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Take a trip around Lawrence to see the Christmas Lights

My wife and I took a trip around Lawrence on Saturday to check out the homes in Lawrence that had listed themselves on [our 2010 Holiday Lights Map][1]. It took us about two hours, but we looked at all the lights and, I can safely say, there are people in this town who go all out for ...

Yes, we have a spam filter and yes, sometimes it catches your non-spam comments

A few months ago, you may have noticed a rash of spam being posted to our comments. It looked something like this: ===== http://domainexample.com ===== Air jordan(1-24)shoes $33 Handbags(Coach l v f e n d i d&g) $35 Tshirts (ed hardy,lacoste) $16 Jean(True Religion,ed ...

Here’s a chance to win a Pachamama’s gift card — just for checking our work

I love to give stuff away. Books, shirts, coffee mugs and concert tickets. You name it, if we get it, I want to give it to you, our loyal users. Today, I'm announcing a new giveaway. I'm calling it the [lawrence.com Restaurant Database Check Up.][1] The prize is one of two $20 gift cards ...

Easy steps to control your notification settings

With the new blog technology we introduced last week, you now have the ability to get notifications whenever anyone comments on your blog entries. This can be both helpful and insanely annoying, so I'm sure you want to know how to control this setting. It's easy, with the advent of the ...

COMPLETED: Some site maintenance coming about 12:45

1 p.m. update: We've now completed this maintenance. We'll be doing some maintenance on all of our sites at 12:45 this afternoon, meaning our sites may go down for as much as 10 minutes at that time. Since midnight, we've been getting sporadic site overload errors that last a minute or ...

Announcing a change at LJWorld.com

Two years. I've been wrangling comments and commenters and breaking news and other things online for two full years now. I finally feel like I've developed a rhythm. That's twice as long as I've held any specific job — so that means, of course, it's time for a change. Over the next ...