Below are the most recent 10 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
news [ theljstaff ]	3:33p	LiveJournal Major Notes: Global navigation, Mobile, Bug fixes We're going to keep this short and sweet (Frank and birthday vgifts will be back next week). You've probably seen the updates to our main menu. Don't be alarmed. You'll find everything you need, just in slightly shifted format. Just so you know, we based these changes on input from both experienced and new users who were not familiar with LiveJournal. Our goal was to reduce barriers to usability and make LiveJournal more accessible and easy to navigate. Please note that this is a work in progress. We welcome your detailed suggestions in feedback. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve your LiveJournal experience. We've updated the global navigation menu: Here's a quick breakdown of what you'll find where: Scrapbook can now be found under Profile (thanks for your feedback, btw), along with Settings, Stats, and Edit Profile. You'll find all the tools you need to post and update entries under Journal, which includes posting and editing entries, managing comments and tags, and customizing your journal's style. Friends contains all of your friend settings, from filtering your Friends page to adding, removing, and finding new and existing friends on LiveJournal. Under Communities, you'll find links to manage your communities, accept community invites, and create new communities. Explore includes search features, RSS feeds, Question of the Day, and FRNK radio. Under Shop, you'll find links to upgrade or give a paid account, buy virtual gifts, purchase LiveJournal merchandise (like T-shirts), and view your payment history. LiveJournal Mobile update: We've enhanced LiveJournal's mobile site to improve usability and load times. We've made more of LiveJournal's features accessible via mobile, including posting comments, uploading photos, reading and commenting on friends' posts, finding and messaging friends, and more. We look forward to reviewing your feedback and recommendations for future improvements. Other important changes: You can lock comments to prevent further commenting on a post, while leaving existing comments visible. We replaced the "Tell a friend" link with a new "Share This" widget that lets you share LiveJournal posts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc. We changed some of the icons on entries (you can hover over the icons to view descriptions). You'll see a Tag count on your Tag management page. You'll now see the 10 most recent vgifts on your profile page. To remove vgifts, left-click on the vgift and choose whether you want to remove the vgift from your profile or delete it entirely. We've added options to help you control receipt of vgifts, which you'll find in My Stuff under Edit Profile. You can now enable vgifts from friends or everyone and disable anonymous vgifts. We've got your fix: UPDATE: Rolling several updates into one listing here -- 1) Scrapbook should be back and working again. 2) The problem with the Update Journal page in IE6 and IE7 should be fixed now. 3) The problem with the userpic add-on package pricing has been fixed and refunds issued to anyone who was overcharged while the erroneous prices were in place. Non-conforming images will now be automatically resized for custom mood themes. Line breaks no longer count as two characters against your entry's character limit. We fixed a bug on the Manage Tags page so you can clear all tags and add new tags. We corrected the UI for the update.bml page so it displays properly in IE8. Thanks again for joining us. Frank and company will be back next week! (603 Comments |Comment on this)
cranky_editors [ domynoe ]	4:25p	White List Update It's been about 4 months, so a list update is well overdue. :) The White List Pretty good one this time: probably two dozen adds, several updates, and a couple of removals. The list has gotten big enough to again require a re-splitting. Who knows, next time I may need to make it cross over three entries! ;) If you have any updates you want added or corrections that need to be made, please post at the entry above NOT HERE. Thanks. (Comment on this)
cranky_editors [ zoe_1418 ]	12:17p	Which belongings would those be, exactly? Someone in our organization sent out email today "to remind people to secure your personnel belongings." (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 15th, 2010
cranky_editors [ wrathchylde ]	3:30p	Proper use of a semi-colon (This is hilarious - just had to share) http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
news [ theljstaff ]	4:11p	LiveJournal Major Notes: March header, Charitable vgift, Squirrels in love We're finishing up a few odds and ends before our next major release. Our mighty Ops guys continue to slay spambots and balance load times on a highwire without a safety net (which is kind of tough dressed in full ninja gear). Down on solid ground, we're celebrating this week's virtual birthday party with a warm toast to pants. If you can rearrange the letters of your favorite city, state, and/or country (feel free to combine these elements) to spell one of Frank's favorite treats (e.g., pants, wire, paper, etc.), he'll send you over a can of whipped cream to top it all off (provided you return the empty can for his midnight snack)! And, with that, let the word scrambling commence! Stuff you should know: We're still working on the delayed/missing notifications issue. Sorry, we're frustrated too. We'll keep you posted. Last week, we became aware that a recently-implemented script was overwriting affiliate referral fees for some of our users. Once we confirmed this, our Ops team quickly removed the script. Please be aware that, while we may beta-test other affiliate scripts down the line, we will take greater measures to ensure that no existing user-referral arrangements are impacted in any way. While we plan to stick to a weekly news schedule, if we have a release in between regular newsletters, we'll post here to keep you informed. You can also check lj_releases for current release information. To our paid users, we send squirrels in love! If you have a paid or permanent account, you can send five free Squirrels in love vgifts through Monday, March 15th at 4pm, PST! You'll see both the free and the $0.99 squirrels displayed until they've scurried off to their new homes. Please send only one vgift at a time. In other words, you'll need to complete check-out and start a new order for each vgift you send. If you're not receiving vgifts (from friends and/or Frank), you may have disabled them. To enable vgifts, visit Edit profile (under Profile), scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select 'Do not disable' from the drop-down menu. Have fun! Help is on the way! We're pleased to announce the winner of our first charitable vgift poll, Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, which provides critical medical care to under-served populations around the world. Priced at $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of the proceeds we raise from the sale of this vgift (we'll cover credit card fees). We invite you to start recommending nonprofits for our next fundraising drive at ljnewscontests. We'll take suggestions through the month and post a poll in the news during the first week of April to let you choose the recipient. We thank you, again, for your passion and generosity. We've crowned a header Congratulations to ohterlus for submitting the winning header, which will go live next week and keep us leafy through mid-April! You can submit designs for our next header contest at ljnewscontests now until March 31st. We'll post a poll in the news to let you decide which header will sit at the top of LiveJournal from mid-April to mid-May. All artistic interpretations are welcome. The winner will get a $25 LiveJournal gift certificate. All other contributors will receive $5 gift certificates. Our heartfelt appreciation for sharing your talent and creativity! For this week's winning photo and more adventures with Frank & Meme, we'll catch you under the cut! ( Read more... ) (396 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 12th, 2010
cranky_editors [ smofbabe ]	10:48a	Psst! Wanna Be a Book Editor? I guess it was inevitable: Someone just passed along this notice: Disposable is casting a new reality show that takes place in the world of NYC book publishing. The show is in the same vein as Top Chef or Project Runway, but about books! We’re looking for people who want to become a book editor at a major publishing house. We’re looking for interesting personalities with strong opinions obviously, but anyone who has a passionate desire to be a part of the publishing world would be great. If you know of anyone who might be interested please have them write to us at casting@disposabletelevision.com. Let us know why you would be great for this show! Best to include a picture of yourself and write “book editor” in the subject line of the email. Thanks! Bryan Carmel DISPOSABLE bryan@disposabletelevision.com www.disposabletelevision.com (23 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
cranky_editors [ smofbabe ]	8:10p	Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text The Onion reports :-> Excerpt: WASHINGTON—Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text. Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words. "Why won't it just tell me what it's about?" said Boston resident Charlyne Thomson, who was bombarded with the overwhelming mass of black text late Monday afternoon. "There are no bullet points, no highlighted parts. I've looked everywhere—there's nothing here but words." [snip] (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2010
cranky_editors [ cakmpls ]	5:24p	Looking for a word I have an author whose first language is not English. She wants an adjective in English that means "having different origins, or coming from different origins." She wants to use "heterogenous," which is etymologically, maybe even technically, correct, but it is usually read in everyday American English as a variant of "heterogeneous." (That's the ONLY meaning Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 3rd gives it.) The antonym, "homogenous," does mean generally "having the same origins," but it seems to be mainly restricted to use in genetics. ETA: Here's the context: "The two are asynchronous and heterogenous even if they may appear or manifest themselves in a shared space-time. " Any ideas out there? (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
news [ theljstaff ]	3:20p	Help Chile, Charitable vgift, March header contest, Frank & Meme We're gearing up for a couple of major releases over the next few weeks, so there's not much in the way of bug fixes or product announcements this week (other than our spiffed up news template). We promise to have exciting "real news" for you very soon! In the meantime, Frank is so grateful that he can count on you that he'd like you to count on him too! To celebrate his freedom from ice-skating (both viewing and participating), his good friend, Sheldon, suggested we honor the Figure 8! If at least two elements of your birthday (month + day; day + year; month + day + year; etc.) add up to 8, Frank'll glide you over a pair of skates. In other words, if you were born on May 3rd (5+3), bazinga! If you were born on April Fools, 1992 (4+1+1+9+9+2=26; 2+6=8), double bazinga!! Creative calculations are most welcome. Let the math festivities begin! Stuff you should know We received a number of wonderful suggestions for our next charitable vgift drive. You can help us select a nonprofit by voting in our poll, which we'll keep open until Monday, March 8th, at noon, PST. Keep in mind that some of these organizations (including Doctors without Borders) are supporting emergency care in Chile. Thanks to a user suggestion, we're offering a Help_Chile charitable vgift. Priced at $9.99, we'll donate all proceeds (we'll cover credit card fees) to support relief efforts in Chile. Remember that whenever you receive $10 in vgifts (rounded up) within a two-week period, you get two months of paid account time. A heartfelt shout out to help_chile for creating a UNICEF support page for LiveJournal. All proceeds raised will benefit Help_Chile LiveJournal on UNICEF. Be sure to tell us about other communities that are making a difference in the comments below! Head[er]s up! Color us dazzled. We loved each and every one of your March header designs. That's why we're so relieved that we don't have to choose a winner ourselves. Please check out our March header poll and let us know which design you'd like to see on the top of LiveJournal up through the first week of April. The polls stay open until Monday, March 8th, at noon, PST. You can start posting April headers (900x90 pixels) now through the end of the month at ljnewscontests. From flower power to April showers, let your imagination run wild (just keep it youth-friendly). The winner will receive an annual paid account credit (which you can keep or give to a friend). We'll award all other participants who submit one or more valid entries one month of paid time (which you can also give to a friend if you'd like). We thank you for sharing your talent and creativity! For this week's winning photo and more adventures with Frank & Meme, we'll catch you under the cut! ( Read more... ) (833 Comments |Comment on this)
cranky_editors [ wordweaverlynn ]	10:11a	How to use the semicolon, the most feared punctuation on earth. (3 Comments |Comment on this)