– to Colette Searls, JP Rangaswami, Chris Locke, Neil Young. Two of whom will join me on stage at Defrag shortly.
The Notes feature has been added to two action-taking pages:
- You can now add a Note directly on the Add a friend page - handy if you'd like to mark down where you met them or another name you know them by!
- On the Ban and unban users page (under Account -> Privacy) you can now add a Note, including to a group of users all banned at the same time (so that next year you won't need to ask yourself "hey, why did I ban these guys?")
Other changes:
- When you're viewing your existing Notes they're grayed out; click in a field to activate it to change the text (this page can be found from the header by using Profile -> Manage Notes)
- Changes to editing:
- When you're going to create a new Note but one already exists, you'll get a warning that you're editing an existing Note
- You can now delete a note from the "Edit note" pop-up in the hover menu
- You can now delete notes for multiple selected users on the Manage notes page
- When you change Notes on "Ban|unban users" page, they can be edited and saved with "Save Changes" button
Notes augmented
We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!
Product tweaks and bug kill
- In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
- If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
- The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
- If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
- If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
New FCK fixes rich text editor!
- We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5 for improved visual design!
- When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
- RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
- An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
- The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers
- Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)
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lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.
In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.
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A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, England, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.
Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing 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 drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!
Photos of the week
We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.
You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!
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These developments are just the beginning. According to the newly-released 2009 Campus Computing survey statistics, 44% of colleges and universities have converted to a hosted student email solution, while another 37% are currently evaluating the move. Of those that have migrated, over half — 56% precisely — are going Google.
To toast the students and faculty that are shaping this movement, we hosted our customers and EDUCAUSE conference attendees at the Denver Public Library. Check out the photos to see what these schools have to say:
We also did something different this year and invited some student ambassadors from schools using Google Apps to come to Denver and share how using Apps on campus helps make their lives easier. Daniel Miller who works at University of Washington's Ethnic Cultural Center uses Calendar to let students on campus know about his organization's events. Sociology major Robin Brown uses forms in Docs to collect data for her class surveys at Notre Dame. Taylor Bell at Boise State relies on Gmail's filters and gadgets to seamlessly access to his Calendar, Docs, Tasks and Chat. After losing his journal, Vaughn Parker at Temple University created a Calendar to keep track of his assignments and share them with his classmates and professors. (There are many more of these student stories, too).
Every year, more schools move to Google Apps so they can spend their time focusing on students, not servers; on higher learning, not higher costs. If you're a school, you can go Google, too. Check out www.google.com/appsatschool to learn more.
Before the salt in evaporating sea water turns white, it goes through stages of color that range from jade green to brick red, with variations of orange, yellow and other colors. From above the salt ponds around San Francisco Bay look like giant panes of stained glass. The shot above is from my latest set, shot on approach to SFO last week.
(I imagine it'll come out next week--probably run on the day the movie opens. I'll tell you more about who and what and where when it does. In fact, I may see if one of y'all can clip the article and send it to me or scan it. The Littlest Edward can totes scrapbook it for me.)
I was actually pretty complimentary about how the movies handle some of these elements, though. That said: while I highly doubt I would in any way be the focus of the article, this is going to be read by a wider, non-LiveJournal, probably Twilight-loving audience. They're only going to see my commentary on this specific angle, and not the more affectionate, even-handed snark. I am pretty sure that their outrage will be a complete novelty in my sheltered little corner of the internet. BRING IT. Because I totally won't read any of their responses and my journal doesn't have anonycommenting enabled. Have fun storming someone else's castle, kids!
Cleolinda Jones: Senior Sparkle Correspondent. HATERS TO THE LEFT.
(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)
- Mood:
gleeful - Music:I am so going to get my ass kicked
A guest post by Eric Leugers, one of the two guys that run Banjo Brothers.
I have been an avid cyclist since purchasing my first road bike at age
15, but only a half-hearted bicycle commuter until recently. Riding
almost always was recreation for me. After moving to Minnesota in the
mid-90’s, I used my bike to run errands and to see bands play at the
various clubs around Minneapolis. It prompted me to build my first
single-speed beater in 1997 in order to reduce maintenance and
theft-risk. I commuted seasonally when my old job moved downtown
about 5 miles from home (our small office stopped following the
corporate “business casual” dress code at the same time – the
logistics made it much easier to ride). Still, I didn’t ride in the
winter and when it got really hot in the summer.
After we started Banjo Brothers, my driving ironically increased. I
was riding more than ever for errands and other “practical” trips, but
I also began driving carloads of cartons to FedEx for shipment. As I
drove more, I finally snapped and did what should have been obvious
much earlier: let FedEx do the driving by picking up at our warehouse
– they already had a driver in the area. So as winter waned in late
February of 2008, I began riding each day to the warehouse, a 9-mile
round trip on back streets and a rails-to-trails path that passes
within a block of my destination. It takes about 10 more minutes to
ride than to drive, and it is typically an unhurried and pleasant
trip.
By that first summer, I hardly ever drove for work. The elimination
of that driving encouraged me to do other trips by bike. In the past
I might have found excuses to drive instead of ride (too
cold/hot/rainy/etc). I now found myself holding off on errands that
required a car , preferring to bunch as many errands into one trip as
possible. Anything that would put off a car trip. I have to admit
that my motivation was not the cost of gas or global warming, but
exercise and just enjoying being on a bike. The next step was buying
a Burley Flatbed trailer for cargo bigger than a set of panniers would
carry and I started delivering to some local Minneapolis bike shops
with the trailer.
My wife had similarly embraced riding as transportation, and by Fall
of 2008 we began taking our daughter to kindergarten each day on a
Burley Piccolo trailer cycle in lieu of driving or taking the bus.
Winter of 2008 loomed and we were determined to keep riding through
it. We both had 3-speeds with all-weather coaster brakes, and I put
studded tires on them. I am fairly timid riding on ice, but the
studded tires were amazing. Veteran commuters said it was one of the
worst winters they had experience – extreme cold and a lot of smaller
snowfalls that went unplowed. Back streets were white-knuckle rides
through rutted ice and slushy snow. The main streets were plowed more
consistently, but dangerously narrow with high traffic volume. The
best riding? The city’s off-street bike trails, which were usually
plowed before the roads. We made it through the winter without a
crash and even managed a few trips to school below zero (our daughter
wasn’t always thrilled, but she was a trooper). We learned how to
dress for subzero riding and were always warm enough, but I did enjoy
that first ride in Spring without the heavy studded tires.
At this point over 90% of our trips are by bike or walking and we
often go a week or two without driving. We are certainly fortunate to
live within easy riding distance for most of our errands. In a sign
of how things have changed, my wife recently asked for an Xtracycle .
She maxes out her panniers quite often and the trailer cycle that she
usually tows makes a cargo trailer difficult to use. I bought an
Xtracycle from Hiawatha Cyclery and began building up a bike with it.
It will likely become the bike she rides the most and has the
advantage of being able to carry both cargo and our daughter at the
same time. With winter in mind, it will have disc brakes – she has
her trusty 3-speed as backup, though.
I’m not a zealot with regards to bike commuting, but judging by the
questions I get, it’s much easier than most folks think. For me the
breakthrough was when the process of getting out of the house became
automatic: my commuter bike ready to go in the garage, helmet and
lock right next to it. I made it as brainless as getting in the car.
10 years ago I never would have guessed that my most-ridden bike
would be a 3-speed with panniers, but I’ve really come to enjoy the
change.
I spent yesterday afternoon driving and unwinding from three and a half intense days participating and teaching in the Academic Hospitalist Academy. We first contemplated this course 3 years ago at a retreat in the Detroit Airport. The meeting itself exceed most expectations.
78 relatively new academic hospitalists attended the course, along with 8 faculty participants. We talked about every aspect of academic hospitalist life:
- The business drivers for the field.
- Becoming a better clinical teacher.
- Giving constructive feedback.
- Giving presentations.
- Designing and participating in QI.
- Designing and participating in patient safety projects.
- Developing an educator's portfolio.
- Designing curricula.
- Tips for academic success.
The vast majority of participants attended every session. We had frequent "breakouts" to allow discussion of important issues. Thus, we had a most interactive academy.
What struck me most was the enthusiasm of the participants. Academic hospitalists must take a lead in advancing the field. Fortunately, academic hospital medicine has academic general internal medicine to build on.
We need more hospitalists leading educational programs, quality efforts and patient safety committees. We need hospitalist investigators who see problems in hospitalized patients and study those problems. We need to develop the next generation of hospitalist role models.
I believe we succeeded in jump starting many careers. The participants now know the paths to success and understand how to start. They have had discussions with academic leaders about the wide variety of issues that they face. They have had discussions with their peers from other institutions about the issues they face.
As Hannibal used to say on the "A Team" – "I love it when a plan comes together"
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I spent yesterday afternoon driving and unwinding from three and a half intense days participating and teaching in the Academic Hospitalist Academy. We first contemplated this course 3 years ago at a retreat in the Detroit Airport. The meeting itself exceed most expectations.
78 relatively new academic hospitalists attended the course, along with 8 faculty participants. We talked about every aspect of academic hospitalist life:
- The business drivers for the field.
- Becoming a better clinical teacher.
- Giving constructive feedback.
- Giving presentations.
- Designing and participating in QI.
- Designing and participating in patient safety projects.
- Developing an educator's portfolio.
- Designing curricula.
- Tips for academic success.
The vast majority of participants attended every session. We had frequent "breakouts" to allow discussion of important issues. Thus, we had a most interactive academy.
What struck me most was the enthusiasm of the participants. Academic hospitalists must take a lead in advancing the field. Fortunately, academic hospital medicine has academic general internal medicine to build on.
We need more hospitalists leading educational programs, quality efforts and patient safety committees. We need hospitalist investigators who see problems in hospitalized patients and study those problems. We need to develop the next generation of hospitalist role models.
I believe we succeeded in jump starting many careers. The participants now know the paths to success and understand how to start. They have had discussions with academic leaders about the wide variety of issues that they face. They have had discussions with their peers from other institutions about the issues they face.
As Hannibal used to say on the "A Team" – "I love it when a plan comes together"
Related posts:
According to Bicycle Colorado, to Colorado Department of Transportation has adopted a new statewide policy on bicycle and pedestrian access. Hard work by parties across the spectrum of politics and bicycle advocacy have made this possible, hopefully working as a model for other state policies on roadway construction and multimodal access. The important part of the policy states:
It is the policy of the Colorado Transportation Commission to provide transportation infrastructure that accommodates bicycle and pedestrian use of the highways in a manner that is safe and reliable for all highway users. The needs of bicyclists and pedestrians shall be included in the planning, design, and operation of transportation facilities, as a matter of routine. A decision to not accommodate them shall be documented based on the exemption criteria in the procedural directive.
Thanks to BikeDenver.org for the heads up on this one.
A few months ago, we established an "online community of gratitude" called Grateful Nation to give patients and family members an outlet for feelings of gratitude they might have about a doctor, nurse, housekeeper, transporter, or other member of our medical staff. Items can also be sent in by mail.Here's one that arrived this week. I have written about the harp before. This is another affirmation of the power of music in a clinical setting. The 7th floor is our oncology clinic.
Windless, misty, sun just visible, rather chilly. Many fungi in the woods, including one which at a certain stage gets a sort of white fluffy mildew on it & smells rather like bad meat. Immense quantities of wood pigeons & large flights of starlings. Came on a field of what appeared to be weeds but think it may possibly be buckwheat, which is sometimes grown about here for the sake of the partridges. Small black three-cornered seed like a miniature beech nut. Brought home a patch of a kind of rough moss & stuck it on the rockery, hoping it will grow. Today at 3pm. Hung out a lump of fat for the tits. They had found it before 5pm.
5 eggs.
The New York Times recently published an article that looks back on the media’s bicycling coverage during the late 1800’s, particularly it’s own column:
Part racing results, part travel guide, part club bulletin, part tip sheet for local cycling-related politics, Gossip of the Cyclers was a one-stop shop for city riders to bone up on all the news related to “the wheel,” as bikes were commonly known.
Our Board of Directors awarded this month's caller-outer award to Tinea Simpson, Practice Representative in our GI department.GI staffers on Tinea's floors are practicing a “Leaner” way to conduct their day to day business thanks to her call-out, and the resulting reorganization that came from her work with Resource Nurses Mary Ellen Johnson and Christine Hunt.
As you may know, there is a patient packet for every procedure that happens in a hospital. For the past several years BIDMC volunteers have assembled these packets covering the entire demand of our GI unit – over 100 procedures a day.
As medical practices are revised and forms become obsolete or go unused, the end result can be a tremendous waste of paper and money. These three women evaluated the situation, decided what forms were necessary and what were not, and with the help of Volunteer Services, took action to correct the packets and reduce the use of hundreds of forms.
They created a path of action to include creating new sample packets for volunteers to follow and purging forms that were no longer warranted. Congratulations to Tinea for demonstrating the concept that each person should feel encouraged and empowered to recognize and go about seeking solutions to inefficiency and waste that he or she sees in the workplace.
Today, we're making a few improvements to movie results on Google, including more detailed movie pages, genre filters and a new map view.
When you visit google.com/movies, you'll discover a new, more comprehensive resource with all the information you need to decide what movie to see and where to see it:
- Comprehensive movie pages: Deciding what movie to see can take a few searches: What's it about? How are the reviews? Where is it playing near me? Our new detailed layout brings together all the basic information you need with a plot synopsis, trailer, reviews and photos in the same page.
- Genre filters: The new movie pages also give you new ways to explore films by genre and find one you're in the mood for. Sometimes, you might feel like seeing a sci-fi flick or a romance, but you're not sure what's out in theaters. With genre filters you can start browsing right away and quickly find the right movie for you.
- Map view: After you've chosen a movie, the new map view shows you nearby theaters playing that exact film. You no longer need to do a separate search to find out where you're going.
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