Okay, the craziness is continuing, and now I'm reluctant to say the end is in sight because every time I say that, the end recedes and the light at the end of the tunnel becomes that much dimmer. Applications for next year are almost done, but then there's all of the other crap I haven't been doing... crap like my dissertation, let's say, which sort of needs to be finished before I can, you know, ACCEPT A JOB THAT MIGHT POTENTIALLY BE OFFERED TO ME.

I'm also depressed and annoyed seeing as I haven't written fic in ages. I just, I can't write, y'all-- I'm too exhausted and tired of looking at Word by the time I get home. Maybe I'll try icons or something, because at least Photoshop is not a word processing program. Of course, there are stories in my head, and they vanish every time I get bold and think "maybe I can just sneak Word open here while I pretend I'm totally doing something else."

Anyway, 5.09! I warn you, this is nonsensical. The exhaustion and keyboard-loathing is kicking in.

( very sad song, very tiny violin )

- de qualquer forma você deveria ser cuidadoso, ela parece um pouco louca
- você acha?
- sempre no controle e mesmo assim tão vibrante... isso meio que me assusta
- isso porque ela é...
- sensível?
- não. ela é frágil
- eu não acho que aquela garota seja frágil. você não deveria perder tempo com estudantes. é muito fácil
- não é fácil com ela, você não faz idéia
(...)
- estou numa completa confusão de paixões. me sinto tão ridículo. eu já estou completamente apaixonado, me sinto um idiota... já faz tanto tempo desde que eu me apaixonei pela última vez, eu não me apaixono faz anos, você sabe... seu estômago fica todo amarrado, seu peito arde, suas pernas estremecem. eu sei que tenho que me acalmar, dar uma segurada, mas não consigo, simplesmente não consigo.
(...)
- eu não quero ficar choramingando. aquela garota nunca vai me amar, ela nunca vai me amar. estou mentindo pra mim mesmo também. ela não pode me amar
- você parece mais desapontado no amor do que na segurança do amor à primeira vista
- talvez...

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!

Sorry for the delay on these. Also sorry that they're not terribly creative =(

( here ya go =) )

[x] Save to your own computers.
[x] Enter Challenge #160!

( winners this way!!! )

[x] Congrats to you all!
[x] Banners are me, I also have some from past challenges to post tonight
[x] Enter Challenge #160!

Here are the results from Week 223...


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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

You know the drill, everybody! ;P

Which of these two icons do you like best?

1.

or

2.

Hey people!

Just have one review today, hoping to do a bigger one next week on several albums I've been listening to, but this one in particular I needed to talk about, simply because it's such a surprise.

( Dashboard Confessional... )

Have a great day!

A cute video of Emma, where they apply the dark mark on her wrist.
It's cool!



thanx to watson_daily

Hiya

I found the new video, thanks to watsonuncensored ....

( Make up with Emma )

Hope u like it!

Screencaps: Gossip Girl 309, They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They? HD
Amount: 2012
Size: 1280x720
Sample 1 | Sample 2
Download @ PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

The OC

Samples:


Join scribbledpretty to see the rest.

Hey everybody!

I'm sorry again for the lateness of this playlist. I'm trying to get back in the swing of things with this comm, but as I've always said, this is your community too. If you want to recommend a band, song, album, video that you think the world should know about, spread the word!





ANNOUNCEMENT: Starting next Monday, November 16, I will be opening a poll for the best albums of the year. You can suggest any album that touched you, inspired you or made an impact on your life this year. I will collecting all the suggestions and the top ten will be featured in a special post. Poll ends November 30, so that's two weeks to get them in. Be sure to spread the word about this comm and continue reading. Thank you all so much for such a fantastic first year.

base:

(congrats, narniacmr

theme:

you may only use each image once

[x] Make up to 3 icons for each the base and theme challenge, for a total of up to 6 icons.
[x] You may only use each base once.
[x] For the themed challenge, use only the pictures provided
[x] No restrictions on brushes/textures... etc.
[x] Icons must follow rules set out in the userinfo.
[x] Don't forget to include a URL with your entries.
[x] Icons must remain anonymous until results are posted.
[x] Any questions, feel free to ask! (the userinfo is also very helpful)
[x] Have fun! ♥

[x] Your icons are due by Sunday, November 15th by 5:00PM EST.