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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2006-11-12 01:10 pm

Guh

Is anyone else getting those incredibly annoying redirect ads on ff.net? They bounce you to an advertisement website that claims you have to sign up for junk mail in order to get back, and when you try to use the "back" button to get back to the ff.net page, it just bounces to the ad again. I "fix" it by closing and re-opening the ff.net page, which works, but still ... GUH. How incredibly vexing.

You know, if I could just sit down and write a SHORT fanfic, or work on the same one for more than a few hours at a time, I would actually be able to post a finished story before I die of old age. Instead, I have these massive WIPs that just keep getting bigger.

Here's how my current word counts are looking for the most-worked-on stories (note - my documents include a lot of "extra" stuff, like plot notes and deleted scenes, so you'd probably need to knock off 2 or 3K of words to get the word count of the actual body of the story):

"Nor Iron Bars a Cage" (John & Rodney are prisoners) - 13,073 [hm, I thought it was longer, oh well]
"The Light of a Fading Sun" (dark Trinity AU) - 19,724
"Ghost in the Machine" - 26,229
"Running on Empty" sequel - 9,706
Christmas story that I'm working on - 6,618

Put 'em all together and you have one nice, long story. Individually, though, they're just a bunch of half-finished WIPs. *sigh*

I need to stop staring at fanfic and go draw my webcomic for Monday, or there won't *be* a webcomic for Monday. Can I clone myself?
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[identity profile] friendshipper.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha! It's Firefox that I use, so I'll look at their add-ons and see if there's one that looks useful. I hadn't even thought to do so. Thanks!

[identity profile] melibabe.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Download the AdBlock and NoScript extensions, they work really well. With NoScript, it basically turns off javascript, though you can turn it back on for specific sites either temporarily or permanently. AdBlock does something similar for other kinds of banner ads. It will occasionally block non-ad images and such, but you can add individual elements, pages or entire sites to your "white list."

Both together make browsing MUCH more pleasant. :D