Daily Archive: January 26, 2004

Man, people are such assholes. 🙁 Just saw this on LJ news: Password Scam 2004-01-26 Currently we’re seeing a number of abuse cases that describe accounts being broken into and used to spam communities, after the owners of those accounts entered their username and password in a form that was posted in various journals. The form claims to be a way of customizing your LiveJournal account. It’s not — it’s a password collection script. Please never, ever give your password to anyone for any reason. LiveJournal will never ask you for your password via email, or for any reason other...

Excellent article in Newsweek about the crossover of young adult and children’s literature into adult mainstream reading and why*: …Or maybe grown-ups like children’s entertainment simply because it’s better than their own. Since writers can’t fall back on sex, romance or profanity, the storytelling has to be dramatic and clear. Critic Francis Spufford, who reread all his childhood favorites while writing his memoir, “The Child That Books Built,” believes that kids’ books fill a need for compelling stories currently missing in adult fiction. He blames modernism for encouraging experimentation at the expense of a sound narrative. “What’s happening now is...

Yesterday felt crazy and out of control, and really LOUD, but that was mostly because I’ve been alone and quiet all week. The kids seemed to be everywhere, bouncing off the walls and ceilings. 🙂 Karin ran in and out of the house all day visiting her neighborhood buddies. Anders’ parents came over. Another friend came over to go through kid’s clothes. Okay, so maybe it WAS a little crazy, and not just me. I cleaned out another closet and all of our old files with bank statements pitched that were over 7 years old. What a huge pile of...