Following from my earlier post (DW/LJ), I don't know if everybody has seen the Fast Company article "The Return of LiveJournal" yet, which created some stir. Even better, theljstaff has posted a link to the article ( Read more... )

I was linked to an English translation of a very interesting interview LJ's Russian overlord igrick gave to the Russian Forbes.

It is full of contradictory statements. His business decisions don't make any sense to me, unless, as one commenter in the news group said, he's really trying to sink LJ and write it off as a loss.

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Harry Mulisch, the last of 'the great three' of Dutch post-war writers, died last night at age 83. Internationally he is probably best known for his novels The Assault and The Discovery of Heaven.


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After nine days of garbage collectors being on strike the city centre is becoming extremely filthy. The tourists don't seem to mind too much though, I saw several of them photographing each other in front of the rubbish heaps.


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I couldn't find my favourite Ramses song on YouTube ("De een wil de ander"), so here is my second favourite. There is a live version on YT, but the audio is out of synch and anyway I prefer the studio version because it sounds less jazzy. But alas, no video. I have this single in my collection BTW (inherited it from my mum, without the autographs ( Read more... )

(And the rest of the world!)


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RIP Paul Newman


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At last we had a thundery shower this early morning, and the weather today was a lot cooler, with some wind ( Read more... )

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