Livejournal no more
After 15-years I've decided to give-up on livejournal . I'm not giving up because all the "cool kids" are no longer here; I'm not giving up because I'm giving up; I'm giving up because livejournal is a pain to use, and because even with a paid journal, there is no option that allows readers to read without being bombarded with ads which often mess up the content/layout.
Instead, you can find my now infrequent observations and ramblings over on a personally hosted wordpress blog, with a custom domain name. Head on over https://news4tri.com
It's fun to remember that when I first joined Livejournal, Mark Zuckerberg was using livejournal to "blog" about hacking through Harvard systems to create facemash. I met many people IRL through Livejournal and it's nascent triathlon community, especially mojojoey , mizmizuno and many others.
Livejournal, through its sale and acquisition though suffered from a classic case of the "innovator's dilemma". Overtime they introduced less and less function, less and less technology, and for those of us willing to pay for the service, less and less reason to do exactly that.
I'm guessing almost zero people will actually see, much less read this, and if you do, https://news4tri.com is what you need and where you should be.