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For the one or two people on my flist who watch Criminal Minds and therefore don't actually need the spoiler cut:
( Spoilers for Criminal Minds )
( Spoilers for Criminal Minds )
So apparently LiveJournal have fixed some bugs and are now rewriting outbound links again. Read more about potential security issues and how to fix it for your reading list. I don't know of any way to fix it so that no-one who reads my posts has these rewritten links come up. I'd like to do that because, aside from security and such, I consider linkes to be part of my writing and that therefore they're changing my writing without permission, which I consider highly unethical.
I would at this point really like to delete my LiveJournal account so they can't do this to my writing any more, but I recognise that this would cause a great nuisance to a bunch of my friends. Dilemma! Further pondering required.
In the meantime, I should mention that I have two DreamWidth invites going available if anyone's interested in checking that out. Just comment or email me with the email address to send it to. How to Move from LJ to Dreamwidth in Six Easy Steps makes for good reading if you're curious about logistics.
I would at this point really like to delete my LiveJournal account so they can't do this to my writing any more, but I recognise that this would cause a great nuisance to a bunch of my friends. Dilemma! Further pondering required.
In the meantime, I should mention that I have two DreamWidth invites going available if anyone's interested in checking that out. Just comment or email me with the email address to send it to. How to Move from LJ to Dreamwidth in Six Easy Steps makes for good reading if you're curious about logistics.
I posted a couple of updates to my hair-tearing post, including "One step forward, two steps back" strikes again!
Which technically is unfair because after an aeon or two I am actually nearing the end of the book, more or less, touch wood and so forth.
However, at points which number in the hundreds it's been a near thing, and now for the first time do I realise the monstrosity I could have wrought had I slackened in my eternal vigilance: a book with a negative wordcount.
I... I don't know what such a book would be like. But I'm pretty sure it'd end up with the Doctor shouting "Run!" a lot.
Which technically is unfair because after an aeon or two I am actually nearing the end of the book, more or less, touch wood and so forth.
However, at points which number in the hundreds it's been a near thing, and now for the first time do I realise the monstrosity I could have wrought had I slackened in my eternal vigilance: a book with a negative wordcount.
I... I don't know what such a book would be like. But I'm pretty sure it'd end up with the Doctor shouting "Run!" a lot.
In which she deduplicates
Feb. 3rd, 2010 07:06 pmIf I just defriended you on LJ it's because I'm already reading you somewhere else like Dreamwidth or my RSS reader or something, and it's awkward reading something in two places. The group I just hatcheted includes both my sisters so you know there's no offense.
Now to deduplicate my icons, and eventually this evening I might get around to something useful like writing.
Now to deduplicate my icons, and eventually this evening I might get around to something useful like writing.
In which it's personal
Feb. 1st, 2010 07:54 pmBack in December I wrote about how LJ planned to make the gender field mandatory and binary. They backed down on that and kept the male/female/unspecified split.
But yesterday I heard that LJ has now (without announcement or discussion) renamed "unspecified" to "it's personal", though they've been told that for a whole lot of people it's not some great secret, it's just that it's neither male-not-female nor female-not-male.
They say that our feedback is valuable to them and it sounds like they're discussing options to fix it, but I'm kind of not so hopeful that even if they fix it this time they won't break it again in another month or two.
So I'm taking my hitherto very slow transition towards Dreamwidth a step further, thus:
But yesterday I heard that LJ has now (without announcement or discussion) renamed "unspecified" to "it's personal", though they've been told that for a whole lot of people it's not some great secret, it's just that it's neither male-not-female nor female-not-male.
They say that our feedback is valuable to them and it sounds like they're discussing options to fix it, but I'm kind of not so hopeful that even if they fix it this time they won't break it again in another month or two.
So I'm taking my hitherto very slow transition towards Dreamwidth a step further, thus:
- I've imported all my LJ entries and comments into Dreamwidth;
- tweaking of my awesome zebra-stripe Dreamwidth theme/CSS continues;
- from now on I'll be posting in Dreamwidth with (if I've configured this right) an automatic crosspost into LJ;
- I'd mildly prefer people to comment in Dreamwidth (if you don't have an account you can use the OpenID option with yourusername.livejournal.com, or the anonymous option if you find it easier) and keep all the conversation together there, but I don't really mind that much so just comment wherever you prefer;
- I'll hang around in LJ to read and comment;
- I'll slowly pull together my Dreamwidth access list and reading circle over time. If you've got a DW account, I'll find you quicker if you tell/remind me of your username but otherwise I'm sure I'll find you anyway.
