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I have a blog
Mar. 3rd, 2011 02:26 pmYes I have bitten the bullet and got me a blog:
www.sparkindarkness.com
Why the change? Much as I like Livejournal, there are many reasons why I am opening a blog:
1)LJ regularly has WTF moments that make me cringe.
2)LJ just doesn't have all the bells and whistles I want. Or, at least, I don't know how to use all the bells and whistles I want on LJ
3)LJ always feels like someone else's space even when it's your space, y'know? Which is related to point 1 – they have WTF moments and they have the power to have their WTF moments
4)Many sensible people have been poking me to get a blog for some time now
I have to thank Ann Somerville for letting me play in her space, even giving me a chunk of her bandwidth to play with to get used to this blogging thing. As Beloved is eagerly happy to tell everyone, I have all the computer skills of a concussed dodo. She tolerated much much time of my bewildered questions, ineptitude and risked me exploding her space with great big random computer chaos that follows me everywhere. My explorations also dragged out far longer than I think anyone could possibly have reasonably expected.
Without those weeks playing in her space, I would not now have a blog. Playing with the widgets (widget widget widget widget widget widget. I love that word) and layouts and templates was essential to make me comfortable enough with this blogging thing to actually set things up
Does this mean my LJ is dying?
No. I am not deleting this LJ. But different things may appear in different places. It is unlikely that my real life randomness will appear on the blog so much (it might, I have no firm plans). And political/activist/social justice/ranty type stuff is likely to appear on the blog not on the LJ – but my LJ will at least have an excerpt and a link (a beginning then a “this is continued here” type thingy) so following LJ will ensure you don't miss anything, but you will be redirected a few times. Who knows, I may even start writing again (hah, anything's possible).
Most of my linky things will direct to the blog rather than the journal.
I think that covers everything
www.sparkindarkness.com
Why the change? Much as I like Livejournal, there are many reasons why I am opening a blog:
1)LJ regularly has WTF moments that make me cringe.
2)LJ just doesn't have all the bells and whistles I want. Or, at least, I don't know how to use all the bells and whistles I want on LJ
3)LJ always feels like someone else's space even when it's your space, y'know? Which is related to point 1 – they have WTF moments and they have the power to have their WTF moments
4)Many sensible people have been poking me to get a blog for some time now
I have to thank Ann Somerville for letting me play in her space, even giving me a chunk of her bandwidth to play with to get used to this blogging thing. As Beloved is eagerly happy to tell everyone, I have all the computer skills of a concussed dodo. She tolerated much much time of my bewildered questions, ineptitude and risked me exploding her space with great big random computer chaos that follows me everywhere. My explorations also dragged out far longer than I think anyone could possibly have reasonably expected.
Without those weeks playing in her space, I would not now have a blog. Playing with the widgets (widget widget widget widget widget widget. I love that word) and layouts and templates was essential to make me comfortable enough with this blogging thing to actually set things up
Does this mean my LJ is dying?
No. I am not deleting this LJ. But different things may appear in different places. It is unlikely that my real life randomness will appear on the blog so much (it might, I have no firm plans). And political/activist/social justice/ranty type stuff is likely to appear on the blog not on the LJ – but my LJ will at least have an excerpt and a link (a beginning then a “this is continued here” type thingy) so following LJ will ensure you don't miss anything, but you will be redirected a few times. Who knows, I may even start writing again (hah, anything's possible).
Most of my linky things will direct to the blog rather than the journal.
I think that covers everything
