For Those of You Just Arriving From Tumblr...

I've read some of the news and opinions about how the place is being taken apart by Verizon via their Oath subsidiary. This is cause for no small degree of distress, and I share in that.

I think you'll find Dreamwidth a congenial place to hang out via the Internet. Here's the official welcome from the Dreamwidth management.

For myself: I have been a writer, an illustrator, an office worker and a software tester. I expect to fill other roles as well between now and my eventual death. Some of which I expect to discuss here. As noted on my profile page, I was once a LiveJournal user, but when their server farm finally got moved to Moskva and the management made it clear I was expected to conduct myself on LJ as if I lived in Putinist Russia...well, that was it.

I hope some of you looking at this weblog for the first time will find me a congenial online neighbour.

More later, here and elsewhere...

Never Forgotten

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), mechanical engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

We may be about to see an exodus from Facebook

Apparently, there's a new set of rules being brought into force by the management about what words and topics are tolerable there. One of my friendlisters on FB is claiming to have already been force-logged out and warned about using the F-word. If you have information to confirm or debunk this, either way, feel free to share.