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Insta-rec: [livejournal.com profile] matociquala is serializing her novella Lucifugous on the Subterranean Press site, which I finally settled in to read this morning, and yum. If you like Sherlock Holmes eta: on consideration, I change my mind! Agatha Christie instead! or vampires or zeppelins, I highly recommend; heaps of slashy Victorian fun. It's currently up to Chapter 4.

Meanwhile, I raise my arms in victory! \o/ The Yuletide stories of the day post worked perfectly today (finally), totally automatically and on its own! woo! Hopefully now it will run steadily along until October. (How much do I love that we're already up to 16 NYR stories?)

Hugs and thanks to the anonymous pal who sent me the virtual gingerbread man for Yuletide -- I love him with his little broken-off head, hee. And seriously, thank you all -- it really felt like any time we were running around going off our heads, someone would say something cheering and encouraging, and we would get a nice happy glow.

I also have some super-fun icons from [livejournal.com profile] elke_tanzer to share with anyone who would enjoy them! ♥



(Elke's post here has the attribs to the original photographers.)



I have been mucking around some more with the del.icio.us recs script that I posted the other day, and have made it more generically useful -- you can now use it to offer multiple sets of recommendations based on whatever tags you name, and it will try and do author/fandom searching if you tag in the right format. Here you can see the revised version in action (the style has been customized to fit into my website, the default is still generic):

Recs by astolat

I've left the link to the script source the same just so it doesn't break for anyone who linked the last version, although I've renamed my own to "delicious_recs.cgi" instead of "yuletide_on_delicious.cgi", since I'm now using it more generally.

There is also code in the script that will figure out authors/fandoms if you have them bundled up on delicious, but sadly, it doesn't work unless you have a more recent version of the Net::Delicious module installed than Dreamhost does (I have an upgrade request in to support, which anyone else could feel free to second :D) If you *do* have that more recent version, or if it gets upgraded, that feature will just magically begin to work. Me, I am too lazy to go back and rename all my fandom tags, cough, so I am just going to wait, but in the meantime, the tag format is there for anyone who wants it.
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Okay, now I REALLY love del.icio.us. Hugs to [livejournal.com profile] winkyb and [livejournal.com profile] lim for pointing me to lots of helpful del.icio.us customization links. I now have a shiny exciting page of nicely formatted Yuletide recs, which dynamically updates as new links are added, yay.

Yuletide Recs by astolat from del.icio.us (currently 22 in 21 fandoms).

The script that generates this page is available for anyone to use if you have your own webspace -- there are instructions at the top for setting it up. If your yuletide recs are tagged "yuletide2006" it will grab them all, sort them by the remaining tags (so if you tag with the fandom name first, they will sort on fandom), and list them with your tags and notes.

This requires a perl module called Net::Delicious which is pre-installed on dreamhost, and the script works fine for me on there; other ISPs may also have it installed or be willing to install it for you. (Sorry, I can't help with install problems. I just toss it out for whatever it is worth. :)

If you do set it up -- or hey, if you have a different yuletide recs page for that matter -- I suggest tagging it "yuletiderecpage" on delicious, so we can surf them all easily. :)

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