I’ve tried on and off to crosspost entries from my blog to my Livejournal, but I keep slacking off. So I installed a crossposting plugin that should do it automatically. It means that everything I post on my blog will also get posted on LJ, and I can’t post anything to LJ that’s not posted on the blog, which is sort of annoying. But anyway, I think it’ll be better than being so completely absent on LJ that I don’t keep up with my friends, which is what’s been happening. So if you’re subscribed to both my blog and LJ feeds (or my blog feed on LJ), you can pick one or the other, because they’re going to be identical from here on out. Unless I change my mind, in which case, I will tell you. In general, the blog is probably going to look prettier, because that’s where I write and preview posts. Just sayin’.

LJ people: Hi! I imported my blog posts to LJ, so if you scroll back, you should see most of them. I imported them as private (because I wanted to make sure it was working), and then switched most of them to public, but left a few that were no longer relevant or whatever. Just in case anyone starts comparing blog and LJ, that’s why posts before today aren’t necessarily identical. Also, any internal links in the posts are going to be to the blog and not the LJ.

Facebook people: Hi also! I’ve had my blog on my profile as an RSS feed for a while, but I decided to be a shameless self-promoter and use Facebook’s “import blog” feature to make them into notes. If it completely overwhelms y’all’s newsfeeds, let me know and I’ll do something different.

Now, theoretically, when I hit “publish,” this will also post on LJ and Facebook. We’ll see.

I’m safely back in Texas after a week at home and a week doing nothing (in the best possible way) in Minnesota; classes start back up tomorrow, and while I’m not really ready to start writing papers again, I realized yesterday that I won’t be in the newbie group anymore and I’ll get to meet some new people entering the program this year. So that should be fun. Trying to get the rest of my books at the bookstore tomorrow along with 10,000 other students probably won’t be, though. Ah, well.

Some of you may have gotten incoming links or trackbacks from jandysmeanderings.the-frame.com today; in case you did, don’t panic or change your links yet. I’m working on replacing the site that was at www.the-frame.com (which I hadn’t updated for like two years) with something a bit more up-to-date, but it may involve moving this blog–I was testing the exporting/importing function today. It may move to the jandysmeanderings subdomain, or I may just put it at the base www.the-frame.com URL. I’m still playing with my host and figuring out what’s going to work the best. Not to mention playing with WordPress themes to find something I can use as a CMS (as opposed to something that looks like a blog). I found one I like a lot, but trying to modify the code to let me center the whole layout–it’s left-justified now, which I think looks stupid–stymied me. Anyone conversant enough in CSS and PHP to help me fix it?

It’s always dangerous to advertise upcoming posts because I run the risk of not following through, but do expect June’s book and movie recap within the next day or two, and a rundown of what looks interesting on the fall TV schedule. Plus SYTYCD videos, and maybe some excerpts from the Australian Idol auditions. I’m not even kidding when I emphasize how different (and probably better) Australian Idol is going to be from American Idol this year–in the first audition episode, ALL of the contestants sent on to Sydney were singer-songwriter types; not a typical pop voice among them. I’ll get back into doing Music Mondays one of these weeks, but it may not be this week. I haven’t had time (or broadband access) to check out any new music lately; if I did Music Monday this week, it would probably be All Beatles All The Time, since I listened to them almost nonstop both on the way to St. Louis and on the way home.

Some of you may already have noticed that I have put a “Shared Items” widget in my sidebar; basically what it does is show my “shared posts” from Google Reader, which I’m currently using as my RSS feed reader. These are articles or posts that I came across in my subscriptions that I thought were interesting. If I find something really interesting or that I have any comments about, I’ll still make a separate post in the shorts section (or the main blog if, you know, I have a LOT of comments), but I thought this might be a way to share a little bit of my feed-reading activities with the rest of y’all.

Also, I just added the ability to subscribe to comments via e-mail on every post. Now there’s a check box below the comment box on every post asking if you want to subscribe to the comments. If you check it (whether or not you leave a comment), you will get subsequent comments e-mailed to you. This can be helpful if you want to know whether I’ve replied to you without checking the post constantly (I try to reply promptly, but I’m not always as good about it as I should be), or if you’re interested to see if anyone else comments and what they say. You can also do this by using a comments tracker like co.mments (which you can easily do using the “track and bookmark” icon on each post), but more ways to do things is usually good.

Finally, I’m sorry I haven’t updated the music player in FOREVER. The plugin I use for it is a little unwieldy when it comes to updating the playlist…I’ve been looking for another option and haven’t been successful yet. I’m going to try to have a little more fun with music, though, by offering a few tracks each week that I’m either really into or have found recently on mp3blogs. I shall call this…Music Monday. Because alliteration is fun. I shall also try to post the Trailer Watch on Thursdays so I can call it….Trailer Thursday! I thought about doing Tech Tuesday, but if I held tech news over for up to a week, it would be old by the time I posted it–tech news ages reaaally quickly on the internets. And I want do so some sort of recurring Film Guide thing, showcasing specific directors or genres or movements and stuff, but to keep with the alliteration that would have to be Film Friday, and I’m not sure I can guarantee to get that done before the weekend; at least, not with the level of quality I’d hope to achieve. Anyway, it’s dangerous to say things about what I’m planning to do, because then I look like a doofus if I don’t do it. That’s part of why I’m doing it, though…maybe the fear of being a doofus will motivate me to actually follow through on these planned postings. So hold me to it, people.

Oh, and also, Abby and Jennifer tagged me for the “7 Things You Might Not Know About Me” meme…I’m working on it, I swear. I’ve just only thought of five things so far that people probably wouldn’t know about me. When I think of two more, I’ll post it.