On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Just removed insidecbc because CBC (or their agents) let the domain name lapse, and now it's being used by some Germanophone(?) weblogger for reasons I don't know the language well enough to understand.

(Seriously: if English-speakers are "anglophones", and French-speakers are "francophones", what might we call German-speakers?)

Not talking about it much because, well, it's not the point of this blog. Just noting the fact, as a way of explaining that my postings may veer from topic to topic somewhat more erratically than has already been the case up to now.

More tomorrow on other stuff.

Some...person...decided to try to vandalize the two LJ communities I started up from scratch with some kind of video spam today: ottawa_sf and viarail_fandom. I do not know, and do not want to know what sort of video it was.

I've deleted the attempts and filed a spambot report with the LJ authorities. It is my hope that, given this fact and the knowledge that the same...person...has attempted to similarly harm other LJ community blogs and many of those communities' administrators will likely be filing their own spambot reports(or possibly invoking harsher measures by LJ management), this will soon be the end of the matter.

Thank you, bunsen_h, for alerting me to the problem.

In the meantime, I'd like to take the opportunity accidentally given me to remind LJ users visiting here of the existence of these two communities:

ottawa_sf is set up for speculative fiction fans and pros alike, dealing in all media forms and all subgenres, in the Ottawa-Gatineau region of Canada. La francophonie du "sci-fi" est bienvenue aussi!

viarail_fandom is for fans of passenger rail services across Canada, past and present. I originally started it to focus on VIA Rail in particular, but after reflection it seemed wrong to leave out the provincial and regional/municipal services also operating across Canada. Encore: la francophonie est bienvenue aussi!

Hoping you're well and that we get past this particular Pain in short order!

I've added TV writer Jim Henshaw's Legion of Decency blog to my flist. If you're on LJ and want the syndicated feed, use henshaw_legion. If you want the original blog, go here.

It seems like it's a good idea at a good time.