My mummy is wonderful!

[nenya_kanadka]

I babysat for her (which, oddly, involved Tetris on her cellphone) and she paid for my Livejournal account! *squeeees*

This, friends and countrypersons and aliens from afar, is definitely categorizable as gleee. I get all fifteen shiny pictures! Less angst over which icons to choose! I notice that a lot of them are dark backgrounds at the moment. Does this say something about me?! But they are also about half pretty and/or cute and/or cheerful subjects, too.

This, of course, means that not all the icons I posted the other day are up for grabs, but since I have gotten a total of one request for icon use, I doubt that will be a problem. (mylittleredgirl and elvenriver, however, made my day by both using the icons I made for them! Are you two conspiring behind my back, or is that just a universally appreciated avatar-making program?)

Went to see HP3 (Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban) tonight. Oddly, for such a title, it was less dark than The Chamber of Secrets. As you may or may not know, I'm not really a Harry Potter fan. Haven't really read the books, have concerns about its use of magic, tend to prefer LOTR (though, as we all know, they're not mutually exclusive fan-wise). But I've seen all the movies to-date, once each, and they're actually rather decent entertainment. I liked this latest one best. Maybe because it involved time-travel, and I'm a sucker for time-travel stories. But I also liked Remus Lupin, and thought it sucked that he left in the end. My friend tells me that he makes another appearance later in the series, so that's good. Peter Pettigrew was creepy. Rather liked Trelawney/Emma Thompson, and once again, Snape is Teh Sex. Odd, that, since I don't usually go for the dark gothic characters. But Alan Rickman is superb--fell in love with Colonel Brandon, hugged "Dr. Lazarus" in Galaxy Quest. Damn, but now I understand the Snape-lusters! Harry, Hermione, and Ron were great--good character development for Harry, some funny moments, and good close friendship. I liked the special effects...Sirius on train rocked especially. And snarky, ego-but-no-spine Draco was a nice change from fanon!Draco.

Well, must to bed. Opera (my lovely shiny browser with mouse "gestures") has this horrid habit of crashing in the middle of complex posts. At least this time I'd saved most of it in a copy-n-paste. Share my joy!

Comments

[brainache.livejournal.com]

I really liked this third HP film, it was much darker i thought, and dirrected much better.

Also, about the browser, i tried Opera for a little while, it looked good and did lots of stuff, i just never really liked it all that much. I cant put my finger on why, i just never did.

Atm i use FireFox which i adore to bits. One of the good things is that the basic browser is really basic, but it lets you add "extensions" so that you can get it to act exactly how you want. There is one for mouse gestures, and lots of other too. It give you the links in the browser. But anyway, i really like it. Its adictive. The downside is that it means it take a while before you get the browser exactly how you want, but it means that when it is done, its perfect for what you want. You can skin it and stuff, so it looks like IE and it does Tabbed browsing as well.

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[nenya_kanadka]

Sounds good--I shall keep it in mind. At the moment, the main problem I have with Opera is that when I have to use another computer with IE or something on it, I confuse myself. Keep trying to use the gestures and stuff. But I love the fact that I can turn off popup ads. If I get another browser ever, that will have to be an option.

[brainache.livejournal.com]

Yeah, firefox comes with a Popup blocker built in. I think you have to download an extension called "Tabben Browsing" and it means taht it will open everything in new tabs. Instead of the windows. And there is the "Adblock" extension to firefox, which means that you can set it to block Images by their URL, so for example, the filter stops everything with "ad" and "banner" and "doubleclick" in the title.

It means that you get like 1% of banners on websites. And it doesnt have the evil adverts that Opera does.

[woodface]

I'm glad you liked Lupin, he's my favourite character in the books. Oddly enough, I'm not all too fond of the Lupin in the movie. The actor sadly enough really didn't coincide with the image I had of him. *sigs*

[nenya_kanadka]

I thought he was rather cute, but a little too twitchy and nervous (especially later, after the train scene). I have no frame of reference, really, though, having not read the books. Liked his mentoring of Harry, and was glad he didn't turn out to be a bad guy in the end (well, except for the werewolf thing, which he can't exactly control). Scariest werewolf transistion scene, though.

[woodface]

Well, that's pretty much how he is in the book too. He's really kind and good to Harry but there is some suspicion around him because they don't know he's a werewolf.

*sighs* I love Lupin. *makes note to reread the PoA*

[elvenriver.livejournal.com]

for some reason the avatar is now running in my window as a flash program so i can't get the pictures out of there once i make them. grrrr.......

[nenya_kanadka]

Ahh. The best way to save pictures from there (or, at least, the way we've been doing it) is to use the "printscreen" button and paste into Paint. To use for LJ icons, have to resize the picture in something besides Paint, though.

[elvenriver.livejournal.com]

grrrr....paint is the only pic program i have.

[nenya_kanadka]

H'mmmm. Paint is the only graphics program that comes with Windows, right? Mum has one called "Microsoft Picture-It" (which is rather annoying but useful for some things like resizing stuff) but I don't know where she got it from. Maybe you can get a free program online or something, if you think it is worth it.

Or you could email things to me....

[quietlybemused.livejournal.com]

BOO! Made ya look!