The Russian spammers! I've missed them so! Well, not really.

And this is why I flirt with deleting my LJ account, even though I like its community set up better than other platforms. D:

I've gotten more spam comments in the last week than I ever have before. Has something changed with settings?

My SBD post took several tries to post. And I can't reply to any of the comments posted in the last day, dammit.

Instead I'll post here: Yay! ::happy dance:: And thank you to Meljean Brook, 'cause I won her contest.

I also won (last week and I forgot to post about it, bad jmc) a contest over at Bam's -- a copy of Annie Dean's ebook, The ( Read more... )

UMBC has established some sort of relationship with Maryland Forums. They're hosting Cal Ripken as a speaker next week, then Al Gore in May. According to their post here, Ehud Barak and Bob Woodward were guests this past fall. I heart Cal, but I'm skipping his speech and holding out for Gore ( Read more... )

In the midst of typing a post, IE closed.  And LJ is supposed to autosave, then offer to restore.  But no, the offer to restore hasn't appeared.  Dammit.  Now I have to reconstruct.

I'm thinking about changing my template. I could keep the wine one, or switch to one with turtles. Or this one, with sweets. But it may be a little too pastel for me. I'm not a pink woman, despite the fact that Mom gave me pink sweats for Christmas every freakin' year when i was in high school -- what was that about? Anyway, opinions ( Read more... )

I'm perplexed by Blogger and my LibraryThing widget. When I first installed the widget, it appeared where I wanted to, on the sidebar, with a 5x3 block of books. When I checked that blog today (yeah, I've been neglecting the Spanish, working on a new post for it this evening), the books were gone. Well, not gone, but no longer beneath the ( Read more... )

First, LiveJournal has new templates, so I've been fiddling. I kind of like this one, except I think maybe I need to change my userpic. But I love that pick, so maybe I'll have to experiment some more ( Read more... )

LibraryThing is my new favorite website. I found it originally via Rosina Lippi's blog. I added a whole bunch of books from my library -- with many more to go. I really like the widget that posts random bookcovers from your library . . . except the javascript doesn't work in Live Journal. So I've posted it to my blog over at blogspot . . . ( Read more... )

The mess that was my spare room has been cleaned! The paint job on the trim is a little sloppy but I can fix that. The drywall guy was not happy with me, because I called his boss and complained that a 3 day project had turned into a 13 day project. Not to be a wench, but seriously, not showing up at all on days you were supposed to? And not ( Read more... )