Random musings

I've just seen my first Torchwood episode (and thus seen Captain Jack for the first time, as I still haven't seen any Ecclestone Who episodes other than Rose). I liked, even if it didn't show much of the team other than Gwen. My, there are some pretty boys in the show, aren't there?

I've been playing with Google's free webspace and page creator, having finally obtained a circular tuit and decided to do something about putting some fanfic online; both my own, and the zines I edited. The WYSIWYG page creator is flaky, and there's a sharp limit on what you can do with the html editor, but for pouring text into a simple site it's not half bad. It's still in beta, and it's free, so I'm not complaining too loudly about the bugs. Most of one zine (at least as links to stories already archived elsewhere) and a few of my own stories so far, which is a lot more than I'd have achieved in the same time if I'd been hand-coding it. (pinkdormouse, most of the Dead Boyfriend of the Week links currently go to Pink Asteroids, in case you were wondering why the flurry of activity when I was testing the links.)

Of course, the easiest stories from my own output to put up are the ones that are already on the web somewhere. These are also the oldest ones, and dear god it's cringe-inducing to read one's early fiction. It could be worse, of course, because at least my early ones usually went past a reasonably competent editor before appearing in public, and are thus not as awful as they might have been had I been of the generation that thinks "beta-reader" is the person who tells you how wonderful it is just before you stick it online without even running it through a spell-checker. You can thank watervole for them being readable.