Wildilocks Can Has Journal?

So, now the basic advertising revenues are starting to dry up and data storage costs are rising steeply, seems Effbee is taking things a step further towards privacy violation - surprise, surprise. Read more here.

Are you really sure you want to store any of your data on that site, or even use it at all? You think LJ’s had problems, they are nothing to what EffBee could be in for. I’d say if you’ve been using Effbee for photo storage particularly, get your pics off there and on somewhere sensible instead.

nb: will not be online much if at all for the next week, am away in teh wildes of Noo Zullun.

There is The Girl From East Brunswick fundraiser tonight @ The East Brunswick Club. I’m not that fussed about dogs generally, but I think if you have to like dogs, Greyhounds are pretty awesome (they’re almost cats), and it’s AIR CONDITIONED (though I’ve been told the band room will get pretty hot regardless, the Front Bar is apparently nice n coooool) and the delectable miss Rosy Rabbit is headlining the bill - and I’ll actually be able to relax and enjoy the show instead of running about like a headless chicken like I was @ Euchronia.

Who’s in? We’ll probably be getting there around 8-9ish

Circa Nocturna 2009

CIRCA NOCTURNA Melbourne’s largest alternative, subcultural and fringe fashion show.
Featuring some of the best of Australia’s alternative fashion, clubwear and metal couture.

Fitzroy Town Hall,
Saturday 28th of February,
Cnr of Napier and Moore St,
Fitzroy. Doors Open at 8 pm

Tickets - $22 + BF presale $25 on the door, available online at www.wildilocks.com

Or instore at:

Wildilocks 1/382 Ltl Collins St,
VNV Boudiour 514 Lygon St Brunswick East,
Peril Underground 17 Elizabeth St, Melbourne.

This year, we are also presenting CARNIVALE NOCTURNA

Carnivale Nocturna celebrates alternative designers by making them accessible to the public, breaking the line between the catwalk and the audience, all within a carnival atmosphere complete with performances and visual displays. The Circa web store is the newest member of the Alliance of Alternative Arts celebration of alternative fashion, highlighting their commitment to these designers and industry, so come along and be a part of this amazing launch event.

Carnivale Nocturna is FREE with your Circa Nocturna ticket Or entry by donation.
This event is All Ages (I.D. required for alcohol service).
Sunday (the day after Circa) 1st March 2009 from 4pm.
Fitzroy Town Hall,
Napier St, Fitzroy.
For more information, please check out our new website at

www.circanocturna.com

… sat in the doorway - but my cat likes to sit in bookcases:

She’s so adorable sometimes I just curl up into a ball going “argh I am dying of teh cute”

Here’s some more cute:

Dawwww.

Yuki is adorable!

So, the issues got fixeded by my webhost and I took the plunge and upgraded to version 2.6.5 of WPMU for canhasjournal.com, and installed the beta of Buddypress as I threatened yesterday

Things seem to be moooostly functioning, and the Buddypress interface is quite slick, it just sits nicely up at the top of the page. I have added a bunch of people I could find blogs for but it doesn’t appear to be completely searchable yet - working on that Some of you may have received email for friend requests, whee! It’s a little bit Friendface-ey, but without the heavy monitoring. Now we just need a protocol to communicate & add friends etc from other WPMU and individual Wordpress blogs, as well as being able to read your rss feed, and this SN will take over zee world.

Off to experiment some more and see what may have been b0rken in the process (I’m expecting some plugins not to work now - Role Manager appears b0rken, but not a lot else, which is nice) … dum de dim de dee!

Long term forecast for NYE in Melbourne:

Forecast for Wednesday

Partly cloudy. Isolated showers. Winds westerly averaging up to 30 km/h increasing to up to 35 km/h during the afternoon.
City
Shower or two.
Min
14
Max
21

YAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYYYYYYYYYY

Looks good even if there’s a bit of change, we should be right for a NOT stinking hot NYE!!!! SQUEEE!!!!!

So Xmas has come and gone. Call me Grinchy, but really, Xmas is Really Not Very Good and we need some better options. For example, I really didn’t want to travel back to WA for 4 days for Xmas, but Jeremy’s parents insisted, even though we’d spent a whole lot of quality time with them this year, and my family really isn’t hugely fun on Xmas and I’ve missed many an Xmas in the last 20 years.

Anyone got any ideas? I tend to do Oxfam unwrapped but if I’m seeing the rellies I still am guilted into buying Stuff that is Probably Not Wanted, and get given Stuff that I Probably Don’t Need.

Augh

Well Baldrick, something of a triumph, I believe! You’ve managed to spell “Christmas” without getting any of the letters right at all!

So, this morning there came up a most thought-provoking post on MetaEfficient.

The topic? How completely unnatural the modern western toilet is. And while I’ve been well aware of composting toilets for some time [my eco-research of the last few years and even much longer ago being not insignificant] I really hadn’t thought much about the other, more health-relevant subject of the article - the squat toilet.

Did you know that two thirds of the worlds’ population does not use a seated toilet, but rather, squat, as we have been evolutionarily adapted to do? That diseases such as colon cancer, appendicitis and IBS, not to mention Chrohn’s disease, rarely occur in populations who do not use the seated toilet?

Once you actually sit [or perhaps I should say, squat] and think about it, it’s mind-bogglingly simple, and another piece to the puzzle of why Westerners are suffering so many health problems now. I was focused solely on diet for some time - now I must say I think there’s more to it: and this is something we can actually do something about, quite easily. I lived in Thailand for a year, and used squat toilets everywhere: it never really occurred to me to wonder why we didn’t have the same in the western world. I just accepted it was one of many differences: maybe there was a conceit of us being more “civilised” too. Well, I think we got it wrong, as we’ve got, well - quite a lot of things wrong, akshully.

So apparently, in Australia there is available a product called the “IN-LIEU” Toilet Converter [tee hee] which is really quite reasonable in price [under $200] and I’m seriously thinking of getting one. They are available from many different suppliers, but this seems to be the best price. fuxysparkles, was it my crap memory of a conversation, or did you know someone who was recently diagnosed with Chrohn’s? This might be worth a mention, if so.

So yeah, poop. Get it right! *baked beans in face*