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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!

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Curtains

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

But I feel as though I should make sure EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU sees this:

Found this today, on my random travels around Sydney, I loled, I took a photo of it, so I'd throught I'd share.

( Who would of throught this was where the Hub really was )

I'm sorry that you had to see death.
I'm sorry that you had to hold a gun.
I'm sorry you had to shoot that gun.
I'm sorry if you were drafted and went to war without a desire to.
I'm sorry if you signed up willingly.
I'm sorry if someone told you violence is sometimes necessary.
I'm sorry if someone told you the battle we fight is a physical one.
I'm sorry if someone told you "love you enemies" should not apply to war situations.
I'm sorry that war exists.
I'm thankful for your desire to protect your fellow citizens (I just can't agree with the means).
I'm thankful for your passion.
I'm thankful for your desire to liberate.
I pray that the cycle of violence will end.
I pray that war will end and there will be peace.
I pray that in  every thought and deed, you and I will seek peace.
I pray that we will focus on bringing a Heavenly Kingdom with true freedom, and not an earthly one with just parts of that freedom.

"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
--Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let peace be evident in all aspects of life.

 Funny stuff I didn't know Carrey spoofed Oldman in the role. I guess I didn't watch much "In Living Color" because I didn't have cable at the time of "Bram Stokers Dracula" release. 

I NEVER EVER cry, so when I do, something is obviously up. And I'm crying right now.

Too many things are changing. My childhood home will be sold and replaced by an unfamiliar house. My sisters and I are growing up and soon will come the day when we will never step foot into the house we played train, Little Women, and Star Wars in. We'll never be able to walk around the block at Christmas time and look at all the lights. We won't be able to cuddle all together in our old rooms. Who knows if we'll be living in the same state in the next few years.

I've always been a nostalgic person, and now I wish I wasn't. It's painful to be nostalgic.

I haven't posted for awhile and I even missed Halloween- my mind was elsewhere. Sorry.

But I can now say I have read the novel by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt, "Dracula The Un-Dead".

I'm not going to throw out my opinion right now, but I did do a vlog about it on my youtube channel, so if you're interested I can give you a link. I don't want to cloud anyones thinking on it for when they do read it, I want it to be their own. 

I am also  interested in the Harker graphic novel (mentioned by monsterofmud , but since I just purchased a print of Edvard Munch "The Vampire" to be transferred to canvas for my living room, I'm cut off on extra spending. Christmas is coming though!

( Something a bit cracky but Janto related behind this cut. )

Hello!

First post, first macro actually...

( No spoilers, plenty of fail )

The empire strikes back

In 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 again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, 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!

c_s_i

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 postcards

Last 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 week

If 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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BSD now available for free viewing on Youtube, officially-sanctioned by Crackle (whatever that is):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfWFcT2waKE

What a very bizarre platform for this film to be shown on; it just doesn't quite seem old enough to be randomly whored out for free online. Though if it brings in new fans, and hopefully more people to this community as a result, then huzzah!

On Sunday night, I re-read almost all of my prior LiveJournal entries. How did I get this bored? I wasn't bored, just procrastinating. Anyways, I'm still debating whether this was a good idea or not because it has brought me into an interesting emotional/intellectual state where I have become very confused about who I am, my identity, blah, blah, blah.  Looking back at my freshman year-self has made me realize that people do change over a two-year period, and not always for the better. Don't get me wrong, I think I have definitely matured in numerous areas of my life, but there are some parts of me that I have lost that I wish I hadn't.

This Christmas break I hope to re-discover the parts of me I left in my freshman year dorm room.
Just not all the hair and dust that accumulated throughout the year.

I can't really take the excitement I am feeling right now. It's November 1st, and so I'm listening to old-fashioned, jazzy Christmas music on Pandora while writing a paper and intermittently doing random hand-dances when particularly wonderful songs come on.

CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS.