Dream with Our Eyes Open

Damn, I keep missing people's (and communities') posts on LJ/DW! I can't really figure out why, either. They have both slowed down enough that it should be easy to click through a day's posts.

I think part of the part of the problem may be the behavior of the things I have as feeds on the two sites. Sometimes they won't post for a day or two, and then they'll dump a lot at once. The result is I'll be flipping through my reading list/friends feed and hit something I know I've read already, and then I'll stop. And in some cases, I've read it already at the source blog or site itself (like Scalzi's Whatever) instead of on LJ/DW.

I'm going to try to do a better job of combing though these things more carefully. I keep missing beta requests on Fan Grammarians as well as posts on things like the Weiss v. Saiyuki writing challenge comm.

This morning, my friends page used my journal style, as it damn well should.

Now it's showing some stupid newish thing that looks vaguely like the mobile feed. But it's apparently NOT the new default view of the thing, because I have a button at the top to switch to the new thing.

OH. Its URL is not the right one!

It's http://chomiji.livejournal.com/feed. But ... that's what I get when I click the Friends link at the very top. AND the friends link on my actual LJ.

If I edit that to the old URL, I get what I should: http://chomiji.livejournal.com/friends/.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Clockwise from upper left: country white bread, eggs, fresh basil, new yellow potatoes, blueberries, two kinds of tomatoes (still greenhouse-grown: local field tomatoes are only just setting their first fruit now), blackberries, sweet cherries, strawberries, more blueberries, and a miniature struan bread loaf.

There likely would have been a couple more things, but it started raining. So we decamped to Mark's Kitchen, where we were joined by our daughter for brunch.

(An odd thing: the icon here is displayed less effectively than it is on LJ. I've never noticed this phenomenon before, but that typeface, Pristina, has very distinct "thicks and thins," and the white-on-dark seems to have made the issue easier to spot as well. The type looks fuzzier here. WTF?)

I first encountered mjlayman at james_davis_nicoll's place on LJ a couple of years ago. We discovered that we lived on opposite sides of the same city, and after that we had little chats from time to time on each other's LJs.

I just found out that she passed away earlier this week, leaving behind her two kitties, Junie and Loki. We had talked about going out for Peking Duck together, and now it will never happen. *sigh*

Crumb buns.

:-[

It was fine earlier today, but they do mention issues at the site status link. Downrightnow shows that the thing has been up and down again all day.

From astronewt on lj_releases:

More information on Friends feed, plus paid account information

A better response than I had feared ... and yet, as many have noted, why is this not in LJNews?

I can't build polls here because I'm still on a free account (I should do something about that - a certain nice person sent me a present that should have nudged me into paid status a while back). But I am curious about something. I don't always get right back to respond to comments on my posts. I sometimes have a feeling that people have moved on when I do get back to the comments and and thus they may never see my responses.

So I have a poll over at my LJ about that, if you're willing to let me know about how likely you are to see my responses to your comments if some time has passed since the original post.

Poll here.

I think this only works for LJ, folks ... .

In 2012, chomiji resolves to...

Tell my family about sara bareilles.
Keep my gojyoxhakkai clean.
Backup my infp regularly.
Buy new gurps.
Eat more rabbits.
Take evening classes in hakkaixgojyo.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

I will not, I repeat - WILL NOT - eat bunnies. (Although I find it hilarious that it came up with that particular choice for that verb ... .)

Also, I believe that many of you would be quite disappointed if I kept my Gojyo × Hakkai clean!

(And I already told my family about Sara Bareilles ... but I would take those classes in a heartbeat!)

I have no idea whether it's a DDOS attack again, but I am getting those same Varnish Error 503 messages! (And it's not just me ... downrightnow and twitter and their FB page are full of people reporting the same.)

>cries<

ETA: Back again! That was fast. Some of them were on the Facebook page, giving reassurances and apparently taking notes, because it's running again. And the status message got changed appropriately too.

Clearing caches and all that didn't help. What finally did help was going into my Preferences and manually removing all the cookies from LJ.

It's still slow and balky as all get-out - Safari is working better in that regard - but somehow the fact that I got in makes me much happier.

(Especially after someone managed to stick a spam comment on my LJ ... when I still couldn't get in!)