Misty dreary Thursday

[hildy89]

Amazing what the "right" music will do for someone's mood. I was feeling mopey and stressed out. I looked over at my forlorn music system. I'm more likely to use the Walkman these days. So I stuffed in one of my Big Band "Greatest Hits" cassettes into the tape deck. I felt so much better after "Stardust" and "In the Mood". With apologies to the late Mr. Shaw, I am the type who likes the same old songs.

The good news is my throat culture was normal, so no strep. I am feeling better, so hopefully I'll make the writer's group. I will not have a submission ready as I'd planned, but I guess that gives me time to think of a proper challenge response. I also hope to get back to exercising tomorrow. At least that isn't dependent on the weather.

For those who missed the news, Livejournal has been bought by Six Apart. They're responsible for Moveable Type and Typepad. I'm encouraged that the old LJ staff is staying on, but nervous about the rewriting of the policies and TOS to appease the lawyers.

Librarians reviewed and commented on "The Librarian: Quest for the Spear".

Comments

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The policy/TOS thing is pretty standard, though, even for the most benign of takeovers. I know the fine print has a bad rep, but I actually think it's just considered bad business practice to change management and not change TOS. At the very least, you need to change the TOS to officially notify each customer of the change in management, and give each use - officially - the chance to opt out for that alone, or it could be grounds for suit later, saying they weren't informed and never accepted the change in management of their service.

If, as Brad said, the business side was not something he wanted to run or really cared about, I suspect both customer and company are better protected by a more legal TOS - if the old TOS was cobbled together like he said, it probably wouldn't give that much protection to the user, because the default legal stance isn't "if the company makes a mistake, rule in the customer's benefit", it's "the agreement is void".