Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
sternenstaub	11:33a	WINTERVALFESTIMAS :D :D Tomorrow is Winter Solstice/Yule. Friday was Islamic New Year. We've just had Hannukah. Christmas is next week. It's all go on the winter festival front, probably because it is the end of December. This pleases me well, because I love this time of year. It is my favourite weather, too: SNOW!! I love snow. I spurn everyone who isn't, because it's amazing. I could wank on and on about snow forever. There's pictures of the snow tank I made on my Flickr. But I digress. This post is to share with you a little bit of festive music! And a non-festive music, too, but I've been listening to it a lot, so you get it in the mix, because I am a generous god. Have you heard of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society? Among lots of other cool things, they make music! Lovecraftian filk, to be precise. I get out the Scary Solstice CDs every year, and this year, I actually bought copies, as opposed to listening to lolpiracy, and I got SONGBOOKS and a TENTACLE STOCKING. How cool is that? Anyway, here's two tracks from them: Death To The World Death May Die They have sillier things, but these ones make me grin like a fool, so you get those. This next thing is my absolute 100% top favourite Christmas song ever. It's a version of O Holy Night that simply should not be. The story goes that it's a legitimate audition tape from a guy who wanted to do Christian music fo' srs. It's absolutely terrible. It's one of those amazing things that, just when you think it can't get worse, IT DOES. By a lot. I love it. Every time I listen to it, I practically cough up my lungs laughing. It never fails to get me proper Christmassy in double-quick time. :D O Holy Shit Night Now, the next thing isn't to do with Christmas or Winter at all. It's a parody of Lady Gaga's Pokerface, but about a typeface called Neutra. It has a video here, featuring some very attractive bearded nerdy boys with a passion for graphic design. For bonus awesome, check out the other things they do! They're very talented. :) So here it is, then: Neutraface That's it from me. Art continues apace, as always; loads of projects still chugging along because I never stop, and if you've participated in Project Motherfucking Christmas Card Marathon on Twitter/flocked IJ, please let me know if/when you get your card! NOW GO AND ENJOY THE FUCKING SNOW. PS. Where The Wild Things Are is amazing. I'm going to see Avatar tomorrow. I expect that'll make me cry, too. Monsterrrrssss<3 Current Mood: excited (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
sternenstaub	1:50p	OH OH WOULD YOU JUST LOOK A NEW ARTPOST ON THE SKETCHJOURNAL HOW ON EARTH DID THAT GET THERE (Comment on this)
goldfeathers	1:18p	God, two in one month? I'm spoiling you. Mostly this is shit I've drawn at work on the backs of condom box lids. I'm amassing a collection of them. When I have about a billion, I will string them all together and hang them off something. It'll be like modern art only more condom-y. Why I don't have my own corner in the Tate Modern right the fuck now, I simply do not know. No porn in this (I censored it! Really! I have actually drawn a thing that made me go "Oh, god, can't post that to the internet CROP CROP CROP") but there is a bit of nudity. Some of the pictures are big big big, because I was all, "FUCK YOU RESIZING" because that loses detail. I like detail. ( Condom lids, a birthday Troll, and a comic about me. [+11, NSFW] ) ENOUGH! I must CONSUME FOOD. Comments, questions, insults, offers of oral sex or punchs in the face all horribly welcome, as always. :D (34 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 7th, 2009
shortcipher	5:35p	Moving this journal soon, for the last time, to my own domain The tl;dr important bits If you're reading this on insanejournal.com, I'll soon stop posting here. You can friend chris_boyle, which will have the new posts when I move. If you're already reading this on a feed (e.g. shortcipher_ij) or on Facebook, you won't need to do anything. I'll still read and comment on both LiveJournal and InsaneJournal, as shortcipher. I will still not be making friends-locked posts, so there's nothing to miss by using a feed. Dear InsaneJournal: “it's not you, it's me” IJ hasn't done anything wrong (and won't lose a subscription from this move; I have a permanent account), but the content and format of what I post has become less suitable for this place. When I started my first attempt at blogging, it was very much a personal journal, whereas if you look at my recent posts, there's some of that, but it's mainly technical discussion, which is what I'm most interested in writing, and probably of more interest to more people than the minutiae of my daily life, even among my friends (although if there are specific things you'd like me to write more about, speak up). The subject matter doesn't make IJ any worse as a host than any other blog site, but I may sometimes want to do things that no free host will adequately support, such as unusual markup/embedding, AJAX, and analytics. I also want full control of things like comment moderation policy, for example: if you've logged in using an account I've friended on LJ, IJ or Facebook (or Twitter?), or you're on an additional list, then your comments won't be screened. I want the ability to tweak the site style, and integrate with the rest of my website, without faffing about with a baroque LJ-engine-specific language. I hope InsaneJournal survives for a long time yet, but I don't want to depend on their servers or on their ability to provide useful support responses. Most of all, I really don't want the user experience hijacked for enticements to create a local account instead of OpenID, or for enticements to return to the site instead of using feeds, or for advertisements of any kind. What I'm doing about all this is setting up a blog on my own domain, where I can tweak the implementation and change hosting provider at will without any further disruption for readers. This is what I should have done when I lost patience with LiveJournal, but I didn't have the time. I've yet to determine exactly how I'm doing this; the closest existing software I've found is Zine (and I also like parts of PyBlosxom), but it will be part of my website at chris.boyle.name, it will be written in Python (I will not run PHP) and it will have at least: full-entry feed does anyone want an additional feed with just first paragraphs? log in (to comment) with OpenID or Facebook does anyone want a Twitter option? threaded commenting optional email notifications of replies to your comments a method for me to easily write posts and moderate comments from Android: I might implement the Wordpress API, as Zine has done Current Mood: geeky Current Music: Stray - Something for your mind (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
announcements [ squeaky ]	9:23p	Issues with notifiactions There have been a lot of issues with notifications with several email providers for the past 2 weeks. Seems that a spammer has been using insanejournal.com as a landing page for their spam. This is causing some email providers to either delay or completely block mail from insanejournal.com. There isn't anything we can do about this besides continue to be vigilant in suspending these accounts. If you own an account that gets suspended with no notification it is because your account was mistakenly identified as a spam account. Due to the shear volume of accounts being suspended we cannot review each individual account so some mistakes may be made. Please understand we have been and will continue to do anything we can to stop this spam and therefore restore the ability to send email to a number of providers. (70 Comments |Comment on this)