After I read up on the details of LJ's most recent clusterFubar, I wondered which cluster my own journal and comms were on.  (If you haven't read the gory details, or don't want to, the short version is:  LJ server cluster fall down go boom.  All journals connected to cluster fall over.  All journals connected to comms connected to cluster fall ( Read more... )

How recently did you install an update to Java?

If your answer is "Last week" or "Last month" or "Huh?  What's that?" or, in fact, anything other than "Yesterday" or "Today", go thou and update.  Now.  Then come back here and I'll tell you why, but seriously, DON'T WAIT.

http://www.java.com/en/download/inc/windows_upgrade_xpi.jsp

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Along with starting the Tumblr account for icanhastofu, I also set up a Google Analytics account, so I can track my traffic spy on fandom boost my ego with gratuitous details.  A few days ago, I enabled it on the LOLMac journal here on LJ as well, which is giving me a lovely lesson in international geography, a few giggles (someone ended up on ( Read more... )

Well, aughh.  I just discovered a weakness in the LJ tagging system -- apparently you can only page back 380 items in a given tag!  Given that, at present, I have over 400 items under the Jack O'Neill tag and over 700 under the MacGyver tag, this just plain sucks.  I want Stargate fans in particular to have the ability to page back through just the ( Read more... )

I don't seem to be able to actually embed this image, so you'll have to follow the link.  Trust me.  It's worth it.  Especially if you like any or all of the following:  1) yarn crafts, 2) math, 3) girls with brains, 4) erudite puns.

http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2012/02/25

Anyone else creeped out by the idea that, after you're dead, the Mormons regard themselves as having an undisputable right to baptise you posthumously in their church?

Yea, me too.  It's creeped me out for years.

Now we have Internet Vengeance[TM]!

All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay

This just in:  if you haven't already, go to Google and search on "let it snow".  I'm told it doesn't work in IE, but not inclined to test it.

If you wait long enough, you also get a 'Defrost' button.

Next time there's a persistent problem with LJ, I'm just going to Google 'Russia politics elections'.

Tomorrow, Sunday, are the Russian parliamentary elections.  Putin is setting himself up for the presidency again.  So, like wasps after a picnic fruit salad, LJ gets another round of attacks.  Gah.

I'm hoping it eases up after tomorrow, anyway.

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The only member of my own birth family with whom I still interact is my über-geeky sister, who beats me hands down on all the tech questions.  (Seriously:  when we're together, she configures my wireless.)  So all I can do with truly fantastic articles like these is pass them on:

How to Keep Thanksgiving from Being a Family Tech Trainwreck

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iSad.