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Update to the LJ security issue mentioned in my last post: LJ says that it was a cache issue and did not allow users to edit other people's accounts, just to view them (which, yes, is bad enough, but not as bad as it seemed at first, especially since it's apparently random as opposed to being able to look at a specific person's locked content). Though it remains unclear if it's fixed, or just exactly how temporary it is (since apparently anecdotal reports conflict with the officially reported 3-minute window of misserved cache pages?) ... anyway, the chance of other people being able to edit your journal is apparently nil, so there is that.

Entertaining link I found today: 21 forgotten TV subplots - or plots the shows' writers would really hope you'd forget, anyway! (I remember an alarming number of these, at least the older ones. Others just made me laugh.)

When I first got into fanfic-writing fandom, I used to try to make the continuity/chronology of the TV shows I was writing for make sense, and used to go absolutely flaily with despair when I couldn't. (People who knew me in my early SGA fandom days might remember this. *g*) It's something I'm pretty sure I've totally let go of in the last few years, because no show, no matter how well written, is 100% internally consistent -- it's a collaborative medium involving hundreds of people; I don't think it's even theoretically possible to maintain perfect adherence to internal logic over more than a few episodes. Now I'm just amused by it, and actually quite intrigued by some of the creative solutions that writers come up with when they're having to work around missing/vanishing/misbehaving actors, network interference, major plot threads that don't play well with audiences, etc.