The Width of a Dream

[kerravonsen]

I have a Dreamwidth account!!!
Please to be telling me if you are on Dreamwidth too, and who you are there.

So I have now joined the ranks of those who do massive cross-posting on multiple personal journals (LJ, IJ, Inksome, and now Dreamwidth). I was using Charm at first, but while it sort of supports cross-posting, it isn't really oriented towards that. So I have just finished writing (and quick-testing) a script (perl script, which uses the LJ::Simple interface) which cross-posts to multiple journals at the same time. Yay! It's a very simple command-line interface, nothing fancy, but I think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

I'm thinking of deleting the inksome journal, though. Dreamwidth will be better, and IJ was able to import all my past entries, while Inksome couldn't. I have imported all my past entries to Dreamwidth too.

Bring on the open beta!

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I confess I'm tempted, but haven't made up my mind yet.

[kerravonsen]

I wasn't really interested until I'd solved the crossposting problem.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

How did you solve that problem? Could you send me the Perl code?

[kerravonsen]

Well, I'm using Dreamwidth's own crossposting ability now, but I could send you the script I wrote if you like. It isn't properly documented or set up for installation, though.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Not an option for me of course!

I haven't used LJ::Simple for ages. (Indeed, it hadn't been installed on Gaby until a few minutes ago.) I was having trouble remembering how things were done. naturally, I remembered a few things moments after posting.

[kerravonsen]

What's not an option for you? Huh? (is confused)

So do you want me to send you my script or not?

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

No, that's okay. Thanks for your kind offer.

This is kind of embarrassing. I tracked down my problem. My password contains a character that is meaningful to Perl, and was messing it up. If I'd just follow the coding standards that I wrote myself and use the single quote wherever possible, I'd be okay.

NB: This icon always reminds me of you. :)

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping for an invite code from someone who said yesterday that she was going to get some. How did you get there?

I copied all my entries to IJ a while back--must update that with the outstanding ones--so I assume I can do that there too.

[kerravonsen]

How did you get there?

I joined as an OpenID and confirmed my email address - one uses one's LJ login and that enables one to comment, though not create a journal - and yesterday I was picked at random and was given an invite code.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

If I don't get an invite code this week, I'll try that.