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I realized the other day that I've almost completely stopped using LiveJournal over the last 18 months or so. I looked back and it happened when two other things happened.
1. I discovered Facebook and realized that everyone had pretty much moved over to there, and that LiveJournal had become—for a good many of my friends that I know in person, at least—kind of a wasteland. With tumble-weeds. (Or is that Tumblr-weeds?)
2. I got The Shiny and no longer had access to Semagic. Semagic does all kinds of wondrous things, like allow me to program macros to do that green-underliny thing and to use auto-replace text, so when I want 'The Shiny' to show up like it does above, I merely type #The Shiny, and Semagic replaces that with the underliny-code.
Am I getting too technical? Am I getting too technical? :) I also have auto-replace set up for Skippy, Jürgen, Preston, and Bradford; macros set up for things like the text you see floating over to the right of this paragraph, with the neat, italic font and the purty box setting it off from the rest of the text; auto-replace text (#nano) to do this:
; and macros to do things like footnotes1, and that horizontal line that separates the main text from the footnotes. It's all stuff I've set up over years of making posts to LiveJournal almost every day, often several times per day.
And I miss that. I've tried every single free client for LiveJournal that runs natively on the Mac. None of them even come close to being as great as Semagic. None of them have 1/10th the capability of it. And because I'm a essentially a creature of habit, I let my frustration in not having my tools readily available stop me from using LiveJournal. I efficiencied myself out of doing something I love doing.
While Facebook has its own pros and cons, I really do like LiveJournal for posting anything sort of thoughtful or that tells a story, because Facebook is so...fleeting. Yes, people respond to it almost instantly, but then those responses are swallowed in the hundreds of emails I get from Facebook. I barely remember tomorrow something that someone said today. But on LiveJournal, there's a certain...permanence that you don't get on Facebook.
So I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm still looking for a Mac tool that will give me the kind of usability of Semagic, or I'll try to find some way to run Semagic on the Mac (my earlier attempts were failures), or maybe I'll just make posts while my work laptop is available.
But I want to get more active, again. NaNoWriMo has reminded me why I came here in the first place. Well, that's not true. I came to LJ because TIM had become a throbbing wasteland with tumble-weeds. But I stayed because I liked it.
1. I discovered Facebook and realized that everyone had pretty much moved over to there, and that LiveJournal had become—for a good many of my friends that I know in person, at least—kind of a wasteland. With tumble-weeds. (Or is that Tumblr-weeds?)
2. I got The Shiny and no longer had access to Semagic. Semagic does all kinds of wondrous things, like allow me to program macros to do that green-underliny thing and to use auto-replace text, so when I want 'The Shiny' to show up like it does above, I merely type #The Shiny, and Semagic replaces that with the underliny-code.
Am I getting too technical? Am I getting too technical? :) I also have auto-replace set up for Skippy, Jürgen, Preston, and Bradford; macros set up for things like the text you see floating over to the right of this paragraph, with the neat, italic font and the purty box setting it off from the rest of the text; auto-replace text (#nano) to do this:
; and macros to do things like footnotes1, and that horizontal line that separates the main text from the footnotes. It's all stuff I've set up over years of making posts to LiveJournal almost every day, often several times per day.And I miss that. I've tried every single free client for LiveJournal that runs natively on the Mac. None of them even come close to being as great as Semagic. None of them have 1/10th the capability of it. And because I'm a essentially a creature of habit, I let my frustration in not having my tools readily available stop me from using LiveJournal. I efficiencied myself out of doing something I love doing.
While Facebook has its own pros and cons, I really do like LiveJournal for posting anything sort of thoughtful or that tells a story, because Facebook is so...fleeting. Yes, people respond to it almost instantly, but then those responses are swallowed in the hundreds of emails I get from Facebook. I barely remember tomorrow something that someone said today. But on LiveJournal, there's a certain...permanence that you don't get on Facebook.
So I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm still looking for a Mac tool that will give me the kind of usability of Semagic, or I'll try to find some way to run Semagic on the Mac (my earlier attempts were failures), or maybe I'll just make posts while my work laptop is available.
But I want to get more active, again. NaNoWriMo has reminded me why I came here in the first place. Well, that's not true. I came to LJ because TIM had become a throbbing wasteland with tumble-weeds. But I stayed because I liked it.
- And not only the reference, as the little "1" is above, but each entry in the table of actual footnotes they reference, like this one here.2
- Or this one.
If all else fails
With Fusion, it can be set up to treat Windows apps as if they were Mac apps by making them appear in the toolbar. If you install Windows from Fusion rather than from BootCamp, you can also suspend your Windows session without having to do a full shutdown.
On doing a little digging, the Semagic FAQ includes instructions for installing Semagic under WINE.
Re: If all else fails
I'll try again, I suppose.
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