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.

очередная недокартинка. может быть, когда-нибудь я ее закончу. и да, тема не моя. inspired by. в общем, кому нужно, тот знает, а я, похоже, опять транслятор чужих идей.

почему-то вдруг захотелось историй. о себе, о нас, обо всем вокруг. расскажите мне, а? я буду внимательно слушать и превращать ваши слова в разноцветные кусочки мозаики, из которой никогда не сложится правда.

все расплывается. реальность утекает сквозь пальцы и скалится чужими улыбками на почти забытых, но таких родных лицах. дурацкая мысль о том, что нужно торопиться, потому что - не успеть, приходит все чаще. как будто где-то на самом деле есть те песочные часы, которые отмеряют каждому свое время. это, конечно, всего лишь усталость. и тоже пройдет.
зажмурится и нырнуть с головой в эту зиму. принять ее, наконец, захлебнуться холодом и снова выжить.

"нам кажется мы убегаем, и факелы сзади горят
но занавес поднимают и мы опять начинаем"
© Чайф

Сегодня решил.
Если меня будет искать военкомат, стану бродягой и буду скитаться до 27 лет.
Когда вернусь буду похож на косматого, бородатого старика.

 Another live report written by musicJAPANplus world team member!
Waiting Hall for MUCC.
Oct. 4, St Petersburg, Russia

Read the whole article here!

It was nothing to be going in that nasty and dull day of the 4th of October in St Petersburg. However, the hearts of MUCCERS were beating harder from early Sunday morning. The famous j-rock band went on the North Capital of Russia to perform their live show of Solid Sphere 2009!
The venue's title was also meaningful. The only one thought warmed fans standing on the stairs of "Zal Ozhidaniya" club (literally "Waiting Hall") which is located in the former Warsaw railway station building - in that cold and rainy evening they could have the opportunity to see j-rock gods with their own eyes and to show their love and devotion. In behalf of it they were ready to spend long days and hours outside the venue. 

я встретил малолетних девок, с зелеными нирисованными усами

которые называли друг-друга "человек пидар" и хотели погреться
апд: они еще говорили, что они нормальные

Концерт задерживался на тридцать минут, всех людей снимающих или фотографирующих сцену выпихивали из зала, билеты явно распродали не все, кучки имбецильных фанаток школьного возраста и прочие минусы померкли в один момент, стоило лишь выйти на сцену ABS. Даже спустя несколько часов, остаётся загадкой, как же эти люди смогли раскачать зал так, что на всё время концерта из головы просто вылетели мысли о неполном партере, холодной погоде и неприветливом персонале клуба.

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The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

c_s_i

If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them 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 giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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Товарищ  xgadflyx подкинул отличную картинку.
Смешно, очень смешно.

домашним уютом веет, правда?