| ID checks argh, need title help |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|10:14 am] |
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Further to a rant I have ranted previously -
I'm with Bill Bailey on the use of gas bills as evidence of who one is and where one lives. With my student-y peripatetic lifestyle it was a huge hassle to provide evidence which fitted the tickyboxes of bureaucracy, and several friends who were in the Young Professional class had similar problems. Recently T had to deal with some very silly demands for evidence of identity. If one manages all banking and utilities online (save money, save trees, save the planet, etc.), there are no pieces of paper containing the address and fitting the boxes. Unless of course one is a criminal in which case it's simple to forge one. Only honest people who don't want to use paper billing can't fulfil the requirement.
This morning in irc we discussed a new excrescence of gas bill syndrome. An ALUGger has ordered a big shiny Toy online, to be sent to their home address. They went through the credit card and veirfied-by-whatever processes, and then had the order held because the online store demanded proof of address before they would send out the Toy. Two proofs. A bank statement and a utility bill. This is so wrong I can't be bothered to type in the list of wrongnesses.
To relieve my feelings, I'm experiencing an urge to set up a Facebook whinge^Wprotest group. What should it be called?
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[Nov. 14th, 2009|11:50 pm] |
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The beautiful Yamaha P85 stayed in the car until today because I was so afraid of dropping it. This afternoon Elizabeth came round especially to help lift it into the house (she's the marvellous neighbour who cut the grass at the end of summer).
We assembled the stand, without any useful help from the drawings purporting to be instructions, and discovered that the keyboard slides off it. Perhaps it's the Wrong Sort.
Please does anyone know how to keep a keyboard on its stand?
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| Home again |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|02:38 pm] |
Home, tired, pleased to see that the house and garden are looking well.
The leisurely drive back included two detours to see new places. One was because of roadworks and a diversion which went through a very beautiful forest. The other was to Thouars: well worth a visit, with an impressive castle and old walls and narrow streets. Some of it reminded me of Arras.
Going to take at least two days to unpack the car, especially getting the piano in safely. The piano deserves a seperate post.
Today's temperature is 18deg C - lovely. Unfortunately clouding over, so no point looking for Leonids tonight.
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares! |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
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
- 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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[Nov. 12th, 2009|04:33 pm] |
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Hi!
So things. Well... Mo passed his driving test for he are clevers. The inaugural car ride was to Lidl. Oh yes.
The second drive was all the way to Kingston (far) to see one of Mo's colleagues play with his orchestra. Awesome. So very long since I've been to a recital. Is quite inspiring. Grieg's Piano Concerto by Grieg and a spot of Shostakovitch. Very good.
Monday is Alice in Chains. Rather excited. Need to gen up on the new album.
Next weekend, me, Ree and Em are off to the wilds of Scarborough for a drunken girlie weekend. We may be joined by the ever lovely Tarnie, although this is just a rumour.
Honey Bee Cottage
Prettyful.
Also, sturgeonface? [clicky]
Um, yeah. Apart from that.... out for giggages this evening. And cider, although that's a given.
Tomorrow = hangover
Saturday = workings. possibly also hungover.
I am a professional. |
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| Autumn : by me |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|11:18 am] |
Autumn often inspires me so, I normally write poetry (and have done so this year) however, I am taking part in a collab for BBM and yesterday I painted a top that I am just ever so proud of, so I thought I'd share. It summarises Autumn to me... I may make a canvas for our bedroom in a similar design once Buy British Month is finished!
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|01:15 pm] |
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!
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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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| Crash And Burn - Sat 21st Nov... |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|03:02 pm] |
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::Crash And Burn::
With DJs Mz_Pink, Mikki + Guests (TBC)
9pm - 2am / FREE Entry
The Bridgehouse
Aiming for less bleep and more crunch with a dark coating. We'll see how it goes. Please give us a bit of time to iron out the bugs and see what works best.
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174917185810 |
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|07:05 pm] |
Hmmmm (eBay link).
A resin figure representing Tintin, Snowy and a Japanese Ohka kamikaze plane. Was there a book called "Tintin and the Downfall of the Japanese Empire"? I must have missed it.
I think this demonstrates my long-nagging feeling that the global capacity for making stuff now vastly outstrips the global capacity for thinking of good ideas for stuff. Hence the extreme number of products, seemingly designed and assembled at random, that just leave you thinking ... "Why?"
I guess the system works because the global capacity for buying pointless, random crap may be safely approximated as infinite. Providing there's still space in the landfill sites and the environment doesn't catastrophically implode. |
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