interests

[realthog]

One of the delights I've discovered while setting this thing up is that, on the User Profile page, where you're asked to list your interests you're allowed a maximum of four words per interest.

This I was told by the software after I'd spent some while constructing a list of all my interests (the various types of fiction and nonfiction I both read and write, the areas of nonfiction writing in which I have some measure of expertise, the types of music I enjoy and dislike, and so forth).

I therefore tried to buck the system by converting my slaved-over list into tabular form, with no line of the table exceeding four words.

Success!

Only then I discovered that LiveJournal's natty software had arranged all the lines of the table into alphabetical order, beginning with "(especially animation and film".

Until I calm down a little, I have but a single interest listed on my profile page:

thingsthattakemorethanfourwordstodescribe

Comments

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

It took me a little while to get things the way I wanted them, but - and you know how technologically backward I am - I've found it remarkably user-friendly.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reassurance!

(The reason for this somewhat vacuous response to your kindly comment is that replying to comments is so far the only way I've found to unscreen them. I have, however, now managed to switch off the screening facility wot I never turned on in the first place ... At least, I *think* I've got it switched off.

Is this wise? Will a million rabid Ann Coulter fans -- each with an adam's apple more polished than the last, each with that crazy gleam of numb stupidity and fervent hatred in their eyes, each seeking a stake to tie some innocent to -- descend upon my humble blog and begin swilling their poison around in the comments section? Only time will tell ...)

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

A million Ann Coulter fans? You should be so lucky...

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, you seem to have found the screening facility fairly easily...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Purely by accident, I assure you. I've only just noticed that the "screening facility" has turned itself on -- it wasn't so earlier. What can I have done? I'd better go and look ...

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

It's possible that the screening facility comes on by default, which is an innovation since I joined up. Or you just clicked on something while you were setting up or didn't click on something, which happens. A couple of weeks from now you'll have the place set up the way you want it and you'll be happily doing HTML and you'll wonder what all the fuss was. I notice Pam's already pasting photos in, which took me ever such a long time to do right.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

This is bizarre. Even though in my Comments Management I've firmly ensured that comments from "No One" are to be screened, and even though I've been back twice to check that I did not fuck up this simple task, the software's still screening them. Aargh!

I'm just hoping the screening sort of ... goes away.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

You seem to have it sorted out, at least in other threads. Early days, Obi-Wan.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Ah, it appears the screening's only working on this thread. I don't know what to do about that except to suggest you just fence this thread off and pretend it never happened.

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when you invoke the dread name of A**e C*****r.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"That's what happens when you invoke the dread name of A**e C*****r."

Who could you mean? At a glance I thought you meant Ann Coulter, but the first name ("A**e") doesn't work -- indeed, it's pretty obvious what that first word is supposed to be. As for the second ...?

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

I did mean Ann Coulter; I forgot there wasn't an `e' in her name.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"I did mean Ann Coulter"

I guessed as much, bwana.