do you yahoo?

[arguchik]

what the hell is going on with yahoo today? i just logged in to read the morning news, check email, etc. and every single news story on my front page is a week old. my horoscope is a week old. the comics are from yesterday. lately, i have noticed that my "new mail" indicator isn't working properly, either--it never says i have new mail, but when i click on it to open my mailbox i find out that i actually do have new mail.

think they're getting hit by cyberpredators?

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[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

I haven't used my Yahoo mail in a long, long time, but I use my My Yahoo page(s) constantly. It's a regular thing for some of the modules (news and blog feeds on my top-level page) to be old, but whatever is old is usually up-to-date when I get back to the page after reading something that IS up-to-date. Refreshing the page sometimes works, but since the latency is on the server side, I think, what I do with the browser doesn't matter much.

Maybe something has changed for them, but I haven't noticed a change in behavior for me yet. Everything presently looks up to date, except for the feed from Mother Jones (http://motherjones.com/).

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

i hit refresh several times to no avail, but an hour later everything was up to date. what i don't understand is that everything was up to date yesterday...but this morning it reverted to week-old news, etc., instead of yesterday's news. (except for the comics, which *were* yesterday's--i get doonesbury, foxtrot, and tom toles.) very odd. it's as if their newswire feeds went down, so they just plugged in what was at hand. all the other news outlets i read were fine, so it's gotta be something at yahoo, not the wire services.

somewhat unrelated: can you believe bush is actually saying, "we don't torture..." what a f-cking liar liar pants on fire!

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The only consolation is that the complete denial might provide a faster track to wider disreputability than arguing the need for it or what constitutes torture— though I'm sure we'll be getting back to those two things in a bit. More foolishness on Bush's part might lead to greater motivation by others to uncover the truth.

I look forward to the hubris, self-righteousness, and mendacity coming back to destroy the guilty. I want conservative Christians en masse to admit that they were Wrong to back W., and I want the policies of the administration to be so discredited that I won't live to see them in implemented again during my (long) life. Maybe that's hoping for too much.

At a press conference with the president of Panama (http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/11/07/bushtrip/index.html), Bush was asked by a reporter, "Back in October of 2000, this is what you said... 'We will ask not only what is legal, but what is right; not what the lawyers allow, but what the public deserves.' In the CIA leak case, has your administration lived up to this campaign promise?" As usual, Bush answered with something about on-going investigation and seriousness.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

lol--if you look at the cnn front page right now, there are two headlines juxtaposed:
? Five U.S. soldiers charged with detainee abuse
? Bush: 'We do not torture'

inherent, palpable irony, no?

(can someone please tell me how to turn those into hyperlinks? i'm still a blog newbie on that score...)

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

(http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/bush.torture.ap/index.html)I looked for that on CNN to capture a picture, but by the time I looked, the prominent headlines had changed. I did find the two together at the bottom of one page.

If you search Google for something like "basic HTML guide", you'll find a lot of pages, any of which might be useful. (I suggest looking at a few to find one organized in a way that you like.) To make a hypertext link, the basic form is as follows:

<a href="target-URL-here">linked-text-here</a>

In place of linked-text-here, you can also have an image by using <img src="URL-of-image">. There are several additional parameters that you can add inside the img tag that affect characteristics like how text wraps around the image, where the image appears in the page, and the amount of space around the image. Here's the code that I used for the image and link I added at the beginning of this comment:

<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/bush.torture.ap/index.html"><img
src="http://encanto.org/torture-and-abuse.jpg" align=right hspace=20 vspace=20></a>

I created the image and saved it on my server (encanto.org) so that I could reference it, but I could've uploaded it to some photo site instead.

I do about half of my markup for LiveJournal by using semagic, a client program (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=158) for creating journal entries.

[beneluxboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, and part of the reason to use Semagic is because it'll do much of the coding for you.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

aha, that is very helpful, thanks! i will check out semagic...