synecdochic asks “hypothetically” about a post-LJ blogging/social-networking site.


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Eight of my polls have included "Insensitive Clod" options, these being:

• You insensitive clod, my grandparents were murdered by having their brains pulled out through their nostrils with a tickybox
• You insensitive clod, my ex- had her spleen removed with a spoon! - Anon
• You insensitive clod, living-by-committee killed my grandparents
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I've just fiended quite a few people most of whom I've been intending to fiend for quite some time. They divide down into the groups of "people I know IRL", "people I've known about on lj for some time", "interesting looking people". So, if you're wondering who the strange senji person on your fiends-of list is, it's probably me :-).

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for senji are close by:

• mariusz (350 - 400)
• star_girl_ (400 - 450)
• mr_ricarno, the_alchemist, dutch_koala, nou, naranek, jdh41, pjc50 (450 - 500)

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I've got a few entries I want to write that relate to days in the past couple months, and I really just want to slot them in where they belong. I can either put the correct days on them, but leave the Backdated flag off (which means they'll show up in Fiends Pages; with potential confusion because of being old), or Backdate them all and then ( Read more... )

One silly idea and three lines of javascript later and I have the old satellite dish back all the time now.

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Whilst grobbling about in grail (my lj style) to deal with the new URLs I noticed the following discrepancy (pointer added to image by hand!)


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I don't think that LJ is supposed to look like this. However they do know about this problem.

Is it just me who is tired already of this "Doesn't $politician look tired" meme?

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