Monday, May 19th, 2008
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I used to write a personal blog. Actually, my ronery post is derived from that blog, and I just edited it accordingly. Lately I've been reading my own posts on that personal blog of mine, realizing how much I've changed… or should I say, how much I've not changed. These few months I've been discovering the quirks of my own personality, and I've come up on this term called introversion. It honestly fits me to a T, and as a result, it somehow filled me with even more roneriness than merely not having a romantic partner.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Three years… what else can I say?
I would like to thank everyone, be it fellow anime bloggers, avid and new readers, or crawling bots (yep gotta thank them too) for visiting my site. You have been my inspiration and motivation to continue this expression of fandom. I don't need to make mentions because in one way or another all of you are awesome!
I'm pretty consistent too… the blog has garnered 1.5 million hits. That's almost 500,000 per year.
Please also cast your votes at the Anime Blog Awards. Readers can now vote on the People's Choice. They represent some of the best anime blogging has to offer. Because I believe the anime blog community is the best blogging community on the internets… ever!
I look forward to more anime, more moe~, more dorama, more lolis, more… eh screw it… I simply want MOAR!
Cheers for more years to come!
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Basically, I'm trying to change my blog mechanics right now, and I'm thinking of a lot of ideas on how to present you with the maximum amount of my content in the simplest and sensible manner.
Traditionally, I am a very busy casual blogger with only a few posts each month. That's because I make feature-complete articles, if you know what I mean. Feature-complete articles may basically mean long-ars wall-of-text posts of mine, but I meant each post to be as meaningful, less information-hanging, and as conclusive as possible. Because of this, I'm not a time-based blogger, in which I feature the latest and the greatest, rather I want to promote my old posts, updating them as required. Take for example my posts about bishoujo game companies like Key. I want to update the article based on new information like Little Busters, anime Clannad and their newer upcoming game, but I don't update it because most likely, you won't see it because it's old. That is despite me sticking it in the Recent Updated Posts section of the sidebar.
I'm trying to brainstorm how you, my dear reader, would be able to see and access my old (but updated) interesting content. New readers of my blog should be able to see the content for the first time, while avid readers would be able to catch updated content of the topic in hand. While I was partly successful in some ideas by grouping it into projects, like the ToHeart2 project, for more individualized articles, I need another way to go at it. What do you think?
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Being alone in life does have some benefits. No one would annoy you and avoid you from getting your work done and done well. No one would be needing your attention at many time periods of the day. No one will nag at you. No one will seemingly be a liability for you. No one will spend your own hard-earned money. No one will call you every night, removing your chance of a good night's sleep. No one will be your rival in case there would be a third party in your relationship.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Anime Blog Awards
To anyone who's remotely an anime blogger, please do vote for your favorites at the Anime Blog Awards!
I've been on and off the scene for the longest time but I think you guys are awesome. Whenever I'm not busy I fire up my feed readers and collective blog aggregating sites and see what good stuff you have. Often I regret missing out on many things because I don't skim your blogs often, but it's kinda nice to back read and enjoy the fandom which already goes beyond the mere watching of anime. Some of the best entertainment I had didn't even come from the episodes I watched, but the multiple summaries, editorials, insights, rants, comedic banter, etc. coming from the anime blogosphere.
On a technical side note though, my current dilemma in reading your anime blogs is because I can't manage RSS feeds the way I want to. I wanted a system that searches within RSS feeds and updates the search as necessary. Say I like "kyonko" or "true tears", so I write them as a keyword then the system should search the RSS feeds for those keywords. The search keywords should be saved so I can get the latest stuff related to Kyonko or True Tears as they run through the feeds. So far, the system that I found nearest to my needs was Opera's own newsfeed reader. It does the exact thing I want, but unfortunately Opera must be running 24/7 just to catch the feeds. I don't have a 24/7 server, and I hate losing articles because Opera is offline when I go away. Next was Google Reader. Google's is nice because it's online, it has archives of the feeds themselves so I don't worry about losing articles, but it doesn't allow for saving searches. I would need to type the search everytime, and because it's AJAX-online it's a bit slow in doing that. If only I can save searches on the side this would have been perfect too. Maybe you techies know what I should do. It's either doing something about the feeds such that Opera don't need to be online all the time, or maybe looking for some unknown website or service that caters for my exact need. Do you know of any solution?
I think that my feed problem and its solution can be beneficial to the sheer number of content out there today. Some of us anime bloggers are busy people, either at school or work, and may not be able to fire up their browsers and readers everyday. At the same time, like this Anime Blog Awards thingie, we want to show readers and fellow bloggers that their writings and musings are being read. If I can set it up properly, I think I can reach out to interesting articles from even new or obscure blogs based on my own interests. If you happen to mention, say, Kyonko or True Tears, indeed I will be able to catch your article, as opposed to mere simple feedreading where there are a lot of articles I'm not interested in (like mecha anime). Also, it's not limited to my keywords too, I could catch your article in terms of Category so that I don't miss out on generic editorials not necessarily related to my keywords. I think this is a good idea for my reading, and I hope you adopt this kind of idea too… if you're a busy person.
Anyway, please support the community by voting for your favorite blogs, and it will be open for readers soon too. You can be assured that no matter how busy I am, I am at least lurking some of you guys. I'll be trying to comment on your blogs too. Keep up the good (work) stuff!
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
My results are in, and…
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
This pic was actually taken in Japan during my Christmas there last year. Kinda somber and dark eh? Well there are more shiny places, although this is already a Christmas attraction. The location is called Yebisu Garden Place. Those lights on the trees change color, so you might as well enjoy the atmosphere. Actually there's a nice Christmas Tree:
… so it's not all that bad.
Random stuff I know, but really I just dropped by to greet you Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!
Here the celebration is more subdued so there are no animu pics… but here's some cake:
My best wishes to you, your family, your relatives, your friends and loved ones. Your bishoujos and lolis too, I guess…
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