Der Feuervogel aufersteht.

I have a mid-2011 11" MacBook Air, which has 384 MB of video memory, according to Apple. I recently hooked up a spare external monitor to it, and when I put Chrome on the extra display area, webpages load really slowly. Like, it's really hard to read tumblr because one image out of six will load.

I've been having problems with webpages not loading images if I've had the tab open for a while now (long before the external monitor), and usually if I closed the tab and reopened it, things were fine. (I initially thought I had to relaunch the whole browser, then I remembered that Chrome keeps each tab as a separate process, so closing one tab is as efficient and saves time.)

I told Ben that it got worse when I got the new monitor, and he was like "pffff, that's impossible." Then I told him again today, after clearing all my chrome settings and preparing to uninstall/reinstall it, because it works perfectly on the native monitor, and he said, "ok, well, maybe..." then some computer graphics mumbo jumbo I didn't quite catch. He suggested mirroring the display rather than extending it, but I really like being able to be reading tumblr (or playing dragons) and looking at twitter in the window below, so I don't really like that option. Also because setting it to mirror does awful things to the native screen resolution and display.

So I'm throwing this out here in case any of you know if that's a thing, or how to deal with it. I really like being able to edit text at a readable size (or see more of it at once) and sitting with my neck in a more natural position, so I'd like to keep this monitor.

I have reuploaded my entire fannish domain (the one where my mood theme is hosted). It took me the better part of an hour to do it, because I had to start up my old computer, move the stack of papers on the mousepad so I can use it, figure out where on earth I'd stored everything in the first place, turn on filesharing on my laptop, navigate around two keyboards (and try to remember that the monitor in back is not connected to the laptop screen in front), copy several thousand files, and reupload them all.

(Then I also decided to copy the 1.6GB of fanart I'd downloaded over the years and then my 8.7GB mp3 collection, which is still copying as I type this, though it says I only have an hour left.)

I may decide at some point to burn the CSS site design that Tammy did for me and go to a basic, dull wordpress layout with minimal customizations. (I can still use the header she made, though.) But all the files I have are in html, and wp likes plain text, so it'll be a bit more effort than I'd like to expend on a site I almost never use anymore. (It's not even linked in my DW profile.)

For now, I'm focusing on writing, not goofing around with websites. Though I can't exactly type well right now. This is a nice picture of why.