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Argh, I thought the meeting was at 9:30, but it turned out to be at 9am and I missed it. *headdesk repeatedly* But seems like it's okay, they'll just tell me what happened... but wah. Fail fail fail!

If I'm lucky I'll be able to see Take That at the O2 (the corperate suite!) on 3rd or 4th Dec! Keeping my fingers crossed. jkdshfjklafhkj hsdkafhjkfh!

Looked at the PureBOYS photobook last night. Didn't like it. Anyone wanna buy it off me?

Things I want for Christmas:

• A spice rack. With a high capacity. Preferably a funky-looking one. All the ones I see online are boring and fugly. Can't they make one with bright coloured plastic? Like the stuff at FireBox? Will I have to make one myself?


• This, with this. But really, just this is good! (I'll put it on my work desk!)


• The periodic table shower curtain, as linked last night.


• Sanada, Renji and Yukimura in fic, with them in any sort of combination.


• A new chair for my desk.


• A massive cushion, like the one Hana has for her work chair!

I was going to scan and rip PureBoys things, but just found out they are downloadable over at pureboys. Some entries are locked, though, you'll have to join to download them.

Which reminds me of the mystery of the way people share things.

Given the following:
1) The files hosted are on file-sharing sites, not on somebody's own server
2) The community is unmoderated, everyone's free to join and post
3) The OP does not have a grudge against other comms

Why do people post to, for example, pureboys, and say there that "I'd normally crosspost to tenipuri_myu too, but not this time, just want to share it here"? Initially I thought they wanted to encourage others to join the comm, but they don't post to other places advertising that the files are downloadable if they join this certain community.

It's not just this one comm, of course. I see it happening in different places and I don't understand why. Am I missing the point somewhere?

More on "crossposting":

Here is when and where to use the note "crossposted to [blah]": when you've posted something in one place (eg. your LJ) and linked it to other places (eg. LJ comms), you add the note to the original post where the content is, ie, the your actual LJ post. It helps you keep track of where it's been advertised, in case you need to go back and edit the posts.

You do not put the note on the comm posts saying "it's been posted to blah and blahblah". Nobody's interested in that. If I'm in both those comms, I'll know that it's been crossposted because I'll see it twice. If I'm in just one of those comms, I'm not interested in knowing that you linked it somewhere else as well. All you're doing is making your announcement post longer, and if you've posted to 5 comms that are all on my flist, your unnecessary longer posts just take up even more room on my friends page and I don't need to be told 5 times that you're "sorry if you see this 5 times". Chances are I either won't care or won't forgive you anyway.

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Somebody emailed me photos of a whale being carried on a truck down the road, somewhere in Taiwan possibly. The whale'd been cut open and its guts were spilling out. I really didn't need to see that.

Niou-hedgehog came with me to work. :D

I've been asked to call and chase up on something for work, but I've never heard of the guy, don't have his contact details, and don't know what's going on with that work.

New icon made for me by teaesque! ♥