of stuff I was playing.
I only got the word earlier this week, so I hadn’t prepared anything folky for tonight. However, I thought there were some songs in my repertoire that I could get away with. Imagine my horror (and Annie’s amazement) when I managed to dry up on the words to “The Boy In The Room”, not once but twice! (I gave up in the end, and sang something else) Fortunately, I wasn’t the only one forgetting words, and it was a nice layback evening, with everbody having fun.
For a first play, it was a bit of a disaster. The events are supposed to take place over a two week period, with 6 days of each week (I suppose even Cyborgs get Sunday off) representing the 12 turns. The game is supposed to take 2-4 hours. I was expecting a bit longer, as we were all new to the game, and we were playing with the maximum 5 players. Even so, after 3 hours, we were only just playing the 4th day of our first week, so I suggested we finished at the end of that week, which we did, about an hour later.
I will post more about it later, but the short version is this. I have moved my main blog (as hosted on my own domain) from Blogger to Wordpress. With a few plugins, and some adapting of some of the code to my own requirements, not only can I post on my main blog, and see the posts appear immediately on LiveJournal, but I can import comments back from LiveJournal onto my main blog, essentially consolidating the two.
I am fan of the original US show, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. I was less enamored with some of the later spin-offs, but was curious how the UK show would be.
Unfortunately, I was distracted throughout by the actor’s accents – cheerful London chappies, almost verging on fake cockney, for the police, while the chief lawyer is as plummy as they come. Pure stereotypes, and clearly aimed at a possible American market.