...or how I spent my summer.

I spent a good portion of the summer teaching - the lab portion of my usual MCC assignment on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8 to 10 p.m. The three days a week thing got old fast, but otherwise I had a good class and a good time. One of my students was even a minor local celebrity, a features reporter for a ( Read more... )

Looks like I no longer have to worry about that Vox account I set up years ago and never used. From TechCrunch:

Six Apart’s Vox Heads To DeadPool

And then there's Vox's official announcementI never really did get the point of Vox. At the time, Six Apart also owned LiveJournal, and Vox seemed to be an essentially identical platform, so what was ( Read more... )

So here's the thing. I rarely post on Facebook anyway (and never on Twitter), and I'm certainly not going to crosspost either my entries or, especially, my comments in anyone else's posts from here to there. Please do me the same courtesy. Thanks, ever so ( Read more... )

Lots o' humidity yesterday and today, with added heat today, but the three days preceding were fabulous, especially Saturday. Good thing, too, because it made for a splendid day for vw's graduation party ( Read more... )

( Snagged from the Onion... )

China has defriended EVERYONE on LiveJournal...

Just got an e-mail from LiveJournal notifying me that I'd asked them to reset my password, and asked for confirmation that I was the one asking. News to me, so I declined. Apparently someone in Atlanta wants to be me. I mean, I want to be someone else, too. Who's stupid enough to want to be me? Gotta be the dumbest fucking moron on the planet.

The PTB at LJ are going to be foisting a new navigation scheme on its users sometime tonight, so your journal might look a little off tomorrow.

Details here: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/237302.html

eta: And more here: http

Six Apart, the owner of LiveLournal, TypePad, and a bunch of other blogging sites, got whacked with a DDoS attack Tuesday night, pretty much knocking LJ and everything else offline for about twelve hours. Now comes word that the attack may not have originally be aimed at Six Apart, but was rather redirected there (inadvertently or otherwise) by the ( Read more... )

You might not yet be aware of this, but LJ is considering adding an ad-based service level in addition to paid accounts and free accounts. Essentially it'll be a free account with some of the goodies that paid accounts get, but there'll be some advertising in your journal. I mention it mostly because the discussion is going on over in lj_biz, rather than ( Read more... )