Finger pointing and the blame game

[azurite]

Ugh, I hate all the political-based responses to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The representative for the White House keeps accusing this one MSNBC/Newsweek reporter that he was finger pointing and playing the blame game (his exact words, repeated to infinity). The guy was only asking a yes-or-no question. -_-; Then again, I'm biased because I'm a journalist-in-training, I guess. Mamono, what are your thoughts on recent coverage?

Well, if it seems/feels like (on my end, anyway) that I've been dead, it's because I've been trying to get my new Dell Inspiron 6000 to work... to no avail. I upgraded to Win XP Pro the night I got the laptop, but apparently something went wrong in the install, and since I didn't buy the Pro from Dell, I have to reformat and reinstall the Home OS, and then bug Microsoft for help regarding the XP Pro upgrade. I won't have to reinstall much:
* Firefox (bookmarks, extensions, themes)
* Thunderbird (old email -still on this comp- and account settings)
* LimeWire
* iTunes 5
* Winamp

Also, no one from betasquad has said yay or nay to my idea of having a website/forum (something I originally proposed to nekokilala), which kind of bums me out. I have tons of 30kisses claims to catch up on, and I'm wondering if there might be an easier way of letting svelterose update when I'm not available.

I want to post WDKY18 --tonight, if possible, now that it's pretty smoothed out. I'm spending so much time (or what FEELS like a lot of time) at school, studying, at work (ugh, especially tomorrow!) and trying to clean up my room (I got most of the closest sorted out; now I have to put my desk papers and such together). The comp is running strangely slow right now (great, just what I need), so I'm going to finish this entry, install the latest Java in the hopes that it'll fix my future Apple.com downloads, and restart. More later, perhaps.

Comments

[svelterose.livejournal.com]

We can just create a community that's exclusively used by the adminstrators/moderators and replace the 30kisses info links with those?

I think...

[azurite]

So if I created something like 30kisses_updates or thereabouts, I could give you mod access to it, and I could move the Claims post (linked on the Info page and in the Memories) there, and you could edit...? Or... *scratches head* The thing is, even if you are a mod of a community, you can't edit a post you didn't make. So I'm not sure how to go about doing it. We could always post the claims on the User Info page, though.

Re: I think...

[svelterose.livejournal.com]

By the LJ user of 30kisses_updates, I mean that we would all have access to the main account thereby, allowing us to edit the posts made by that account. It wouldn't be a community where we all post but rather, an account we could all access under that username.

But I like the User Info page better because it's much less hassle. ^_^ My vote for the User Info page.