Saturday-8

1. How many times have you changed your blog/journal/diary URL so far? Any reason for each “moving”?
   
   
   Never. I never will, barring some great financial calamity. I have been thinking about moving my game stuff to a domain of it’s own and leaving this site for the journal and other projects, but that won’t be this week, for sure.
   

   
   

2. How do you feel when someone left a nasty message in your guestbook/tag-board? What do you usually do to that kind of person?
   
   
   Wheee… I have IP ban. Go me.
   

   
   

3. What is the blog/diary/journal you read most often lately? (URL, please) Why is it so interesting?
   
   
   www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/ — if I can only read one site that day, it will be that one.
   

   
   

4. Do you really read your past entries/postings often? Why and why not?
   
   
   No, not really. Lately I’ve been exposed to them, due to working on re-categorizing old posts, but even then I rarely read one any further than required to set the category.
   

   
   

5. What things can make a blog/journal/diary so boring? And we all know, that even though we keep saying that we write whatever we want to write, sometimes there are thing we want to write but we don’t because of “this-and-that” things, those “unwritten” laws. Personally, what are they, you think?
   
   
   Ironically, I’m pretty sure the question and answer posts are the least popular (judging popularity by number of posts generated). There are things about my past that I choose not to write about, simply because I don’t want to make my friends or family uncomfortable with Too Much Information. There are also times I want to rant about things that would either discomfort or upset my friends and family, and I avoid that as well.
   
   Sometimes it bothers me that I’ve ended up censoring myself, but most of the time it doesn’t bother me.
   

   
   

6. How important is the layout for a blog/journal/diary? Where or who do you run to when you need some HTML help? (URL, please)
   
   
   If I can’t figure out how to ‘do’ the HTML, then I don’t feel I deserve to use the code — therefore, I don’t seek help (on that… I’m more than willing to ask for tips on MT).
   
   I think it’s important that that layout of a journal be clean. I don’t know if my meets that requirement, due to all the crap along the sides, but it’s pared down to the bear minimum (*snort, chuckle*).
   

   
   

7. What is the latest trend in the blogland/diaryland? Do you always keep up with the dynamic life or the change there?
   
   
   I have no idea about blog trends… umm… blogchalking and that utility that gives you a dynamically-updated linkbar? I don’t really like the blogchalking thing, and the linkbar code won’t right-justify, so I’m not hip at the moment, I guess.
   

   
   

8. What is more important for you: your privacy or your freedom to write? Explain.
   
   
   My privacy is < my freedom to write, which is < the privacy of my friends and family.
   
   Therefore, I’ll talk about myself openly, so long as it does not in turn compromise my friends and family.
   

EXTRA:
How much you depend on writing your blog daily? Do you miss something if you couldn’t write for quite some times? Do you think you will write forever, or you will only write until you’re “delivered” from the current situation (confusion, sadness, depression) you are facing right now, or if your “searching” is over?
I try to write every day, simply as a form of discipline — I want my body and mind to become addicted to writing something/anything every day. I intend to write in this or some other journal into perpetuity — I didn’t start doing this to work out my feelings about some crisis or another, and I don’t feel that it’s dependent on anything of that nature.

Just the bear neccessities, eh Doyce?
hee hee...