Ok. I was in the middle of writing this post when I spotted the news on the Chrono Trigger remake. Got majorly sidetracked of course. Random useless info forthcoming. Hope it's useful to someone at least.

Where are your bookmarks in Firefox 3
For those who 1) use Firefox and 2) reformat their PC on a regular basis, then you're probably used to backing up your bookmarks by backing up the bookmarks.html from your Firefox profiles folder. Now for those who already upgraded to Firefox 3, it actually handles bookmarks differently than the previous versions. Bookmarks are now stored in the places.sqlite file found on the same folder as bookmarks.html.

I did not know this when I reformatted my PC a month ago. It's a good thing I tend to backup the entire profiles folder. Once I have the fresh install though I tend to only copy back my bookmarks.html file, so I spent a good 10-20 minutes being annoyed when no matter what I did, Firefox wouldn't update my bookmarks when the correct bookmarks.html was already copied into the profiles folder.

So yes, remember kids, places.sqlite has your bookmarks now. If you want to set up Firefox so that it updates both the sql db and the bookmarks.html file, you can learn how to do so here.


How to open multiple profiles in Firefox at the same time
Debi and Em have asked me about this before, but it's always when they're over at my place and always in passing. I use 5 profiles for Firefox, each designated for a particular task. One is for normal use, one is for handling downloads, another for surfing art sites, etc.etc. I just find it much easier to handle tabs and bookmarks this way.

Now Firefox normally doesn't give you the option to open two profiles at the same time, but you can override this by using the firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager string on the command line. This will pop up the profile manager for Firefox, and let you open another profile while a current one is still running.

You can also update the Target field on a shortcut icon on your desktop/quick launch with the same command so that it pops up the profile manager without you having to go to the command line.

Like so:



ETA: BTW, if you're not using Firefox... WHY NOT?! D:

Because the usual people aren't online for me to be absolutely incoherent at.

CHRONO TRIGGER FOR THE DS.

A month behind on the news, but still! Have waited SO LONG for this to happen, I don't think I ever actually expected that it would. I am now a happy Chrono fangirl. (Still hoping for a new game somewhere along the line.)

Rawr. Bored like you wouldn't believe. Currently PCless as my pc is at the shop having its motherboard changed (or the power supply, or both) depending on what's causing my 500gb drive to disappear from time to time. I was originally assuming it was the power supply since I had three drives mounted on the cpu (having too many external drives = too many cables), hopefully neither will cause very much to get changed.

So what have I been doing while I go through pc withdrawal? Reformatting my old PC is what. Since it'll be transferred downstairs to take the place of that literally ancient pc that they're using for work.

Also watching Matantei Loki Ragnarok. Apparently I never finished watching it before (like I never finished watching a lot of series), and it was one of the few series' I had on CD that would play on my dvd player.

I keep meaning to make an anime post (and D keeps bugging me to make one), but I'm lazy and now I have an excuse not to. Though if you haven't already, everyone really should pick up the new Macross series.

Holiday tomorrow. I don't think I'll get my PC back by today. DDD:

Oh. And Nintendo DS players. The World Ends With You is the game you should be playing. Really. >:E I love the art and the dialogue and the music for this game. I wish it had more characters so I could stare at the art some more. As it is, cutscenes kind of take forever for me to go through because I just keep admiring the art, even if I've seen Neku a gazillion times prior. BTW, I thought Rhyme was a guy until Day 4. WTF.

Will have to make icon from that game once I get my PC back.

Just in case anyone on my flist who plays WoW actually missed it. The WoWInsider article for it is a funnier read though.

And since I'm already posting, have returned to playing WoW as my once again absence from LJ probably already proves. My 70 alliance warlock is temporarily put on stasis while I concentrate on my shaman hordie on another server (namely with sesame_seed and her posse).

Soooo... *prods flist* Anyone tired of playing their mains and want to level a new toon on another server? (Or if you have a hordie you can always transfer servers.) We're lots of fun I promise! :D We wanted to see if we could get enough people to do the 10-man raids with people we all know. (25-man would be nice, but let's concentrate on the more achievable goal.) It's all the more fun and laid back that way. More room for error when you botch up in a raid. :P I run with a pretty casual raiding guild on my alliance server, but even so, the first time I was put on fel duty for the Maulgar fight at Gruul's I was utterly mortified. Q_Q DID NOT have macros ready for that first fight.

Would say more, but it always feels weird to be posting on LJ again. So I leave you with random screencaps from when I was leveling with caillen's paladin the other day.

( corpse rainbows )

Once upon a time when Debi, Bhex and I were out the conversation somehow jumped to LJ memes and being tagged for memes and my never doing them.  So I said I'd do the next meme I was ever tagged for. Even if Bhex is cheating with AN OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL TAG.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll respond via comments. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on fannish stuff, favorite type of underwear, the less touched-upon aspects of my life, etc. And then, repost this on your journal so that I can start asking too. XD

Hello insomnia. Welcome back old friend.  I will now attempt to survive the day whilst completely braindead.  I owe people email/lj replies, have been rather occupied all weekend, but will attempt to reply to a few during random bouts of lucidity throughout the day.

For now, image heavy post since it requires minimal brainpower.


I normally don't do this, but I just had to take a pic of this particular stack of doujinshi. Henceforth to be remembered as the package where the Philippine Post Office TAXED ME WAY TOO MUCH for some porn. I've never been taxed for my manga or doujinshi before, so I was pretty much DDD: at them when I picked this up.

Most of it is Initial D doujinshi (Ryousuke/Keisuke ).  I reallyreally wanted to splurge on Gintama and Reborn djs at the time, but there was a reason I got the IniD ones instead. D:  I got the Acchicchi (Kanegae Shouko) collection mostly because I had never heard of the circle before and was curious to see if it would be worth getting her individual djs in the future. I probably won't because she mostly does Reborn/Lambo, but the anthology was a pleasant surprise and had me laughing a lot while flipping through it.  There were a lot of completely random CPs which alone made it well worth it.  I would not mind buying another anthology of her stuff if she ever releases another one.

Anyway, wanted to share a few of the more random gag stuff in the anthology.  Subpar pics behind the cut.  My scanner is currently still in its box, so I just took pics of a few random scenes.  Will get around to scanning some of the more amusing stories once I hook the scanner up. Still waiting for Em to read Reborn so I can force make slavedrive ask her to translate these.

( some non-worksafe pics behind the cut )

So oh hey, maybe some of the artists on my flist can answer this one?  I was looking through Ballistic Publishing's artbooks and the major difference between their Expose line and Exotique line seems to be that the former is for digital art while the other is for CG? (I had originally thought it was pro versus non-pro / semi-pro artists.) I couldn't seem to find anything on this on google, I had always thought digital and cg art was the same thing.

For those not familiar with it - Ballistic Publishing. I just spent the better part of a few hours flipping through their Expose and Exotique books and wibbling incoherently. They are basically artbook collections with digital and cg art from several incredibly talented artists (a lot of which I'm sure some of you would be familiar with, especially those who frequent deviantart). I have probably already made myself broke for the rest of the year so I will have to wait until next year before getting any, but there are already 7 books out total and I can't possibly afford them all. Q_Q

I like the Expose books  a lot since they have landscape and structural art on it as well.  Someone covet with me!



From Exotique 3


From Expose 4



Was sorting through boxes yesterday and I'm just finally realizing just how much fancrap I used to buy.  I even have useless stuff like postcard sets and stationary and card sets, etc.  Why god why?! All that money down the drain. D: Although it's also reminded me that I am an artbook whore, which are actually one of the few things I spent on that I don't regret.

Boredom begets memes. Otherwise known as Arc's perfectly good excuse to not work on her 1859 fic.  Ganked from gekidasa.

First, write down the names of 12 characters (it's best when they're all from the same fandom). Then read and answer the questions.You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the 12 characters you're going to use.

1 Gokudera
2 Tsuna
3 Reborn
4 Yamamoto
5. Colonello
6. Hibari
7. Mukuro
8. Byakuran
9. Lal
10. Ryohei
11. Irie
12. Lambo


( ... )

I belatedly realized I had not written any of the Varia members down, which makes me sad. But I made the list by putting in the first names that came to mind. D:

Haha. I could not resist doing this.

( Rules behind the cut because it gets in the way of my pimping. )

Christmas wishlist
1-5. READ REBORN.
6-9. READ EYESHIELD 21.
10. Anything Hibari/Gokudera is also gooood. Even if you're only at volume 3 whut. (BHEX I AM LOOKING AT YOU.)

Seriously.

My RL friends who do not do this meme automatically get a copy of the Reborn manga with the words READ REBORN AS IF I WERE TO DIE printed on the cover. And probably even if you do the meme anyway.