Fractured Thoughts

My assignment for the hlh_shortcuts secret santa fic exchange was in my inbox this morning :0). I can definintely work with that, I have a plotbunnies already hatching (apparently plotbunnies unlike other bunnies are not mammalian but are reptilian, amphibian or maybe avian... hmm bunnies with wings, that would explain why they keep flying off).

Sorry moving on from the poor stretched metaphor now. Should be fun to write I think and I can hardly wait to read them all... except then I would have no time to write mine so it's good that it's still a little way off.

Everything has been changing over at delicious, where I keep my links/recs/bookmarks and many people are already deleting and moving on. I'm keeping my delicious account active (at least for now). They seem to be adding bits of the old functionality back everyday, so I'm sticking around to see how it looks in a few weeks and whether I think I can use it (though mine keeps switching between the old and new versions at the moment).

I am however already on Pinboard and Diigo (they both mirror my delicious account), if anyone wants to take a look. Pinboard is probably the best in terms of fandom because diigo automatically makes certain links private and doesn't allow certain tags, but it does charge a small one-off joining fee. Diigo does a lot of other highting and comments and various other bits I don't use so haven't really looked at, and Pinboard seems to be a more straightforward plain indexing system. It's easier to see who else has saved a link on Pinbard too and thus find similar bookmarks. If anyone wants a look at the sites in use or subscribe/follow/network/whatever I've put in links to my bookmarks below.

My Pinboard account
My diigo account

Don't know  how many people have already heard but a couple of people on my flist have mentioned that delicious is shutting down (linking to this site) whether this is definite, rumour or something in between I reckon backing up is a good  idea.... probablyshould have been doing that anyway (I have over 1000 bookmarks on delicious and would be extremely upset to lose them). You can export your bookmarks to an html file here. I also signed up for an alternative... as much like LJ and DW I like the idea of having a live backup if the site ever does go down. I picked  pinboard because it will import my delicious and lets me use the same tags etc but there are various other alternatives out there. One of my flist did a post discussing them here. 


Anyway in better news hlh_shortcuts continues to post... a story for me went up today, which was lovely... Many thanks to whoever wrote it, I don't have a clue who you are (I'm terrible at guessing) but it was great.
 
I haven't commented on any of the fics yet because I'm trying to work out the best way to dothat without giving away clues for people guessing. Last year I commentedon  everything I read, including on the one I wrote.... I may go with this strategie this yar though at the moment I'm planning to wait for the reveal (I doubt my patience will last that long). I will say though to all the authors that I've really enjoyed all the fics so far, slash, gen and het even if I don''t know all the crossover fandoms.