My Blog! My Blog!

Unsurprisingly, the news that LiveJournal has been sold to a Russian media conglomerate has startled a lot of people.

Some of those are my friends, and some of those friends are planning to move their blogs from LiveJournal.

Now, I've never given LiveJournal a dime in my life. All I have ever had is a basic account, and I don't see that changing. That's because I didn't get into LiveJournal because I wanted to write for the Internet--I'd set up elsewhere if I wanted that. I joined LiveJournal because a number of my friends had LiveJournal accounts, and it gave me an opportunity to let them know how I am, and keep tabs on what's new with them, all in one convenient place.

But even before Six Apart sold LJ, that was changing. Now landley is using his development log as a blog, fadethecat is moving her blog to her own site, and other friends of mine are thinking of boycotting SUP, for various reasons.

This wouldn't affect my blogging, per se. But it will make it more challenging to keep up with my friends. And once that happens....maybe I should move too.

That's more work than I want to think about doing over Christmastime. Arrrgh.

Today is esrblog's birthday. He hits the half-century mark today!

Today, we had our first snow of the winter. Granted, it was only a few flurries, but it was real snow. And the bitter cold that came with it was real enough.

Finally, here's an amusing bit of wretched excess. Yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer reported that DiBruno, a gourmet food store near my office, is about to start selling a 5-kilo tub of Nutella for $89.99. That's right, $90 for over eleven pounds of dense, chocolate hazelnut goo. At 100 calories per tablespoon, that's more Nutella than I'll eat in the entire rest of my life.

In case any of you care, DiBruno's does mail order and web orders, though they don't have the 5 kilo tub of happiness on their website, http://www.dibruno.com/, just yet. (Apologies to howardtayler for that last reference to Schlock Mercenary, but I couldn't resist.)