Travelogue of a Sedimentary Being

Though the idea of using client software to interact with your run-of-the-mill web service seems a bit silly these days, something seems cool about it; if nothing else, perhaps it's the way it helps recall a time when web browsers sucked more, or Internet connections were too slow, or not ubiquitous or always-on or something, and programs like this were desirable, if not necessary.

I was just poking around my circa-1996, Windows-98-having IBM that I appear to have last used in 2004 (if I'm not mistaken, when my first laptop was away for repairs; it was a miserable experience) and found what has to be a rather lonely LiveJournal client (LiveJournal for Windows, 1.4.7-beta-lite). I'll bet it never expected to post another entry!

(The Firefox I have installed on here, 0.9, wasn't cooperating with spellcheck.net, so I fired up Internet Explorer... 4.0. It actually worked.

Somewhere out there now
Sysadmin checks access logs
They pull out their hair)

I've heard latter-day-LiveJournal likened to Detroit, but I think Pompeii may be a better metaphor.

So *that's* what a calendar year without an update feels like.

handhelj!

So, clearly I lose at the LiveJournalnets. :(

Because I'm too lazy to recount this in a more manageable, blog-friendly format, you get the raw IM-age.

This is me posting to both Multiply and LiveJournal at once, thanks to Multiply's spiffy new crossposting feature. :)

Blah, blah, this seems cool.

I'm not retiring the LJ (I still catch up on my friends page once or twice a week), but if you're not watching the Multiply, you're likely missing stuff¹.

It's what I do for a living, so sue me, it's what I've been using.



¹Like maybe you missed the car. Me so poor now.