Driver's Guide To The Universe

I can be impulsive, I fall in love with hobbies, tv shows, movies, etc only to fall out of love with them a short time later. In the meantime, I had joined a bazillion newsletters, LJ communities, etc, etc. So long after I am disenchanted with "Torchwood", I am still in the community all about TV series. I really do not need specific icon communities, if they are on LJ, I can always snag an item with permissin without being a member of that community. Some interests remain, but it takes a great deal of time, time I do not have, to be an active member.

So I performed a spring cleaning, taking out news feeds I no longer want to see, left communities for TV shows and other miscellaneous things and defriended people I had not seen post in quite a while. If I defriended you by mistake, post a comment and let me know.

Overall, I feel rather accomplished in having cleaned up my Friends page. Naturally, this lasts up until I get caught up in the latest craze and i want to know everything about it.

Back to the grindstone for a while and than make an effort to actual go to gym.

And the LJ developers still had not fixed the bug and then they wonder why are there unsatisfied customers? I don't know what is worse, outright idiocy or evil intent. In the case of the latter something can be attempted in a form of negotiation; in the case of the former - nothing.

Apparently the Rich Text Editor has been disabled for those using the latest version of Firefox ver2, the release of 2.0.0.17 has compatibility issues with LJ.

What annoys me is that there is no mention if the developers are working on the problem or even what is the approximate time before it is all fixed again. I am seriously unimpressed.

Happy Birthday jonty  and vixzen !

Wish you many more!

Happy Birthday simakovi4! 


S dnem rozhdeniya! Zhelaju vsego samogo lutchego!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to nimnod!

Also an early Happy birthday to Nuffin:)

Happy Birthday tempestia!

Wish you all the best and I hope you have a great day!

You know, I never realised how silly we can all be. I mean that some things we don't treat seriously enough other people view as something deserving the outmost consideration and care.

hravan and I always have this open source software vs Microsoft discussions. I enjoy teasing the guy about Microsoft and how I support it (I do support the company, their mistakes are my bread and butter) and he argues the case for open source. We both make some valid points and someone gets bored with the discussion and it stops. Well, I thought the discussions were always semi-serious, my sarcasm and well, let's not beat around the bush, sometimes my utter brutal honesty mixed in with a bit of arrogance were not   typed with 100% seriousness behind it.

Obviously, I was not taking this seriously enough, as I got a snippy reply and when I was typing up a response, where I added that I am sorry that he took my words in offence I get a notification that I am removed from his Friends list. After a small WTF moment, I grabbed an apple, typed a quick message to the guy via MSN and got back to work. Still, makes you wonder about people one think one knows at least a little bit. A little sad too, cause hravan was one of my first  online friends on Live Journal that I did not know in real life.

O well, takes all kinds of sillyness I suppose.

I wanted to post a big post about the boycott, but I felt my time was better spent browsing the big Net for my new favourite pairing, Lorne/Novak of Stargate Atlantis.

I do need to make an entry today, because of the lj boycott that was announced. I refuse to be aligned with people who use the fact that the majority of users find that polite and constructive criticism is the way to go, are behind their often-irrational attacks on the company owning LJ at the time.  Noone is perfect, SUP, Six Apart are all there looking out for themselves and there is no business model for dealing with something like LJ in the first place.

I refuse to join in the boycott, especially those who used the fact that the idiot from SUP, who really did give an interview that would have any PR person cringing is Jewish, to advocate anti-Semitism.  Yes, I am fully aware that not all are anti-semites, however when someone uses the phrase of 'useful anti-Semitism'   and thanks to this cool user , who in this entry talks about finding this horrible phrase in one of the comments to lj boycott posts, my blood starts to boil.

So no, I am not supporting the strike for reasons that I do not agree with the main reasons for them. I also refuse to associate with anti-Semites in any way.