dbskyler

Classic Who re-watch comm starting up!

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:13:03 GMT

Passing on the word that there's a brand new re-watch comm about to start up for Classic Doctor Who! The comm is of_rassilon, and it's on Dreamwidth. The plan is to watch one serial per week, with discussion about the serial beginning every Sunday (Australian time) and lasting through the week until it's time for the next serial.

They're starting this Sunday with the very first episode of Doctor Who ever, "Unearthly Child," plus the other three episodes that make up that first serial ("The Cave of Skulls," "The Forest of Fear," and "The Firemaker" -- and I think one of the first topics of discussion ought to be just why they felt the need to individually name all the serial parts back then!)

If you're only on LiveJournal, you should still be able to participate with your LJ user name -- it shows up as "open ID" or something. (I hope no one has questions about that, though, as that's the sum total of what I know.)

Or if you'd like to join Dreamwidth, I have 8 invite codes to give away. Just leave a comment asking for one, and I'll PM it to you.

comments

buried by spambots; commenting on Dreamwidth restricted for now

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:14:37 GMT

Spambots have found Dreamwidth -- I received no less than 26 spam comments on my entries last week. So, I have changed my Dreamwidth account settings so that only people on my access list are allowed to comment on my entries. I'm hoping this will be a temporary situation. In the meantime, if you're not on my access list and really want to comment on something, you can send me a PM or wander over to my LiveJournal and comment there instead.

ETA: I finally had time to look more closely into the spam comments, and they were all from anonymous users, so I've loosened up the settings to allow all registered users to comment, not just those from my access list. Hopefully that will be enough to handle the spam problem. Apologies that I can no longer accept anonymous comments, but that's just the way it has to be.

comments

now this looks promising

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:59:21 GMT

This is the fourth journal style that I've tried, and I think I may have finally found something that I actually like. Whoo hoo! Up until now, every new journal style has been "Well, that's not too objectionable, let's try it out." My opinion of this one might still change after I've spent time reading and posting in it, but it's looking promising!

comments

Doctor Who friending meme

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:47:14 GMT

Just helping to spread the word that there's a friending meme going on at doctorwho:

Doctor Who Friending Meme

comments

Dreamwidth cross-posting

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:56:01 GMT

Okay, I am trying out cross-posting from Dreamwidth. Is this working? Hello?

Not sure how much cross-posting I will be doing though, to be honest. I guess it will depend upon how easy this is (does look pretty easy so far), and how much time I end up spending on Dreamwidth vs. LJ. From what I can tell, the LJ Doctor Who communities seem to be far more active. Anyone know any communities like sarahjane_fic and doctoreleven on Dreamwidth?

comments

it's sort of addictive, isn't it?

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:05:19 GMT

First it was driving me crazy that I didn't have any content in my journal here, so I decided to post something. Then I was curious about importing content from LJ, and I decided I should probably have a back-up of my entries anyway (not that my ramblings are earth-shattering or anything, but you know, it made sense for 5 minutes) and I imported my journal. Then I posted my first Dreamwidth-only post. Then I decided I might as well go ahead and start "circling" people from my LJ flist who were over here, because, why not? And now I've come here often enough that the default journal layout was really starting to bug me, so I've gone through the available layouts and chosen a new one.

My little Dreamwidth camp, which was originally just a stake in the ground and a pair of binoculars for looking around, now has a tent, a firepit, a backpacker's stove and an open invitation to a group campfire.

Oh, well. I suppose none of those are bad things!

ETA: And after a few minutes of reading things in it, I've decided I don't like this new journal style either. I'm going to have to keep searching, but I'm not really in the mood right now. Anyway, assume that the style will keep changing without notice until I find something I like. At least this style doesn't immediately assault you with HELLO I'M BLUE! in the way the default one did.

comments

hello Dreamwidth!

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:44:44 GMT

Just got here, and I'm still trying to figure this place out. I heard it was really easy to import content over from LiveJournal so I've gone ahead and done that, partly because it was sad to have a completely empty account here, and partly because it occurred to me that it never hurts to have a back-up archive. The import was indeed super-duper easy to do.

I'm not yet moving over here; I'm just establishing a little camp and poking around. Feel free to friend me (circle me? What's it called over here, anyway?) if you like, just be aware that it might take some time for me to notice and get back to you as I'm not logging into DW regularly.

comments