Quickie: About a year ago there was a cool lj_nifty[1] post about easily adding feeds to an LJ friends page using Firefox. I linkspammed it but the walkthrough I meant to write never happened. Today, andrewducker has written such a walkthrough and made it seem even easier: 1) open a tab and type about:config in the address bar ( Read more... )

I am, as I'm sure is well, a remarkably modest man. I would, for example, never dream of having a category tag for my journal called ' showing off', for that would be vulgar. And that the most popular item under discussion in the most recent news post, and being linked to and discussed all over the site is my idea is, of course, something that merely ( Read more... )

How great am I? You don't know? Things to cheer you up on the train home, a notification in your inbox from coffeechica entitled DRUM ROLL:This suggestion has been planned for implementation. Please watch the lj_releases community for updates.
I knew what post it was before I opened it, but it was nice to be sure. So that's two fixes from one suggestion ( Read more... )

Reasons to read the_lj_herald #XXVII
the_lj_herald: News Flash: upcoming changes and staff changes:Users will be be able to filter their entries according to their security settings by appending security/friends, security/public, security/friends or security/group:customgroupname to their journal URLs. Style System 1 users will see filtered pages in the style ( Read more... )

Those of you using the usericon replacement code I mentioned here may find this comment (and the follow on thread) by the always helpful burr86 of use: Aha. Modify your code -- every time there's a "padding" statement, make it "padding: (whatever) !important"? Now that I dig into it, we added a little padding next to the lj user icon, and your CSS is ( Read more... )

Email from Tom Steinberg of MySociety. They've been adding a few things to various sites. Including TheyWorkForYou.

Added a lot more of those entitled to speak in the House of Lords. Of course, some of those people only speak once or twice a year. This one might be considered a must have:
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takhisis is sick. This I know. She linked to a story. On verywrongslash. It was to do with the new moderator who volunteered to help out in a bit...

ETA: Um, yeah, silly new LJ toy, explained hereI have no idea why it chose that sort of randomness. If more show up, it's because I got error messages, and there appears to be a delay anyway ( Read more... )

I've now got 34 userpics allowed. They've introduced a loyalty scheme, the longer you have a paid account, the more you have. Oh, there's another silly gift scheme; my usual "give it to charity" request applies if anyone was tempted ( Read more... )

The Pub Philospher (who I recommend as an enjoyable read): Not many people know that Valentine's day( Read more... )

Or, alternately, you're now the proud user of a proper 'blog' with your own unique (sub)domain. LJ are giving some bollux due to a vulnerability in, um, FireFox, but that's not relevent. Why is this really important? Pagerank and Google.

( What they've done to your username and links )