LJ help? :-(

[sigune]

There's something funny (but not amusing, alas) going on: LJ loads extremely slowly for me. The strange thing is that it's only LJ that does this (even deviantART is quick, compared to it) and it does not happen on my office computer, where LJ behaves normally.

Does anybody have any idea about the how or why, and what I might do to remedy it?
(I've already cleaned out my temporary internet files, and checked whether the computer needs defragmenting, which it doesnt. Hm.)

Comments

[seaislewitch.livejournal.com]

Mine is slow but was slower. I changed the number of entries per page from 60 to 30, and it did help.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Mine is at 20 entries a page now... I suppose I could make it fewer. But it's so odd that on another computer I haven't got the problem :/.

[seaislewitch.livejournal.com]

Is your computer scanning each page as it's loaded?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Hm.

I don't think so, but it's possible. How can I check this?

[seaislewitch.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. Sorry.

Did you see what happened at Virginia Tech?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I gather from your LJ that somebody brought a gun into the school and - used it?!

I can't understand people who think everyone should have their own weapon. Mind you, even if the law is strict, there are still nutters who find a weapon and go on a killing spree. Last year a high school student killed a child and her black nanny in Antwerp and shot at a woman in a veil :-(. He just came into a shop, bought a gun and went for a walk! -_-

[seaislewitch.livejournal.com]

Largest masacer in US history. 32 dead about 30 injured with gunshot wounds.

I don't understand gun laws either.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

My goodness! O_O

[auctasinistra.livejournal.com]

I've had this exact problem. LJ pages, and in particular comm pages, load at the speed of glacial motion, and everything else is fine. I don't understand it either and was hoping someone here had an idea. Sigh...

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Sigh too! It's really weird, and so far there seems to be no solution in sight :(.

[aramintasnape.livejournal.com]

Same problem here. I don't know why, but it's really irritating, especially when I'm trying to leave loads of comments and go back and forth between screens :(

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes, it is :(. I have been secretly hoping that as the problem manisfested itself quite suddenly, it will quite suddenly go away again ;P. No luck so far...

[hope-24.livejournal.com]

Just popping in on a thread to say hi, as suggested in your mail :)

I was also wondering; is it alright to comment on some of the essays you've posted, even if they were posted a while ago? I found the one on Slytherin House really interesting.

Have you read the Mitchell and Webb sketch on problems of the Sorting Hat? It's very funny, and features a Hufflepuff professor welcoming the new pupils: (I can't find a link to the text alone - hope it's OK to put it here :))

"Hufflepuff Professor:
You'll just have heard the Sorting Hat mention, in his curiously insensitive song, how Gryffindor is for the Brave, Slytherin for the Cunning, Ravenclaw for the Wise, and Hufflepuff for... The Rest. And I realise that to hear that, and then almost immediately to find yourself sorted into Hufflepuff, well, it's not quite the ego boost one hopes for on one's first day at school.

You are one of "The Rest". The Sorting hat has looked deep into your very soul, and what it saw there evidently didn't impress. Oh, I'm aware that the hat has, in the past, occasionally described you as "kind". Yes, and I'm sure that you also have lovely hair.

Some of you may be wondering about the thinking behind the school's decision to put all the appalling duffers into one house, call it "Hufflepuff", and give it the symbol of a Badger. A little harsh, you may feel. You may even, who knows, be questioning the wisdom of trusting the school's entire admissions procedure to a Hat.

These are not, alas, questions I can answer. All I can do is urge you to look on the bright side. At least you're not in Slytherin! (Another curious decision from the school there. To dedicate an entire house to the children in its care who are Evil. Surely a recipe for trouble.)

Anyway, being in Hufflepuff isn't all bad. We have our moments of excitement and achievement. Last year, one of us was killed! That was exciting! And it's something we can all aspire towards."

:)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thank you for that sketch - it's hilarious :D! I'd never seen it, but it's certainly very apt... :P As you will have gathered from the Slytherin essay, I do have a few reservations concerning the Sorting, and I am not always equally confident that Rowling will address its problematic side.

Of course it's all right to comment on an old entry :-). I'm always interested in comments, and certainly on the Slytherin essay, as I still want to amend it and post it in a few places before DH comes out.

[hope-24.livejournal.com]

I like that sketch too, its really funny.

Thanks for letting me know about the comments. I need to do some work now (I'm skiving ;)) - but I'll definitely be re-reading and making some comments over on your essay thread:) I agree with your reservations re: the Sorting Hat