LJ and privacy

Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on doing funky things with privacy; LJ is at it too. For those not clicking through: you can now have LJ automatically cross-post your entries and comments, including comments made on other people's locked entries, to other sites. Sometimes comments reveal context even without the original entry being available. That strikes me as problematic, because we are not all completely careful all of the time.

So just to clarify:

1. I do not have Facebook or Twitter accounts.

2. I don't knowingly violate others' trust; if you locked it I'm not going to leak it. I have this "feature" turned off.

3. While I realize that anything on the net isn't really secure and I take that into account when posting, I do occasionally post locked entries. I do so with the expectation that such information will stay here. Please respect that.

I know some of my friends are talking about migrating to Dreamwidth. I staked out a journal there when they started last year. Thus far I haven't done anything with it, but if you're there please feel free to let me know. As more people migrate it becomes a higher priority to read a subscription list there, too.

high holy days

First I was asked to chant torah on Yom Kippur afternoon, which I accepted. Then last week my rabbi asked me if I could also do so on the second day of Rosh Hashana, which I accepted. Then today the second rabbi (knowing all this) asked if I could also do so on the first day of Rosh Hashana. (One short aliya each, not everything.) I am pleased and flattered by the amount of trust and confidence they show in me. I had told both of them that I've done these latter two portions before and could refresh them quickly if a last-minute fill-in was needed, and they took me up on it.

(I did tell the second rabbi that I felt funny taking three before the other regular readers capable of doing this on short notice had two. He said he had other gaps to fill too.)

Two of these three should be a fairly quick refresher. It's possible, actually, that I can still do one of them cold. (pause to check) Ok, not completely, but not far off.