For some reason LJ is rejecting crossposts from Dreamwidth -- says it's temporarily banned because of too many login errors. That's been going on for most of this week, apparently. Until either it fixes itself, someone fixes it, or I get annoyed enough to write a workaround, you'll have to go to mdlbear.dreamwidth.org to read my posts. Most of ( Read more... )

It's come to my attention that both of the posts I made today have failed to crosspost from http://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org -- please go there to read them.

At kshandra's suggestion, I'm signal-boosting amberdiceless's Open Letter to Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP, parent company of Livejournal.

Not that I expect it to do much good.

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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Here, in two easy pieces, is how to fix Livejournal's recent problems.

Fixing the comment page.

1. First, if you're still using an S1 (ancient) style, switch to S2.
2. Go to your profile.
3. Go to Journal > Journal Style, and in the box headed 's Current Theme click on "Customize your theme" (or just follow the link)
4. ( Read more... )

LJ Release 88 is out, complete with sucky comment pages. There are nearly 5000 comments on the release announcement; it'll probably be over by the time I post this. Why they did this is just absolutely baffling. What, were they thinking? Yet another triumph of "design" over usability. Them and Gnome 3.

I tried installing ( Read more... )

It was a busy morning -- two doctors' appointments, and an 11am presentation (dry run of our group's presentation in late January) that ran through most of lunchtime. Oh, and flu and tetanus/pertussis shots.

I spent most of the afternoon writing my weekly progress report and doing ( Read more... )