one-piece draped armchair cover

Over the years we've tried different draped armchair cover methods, and I've recently become attached to a pair of leaf-green 120x130cm flatsheets, but I've struggled to get the sheet to conform to the chair, since they tend to get wrinkled and wind up halfway off it. I was about ready to give in and try sewing something no doubt highly unfortunate, but instead I found this page and tied the excess fabric up in the back as advised, and then pinned back the extra in the front. I like it much better like this. It looks like it might stay where it was put.

delicious tags as an indicator of fandom health; supply and demand

It's sad when tracking every bookmark in a tag on delicious gives you more comments on old stuff that you've read and disliked, or just read and aren't ready to reread, than benefit from amusing comments or new bookmarks. Largely inactive tags are even, paradoxically perhaps, preferable to very active but stagnant ones that are high-volume without any new content. And really, that's a simple and rather graphical illustration - a very effective one - of the way a fandom holds reader attention.

The volume of new bookmarks in a tag on delicious, or the tag's activity, can be taken as a measure of demand for that fandom (or sub-fandom: it's often a pairing) - it shows what people are reading. The variety, and the amount of new fiction that shows up in that tag, shows the supply that the delicious-using community is drawing on (of course there can be things written which don't get bookmarked and there are even, shockingly, groups of people who aren't delicious-networked; that part of the analogy won't work for them). ( Supply and demand in terms of delicious tags and fandom: the high supply and high demand scenario, the no supply and no demand scenario and the high demand and no- or almost-no supply scenario, which I contend is the worst of all. )

lj: we don't have the technology

No more basic accounts on livejournal - it's ad-supported or paid from here on. This move is, I think, the most stupid and shocking overall so far in the history of stupid (but generally not that shocking) moves, because the lack of ads used to be a big benefit, and people generally can be expected not to want ads all over their blogs. However...

Leaving LJ: no doubt thousands of other fandom denizens have said it, but it seems like the central thing so I'll say it again: alas, there is no better alternative. Traditional blogging architectures don't provide the same possibilities for networking, and those are a must for fandom use. We need communities, friendslists, and RSS feeds. The LJ clones in existence are not practical alternatives.

• IJ is run by a guy who's interested and working in good faith, and the accounts are cheaper, which is a plus. But there are naming issues, there's the fact that the site is hideous and a bit buggy, there's the fact that the navigation doesn't show up in the layout, and there's the fact that, in fact, it also is full of ads.


• JF isn't full of ads, but it's a labour of love and probably couldn't handle the traffic that would be caused by a mass exodus.

We're waiting for the technology, folks. Hopefully the OTW will provide something, or someone else will come along with a better blog networking site.