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[dubdobdee]

u will have noticed i have allowed myself an hyewge flood of extra work recently, as part of a project of repositioning myself to be better paid and revered world-wide blah blah

this is (so far) sorta kinda totally working out well (this month -- which i suspect be an upper-end hard-to-repeat blip) i will be paid something like 4 x as much for less than twice the work (ie about what i actually ought to be earning, experience-wise)

it means of course that i am already feeling significant pangs of resentment at not having time to get on with writing i actually want to do: i owe FT about six posts, none of them even very long, i have a big essay on black science fiction (revisited) due by end of march, and only abt a week free to research and write it -- not actually being paid for it either -- and i am weeks behind on frank's kuhn-stuff

plus lollards is abt to re-start, and eli and i have a slugs idea which is now three months behind schedule

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

on the upside i discovered out a neat way to print out pages from g00gleb00ks, courtesy the ppl i am working with in the website

[aubade1984.livejournal.com]

how do you do that? i found an old article in google books the other day that i wanted to keep but i couldn't figure out how to do it.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

there's an add-on to firefox which allows you to take screenshots of the whole of an open webpage -- i have it at work or i'd put a link here -- and then you just print out the screenshot... it's quite timeconsuming (i wouldn't advise it for more than 25 pages really, as you can only do one page at a timne) and each page obviously retains a kind of googloid hem or frame, but yes, it does very neatly and tidily

[koganbot]

I am half a year behind on Slugs, have downloaded two thirds but only listened to half.

[koganbot]

Oh, and now it seems as if there's no way to download anymore, though the podcasts are still around, but now I can't have extra sluglords cluttering up my hard drive.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

which ones haven't you go? i can ysi you the others

[koganbot]

Actually seems as if I'm missing the entire second half (episodes 9 through 16) and also missing episode 3 (the Asimov, though I've listened to it, just don't think I ever downloaded).

[koganbot]

Do you know why they can no longer be downloaded from the site? Is that a temporary glitch at Freaky Trigger or a permanent problem?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this issue just came up on the admin discussion board -- because we've moved to a paid server i know we had to downsize the number of mp3s we could permanently host (so the pop world cup links have al died i think), but i thought slugds and lollards were ringfenced -- it may just be a temporary thing

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"they are still downloadable via a podcast client" sez mr admin -- i will get him to say this in language i understand

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As I understand it the add-on we were using to make MP3s downloadable was breaking lots of other things. So we're going to replace it - and the radio shows will be first to benefit. This will happen when Alan has time I guess, but hopefully soon!

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

I am so behind on slugs I want to SCREAM!