I've decided to stop crossposting to LiveJournal from Dreamwidth - it used to feel like a good method of backup as well as a way to keep in touch with people here, but I don't particularly want to have to import all my comments for posterity again the next time LJ does something silly ( Read more... )

I have tabs to close, and miles to go before I... shower.

People trying to boost their DW/LJ flists might be interested in a couple of friending memes: mapping-stars is hosting a New Year's Friending Meme, and there's also a yuletide-specific one here.

Meanwhile,
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It's been a while since I've done this, so here's about two months' worth of reading, or at least the ones I can remember:

( I gave up on a lot of books in this period, but some stuck... )

So, something seems to be brewing at LiveJournal. They recently made a post responding to people's criticisms of the latest release, in which they admitted:

"We know that things changing abruptly can be frustrating, and that we don't have the greatest track record when it comes to making changes based on your feedback. We're working on changing ( Read more... )

So I just got an email from a friend asking if I'd meant to ban her from commenting on my journal. And I was all, "WTF NO OMG!", but when I looked at my ban page:

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/banusers.bml

I saw that her name was there. So I unchecked the box and hit the button to unban her, but it freaked me out that it even happened. As near as ( Read more... )

LJ is currently doing an account purge - today I received emails relating to a couple of RP accounts which I'd only ever used to comment/post to communities, explaining that as they were empty accounts (i.e., no posts made to the personal journal itself), they'd be purged in 15 days unless I signed into LJ using the accounts within that period.

I ( Read more... )