I've given up on using LJ for my RSS feeds. I've got 88 of them, which means I sometimes don't see real people posts for pages and pages. I'm jumping to Google Reader. Google Reader will import "OPML" data, so that's how I wanted to do the transfer. This is a how-to ( Read more... )

LJ lays off 20 some fraction of 28 employees- last day Friday, no severance ( Read more... )

I knocked 11 things off my to-do list today. Tracks tells me I did 25 in the last 24 hours ( Read more... )

I just took a look at http://www.livejournal.com/misc/expunged_list.bml.

da2k da12en and da5 are all available. Do any of them jump out at you as a better name for me than da_lj? (At one time I was thinking of trebucher, but not only does it lack the accent to be correctly spelled, it's also ( Read more... )

I had an odd thought recently; how people my age often rely on their parents and other older relatives to not be net-savvey. What would happen if that crazy aunt of yours [1] started commenting in your LJ ( Read more... )

Big props to the LJ crew for their hard work. I've been thinking of subscribing for a while, and this was the kick-in-the-pants I needed to do it ( Read more... )

Life is Change, and woe to those who can't deal with that.

I ran across this philosophy stated in stronger terms, that God is Change, but I won't go so far as to suggest that right now. Maybe later when I'm in an Octavia Butler mood. That post will probably have a lot to do with Internal versus External Locus of Control. But this entry is ( Read more... )

[backdated to when I think I wrote this version]

Well, I'll be, I never filled this in. Typical ( Read more... )

... and indeed, it is just as easy to post using centericq. It even stores my outgoing entry when I quit the program. Lots of behaviours follow the principle-of-least surprise, and I really like the simple interface ( Read more... )

OK, so I'm sitting in front of my computer on a wonderful September morning and writing an article in this spankin' new journal, and why? Why, you ask? Not because I've got bugger all to say to the world (hah!). But, rather, because I'm testing out this program, "centericq", which basically turns live journal into Pine (the email ( Read more... )