I know y'all thought I might have given up on this, and I did end up changing the scope of the project. But I am still of the opinion that I can't trust LJ anymore. This weeks' changes to
eliminate basic (ie, non-ad-supported free) accounts without telling anyone, against the advice of the advisory board, and the discovery that there is now
nothing unsavory on the top interests list (fanfiction is gone? depression is gone? what the hell??) just further re-inforce that a Russian owned LiveJournal is no better than the 6A owned LJ, and is quite possibly worse, given what we've seen thus far.
So...I've archived my entire LJ, and will likely import it to the new site eventually - dealing with the filters on nearly 3000 posts is just too much to deal with right now, and now that I know how to do it, it's not at all scary, just time consuming.
I'm keeping this account to read posts over here - though I'm also planning to implement my own RSS aggregator on my new site, which will let me read your LJ entries over there :-)
If you're interested in keeping up with me, since I don't plan on making many more posts here, you can subscribe to the feed via LiveJournal (one of the last things I'm doing before my paid account runs out) -
kadiera_qsd or you can visit the site, and use your own preferred RSS option,
http://kadiera.quicksilverdragon.com Anyway. Off to continue saving my pics from the scrapbook, and to download all my user icons before my paid account runs out next month.