I feel like I'm on the wrong plane of existence today

[skoosiepants]

So is insanejournal the prefered exodus journal if anything happens to LJ? If you have one, I'd appreciate you either dropping me a line with your username or friending me over there - same name as here, I'm easy like that.

I've backed up both this journal and dirtytrousers with LJarchive, and I'm going to try and back up my communities, too, but those aren't as important.

Enough depressing news!

Um. I don't have anything else to say, though.

Except I had exceptionally vivid dreams last night, some about Mike Doughty, and one about Merlin who worked in a coffee shop with Jon Walker - it took on fic proportions, where Jon kept asking Merlin if he knew this guy (Arthur), sitting alone at a table, because when he ordered he had a funny accent like Merlin's, and Merlin kept insisting that not all British people knew each other, and then Jon was like, but you know Gwen, and Merlin just gives him this you're slightly dim, right, your mother dropped you on your head a lot look. And then I don't know what else happened. Wierd, weird dreams.

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[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

okay, I give up - I downloaded Semagic, but can't figure out how to add my insanejournal so I can post to that too?

[stele3.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

OKAY. I can help. :)

First of all, do you have AIM? I can walk you through it there...if not, I can do my best through email or commenting here.

[stele3.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Wait, wait, screw it, I *just* walked Zarah through this very process...I know I saved those emails...here we go!

I assume you've set up your LJ through Semagic, and that you've probably set it up to be Auto-Login and Remember Password, so that you breeze past the Login screen when you open Semagic. So you just need to repeat the process with your Insane Journal account. So, open Semagic.
It'll probably automatically log you in using your LJ username.
Go to Journal --> Logout. That should take you back to the login screen.
Erase the listed username, type in something like skoosiepants_ij (or your IJ name if it's not skoosiepants), to differentiate the username from your LJ login. For the password, type in your IJ password.
Make sure that Auto-Login and Remember Password boxes are both checked.
Go to File -->Server Settings.
Type www.insanejournal.com in the server box.
In the places where it says Username and Password, put in the username and password that you use to login to IJ. So whoever you are on IJ and then whatever your password is.

That means that while your SEMAGIC username for IJ will be skoosiepants_ij, the actual username you use to login will be skoosiepants just like on IJ, and both that username and your IJ password will be saved under the Semagic username that you assign to it. God, I hope that makes sense.
Click OK.
Click login.

That's it. That should set up the ability to post to Insanejournal on your Semagic account. So if you log out again and go back to the login screen, there should be two usernames in the dropdown menu. Select the one that you want to be your default (probably LJ?) and click Login. It should have your password already saved and stuff. Then, when you want to make a post to both LJ and IJ, do the Journal ---> Post To Multiple Journals option.

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

Yes! I think it worked - thank you so much!

[stele3.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Most excellent! Try doing a test post, perhaps? Whenever my friends and I tried this out, the next page of our flists were all "testing, testing" posts.

Oh, ALSO. You need to follow the instructions in this post in order to get the tags feature through Semagic. It's pretty easy, I promise: http://lilbreck.insanejournal.com/7597.html