Finally-Ripper to film next year?

From today's Popbitch newsletter, PB :: "An atrium of gayness"

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|_|         |_| there are no untouchable comedians

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Joss Whedon's long awaited UK based Buffy spin-off,
Ripper, starring Anthony Head, starts filming next
summer for BBC.
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I can't find a press release on the Beeb site, and of course this may be general knowledge I've missed, but all I can really say is about bloody time.

In other news, I did a minor edit to my CSS for my LJ earlier, removing some code from it. It's now refusing to display it, the rendering engine says: /* Cleaned CSS: *//* suspect CSS: high bytes */. Which, y'know, is weird, given that it was working fine earlier and I took code out. Tried self hosting the style sheet, same error, different way of telling me, neither good or user friendly (because normal people wouldn't know to view source LJ, get a clue!). Support request to open after work methinks :-(

Reasons to stay, reasons to leave—Livejournal has some strengths

OK, a fairly long post on the most recent news and another nail in LJ's coffin.  Those of you just interested in the future rather than the LJ trainwreck may want to skip to the second half.

( A big strength of Livejournal )

( Livejournal may have the most insane abuse policy of any blogging platform )

This affects ALL of us

( Standard blogging techniques breach LJs TOS—even quiz memes could get you in trouble )

( A caveat, but either way it's a big problem for LJ )

So...
( My plans for 'jumping ship' (redux) )

So, some clarifications.
( Livejournal has two principle Unique Selling Points (USPs) )

( What I'm looking at for journalling/blogging )

( What I'm looking at for the Friends Page )

( As for the network?  )

Maybe, if we get this right, we can have it so you choose where to put your content. You choose how to aggregate the content of others. You do it quickly, and easily. You choose whter to trust as a primary platform a company like LJ, a friend running a node (*waves hand*), a new start up, or you get your own server.

But they can all interlink, all interoperate. It'd be like LJ, with the privacy you want, but encompassing the whole damn web.

I think that'd be cool. Will it work? Dunno. But the prognosis is good.

Let's reclaim the Web

I'll, um, get back to avoiding work on my bit, right?