I had to find a new blogging site

So livejournal is not accessible at work. I suspect it has something to do with the new adult content tags. I could not think of a valid business reason to allow me to blog on EllJay, especially since i have been so bad about posting anything other than quizzes over the past few years. Consequently, I decided to make a new start so here I am :) I will try to link this on my livejournal when I get home, and i will still peruse my friends page on there when I am at home. After all, how can i survive without the humor provided by some of the communities i have been reading for years. Without further a due(SP?) here is what is currently on my mind.

1. Livejournal was bought by some Russian company. I think it is called SUP. This in itself did not bother me since they left Brad (who now seems to be working at google) on board in an advisory capacity. However recent occurrences in LJ land have been very reminiscent of nascent KGB practices. When I first joined LJ you needed to be invited by a user to have a free account or you could buy a paid account. As I am not known for my patience, i paid for a yearly membership. When permanent accounts became available, I bought one because I anticipated using and enjoying Live journal for a long time and i didnt want to worry about yearly payments. Sometime soon after I joined, basic accounts were opened up for everyone and sometime after that Brad sold the company to Six Apart. Six apart introduced plus accounts which gave some paid featured to free users if they had advertising on their journal. Finally, SAP got rid of basic accounts and introduced the option of possible sponsored accounts to counteract that. Now the problem that I had with that, is that they completely did this without consulting the advisory board (who were all against it) I think that internet services that I buy permanent accounts for tend to fail, face the jury turned to shit as well. That is why I am sucking with the yearly membership with the ACM. Mine buying a permanent account is like black widow for online services.

2. Work has been steadily getting busier and more interesting. I have now being assigned an actual silo-manufacturing applications-which is going to allow me to build relationship with a group of application analysts. I had to do a major migration this past weekend, which along with Shabatot on Sunday and Kitty cleaning on Saturday made me have a 3 hour long weekend but it was worth it because everything went well and I actually had a significant amount of stuff to contribute in the status report. Yay.

3. Work is having a chess tournament and I have lost every game so far. I bought this Chessmaster software that only seems to work on Windows. I have this rule to not use my work laptop at home unless I absolutely need to do actual work...but I just might break down. Billy said something about either running it on Parallels on my MAC or VMware on my Fedora box

This is all I can think off for now. Please feel free to add me. It would be nice to have an audience.