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Some of my posts are missing.
2013-01-01 06:55 pmIt's come to my attention that both of the posts I made today have failed to crosspost from http://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org -- please go there to read them.
Signal boost
2011-12-21 08:22 pmAt kshandra's suggestion, I'm signal-boosting amberdiceless's Open Letter to Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP, parent company of Livejournal.
Not that I expect it to do much good.
PSA: Fixing Livejournal
2011-12-21 08:07 pmHere, in two easy pieces, is how to fix Livejournal's recent problems.
Fixing the comment page.
- First, if you're still using an S1 (ancient) style, switch to S2.
- Go to your profile.
- Go to Journal > Journal Style, and in the box headed <yourID>'s Current Theme click on "Customize your theme" (or just follow the link)
- Under "Basic Options", find the line labeled "Disable customized comment pages for your journal". Select "No". (As in "no, don't fsck up my comments".)
- Go to Profile > Settings > Display(tab) (or just follow this link.)
- Under "Comment Pages", check the box for "View comment pages from my Friends page in my own style"
Fixing DDOS attacks, Rich Text Editor failures, and a host of other problems.
- Go to dreamwidth.org and create an account. For the rest of this year you can create a free account without an invite code, but a paid account is well worth the price.
- From your profile, go to Organize > Manage Account > Other Sites (tab), or follow this link.
- Add your LJ account under "Crossposting", and check the boxes under "Crosspost by Default" and "Display Crosspost Link". Now anything you post on your shiny new DW account will be crossposted to LJ.
- Go to Organize > Import Content (or follow the link to Import Journal). Import your old LJ contents. Do this every month or so to import the accumulated comments.
Now, sit back and watch the ongoing decline of LJ with a certain air of amused detachment.
Done yesterday (20111220 Tu)
2011-12-21 08:17 amLJ Release 88 is out, complete with sucky comment pages. There are nearly 5000 comments on the release announcement; it'll probably be over by the time I post this. Why they did this is just absolutely baffling. What, were they thinking? Yet another triumph of "design" over usability. Them and Gnome 3.
I tried installing the lxde desktop on Cygnus; it looks ok and is fast, but doesn't seem to have a network manager applet, so it's useless. It would work well on a hardwired, low-resource machine like one of the old Thinkpads, though. I'd already given up on xfce because, for all its flaws, I like my Gnome2 layout better.
A lot of the morning was spent at Kaiser, getting a new glasses prescription and an EKG. The optometrist also noticed that I have blepharitis in my left eye. Which I'd already noticed. Have to work on that.
I also mailed a package of holiday gifts, having given up trying to gift-wrap them in favor of getting them actually, you know, in the mail. I don't know what it is about gift-wrapping, but I always leave it for the last minute -- or beyond.
I also took a walk, and got a reasonable amount done at work. So... good.
In the links, Mexico's Mayan region launches apocalypse countdown. Tom Smith pointed out that there were Only 367 Shopping Days Left -- it would be 366, now. Happy apocalypse. Hmm. Maybe LJ is celebrating it a year early?
( raw notes )Done yesterday (20111216 Fr)
2011-12-17 09:54 amIt was a busy morning -- two doctors' appointments, and an 11am presentation (dry run of our group's presentation in late January) that ran through most of lunchtime. Oh, and flu and tetanus/pertussis shots.
I spent most of the afternoon writing my weekly progress report and doing some long-delayed cleanup in my home directory. Things like deleting broken links and config files for programs that haven't been installed since, in some cases, the turn of the century.
I came home to a huge pile of groceries just arrived from Safeway; they required advanced Tetris skills to get into freezers and fridges, and in the end I had to put the milk in the garage (it's cold enough, at least at night) and the pork shoulder into the crock pot (for carnitas).
Several interesting links -- I think my favorite is ysabetwordsmith's poem, "Imperfect Light". And Dreamwidth is allowing open account creation (no invite codes needed) for the rest of the year. Just in time, given the latest Livejournal idiocy.
I have a permanent account on LJ -- I'm not going away. But you may have noticed that a lot of us are crossposting from DW now.
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