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• 18:52 tonite I am attending this in SF www.artandcopyfilm.com/ interested? #
• 19:58 @toddsiegel oh we are going to the 8:45 showing! #

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It is the brand from my grandfather's farm. He died when I was 14, but him, his farm, and my summers there has had a great influence on my life.

It is on the back of my left calf.

• 20:39 heading out to Sugar Rush at 111 Minna in SF lots and lots of chocolates and pastries! 7-9pm w @alleamarya @alaw #
• 01:26 First daily post about #openbanking on silona.org I started with trust. because it is the keystone others will build from there. #
• 01:28 sorry @jonahhorowitz #sugarrush was tasty and packed. I ran into @kiwitobes there too! I dragged Mitch from TVBgone there too! #
• 01:50 @dictiondavies aw thank you! I had a great time! we will have to do it again and drag logan and phoenix too! #

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Release #57 is now live. Here's what is in it:

Feature changes and improvements:

• Added Notes feature to "Add Friend" and "Ban and Unban users" pages. See this post in paidmembers for more details
• Added link to new comment/entry search on all current search pages
• Writers Block email notifications now contain the question in the body of the email

RTE gets some lovin' - we've updated our RTE editor to FCKeditor version 2.6.5. This addresses some outstanding bugs, and some additional bugs now have fixes, too:

• When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds no longer become broken (LJSV-687)
• Removed super-special celebrity status of a particular journal, which was getting inadvertently linked to whenever a div class was used to reference an LJ user (LJSV-625)
• Fixed issue where entry content was replaced by <br /> upon post in some situations (LJSV-747)
• Pressing "ъ" (Cyrillic "Yer" sign) when using the RTE no longer switches to bold text mode, and now correctly renders the character
• Switching from RTE to HTML editor no longer inserts extra line/space (LJSV-486)
• RTE functions now work properly in Safari 4.0 (LJSV-648)
• Insert Image link now works correctly in all browsers
• The "LJ user" button now gives correct code in Opera so that lj-user tags render properly

Changes, updates, bugfixes:

• Comments containing links from untrustworthy domains are automatically screened
• The time on an entry now updates to reflect the time actually posted and not the time the update.bml window was opened
• Memcache workaround for disappearing comment issue (LJSV-748)
• Fixed bug in Sponsored Accounts program so that users can decline after the sponsorship period has expired
• Adjusted width of right column on logged-in homepage for livejournal.ru
• My Guests interstitial now functions as intended (it is set to off, even though the "yes" radio button is pre-checked)
• When adding a contact on LJ Messenger, if the person has not set up an account it now sends proper request to contact to create account
• Fixed code glitch on charity v-gifts in gift shop
• After redirect to login page, user is returned to orignial page after logging in (LJSV-685; DW-1460 - Thank you!)
• Ratings indicators on livejournal.ru homepage now work in IE
• Increased timeout and cache time so that external stylesheets (cssproxy check) should now appear properly under periods of high load (LJSV-450)
• Link types that end in things like "-pool" should now render correctly and not get cut off
• Comments with padding/backgrounds no longer wrap outside of the comment box (LJSV-755)
• AdSense tab now shows for Basic/Plus users but is greyed out
• Turned on geo-location feature on new account creation and edit profile pages

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!

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Just got commissioned to do the weirdest thing yet.

Bunny's gaping bleeding open wound.

( Gore grossness )

I started to investigate yesterday's idea of a shell implementation in Perl, and immediately got mired in the Byzantine shell quoting rules. The most basic thing about the shell turns out to be unnecessarily hard, and besides, it's already been done. Why did I think this was a good idea again?

Somehow I had got it into my head that msysgit on Windows would only run from the msysgit shell. Since I don't actually use Git on Windows, it turns out I was mistaken. If you run any Git command from the regular Windows command prompt, it already works. The appropriate shell is invoked to execute the shell script (git-rebase is one such shell script, instead of being part of the native C implementation).

Nothing to see here, move along...

• 23:03 Practice safe textuality! Don't twitter and drive per @alleamarya #
• 12:36 Wonderful breakfast w @bobbyfishkin he left me laugh in tears at the end w some improv beat poetry about saving the world and neurochemistry #
• 12:38 There are some people in this world that constantly come up w ideas 2-4 year before the #emergentmind does @bobbyfishkin is one of those #
• 15:33 HELP I keep redoing my prezo about openbanking! have you talked to me about it? what did you think was compelling? silona.org #
• 15:48 yes @bobbyfishkin we are trying to show people the new world waiting to be born - it is why our ide
  as are so similar b4 we met! #
• 15:52 okay I am creating a survey on compelling arguments in Openbanking. please help! ow.ly/BsAQ #
• 15:53 HELP Lazyweb!!! google adwords for #Openbanking? what would you purchase? #
• 15:57 I am promising to do an #Openbanking blog post every day for 2 weeks! nag me if I do not humiliate me if you must! #

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Git is mostly written in C, with some important parts in shell and Perl. This works well on Unix-like platforms, but unfortunately suffers on Windows because there is no native Windows (Bourne) shell. Git can be built under the Cygwin environment, but that is a heavyweight solution and Cygwin is not appropriate for general use. msysgit builds a native Windows executable plus uses the msys shell implementation, which provides a workable solution, but still requires Git operations to be done within the msys shell and not the native Windows command shell.

I had a thought the other day, that one could implement a Bourne shell interpreter in a more widely available language such as Python. This would provide a more widely portable option for using Git, and on Windows in particular. Such a shell implementation would provide the minimum implementation necessary to run Git's shell scripts (and which would include minimal implementations of various utitilies such as grep, sed, and awk). That wouldn't solve the Perl script problem, so it seems obvious that a portable shell interpreter designed for use with Git should be written in Perl.

A long time ago there was the Perl Power Tools project, which aimed to provide implementations of various Unix utilities in native Perl. Unfortunately, nobody ever submitted an implementation for sh. Is there any existing implementation of a Bourne-like shell in Perl? More generally, is this a viable plan to make Git work better on Windows?

Update: See the next post to find out just how far I got with this.

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• 20:43 Sometimes my credit giving has been called namedropping by insecure individuals @journchat #Q10 #
• 21:52 So current geekcrushes @debs @mikecotton @jeffjonas get your bootie on twitter Jeff! #openbanking #
• 21:54 nom nom making hot chocolate w miss @alleamarya who is in SF visiting... though I should be working on prezo for tomorrow! #
• 21:58 SNORT! @myrnatheminx @jgilliam @adrielhampton you guys are killing me!!! #namedropping #deeplyvexingquestions #
• 22:22 or RT messages u are in? RT @adrielhampton: #deeplyvexingquestions @jgilliam @myrnatheminx @silona Or retweeting your own follow fridays ... #
• 22:23 +2 for recursion! @jgilliam @myrnatheminx @adrielhampton @journchat #
• 18:27 pissed off about the lack of #transparency in the ACTA ow.ly/BajY #EFF #copyright #patent #
• 18:33 ugh more #fail on ACTA boing boing ow.ly/Bans and the Canadian view pt ow.ly/Bany #EFF #copyright #patent #
• 19:18 So anyone else see the amazing resemblance btn sidewiki and reframeit? somethin' smells stinky... #
• 19:27 whoops how was I not following @paultrevithick #identity #kantara Sorry Paul! #<
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• 19:52 #fail @drdigipol so mafia wars guys is a complete asshat and admits it ow.ly/Bb8T #

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• 18:16 great article on gps data as super analytic food! @calte ow.ly/ASpn #mutualdataownership #dataownership #
• 18:59 @acce hey @kevinmarks said that we should meet and talk about #openbanking ? I am in SF until Fri Morn. tea? samovar castro? #

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ok, I don't watch porn, not even soft porn... I don't read romance novels and avoid lusting after movie stars because 1. I have a husband which I really dearly love and 2. ha, it's not reality.  So, I did something stupid.  No, my husband will not be mad.  I watched Twillight.  After hearing so much about this buzz and the lead actors dating (not that I care) I still didn't care.  Then I was browsing the local movie theater's website to see what's playing.   The "New Moon" trailer started playing... I watched it... and thought "that looks good".  I had resisted it all this time, but suddenly I was intrigued.  So, I rented the first movie, as I do before the sequel comes out in the theatre.  

um, so, uh, this is embarrassing.  It's not unheard of for me to watch a movie two or three times.  But it IS unusual (this is the first time) for me to watch a movie four times in less than a week, one night I watched it twice back to back.  Now it's on my mind... it's infected me!  I want to know more about the actors, to read the book, to see everything ever involved with this story.  Am I sick!?  I actually had flutterings inside me during the suspenseful first kiss scene.  OMG, I feel like a teenager, again.  You know, the first time you realize you really like someone and every time you see them you get all giddy and stuff?

Ok, so WHY do I like this?  It's mysterious like Interview with a Vampire, but sweet and tragic like Romeo and Juliet.  I get it.  I love the attraction BUT there are a few things that bug me... and I'm told they will unravel in the future of the story.
Possible spoilers following:
Bella, the female lead, is a typical dramatic teenager.  She has glimpses of maturity, then says something totally teenager-ish and irrational, and slightly insane considering she's just met this guy one month before, but if we're talking about Juliet, she fits right in.  If you know that the story is based off of Romeo and Juliet you know this can't end well ... and that one of them is already dead, and the other one wants to be dead but isn't.
As for Edward, Romeo in our story, he's about 90-100 years old.  He's got this physical addiction to Bella (literally her scent).  So, he's not exactly into her because she's smart.  If she goes through with her death wish, won't her scent die too? and therefore will Edward still love her?  Clearly she hasn't thought this though.  He's saying "you don't want this" but not telling her why.  She's being a child and insisting that she does, but obviously doesn't know what she's getting into.

I can see the train wreck coming and I'm absolutely mesmerized.  I'm hooked... and damn it, I can't wait to read/see more.

As happens pretty often, a photo ends up being liked but not loved. I'll go out and try to shoot this shot again and get more in focus while keeping the colors and composition I like. I like it enough to post, but only this once and never on alderflats.com.