LJ Messes Up Again

Ok, first we have the LJ privacy failery (see original announcement, trobadora's write-up of the problems ('cause I'm lazy), and a partial solution for Firefox users (haven't tried it yet, not in a techsavvy state tonight). I'm neither on Facebook nor Twitter, so won't crosspost comments, not even by accident. Don't do it either, ok? Though I guess I'll be moving to cross-post to LJ via Dreamwidth as long as this continues :(.

Secondly, the slash '/' symbol has been disabled in the LJ tags (my H/L tag gets only an error message). Now that sucks to no end, considering how many pairing slash tags there are out there :(. Let's hope it *was* accident rather than purpose, and gets fixed soon!

For those left wanting, I still have a few Dreamwidth invite codes hanging around on this post.

State of Hijja

Ok, my mom's on her way home to Germany now (and obviously has not succeeded in mastering mobile phone use despite several tutorials as my dad hasn't heard from her yet), but I hope I'll be receiving the 'safely home' phone call soon (*is mildly nervous as always*).

Am somewhat sniffly with company-withdrawal-syndrome right now, which usually passes after a day. But we had fun and saw a lot of things, although two weeks' company resulted in absolutely zilch in terms of writing or much in the way of net activity :(. But there *will* be fic soon!

Am reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which of all places I found left on a park bench, sat there about two hours watching the sea, and decided to liberate after nobody came back for it and it started to rain. It's surprisingly unputdownable, although the English translation doesn't quite wow me.

Also, first Dreamwidth crosspost attempt. *crosses fingers*