I have achieved the next step of livejournal-ness: I have corrected a previous post of mine. Admittedly, the correction involved removing a typo, but, crucially, the original post was submitted using an offline client, and the correction was done using the Web interface, thus doubling the number of clients I have used so far, as well as the fact that I have edited, not merely added, posts.
I had other things to add, but I was busy adding smart-arsed comments to the Mood section of the livejournal entry, and forgot about them.
Oh wait, I remember now: my LiveJournal client is one of those Mac OS X clients that automatically knows about spell-checking (I think this is a Cocoa thing, unless it's a Carbon thing - Apple may be wonderful at Industrial DesignTM, but when it comes to choosing names that Mean Things, they should choose names that are different, and, crucially, Memorably Different). Thing is, it complains that part of a hyphenated word ("livejournal-ness" was what it picked up) is misspelled, but when you right-click to tell it to fuck off, it selects the whole word, which it doesn't think is misspelled (maybe misspelling dilutes). You have to manually select the hyphenated bit, then right-click, to tell it to fuck off and not bother you again.
Random Good Thing: Mac OS X automatically deals with ligatures. (My spell-checker only knows the singular of ligature - who decided that people would only ever spell ligature in the singular? What fuckwit didn't think that people would refer to ligatures in the plural? The spell-checker didn't know about the word "fuckwit" either, but at least I felt a certain vicarious pleasure in telling it about that word.) Which means if you type words that contain "fi" or "fl" or "ffi" or "ffl" it will format them appropriately (this looks more impressive in a sans-serif typeface) - automatically.
Some of the time, of course. It has refused to do so now, just to spite me. Feh.
