state of the giant flist

i made several filters, all for the real people (as opposed to the communities and feeds) i read. the divisions are not arbitrary, but also not done by using an instrument such as "trust" or "closeness"; they're simply determined by how i know people -- through PLATO, soc.singles{.moderated}, alt.polyamory, LJ abuse, smut reading, rasfc/writing, or the ever so originally named catchall, "other". people who'd fit in several groups i moved into the smaller one.

it's working remarkably well, much better than i would ever have thought (i used to think this was a stupid way to filter which is why i never did it; this is a desperation measure). i can now quickly move through the day's posts in almost every list, and it fits in between doing other things. no longer do i fall behind and lose track because livejournal doesn't have a good sequencer but just throws more and more new posts at me.

except the alt.polyamory filter is too large. ideally it would be about half the size, then i could get through it while having breakfast or during similar breaks. as it stands i got hung up several times and felt more and more behind again.

i don't know how to split it. the only thing i can think of is "people with whom i actually interacted a lot on alt.poly" and others, but that might make two really uneven groups, not sure. can anyone think of a better way?

the "other" group also doesn't make me quite happy. there are some people in it whom i read religiously, and other people whose LJs i added because they're interesting, but i am not always in the mood for that kind of interesting. so i probably need to split that filter as well, and maybe add the people i read religiously into one of the tiny groups, like lj abuse or plato. oy, that hurts the classification person inside. :)

system troubles

*eep*. i just rebooted aegis again, because it got into an unstable state. that's the second time in 2 weeks, and that's highly unusual for a debian system. i can't see anything in the logs that stands out. but it also had trouble coming back up; it sat so long after fscking one of the filesystems that i was wondering whether it had frozen. still, nothing in the logs. so weird.

so this is mostly a reminder to get off my duff and take the time to analyze what the heck is going on there. it could use an upgrade anyway, and that main hard drive is getting old. time for a full backup and a swap; i've got a spare drive in smite which nobody is using (gotta keep the paramour from taking to it with a screwdriver for spiffy parts, *snrk*).