Is it just my paranoia...

[wiseheart]

... or is the Internet steadily getting more and more user-unfriendly? Yahoo deletes all Geocities sites, LJ is doing what LJ currently does, Hotmail changes its layout and work-wise every other week, making everything take longer and more complicated, there are more restrictions everywhere, and you're forced to get newer and newer versions of your browser b/c nothing is compatible with the older versions anymore.

I'm so fed up with all the changes. I want my peace and quiet. I want my websites back,the ones I could actually use without running to my computer science teacher colleagues for help every other day.

And, on a less technical side of things, I want my online friends back who've got eaten by a giant cyber-jellyfish over the recent years.

Yeah, I'm getting old.

Comments

Re: WAH!!!!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Tak for det! Jeg vil gerne besøgter dig!

Re: WAH!!!!

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Du skal være velkommen! :)

Where are you from, if I may ask?

Re: WAH!!!!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Are you able to see my LiveJournal? If not, let me know: I just gained insight into the answer to that question while visiting my parents (in a place where I've never lived), so I wrote about it. I'd be happy to let you read it.

Two very short answers would be:
1) I was born and lived my first 10-11 years in the Midwest in an area whose European settlers were largely Scandinavian.
2) I currently live in New England in the U.S.

It's funny: although I don't have Danish ancestry that I know of, apparently, I look like a Dane. Maybe some Danish Vikings "visited" my ancestors at some point? [grin] When I was in Denmark, I discovered that, if I kept my mouth shut and didn't knit, folks assumed I was a Dane. (If I spoke, they assumed I wasn't American because I could speak some Danish. If I knitted, they were completely baffled because I learned to knit in New Zealand, so I hold the yarn and needles differently from American or Danish knitters, probably more like the British.)

Re: WAH!!!!

[lissas-elves.livejournal.com]

Nah, I can't see much on your LJ, most of it's Flocked, but I'd love to read that story! Perhaps you wouldn't mind emailing it to me? lissas_elves at yahoo dot co dot uk (there's a reason for the 'UK')

Ad 1) Really? I've got distant family in that area (as do most Danes, it seems).

>>Maybe some Danish Vikings "visited" my ancestors at some point? [grin] When I was in Denmark, I discovered that, if I kept my mouth shut and didn't knit, folks assumed I was a Dane.<<

*g* Those Vikings got around a bit, didn't they?

>>If I spoke, they assumed I wasn't American because I could speak some Danish. <<

Ehm, yes, about that... *blushes* We Danes tend to assume that Americans cannot speak any language but their own. Very prejudiced - I apologize! (Actually, we believe the same thing about both the Brits and the French.)