about LJ scrapbook, also looking for friending memes

[ratcreature]

I'd been looking for a way to download my LJ Scrapbook, because when my last laptop died I lost some of my local image files. Additionally if the Scrapbook was gone, I'd have a hard time to restore my posts properly even with the pictures I do still have locally, because with the cryptic Scrapbook file names I don't know which picture it is I linked in a post. Of course I can deduce that something was a for example a rat photo or a comic page scan, but which rat photo is not always obvious from my entry text or the image alt text. So it would be good to have the photos backed up with those file names somewhere.

But when I asked LJ Support whether there was a way to do a backup other than manually (and I have several hundred pictures), they were no help. However looking around I found this post how to download the stuff from Scrapbook with wget. It's still less than ideal, because this method duplicates the byzantine file structure with a folder for every image, but that's still better than downloading from my browser. If anyone knows of a better method, please tell me?

To counteract the quiet on my flist/dwircle I thought maybe I ought to just expand my reading list, so I wondered whether there are any XMFC friending memes around, preferably on DW, but I'd take LJ too. Or maybe there is an fanartist friending meme somewhere? I've seen one for writers during the three weeks for DW thing earlier this year, but one for artists would be fun.

Unrelated, I feel really apprehensive about the antibiotics dosage I'd gotten for Noah to start him on once the course of Baytril is finished this weekend (Noah unfortunately has declined in health recently and has something in his lung, which is not myco, but from the way the lung looks on x-ray they took today either a localized infection or a tumor, so as the tumor couldn't be helped, he gets antibiotics). Due to their schedule he was treated by a different vet from his usual one this morning, and the dosage they gave me seemed high, but I wasn't sure I had seen this antibiotic before. But then I checked at home in my records (well the pile of paper recording previous vet visits, but I keep good track of which rat gets what, because after death breeders usually want a feedback on the illnesses to see problems with their breeding lines down the road), and I had been given the same antibiotic for another rat before by another vet at the same practice and then it was 0.2ml twice a day while Noah now is supposed to take 1ml three times a day. So with that huge a difference (0.4ml vs 3ml daily) I feared some sort of decimal point error, so I called back obviously, and mentioned my fear and also that the previous dose was so much lower. So the assistant told me the doctor would check, and when she called back the vet said she checked the dosages and redid the calculation, and that the amount was right, though she has no idea why the other vet (who wasn't in just then) prescribed so much less that last time. This makes me really uneasy. :/

Comments

[wabbitseason.livejournal.com]

Would something like Downthemall work with Scrapbook? You install the widget and then right click on the page and you can choose which files you'd get? You might have to page through a lot to get everything. It'd just grab the file, not the structure.

[ratcreature]

I thought about that, but the images shown on pages with more than one image, i.e. the galleries are all the thumbnails, and they don't link to the full picture file directly either, but to the Scrapbook page for that picture, and depending on how large the image is on that page you have to click again to get the full size. I don't know of any page that would lists just links to proper full image files.

[wabbitseason.livejournal.com]

I'll run a test of it when I get home, but I know Downthemall gives you the option of grabbing not just inline photos but also linked ones.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

In humans, you can end up with drastically different antibiotic doses depending on whether it's preventative or treating an acute infection, and depending on what kind of infection it is and its location. Maybe it's the same in rats?

[ratcreature]

The first was for myco the lung, the second is for this area in Noah's lung that shows up on X-rays. So I don't know. I remember when the first vet wrote a dose down he didn't take time to calculate, so maybe he gave a ballpark figure, that was on the low side. When I got the antibiotic previously I got a bottle with it with packaging (rather than the vet just giving out the amount needed), and the dose then was lower than the amount per kilo recommended for either cats or dogs that was listed with the medication (i.e. if my rat was a dog and the I'd follow the packaging instruction he'd get about 2ml/day at his weight and as a cat less, so it varies between species apparently, but as usual they don't mention rats specifically). So what he's given now is still higher than that, but not by as big a factor.

I'll have just to trust that the vet knows what they are prescribing. I mean, I checked to make sure that there is no error, and while the vet isn't the one I see most often she double checked her calculation. (From what I gather she's their reptile specialist, at least whenever you see people with geckos and turtles and what not in the waiting room they go her, and some drive a long way, because there aren't many vets who know reptiles well, whereas I mostly see the vet working there who was recommended by the rat breeder association.)

[till12345.livejournal.com]

Hi,
it's a long time since your post, but I have updated chebe's instructions to the current Scrapbook implementation and have also added an explanation of how to get the images ordered by galleries and captions instead of the cryptic LJ-internal order:
http://andlauer.net/biologie/apps/livejournal.html (http://andlauer.net/biologie/apps/livejournal.html)
Cheers,
Till