LJ Book

I just used LJ Book to back up all of my LiveJournal posts from the very beginning, and found it very easy. It produced quite a nice product with footnoted links and embedded pictures -- not user icons, but any pictures that happened to be visible in the entry itself. I highly recommend it.

The filter has been removed

Apparently the filter on the Popular Interests list, which screened out terms like "bisexuality", "depression", and "faeries", has been removed.

It's a start, but it still doesn't explain why the LJ staff put the filter in there in the first place.

EDITED TO ADD: Here is the original post on changelog about the filter being inplemented on March 6th:

http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/6258870.html

There's no way in hell they can claim that this was a "mistake".

Statements from an actual LiveJournal employee

On the censorship debacle...

Here...

... and here.

Thanks are due to marta for at least attempting to deal with the angry horde of users.

A sign at Starbucks and our new computer

In today's Project 365 entry you can see some Italian easter eggs and a little lost glove. Behind the cut is another photo from my afternoon out, taken inside our local Starbucks, where I stopped to get a latte.

( Winnie the Pooh? )

And here's the newest addition to our studio, an Apple G5. We got tired of our G4 being a little buggy and decided to replace it with a more powerful and more stable machine. The G5 is a used machine, but as you can see it came with a 17" LCD monitor, as well as wireless keyboard and mouse and an iSight camera, for $1000 Canadian.

( Our New Baby )

As you can see, it's bloody HUGE compared to the G4 on the table to the left of it and below. This is clearly a computer that means business. The last time I had this sort of feeling while standing next to a machine, I was standing next to a Lamborghini Countache. It starts up with a sound like a 747 powering up for takeoff, and every so often while it's operating the fans kick in with a muted roar as they cool the immensely powerful core.

Ironically, this G5 is exactly the configuration that we were looking at getting, refurbished from Apple, a year ago for $1900. We went for the 24" iMac instead.

I'm happy. George is happy. All is well.