Arthur D. Hlavaty

You don’t want to read another cranky-old-fart post about how Gooeys turned computers into the sort of thing I want to use computers to deal with. Take as read. Yesterday LJ suggested I change my password because the KGB lost my old one I’d been using my old one for a mere 15 years.

So I picked a new one and after submitting to a number of catshits captchas (how else are we going to train the computers to impersonate us?) I got back into LJ. Today I learned that my posts to DW weren’t cross-posting anymore, so I had to redo them. Once again LJ joins President Trump as an argument for distrusting anything the Russians own.

Livejournal nostalgia

Thanx to andrewducker

In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal

Thanx to lovelyangel

Cross-posting to livejournal is intermittent. Are they having a hurricane in Russia, too?

Another gloomndoom about my favorite social network.

Thanx to andrewducker

bart_calendar imagines 2012 reconstructed from the LJ files.

When I was in elementary school in the 50s they told me that some day I would fight Russian tyranny. I had almost given up hope.

At my screening, when a character in the film mentioned the early blog platform LiveJournal (still popular in Russia), the audience laughed.

--Zadie Smith, reviewing The Social Network in NYRB

*Title stolen from Dave Langford

Livejournal appears to have fixed the mess about automatic posting of comments to locked journals. As feorag points out, if you complain when something goes wrong, you should say something when they fix it.