Q. How many comments can a LiveJournal thread have?
A. 5000, apparently.

At some point my lj was limited to approximately the people I knew on talk.bizarre. Back in the day, I'd use teedotbee as many things: a sounding board, a place to post random writings, a safety valve, and so on. It's funny that I now consider a friends-only journal less "safe" than a completely open (and not retroactively censored) forum, although ( Read more... )

I much preferred logjam when it used XML files for the local backup, despite my hatred of XML, because it meant I could quickly find an old post using grep. Now it's using SQLite, which means I need to bang my head against the desk until the post I'm looking for falls out. Gah.

posting from Gaim isn't quite as cool in practice as it seemed like when I first realised it would be an obvious integration point.

I've just realised I've been using LiveJournal for a little over four years now. I've recently started going back over my friends-locked posts and figuring out if they're still worth keeping locked or not; I've unlocked a few with only one or two edits here and there because they were locked for reasons that no longer apply (in short, I don't work ( Read more... )

• I ended up nuking all the comments on the post that referred to gentoo, since there's apparently no way of saying, "ok, no more comments here" - you can freeze an individual subthread, but not the main thread. And when I said, "I don't want a distro war on my livejournal", it was apparently read as "let me tell you why I use My Favourite Distro". ( Read more... )

http://www.livejournal.com/img/goat-irish.gif

(go to "My LiveJournal", scroll down to the box with Frank (that's the goat) in it, click Edit, and select "Irish")

I just added a comment to merde's journal, and, well, it's about 6am here, and according to the comment, I posted it at about 12am, which is wrong for both our timezones. I wonder where it's getting the time from? (I used the website to post, as opposed to any client that might be doing the time frobbing for me)

Oh, and before you ask, I'm up this early ( Read more... )

I rather like this concise justification for cleaning out the friendslist. If such a thing were even needed, which is a whole 'nother thing.

my laptop spent most of this evening in Windows land, partly so that I could update the virus scanner that lives there and partly for some other reason that escapes me. While I was there I played with Firefox and Thunderbird for a bit and installed some extensions to the former. Things that I am noticing as a result of this toolery:

• Thunderbird's ( Read more... )