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I'm not back or recruiting for Dreamwidth. I just thought you guys should be aware of this:

Security issues and suspect staff at Livejournal

 I'm not back. :D 

Just to let you know I was just sent 7 fresh new DW invites, so, should anyone want one, enquire within. 

Tomorrow is International Femslash Day and the online Femslash Con! 

The con is a series of panel discussions on PalTalk. 

( random previously posted cuteness below the cut )

http://crossedgenres.com/flashfic/flashfic-finalists/

You have to register but it's worth it, the ficlets are awesome. And VOTE. The least imaginative one (Pay It Forward, sorry whoever wrote this but most of the others were just far more awesome) is currently leading.

Posting links on LJ will violate your privacy. Since this post is crossposting to LJ, I can't link to the explanation, but try shatterstripes. livejournal. com /tag/drivingrevenue.net

Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh LJ WHY.

(Also, that crime/trans writer's block question was ORIGINALLY a fail-y trans question which got turned into a crime question and argh to that too.)


Edit: Hint from curtana:

Enter this in the admin console to stop it:

set opt_exclude_stats 1

Should you choose to accept it.

Write a drabble (100 words exactly), triple-drabble (300 words exactly) or a ficlet of exactly 500 words that is original and self-contained. (That means not a story that only works if one has read your other fiction.)

To make it a little easier, mythology fanfic (example: Neil Gaiman's Nicholas was...) or RPF about people who are now dead (Michael Jackson, Napoleon III, your great-great grandfather) is acceptable as well. 

Then tell me about it! Post it in the comments or send me a link.

...I realize I have a bad habit of making up private challenges that don't necessarily appeal to people and I may have done it again, but I'm genuinely interested in seeing this kind of thing and how it can be made to work. Since these kinds of stories don't have a lot of appeal online usually they don't get written a lot, either. It's also the kind of challenge I'd like to answer myself because it's a real challenge (I think I will, too).

So... Anyone?

Related, almost-random DW community plugs: 15_minute_ficlets, fantasy, fiction_transitions, godfic, writers

Note: I'll not be spending long bored hours by the Internet like usual over the next few days, but I'll reply whenever I can!
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A French website called SlayersTime.net is posting fanfic, mainly femslash, without author permission. ein_myria's post on it is here.

Got this through angharad_gov.

...that a lot of people don't seem to know.

- You can pretty much read and send email on any phone - even the cheap ones. It's not anything unique to a Blackberry or a smartphone.

- You should NOT send mobile email through the "Nokia Email" or "Nokia Messaging" system. Here's more on that.

- When you go to another country, if you don't get yourself a local SIM, you will be paying whatever rates your operator's partner in that country has set for these sorts of occasions. 

- Quite often though you may have a data transfer contract at home that lets you download data up to a certain point without extra costs, your operator's partner in a foreign country will NOT have such a contract with you and can charge whatever it likes. They can also charge per connection taken rather than by download rate.

- There may be applications or features on your phone that contact the Internet on their own, such as A-GPS or Nokia Messaging (*hiss*). -> Huge bills when you use your SIM abroad. (This is why you should unlock your phone and get a new SIM when you go abroad, with terms you approve of, and also it's one of the reasons why you should Know Your Phone.)

- If you have a network-locked phone, received when you made your contract with your current operator, your operator is obligated to unlock it (usually with an unlock code) after the time specified in your contract has run out. After that you can use it with any sim you like.

Not going to bitch about it this time, just to tell everyone who read this article about Nexus One a little nugget of information that should be obvious.

Google has set up its own phone portal through which people can get a handset tied to one of several mobile operators or untethered direct from the search firm.

Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said this could be its main selling point as it would mean owners could decide which network to sign up with.

"You buy the phone and then choose what sim card you want to put in," she said.

I don't know what the hell this Milanesi woman is talking about. EVERY PHONE IS AVAILABLE AS AN UNLOCKED VERSION. Even in the UK. Srsly! How is that a selling point when there's nothing special about it?

The reason most people in the UK have network-locked phones is because they're a lot cheaper. Looks to me like networks just about give them away for free in exchange for customer loyalty. It'll be the same with the Nexus One.