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Friday the 13th... unluckiest day of the year.

Yeah. I can believe that.

... should have stayed in bed.

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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

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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.

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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!

I need something to do on Saturday. Any suggestions?

TAKESHI. GOOD NEWS.

Shinji can babysit our kids for us on Saturday May 2nd 2015. I was worried he'd be too busy, but apparently he's free. It'll be nice to get out of the house away from them all for the night. Want to see a movie or something?

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As Atobe is indisposed, he wanted me to share his greatness with the world...with this new TeniPuri Info...though sadly, it also included Sanada info.

http://community.livejournal.com/fanbook/

PairPuri...new info on everyone's favorite rich bastard...and bastard fukubuchou

The actual downloaded Info is here.

http://midori-mxm.livejournal.com/17228.html

Marvel at how much Sanada Sasuke looks like Child Renji! Marvel at Atobe's way of getting to school. Marvel at Kite teaching Okinawan bujutsu. Just marvel.

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

I was missing school. Past tense. Forgot how much class fails. >>; And exams. And homework. >>;; And I don't get to do any of the fun stuff like gym. >>;;;

Oh well, DDR this weekend will be good, I haven't played in ages and I miss it so damn much. ;___; Stupid Shinji for rubbing it in my face...

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Had a list of things I meant to post here today but Karupin's sat on it and won't get up... Now I have to try and remember it all...

There's talks of going away again this Christmas. Okaasan wants to see her family so I think we'll be off to the US again. Not sure I want to go but... we'll see. I've no love for any of my family really, but a vacation might be good.

Heard about Atobe as well... Not sure what I can do but... if there's anything... you know... ... Hang in there, Kabaji-kun. Atobe's a tough guy, he's probably giving whoever took him hell.

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Daily Post:

New look pot_ljdaily. We're here to give you updates on what's going on in-game as well as posting ideas for those who are floundering and in need of a kick in the right direction.

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Game/Community Updates:

1: All Communities have had a layout update. Simple and clean layouts for all. Icons are sill in the making. And we would like YOU to help us with that.
At the moment the communities are sporting a temporary icon, but we would like them all to have an icon similar to this:
What we need from you are short quotes that could go on these icons. This is just for fun only. ^^ All ideas are welcome.

2: New Ad has been made for the community, as well as the deletion of some old posts, changes to main posts, prettification of the communities in general. New posts have been made, including: calender of events, AU week lists, a list of potential game events and a birthday list.


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Game News:

1: If you haven't noticed already (and you must be living under a rock to do so) Atobe-sama has been kidnapped by evil Yakuza!! Find a way to get yourself involved. Offer sympathy, a kind word, or if you're feeling energetic, get angry and offer to kick some yakuza ass with everyone. Every little bit helps.


2: It has come to our attention that not everyone had friended ALL of the communities. Please can you make sure that you have joined all communities and not just watch them. Thank you very much.

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Posting Suggestions:

"Posting Suggestions" are silly quizzes, surveys and meme's that your characters can post out of boredom. They are, after all, teenage boys!

1: Check out LJ's Writers Block questions, they always have something you can use.

Survey:

<lj-cut text="Read more"> <b>Do you take pictures of yourself on a daily basis?</b> <b>When is the last time you ate doughnuts?</b> <b>Has anyone ever bitten your knee?</b> <b>Has anyone ever called you sexy?</b> <b>What was your favourite ice cream flavour when you were little?</b> <b>Gay marriage?</b> <b>Gay adoption?</b> <b>Are you currently in a relationship?</b> <b>Are you happy about that?</b> <b>You think the person you like is cute?</b> <b>Have you read all of the Twilight and Harry Potter books?</b> <b>Have you ever read an entire book in one sitting?</b> <b>Are you in love?</b> <b>Would you wear all black sneakers?</b> <b>Do you like cats? Why or why not?</b> <b>Do you find that people don't really understand you?</b> <b>Is there anyone in your life that you wish you were closer to?</b> <b>Do you read and believe your horoscope?</b> <b>Is a hair dryer a necessity for you?</b> <b>If you were atop a tall building, would you throw stuff at people below?</b> <b>Do you melt when you see gorgeous eyes?</b> <b>If a spaceship landed on your front lawn, what would be your 1st reaction?</b> <b>Have you ever TURNED DOWN an invite to a wedding? Why?</b> <b>Do you believe people should get married in a church?</b> <b>What items would you NOT buy from a rummage sale?</b> <b>Does the news depress you?</b> <b>Name a movie everyone else thought was funny, but you couldn't stand:</b> <b>Do you think sets of kitchen utensils should include sporks?</b> <b>What topping do you HATE on pizzas?</b> <b>You need to go to the bathroom. Finish this first or get up and go?</b> <b>Do hypothetical situations honestly prepare a person for what's to come?</b> <b>Can you resist temptation?</b> <b>Do people underestimate your intelligence?</b> <b>Do you believe it's okay to tell white lies?</b> <b>Do you use rechargeable batteries?</b> <b>Describe the chair you're sitting in. Is it comfy?</b> <b>What do/did you normally get detentions for?</b> <b>Does your alarm clock actually awaken you?</b> <b>Ever think you might have seen a UFO?</b> <b>Do you know anyone who DOESN'T have a cell phone?</b> <b>What would you do if you thought someone was following you?</b> <b>Say a superhero like Spiderman saved you. Would you fall in love?</b> <b>Are you a loud talker?</b> <b>Does the number 6 have any significance to you?</b> <b>What time is it where you live?</b> <b>Have you bought any CDs recently?</b> <b>Do you type fast?</b> <b>What is your favourite part of the song you are listening to?</b> <b>What does the first text in your outbox say?</b> <b>If you text message, are you fast?</b> <b>Do people ever spell your name wrong?</b> <b>How long are you usually in the shower for?</b> <b>Finish the sentence...</b> <i>When I go out... </i> <i>The coolest hairstyle is... </i> <i>My favourite song makes me... </i> <i>Last time I went bowling, I... </i> <i>The last song I listened to was... </i> <b>What was the last thing you said out loud?</b> <b>Tell me about the last story/book you read?</b> <b>How did you get the last scar you got?</b> <b>What is your current favourite lyric?</b> <b>Would you ever shave your head?</b> <b>Do you know anyone who has their eyebrow pierced?</b> <b>What is your favourite kind of cake?</b> <b>Are there really such things as ghosts?</b> <b>Zippers, Velcro, or buttons?</b> <b>What was the last movie you watched?</b> <b>Are you any good at poker?</b> <b>Horror movies or sci-fi movies?</b> <b>What makes your person of interest interesting?</b> <b>Edward Cullen or Harry Potter?</b> <b>Do you think before you speak?</b> <b>Are you a pessimist or is the glass half full?</b> <b>A passion of yours?</b> <b>And why are you passionate about it?</b> <b>Have you ever felt seriously violated?</b> <b>Do you believe in magic?</b> <b>Song lyric that gets to you every time?</b> <b>Do you believe in horoscopes?</b> <b>Have ever liked your best friend of the opposite sex as more than a friend?</b> <b>Have you ever put someone down to impress someone else or to seem cool?</b> <b>If you've never experienced something, how do you know what it is?</b> <b>Do you admire people that are different, or do you look down upon them?</b> <b>Do you have common sense?</b> <b>Do you like Paris Hilton?</b> <b>One thing you could never get sick of?</b> <b>One person that never fails to make you laugh regardless of your mood?</b> <b>Don't you hate the stupid girls in scary movies that run upstairs?</b> </lj-cut>

Quizzes:

1: What Do People Love About You?

2: What's Your Japanese Name?

3: Penis Name Generator

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