Schroedinger's Rain, Dreamwidth, and Misc.
May. 2nd, 2009 10:50 pmFor the last few days, and throughout the weekend, the weather here has been cloudy and sorta-rainy. The showers have been extremely short and patchy; not enough to feel like a rainy day, but enough to keep me from making any outdoor plans. Which kinda makes it like Shroedinger's rain; at any given moment, it's simultaneously raining and not raining, and looking out the window forces one of the two conditions to present itself. For example, this afternoon, I opened my blinds to see a clear day. I went to the bathroom, came back, and saw medium-intensity rain. I got dressed, went by the window a third time, and not only had the rain stopped, but the pavement was nearly dry as if it had never happened. All within the span of about 20 minutes.
Unfortunately, it'll be like this all through next week, which is really irritating; I want to get out and hike, but I can't when the weather is like this :-\
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My productivity has greatly improved over the last week, and I'm not entirely sure why, but it feels good. I've made some major breakthroughs in a couple of my projects, and I'm looking forward to completing my current application, it's some of my best work to date :-)
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Dreamwidth's open beta launched, yay! A few bugs, but not too bad; well done, guys :-D
I'm not entirely sure how many people from my friends list have accounts, but as a refresher, my username is Softpaw. I've seen quite a few new Dreamwidth accounts pop up, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the site grows.
Also, in case anyone missed it, there will be another seed account sale on Thursday, May 7 at 9PM EDT (GMT -4), and on Friday, May 8 at 9AM EDT, due to a Paypal bug. I wish I could get one, but there's no way I can come up with that kind of cash anytime soon. I'll grab a regular paid account sometime; I don't see much of a point in getting a premium paid account, the only real difference is an increase in limits that I'll never come close to hitting anyway :-P
I considered importing my LJ to my new DW account, but I decided not to. I already have full backups of my LJ on the blog on my website, which allows me full database control to do things like merge duplicate accounts (when someone changes their username) and associate old comments with new commenters. Since I managed to get my preferred username here on DW, I decided to stop dragging around my entire history of posts from the last six years. It's nice to have my old posts available, but I'm a very different person now than I was then.
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Not much else going on lately.
Unfortunately, it'll be like this all through next week, which is really irritating; I want to get out and hike, but I can't when the weather is like this :-\
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My productivity has greatly improved over the last week, and I'm not entirely sure why, but it feels good. I've made some major breakthroughs in a couple of my projects, and I'm looking forward to completing my current application, it's some of my best work to date :-)
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Dreamwidth's open beta launched, yay! A few bugs, but not too bad; well done, guys :-D
I'm not entirely sure how many people from my friends list have accounts, but as a refresher, my username is Softpaw. I've seen quite a few new Dreamwidth accounts pop up, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the site grows.
Also, in case anyone missed it, there will be another seed account sale on Thursday, May 7 at 9PM EDT (GMT -4), and on Friday, May 8 at 9AM EDT, due to a Paypal bug. I wish I could get one, but there's no way I can come up with that kind of cash anytime soon. I'll grab a regular paid account sometime; I don't see much of a point in getting a premium paid account, the only real difference is an increase in limits that I'll never come close to hitting anyway :-P
I considered importing my LJ to my new DW account, but I decided not to. I already have full backups of my LJ on the blog on my website, which allows me full database control to do things like merge duplicate accounts (when someone changes their username) and associate old comments with new commenters. Since I managed to get my preferred username here on DW, I decided to stop dragging around my entire history of posts from the last six years. It's nice to have my old posts available, but I'm a very different person now than I was then.
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Not much else going on lately.