One Abnormal Girl

Expect more mundane things from this blog, because I feel like using it more now, for example to express how much I want the new phone that I can order in 10 days. Blackberry, it’s been fun, but Android is named after one of my favorite things and it wants to be my friend.

I’m also moving my fic back to Livejournal, because though it took me a long time to face it, fanfiction is a Livejournal thing. So all that will be on arcapelago.  That will free up this journal for blathering.  Blather.

Now that I feel I covered the important things, I can move on to how much my music collection upsets me.  I like the music in it, but I hate how difficult it is to put together a playlist.  I want songs that are similar to each other to be easy to find, but tagging things by genre really isn’t enough.  (I can’t put things in genre categories anyway, so trying to organize my collection is like a dog trying to sort laundry.)  If I liked a narrower range of music, it wouldn’t be so hard.  Or maybe if I studied music theory, it would be more clear.  But more and more I feel like I need to sort music by mood because I don’t care if a Josh Groban song starts mingling with Linkin Park as long as the mood is the same.  But that can’t take the place of genre entirely–uugh.

Anybody with a similar neurosis find a solution to this problem?  I just need some categories that I can stick to–that all of my current collection can be sorted into without my having to wonder if something is Rock or Alternative.  UGH.  Back to theorizing.

When I first found Blinklist, it was pretty fantastic, and boasted a lot of improvements over the bookmarking giant Del.icio.us.  By now, however, the greatest of those improvements (the ability to mark certain bookmarks as private) has already been incorporated, and all Blinklist has over Del.icio.us is an easy-to-type domain.  But my real concern here, as I was never tempted to use Del.icio.us before, is that Blinklist has become almost unusable.  It feels as though its developers have left it behind: the Firefox add-on hasn’t been updated in years, there have been no major changes aside from the removal of some useful features, and the service itself is majorly unreliable.  Even when the service is up and responding, I can’t trust it to hold on to the link I just submitted to it.  Blinklist is becoming less and less usable.

This leads me to either Del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia.  The former is no-frills but simple; the latter is gorgeous but socially complicated.  There’s no requirement to use all the social tools that Ma.gnolia boasts, but just having them there makes me feel like I’m not living up to its standards.  So despite the fact that Del.icio.us can’t seem to overcome its infatuation with pre-Windows-95 underscores, and forces me to un-private every single link I just imported, I’m choosing Del.icio.us.  So begins the edit of all 644 of my links.