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[selenay]

Somehow, I feel that my endevours to finish the Big Bad Project before I go on holiday would be going much better if all the IT systems hadn't ground to a total halt and the IT helpdesk in India wasn't on strike today.

They've got a recorded message that helpfully asks us to call back tomorrow. Huh.

Code that usually takes five seconds to run is taking ten minutes and I really wanted to get some things done today.

I am plugged into my iPod and hoping that things improve quickly. Except Excel has just frozen on me and I helpfully haven't saved since before lunch. Grrr.

But it's only four days until my holiday :-)

I am trying to think of something to say, perhaps a commentary on the current sponsered communities kerfluffle, but I have no intelligent thoughts. Oh, well.

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[paranoidangel]

perhaps a commentary on the current sponsered communities kerfluffle

Pray, precis? (sorry, had to say that)

I've missed this entirely, how is it different from the ordinary sponsored account level?

[selenay]

LJ has added sponsered communities - companies can pay for a community dedicated to discussing their product, for example a film company can pay for a community for their film.

Obviously, everyone is turning into Chicken Licken again and predicting the end of LJ as we know it and the death of fandom now those evil companies can access LJ. Except they've got no more power than the rest of us to dictate what actually happens in a community that we're not the moderator of. So it's a little pointless. LJ is also introducing some new features that will be sponsered by companies - but they aren't going to have advertising or change how any of the current features work. We won't be forced to use sponsered things and they'll be "discrete" apparently.

I'm looking at it as yet another pointless overreaction to change that probably won't affect us at all. The same fuss was made over the change to the navigation, the introduction of Plus accounts and the launch of Vox. None of which have killed or particularly changed LJ.

[paranoidangel]

Ah, I thought sponsored was the same as the account type I have now, where you have (space for) adverts.

Any reaction at all is definitely an overreaction - anyone at all can create an LJ account and community, so there's nothing to stop companies from doing it already. They could be right now for all we know.

Now I'm used to it, I really like the new navigation, except for the links above the main navigation which are sort of hidden behind it.

[selenay]

They could be right now for all we know.

I would be surprised if they hadn't. I think that this makes it more transparent - any company or company spokesperson that sets up an LJ must now set it up as a sponsored account (which will be clearly marked as such) and/or declare their company affiliation. Breaking that rule will get them banned. To me, it makes the whole thing more trasparent.

Um, the links above the main navigation aren't hidden for me...

Your computer really does some strange things to websites!

[paranoidangel]

The links are only half hidden. And given that I noticed they are fine in Firefox Portable at work, yes, it's my computer doing strange things to websites :)

[selenay]

Your computer really likes mucking up websites :-) Mine, for example! The links in the side panels have no troubles on my computer...

Think that's a point we should add to the panel at Redemption? "Sometimes, no matter how carefully a website is constructed, there will be one user who's computer doesn't display it right..."

I need to start looking out for examples of really dreadfully presented fansites :-) And also some examples of good fansites as the contrast!

[paranoidangel]

"Sometimes, no matter how carefully a website is constructed, there will be one user who's computer doesn't display it right..."

And it'll be mine :) Seriously, I don't know what it is about my computer, it's just crazy.

Good fansites are easier to dredge out of the memory than bad ones - because the bad ones I don't go back to.

[selenay]

That's why it might be a good idea to start collecting links and writing the odd note so that we have a decent collection to discuss when we start planning the panel :-) I'm not often organised, but I'm going to try to be for this!

[paranoidangel]

Yes, I really should start doing this. Although I've been saying that for a while.

Being organised sounds like a good idea - but then that's what Peg2 is for :)

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Intelligent thoughts are overrated. Why not go eat some pie?

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[selenay]

The chocolate pie thing that I ordered as my dessert yesterday never appeared! A couple of people got the desserts they ordered and the rest of us got fruit :-( We got what we orded for the other courses, but sadly dessert was a disaster.

Pie would be nice.

I'll eat my healthy melon and drink herbal tea instead.

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