Oooooh I hate this part! So since it is so very late, I’ll just say that I’ve had a journal at LiveJournal for about 15 years. So much has changed that I feel a bit safer here... and most of my LJ friends migrated here. It gripes me that I just paid a year membership there right before joining here, and I can’t afford a year long membership here ( Read more... )

A couple of other journalers have issued a challenge ( Read more... )

Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS
For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

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I don't know if you've been reading my Daily Meditations (that haven't been so "daily"), but someone leaves me nasty messages on it from time to time. The last two have had them, and I normally just delete them after getting a good chuckle out of them (they clearly don't know what they're talking about). This time I wanted to share the lastest one ( Read more... )

DON'T FORGET: We'll be taking down the site for a few hours this Friday evening, from around 7pm to 10pm, PST, to perform backend maintenance. Depending on where you live, this window will fall between Friday and Saturday, January 22nd to 23rd. For further details, please read lj_maintenanceFrom me: Dang. Just when I really NEED this place! But uh, I guess that' ( Read more... )

What do you think? It's not winter but...

If you're a paid LJ subscriber, you can get 3 free days from LJ for all the outages it's suffered lately! Claim them according to instructions found in your LJ notice. Don't ignore it! Check your mail or LJ list.

How did you come to start your LJ?
I saw that others had blogs and I thought I might try doing it. I had no idea it would become so much a part of my daily life.

( Click to see the rest of this meme, all about my LJ journal )

A wise friend of mine said this, recently, and I wanted to put it in my journal because I agree with it:

If someone repeatedly makes controversial comments in their journal and shuts off comments, question their potential for a LJ friendship, they don't want to hear your opinion on the important things.