Since everyone else is doing it:

I'm very amused at people on LJ flailing about, assuming the site is going to be shut down, just because some people got made redundant. Funnily enough, it's a recession, that's the sort of thing that tends to happen in recessions - the news is full of it (or was before there was Gaza and cold and lack of trains).

LJ's so successful that it's unlikely to go under any time soon and if it did there'd be more warning than that, I imagine. M&S closing down some stores was more interesting news on the same lines, although in retrospect not a surprise given that people are trying to shop more cheaply.

My blog and LJ are both automatically backed up. The blog's backed up to a Gmail account every week and since I never delete any emails, just archive them, I have every comment anyone's ever posted too, in the unlikely instance I ever remember that any exist.

I now have Skype on my computers. I thought it cost somehow, although I can't remember how now. But it turns out it's free to Skype other people. It just costs to call landlines from Skype. Although it says it costs less than a normal call, since I have free evening and weekend calls, as long as they're less than an hour, that would actually cost more. So it's only actually useful for talking to people abroad. And talking to people face-to-face since my laptop has a webcam in the lid.

Which does mean it doesn't actually do anything that you can't do over messenger - Trillian does audio and video chat, you just have to use it with someone with Trillian, I think.

Tomorrow morning I have to go back home (I do have two houses I call home) and then the day after back to work for the first time in a week and a half. Very depressing

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We finally managed to finish the Doctor Who puzzle that we started with Jonathan Creek. It has a lot more black pieces than it looks.

Apart from that I've bought myself a 4Gb pen drive. I bought a 1Gb one a couple of years ago for twice the price... And I tried to buy a bigger xD card for my camera, but the smallest you can get is 1Gb. So I bought that instead (I only really need 256Mb).

And then I got distracted by looking up the two Big Finish Companion Chronicles that are due out at the end of the month, both of which I want. And I ended up buying Benny series 2 in the Big Finish Christmas Sale. And I was doing so well avoiding that sale too...

Now that the Yuletide authors have been revealed, I can do this, and the three I wrote are under December.
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