Incommunicado no more

I'm back, after yet another format of the hard drive. The problem seems to have been spyware - again! So this time I'm trying new antivirus software (anyone else use Kaspersky?) and a firewall. Let's hope this works to keep me bug-free and functioning for more than a couple of months...

I'm "celebrating" my return by trimming the friendslist, which has just got too large and unwieldy for my comfort. It's nothing personal if I've unfriended you, I do feel I ought to make this clear. It's a time management problem: only so many hours in the day and a seemingly infinite number of things I want or need to do, and lj's a very time-hungry occupation. So I'm keeping people I feel I have some sort of interaction with, the people I'm likely to exchange comments with, on my journal or their own. Because, frankly, if we never say anything to each other and I'm just skimming your posts because they're there, what's the point?

Wish they'd call it something else, though. The terminology doesn't adequately reflect the way one's "friendslist" can (and does!) have friends on it - but also encompasses the whole range of acquaintances, people one is merely on nodding terms with, and people one recognises from afar but has never really said hello to.

Incommunicado no more

I'm back, after yet another format of the hard drive. The problem seems to have been spyware - again! So this time I'm trying new antivirus software (anyone else use Kaspersky?) and a firewall. Let's hope this works to keep me bug-free and functioning for more than a couple of months...

I'm "celebrating" my return by trimming the friendslist, which has just got too large and unwieldy for my comfort. It's nothing personal if I've unfriended you, I do feel I ought to make this clear. It's a time management problem: only so many hours in the day and a seemingly infinite number of things I want or need to do, and lj's a very time-hungry occupation. So I'm keeping people I feel I have some sort of interaction with, the people I'm likely to exchange comments with, on my journal or their own. Because, frankly, if we never say anything to each other and I'm just skimming your posts because they're there, what's the point?

Wish they'd call it something else, though. The terminology doesn't adequately reflect the way one's "friendslist" can (and does!) have friends on it - but also encompasses the whole range of acquaintances, people one is merely on nodding terms with, and people one recognises from afar but has never really said hello to.

Picspam - because I CAN!

Two new pics of Ioan looking swoonsome, courtesy of geok on ioan_daily:

( I can't decide which is my favourite... )

PS Have added "fictional boyfriends" as an lj interest, thanks to queenofthorns and gobi_rex with whom I share several, um, yes - fictional boyfriends. See? No other term will do.

Picspam - because I CAN!

Two new pics of Ioan looking swoonsome, courtesy of geok on ioan_daily:

( I can't decide which is my favourite... )

PS Have added "fictional boyfriends" as an lj interest, thanks to queenofthorns and gobi_rex with whom I share several, um, yes - fictional boyfriends. See? No other term will do.