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LiveJournal is now a Russian-owned company and has been for a while. Recently a new "user agreement" has been put into place, subjecting LJ users to onerously vile Russian laws in some circumstances. This post sums it up rather well:
http://darkoshi.livejournal.com/693446.html
For the same reasons, I cannot see posting new material on LJ if that will make it and me subject to such evil or potential evil. If you care to follow my posts, I suggest you have a look at:
http://vakkotaur.insanejournal.com/ instead.
Or, where I might be more active:
https://elegantungulate.wordpress.com/
At most I might post pointers to such here.
It does sadden and annoy me that LJ is not merely fading away, but is being killed. I once paid for the "lifetime" membership for the utility of things and the ease of not having to fiddle with an ongoing subscription. That money seems a sad waste now.
Am I overreacting? I hope so. But better safe than sorry.
Voting with my virtual hooves.
See you... elsewhere.
Fixing an upgrade.
15 July 2007 12:00When I switched to PCLinuxOS I also went to the latest version of Opera. That was fine, but evidently my custom user.css file was clobbered despite my backup. One nuisance was that the despicable LJ navbar would show up again at times. Then I found that Opera was rendering the contemptible <marquee> tag and it wasn't just a stupid CSS trick. And then to really torque me off, I found Opera lowered itself even further to rendering the <blink> tag as well. This cannot be allowed to stand. One of the many reasons I started using Opera was that such idiocies were not rendered. Fortunately there is a work-around for this deficiency of rendering tags that really ought not to be rendered, but rather shot.
( Nuking the stupidity with CSS. )
There's a quiz about which purports to tell how evil a person is. I took it and posted the results a few days ago. Like all such quizzoid things, it has some built-in assumptions which are not entirely valid, and if someone is evil, well, wouldn't they lie to get a "good" result? Or maybe they'd skew things the other way as a way to do a bit of twisted bragging.
So instead of a quiz result, here's a poll...
