On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

My pent up creative energy from yesterday exploded today, all over my Greek notes. But I redid everything in Photoshop (so forgive some of the shaky lines, I'm not used to my tablet anymore D|). Also the format is really weird because 1) the panels didn't fit right when I was drawing my roughs 2) when I scanned my roughs, the sizes became really huge and adskfjhgdskj I didn't want to bother shrinking everything so that it fit into a proper comic strip. (Of course, these are all hosted on LJ Scrapbook, so you can see the fullsize ones if you want.) So... there you have it.

( Maya has a moustache because she is the Narcoleptic Argentinean. )

Title: Insanity's Angel
Author: bloodiedangle
Pairing: Kanda/Alma
Rating: T
Word Count: 2000
Warning: SPOILERS for 188, hints of shounen-ai
Disclaimer: I don't own this.

( There was only so much an organization could push on one, but they had tested people; pushing them past their breaking points until the inevitable finally occured. Kanda hadn't wanted it to happen, but who was he to decide? )

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d0c6c125009611d5ab1eab3e9fa335cab53c7e957badb916

I have once again updated my archive- and once again, lost all of the information on who I was supposed to credit and which doujins the scanners had politely asked me not to include. So. Uh. You might wanna fill me in on that tidbit if you didn't want your scans/scanlations shared, because I suck at keeping track of this stuff. But I do it all out of love!

I have for you:
40 AllenxKanda
25 KandaxAllen (That few? Huh.)
62 LavixAllen
37 LavixKanda or vice-versa
16 TykkixAllen
16 TykkixLavi
10 CrossxKomui
02 AllenxLinalee
07 KandaxLinalee
02 LavixLinalee
06 LinaleexMultiple/Anyone else
04 KandaxMiranda
03 Allen-centric antholgies
06 Kanda-centric anthologies
06 Lavi-centric anthologies
And a bunch of gag/unidentifiable pairing/too many pairing in one to bother counting/other.

The url is the standard www.mediafire.com/dgraymandoujinshi
And, as usual, everything is organized by pairing and language and I never remove credit pages from the scans.

If you want any more information, just ask~

FUCKING SHIT PHOTOBUCKET. BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED ARE YOU SERIOUS????? GOD DAMMIT THIS IS NOT WHAT I NEED RIGHT NOW.

-edit-

apparently it will fix itself on the 22nd. this is going to be a long month. /wrists

♥ 07-ghost [6]
♥ D.Gray-man [5]
♥ Kuroshitsuji [9]
♥ Pandora Hearts [18]
♥ Vampire Knight [4]
Total [42]



Here @ wish_graphics

⌈D.Gray-man⌋
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click the heart to claim!

okay, so, my lj is temporarily being updated. it looks shitty right now... it'll look better later... when i actually get around to fixing it up lol.


in other news... damn i need a job. no cash inflow most of october, too much cash outflow [i'm in debt... school related debt]. and november's outcome looks nearly the same... with the exception of inflow from my birthday lol. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A JOB OPENING FRIGGIN' ANYWHERE?! i'm pretty desperate. except i'm not. but i am! i prefer graphic design or video production jobs, but whatever. LET ME KNOOOOOOOOW!


that's all on the update front. we'll see if i actually get around to beautifying my lj soon~!

Dear all,
I'm taking orders for some D.Gray-man merchandise [[ here ]].
Please feel free to take a look~ Thank you! :)

Cure USA Special Edition freebie [all interviews in English]
features:
-Oni-con 2009 Special Feature
-born
-Satsuki
-H.E.Demon Kakka
-Hangry & Angry
-Papillon
-d-trance
-Himeko Sakuragawa

here @ jrock_scans

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

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Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them 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 giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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