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I tried to follow my own advice last night and archive this journal.

However, since I've apparently been babbling here since 2002, it locked up and told me I had to auto convert some old entries. Except that my settings were SO out of date that I couldn't find the screen that would let me do this and the Help files were amazingly unhelpful.

After some frustration I thought maybe LJBook would help. It was all jammed up by people panicking, so it didn't run, but it DID lock up and give me the same error message but helpfully included a link to where I could update my encoding settings.

So I re-encoded my LJ, then was able to run LJArchive and parse my entire LJ to my keychain (thumb drive).

While I was poking about I also discovered that my other settings were so old as to be unsupported as well, so I had to change my "Theme". I miss my old one - it was simple, easy to read, and looked like the entries were written in an old-fashioned spiral-bound notebook. It was really hard to find somethign that was uncluttered, readable, and put userpics on each entry and on the left side (which is how I was used to seeing them). I am a very visual learner, and my brain keys in on the userpics before it registers the journal name, so this way I can still tell whose posts I'm reading. (Of course, when two people I know use the same pic it confuses me no end, but that doesn't happen too often). Oh and of course it had to be free, because I'm still one of those people who signed on back when you needed in invite code to come on board (Thanks capi!), and still has a free account with no ads and 6 userpics.

I'm still not convinced there is any reason to panic (Other than the fact that apparently most of the people in LJ-land seem to enjoy panicking), but as I said yesterday - backups are never a bad idea.

OK this is hilarious

Mixed in with the "waaah you hurted our feelings" calls the other night from the condo board people, they kept repeating that they were dumped into this situation and they didn't have any training and they looked into training but it was like a thousand dollars and waaaaah.....

Touched base with a couple of organizations and found a free 3 hour class being held in just over 2 weeks that addresses these very things.

The kicker is.....the organization that sponsors it as well as a host of other condo issues training and advocacy events? Their office is across the street from the property. I can see it out my living room window.

Sigh. I can be very patient with people who genuinely don't know and want to learn. It's people who persist in being stupid despite all opportunities that make me want to punch them in the face.