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Jan. 6th, 2005 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaI don't BELIEVE this. I was pulling down the Symbols menu to get that "®" symbol, and MICROSOFT WORD CRASHED. I think I recovered all my work, but... WAH. But even so:
THE MATRIX IS FINISHED.*
*If by finished, you mean, "Reached a point where it was publically presentable and also, I was tired."
Anyway, a couple of things that came to my attention while I was working:
MARRY ME.
Quick warning: there's some spamming fucker that's hit dozens of people I know, probably hundreds if not thousands of other people, and I've seen his handiwork on my Blogspot, JF, and LJ. If you get a really annoying spam comment in giant font: DO NOT REPLY TO IT. DO NOT LEAVE IT UP. Delete the comment, and when you do, "Report this comment as spam" will come up as an option. Check that. It's not harmful, per se--that's just what you have to do if you don't want the spammer to profit in any way.
And as a quick commentary/clarification on the LJ-Six Apart merger announced last night--I'm cautiously optimistic that they're not intending to mess up the things we like. I mean, they probably will. But at least they didn't come out of the gate shooting, you know? So we can hold off on the mass Greatest Journal exodus for the moment.
I have to say, though--I squarely attribute most of the success I've had with "Movies in Fifteen Minutes," including the book itself, to the community nature of LiveJournal (and, specifically, an early link to "Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes" from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theferrett). I got lots of links from blogs outside LJ, but I'm firmly convinced that it's the densely-connected grapevine nature of LJ that got the whole thing started, and it's how I've continued to seek out new readers. And the reason I feel so certain about this is because I've had a website, and I've had a Blogspot blog (and an Easyjournal, and a Diaryland journal... ) and nothing can compare to the speed and ease with which you can make friends and spread news via LJ. If the Six Apart merger endangers that in any way... well, I'll leave you a forwarding journal address.
THE MATRIX IS FINISHED.*
*If by finished, you mean, "Reached a point where it was publically presentable and also, I was tired."
Anyway, a couple of things that came to my attention while I was working:
CNN said goodbye to pundit Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, and with him likely the "Crossfire" program that has been the granddaddy of high-volume political debate shows on cable television.
CNN will probably fold "Crossfire" into its other programming, perhaps as an occasional segment on the daytime show "Inside Politics," said Jonathan Klein, who was appointed in late November as chief executive of CNN's U.S. network.
The bow-tied wearing conservative pundit got into a public tussle last fall with comic Jon Stewart, who has been critical of cable political programs that devolve into shoutfests.
"I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp," Klein told The Associated Press.
MARRY ME.
Quick warning: there's some spamming fucker that's hit dozens of people I know, probably hundreds if not thousands of other people, and I've seen his handiwork on my Blogspot, JF, and LJ. If you get a really annoying spam comment in giant font: DO NOT REPLY TO IT. DO NOT LEAVE IT UP. Delete the comment, and when you do, "Report this comment as spam" will come up as an option. Check that. It's not harmful, per se--that's just what you have to do if you don't want the spammer to profit in any way.
And as a quick commentary/clarification on the LJ-Six Apart merger announced last night--I'm cautiously optimistic that they're not intending to mess up the things we like. I mean, they probably will. But at least they didn't come out of the gate shooting, you know? So we can hold off on the mass Greatest Journal exodus for the moment.
I have to say, though--I squarely attribute most of the success I've had with "Movies in Fifteen Minutes," including the book itself, to the community nature of LiveJournal (and, specifically, an early link to "Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes" from
theferrett). I got lots of links from blogs outside LJ, but I'm firmly convinced that it's the densely-connected grapevine nature of LJ that got the whole thing started, and it's how I've continued to seek out new readers. And the reason I feel so certain about this is because I've had a website, and I've had a Blogspot blog (and an Easyjournal, and a Diaryland journal... ) and nothing can compare to the speed and ease with which you can make friends and spread news via LJ. If the Six Apart merger endangers that in any way... well, I'll leave you a forwarding journal address.
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:10 pm (UTC)Ditto. I've had a deadjournal. I've had a Blogspot blog. Neither place have been quite like LJ.
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:21 pm (UTC)Sorry, it had to be said.
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:15 pm (UTC)Congrats on getting The Matrix done!
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:16 pm (UTC)LJ really is a cool community. =)
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:18 pm (UTC)Now, as for the Matrix being done *showers you with confetti & chocolate* Woot!!!!
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Date: 2005-01-06 07:08 pm (UTC)BTW! Icon love! I've had a mondo crush on Harrison Ford as Han Solo since I was... 12. I'm 21 now.
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:23 pm (UTC)The name of the burrito place is Juan's Flying Burrito. Two locations. Midcity and uptown (where we went). Now I want a burrito. Damn.
Hungrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:24 pm (UTC)This lady works for LJ in the abuse department (*shudder*) and she's pretty in the know about the workings.
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Date: 2005-01-06 02:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:25 pm (UTC)And congrats on The Matrix! I'm so looking foward to this book!
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:30 pm (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/samisen/187017.html
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Date: 2005-01-06 01:39 pm (UTC)Sorry if this is spammy.
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Date: 2005-01-06 02:05 pm (UTC)RE the LJ 6A merger -- I don't think LJ's going to be shut down in six months, or anything like that. But from what I've seen of 6A, especially Mena "Email is Dead" wossname -- and corporatespeak like "LJ's weaknesses are our strengths, and its strengths are our weaknesses" -- I'm not that sanguine. But I could just be remembering too much of the Yahoo/Geocities debacle, you never know....
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Date: 2005-01-06 02:16 pm (UTC)It's like a magnificent sunset, it's so beautiful.
Congrats on making the deadline! It gets easier -- and maybe with the next one you won't be battling a combo of holidays, illness and coursework. Surely not. That's a (thankfully) rare conjunction.
I was pulling down the Symbols menu to get that "®" symbol, and MICROSOFT WORD CRASHED.
Oh, GOD. You're a strong one. I would've died on the spot. There'd be no question of recovering the work, because I'd be dead.
Wait, that's not totally accurate. I was coloring a comic once on a hideous deadline and lost the last 4 pages in a crash, and I didn't exactly die. But I wanted to, so much.
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Date: 2005-01-06 02:45 pm (UTC)I have reserved myself a GJ, and may start using that as a rant journal or some such, because ICONS, but it's good to know that most people don't seem worried. In any case, I really do like LJ because of that communal nature. It makes it easy to keep in touch with people which is, largely, why I use it in the first place. Diaryland didn't have that, and so I ended up here.
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Date: 2005-01-06 07:41 pm (UTC)About the changes - I'm fairly new to LJ, but I really like it and hope nothing (good) changes. It WOULD be cool to be able to 'friend' people with other types of blogs (my friend has a movable type one), but I understand that's not possible.
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Date: 2005-01-06 04:09 pm (UTC)Probably they are and GW just doesn't want us to know.
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Date: 2005-01-06 04:22 pm (UTC)And congrats on getting the Matrix done! :D
I just started using Livejournal last fall (and then forgot about my journal, oops!) and I'm a huge fan. I've had blogs and journals at many sites, but LJ has been my favourite so far.
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Date: 2005-01-06 06:56 pm (UTC)I only just joined LJ so I don't have any problems yet... well beside the dumb questions I have to ask but ya know... gotta learn sometime...
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Date: 2005-01-06 10:06 pm (UTC)Whatever. I don't know. It's late.
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