Jane's Journal

With the sanctions towards Russia and the Russian propaganda machine running overtime, I'm taking steps to preserve the entries in this journal... just in case.
Livejournal is after all, owned by a Russian company and although I've never been particularly worried about privacy (You shouldn't be posting on the internet about things that shouldn't be on the internet!) there's always a possibility that someone decides the sanctions against Russia should be increased or the access to the global internet for Russian-based things should stop.

I started this blog 20 years ago, and that's a lot of data to manually download. Luckily, Dreamwidth has a little tool to help me. While I'm typing this update, the script is busy importing my icons, friends, tags and entries into https://janestarz.dreamwidth.org/
As far as I know, people using an OpenID and are on my friends list here on Livejournal will be able to keep track there as well, as OpenID is also imported.
Photos hosted on Livejournal will not copy over though, and some of my user icons will be lost. I have a permanent Livejournal account, and that has come with some perks in the past. I'm not going to be spending that kind of cash on Dreamwidth before I'm sure I want to keep using it.

For now, my blog entries are safe. Be sure to bookmark the link above, and let me know if you've got a Dreamwidth account I should add on my friends list too!

Apparantly the hostname has already been switched to the new IP address we've been given. This means our mail server is no longer receiving e-mails.

HINT: This is a good time to not send mail to my @janestarzdotcom adresses anymore.

I have these wonderful marvellous business cards. I've had them printed at Moo with some of my photo's after a tip from woran.
Now Moo, who sends me a witty Moosletter every now and then, has an offer. If I refer a friend and they print something, I get perks. Yay for perks!

I love Moo, because they're funny and they do lovely things with design. If you're a photographer, you get to upload pictures and they divide the set (of 100 or 200) so you have a few of each of these. But they do some more standard designs as well. Rounded corners too!
A personal business card just says so much more about you, and you can re-design the back of the card to show whatever you want (the Amazon adress for your book, your e-mail address, your twitter feed...)

They don't just do business cards, but greeting cards, postcards and sticker books as well.
Click here! for some of the lovely Moo business cards, mini cards etc. and get a 10% discount on your first order!

Moo also had an offer for About.me: if you created a profile at About.me you'd get a free set of business cards. In the interest of networking, creating a portfolio etc. it never hurts to be easily found
The best part about About.me is that you can add your other social media as links to your page. Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr, Facebook etc. And the designs for your own page are pretty awesome. It's a great place to start to know someone.

Here's my About Me!
I'll have to build it to something more, but it's a good start for now.

And this concludes our advertising for today.

Aangezien Patrick het gisteren op het Maerquin forum gezet heeft en nieuws en roddels nu eenmaal vlammetjes met beentjes zijn, zal ik het hier ook maar aankondigen. De kogel is door de kerk, de beslissing is gemaakt: We stoppen met Dolle Griet.

2009 is, eerlijk gezegd, een rotjaar geweest voor zowel Ragar als mij. Ik heb problemen gehad met mijn gezondheid waardoor ik een tijd niet kon werken (of naaien) en het herstel is nog steeds bezig. Ook Patrick heeft genoeg aan zijn hoofd op dit moment. Het is tijd om te stoppen.

We hebben in de laatste paar jaren Dolle Griet opgebouwd vanaf nul, met een beetje eigen geld, wat simpele gereedschappen en een hoop enthousiasme. De laaste anderhalf jaar zaten we met het bedrijf tegen een glazen plafond aan. Ga je full-time, of niet? Vragen als "is er een markt voor" en "kunnen we een winkel betalen" zijn heel moeilijk te beantwoorden. We kwamen tot de conclusie dat door het glazen plafond breken bijna niet te doen was.
Life happened. Mijn werk, overwerk, en Dolle Griet als bedrijf zetten de stoom op de ketel. Opdrachten en deadlines begonnen stress op te leveren. Als er zoveel tegelijk gebeurt, moet je even terugschakelen en sinds begin dit jaar heb ik maar heel sporadisch dingen genaaid voor Dolle Griet. Uiteindelijk zijn we tot de conclusie gekomen dat we er mee gaan stoppen.

Vreemd genoeg heeft deze beslissing zoveel ademruimte opgeleverd dat ik weer inspiratie en energie te over heb om mooie dingen te naaien voor de Midwinterfair. Dit wordt onze laatste beurs, en omdat we gaan stoppen beloven we naast mooie kleding ook mooie kortingen. Kom ons dan ook vooral opzoeken op de Midwinterfair op 12 en 13 december in het Archeon in Alphen aan den Rijn!

Tot slot nog een kort citaat van onze vrienden van Elegast, die ook te gast zullen zijn in het Archeon op de zondag. "Niets is definitief. Je kunt altijd besluiten om het weer op te pakken."

As you may have heard, we're busy setting up Dolle Griet Events. I'm working very hard on my first Rulesystem and am writing specifications.

For these specifications, I sure could use a hand. I need people who are willing to tell me, from whatever point of view they have, what they would like to do. The only thing you would need to do is try and imagine the situation.
You don't have to be an IT-wiz, you don't have to be a roleplayer. You could be anyone, anywhere.

How it will work?
* Anyone willing to participate will be entering with their name and a valid e-mail address. The e-mail addresses and names will be confidential, and only the DGE GM's will know who is helping.
* I will be coördinating this, so I will be sending you an e-mail - with all e-mail addresses in the BCC field for privacy - with a question. This question can be as simple as "Name one enemy you'd like to see in a larp or a movie that you think will be interesting", but it could also be "What spells do you wish you could use" or something more technical.
* The e-mails will only contain one question or case at a time, and there will be time in between e-mails so I can work with the results, so it's not like I will spam you from here to Genoa.

The key to this is imagination. I will set a reference, give you a case within which the question can work. All you have to do is imagine what you can do with it, within it, without it, outside it and e-mail it back to me.

I will work with your comments, try to make them work within my setting, and see what you come up with. I hope your ideas will surprise me. I think you can show me what things we'd really need to build into our setting.

If you want, your name will be added to the Many Thanks To page for the event you're brainstorming for.

If you want to participate, send an e-mail to annet [ape] dolle-griet [dud] com and I'll add you to the list of Santa's Little Helpers. Please include your name or nickname and country of residence so I know who you are.

Thanks!

Boeren, burgers en buitenlui,

Op maandag 12 mei word ik 26 jaar oud. Dit heuglijke feit zou ik graag met jullie vieren op:

Zondag 11 mei

Je bent welkom tusen 10 en 20 uur. Wil je mee blijven eten, geef dit dan even aan; je bent natuurlijk welkom. In principe houden we de latere avond vrij van bezoek maar wie weet hoe gezellig het wordt. Zowel familie als vrienden zijn uitgenodigd op deze dag.

Een kadootje is niet nodig, maar je maakt me altijd blij met een boekenbon of een cdbon!

( Het adres nog een keertje: )

Hopelijk tot de 11e!

Annet

This afternoon my mother, Luc, NoKey and myself will check into the De Ampt van Nijkerk, a hotel near de Veluwe. Look at all the forest nearby!

We will probably
- visit my grandmother
- use the hotel's sauna and swimming pool extensively
- go to Enschede to Dragonheart
- and have loads of sex rest.

We'll be back on Monday, and I am very glad I have Tuesday off as well!

Morgen ben ik er niet. Ook niet op mijn mobiel.

vr 26 oktober
06.52: Het is Volle Maan.
13.50: De Maan is in het perigeum^*) van zijn baan, op een afstand van 356753 km van de Aarde. De Maan lijkt nu dus groot: 33'29,7".

^*)perigeum: Het punt van de elliptische baan van de Maan of een satelliet, dat het dichtst bij de Aarde ligt. Wanneer de Maan in het perigeum staat, staat deze dichter bij en heeft een grotere schijnbare diameter. (Gr.: peri: (dicht)bij, Gaia: Aarde).

Bron: Sonnenborgh.nl

Livejournal doesn't seem to be e-mailing me comments, or Yahoo is not working (again, second time this week). My replying to comments might take a while.

If I'm needed desperately you can e-mail me at janestarz at my website (you know, janestarz.com).

Those of you who fail to have found a friend or anyone else willing to donate credit card money or an invitation code with which you can buy pron enter the fantastic realm of Livejournalling, pay special attention.
Livejournal has gotten rid of the 'invite codes', which means that free (and limited, blast them to deadjournal realms) accounts can be obtained by any and all of you.

Now, I myself have a free account, which enables me to have my own journal online, with reliable archives and all the nifty mood icons. It does not allow me to have more than 3 user pics (which is good, otherwise I'd be in a dilemma which one to use for THIS post), but it works really well.

Still not convinced? Well, for all you pervy hobbit fanciers, consider the following.
"This livejournal is mostly friends-only" my userinfo says. And it's true, in a way. Some of my more perverse interesting activities are in fully detailed descriptions, which can only be read if you are on my friends list.
Thus, by getting a LJ account, befriending me, and hoping you get befriended back, you might be able to read all the gory details of my life. (I love the power)

Main objective is ofcourse mr.Finn, who has so adequately joined the ranks of Deadjournal (and thus, misses all of the action), but anyone is welcome to join and try to break through in the realms of my friends list [insert eerie music here].