The original 15minuteficlets community will be closing in May and the maintainers will not be handing it over to anyone once they’re done.  However, they did encourage other people to start anew... and that’s just what I’m doing, with the help of the good crazedturkey.  We’ll be posting our first prompt word at 15_minute_fic on Monday and making an effort to get into a good weekly habit.  I just love the concept of the fifteen minute ficlet too much to let it die.

Please feel free to join up and join in.  It’s great fun, whether you’ve been writing for years or have just toyed with the idea of jotting a story down.  You never know what you’ll discover about yourself.

Is your friends page taking longer than usual to load? The most likely culprit is the new contextual hover menu which, while fun to look at, slows down the loading of your page considerably. You can turn it off in the Viewing Options menu.

If you have a google email account (or know somebody whose name starts with B and who happens to be writing this post and also just happens to have some forty-eight invitations remaining), then you'll be delighted to know that you can now create your own webpage with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor and an easy-to-remember address.

Your google page gives you up to 100 megabytes of storage (that's more than enough, believe me - I used to have 15 meg at GeoCities and I only managed to use a third of it) and your address will be username.googlepages.com.  That's as easy to remember as your LJ address and much more memorable than some of the addresses provided by other free webhosts out there.

Why not have a look?