Miscellany (Thursday)

[tamaranth]

Am using LochJournal, in the hope of being able to post to multiple accounts without tedious 'log in' lottery. I was hoping it would also let me compose posts offline and load them when I connected, but apparently not though I have not done the RTFM thing).

In other 'technology is crap' luddism, how do I get Kazaa to search for tracks by X (LA punk band) given that X marks the spot where people who don't know or can't type the artist name just type, er, 'X'?

EDIT: And what, pray tell, is the use of autodetecting my music when it then truncates the name (and a right-trim, too)? Sorry, that should read Anders Hagberg (Norwegian ethno-trance, and utterly splendid)

Comments

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

LochJ will let you post to multiple accounts, and alert you when friends pages on multiple accounts change, but be aware that it doesn't influence your cookies - there is still the comment lottery.

And, no, you can't compose offline. This is what notepad is for, ne?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think LochJ has logged me off, without logging me on to anything else ...

.. and I recall using an offline post composer, though it may have been the Palm/AvantGo client (possibly the one that's no longer available. ('Ne', by the way. Notepad's fine for composing but it doesn't automatically queue your posts until you're next connected! Also poor on the 'autodetect music' and 'lazy HTML' options.)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Good point on Notepad...

There is/was an offline one one the palm, but I've never seen one for Windows.

Am struggling with your questions... Think it gets harder the better you know people...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I don't know of any offline clients for Windows... sorry.

On Kazaa you might be able to search for a mix of name and genre, which can help narrow down things...

[camies.livejournal.com]

Semagic allows you to edit offline and save the draft to come back to.
Chris

[cruisedirector]

Search for X by song, if you can. Lots easier to find "Crystal Ship" than anything else given the X-Files connection, I've found. You on an Exene kick? *G*

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

X seem to be undergoing a bit of a renaissance over here, cited as influences -- along with P J Harvey, Patti Smith etc etc -- on various new punk(ish) outfits: one article mentioned Fifties, rather than Sixties, undertones to their music, which intrigues me ... Have resisted listening simply on the basis of lead singer's shapely ankles, as photographed by her ex-husband :)