{look upon my works, ye mighty}

Brad, creator of livejournal, is leaving for Google because and SixApart might be looking for a buyer for their company.

You know, this actually might be why there hasn't been any response to the general outcry about the journal deletions, strikethrough being replaced by bold, etc. I mean, yes, fandom is making a huge stink but the creator of the site leaving is kind of bigger and definitely worse PR, overall. If everyone's too busy dealing with that to deal with fandom, then I can understand that -- though that still doesn't explain the idiotic comment screening or the fact that three of the four charities that got donations from the Permanent Account sale had ties to a Six Apart investor.

I don't think that I can start backing up my journal until I'm at uni, since it requires installing stuff, but here is a guide on how to do it. It'll let you transfer all your old entries to another journal, without having to do it by hand, which is incredibly time-saving. brown_betty also has another useful entry on backing up LJ memories. In my case, I'm just going to go through them by hand and stick them up on my delicious account, I think.

At the same time, you can use Semagic to update multiple journals at once so as to maintain a nominal presence on LJ and test the waters of the other journaling sites.

If you want to keep up with people that are moving off LJ, try FeedReader for RSS purposes.

Edit: brad has his own post about it, wherein he says that it's not SixApart's fault that he's bored and some other things.

Link of the Day: Yu-Gi-Oh Online!

Want to watch Yu-Gi-Oh but too broke to buy the eps and can't find torrents for the eps you want or lacking in the time to download them? Hit the above link! They have most of the eps from all the season online, they load quickly enough that you can watch it while it's loading with minimal pauses (for me, anyway), and the quality is pretty good. XD Dub, though, for those people who care about the difference between the two.

Personally, I prefer the manga to the anime, but Ryuuji's cheerleaders always crack me up and you can never have too many Marik's crotch-shots. Jou in a dog suit is pretty hilarious as well, and something Savior mentioned recently made me want to watch Mai's backstory again. *needs to find which ep that is, though*

Favorite eps, personally, are 46&47, because those are the ones where Ryuuji shows up, 76 because it has Ryuuji attacking people via the use of dice, 96 & 96 because those are when Marik and Bakura duel, 106 & 107 where Ryuuji, Honda and Shizuka all duel in a trio, 153-155 because it's got kickass evil!Mai, and 194&195 because it has Seto versus Siegfried. XD I also like some of the Pegsy eps, but I can't find episode summaries for them to figure out which numbers those are.

Link of the Day: No Pink Ponies.

No Pink Ponies is a webcomic which only started up last Feb, meaning that I managed to read through all the archives in roughly two hours. Very easy to catch up on, and amusing enough to be worth it. XD The basic plot is that a girl called Jess opens a comic stores, and the following storylines are easy to follow with a side of meta-poking-fun-at-itself. The art style is pretty clean and simple, with the occasional colored strip, and the girls are drawn in a realistic enough style to keep me happy (especially Jess) with all of the characters easy to tell apart since they're drawn pretty distinctively.

On the opposite side of the scale is Mac Hall, which I also read all the way through but failed to enjoy except for a few strips. The plotlines weren't so much convoluted as disjointed so that I had very little idea of what was happening for a lot of the comic or what sort of timeline everything was occuring in. The characters all looked too alike to me so I had to resort to looking at their clothing to try to tell them apart, and their personalities were as bland as their character designs. Definitely not worth the read.