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Keix ([personal profile] keilexandra) wrote2009-01-09 05:38 pm

Link Anthology 1/9/09

* A NYT article on what carriers aren't eager to tell you about texting.

* JournalSpace loses everything in a malicious database wipe--this is why mirroring is not a backup solution, folks.

* Terry Pratchett is knighted for services to literature!

* Another NYT article, this one relevant to ableism, which I don't know enough about. Assistance animals now come in all shapes and sizes

* Via Dear Author: LJ has sent out a reassuring message, of course, but at this point I don't know how much to believe them. 12 of 28 employees have been axed. I've backed up everything with LJArchive, and I also hear that LJ-Sec is good.

* To end on a brighter note, via [livejournal.com profile] yhlee: 50 modern and creative bookshelf designs.

[identity profile] magicnoire.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really believe LJ either. The people they laid off were engineers, marketing & design. That's a very bad sign when it come to future, long-range business plans.

That they were laid off without severance packages definitely doesn't signal a company's financial health. You don't do that if your company is fine financially. Even when I was laid off by my first job (we were sold to another company and they didn't want to keep the employees, just the clients), I got a severance package.
Edited 2009-01-09 22:58 (UTC)