I'm cross-posting, in hopes of help. But only to two communities. I still hope it isn't too troublesome.

Anyway, I bought the first two seasons off of eBay recently and I'm not sure, but... I think it might be bootleg? They claim to be authentic, but the first season claims to have 2 discs on the box and inside there's four. The disc art is all the same and the website posted on the back of it is "foxjapan.com", so I'm a bit wary. It's apparently a Canadian release (which only makes the foxjapan thing stranger to me?).

So! Does anyone own both seasons (especially Canadian release?) and can confirm if mine is like theirs? Here is a link to what it looks like - both of them have a similar look and I haven't had a TV show boxed set that looks like this before.

I'm hoping to figure this out soon, so if they're bootleg I can try to get my money back. They took forever to ship, so I don't have much time to file a complaint.

Something I finished work on yesterday. Hope you like!

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

Tags: bugs, csi wii, fck, lj_cares, lj_photophile, notes, rte, writer's block

Here in Illinois we have a yearly book award called the Caudill award (Rebecca Caudill was apparently an author from this state). Anyway, one of the 2010 nominees is KAA's book Home of the Brave. I saw it won a couple other awards too.


http://www.rcyrba.org/2010Resources.htm#a10

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

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Which shows made their mark on TV history this year? Which scenes will become the most memorable moments of 2009? Go Vote now !

Tags: news
Current Mood: thoughtful

Cassie's had it. After the last mission, she realizes she's getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can't do it anymore. So she quits.
But that's not the worst that's happened. It seems a human-controller named Karen followed Kassie after the last run-in with the Yeerks. And she knows Cassie is an Andalite-or human. Either way, if she exposes Cassie, it's all over.  No more Cassie. No more Animorphs. And no more Earth...

I can see how long the talk on this book is gonna be lol. Ther'e'll be a lot of speaking out about Cassie and her actions, but there is also one good thing about this book. I do like how KAA plunges us into shades of gray and shows us the Yeerk's POV. She lets us actually feel a bit of empathy for them.

I still think it would have been interesting if Aftran had stayed inside Cassie for a while but I can see why it was dangerous too. I think they should've made her a human nothlit with that frolis thingy, but then I'm getting a little ahead of myself. That's not until The Sickness.

Anyone have any Animorphs related ink???

I spent Sat at a tattoo palour with my partner, and saw a design on the wall that just screamed Yeerk...so i got it on my foot. =) hehe
wondering if anyone else as something?

ADDIT!!!
ok i finally took a photo of it...
its only 2 days old, so is still fresh, and will fade heaps.
Firstly, it doesn't look anything like a yeerk on the book covers or in the tv series, because it is what a yeerk looked like in my head.
ready?

( YEEEEEEEEEEEEERK!!! )

Current Mood: curious

I couldn't get my community to autoupdate using Posterous like I wanted, so I just created a new user account:

animorphcomic

Please feel free to friend the account, updates will be happening a lot more there!  Of course, updates are always first on the actual site:

Animorphs: A Graphic Novel

There is also my Animorphs comic twitter account:

AnimorphsComic

AND! For an extra nerdgasm, I just found out that MICHEAL GRANT is following my AnimorphsComic account on Twitter :D *SQUEE*  You guys don't know how accomplished that makes me feel ;D  Childhood... dreams... coming... true...!