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Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

Friends only

June 8th, 2010 (06:03 pm)

This journal is entirely private now. I have shifted everything to InsaneJournal.

http://davensjournal.insanejournal.com

Thanks for reading.

I made this shift because one of the people on my "Friend's List" decided that they wanted to kick me when I was already down. So I just locked all these entries. I also don't update here anymore, that's in protest to SA and LJ's constant disregard of their users.

Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

Russian Troll

August 28th, 2008 (02:09 pm)

Just got a stupid email from some Russian bint who was trying to convince me she was named "Brianna". Not even. I don't think that is a Russian name. Svetlana, Lucinda, Natallia, yeah. Brianna, not even.

As for the whole situation with Georgia, it's totally stupid. They are acting just like they did when the old USSR was in charge. They need to stop invading others before the rest of the world gets pissed and nukes the assholes to death.

Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

Present Post

August 5th, 2008 (05:40 pm)

Just so that I can refer people here, if anyone wants to get me a random present, this in Blue:

http://www.ebags.com/case_logic/canvas_messenger_bag/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=96836

Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

Insert title here

June 3rd, 2008 (03:03 pm)

Her hands danced over me as she moved to get a better angle of attack. I loved those hands. Sometimes hard and firm, demanding, authoritative, impossible to resist, and sometimes they were gentle, caressing, floating over me like a sensual hovercraft. She had a talent for guiding me where she needed me to be.

She rarely messed up, but there were some times when something happened and she lost me for a bit. But she always found her way back, touching and stroking.

More behind the cut )

Please tell me what you think.

Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

May 7th, 2008 (03:13 pm)

LiveJournal Advisory Board Elections

I support [info]squeaky19 to be my representative on the Advisory Board.

Show your support at [info]lj_election_en.



I think that someone who looks out for the posters should be on the board.

Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

Vote for Squeaky

May 6th, 2008 (06:09 pm)

Vote for the owner of Insane Journal, who uses the LiveJournal Open Source code for IJ, to be a member of the LiveJournal Advisory Board.

Eric (Daven) Landrum [userpic]

My worries and reason for moving to InsaneJournal

December 5th, 2007 (11:00 am)

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of stuff on both LJ and IJ about the move from here to IJ. My reason for moving is very simple really.

I don't care that they sold LJ to a Russian company. My concern is that with that sale, American privacy laws no longer apply. Russian privacy laws apply. They can strip our journals of everything in the contents and sell it if they want to, repost it, move it. Thinking that Strikethrough '07 was bad, the Russian Moral Standard is worse. I'm not willing to put up with that.

The other reason is this: If they did this once (or actually five times now), ignoring users, putting controls on what we can do and what can be posted, acting arbitrarily and so on, they will do it over and over and over. They will continue to do so, without regard for the very people that support them. It's MY money that paid for their soda, their salary, their computer and software package. I'm not willing to keep saying with my money that it's okay to screw me without lube.

When employees can put up posts that directly mock the people that they are supposed to be serving, it's time to vote with the feet. I'm tired of the attitude that we, the users, are money machines designed to cough up cash on demand while they do anything they want.

I hate any censorship. Russian censorship would be worse. I'll miss my friends on LJ, but I don't want my inner emotional turmoil exposed to the masses. Heck, with as baddly as I was fucked by Direct Insurance, it's possible and conceivable that some American company can be doing background checks on a potential employee, discover they have a locked journal on LJ, contact the owners and slip them some money under the table and have a printout delivered containing EVERY post they ever made, which could result in the job being refused to a highly qualified candidate.

Given that Putin is in power again and that apparently most Russians don't like democracy, then that's exactly what could happen. And that's not even the nightmare scenario. Patriot Act taken off the books here in the US, and by law they can continue to search LJ for information if they grandfather that into the repeal. Or simply strike a deal with Russia for them to continue to provide open text posts for everyone using their service, say info for wheat, and the monitoring can continue completely unchecked. Thoughtcrime becomes real.

So that's why I moved.


( reposted from my account on Insane Journal. http://davensjournal.insanejournal.com if you want to come with me. And this post is going to be open to all, reply at your own risk. )

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