How far have we come?

Meme ganked from :

1. Go To Mapquest.com
2. Click on Directions
3. Enter your Current Address and the Address of your Childhood Home (or at least the town if you don’t remember the exact address)
4. Put the time and distance in a post like this.
5. Don’t forget to repost these directions. (Not the door to door ones!)

Evanston to Scotts Valley:
Total Est. Time: 32 hours, 56 minutes Total Est. Distance: 2196.95 miles

Longest distance between two places I’ve actually lived (Amherst, MA and Scotts Valley, CA): 3090.9

PSA: LiveJournal pwned!

Let me be the most-recent person to tell you that LiveJournal has been bought out by SixApart, a San Francisco company that owns Movable Text and TypePad.

Official release in . Go read it. Friend , too– it’s the must-have accessory to your journal.

My favorite line from the announcement: They’ve already shown that they’ll defer to me on issues of community, fearful of doing anything that’d upset people.

Which just means they’ve chosen the absolute worst person to defer to on issues of community and not upsetting people. Brad should continue to be Chief Architect, but my hopes are that this new acquisition will mean an improvement in customer relationships, even if that means (gasp!) moving away from a volunteer-driven Support system.

Oh, and the Terms of Service has changed. Go read it now, please.