Experimenting with live journal

[watervole]

LJ tends not to like my dear old Acorn on occasion, so we connected up Richard's
lap-top to see what we could play with on the paid account features. (and he got
to do the typing - smile.)

I'm trying this as an e-mail post as it's surprising how many times Lj dies on
me when I'm posting directly (I've learnt to put any moderately long posts as a
file and upload the file - otherwise I can't face retyping them)

I think I've managed to set up two friends groups - a small one for when the
shoulder is bad, and a larger one for when I want to read more people.

I finally manged to get the best friends meme to work on a different machine.

kerravonsen is my best friend with 12 interests in common, closely
followed by dougs, the_magician and yonmei with 10 each. I guess it's not surprising that I'd already
included them all in my smaller friends group. There was actually a strength of
correlation that surprised even me. All my friends with more than 4 interests
in common were people I'd put in the smaller group. All those with 4 or less
were in the larger group.

I also did some searching to see if there are any LJ users in Dorset with
similar interests. It's a pity you can't search on all interests, but even
searching on just a couple of single interests brought up a couple of
potentially interesting people. I may even try contacting one or two.

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

*Sniffle* We have eight interests in common (and for some reason I hadn't listed bdsm and tarot cards on mine, so that makes ten)! Now you *need* to add me;).

Speaking of paid account features, I'm working on a Blake mood theme. Setting one up is a pain in the carpal tunnels, though, but just wanted to give you a note in case you can make Richard set it up instead;).

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what a mood theme is...

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

When you're browsing your friendslist you may see little icons indicating the poster's current mood. I have a set of Avon faces as my mood theme at the moment. When viewing my journal you may see a few examples of the moods... :) I'd love to do a Blake one, as I'm getting a bit bored with Avon.

[kerravonsen]

The "best friend" meme didn't work for me, as I seem to have less interests in common with my close personal friends than I have with folks that I've put on my flist because I know them from a particular fandom (the person who matched as "best friend" is one the Tomorrow People fans on the TP list I know, for example). Or maybe it's just that I've put too many interests in my interests -- having 12 interests in common with you, but I had 32 interests in common with this other person... (shrugs)

The "email" option of a paid account is almost enough to tempt me to get one...