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To crosspost or not to crosspost, that is the question. At the moment, current thoughts I've seen around are putting me in favour of 'not', which is unexpected to me. But, you see, I'd like all discussion to be in one place. So perhaps I'll have one journal as fannish, one as RL, or something. I don't know. I'll wait and see what seems to work once the "Ooh, shiny!' has worn off a little.

So, anyhow, not crossposted for the moment. Also, because the cuts thing doesn't go through, and I can't access LJ to correct posts until I get home.

This weekend I went to the Wychwood brewery. "Hi, welcome, come in and have a beer," is a good way to start a tour. I learnt all about the brewing process, smelled hops, tasted malt in the various stages of roasting, and figured out that I don't particularly like stout for the same reasons I don't like burnt toast. The malt for stout is basically roasted until burnt (then soaked in water and turned into mash, etc etc) – it's the acrid, burnt flavour that I've never liked. They had some lovely old equipment – a gigantic, wood and shiny brass mash tun, a red-painted cast-iron... thingy, some huge, smelly fermentation tanks with yeast happily bubbling out...

We had a beer testing, and it was all very lovely stuff. English beer – the sort that I always used to avoid because I thought room-temperature beer was a disgusting concept. But it's really not! It's a lot more real, and individual – you can identify the ingredients. It's very... wholesome. Gives you a hellacious hangover, though.

So I came out smelling like a brewery, natch. And having tasted, I inevitably ended up buying a fair amount of it. And a T-shirt. And a bottle-opener shaped like a goblin. Then we went to a pub – for the very sensible reason of getting my dad some lunch and a coffee so he would be okay to drive us home. (He'd only had the testers, which equated to maybe a pint, so he'd probably have been legal, but he prefers to be cautious, for which I'm grateful.) I had a risotto with asparagus, a pint of cider, and some sticky toffee pudding. Mmm. And then I went home and slept like I was concussed. Oof.

Question: can you see the pictures on my journal? I can see them on my home computer, and not on my work one. Navigation is very difficult when they're not there. The most obvious one to check is the dotted banner all along the top.

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Such a pretty style! Which one is it? Something you did yourself?

As for pictures, I see your default icon in the corner and the icon for the post and a nice pattern as a header, but not other pictures.

I know what you mean about wanting comments in all one place. I can't imagine, say, crossposting a canon vs. fanon without at least directing comments to one journal or the other. Half the fun of those are the discussions, so what's the point of splitting it? Still not sure what to do, although I'm leaning strongly towards LJ at the moment - most people, after all, are still there.

It's one I got from something Nanda linked to recently (by grrliz on thefulcrum) - I've been playing about with the styles thing, learning more - fun! I have more of an idea of what I want to do with it, once I have a camera to take some decent close-up pictures, and how to go about customizing it in-depth.

Glad you can see it. It's not so much pictures as graphics - so there should be a blue bar behind the #comments etc bit, dots behind the calender dates where I've made posts, that sort of thing. If you can see the header, though, you should probably be seeing all of it, and it's just an issue with this computer (which wouldn't surprise me). Oh, or possibly it's an issue with Internet Explorer... must check that out when I get home...

Yeah, exactly - the chatting in comments is half the fun of blogging. DW is more convenient when it comes to joining in from other blog sites, but LJ has more people. Eh.

I can see all that just fine on my Mac, FWIW. Looks just the way it does on

thefulcrum.

Which IE do they make you use at work? She doesn't test for 6. (Which you probably know, but just in case.)

I love that pepper icon, btw. It makes me smile.

Oh, no, I didn't know that. I have... *checks*... ahahaaa, IE6. Of course. They have a knack of choosing just the programme or version I don't want. That's a pain, but still, this is just an interim scheme.

And hee, ta! I have a whole pepper theme planned, based around the stuff I know how to edit on the stuff from thefulcrum. *g*

If you have the navbar on, you can just click "light style" on your entries when you're at work. Which you also probably know.

And hee, ta! I have a whole pepper theme planned, based around the stuff I know how to edit on the stuff from thefulcrum. *g*

AWESOME.

Oh, hey, no - didn't know that, either! Or rather, I'd forgotten it. Never underestimate the depths of my ignorance or the shallowness of my memory. *g*

My internets is still capped *woe* so I'm surfing sans images at the moment. But the colours are pretty!

My layout is also from thefulcrum :D

I don't know about the crossposting yet either. I mentioned on Jenn's DW (on the same topic) that I'm thinking of maybe doing a monthly link roundup post so people who are only on one service don't have to scroll through reams of double posts.

I like the pretty colours, but they're not ideal without the background images - unclicked comments etc are practically invisible. I just need to tweak the colours (which I can do, yaaaaay!) so it's viewable without images, too - when I decide on a final layout, I'll do that. When I have time...

And hee, yes, I recognised your layout when I saw it on there. :D

Oh, link roundup, now that's an interesting idea. Hm...

There's an opportunity now to make a complete change to posting habits, and find something else that's more convenient.

Your pics show up quite well on IE7. :-) I liked this theme a lot, actually, and considered snurching it.

The tour sounds expensive but cool.

Wasn't actually that expensive - it's only a tiny brewery, so it was like £6. Oh, but yes, it's expensive if you're counting the beer and T-shirt and bottle opener... Dang.

:)

Yeah, I have IE7 at home, and it's fine on that. Damn work and their damn stupid not-letting-me-download-Firefox.