the harmonious notes of life

The paid account fairy seems to have visited me in my sleep, and I missed the email.

Who do I need to beatthank for this visit? =)

One of the lovliest people on my Friends List, rho, (who I pay much too little attention to as of late ) has a very informative entry here that I encourage everyone to take a look at when they get some spare time. It deals with steps you can take if someone on your friends list threatens to commit suicide. Comments of hugs, I care and other such things, while the sentiment is understandable and caring, don't necessarily take action on the suicide itself.

This is a difficult subject, and a difficult item to deal with when you're talking to people, many of whom you've never met and live thousands of miles away. It's hard to know what to do and what steps to take when someone you barely know is making such a drastic decision. Please take the time to look through what rho has to say. That is all.

Bought HP&HBP last night (yes, I'm a lemming, let it go). Probably won't be around on LiveJournal much until I finish reading it, and I read slowly, so. Yeah. Enjoy! I know I will!

Feel free to post spoilers and such, but comment here with a spoiler at your own peril. Not that I care that much, I suppose (I /did/ afterall do a google search for spoilers last night around 5pm - I'm pathetic.). So. Yeah. Love and stuff.

LiveJournal has recently implented tags - a nifty new feature in which you can basically categorize your posts with keywords without having to memorify them. Nifty sweet.

And I'm such a geek. I've spent the last couple of days going through all my posts (all the way back to December 2002 - wow) and tagging each post. I have a few corrections to make, but... yeah. That was a project, and one that did not help me get the condo cleaned, clean out one of the litter boxes or get started on dinner.

But! Organization!

I feel it my duty as a former LiveJournal Support volunteer and as a friend of several current LiveJournal Support volunteers to pass on a PSA.

DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE OR ANY SITE. There are sites who insist that passwords are not cached - DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. There are also people who insist they can belch the alphabet, understand Italian Opera and attend Green Day concerts all in one day. While it's /possible/, common sense dictates that it's not /likely/.

Now, this isn't just for the security of your account, though that's a major part of it. If you have a friends list, and you've been added to someone else's friends list as a reciprocal, that means you have access to posts and information about that person that they might trust /you/ with, but probably not total strangers. If you've given your password to someone you *cannot guarantee* will keep it completely confidential (read: they're living and breathing), you've just given that person access to your friends who had trusted you.

All is not lost. If you have given out your password to someone (or any service of any kind), just simply change your password and don't do it again. Ever. With any of your personal information. Especially when others are trusting you with some sensitive information about them.

I love you all dearly, but I won't hesitate to drop people from my friends list if I find out that I can't trust them.

It appears that LiveJournal is in some sort of negotiation to be purchased by Six Apart.. I'll let you read the article yourself since I know all the people on my Friends list are very intelligent.

I'd first heard the rumor from my husband a few hours ago, then checked my Friends page about 1/2 hour ago to be greeted with 3 posts concerning it. I then debated if I should pass it on or not. Best case, word spreads. Worst case, the report turns out to be a dud and LiveJournal really isn't being sold. But. I have my suspicions that it is. So, I pass it on, with some helpful advice to my LiveJournal Friends.

So, I was looking through the Support Board today (even though I'm on self-declared holiday from Support) and found a link that a requestor had posted in his personal journal. And I debated for all of 30 seconds and decided I needed to share with everyone!

Purchase your own microbes! I want an ulcer, a common cold and mononucleosis! Bad Breath is kinda cool too. =D =D =D

Now, for some, I know the Patty Rants can be a fun-filled evening of new and unusual names, curses, slander and sometimes even violent threats. And, as I know some of you thoroughly enjoy a good verbal ass-whuppin' by your favorite hot-headed Iowan, I have to burst everyone's bubbles. I can be wrong. And I was.

I recently ranted (and subsequently privatized said rant) about a response I received from lj_abuse regarding a troll who was attacking specific communities. I was.. most displeased.. with the stituation and the immediate solution. I now understand why I received the response I did and in the form it was given, and humbly apologize to anyone I may have offended or otherwise insulted. I am truly, deeply, very very sorry. I ranted before I had all the details, and I'm truly sorry. I really should have known better.

Now, for my soapbox. LiveJournal volunteers aren't paid. (Hence.. volunteering.) They are given a very few privileges, but for the most part do this entirely out of the goodness of their hearts and their desire to actually help. They eventually meet new people and gain new friends, but ultimately, they're drawn to support and abuse communities to help others. That said, I don't think any of us (myself included) give enough credit and appreciation to these folks.

Again, I deeply apologize for my most recent rant.

You and your Lj know of each other, but you need to
work on your relationship. Infrequent contact
and a lack of enthusiasm really have you too
set apart. Make an effort to get to know your
Lj better, and believe me, you will not be
dissapointed!


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