I had a Dreamwidth account, but a few months back I deleted it after not having used it in many, many years.

Now I have a new Dreamwidth account, same username as here. Feel free to follow me over there so I can follow you back. No promises that I'll post there any more than I have been here though. :-/

http://news.livejournal.com/129284.html

Facebook and Twitter Connect update ( Read more... )

rm says what I'm thinking, but better:
LJ has implemented a new feature that allows you to cross-post both entries and comments to Facebook and Twitter. Anyone who has this feature enabled may cross-post comments they make to friendslocked entries to these services. While the cross-posted item does not show the original locked post, it does indicate ( Read more... )

Until LJ gets their heads out of their asses and add a setting to opt your journal and comments there out of being shared, please do not repost any comments made in my LJ to Facebook or Twitter. (See the latest post in news.)

[Edit: A comment over in the news post is pretty much exactly my position too:
I don't mind the option to cross-post to my ( Read more... )

For folks who don't follow news, there was a "limited but serious privacy breach" via media/Flash embedding. Details are here, including how to tell if you or someone on your f-list was affected. Right now the only site from which media embedding is allowed is YouTube, but they're working on updating the whitelist.

However, despite these limitations, for the last couple of months we've been building a search engine. It uses one third of San Francisco's water supply to cool and it has a dedicated Nuclear Reactor just to provide the power to index the word "depressed". The phrase "my parents don't understand me" takes up so much physical disk space that we had ( Read more... )