vulpine137

Time for the Wedding. Well, in about 4 hours, but I have to cut out in a few, meet up with part of the wedding party and car pool up. Should be an interesting day.

katster

Random thoughts from ye olde brain of mine:

* The stoplight question from a few days ago? The reason it came up was that I was reading a fascinating book about traffic and automobiles, and in a discussion about relative corruption levels and traffic laws obeyed, he brought up that point — that even at 2 AM, when the roads are deserted and you’d have just about the perfect opportunity to get away with running the red, you still stop. Stopping at red lights is that powerfully engraved in your psyche. Of course, he points out, the same can’t be said about speed limits. ;)

Anyway, fascinating question, and that’s why I thought I’d bring it up. My thanks to glinda_w,lirazel, and melchar for engaging me with it.

* I crossed the halfway point tonight. I’ll update the graph later, and then open the betting pool for when I’m going to cross the 50k mark. ;) Sadly, there will be no prize other than our happy recognition and cheers for being the closest.

* Had a bit of a meltdown at work; talked with one of my coworkers; she gave me some really good thoughts. Yah, I think the rest of this year is going to be getting myself aligned and ready to hit the ground running in 2010. And yeah, I’ll be looking just about everywhere I can.

* Came across a bumper sticker on the drive home tonight that read, “It’s time for America to bless God!” You know, the funny thing is, I thought it worked the other way around…

* If Paypal will hurry it up, I’ll be going to the Bay Area for the Night of Writing Dangerously, as the last bit I need is coming across that way. My thanks to everybody that helped. There will be a longer post about this in the next few days, once things are confirmed.

* And that’s about it.

Thoughts?

PS: Google Chrome DOES NOT play nice with Wordpress. It just kinda ignores it when you hit the publish button…

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

vulpine137

I pulled a bonehead today. On the way into work I stopped and got gas. Filled up the car, checked oil and other fluids, and was running late. Somehow I forgot to take the nozzle out of my gas tank...

You can see where this is going...

So I drive off, and I heard this weird pop/thunk sound. I look back, and there is the hose, swinging free. Oh crap. Stop. Get out of the car, look confused. Just as the store manager comes running up. Admit to being a bonehead, hand her the nozzle, and then convince her I wasn't trying to drive off without paying. It helped to have the receipt print out when she stuck the nozzle back in place. I drive off again, and run to work.

So let this be a lesson to you. Don't pull a me ;)

vulpine137

Yay for Friday. Even Fridays that start really busy weekends. :) I'm in a much better mood today, not sure what changed, but I'll take it. Slept fairly good, if not enough sleep. Was out late last night, helping Amythest and some other friends put together the groomscake for tomorrow's wedding. Was fun, did some frosting. That's about the limit of my baking skill. ;)

Tonight is the wedding rehersal, rehersal dinner, and bachelor party. Gonna be a busy night, and alot of driving all over creation. Then getting up earlish (for a Saturday), hauling back across town, getting on the monkey suit, pictures, wedding, more pictures, food. Hopefully, the universe will take pitty on me, and it will be an early evening. Sunday I'm returning the monkey suit, then me and Amythest are offically Not Doing Anything Save Vegging. ;) I'm so looking forward to not doing anything, it sounds so nice...

Work is good, had an Imperial Arseload of tickets, that I'm still working though. I also have a project from the boss, I'll be working on network monitoring foo. And network backup foo (it's already setup, but I want to redo it in a more effecient and accessable way. And then, I get to learn how to setup a bandwidth monitoring program as well. Wee. Still, it will be nice to be more busy. Less time to worry about things.

Not alot else right this second. Guess I should get back to work. Wait, I'm still waiting on a download. Oh well. Still have nothing else to ramble about. Laters :)

vulpine137

miintikwa and shadowwolf13. Two of the hottest livejournalers I know, hope you both have wonderful days, and great years. *hugs*

katster

So, y’know how I’ve been asking y’all for money? I’m down to needing to come up with ~$20. This is because I have a set of awesome friends.

I’m going to write (by hand, mind you) thank you cards to everybody that’s supported me once things have calmed down a bit and I know who I need to write them for. And yeah, given the ugly mood I started November in, this is just that more awesome.

So yeah, after the rocky start, November’s gotten a lot better, if for no other reason than I’m reminded I ain’t alone out here. Not that they needed to say it, but sometimes my head gets strange. :) And so this is just a shoutout to all my awesome friends. :)

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

marta
lj_releases

• Added Notes feature to "Add Friend" and "Ban and Unban users" pages. See this post in paidmembers for more details
• Added link to new comment/entry search on all current search pages
• Writers Block email notifications now contain the question in the body of the email

• When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds no longer become broken (LJSV-687)
• Removed super-special celebrity status of a particular journal, which was getting inadvertently linked to whenever a div class was used to reference an LJ user (LJSV-625)
• Fixed issue where entry content was replaced by <br /> upon post in some situations (LJSV-747)
• Pressing "ъ" (Cyrillic "Yer" sign) when using the RTE no longer switches to bold text mode, and now correctly renders the character
• Switching from RTE to HTML editor no longer inserts extra line/space (LJSV-486)
• RTE functions now work properly in Safari 4.0 (LJSV-648)
• Insert Image link now works correctly in all browsers
• The "LJ user" button now gives correct code in Opera so that lj-user tags render properly

• Comments containing links from untrustworthy domains are automatically screened
• The time on an entry now updates to reflect the time actually posted and not the time the update.bml window was opened
• Memcache workaround for disappearing comment issue (LJSV-748)
• Fixed bug in Sponsored Accounts program so that users can decline after the sponsorship period has expired
• Adjusted width of right column on logged-in homepage for livejournal.ru
• My Guests interstitial now functions as intended (it is set to off, even though the "yes" radio button is pre-checked)
• When adding a contact on LJ Messenger, if the person has not set up an account it now sends proper request to contact to create account
• Fixed code glitch on charity v-gifts in gift shop
• After redirect to login page, user is returned to orignial page after logging in (LJSV-685; DW-1460 - Thank you!)
• Ratings indicators on livejournal.ru homepage now work in IE
• Increased timeout and cache time so that external stylesheets (cssproxy check) should now appear properly under periods of high load (LJSV-450)
• Link types that end in things like "-pool" should now render correctly and not get cut off
• Comments with padding/backgrounds no longer wrap outside of the comment box (LJSV-755)
• AdSense tab now shows for Basic/Plus users but is greyed out
• Turned on geo-location feature on new account creation and edit profile pages

theljstaff
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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

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!

Curtains

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

vulpine137

Help plot a spawning day celebration for a friend, then start shopping for her gift. Yay for friends, they rock :)

vulpine137

From last night...

Whiskey the Wonder Weasel has a new favorite toy. It's a little plastic figure of Eva from the Wall-E movie. Just watched him running around carrying it in his mouth. Then he dragged it off to his toy cache. Yay for ferrets, they do help the mood improve.