LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

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In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

Just upgraded to 2.6.32 and I notice two problems (so far). I have a Thinkpad T61. I notice that my custom sysfs settings for my TrackPoint don't work: the entries which set settings such as sensitivity are missing from /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/serio1, and this might be because the mouse is detected as a Generic PS/2 Mouse instead of having the TPPS/2 protocol extension.

Possibly related is the fact that the hdapsd daemon cannot find the hdaps input device. Any clues what happened with input in the 2.6.32 cycle that might be causing this?

I note also that udev spit out a metric fuckton of deprecation warnings for configuration file syntax on bootup.

My .config is here if anyone thinks that I might have answered some oldconfig questions wrong.

Update: Oh, also, I have UltraNav so I have both the TrackPoint and a Touchpad. The touchpad still works and is detected correctly as before.

Update 2: Additionally, the hdaps input device is registered—

[ 10.666730] hdaps: inverting axis (3) readings.
[ 10.666733] hdaps: LENOVO ThinkPad T61 detected.
[ 10.667382] input: hdaps as /devices/platform/hdaps/input/input8
[ 10.667441] hdaps: driver successfully loaded.


—it's just that userspace can't detect it.

I used Windows DVD Maker to burn on a DVD+R DL and in the preview everything seemed fine but after it was done burning, I opened the DVD using a DVD playing, the background video of the menu only covered half of the screen. Can someone help me with this? Why did it happen? and how can i get rid of this problem?

ESPN Text Alert:

Phillies signed INF Placido Polanco to 3-year contract worth 18 million, he will start at 3B.

I bought some Oolong tea.
I'm pretty excited about it.

Last month I talked about billy dee being sick, and then I didn't post an update because nothing conclusive ever really came out of that. I think (but I'm not certain) that the cortisone changed him from sounding like death to just sounding really sick. But honestly it's hard to tell.

I'd posted for advice aon guinea lynx and people there said he's got a heart condition, and we should try him on ACE inhibitors. They said it's a common missed thing and they even have a big write-up that you can take in to a vet: http://www.guinealynx.info/heart.html

The problem is that I really bad trying to self-diagnose an animal online when he's already seen a medical professional. I could call our vet again, and hope he's got another option up his sleeve. I could try another vet... one that's on the guinea lynx site. But I'd want our old vet to send the x-rays over.

I guess I was hoping our vet and the internet would just magically agree without consulting one another, or our vet would do something amazing to make Billy healthier. Since Billy has scar tissue on his lungs, I'm not even convinced he has a heart issue. I just know he's not really better right now.

Also I'm a bad pig owner, because you're supposed to always be weighing your pigs to monitor their health and we haven't done that. Billy feels skinny. I see him eating all the time but when I pick him up I feel things... hips, shoulder bones, spine. When I pick up jabba I feel A LOT OF FAT, when I pick up pinky or the brain I feel a reasonable amount of rodent substance. So those three seem healthy and normal. I'm not sure how to fatten up a guinea pig, their diet consists of hay and veggies, it's not like you can switch them to big macs.

sighs.

oh, sorry I can't post about guinea pigs without a pigture. Here's Billy, pausing between two fluffy butts to ask, "What's wrong with me?"

In my spare time I run two websites and they use joomla as I have a number of users who add content on a regular basis.

So I am looking for a link checking program that identifies 404 links. I use Linux mainly, but would be open to something on Windows. Ideally I would like this to be able to run daily, and send an email, but what ever.

Also, please, don't recommend a Joomla plugin. I have far too many plugins installed already.

Thanks in advance.

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

She started doing this at about three weeks old



So adorable. Sometimes she giggles too, and other times she dozes off while feeding and smiles with my nipple in her mouth. Ha.

My Twitter posts from throughout the day.

• 13:19 The Linksys SPA962 on my desk. Tux approved. bit.ly/61BssG #

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i got before n after pics too

( so far only livin room n kitchen which desperately needs help )
thanks for lookin!!!

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My favorite band broke up. :(
I am more upset about this than I'm letting on.

I never got to see The Lucksmiths live and they didn't include the US in the farewell tour.

Happy with your thrift find, proud of a paint job, want to show off pictures of your new saucy sofa? Inspired by something you saw or just want to leave a show-me-your... request?



You can show it here... have fun!

Hi
I hope you can help me with my problem :]
I downloaded 2 videos from youtube yesterday using realplayer so they are located in ''Real Player Downloads'' folder.. I wanted to move them to another folder in ''Downloads'' folder..but every time I open ''Real Player Downloads'' folder the color scheme changes..then I created shortcuts of the 2 videos in the ''Downloads'' folder..when I opened ''Downloads'' folder after I created shortcuts the color scheme changed again..so I knew that the 2 videos are causing the problem..I decided to delete them but they couldn't be deleted! although their size is small, they take so much time deleting and this appears http://i46.tinypic.com/nq1uv7.jpg

changing the color scheme makes my computer slower..
my laptop is HP Pavilion dv4 & I use Windows Viste Home Premium
I hope the information I gave helps
I'm sorry it's complicated..I couldn't explain it better :[

I barely have time to brush my teeth twice a day, so why expect I'll have time to write regularly? But I need to. I am going through so much these past five weeks. My day is being cut into these two-hour segments that break up the start of feeding times. A feeding starts, finishes 40 minutes later, then I have about an hour and 20 minutes or so to get anything done before the next feeding starts. What this means is that I really have no time to do anything outside the house, like going shopping or running other errands (or having any fun), unless I want to extend the time between feedings. Which I did today because I had to get out of the goddamn house. Freya and I went to the store. She rides in her Beco carrier and falls right to sleep.

She has been sleeping plenty. Her active time seems to run from the late afternoon til about midnight or 1am. Yes, this blows. I am exhausted. Luckily when she goes to sleep at 1am, she stays asleep. Except that I need to get her up at about 4am to eat and I hate disturbing my precious angel, plus I am so fucking tired I'd rather stay asleep, too.

It sucks. Sigh. This is really hard. Breastfeeding is still presenting challenges. Still having pain, and still do not own a good supporting nursing bra. I always loved having small boobs, and now I remember why.

The other night at around 10:30 Brian took Freya and told me to go to bed. He stayed downstairs with her and watched TV. I got to be alone in my bed for the first time in over a month. It was magical. I went to sleep for almost two whole hours. Then I woke up at midnight, and went down to feed her again.

I love my baby so much and I am determined not to give up on breastfeeding. But I now understand people who do. It's so hard to get used to. My boobs hurt almost all the time, they are so heavy now. My nipples, while not cracked or bleeding, still hurt like hell and are unbelievably sensitive. I run my hand under cold water and my nipples scream. The one on the right is flatter than the one on the left, and I need to use a plastic shield so that Freya can nurse from that side more effectively. I don't understand why they aren't both the same shape and size. But they have been through hell over the last five weeks, so deformity is to be expected I guess.

Freya is going to be five weeks old tomorrow. She is amazing. She is beautiful and gaining weight and healthy and is bonding more and more with us every day. She now smiles, holds eye contact, and makes incredibly cute vocalizations. I love watching her grow and develop into a little person. She has a ways to go yet. These connections we are now making are kind of a payoff for the weeks of feeling like she didn't know or care who we were.

I have a lot more to say but guess what, time to feed my daughter, and myself. That's another area in which I am faltering. Also: housework. I want to get to the point where the baby can sit in her bouncer for extended periods (30 minutes at least), sleeping or whatever (not crying -- I do not let her sit and cry), so that I can wash dishes or make lunch or pick up debris around the house. It's very hard watching the house slide into disarray. Makes me wonder why I spent all that time nesting and making our home clean and perfect only to watch it crumble within hours of her arrival.

Well, Brian "gives" me an hour off a night (ooh! a whole HOUR!) so I hope I can use some of the time for writing stuff down. This newborn time is such a blur that I know I will forget most of it within a few months. It's only December and I am already longing, aching for spring to arrive...

You can see the cover and the first three pages of BofB #4 here on the Dark Horse Comics Website.

In other "news" - I think I might be mouthing off with Dan Vado again for the entire hour on the SLG Radio Show this Thursday, I'll post about it later this week if it's definitely happening. It's been a lot of fun talking with Dan, or yelling at Dan, or whatever it is you want to call what I do (immature, misinformed outbursts --?) on the show these past few weeks. We're hoping to get some callers, even though most folks who listen in do so via the archives. Anyway, there's that.

Otherwise...weird day. Got some pages approved by Bongo. Saw friends of ours on the cover of a new DVD release. Odd stuff on Twitter. Interesting project dangled before my eyes (and the eyes of others, but can't say who, what, where or how in the hell --?). And I received a surprise gift in the mail of some DVDs I wanted and could not afford. Overall a happening bunch of hours.

Which means...

Something bad is definitely going to happen.

It must be some kind of a set-up.

I smell a rat.

Etc.

For some reason, sometime after I upgraded to Karmic, the screensaver stopped working. No matter how long I leave the computer idle for, the screensaver does not come on and the screen will not lock. The computer refuses to acknowledge that it is in fact idle. The screensaver is one and it will enable and lock when i type in:
gnome-screensaver-command -l

That works fine. I've tried changing the idle time, disabling any applets, but I'm stumped. Any ideas?

So after my upgrade to 9.10 I can't play a lot of flash video (ala youtube). This seems to be not uncommon and more people suggest reinstalling flashplugin-nonfree (as well as uninstalling other flash stuffs). this did nothing for me.

Here's what I've got:

Shockwave Flash

File name: /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

I ran the following:
sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

this did not solve a thing. I'm still staring at a big play button that does nothing.

Thoughts?

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