| LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares! |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
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
- In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
- 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
- The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
- 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)!
- 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
- 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!
- We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
- When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
- RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
- An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
- The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers
LiveJournal Cares
We’re pleased to introduce you to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 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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| Price Change tomorrow afternoon |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|04:23 pm] |
To clarify a question a lot of people have been asking me, the price change will occur at 5 pm EST tomorrow. So let's get those memberships in
Chip
chip@dragoncon.org |
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| Wish Fulfillment |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:05 pm] |
My turn! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) msteleute and p_sunshine have shared their tales of yesterday already, but you didn't think I'd stay quiet, did you? Heck no!
I honestly never thought or expected this would happen. For a while, I believe, Stephen King stopped doing signings entirely. Once in a while he would sign at small independent bookstores. Of late he has been making himself more available for charities and/or causes that are important to him, but as far as just showing up at your local Crown Books (Blast from the past! "Books cost too much!") or whatever and having Stephen By-God King sign your book? I thought the chances were slim to none.
When we got back to the Dundalk Walmart at about 4:00 yesterday, we didn't see a line, which we thought was odd. Fortunately when we went in, the friendly lady who had given us our wristbands five hours ago told us what was going on. "Blue bands," the 400 people who were guaranteed a signature, were lining up at the back of the store. Because the weather was so foul, "white bands," the alternates, would be summoned to the back when it was time to line up. Left to our own devices in Walmart we...just went to the back to look at the area that was set up. We weren't there to shop, we were there for Stephen Holy Crow King. We chatted. We took pictures. Eventually they started lining up the alternates by number, and we stood in the back behind the guaranteed-signature folks. Ahead of schedule, Stephen My Hand to God King came out and gave a little chat. I'm sure it was friendly and funny and pleasant, because he seems like that kind of guy, but only about the first three or four ranks of "guaranteed signature" people could actually hear. The PA system left something to be desired.
Aside from a few people getting tossed out for taking flash pictures, the thing went like a well-oiled machine. By 5:45 Stephen I Can't Believe This Is Happening King was signing books. As the ranks of the 400 grew smaller and smaller, we alternates at the back became more and more hopeful. At last they started letting us in, just a few at a time, in the number-order of our white wristbands. The three of us were 16, 17, and 18. When they called for numbers "13 through 32" I believe there may have been literal "squee"ing. We showed our wristbands. We were let through. We showed the store manager our books, our receipts, and our wristbands again. (Only Under the Dome would be signed. Only copies purchased at that particular Walmart.) We were in! We really were! Time for more (non-flash) pictures of Stephen Sweet Mary What Am I Going To Say King!
Everyone involved was very nice. Walmart employees offered to take unobstructed pictures. The cops who were on author duty were smiling and patient. The fans were nearly all polite and happy. And eventually I got up on that little stage, and I smiled like a doofball and spoke like an idiot, and I met the man whose work has given me more pleasure in my life than I can possibly quantify. He signed my book, and made a joke. I smiled and thanked him and laughed and walked on. HIGHER THAN A FREAKIN' KITE. As I joined MsT and P_S on the other side of the signing-stage, there was a reporter there from WBAL. He asked MsT a few questions, and then asked me a few. He asked for my name and I said, "Jen." He asked for my last name and I grinned and said it. "Could you spell it for me?" he said, camera still running, not writing anything down. I did so. I will tell you right now that I set the DVR for the 11:00 news, and I was totally on it, and they totally did NOT use my name. Didn't think so! Heehee.
After the signing we went back through the city, had dinner at the Austin Grill, and eventually wended our way home after calling our various loved ones to effuse at them. By the time I got home and uploaded pictures and finished a few things online and settled the heck down it was after 11. Yes, I was up far past my bedtime but it was TOTALLY worth it.
Click through for the set! Christine's awesome photos are here. In fact I am totally ganking this awesome one simple_simon took of me at the end of the night and posting it here as well to demonstrate my giddiness in photographic form!
Here's the Baltimore Sun article about the book signing. WBAL appears not to have the footage from the signing on their site, meaning unless you come to my house and watch it on my DVR, you probably won't see my deathless 5 second interview.
Oh! msteleute just alerted me to the fact that I am in the background in part of this video from WJZ as well! Two networks! That's an interesting one because it goes into why the signing was held at that store. |
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