News From Heaven.

[curiouswombat]

Just a wee note to say that, despite lack of sleep caused by me tossing and turning and disturbing him, speakr2customrs has done all the complicated coding type stuff so that my Willow/Tara/other people Christmas story is now on The Wombatzone corner of his website. So if you want to read it without all the LJ stuff around it, it is here in nice easy to read print on pale blue -

News From Heaven

He has also spent much of his day off transfering my e-mail files and bookmarked files etc. over to the new computer, so it is beginning to feel like mine now.

The cat has just ventured over to rub himself on it, and try it out as a cat bed, so it is becoming properly established in the household. S2C has grabbed my camera and bravely taken a picture of this(bravely, because he has trouble relating to cameras - even though the digital is really just a little computer really!) - I'll get it from camera to journal tomorrow!

Comments

[gillo]

You have such a lovely man.
But you knew that.
You trained him, after all.
*g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

He is very useful for all the computer related stuff...not to mention changing car tyres, and being very good at putting on the clothes washing (and taking it from the washing machine and sorting out for drying)! All in all an excellent husband indeed!

[gillo]

Mine is quite a bargain too, but lacks the Spuffy respect you have in yours...

[caegey.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely story and usually i can't stand post-season 4 willow.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I guess I tried to find a way to take her back to be the person she should have become without S5-7!

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

I missed "News from Heaven" the first time around and have just read it now - beautiful, just beautiful. I got sniffly...

It had seemed sort of natural, like connecting two bits of a computer, and when he went she missed him.
I really, really loved that analogy - so Willow! The natural and the electronic. Perfect.

You captured Tara just as I always think of her - that gentleness and strength.

One technical issue: the formatting showed up wrong in my browser (Firefox) - all the punctuation marks that Word autoformats (like long dashes, smart quote marks, ellipses etc) were replaced by question marks. I've had this trouble when pasting stuff from word into an HTML document, and the only solution I've found is to manually replace all the affected marks.

Anyway, that's a trifling problem. Beautiful story.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad that you liked that analogy - it seemed Willow to me when I thought of it!

Thanks for pointing out the punctuation glitch - I'll get S2C to check the coding - it looks fine to me when I go to it. It could be because I use Internet Explorer - but as S2C uses Firefox himself, you'd have thought if it was odd he would have noticed - weird.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

I don't have the most up-to-date version of Mozilla, so maybe they've fixed this issue for newer versions. Or maybe it's something to do with downloaded symbol sets... or maybe I'm hexed!

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

It shouldn't have had any auto-formatted characters in it anyway after being saved as plain text and, as CW said, I use Firefox myself and there's nothing wrong with in on my browser. I've redone it entirely as plain text in Wordpad just to make certain, and it hasn't made any difference whatsoever to how it appears to me in either Firefox or IE6.

How do the other stories on the site look to you? Some of the Roxyverse stories were done by auto-converting to html through Word but for all the straight Buffyverse ones, both mine and CWs, I used Word as a text editor but did the html myself and saved them as plain text files.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

I've just had a look, going through links from the updates page. Some pages display fine:

http://www.speaker-to-customers.me.uk/buffyverse/aa.htm
http://www.speaker-to-customers.me.uk/buffyverse/sp6.htm

Most of the others have the question mark problem.

This page (http://www.speaker-to-customers.me.uk/buffyverse/sp6.htm) is interesting - quote marks, ellipses etc display fine for some entries, but are replaced with question marks on others. The quote marks for the episode names in the summaries of Aftermath and Danging In The Moonlight are both affected, as is some of the punctuation in the disclaimer box at the end - presumably the copyright symbol, which is replaced by a question mark before both sets of copyright years.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

That was incredibly quick - you replied before I actually uploaded the revised "News From Heaven" page, as although I'd recoded it I'd forgotten to do that last vital stage! You should see that page better now as I've replaced all auto-formatted quotation marks with the “ etc codings. I can't do anything about the elipses and long dashes.

The two that you say are fine are actually both ones that I wrote in LiveJournal originally rather than Word, and they display to me with vertical quote marks rather than left or right leaning ones.

It took me a while to work out which page you meant by the 'interesting' one - your link leads to Sunnydale Passions 6 - but I worked out that it's the Index of Drabbles. Most of that has vertical quotation marks rather than leaning ones.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

And LiveJournal obscured my meaning there by reading the html "&ld quo;" as a “ rather than quoting it.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

It took me a while to work out which page you meant by the 'interesting' one - your link leads to Sunnydale Passions 6
Sorry, my head's a bit all over the place at the moment. As are my tagging skills. It was indeed the drabble index that I meant.

The News From Heaven page looks better now, but yes, the dot dot dots and dashes still aren't displaying properly. Feh, I probably just need to update Firefox.

I always think of the critter in your icon as a firefox.

[averageshmoe.livejournal.com]

I like pieces like these, short background stories to larger works. Would you please consider doing some more about the other Sunnydale survivors between 'Chosen' and 'Ten Years . . '. Not necessarily the Scoobies or the Slayerets but people like Dawn's friends and Clem. It's a fantastic little means of showing how life goes on in the Jossverse even in the absence of Buffy.

Lovely little piece.

pgavigan

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have been wondering about Clem....

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

It's always nice - refreshing, even! - to know other people who speak well about their spouses. I've never liked the snarky way of talking about one's husband or wife that's so popular.

(PS - imagine my embarrassment at finding the Christmas card I'd meant to send you still waiting for postage. Sometimes it's amazing I manage to get out the door in the morning!)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We can get snarky at each other at times! But on the whole I don't really have any real reasons to complain - I am very fortunate.

And re the card - that sounds so much like something I would do! I can be so disorganized that S2C wonders how I manage to hold down a responsible job!

If you want a good tip on how to keep it till next year and find it at the right time, I used to put all the unused Christmas cards into the storage box with the Tree decorations. Now they have their own box, and get put onto the same shelf as the decorations.