Apr. 20th, 2009

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Still sick and decidedly anti-social, although only apparently in internet terms, since I am also the proud owner of a train ticket to Cardiff for next Monday \o/

Also, for the few people I know track my icons, I'm going to be changing lots and lots and lots of them later today, so unless you want around 200 emails for deletions and uploads, you might want to turn notifications off :) This assumes that I can choose from the 315 that I have saved...

I don't have many links saved right now, but I wanted to say thanks for the lovely comments, to which you'll probably get a reply in about a week once I'm off the cold drugs and the painkillers:

Adding to the list of Amazon alternatives, The Book Depository is an excellent source of books. Postage is free to anywhere in the world, and when you look up a book, it tells you whether it's available/cheaper at Amazon, or if it's out of print, it directs you to Abebooks to find a copy. And yes, you read that right. Free postage anywhere in the world. One book I'm going to get from Abe (because TBD don't have it) is probably The Detective as Historian, because historical mysteries are my favourite kinds of books.

For the library bulletin board

Parrot custody case. The squawking is my favourite part :)

What do writers owe their readers? And fanfic authors think that comments like "PLZ RITE MOAR" are bad...

Research into the 'stereotypical' librarian'. My favourite article about this so far included the line "shockingly, 11% of them have tattoos!" (exclamation mark theirs). It's also worth noting that it's a tiny sample of a specific type of Australian librarians (the UK doesn't really have 'teacher librarians' in the same way, I don't think), but looking around my 2-300 colleagues at the last staff conference, I'd say it was pretty accurate!
jadesfire: Bright yellow flower (Text - THIS IS A LARGE CRISIS)
HALP!

Firefox has apparently decided that it doesn't want to download anything. Or rather, it pretends it wants to and then doesn't. Tease.

It gets to the "what do you want to do with this file" stage, but when I click 'save', instead of a computer directory I get... Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Also, when I go to "Tools -> Downloads" the history has been wiped clean, which I'm thinking is a bad thing.

This means NO PODIFC. This is a very, very BAD thing. *whimper* I've tried sendspace, Megaupload and the audiofic archive, and it's definitely a problem with Firefox. Oh, and I also know this because when I went to download the latest version, just in case, it wouldn't download.

I'm running Firefox3 in Fedora. It's possible that I can get the files from Firefox (the archive might be open-able rather than save-able) but I'm then not 100% sure how to run them for my Linux-fu is poor.

HALP?

ETA: After some prodding, I think the problem is that Firefox doesn't think my computer exists. When I try to change the setting to "Save files to" and click 'Browse', nothing happens at all. This is going to take some forum browsing, I think...

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