TellarHK's Journal: Journals. Hmm. Why the hell not?

Journals. Huh. I kept a LiveJournal a while back, but got pretty bored with it. I figure what I'll do is check this sort of thing out here on Slashdot and see if folks actually ever notice it. I'm not really anyone of importance, so if you're expecting me to have industry-shattering news or inside information, I apologise now.

What I can promise though, is pretty regular rants and ravings on things that happen to cross my path. Why not, right? Isn't the Internet supposed to be the land of the flame and the home of the rave?

Right now the big things in my technical life are searching for gainful employment, working on a writer's toolkit project I've started designing, and some game development I'm doing with a friend using the Torque (Formerly V12) engine that Tribes 2 is based on. I have a degree in programming, but with a specialization in Visual Basic and we all know how useful that's going to be. Will someone do me a huge favor and show me how the hell to use SQL in Cocoa on OS X? :)

I'll write more later, once I have a good rant in hand and ready to unleash upon the world.

I don't like live journal

[Kiwi]

My annoyances with live journal:

• Not free. I think it is unfair that older users get "grandfathered in" and get to have free acounts, but new users can not.
• Cliqueish. The structure of Live Journal encourages cliques. Slashdot is going the same directoin, but, on Slashdot, it is at least possible to open up a page to show me the 30 most recently posted journal entries. Kuro5hin [kuro5hin.org] and Libertonia [escomposlinux.org] do one better: They link directly to the list of most recent journal entries directly from their front page.
• Poor software release; while one can download the livejournal software, it is poorly documented and needlessly difficult to install. Until the livejournal software can be installed with a "./configure; make ; make install" (with all dependent software which a typical Linux distribution would not have included in a directory on the livejournal FTP site), I do not consider their software released.
• Some really unpleasant people there. My pet peeve is the jerk or left his wife to screw a 20-year-old girl because she had cancer, causing her to not always be sexually available for her husband.

- Sam

Re:I don't like live journal

[TellarHK]

I left LiveJournal several months ago, and wasn't even aware they'd gone pay. It's too bad really, but I can kinda understand it. They were getting hammered on bandwifth and on servers pretty badly, and the donations weren't coming as fast as they needed. Though that may or may not have been accurate, as is the nature of such remarks sometimes.

I'm hoping that the cliquishness of places like LiveJournal will be a little harder for people on Slashdot to get embroiled in, mostly because of the fact that people on Slashdot seem to be a more curious bunch. For example, I somehow wound up with a bunch of 'fans' listed that I don't even know. ;)