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It hadn't seemed worth mentioning, but it's recently been brought to my attention that people notice these things. A few weeks ago, I reduced the size of my friends list by half for time management reasons. If you were wondering if it was something you said, the answer is no.

I seem to have finally kicked the cold from hell. Hopefully I won't have to so much as look at NyQuil for the rest of the winter. The stuff is nasty. And I missed Writers With Drinks on Friday and a basketball game yesterday so it's been a pretty dull weekend. I did catch up on some sleep though. Maybe next weekend I'll try having a social life again. Kelly and I need to organize a little get-together for her birthday (on Wednesday) also, but we're postponing it a bit because of two friends who're inconveniently out of the country.

Because of a temporary moratorium on new book purchases and not enough time to visit the library, I've been scrounging around the house for stuff to read. I finished The Blind Assassin (octopus, I think you were right about stuff getting repetitive) and started reading A Problem from Hell, Samantha Power's book on US responses (or lack thereof) to genocide, even though it's a bit hefty for subway reading.

Work continues to kick my ass, but you're surely tired of reading about that. I'm trying to balance testing for one application with new development on another and it makes my head hurt. But when it works it's good stuff. I'm also rapidly getting attached to the Eclipse IDE after a week of struggling to get it configured the right way. I haven't really gotten into using its refactoring tools (I want to write some more unit tests before I mess with my code like that) but some of the other features are helping me catch errors faster than I would otherwise.

Comments

[lcohen]

Hopefully I won't have to so much as look at NyQuil for the rest of the winter. The stuff is nasty.

i can't drink it--i have to take the liqui-caps which are expensive but not as expensive as wasting it when it, um, doesn't stay down.

glad you're feeling better. wish a happy birthday to kelly!

[fj.livejournal.com]

Eclipse kicks ass.

It's refactoring tools are very straightforward, with code-previews before you commit.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

I'm in the process of pruning (and adding to) my list of people whose journals I wish to read daily. And, damn, does the "un-friending" cause trouble. Grumph. It simply means I don't want to read your journal every day. That's it. No hidden message. Argh.

[lcohen]

i've thought about this and i think that some of it is the implication that said person will also no longer be able to read your "friends-only" posts if you unfriend them. (only the true maniacs also assume that you will seize this opportunity to immediately make a "friends-only" post about them.) i know this concern is completely meaningless to people who don't make friends-only posts--this is one of the LJ culture clashes.

it sort of is too bad that the functionalities can't be separated--there are probably people i could think of where i don't friend them because i don't particularly want to read their journal but i wouldn't mind them reading some of my friends-only posts. except one can also create a special "friends that i'm going to read" filter for those cases, so never mind me while i natter on.

[jss]

You can also create subset of friends groups in LJ to post group-only-readable entries. For example, if I had friends A B and C and wanted only B and C to see something, I'd select "Custom" and create a group of just B and C for them to see it and A not to.

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

And, conversely, Paid Account folks can use those subset-of-friends groups to tailor their Friends page, so that you only read a subset of your Friends at a shot (see http://www.livejournal.com/friends/filter.bml).

But I understand the desire to prune; I can reach my reading limits to where I don't give others' entries the attention they deserve. I'm amazed at the folks with 150+ friends who can read all their entries.

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

The boy is all over Eclipse, of course -- IBM freeware/open source. Him and his IBM friends make plug ins for Eclipse...you can check out their website at zclipse.org. If you need help with the IDE, you can always ask him.