For much the same reasons as everybody else around a new set of terms and conditions that are in Russian (and where LiveJournal are explicitly saying that the English translation can't be relied on) and that are anti LGBT due to the legal situation in Russia, I don't want to use LiveJournal much anymore ( Read more... )

Joining the crowd and stopping cross posting to LJ after this post ( Read more... )

Rambling onto a screen. Won't ever get to actually do this ( Read more... )

Hello world, first public post in ages.

Hayfever and sunglassesI have suffered from hayfever for years, and have been aware that one of the recommendations to stop pollen getting to your eyes is to wear wrap around sunglasses. It's hard to get prescription lenses in wrap around sunglasses because of the shape of the lenses, so when you look in ( Read more... )

One of the things that keeps us safe from fraud/identity theft/other crimes of deception is the ability to think "wow there, something's not right here" and act on that feeling that something isn't right and at least needs further investigation ( Read more... )

This year I have ( Read more... )

I have been of the opinion, since I was around 11 or 12 or so that my name is my name and I will never change it. My name is a key part of my personal/individual identity [I get that this isn't the case for other people, who see names as things binding them to particular parts of their closer family]. I spent my childhood dealing with the ( Read more... )

Google isn't being a very good friend at the moment ( Read more... )

I've been using TweetCaster as an Android client for Twitter for ages and generally like it, but it's now taken to showing me retweets from people from whom I've unsubscribed from retweets. This is a minor annoyance, but one that is sufficiently annoying that I want to find an Android client that doesn't do this ( Read more... )

I wrote about today back in 2005I've already unfollowed about four people on Facebook and one on Twitter for suggesting her death is something to be celebrated. I'll keep doing that. *shrugs*. I feel very strongly indeed that ( Read more... )