![]() I’m exploring tomorrow to try and find one, but I don’t have time to poke around all week-the princess will just have to wear a borrowed headband or something. Sweet Lord, I have never found a costume piece so hard to track down for under five dollars. ![]() I’m also preparing for Dragon*Con we’ve got our hotel room, our schedules, and our costumes-well, except for this one stupid tiara. I’ve been making headway through A History of Reading. I did go to the library and triumphantly pick up A History of Reading, Lavinia, and Mélusine. So I haven’t had much in the way of reading, save for class. I moved back to school this week packing, unpacking, attending events, attending classes, doing homework… a girl in one of my classes called me “a Hermione Granger” for my habit of obsessively doing all my homework as soon as I can-I preened, as you can imagine. (Don’t tell her I said that.) And that’s why today’s Sunday Salon isn’t anything fun about books but something convoluted about my adventures in freeware. Don’t get me wrong, I love my laptop, but I was having some flashbacks to The Social Network. But at least that’s fun and instructional, rather than frustrating. In any case, this insanity is why I’ve been “rewarding” myself with the equal insanity of getting a Windows free-to-play MMORPG to run on my Mac. I’ll keep an eye out for new updates that might fix the problem, but it’s such a beautiful program and I use it so sparsely that forking out forty bucks for Mac Journal, which has a lot of features I’d never use, isn’t feasible. So I manage to get everything-posts and academic work-back without too much of a fight, but I’m sad Journler no longer works on my computer. Mac Journal, a forty dollar (!) program, will import Journler files, and there’s mercifully a two week free trial. Luckily, there is a fix-albeit temporary, but temporary enough to get my posts back. And, of course, all Journler files are in Journler-specific formats, meaning I couldn’t get at the data that was just sitting on my computer. The only good free journaling program available for Macs.Īttempts to launch it cause Demora Pasha to seize up, forcing me to close, and then close again, because the latest Mac operating system, Lion, stupidly reopens windows from the last time you were on your computer, forcing the same error to happen again. The one that’s one update aware from abandonware. The program I use to write my blog posts and that I’d just started to use for a mandatory reading journal for a class. I finally got it under control, but there was one casualty-Journler. The operating system dragged, the rainbow beach ball of doom followed me wherever I went, often forcing me to turn off my computer manually. I mean, it took a day, but I’ve got most of the audiobook, I don’t need to go back to the library, and I’ll definitely let the librarians know they’re dealing with a seriously borked audiobook.Įxcept that between downloading the program that ripped the audio and downloading the second program that joined all the tracks together, Demora Pasha, my beloved laptop, went into freak-out mode. Luckily, the second one took-after some fidgeting with formats-and all was well. Where it went wrong, I think, was when I tried to find an application to join the tracks together, which took forever to find and the first one stalled. Being my usual cheap but law-abiding self, I scoured the Internet for freeware programs that could help me rip as much data as possible off the discs, since I probably wouldn’t notice the skips anyway. ![]() (This saga, by the way, is in no way my library’s fault.) It ripped perfectly fine-that, in fact, was what was going to be today’s Sunday Salon, how to rip an audiobook in iTunes-except for discs seven and seventeen, which were pretty badly scratched towards the beginning of the file. It all started with my local library’s copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But today, I have to break that deal, because I have been in technological hell for the past two days. This deal doesn’t include talking about behind the scenes stuff beyond the general “how to be a book blogger!” and other niceties. I put up my reviews three times a week, I do memes twice a week (albeit one of them is a solo meme just for me), I shut up on Saturday, and then, on Sunday, I talk about whatever’s on my mind in the book world. Gentle (and, of course, extremely attractive and erudite) readers, I feel that you and I have a deal.
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