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Fuck you for having the balls to not show up. After all the bullshit I've had to deal with, I would think you'd learn. Hell, maybe I'M the one that needs to learn. Fuck you.
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares! |
[The 12th
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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
- In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
- 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
- The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
- 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)!
- 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
- 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!
- We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
- When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
- RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
- An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
- The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers
LiveJournal Cares
We’re pleased to introduce you to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 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!
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| Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT |
[The 11th
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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.
Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!
Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!
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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.
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| Writer's Block: Famous last words |
[The 10th
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I want to say to my mom/Dad: I fucking hate you guys. Rot in hell, motherfucker.
I want to say to my professor crush-I love you honey.
To my therapist-Thanks for helping me.
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[The 9th
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Today i had a very rough and painful therapist session with my school therapist.
Her name is Beverly. She is very motherly and kindhearted.
I am attracting to her maternally.
I asked her to hug me because i was feeling very sad, but she rejected me.
I instantly burst into tear.
I felt like a little girl, i feel so vulnerable and small.
I hate how i feel toward her. I really like her, i don't want to loss her.
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[The 7th
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Getting your license taken away for drunk driving is not a violation of your rights.
Neither is getting arrested for breaking parole and driving drunk.
Fuck.
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[The 5th
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Put a cap on it lady!
You're one of the oldest people in our figure drawing class, and you complain more than a bored preteen on her first period at a distant relative's wedding! I make a point to sit across the room from you, but you're usually one of the only people talking, so I always end up listening to you bitch for the entire 3 hour class.
I'm tired of hearing you bitch about how much your seat sucks, how your drawing sucks because your seat sucks, about how much the music sucks, how the asperger guy who really likes Batman should have been aborted because he talks about Batman a lot (seriously, WTF lady), about how the person across the room who coughed MUST have the swine flu and MUST be trying to make you miss work and wind up in the poorhouse, etc.
Also, stop getting huffy when I have the misfortune of sitting near you, and don't nod my head when you say nothing but shit like "Oh my GOD, I HAET this music so much! There goes my concentration, amiright?" over and over again when half the class (including me) is humming along and having a good time.
At first I figured you acted this way because you weren't sure how to start conversations with young people, or were covering up your discomfort, but now I'm sure you're just an incredibly annoying negative person.
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[The 6th
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Fuck me and my insecurity.
I know he's not cheating on me. So he's taken to staying out a little later than usual the last couple of nights. Big deal.
I trust him. I know better than to get all paranoid like this-- I don't even know why I'm so freaked out. So what if he's not responding to my texts? It happens. It doesn't have to mean anything bad.
I'm going to wind up going to bed in twenty minutes without hearing from him. Why am I so anxious for him to turn up? He always turns up.
Fuck you, insecurity. He's not cheating on me for that new friend of his, so just calm the fuck down and let me sleep. I have work in the morning.
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Ich hab Dich lieb - Schnuffel Bunny |
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I would like to give a big fuck you to nebris, theAmazingAtheist, nebris's gay monkey Joey, theAmazingAtheist's copious body hair and smu for showing me one night of *true*, resplendent, ~glorious~, incandescent, magnificent/, resplendent, majestic passion that was amorous, ARDENT, arousing, concupiscent, ~desirous~, erotic, *heavy*, hot, ~*~lascivious~*~, libidinous, loving, lustful, prurient, romantic, sexy, steamy, /stimulated/, sultry, WANTON-- and then never returning my calls. It's like you've driven a stake right through my heart, nay, unto my very brain steam! But not really, because that would be bloody and stuff, BUT IT STILL HURTS like being raped by a rusty steel pipe...
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YOU ARE MONSTERS AND I AM AS SERIOUS AS THE INTERNETS OK
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[The 5th
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FUCK YOU.
You honestly have a serious fucking psychological issue. You need to grow the fuck up, check in with reality, and get your shit together because I'm not dealing with you anymore. For a while I put a smile on my face and dealt with your annoying fucking personality and your flakiness. Now YOU are telling ME I'm not a good person just because of one situation? FUCK THAT. Do you realize how much shit I had to deal with for just being ASSOCIATED with you?! I'm done. You annoyed the shit out of me (unintentionally, because that's how you always fucking act) and NEVER have I flipped out on you because I know you couldn't take it. You are really a child that is in a 20 year old body. It's time to grow up.
And start being your own fucking person. Make your own fucking friends. Choose your own fucking style. Listen to your own fucking music. I'm tired of you up my ass, copying everything I do, every move I make. That shit gets annoying after a while.
Don't fucking talk to me.
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest |
[The 5th
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The empire strikes backIn recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.
RSS feeds againIf you're addicted to , ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.
Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!
c_s_i
If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.
Enveloped in postcardsLast week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them 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 giving ten random users paid account credits.
Photos of the weekIf you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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