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Author: kamapon Rating: None Pairing: Mia/Diego=Chihiro/Kaminogi Notes: It's been ages since I shared new fanart! Mia and Diego=OTP I love them <3. Done in Paintool Sai
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares! |
[12 Nov 2009|01:53pm] |
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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
- In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
- 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
- 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 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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| Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT |
[11 Nov 2009|02:00pm] |
EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.
Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!
Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!
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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.
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Some more fic written for the kink meme. All links lead to my fic comm. As usual, any feedback is encouraged and much appreciated. ♥
Title: Apologize Pairing: Franziska/Apollo Genre: Gen Word Count: 2269 Rating: PG-13 Summary: Apollo learns that the consequences of annoying Franziska von Karma may include getting pinned against a wall - and that's only the first confusing aspect of their entire encounter.
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Title: Fool's Mistake Pairing: Franziska/Adrian Genre: Romance, Angst Word Count: 2364 Rating: R Summary: Franziska's drunk, and Adrian thinks she knows better than to get her hopes up.
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| LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS |
[10 Nov 2009|04:18pm] |
Hey there, I'm looking for Ace Attorney RPers and I'm looking for someone who can atleast write semi-para. I play as Kristoph Gavin and I'm pretty open about any kind of setting.
MSN: soujiness_x@live.com YAHOO: roxas_just_nobody
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| Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09 |
[09 Nov 2009|09:49am] |
sixwordstories Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.
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| Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09 |
[09 Nov 2009|09:46am] |
dailyfoodie Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.
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[08 Nov 2009|07:56am] |
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danger: you could read some engrish! i hope no, but...^^U i have just joined and wated to say hello!!! like all people here, i guess, I'm totally crazy with this game/s~ was weird the way found it, it was on my brother's ds games folder XDDDDDD, but no one opened it before! and the curiosity brought light to my life... hehehe, or something like that 8D so, for my presentation XD i made a fan art... is not yaoi, if you wonder ^_^
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| COLLECTION SALE |
[07 Nov 2009|10:34pm] |
Hi guys, I hope you allow sales posts here! I've been falling out of love with Nishiura, so I'm looking to sell a big chunk of my Oofuri collection. Contains figure keychains, Animate merchandise, and tons of bromides!
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| [Youtube] Wedding Entrance Dance |
[07 Nov 2009|12:27pm] |
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I can't stand ceremonies, but this is one that I wouldn't mind attending. So cool!
La original y divertida entrada de los padrinos y los novios en una ceremonia de boda al son de Forever de Chris Brown.
There's a parody of that video enacting Jill & Kevin's DIVORCE entrance dance. :D
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| For Justice Only: Looking for new players! |
[05 Nov 2009|05:43pm] |
HOLD IT! Like writing fanfiction? Like roleplay?
forjusticeonly might be for you!
For Justice Only is a post-GS3/AJ-centric roleplay game, and we are looking for new players. FJO's gameplay is a little different than most - we log together, of course, but once our logs are complete we transform them into fanfiction. They are then inserted into the main community, so that the events of the game read much like a book! The sky is the limit for all of the Gyakuten Saiban characters at FJO, as our plotline is entirely flexible and accommodating of almost anything that you can think of.
Interested? Check out the main community and the Court Records!
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| Remember Remember The 5th of November |
[05 Nov 2009|06:58pm] |
Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot…
Actually, I almost forgot... And now I can continue my tradition that I do every year~ I remembered, just don't remember the purpose of why I started doing this... Certainly not the true meaning behind this, more like all for good fun~
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest |
[05 Nov 2009|01:15pm] |

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 , 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! ( Read more... )
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