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Adding Flayrah's Newsbytes to LiveJournal
Any Paid or Permanent members around? I'd like to add Flayrah's newsbyte feed as flayrahnewsbyte (like flayrah) but the syndication form (at the bottom) won't let an free account add one. (It'd be nice if that form accepted HTTPS URLs, but it seems to work through redirects.) -
Interesting exercise: picking your own election manifesto
The BBC was doing it, so why not? It's my first election for over a decade…
Overall, I come out as liberal with certain reservations. The Liberal Democrats tended to win my vote based on specific, implementable policies representing incremental improvement which don't give or take away too much. Apparently I like the Alliance Party, too - usually ( Read more... ) -
It's awards season again!
I almost forgot to mention it here, but WikiFur, Inkbunny and Flayrah are all up for the Ursa Major Award again this year. If you like one or more of them, you might vote for them, and encourage others to visit.
Here's what a few things which happened on each site last year: Inkbunny - WikiFur - Flayrah - note, they are all team efforts. -
Formalizing the role of charity fundraising in furry conventions
Many furries think raising money to support needy animals is a good thing. From a purely promotional point of view, it's also nice to be able to say you "raised $$$$ for fuzzy critters". As a result, many furry conventions do itCharity might seem like a win-win, but there are opportunity costs. Fundraising involves volunteer time, and sometimes ( Read more... ) -
HP SSD Smart Path not always a smart choice
Inkbunny uses one of HP's RAID controllers. I've gotten intimately familiar with it over the past week while transforming Inkbunny's submissions array to RAID 5. It's pretty sweet.
I recently found out about a new feature it supports called SSD Smart Path. Unfortunately, for our purposes, it's not all that smart to use it ( Read more... ) -
Huffington Post takes a closer look at furry
Well, guess what ended up in the news again? (For a summary of the issue that got them interested in the first place, see Flayrah's article about the chlorine attack at MFFThe focus seemed to be on relationships and identity (particularly homosexuality), but hey, I'll take that over fictional sex parties! And I'm glad he took my suggestion to talk ( Read more... ) -
Digging through old boxes can be profitable
I just found my old new glasses! They were slipped into a con bag for Midwest FurFest 2008 (I have them back to '05, my first con ( Read more... ) -
You know you're becoming a product manager when . . .
The moment you realize your time's better served filing issues than resolving them:
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Taking care of a growing bunny
For those of you unaware: I'm now owner and lead administrator of a major furry art website.
This has been coming for about three months; it'll probably take another three until things are completely settled. There's a lot to do, and I have some big shoes to fill, but it's quite exciting, no ( Read more... )