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Jun. 11th, 2013 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI just funded my first Kickstarter project, Ursula Vernon's Digger omnibus. It was nicely easy. Now that I've done it once, I'll likely do it with other projects. I'm just going to be very picky about which ones. This is the first one I've seen that was something I really wanted. I expect the next one won't have quite so large an activation threshold.
I'm very hesitant to try new things with technology. That's why I haven't touched Facebook (that and the privacy concerns), Twitter or Tumblr. It takes a lot to get me past the initial reluctance to venture out of my comfort zone.
I'm probably going to have to learn a little more about irc as![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
writethisfanfic needs to shift to a new host for its irc chatroom. Nobody's stepping up with any enthusiasm or expertise to take care of this, and I do use that chatroom regularly. There's one person who's said they're willing to try to figure the whole thing out some time this weekend if nobody else does it first, so I have some backup in case I can't figure it out.
Speaking of technology-- How does one block ads in Firefox? Scott doesn't know because he doesn't bother. None of the sites he visits have ads that annoy him. I don't object to static ads. It's the ones that start playing audio/video spontaneously that drive me crazy. One ad today tried to initiate downloading Flash, trying to bully me into doing it by offering no other options but doing so or closing the tab (and popping up to ask me if I was really, really sure when I went to close the tab).
I'm very hesitant to try new things with technology. That's why I haven't touched Facebook (that and the privacy concerns), Twitter or Tumblr. It takes a lot to get me past the initial reluctance to venture out of my comfort zone.
I'm probably going to have to learn a little more about irc as
writethisfanfic needs to shift to a new host for its irc chatroom. Nobody's stepping up with any enthusiasm or expertise to take care of this, and I do use that chatroom regularly. There's one person who's said they're willing to try to figure the whole thing out some time this weekend if nobody else does it first, so I have some backup in case I can't figure it out.Speaking of technology-- How does one block ads in Firefox? Scott doesn't know because he doesn't bother. None of the sites he visits have ads that annoy him. I don't object to static ads. It's the ones that start playing audio/video spontaneously that drive me crazy. One ad today tried to initiate downloading Flash, trying to bully me into doing it by offering no other options but doing so or closing the tab (and popping up to ask me if I was really, really sure when I went to close the tab).
