Run my life for me!

Good morning, and welcome to this fabulous new chance to run my life for me!

Today's problem is the following:

I own a computer with a 40 GB HD (all full, except for the space I need to download my weekly shows) and an external harddrvie with 300 GB. Sadly, that one is now full, too (backups of photos and everything on my HD, my screencaps, music, movies and many TV shows.) The TV shows currently on my HD are not burned on CDs. In fact, I haven't bought CDs since I bought the HD. But if I want to continue watching TV, something needs to go.

Which leaves me with the following options:
- Buy a new harddrive. Only, when I get a new computer, I will have more HD space anyway. Okay, you can never have enough, but still, two external harddrives? Isn't that overkill?
- Burn everything on CD. That would be cheap, but it would leave me with yet more CDs cluttering my room, and with 50 CDs I could only clear 35 GB, which isn't all that much.
- Buy original DVDs of the things that are on my harddrive. I rather like this option, except that it is expensive and not everything is available on DVD.
- Buy an external DVD burner. That would allow me to clear up more space on my HD than with CDs, and I wouldn't quite as many disks lying around in my room.

Lucky for you, I've been thinking about this for, hmm, at least two hours, and I'm not able to decide. Which gives you the wonderful opportunity to RUN MY LIFE! Now with a nifty poll, available at only 3$/month, plus the guarantuee to never again be bothered by ads or pesky companies! Only here in Oceana's LJ!

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P.S.:
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Letters in reaction to Numb3rs 3x02 "Two Daughters"

POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE "TWO DAUGHTERS"

Dear Don,

Don, oh Don. Have I told you lately how much I love you? ( But now, now you are breaking my heart, and that's just not right. )

( Dear Agent Edgerton, )

( Dear Charlie, )

( Dear Megan, )

( Dear Larry, )

( Dear Amita, )

( Dear Mr Eppes, )

( Dear David, )

( Dear Colby, )

Dear Friendslist,

you ignored (mostly) all my recent attempts to talk about my Don-love or Numb3rs in general. What's worse, none of you commented on last night's Numb3rs episode. What's up with that? I know, I am not posting about Eppes-'cest and that makes me rather uninteresting in this fandom. But I love the show, and I need someone to share the squee with, just as I need to squee about unexpected Numb3rs posts on my flist. Of which there weren't any. In fact, the lack of Numb3rs posts made me read 'cest (and I almost enjoyed it, too), that's how much Numb3rs there wasn't.

You are all fired,

Oceana

NCIS Ficlet 'How Stupid Mr Bates'

Looking through my fic folders, I found something that I think is postable, though not perfect, and thought I'd share. It's a harm- and titleless h/c NCIS ficlet without plot that I wrote more than a year ago for blueraccoon and then never posted it on my own LJ. I gave it a title (don't ask), polished it up a little bit and hope some you'll enjoy it.
Also, as short as it is, please don't hesitate to let me know if something is wrong or sounds really weird.


Title: How Stupid Mr Bates
Author: Oceana
Email: oceana2602@gmail.com
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Summary: Harm- and plotless h/c ficlet, set sometime during the second season, established relationship.
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me.

( How Stupid Mr Bates )

Oh LJ, where doest thou go?

I'm surprised I haven' seen more reaction to this post on lj_biz, which has so far produced more than 1800 comments, on my flist. (If you didn't know about this, you obviously failed to read the smallprint)

My reaction is pretty much "Fuck you, LJ.", but I'm not so naive that I believe there could be anything done about this. The contracts are already signed. I found the edit of the post hilarious (--Free Stuff!--), but other than that I'm no amused.

But now it gets interesting:
bradfitz personally (or a sockkpuppet using his account, who cares), posts an apology to the community.
Quote:
I'm sorry that I haven't been paying more attention (or really that lots of us haven't been paying more attention).

Then he clarifies, forced by the realization that we are not quite as stupid as they'd like us to be. ("It's a duck!" "No, it's not, look, free"Stuff!" "It walks like a duck, talks like a duck..." "But... Free!Stuff!")
paid users won't see sponsored stuff -- ignore the previous post. paid users won't ever see ads. that's why you paid, and we're not in the business of pissing off paid users. (just in the business of writing misleading posts to paid users, apparently... *sigh*)

It's nice to hear, Mr. Fitz, but excuse me for not trusting you. Do you even have any influence left after you sold out your company? And even if we don't get ads, it won't change that we are closer tohaving our journals censored and being sued by big companies for journal names or because we use an icon with Harry Potter on it.


For now, I'll just wait and see what happens. I don't plan to move anytime soon, wouldn't know where to go if I wanted to. My paid account doesn't run out for a while, so not renewing it isn't an option either. My biggest fear is privacy: yes, I could friends-lock my lj, but now that LJ will have big, corporate members who pay a lot of money, who says that they won't give them the information in my journal anyway? After all, the US hasn't been big on protecting privacy for a while.

But as I said, let's calm down and wait what happens. I've pondered this enough during the day and am tired of talking and thinking about it. Just wanted to give you the information.


Remember to back up your journal just in case. Two services to do so that I have used in the past are LJ Book (creates a pdf. file from your lj) and LJ Archive (program that generates a searchable - useful!- copy of your lj with comments on your HD).