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Judging by LJ support requests, Google blogsearch is going to be a huge headache here...

Basically:

1: Even if you have robots blocked, your RSS feed will cause Google to index your LJ. This includes friends-only and private posts!!

2: RSS includes the first paragraph of all locked posts (although non-friends will still be blocked when they click on the link). To fix this:

First, although you cannot completely disable your RSS feed, it is possible to restrict it to just displaying the subject lines of your entries. You can do this by going to the Admin Console (http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console) and entering the following command:

set synlevel title

OK, I wasn't trying to spread FUD (you should all know I'm not the type), I actually SAW FO posts in the RSS feed when I was logged out of LJ. This may be a Safari problem.

Two, it seems Google/RSS just catch friends-only posts that were public at the time of indexing.

Still, the title only thing may be useful.

LJ is taking the position that it can't ask google to do anything and individual users must request that Google remove content. Possibly ethical, but shortsighted.

'tis done. Had 1.5" taken off but it's still quite long! I can put it up properly now though.

Spent 3 bloody hours in the chair and I only had a T-section, base, cut and blow (curly--twist into sections and diffuse. Gives lovely spirally curls and only takes 15 mins!) Now you know why I don't get a full head of highlights. It's not the money, it's the TIME! (I have very thick hair--doing it in foils, unless you do enormous chunky sections, it takes a long time.)

Not sure the base is as red as I wanted, but I'll give it a couple of days; it always looks too dark at first. I do have to be careful; if you add too much red without lightening the base you look like Kat Slater. Which is Bad and Wrong. I'm reluctant to just go in and ask for something (relatively) radical because I'm always afraid it will look disastrous afterwards!

Afterwards, I came home to an answerphone message from my mother asking if I'd had it done. She then called as I was making dinner to ask again. She must've been truly paranoid that I'd turn up to the wedding with hideous roots.

And yes, yes, I could stop coloring my hair, save the money, time, etc and maybe I will stop (again--I go through phases) but right before my sister's wedding was not the time to do it. Theoretically I could have dyed it all back to my real color so I can grow it out, but that would result in just as much moaning ("your hair's too dark, it looks terrible, why don't you have it done?") and probably result in ANOTHER trip to the hairdresser to get it lightened, thereby defeating the purpose. It's all a small price to pay for sanity for the next week.