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Anri Kumaki 熊木杏里 - - 時計

Test post – written with Windows Live Writer.

- photo of seafood on sticks at a market in Kyoto.

Cough still lingering. Thank goodness for meds that work!

Tried to setup publishing by email on LJ but that doesn’t work for some reason.

Windows Live writer is very WYSIWYG. It’s too bad that it doesn’t auto-detect music currently playing though…

I don’t think you can add category, tags (it links to general LJ tags, not to tags on your own posts), or current mood too.

Too bad because the interface is quite pretty.

I think I’ll be sticking to the web-based LJ posting form. Same for my wordpress blog. In other news I’ve started reading Janet Evanovich’s Stephenie Plum series. Stephenie Plum reminds me of the Nanny. 

Update: You can install plugins into Live Writer to hookup to your flickr account, or to autodetect the currently playing song! It just outputs the data as text though. Not very pretty.

Give me back my 1 week!I could have read something far more interesting, like my DVD manual. 
I had such high hopes for your books. Because of the constant promotion at Borders (and this was even before the movie started being promoted), the stylish book covers (because I always judge a book by its cover)  and the vampire theme (vampires! Sold!), I thought I'd  give it a go. After all, so many people can't be wrong, right?

My question should have been "so many teenage girls can't be wrong, right?", because the answer is "yes, horribly, horribly wrong".

I can never read another vampire novel again without shuddering. Whenever I see people reading Twilight, I automatically want to yell at them. I get the urge to march up to people browsing the Twilight books at Borders and warn them off.

I've read some pretty bad books in my time, but Twilight takes the cake. I think it takes teh cake most because for some inexplicable reason people love it. At least most trashy novels have the decency to admit that no literary aspirations were involved. 


Something else I read recently is The Story of O by Pauline Reage. It is an erotic novel published in 1954 about dominance and submission. It won the French literature prize Prix des Deux Magots in 1955 and the French government included it on a list of national triumphs to be celebrated in 2004. Apparently it was written on a dare by the author's lover who admired the writings of the Marquis de Sade (warning light!!) and said a woman could never write something like that.  

The writing is very good actually, it has a very dreamy style. It's quite tasteful and the words aren't obscene. Wish the sentences weren't so long though. The content, though! Something's not quite right with the characters' heads. It's intense, it's mental, and I hope I don't get nightmares from this. 

There is a sort of sequel to it. 

BORED.
 

Jane Eyre has officially entered my top 5 fave books of all time list.

I downloaded the 51 volume Harvard Classics "five foot shelf" set. It's about 35 mbs (mobipocket format). The RL books would have cost about $3,500, and I'd have to track down secondhand copies. Doubtless the leather-bound tomes would look impressive in any library, however the logistics of it all boggles the mind. My family already has a ~1995 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and that was bad enough.

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I'm still puzzling out how best to organise my ebooks. I won't go into any technical details, it would bore you to tears.

I've currently just got them sorted out in folders according to author. Where I only have one title for a particular author, they don't get their own folder. They sit in an untidy pile together with other lonely one-title works in the root ebook directory. 

I have a parallel library in Calibre, which seems to be the most popular library management software out there. It's primarily geared towards the Sony Readers though. Anyway, it doesn't really sit well with me. I can still afford to maintain the parallel library for now though till a better solution presents itself. Hooray for the small sizes of ebooks!

The third solution is to allow mobipocket to maintain my database for me. This seems the most attractive solution at the moment. It's not as overly complex as Calibre. My format of choice is html, but that doesn't show up so well on my BeBook (format problems from time to time depending on how the original html was coded). Mobipocket auto-converted files seem to be truer to the original. I really should get around to learning how to produce properly formatted ebooks for my device.  

Whatever solution I choose, I forsee a whole stack of tedious formatting to wrestle my library into some decent shape.    

Debussy goes particularly well with Jane Eyre, particularly his String Quartet In G Minor. I love the climax in the Andantino.

I listened to Mirah's Advisory Committee while reading all the Twilight books. As anyone who has primed external pumps for fish tanks knows, the workings of water pressure may be such that a moment's inattention could land you with a liter of fishy water on the floor. Or in your mouth (don't ask). So while Advisory Committee lessened the pain of reading Twilight, like unwanted reflux action Advisory Committee now brings back the pain of reading Twilight.

An aside: the other day I was at Mary Martin Bookshop, this really cool bookshop (full of books that I'd like to buy except for my whole now-digital thing) in Adelaide, when this Asian girl comes in asking if the store had any Twilight books. The store didn't. But I wanted to tell the girl it was a shit series that she should never touch. Unfortunately she was talking to the shop assistant and the moment passed.

My general reading music is now Billie Holliday. Gotta love that old timey scratchy feel. 

After weeks of neglect, I've finally wrestled my inbox down to 18 messages.
I normally like having my inbox small enough so that I can see all the messages without having to scroll down.
At times like these I have 2 gmail windows open so I can action them rapidly.

I'm really liking Office 2007.
It's really pretty...

P.S. Election! Election! Election!

Striped Ralph Lauren shirt, black tie, pinstriped suit jacket and skirt. Hair product appropriately used, fashionable red glasses and Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce cologne.

Note to self: must acquire more shirts suitable to wear with a tie.

I've always felt I had a thin, reedy sort of voice.
Still, my enjoyment trumps over your suffering.

After working for almost a year in a decidedly conservative industry and in possibly one of the most formal workplaces still existing, I feel more comfortable addressing all but friends by their social titles and surname.

It's just more polite that way.

Woke at 08:10.
Finished off my leftover bean salad on toasted turkish bread. Wanted to take a photo so I could post it on OSF but I wanted to eat :P

Personal debt incurred from os trip notwithstanding, I'm off to Cue soon. There's a special 20% off already reduced prices sale!

Woke up at 07:30 today, a Saturday!
Have since been eating, on and off. It's now 12:30 and I have eaten: raw sliced swiss mushrooms tossed with EVOO, pepper salt and lots of parseley, some korean deepfried seasoned kelp, a Macau-style almond cookie, green tea, turkish bread with bean salad (5 bean mix, tomatoes, chopped fresh mint, lime leaves, pepper salt EVOO, wrinkley lime juice, red onion and garlic powder) spooned on top, and 1/3 block of Hershey's cookies and creme chocolate.

My mouth is still "itchy" and I'm starting to get real sleepy. Reading Corduroy Mansions which I am seriously enjoying. Sadly there are only 25 chapters online at the moment.

Those crappy romance novels are calling out to me...

I can only send you the questions if you promise to do the meme!


1. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
2. Answer one question with one name.
3. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme.



1. Don't know.
2. Jamie

3. No one.
4. Anna
5. This female sheriff's officer I met.
6. Jamie

7. Stuart
8. Simon
9. Cat

10. Ray (only because I can't think of anyone better)
11. Alan
12. Lucia
13. -shrug-
14. Elim
15. Me?
16. Erm, pretty much everyone I know.
17. David
18. Juliette
19. Anna
20. Jo
21. Dunno.
22. Dunno.
23. How about my boss?
24. My Chi
25. Dunno.
26. Not saying :)
27. Cat
28. Ray
29. Pft.
30. Don't bother doing this meme. I'm serious. Don't get tempted!

hey yo.
i finally gave in and signed up for an LJ.
this makes it.....my fifth blog.....(not including the one i abandoned XD)

anyway, most of my other blogs i signed up for one reason or another. but most of them are just for show and point to my *real* blog which is :

Sleepless Travels Reloaded

My other blogs are xanga, msn spaces, blogspot and a deadjournal private journal.

I always have a few photo albums; the one i use the most often is flickr.