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...checkin' you all out @___@

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

Gettin' all nostalgic and such.

( Stanny goodness... )

(I apologize for having to post and delete and repost this. >_>' I think my compy and lj cuts are spiteful ex-lovers or something; they just will not cooperate.)

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Nothing interesting to post today, so here are the boys giving their thoughts on the Shake Weight For Men.

Pardon the heinous mirror shot in my kitchen. My camera is completely AWOL so until I track is down this is as good as it gets.

New icon is from mangos_w_paopus' parody doujinshi. Hee!

Oh man, last night's dream.

So. Alton Brown invites me over to his house - we're gonna hang out, maybe watch a DVD, cook some stuff, and just chill. But when I get there, I'm face to face with 5 world-famous chefs, all standing there in the kitchen, brightly backlit.

We're each supposed to make a spectacular dish using a particular ingredient. I think Morimoto got pine nuts. Someone else got filet mignon.

I got Goldfish crackers.

So I'm sort of freaking out, trying to figure out how the hell to make a gourmet presentation out of Goldfish. I settle for sort of a layered goat-cheese-and-rabbit-pate thing, and then attempt to arrange it artfully. The little crackers keep coming apart, sliding around on the ornate blue ceramic platter. The arrangement is terrible.

I'm already out the door as the other chefs tear into the dish, indignant that I sullied the competition with such a submission. I sigh heavily and leave through the garage door.

The next day, the Food & Life section of the newspaper boasts a gushing, glowing review of my Goldfish dish, complete with ass-kissing comments from the other chefs (who have apparently done a 180.)

Yeah I don't even know.

So I guess something finally got accross to the school administration and we might get a Q&A session with the faculty. Doubt it but here's hoping. My dad is doing better now. The cardiologist told him he had 99% blockage in one of his arteries and was living on borrowed time. He got a stint put in and feels way better because his heart isn't being STRANGLED. Jesus dad you're 67. Take care of yourself.

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm defective. I'm just not attracted to anyone sexually anymore, yet incredibly frustrated sexually as the last person I did anything with was Brent and we just made out for about a minute. That was in March.

Way to go Tawny.

Oh it's another future-AU strip

Drawn as a breather/for fun/for NaNoMangO.

Re-did ch17 p4 panel 5 tonight. It still stinks, but it's a vague cheeselike stink instead of rancid cat pee.

Guess The Movie.

These illustrations are phenomenal. I have rapturous dreams about being able to balance black and white this well.

 I'm going to see Turandot at the Met on saturday. I dearly wish to turn the whole trip from New Hampshire to New York City into one long SotT reference, but I haven't coerced any of my friends into reading it yet (not for want of trying!), so I'm just going to have my fangirl moment now, at all of you. *deep breath* SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!

...okay, I'm done. Off to re-read High Fidelity in preparation for the journey (if only I had the print edition, I could bring it along...). <3




(Does anyone else here listen to Nessun Dorma and get all excited every time the bit that was Simon's cue comes up? Does anyone else listen to opera at all?)

sixwordstories
Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.

dailyfoodie
Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.

you guys make ustream beautiful ♥

Who else is doing it? What's your plot?

Mine is "Take 90% of Jesse's characters and put most of them in the mafia!!!1!", which is how I'm conneting the post to the topic of the comm.

Well, and an excerpt, because I always for better if people are interested in my projects/threatening me to continue.



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Back bike tire is b0rked AGAIN. Yesterday I got the 4th flat in as many weeks, and this morning it slid out of alignment, even though I'd scrutinized the balance and locked it down tight last night.

This is ridiculous. I'm getting quick-release wheels and a lined Kevlar tire this weekend. (The front doesn't have as many problems for some reason.)

On the upside, going to work on a badly aligned wheel gave me about 3x the usual workout.

Anyway. Gradually reworking the <Epic site behind the scenes. Should relaunch in Jan/Feb.

Tonight: Bike junk, dog walks, comic till I fall asleep.
Tomorrow: Shovel dirt 8am-11am, Plant the rest of the winter veggies, then comic till I fall asleep. Maybe make chowder with all those ripe poblanos because damn
Sunday: Comic all the doo-dah day.

- Via rm: I want to live in there. *_*

- Via Jerry Michalski: Time-lapse evolution of a graffiti wall.

- Via Drawn.ca: Leigh Walton's Tintin sketchbook collects fan art from various comic artists.

Speaking of comics: SO HOW WAS YAOI CON?

In the Killeen/Waco/Temple area? Scott & White hospitals open later than usual for blood donors in wake of Ft. Hood shootings. Locations listed here.