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[cimorene]

♠ I wish LJ had a format=light option for the outside of journals too (you can view, for example, http://cimness.livejournal.com/?style=mine or http://cimness.livejournal.com/tag/alabama/&format=light - but cimness.livejournal.com/?format=light doesn't work). And to make that easier to use, the navigation strip should have format=light and style=mine built into it in a little drop-down or buttons. If I never click on a journal and find myself trying to read a 300-px wide off-center text area on a wrong-sized ugly repeating background with, for example, bright fuschia on neon aqua - well, it will still be too soon. Two members of my OWN immediate family have tragically put their blogs in medium brown on a dark tan. If you just squint slightly it looks like the icons are floating in a sea of inferior fake leather texture.

♠ My dad doesn't have strong preferences about clothes, and also no taste, so for decades he just let my mom know his sizes and simple preferences (like only dark coloured pants and socks, and checked or plaid shirts) and let her be completely in charge of buying him new ones whenever she thought the old ones needed retired, because you could count on him to keep wearing them after they'd fallen apart. The only things she wasn't in charge of throwing out were the many t-shirts and jeans that dated from when they were in college. And my feeling is, my dad looked like a huge dork but he WAS a huge dork, and at least he was a presentable dork, you know? At least he had the grace to give in to my mom's more skillfull management. (She's perfectly competent to manage the simpler vagaries of a non-trendy male wardrobe - when it came to dressing herself so as not to look totally out of place in dressiness, matronliness and colour choice as a middle school teacher, she needed a lot of help. I think she gave over approval of her own outfits to my little sister after I moved out. I have no difficulty in concluding sight unseen that I was better at it, though. You should see some of the stuff my sister picks for herself.) I have much more difficulty managing Wax, who's stubborner than your average goat, I feel sure, but I think she's made some progress. Her habit of stealing excess pairs of my shoes and never buying any of her own has worked out exceptionally well because I buy shoes very carefully, with great attention to detail, and she buys shoes by having a panic attack of sheer emotional revolt against the idea of being forced to try on footwear and then pay money for it, and then either flees with nothing when the attack is over or buys the first thing that faintly reminds her of whatever insane, nebulous ideal footwear she had in her head that could never actually be found in a store, let alone the in the Footwear Wasteland of Finland. The former behaviour leads to wearing the same pair of shoes all the time no matter how inappropriate until they're full of holes. The latter behaviour leads to shoes that fall apart extra-quickly and keep getting worn anyway, or else shoes that she can't wear for some reason and discards in favour of another, even less appropriate pair.

♠Writer Diane Duane on the WB/JKR vs RDR Books-SVA-HP Lexicon trial. A small-time US publisher that's made of dumbass and fail is trying to publish a print version of a Harry Potter encyclopedia that is already available online, and which is 92% made of direct quotes from the HP novels, despite the compiler's having been firmly denied permission in advance. Needless to say, J.K. Rowling is suing. It's a bench trial, and the judge has finished hearing all the testimony, but no ruling is out yet. An excellent and comprehensive series of links and information going back several months can be found posted in fandom_wank by cleolinda.

♠ Did I ever mention how much I love Blik wall decals? They have a whole Threadless design shop now.

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I don't need one (and I don't use Firefox anyway); I have javascript bookmarks in my browser bar. But that still doesn't really fix the main journal page problem.