Thursdaily with not enough hours in the day

[ellenmillion]

Is it me, or is spam getting spammier the last few weeks? Just more and more and more of it... *dislike*

Working feverishly on the Torn World anthology, programming until code runs through my dreams and trying to keep up with cleaning and home improvement and pets and exercise. I'm starting today running a timer to keep me on track - I simply have too much to do to get distracted, and it's so easy to get - SQUIRREL!

Client meeting today, and a bunch of programming and more anthology work and some banking. Fun times!

Two reminders for you artists and writers on my list:

Portrait Adoption needs more portraits! We get the best traffic when we have fresh submissions, and people have not been getting fresh submissions in! If you are registered at PA, please consider looking through your sketchbook or harddrive and putting a little veneer on one of your half-finished pieces. The upside to having very few submissions right now is that you get a lot of front page exposure from your new work!

EMG-Zine needs 'jewel' themed submissions, both artwork and writing! We are at 85% of our funding goal to cover the first half of 2012! (I've decided that's how I'm going to fund it - 6 months in advance, 6 months ahead, so if the money dries up, we've still got at least 6 months to make EMG-Zine go out with a bang.)

BZZZZT. That's the end of my promotion time. Off to do C-C for 1 hour.

Comments

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Yep, I got the feeling LJ spam is getting more frequent.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Not just LJ, though - I seem to be going through an upswing on other spam in my inbox right now, too.

(Though it's a little better today - maybe it's just part of the cycle...)

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

hm... email spam seems, in the very long run, to be on the decline. Less than 500 messages on my gmail account, and I remember when it hovered around 1600.

Akismet has found 29 in the last month, and right after I upgraded to Wordpress V3 a few moths ago, it was double that, but it's hard to tell how my posting affects that.

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

:)

[faebyl.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to join PA and commission control, I'm just sooo slow, i got to try to get some more artworks in for themes for emg-zine too! they're fun to do, I'm just a VERY slow painter! I'll try to get some in to you soon:)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would LOVE to have some of your portraits at PA! And work for EMG-Zine, yes!! We've got some very far-off themes that might be fun (Mushrooms! Owls!).

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

My mailbox is full of spam... And I shudder how much more I'd be getting if I weren't running bogofilter.

[redokapi.livejournal.com]

Spam definitely seems to come in waves. I'll get a ton of it all the sudden, and then it'll peter out for awhile. Then a ton again, then, not as much. I don't know if this is due to the spread of my email address, or the cycle of spam filters, but it does seem to work that way.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

This one seemed like a pretty steady upswing - not going away as fast as they usually do. But it's better today, so maybe I was just being impatient. :)

[jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com)]

Yeah, on the spam. I look in my spam filter occasionally, and there are a lot more in there these days.

I have more portraits for PA that I have been meaning to rescan ( my old scanner was putting terrible lines across the pictures) and post. I have a lot that I forget about. :)

I have been saving a wedding magazine that has all the diamond cuts in it for reference for the gem article I intend to do. Diamonds are hard! (hahaha)
Liiga has that awesome little tutorial on DA that I intend to link to as well.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha! You slay me.

Oh, I remember that tutorial! That would be excellent to link to. :)

[shellstar-art.livejournal.com]

I just submitted two zine pieces and one PA :) I have more for PA which are close to finished, hopefully will get to them soonish.... depends on my baby girl's naps.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

You are AWESOME! Thank you!

[redokapi.livejournal.com]

Also, I've been meaning to ask. How would I donate whatever credits I might have earned for my Animal Anatomy article back to EMG-Zine? I'm lame, and seriously don't even know where to look to figure that out.

[jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com)]

LOVED that, BTW! :)

[redokapi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I wasn't sure if it was going to sound like I was just throwing out terminology, or if it would actually be useful.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Heh. There is no automated method yet - just contact me (this counts!), and I move things around in my tracking file. :)

[redokapi.livejournal.com]

Good, then I didn't miss some glaringly obvious instructions or link somewhere. :) Make it so...or something like that.

[thrivis.livejournal.com]

Hmmm I was trying to think of something I could submit for jewels theme. Would these shrines I like to make would count?
http://fav.me/d1ufr82

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Those would be awesome, yes!