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| Update: my blog is very
alive (RSS
feed). My LJ is, for all practical purposes,
defunct. My Plan is no longer guest-readable.
In short (i.e. what I should have said at the beginning), I have my blog and that's it (yeah,
that's it...I mean, I only update 3-5 times a day, yeah, that's it...).
Also, I just thought of Finding Forrester for the first time in a long time. Wee, random.
[Ugh, Xanga. An edit box that's WYSIWYG by default, ads, acting
like features that you should have by default are something that only
people who pay money should have etc..]
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| My LiveJournal lives again, at least for one entry.
My blog is still very
alive and well. For more personal and more oft updates of my life
at college check out my Plan, MAYNICHO.
P.S. I am sharply reminded of one of my reasons for leaving Xanga--it's shitty interface.
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| This is my final entry on Xanga. The fun continues on Ernest Blogs.
The following in an excerpt from my last post, posted just before this one.
I have long thought that it was rather crazy to maintain four separate weblogs (often having to re-write the HTML in my posts or remove pictures to compensate for each blogging system's idiosyncrasies), and with college looming I feel I no longer have time to indulge in cross-posting every entry. So I am withdrawing from LiveJournal and Xanga. Although my accounts will remain, I will no longer be updating them. Following somewhat in John David Stone's footsteps from when he pulled out of Plans and switched to a blog, I am confining all of my updates to my blog.
However, this does not mean that I do not wish to hear from all of you, on the contrary, I have spent the past couple of hours setting up Bloglines and adding everyone from my Friends list on LiveJournal and all of my Subscriptions from Xanga, along with the blogroll from my blog. The entire list can be viewed at http://www.bloglines.com/public/ibm525.
I hope that my friends and readers from the two communities will take the time to go the extra webpage and find out what I have to say, as I continue to read up on their activities. If they felt so inclined, they could follow my lead onto Bloglines and monitor not only my blog, but all of their peers in their communities. Of course, Bloglines is not perfect--the link-adding process is long and tedious and, although this may be a limitation of the RSS feeds, you cannot tell if any comments have been made on an entry. However, you can use Bloglines for many things monitoring news and all of the blogs far away from the warm home of your community. I'm happy to report that Lessig's blog is in the top 50 of today's subscriptions.
One reason I have stuck with the communities for so long is because I feel like I'm talking to myself when I blog on Ernest Blogs (original), mainly for lack of feedback. Whereas, when I write things on LiveJournal I know that a handful of people at least see that it's been updated.
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| My room is in shambles--wherever I turn, the floor is covered in stacks of books and papers, boxes of things to be stored, groups of items to take to college, and other general mayhem.
I have only two nights left at work, and only a few days of driving left before my insurance runs out. I have been trying to buy everything I need--from a refrigerator and microwave to bath towel and nail polish to pitchers and an ice cube container--before I lose my ability to drive. I have also been tying up loose ends like getting a new driver's license (since mine expired on my birthday). I have decided that my hair does not look good in mugshots. I thought my picture for my new University of Iowa ID card was a fluke brought on by lack of sleep, but it looks as though my hair doesn't photograph well. At least people can see it's long this way, I suppose.
Every couple of hours I switch my opinion on the three week (less one day) span separating me from move-in day. Usually I'm frightfully excited and raring to go, othertimes, however, I realize just how much I have to do to get ready for college and feel that three weeks is not nearly enough time.
Going to college is like the first day of school, like going off to camp and like being a kid again all at the same time.
There is the freshness of the resetting of the yearly cycle that is marked by new school supplies, new classes and new people; there is the being-away-from home aspect, similar to a week--or a month--at camp; there is the excitement of something new and shiny glittering just over the horizon, a pot of gold leading to so many wonderful new things.
A few days ago, I sent out a call to everyone in PlanWorld (Wikipedia), polling them about what they wished they knew when they entered college. Here are my two responses thus far.
Stephine Masta writes
I wish that I would have realized how fast the time went, I mean I blinked and it was over. Had I known that college moves at warp speed I would have gone to that play, the concert, walked around a bit more, etc. I don't know if college is or should be the best time of your life, but it certainly is the time when you are the most free. Capitalize on that and make sure that if an opportunity presents itself and it looks amazing find a way to do it. College isn't about school - it's about getting an education.
and Michael Billups writes
I had a whole bunch of things I could talk to you about, but I have no idea where to start. I guess what I would emphasize is to just start working (academically, that is) right now; you need to knock off any vestiges of senioritis if you want straight A's. I don't know if you're a methodical person, but I found (later on in my career obviously) that having a set schedule (via Outlook or a traditional planner or some other means) is a really great way to get things done. Without a schedule, you convince yourself that you have all the time in the world to get things done--and lo and behold, you've got a paper due tomorrow that you haven't started yet.
I have long thought that it was rather crazy to maintain four separate weblogs (often having to re-write the HTML in my posts or remove pictures to compensate for each blogging system's idiosyncrasies), and with college looming I feel I no longer have time to indulge in cross-posting every entry. So I am withdrawing from LiveJournal and Xanga. Although my accounts will remain, I will no longer be updating them. Following somewhat in John David Stone's footsteps from when he pulled out of Plans and switched to a blog, I am confining all of my updates to my blog.
However, this does not mean that I do not wish to hear from all of you, on the contrary, I have spent the past couple of hours setting up Bloglines and adding everyone from my Friends list on LiveJournal and all of my Subscriptions from Xanga, along with the blogroll from my blog. The entire list can be viewed at http://www.bloglines.com/public/ibm525.
I hope that my friends and readers from the two communities will take the time to go the extra webpage and find out what I have to say, as I continue to read up on their activities. If they felt so inclined, they could follow my lead onto Bloglines and monitor not only my blog, but all of their peers in their communities. Of course, Bloglines is not perfect--the link-adding process is long and tedious and, although this may be a limitation of the RSS feeds, you cannot tell if any comments have been made on an entry. However, you can use Bloglines for many things monitoring news and all of the blogs far away from the warm home of your community. I'm happy to report that Lessig's blog is in the top 50 of today's subscriptions.
It is of note, LiveJournal users, that your Friends-Only journals are not so secure as I suspect you believe--I have had to go through no authentication process in order to read your journals from afar via the RSS feeds that LiveJournal provides and Bloglines picks up. The restrictions and protections that the Friends-Only feature provides are only in effect within LiveJournal. Like many systems, content can be easily accessed from outside the system.
One reason I have stuck with the communities for so long is because I feel like I'm talking to myself when I blog on Ernest Blogs (original), mainly for lack of feedback. Whereas, when I write things on LiveJournal I know that a handful of people at least see that it's been updated.
For the moment, I am continuing to update my Plan, for a variety of reasons, one being because, in spite of its current difficulties, Plans has endeared itself to me and I have found friends there. Or rather, they have found me. | | |
| I apologize for getting so behind on my blogging--I'm currently in the throes of college preparation: cleaning my room, buying appliances, making list after list, getting rid of stuff, tying up loose ends, etc.
I hope to return to more regular updates in the coming weeks.
In other news, I have updated my website. The main feature of this update is the exciting debut of the "Other Artists" section. The debut was put on indefinite hold a couple of updates back.
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