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[oyceter]

• Submissions for the Asian Woman Blog Carnival are due tomorrow! As usual, I very much want to particpate, but my poor time-management and general overwhelment with school leave me with no content. Uh. Anyone have suggestions? Tell me what to write!


• rachelmanija is blogging about a lot of the fun stuff we did when I visited. Mostly we watched a lot of stuff, such as Project Runway, Ashes of Time Redux, Red Cliff pt. 1, and Vampire Knight Guilty (spoilers later on in the post). I am only sad I am not down there right now!


• From SNR: Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Women, and Inmates. I've been tryring to read more about this after Conquest; have not read this entire list yet, although the poster noted that the 2006-2008 vaccine data may not be accurate.


• I have finally done some actual reading up on Dreamwidth, anad if they can import my Memories and tags, I am totally in. I usually dislike migration and have not set up an alternate site for the LJ in the past because none of the other services seemed sustainable or had the features I liked for LJ, but after a little poking around, Dreamwidth not only seem to have many of the features I like, they improve on many things, and the structure they've set up looks sustainable and user-centric. The only thing I am sad about is that they are not planning a photo gallery feature right now, which means a huge number of my pictures will remain on LJ. Well, that, and I am not sure how their revamped Memories/tags will work (if you can't tell, I am obsessed with information organization), but I am geeky and have already created a Bugzilla account so I can give feedback.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure they import tags, but now that you mention it, I haven't heard any talk about memories at all. I can only hope they've made some changes to them, as I always found the interface and options to be horribly frustrating.

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

This is the answer (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/323228.html?thread=14293404#t14293404) I got when I asked about Memories. ^^ Sounds like they're planning a drastic overhaul.

[delux-vivens.livejournal.com]

hmm. write about... blogging food when you go visit your parents.

(i am eating coconut pudding right now so guess where my mind is)

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

I also really hope they allow Memories to be imported, as I use the feature like crazy under umadoshi. (Although that's a permanent LJ account, so my Memory list there isn't going to disappear unless the site does, in which case...the list is useless anyway. ^^;)

[strangemuses.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that Ashes of Time has been re-released! I have an ancient VHS copy that I dubbed from a Chinese version that I rented from a marvelous hole in the wall Asian video rental place in Minneapolis back in 1994, the year the movie was released. I'll have to get the new DVD version and compare them to see what Wong Kar Wai cut when he re-released it.

[jennifergearing.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, thanks for the reminder re: AWBC.

[slrose.livejournal.com]

Maybe blog about favorite manga? Or what makes you love or hate one?

[sajia.livejournal.com]

An Asian perspective on romance novels? Just bought Lydia Joyce's Wicked Intentions, which, while not as feminist as Shadows of the Night, has its moments.

[keilexandra]

I've been slowly migrating memories to bookmarks, but I had better be able to import tags. I can't replicate over three years of author/genre-sorted book reviews.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

WRITE ABOUT JESSE.

JESSE!

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Is it weird that I popped in and am commenting to second this? Whatever! I second this! JESSE!