♫La Corda D'Oro Friending Meme [13 Nov 2009|08:16pm] la_corda_doro [pommello] [ music | BENNIE K - Okay | Powered by Last.fm ] Hopefully this is okay! But I realize I need more La Corda D'Oro friends and I thought 'Why not have a friending meme!' ♫La Corda D'Oro Friending Meme♫ post comment

Top 5 ATM [13 Nov 2009|02:07pm] audiography [grendelity] And here we have a top 5! Just because it's been a while. Also, hey, to whomever keeps reporting my Box.net account for copyright infringement? STOPPIT. ಠ_ಠ The National -- Slow Show : I have a huge amount of affection for Matt Berninger's vocals--they're so distinctive and lovely. This is one of those songs that sounds very sad, despite its incredibly hopeful lyrics. It's like a crooked little love song, because things are never perfect. // web site Darren Hayes -- Darkness : When I was young, I was a huge Savage Garden fan and kind of lost interest after their split. So even though I am very fond of Darren Hayes' voice, I mostly stopped paying attention to him after Spin came out and it didn't impress me too much, and all the stuff I've run across from him is years old by the time I hear it. "Darkness" wasn't much of a success as a single when it came out, but it just gives me chills. Melancholy and accepting and surprisingly heartfelt. // web site Helios -- Sons of Light and Darkness : I admit I ran across this when I was searching my music library for the Darren Hayes song, but it's so beautiful and different that I keep listening to it. Helios mostly does ambient music, and this is no exception, but it captures such a mood that I don't want to label it so simply. Piano and guitar and a gentle, wandering beat that makes me think of blue skies. // web site La Roux -- Bulletproof : Oh god I don't know I just have this on repeat. It makes me dance like a total loon. // web site Built to Spill -- Things Fall Apart : Built to Spill is a new discovery for me, and even though I heard "Life's a Dream" first, and loved it more than I ever would have expected on the first listen, "Things Fall Apart" is a real gem. At more than six minutes long, it's not exactly something to catch on the radio, but its sardonic lyrics wormed their way into my brain from the beginning. We've all seen enough, now it's time to decide / The meekness of love or the power of pride / It doesn't matter if you're good or smart / God damn it, things fall apart // web site 10 comments|post comment

Corda 3 Voice Samples [13 Nov 2009|08:26pm] la_corda_doro [simply_shine] Hello!! I stumbled upon the newly updated Corda 3 site and it now has voice samples for all of the main men in the series so far http://www.gamecity.ne.jp/corda3/ What do you think?? *dies from fangirl spasms after hearing FukuJun's voice...* 1 comment|post comment

yuletide is heeeeere! [12 Nov 2009|11:20pm] smercy ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) 5 comments|post comment

LiveJournal Major Notes: Notes, Tweaks, Bug Kills, LJ_Cares! [12 Nov 2009|01:53pm] news [theljstaff] 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 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! ( Read more... ) Curtains We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week! 116 comments|post comment

new poem : "never look back" [12 Nov 2009|03:30am] cellardoor_ [trackstar99] [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | Deep Dish ft. Sarah McLachlan ] never look back Viešpats sukūrė širdis mano naujo. Jūs mesti Trumpai apie rašomasis. so in a letter, his words return, to reunite like water turns sand back to darker earth, like worms crawl under and not without. but within. I have here a dark river, I have a bell chime in the night, clock-strike in the night. I have a letter, in hand, and it claims, yet not produces. I have to wonder the purpose of large halls in Victorian homes : when the family went to bed, was it a place for the silent vampires to gather with the reed organ in their non-shadows? Mes judėjome pagal jo širdies ritmą po mano ranka. *** William Thomas Beckford would have dinner prepared for 11 guests, but then he’d dine alone, always, and send the rest back to his kitchens. Every day, a man was in company of phantoms at the dinner-hour— I can only suppose they disliked his food. I feel like William Courtenay, I am walking through some place new to me, hotel in another nation and it's mid-morning, just out of bed and bath and now off to see a city well-sprung from the sun for me. for myself, all mine, from Riga to Vilnius, from cold sea saltwaters to wine in glass. we forget seldom things, but we seldom forget worded wonders. post comment

Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT [11 Nov 2009|02:00pm] lj_maintenance [dwell] EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP. Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!! Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out! --- On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice. Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials. We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait! As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. 39 comments|post comment

Catching up . . . [10 Nov 2009|02:54pm] athanarel [sartorias] You guys have been an enormous help on the rough draft chapter, which I've taken down. I revamped it after seeing patterns in the responses, for which I thank you! It looks like several of these are going to be contracted for. I am going to do one last pass on SLAM JUSTICE and then take it to market. I really want to get the YA ones caught up. 19 comments|post comment

A topic from a long time ago: Handclaps [08 Nov 2009|02:13pm] audiography [moaningminnie] [ music | Frightened Rabbit: Swim Until you can't see land ] I remember many moons ago looking on this community and seeing a wonderful topic - Handclaps. It was this topic which introduced me to one of my all time favourite songs "Recovery" by New Buffalo, and I'd like to give something back to everyone on the same topic! I recently heard this song by Just Jack from the album "All Night Cinema" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Night-Cinema-Just-Jack/dp/B001Q8WLOS). Just Jack is an English guy, and has pretty much done all writing and production on this album. It's just great. About this song, Amazon says "Lead-off single “Embers” proves that some pretty moving productions are within his grasp, an emotive production of dancing violins, hand-claps, and harmonies that overlay in beautiful patterns" This is a wonderful description, and for me the handclaps build the song up into something awesome. Let me know if the link dies and I'll re-upload. And let me know if you like! (: http://rapidshare.com/files/304080203/Embers.mp3.html (not sure if this is working correctly - if not try: http://www.box.net/shared/kpg7l8aesg) 2 comments|post comment

LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest [05 Nov 2009|01:15pm] news [theljstaff] The empire strikes back In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal. RSS feeds again If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience. Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests! c_s_i If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here. Enveloped in postcards Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them 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 giving ten random users paid account credits. Photos of the week If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too! ( Read more... ) 220 comments|post comment

[03 Nov 2009|11:36am] la_corda_doro [hibatsu] Hi, I hope this is okay... I was wondering if I can request La Corda's character music vocals collection. The ones posted previously are all expired. I hope someone can help. Thank you. And if it's possible, the DL option not be Megaupload, my computer blocks this site ^^; Thanks!! 1 comment|post comment

[02 Nov 2009|05:09pm] clarify Me: *vacuuming the kitchen with the hose* Mushuu: (new little black kitten) *OH OH HEY IS THIS A FUN NEW GAME?!* *ATTACK* Me: *if you lose your tail it will be no one's fault but your own* 3 comments|post comment

Today She Stopped Trying [02 Nov 2009|09:28am] cellardoor_ [cagedbatty] (I posted this in another community, but I doubt anyone here belongs to it, so... here it is) Today she stopped trying, but before I failed to see how hard she worked to hide her faults and keep her thoughts from me. I should have been there for her. I should have tried to understand why she couldn't look at me sometimes or want to hold my hand. The scowls she masked with smiles. The lies she told through sneers. The wall she forged between us was a layer built on fears. For, every day that she awoke her reflection beat her down. She tried to smile through it, but her mouth would always frown. She walked the streets for anything an inkling of a life or some meaning. Something to keep her from trying to end the useless lying. The feelings she locked away and the problems she tried to hide were the things I tried to cure her of but it caused her heart to die... She never was at fault for the way she'd always cry: "A world too good for a common girl is something I cannot deny..." post comment

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