izmeina | Grumpy and ungeekish Izzie

Ickle Iz for a long time was intending to ask her serpent friends for some userfriendly way of saving LJ posts and stuff - preferably with comments. But all the export programs looked so complicated and ubergeekish and Izzie may be a bit of a magpie and collector of tidbits and trivia - but individually saving entries as HTML archive files was not the sort of thing that interested the Izzie. We'll just take our chanceses and hope that the Izzie Pensieve does not disapparate down the dark Black Hole of Cyberia. But after the recent episodes in June - the Iz was getting somewhat paranoid about the reliability of LJ.

So imagine the Izzie's surprise and delight to discover

kaasirpent's entry about some new nifty LJ archive.
This one - unlike nasty Mozilla Firefox did not insist on installing certain bits in the C drive but gave you options. But it does seem to insist on some .NET program - whatever that may be and Iz was unable to download that due to Ministry Security Regulations. Now that would not bother the Cat but Iz is merely a computer illiterate Luddite Serpent without a hackers' bone in her body.
Did try opening the ljarchive file and got asked for the Izzie username and password but then kept getting told that there was no data and no entries and the usual stuff - along with this string of

CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcIllFormedXmlException: Response from server does not contain valid XML. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: The XML declaration is unexpected. Line 2, position 3.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseTag()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseRoot()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.ReadWithCollectTextToken()
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadCurrentNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(TextReader txtReader)
at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcSerializer.DeserializeResponse(TextReader trdr, Type returnType)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcSerializer.DeserializeResponse(TextReader trdr, Type returnType)
at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcClientProtocol.ReadResponse(XmlRpcRequest req, WebResponse webResp, Stream respStm, Type returnType)
at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcClientProtocol.Invoke(Object clientObj, String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcClientProtocol.Invoke(String MethodName, Object[] Parameters)
at XmlRpcProxy38d13559-9f65-4d5c-bd29-53778948184a.GetChallenge()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.Login(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, LoginResponse& lr)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

After five or six attempts with the same stuff - Iz just gave it all up as a hopeless case and resolved to trying it out over at the ma's place. At least there we can download evil Microsoft .NET and save stuff on C drive. But Iz does hope that there is some way of keeping it safe and keeping it secret.
Oh and this cute little memory stick thingie - saved all the Izzie web pages, piccies and stuff but discovered that we are unable to use the password protection as YET AGAIN the stupid files that do this stuff automatically get downloaded to some folder in C drive. And Izzie of course does not have a C drive at the Min.
But at least it is still possible to store stuff publicly on this gadget without need for some setup procedure.