Hating the new livejournal layout. It took me a while to find how to log in again, even. Yeah, let's make it simple and put large fonts and make it more like facetwit. And mobile.

[Edit ] Ah, it has reverted to the previous look once I logged in. Confusing. The info page still has that 'My Little Info Page' look, though.

Gets a bit lonely in App.net sometimes. In some ways better than twitter although smaller. That has been said about Dreamwidth in relation to Livejournal, mind. In any case, in case I may tempt you:

https://join.app.net/from/dgpyfxmjst

The Wikipedia article on App.net.

it would seem like the livejournal so-called memes have moved to Facebook. The sort of 'Which character in famous movie are you' type quizzes. I thought those things had died in 2004. Never understood their appeal but then, there is so much about pop culture that I don't understand.

Charlie Stross does it again: a Markov chain on H P Lovecraft and King James' Bible:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/lovebiblepl.html#more

The results are a bit, as he says, crude, but oh, the possibilities.

Funny old livejournal -or at least my f-page, which of course I do not know whether representative of LJ in general or not ( Read more... )

I finally got around to putting up a facebook page for my classical guitar playing.

Not a lot there as yet, but if you want to have a peek (and perhaps click the 'like' button if you feel like it), it is here:
https://www.facebook.com/FlavioMataniClassicalGuitar

Second instance of an odd crash in my iMac (2008, C2D, 6GB RAM, ML) where the whole GUI freezes, including the clock but not the mouse pointer which still responds. Yeah, if you were going to suggest bad memory that's what I thought the first time (and with the other wake-from-sleep crashes that turned out to be a well documented something else) ( Read more... )

One small niggle with social sites -including LJ as one- is that whenever someone posts some announcement (normally clubs or gigs) you get to see a gazillion copies of it in different places and, in lj, on different communities taking over your entire friends' page -oh, ok, that may be a slight exaggeration and it only feels like it. And the ( Read more... )

Busy busy day in my livejournal's friends' page, busiest for a couple of years. Quite a few peeps (some who I hadn't seen here for quite a while) had something to say today -and all of it interesting to read (interesting for me to read, maybe I should say -can't speak for anybody else ( Read more... )

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