Dreamwidth News

My goodness, it's been a busy week! For those of you who are just joining us, I'm denise, and I'm half the ownership team around here. Welcome to our new users, and I hope you're getting settled ...

With that, let's go to the videotape go through this week's update, since we have a whole darn lot to cover ...

( Weekly Update, 8 September )

Good morning/afternoon/evening/middle-of-night, Dreamwidth! So, this week, those who said that moving the updates to Wednesdays officially would mean they'd be posted on Fridays happened to be correct. I've got a good reason for it, though: I was waiting a day or two until we could commit some code so that I'd have something big and awesome to tell you guys about. More about that in a few minutes, but let's go through some of the rest of it first.

Oh, and for those of you who were curious after last week's update: the hole in our shower wall is now patched. (However, we came home from a weekend trip to visit my family to find that the smoke detector was beeping nonstop. Considering that we have 20' ceilings, and the building keeps the ladder locked up, this necessitated some unhappy calls to the maintenance folks.) I know y'all just couldn't sleep until you heard the outcome there.

( 20 August )

Hello Dreamwidth! This is the week where I finally give up and admit that Monday just isn't working out for the weekly update anymore (as evidenced by, oh, the last two or three months of updates) -- so, starting this week, we'll be officially moving them to Wednesdays from here on out. (I'm pretty sure I'll still call them the Monday updates for a while, though; it takes time to retrain yourself. At one of my former jobs, we had a blue binder that was carefully labeled 'Red Book' for that very reason.)

At any rate, whatever day of the week it is, it's time to talk about Dreamwidth some more.

( Update: 14 July )

Hello Dreamwidth! I am writing you this update from the depths of severe pharmaceutical influence (and not of the fun kind, either) for the whomping case of bronchitis I've picked up plus the latest round of Let's Mess With Denise's Pain Meds, so let's hope I can get an update out before I pitch over asleep on my keyboard. (Seriously, one of the ones I'm on right now knocks me out without fail two hours after I take it, and I'm starting this update half an hour after the evening dose. Clock starts ticking ... now!) Oh, and also, my wife and I are buying a house. Whoever said I tried to avoid stress?

Meanwhile, everyone please think good thoughts for mark's dog Trigger, who had to undergo emergency surgery today for spinal problems. Last Mark and Janine heard, Trigger's recovering well at the vet's, and the combined good thoughts of all of Dreamwidth can't hurt.

( Update, 30 June )

Hello, Dreamwidth! Can anyone tell me why my cat is currently trying incessantly to climb into bookshelves that don't have room for him? 'Cause I sure as heck can't figure it out.

Ahem. Anyway. Let's talk about this week's news. (Meanwhile, hands up: how many people have gotten so addicted to the inline cut-tag expansion that they don't know what they did without it? I swear, I never thought I'd use it, and now I can't imagine life without it.)

( Weekly update, 15 June )

This update would've been a lot earlier if I hadn't gotten sucked into TVTropes. (I will avoid linking in the hopes that I can spare some of you.)

It's been a busy week over here! We had a relatively successful Web 2.0 Expo -- I have abour four pages of notes on Things To Improve or Things To Plan For Later -- and the SF/Bay Area meetup on Friday night was pretty awesome (hello to everyone who was there, and especially to the people I met for the first time!) We also had what I think of as a particularly Dreamwidth thing going on: I taught mark how to knit, and he taught me how to fire a shotgun. (In case you've missed it, we both think that the wide variety of experiences and opinions demonstrated around here is pretty damn awesome, and both of us love exploring things we don't know, ideas or skills we haven't seen before, and opinions we don't necessarily share.)

I now get a week to recover from last week, and then head out to Portland to appear at the NCWIT annual summit with Kirrily Robert and Angela Byron. (Tuesday is the registration deadline, if you've been considering attending.) And as soon as I get back from Portland, sarah and I are ducking down to Washington DC to get married -- we're not holding the big-party wedding for another year or so, but we're doing a tiny courthouse ceremony the week of May 24th. It's a really packed month.

On to the update!

( 10 May )

First off, thanks to everyone who's offered well wishes about my hand injury! It's not RSI-related -- it's a slipped tendon in the knuckle of one finger -- but this is a good time to remind everyone to practice good posture, stretching, and typing-break habits. Believe me, you don't want to be stuck dealing wth not being able to type anymore when you're used to being able to; it pretty much sucks.

That having been said, on with the show. Abbreviated version this week, because typing's still difficult for me, but I'll try to hit on the important parts!

( 26 April )

So, not only is Tuesday the new Monday, Wednesday appears to be the new Tuesday. Thankfully, I am able to take a break from the exciting world of Tax Time™ to bring you the update, only slightly late. (Not-thankfully, I am doing so after about 20 hours of uptime and while on serious painkillers, so if I am less coherent than usual, this would be why.)

We have an action-packed, thrill-a-minute blockbuster at the box office this week (IN A WORLD ... where denise likes to make stupid jokes in the weekly update introduction....) Coming soon to a theatre near you:

( Weekly update, 16 March )

Good morning afternoon evening $time_of_day, Dreamwidth! After discovering once again that February has 28 days (you'd think we'd remember this by now), and since the Olympics are over (seriously, did you see that hockey game yesterday?) and I need something to do with the time that was devoted to actually watching TV (it's a once-every-two-years activity), Mark has handed over the weekly update to me for my turn at the helm.

One incredibly long sentence later, let's start in on the update.

( Weekly update, 3/1/10 )