June 2007
JUNE 2007
So I read 42 journals in April, 45 in May. That seems to be about average. This month: 71. A vast improvement, especially when you consider the time wasted this month putting up a fight and retooling the format. We're still on track for a few hundred years journal reading though.
Hitches
I started off this month without being able to access this journal. It took about four days for the denial of service attack to subside so I could post anything longer than a one-line entry. This was concurrent with the locked journal controversy, and I suspect there was some connection. Maybe if I bought a paid account, I thought, this would be less of a problem. I thought it over for a week or two. I resolved to do it. The next morning after I made my decision LiveJournal offered the Permanent Account again. And I was considering.
But that evening LiveJournal came to get me.
I never thought I was violating any rules with the Mission. I thought I was overexposing myself, waiting for users to attack me for my hubris, but I never thought LiveJournal would threaten to shut me down. But they did. And I balked. They had a problem with my commenting so I changed the way I comment. It's aimed at interaction now, and I hope it goes well. Special thanks to ldthomps for helping craft the new receipt.
It also put the kibosh on me getting a paid account. Polls, directory search, tags in full-view, and faster page loads. readalljournals could have had all those benefits but I am unwilling to put down the money if deletion or suspension are still real threats. It's not worth losing. I have one paid journal that can help me with the directory search, the other benefits I can live without.
Suggestion 2008
It was the Internet version of the listeners' requests I guess. I was stumped so I threw open the Mission to suggestions as to where I should go next. It took me to some exciting places. But I suspect that it also played a part in getting me in trouble.
Around the World in 30 Days
June had a very global feel to it. Firstly, I had just returned from my first international trip. That influenced me to read Israeli journals. When I asked for themes the world tour really took off: kavieshana suggested Sailor Moon, which inspired me instead to read journals into Japanese school-girl uniforms. colorwhirl suggested I read journals from the Southern Hemisphere so I read some from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Journal of the Month of June Award
And the winner is...loqia. The first nominee this month beat off all the competition. Despite the heavy-handed capitalist justifications, loqia may have convinced me that iPhone probably isn't an incarnation of Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, The Traveller. I wish I could write a blog with such fluidity and intelligence as this.
So I read 42 journals in April, 45 in May. That seems to be about average. This month: 71. A vast improvement, especially when you consider the time wasted this month putting up a fight and retooling the format. We're still on track for a few hundred years journal reading though.
Hitches
I started off this month without being able to access this journal. It took about four days for the denial of service attack to subside so I could post anything longer than a one-line entry. This was concurrent with the locked journal controversy, and I suspect there was some connection. Maybe if I bought a paid account, I thought, this would be less of a problem. I thought it over for a week or two. I resolved to do it. The next morning after I made my decision LiveJournal offered the Permanent Account again. And I was considering.
But that evening LiveJournal came to get me.
I never thought I was violating any rules with the Mission. I thought I was overexposing myself, waiting for users to attack me for my hubris, but I never thought LiveJournal would threaten to shut me down. But they did. And I balked. They had a problem with my commenting so I changed the way I comment. It's aimed at interaction now, and I hope it goes well. Special thanks to ldthomps for helping craft the new receipt.
It also put the kibosh on me getting a paid account. Polls, directory search, tags in full-view, and faster page loads. readalljournals could have had all those benefits but I am unwilling to put down the money if deletion or suspension are still real threats. It's not worth losing. I have one paid journal that can help me with the directory search, the other benefits I can live without.
Suggestion 2008
It was the Internet version of the listeners' requests I guess. I was stumped so I threw open the Mission to suggestions as to where I should go next. It took me to some exciting places. But I suspect that it also played a part in getting me in trouble.
Around the World in 30 Days
June had a very global feel to it. Firstly, I had just returned from my first international trip. That influenced me to read Israeli journals. When I asked for themes the world tour really took off: kavieshana suggested Sailor Moon, which inspired me instead to read journals into Japanese school-girl uniforms. colorwhirl suggested I read journals from the Southern Hemisphere so I read some from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Journal of the Month of June Award
And the winner is...loqia. The first nominee this month beat off all the competition. Despite the heavy-handed capitalist justifications, loqia may have convinced me that iPhone probably isn't an incarnation of Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, The Traveller. I wish I could write a blog with such fluidity and intelligence as this.