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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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[ kiltslave ]
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8:32p
Sunday, November 30, 2008
![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) stellaluna_: storytelling - As a writer, I have a responsibility to consider how I'm using my words.[...]I need to think about the story I want to tell and if I'm telling it well; I need to think about the characters and about whether I'm writing in a fashion that's true to them; I need to think about what my story is saying the subtextual and metaphoric level as well as what's happening in the surface action of the story; and I need to think about whether I'm making any unconscious assumptions regarding gender or race or sexual identity that I did not intend. I need to look at the story through a broader lens. -
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(comment on this) Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
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[ fairestcat ]
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4:49p
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
- penknife: Hotmail, Russian hackers, and you - With some of the recent journal and community hackings (we don't know about the most recent one yet), the cause has apparently been that Hotmail is recycling closed email accounts. If you had a Hotmail address validated for your LJ account, and you close the Hotmail account, a hacker can then sign up for the same email address and use it to gain access to your LJ account. -
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(comment on this) Friday, November 21st, 2008
(comment on this) Thursday, November 20th, 2008
system
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4:46p
S2 Layout Issues
Hi, Guys. I know a good many of the S2 themes are kinda hosed right now. Something changed with the LJ migration to their new data center. The Bloggish and Style Contest themes have their CSS hosted at LJ. That's by LJ's design, with how the code is distributed. The code is set to use LJ's CSS proxy to handle the access and display of the CSS settings. Since LJ's move, though, the CSS proxy has been kaput. But the CSS itself at LJ is still working. Until we can find a way around all this, a couple users have a way that you can use the Custom CSS in your customization area to get your layouts pretty damn close to the original for that layout and theme.
You'll enter two sets of code in that area. The first one would be the code from this URL:
http://stat.livejournal.com/sixhtml/themes/common/base-weblog.css
Just go there, copy it, and paste into the custom CSS box.
And the second set you enter will be from the direct CSS URL for your specific theme. You can locate this URL by viewing the source of your journal in your browser (View Source code). If you scroll down to the <link rel="stylesheet" section of the source code, you'll see the direct url to your theme's CSS at livejournal. Go there, copy that code, and paste it after the base-weblog.css code above. Make sure you have "No" selected to use the included base code (it's a dropdown), and that the URL field above the custom CSS box is empty. Click to save changes, and your theme will display much as it is supposed to. There is occasionally an element like a border that doesn't come through, but it's pretty close.
As an example of the CSS URLs, this is the one for the Baby theme for the Bloggish layout:
http://stat.livejournal.com/sixhtml/themes/lilia/theme-baby.css
The CSS URLS will be start with
http://stat.livejournal.com/sixhtml with the rest varying by theme and layout.
I'll still be looking for an alternative to having to futz with custom CSS, but in the meantime, that method of applying the CSS will get your Bloggish and Style Contest journal themes put back together pretty well.
Thanks,
Robin
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[ fairestcat ]
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4:38p
Thursday, November 20, 2008
- kestrelsan: 5k, 10k, 20k.... - A poll on some questions I've been tossing about lately on story length and reading habits--not so much from the angle of seeing what length of story gets more readers, but on how readers approach long vs. short stories and their respective status in fandom. -
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