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kitty
06-03-2004, 12:49 AM
Do you blog? What service do you use? How often do you update?
Do you talk about people you know? Ever have any problems with people reading your blogs and getting mad at you?
The last one happened to me. A girl from high school I used to be friends with, got mad at me for like a year after one of my really early blog entries about something that had happened a year prior.
edit: i know there have been some threads on blogging, but no explicit poll and question :biggrin:
sageb1
06-03-2004, 01:19 AM
I have a blogger.com account that I update regularly.
My blogs are either notes to myself about a certain website I thought interesting enough to blog, or just thoughts, poems, and computer issues to share.
Since June 1, I've made my blogspot private to prevent misunderstandings by anyone who reads it.
It means less anguish for the rare people who jump to conclusions before applying common sense to what I write...
DragonKnight
06-03-2004, 02:23 AM
Ever have any problems with people reading your blogs and getting mad at you?Ack, just recently too. Decided to make the more sentitive shit more private now due to that recent incident. Used to have two on Xanga and LJ. Now I just keep it on LJ. Less work for me. I have two there. One for my car project, another that's personal.
bigwong235
06-03-2004, 03:23 AM
no (http://www.pressurize.net/panda)
i also have a private blog hosted on blogger.com.
Emperor_Mike
06-03-2004, 05:34 AM
Yes. A public and private one. The link to the public one's in my signature. I rarely draw a distinction between public and private anyway except for those god-awful things that happen and you really don't want anyone to know about it lest they think you're insane.
Faithless
06-03-2004, 06:53 AM
Yes. A public and private one. The link to the public one's in my signature. I rarely draw a distinction between public and private anyway except for those god-awful things that happen and you really don't want anyone to know about it lest they think you're insane.
I've seen yur blog.
Not enough bad mouthin' the Canads! :biggrin:
hooligan
06-03-2004, 07:41 AM
just an LJ for my rants. : ) pm if interested.
TB4000
06-03-2004, 09:29 AM
My sister has about 3 of them online, I have none. Just never been too huge a fan of putting my thoughts out there like that, I guess.
Emperor_Mike
06-03-2004, 10:30 AM
I've seen yur blog.
Not enough bad mouthin' the Canads! :biggrin:
We're very polite people. :biggrin:
rice cracker
06-03-2004, 10:32 AM
I caved in and bought Xanga Premium, so now I just use the xanga as some exhibitionist outlet to show the three readers I have pictures of my blackheads and kittens I think are cute. I've never had anyone get mad at one of my entries, although I did get an apology from someone :biggrin:
kitty
06-03-2004, 11:05 AM
i shy away from those xanga, lj, blogger engines. i dunno, i feel like if i know enough html to write the stuff on my own, there's no need to get engines to do it for me.
but... i think i don't get readers to my blog because i'm not part of those services...
Chester
06-03-2004, 11:09 AM
Do you blog? What service do you use? How often do you update?I run my own personal site with Movable Type, posting something new about five times a week.
For some reason, I really don't like the words "blog" or "blogger." To me, those words conjure up narcissistic twits who obsess over the minutiae of their life in a shopping-list sort of a way...or people whose "blogs" seem to consist of nothing but pictures of themselves...or people who overdramatize every little thing that occurs in their life.
I dunno..."blog," to me, has become one of those annoying catch-phrases like "Gen-X." There's a descriptive value to it, but it also has become increasingly meaningless as the thing that it describes becomes not only greater in quantity, but also variety and depth.
Do you talk about people you know? Ever have any problems with people reading your blogs and getting mad at you?
In some ways, my site is more about my friends than myself, so I do talk about people I know. The important thing is that I don't talk shit about people I know. I don't reveal anything about them (or myself, for that matter), that I think they would be uncomfortable being out there for public consumption.
I guess, sometimes, I would enjoy venting anonymously to an audience of strangers, but it's really too late for that now and, that impulse is too few and far between to justify the effort it would take to keep up a separate, secret blog. I've seen some blogs that are primarily concerned with personal drama and angst and I think that sets up a bad precedent self-fulfillment.
thaite
06-03-2004, 12:04 PM
i used to, but now I think it's lame.
i have a LJ, that i used for a few weeks last summer when i was mad at my then-bf. it was not public. and it hasn't been touched since...maybe august.
i usually pick up a phone or IM when i need to vent. i don't need strangers to know about my personal stuff! and i'm also not funny or witty enough to have a blog for kicks. :)
DragonKnight
06-03-2004, 03:24 PM
Yes. A public and private one. The link to the public one's in my signature. I rarely draw a distinction between public and private anyway except for those god-awful things that happen and you really don't want anyone to know about it lest they think you're insane.But...but...you are! :wink:
i usually pick up a phone or IM when i need to vent.*hides from moJo* :eek:
dorkus malorkus
06-03-2004, 03:27 PM
Sure I blog. 2 places xanga and live journal. I rarely use LJ since only a few of my friends are on there. Everyone else is on xanga. Write random stuff and a place to vent, it helps.
Had one shared with an S.O. for our private pleasure.
A personal Movable Type for my closest friends, updated once a month on average.
A livejournal which is kind of an experiment, also monthly, but will pick up.
Planning an art project based on a blog infrastructure, most likely will use livejournal to do it.
A natural outcropping from web-based forums, and not too different, except you always initiate the topic. I'd expect a tight corellation between the two types of internet uses.
Faithless
06-04-2004, 03:47 PM
Had one shared with an S.O. for our private pleasure.
Oo, that's an interesting concept.
What would one do, if they broke up? Who get's the blog?
And in the blog would you put:
[date] we broke up.
We agreed I'd get the blog,
With the promise that I would not rag on her/him.
Oo, that's an interesting concept.
What would one do, if they broke up? Who get's the blog?
I hosted it so I "have" it. It's not up on the web anymore since I consider it something like letters you stick in a shoebox and never look at again. She can have a copy if she asks for it.
Digital life is interesting, mostly because of its potential for old things done new, as well as its technological benefits.
kitty
06-04-2004, 10:51 PM
stupid question:... what's movable type?
... and why would you blog for no one? i blog because i'm a part time exhibitionist. i pretend people are actually interested in what i have to say... i couldn't imagine staying interested in something no one was reading.
DragonKnight
06-04-2004, 11:06 PM
stupid question:... what's movable type?http://www.movabletype.org/
robotic
06-05-2004, 03:00 AM
links:
vote for your favourite asian blog (http://www.misohoni.com/forums/forum5.html)
rice bowl journals (http://ricebowljournals.com/)
third world view (rezwan's blog) (http://rezwanul.blogspot.com/)
Emperor_Mike
06-05-2004, 04:44 AM
But...but...you are! :wink:
Only on weekends and select holidays.
... and why would you blog for no one? i blog because i'm a part time exhibitionist. i pretend people are actually interested in what i have to say... i couldn't imagine staying interested in something no one was reading.
I guess for the same reason someone would keep a diary or journal? At a minimum, you're always writing for yourself.
Made in China
06-05-2004, 09:31 AM
I have a Xanga, which I do NOT know how to use :confused:
Commando_turned_MD
06-05-2004, 11:07 AM
What is blog?
What is blog?
A type of website in which the contents are (usually reverse-) chronologically-ordered entries. It's different from the standard website in that content is managed temporally. The content itself can be as trivial as links to external content, or as involved as essays/articles or photographs, comics, and art. There are personal blogs (like a public journal/diary), webguide blogs (like a tourguide showing you around the web based on a theme), fictional blogs, and collaborative blogs (where there are a group of authors). New types come along every few days. Latest trends involve a-song-a-day blogs where a new mp3 is posted with commentary. There are also "astroturfing" blogs set up by entities attempting to create a "grassroots" buzz about something, a form of viral marketing.
Some blog systems allow user/reader commentary and ranking.
It's a shortened form of the word "weblog" but primarily distincts itself from web server logs (which contain information about technical aspects of the website's operation).
younggiftedandblack
06-05-2004, 12:51 PM
Do you blog? What service do you use? How often do you update?
Do you talk about people you know? Ever have any problems with people reading your blogs and getting mad at you?
The last one happened to me. A girl from high school I used to be friends with, got mad at me for like a year after one of my really early blog entries about something that had happened a year prior.
edit: i know there have been some threads on blogging, but no explicit poll and question :biggrin:
Inspired by you KG :biggrin: I tried it earlier this year. It lasted for a hot minute before I got completely bored with it. Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with the web space. :confused:
mr. x
06-05-2004, 01:03 PM
kittygirl wat was it u said?
i mean if it was like "oh yeah i was the one who killed her dog and hid the body" sure...
krazy
06-05-2004, 02:42 PM
I'm thinking about writing a blog. what's the difference between xanga and lj? I've actually never heard about lj before.
kitty
06-05-2004, 03:34 PM
kittygirl wat was it u said?
i mean if it was like "oh yeah i was the one who killed her dog and hid the body" sure...
she invited me to a new year's thing, and i said i couldn't go, but admitted in my blog it was because i didn't want to 'cuz i was feeling lazy.
tvbdude
06-05-2004, 10:02 PM
I got a xanga page
mr. x
06-05-2004, 11:09 PM
she invited me to a new year's thing, and i said i couldn't go, but admitted in my blog it was because i didn't want to 'cuz i was feeling lazy.
psssh overaction if u ask me
i mean you were pretty honest, u have no reason to lie in a BLOG right? u coulda said
"i cant stand HER, i would rather shovel cerberus' dog poop then spend 30 seconds in her stupid party with her asiaphile friends :rolleyes: "
kitty
06-06-2004, 12:34 AM
i think it was the lying thing more than anything else. i was also kind of critical of her new boyfriend, but not overtly so. mostly just my choice in his pseudonym (called him franken, 'cuz he reminded me off frankenstein 'cuz of the shape of his head and the way he didn't move his neck)
mr. x
06-06-2004, 12:43 PM
i think it was the lying thing more than anything else. i was also kind of critical of her new boyfriend, but not overtly so. mostly just my choice in his pseudonym (called him franken, 'cuz he reminded me off frankenstein 'cuz of the shape of his head and the way he didn't move his neck)
ouch! u actually said that in your blog?
wow, umm does anyone hold back when they write blogs? should said franken cuz of his errr uh...liberal bias
Faithless
06-06-2004, 04:42 PM
Blogging analyzed:
Blogging the night away: Online journals serve as emotional outlet (http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArti cle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031775381693&path=!news)
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Online journaling has proven invaluable for promoting discourse in news and politics, but more and more young adults are jumping on the blogging bandwagon for more personal reasons - to mourn a lost love, to ponder life’s direction, to whine about the poser who snagged the Bowie shirt at the thrift store.
Who gets really emotional in theres?
.
If posters don’t want to share their rants with the entire world, they can make entries viewable only to a select group of people - the technological equivalent of putting a diary under lock and key. The “friends” feature also dissuades LiveJournal stalkers from obsessively reading journals.
Stalkers, as they’re called in blogging circles, are people who will comment on a journal without knowing the owner. They can range from tame comments such as “Hey, I like your username” to vicious attacks on hairstyle, music preference or political opinion.
I'm guessing that most of you, by linking your blogs, are opening yourselves to the vurld. :rolleyes:
SynRG
06-06-2004, 07:11 PM
I feel like an old fuddy-duddy 'cuz I don't got a blog.
BeTheReds
06-06-2004, 08:21 PM
Live Journal, yo!
kitty
06-07-2004, 08:15 AM
ouch! u actually said that in your blog?
wow, umm does anyone hold back when they write blogs? should said franken cuz of his errr uh...liberal bias
well, she didn't know why i had called him franken for his pseudonym. i think. i should probably go back and check that entry to be sure.
anyways, she shouldn't have cared because by the time she read the entry, he had long dumped her for another girl. i think it was more me lying about why i didn't feel like going out that night.
Faithless
06-07-2004, 09:19 AM
well, she didn't know why i had called him franken for his pseudonym. i think. i should probably go back and check that entry to be sure.
anyways, she shouldn't have cared because by the time she read the entry, he had long dumped her for another girl. i think it was more me lying about why i didn't feel like going out that night.
BTW, I've seen your portfolio of web sites designs. Nice.
But I'm getting a sense that anime images on blogs are becoming overly cliche. :eek:
kitty
06-07-2004, 11:01 AM
BTW, I've seen your portfolio of web sites designs. Nice.
But I'm getting a sense that anime images on blogs are becoming overly cliche. :eek:
thx. it kind of is... but i usually just pick pics i like, usually from unknown artists. i'm finding it at least a little bit more creative than your standard blog layout... y'know <h1> titles and then a long set of postings on the left, and then links on the right, all done with coloured tables.
no offense to anyone who uses that stuff, but i like stuff with graphics, and it's hard to find graphics that implement well onto the web that aren't hand drawn, at least imo.
mr. x
06-07-2004, 03:42 PM
well, she didn't know why i had called him franken for his pseudonym. i think. i should probably go back and check that entry to be sure.
anyways, she shouldn't have cared because by the time she read the entry, he had long dumped her for another girl. i think it was more me lying about why i didn't feel like going out that night.
what?!? so basically she's mad that u made a lil white lie about a day that happened months ago?
kitty
06-07-2004, 05:22 PM
what?!? so basically she's mad that u made a lil white lie about a day that happened months ago?
more like a year ago, and yeah.
gkanai
06-07-2004, 11:59 PM
movabletype yo!
achtungbaby
06-08-2004, 12:49 AM
I'm using MT now. But I've friggen used 'em all at one point or another...
LJ
xanga
pMachine
b2
blogger
I don't really post much on my site anymore. More and more, organizations are beginning to find that the real value to the whole blogging explosion, specifically blogging applications, wasn't just the idea of putting content management tools into the hands of the masses so they could talk about the color of their toe cheese, but how organizations can bring an immediate voice to their cause.
ellsworth81
06-13-2004, 06:30 PM
I don't like to use the word blog. It seems to trivialize whatever content you have published out there. I use movable type and xanga. more xanga b/c i get more like viewers. but for more significant stuff i use movable type on my site. i recommend it highly!
Chris
06-13-2004, 07:54 PM
been blogging for almost 3 years.
3stripes
06-16-2004, 04:50 PM
Movable Type went the wrong direction...anyone seen its license policy lately??
So many people are using WordPress now (http://wordpress.org/)
bluetrianglescott
06-17-2004, 08:48 AM
I don't know if posting on my myspace page is considered blogging. But if it is, then yes I do, but not that often.
Faithless
08-27-2004, 05:23 PM
In the classroom, Web logs are the new bulletin boards (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0819classblogs-ON.html)
Last spring, when Marisa L. Dudiak's second-grade class in Frederick County, Md., returned from a field trip to a American Indian farm, all the students wanted to do was talk about what they saw. But instead of leading a discussion about the trip, Dudiak had the students sign on to their classroom Web log.
There they wrote about learning to use a bow and arrow, sitting inside a tepee and petting a buffalo. The short entries were typical of second-grade writing, with misspelled words and simple sentences. Still, for Dudiak, the exercise proved more fruitful than a group discussion or a handwritten entry in a personal journal.
"It allowed them to interact with their peers more quickly than a journal," she said, "and it evened the playing field." Dudiak said she found that those who were quiet in class usually came alive online.
Classroom Web logs, or blogs, many of which got their start in the last school year, are becoming increasingly popular with teachers like Dudiak as a forum for expression for students as young as the second-grade level and in almost any subject. In the blogs, students write about how they attacked a tough math problem, post observations about their science experiments or display their latest art projects.
For teachers, blogs are attractive because they require little effort to maintain, unlike more elaborate classroom Web sites, which were once heralded as a boon for teaching. Helped by templates found at sites like tblog.com and movabletype.org, teachers can build a blog or start a new topic in an existing blog by simply typing text into a box and clicking a button.
Such ease of use is the primary reason that Peter Grunwald, an education consultant, predicts that blogs will eventually become a more successful teaching tool than Web sites.
"School Web sites are labor-intensive and are left up to administrators and teachers," said Grunwald, whose consulting firm in Washington focuses on the technology link between home and school. "With blogging intended to be a vehicle for students, the labor is built in. The work that is required to refresh and maintain an interesting blog is being provided by students."
One way teachers say they use blogs is to continue spirited discussions that were cut short or to prolong question-and-answer periods with guest speakers.
"With blogs, class doesn't have to end when the bell rings," said Will Richardson, supervisor of instructional technology and communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, N.J., who maintained blogs for two journalism classes he taught last year.
Teachers say that the interactivity of blogs allowed them to give students feedback much more quickly than before.
"I used to have this stack of hard-copy journals on my desk waiting to be read," said Catherine Poling, an assistant principal at Kemptown Elementary School, also in Frederick County, Md., who ran a blog last year when she taught third grade at a nearby school. "Now I can react to what they say immediately, and students can respond to each other."
In one blog entry, for instance, Poling asked her students what qualities they looked for when rating books for a statewide award. When several students responded that a book has to be creative and grab their attention, she posted a follow-up question asking them if they used the same criteria for both fiction and nonfiction books.
While such a question could have just as easily been posed during a classroom conversation, teachers who use blogs say that students put a lot more thought and effort into their blog writing, knowing that parents and others may read their work on the Web.
"They want to make sure that it's good enough to be read by more than just their teacher," said Christopher S. Wright, a third grade teacher at Wyman Elementary School in Rolla, Mo.
Sometimes, the long reach of the Web has turned bloggers into modern-day pen pals, allowing students to collaborate easily with their peers in other classes or even other countries. Some social studies classes at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, for instance, are using a blog to study the Holocaust with high school students in Krakow, Poland.
One of the goals of classroom blogs, advocates say, is to get students to write more often. Even so, according to the time stamps on classroom blogs, they are most heavily used during the school day. Few entries seem to come after school hours, and some teachers who have tried to keep their blogs going during the summer say they have been disappointed by the results. "I'm not getting a huge response," said Dudiak, the second grade teacher in Frederick County.
That has led some teachers who are critical of blogs to question whether the technology has actually done anything to interest students in writing. Critics also worry that the casual nature of writing on the Web may encourage bad habits that are hard to break, like e-mail-style abbreviations, bad grammar and poor spelling.
While some teachers who run blogs encourage students to write out their entries on paper first and then post them online as if they were publishing the work, others view blog writing as more free-flowing.
"Blogging is a different form of writing," Dudiak said. "They should proofread, but we are more concerned about the content, not grammar."
It is unclear exactly how many teachers maintain blogs. Richardson estimates their numbers in the thousands. The Educational Bloggers Network, a loosely organized clearinghouse, lists only about 130 members at its Web site, www.ebn.weblogger.com. Whatever the number, the ranks of bloggers are likely to grow in the coming school year.
In some cases, teachers may not have much of a choice. The Little Miami School District near Cincinnati plans to require teachers to maintain blogs for their classes once they are trained on the technology, which should be completed sometime in the 2005-6 school year.
Debbi Contner, an assistant principal at one of the district's six schools, Hamilton-Maineville Elementary, who used a blog when she taught fourth grade at the school last year, said that teachers become receptive to blogs once they see how easy it is to set one up.
"If it gets kids excited about learning," Contner said, "we might as well try it."
NotAsian
08-27-2004, 05:34 PM
Is it just me or are 99.9% of the people on Xanga Asian? Why??
If I said the word "Xanga" to anyone I know outside this forum, I'm pretty sure they would have no idea what I was on about.
:|
Chris
08-27-2004, 07:18 PM
Is it just me or are 99.9% of the people on Xanga Asian? Why??
If I said the word "Xanga" to anyone I know outside this forum, I'm pretty sure they would have no idea what I was on about.
:|
word most of the serious blogger are all indepent. Xangas is now the blogspot of today. But i been blogging outside of those programs for 2 years now.
I went through blogspot => grey matter => moveable type => wordpress.
Wordpress is by far the most streamline for me.
except to get it css and rss complaint. that me being a n00b
amietron
09-02-2004, 05:08 AM
Livejournal.com (http://livejournal.com) > Xanga (http://xanga.com)
Date created: 2001-04-22 20:29:57
nameless
09-02-2004, 08:32 AM
Is it just me or are 99.9% of the people on Xanga Asian? Why??
what can i say...us kids have a lot of shit to rant about :tongue:
Faithless
11-22-2004, 11:47 AM
Anybody that has a blog --
Do you expect/consider that YWers to read 'em?
I need a blog so that I can force all of you to read what I have to say. :^P
deez nuts
11-22-2004, 03:13 PM
i tried blogging once. i did it for like two days. i then realized how gay it was to have a diary like a little a girl.
tapestrybabe
11-22-2004, 03:55 PM
Anybody that has a blog --
Do you expect/consider that YWers to read 'em?
Oh, i know for a fact they do...
and ppl who may not be into blogging...
i know like to check up and read others...
i've had a public journal...
for many years...
going thru a mini phase of
being it friends only...
its not that difficult to internet stalk me...
since i use the same screen name...
and if i dont, there have been ppl...
linking their journal in public...
like the xanga yw blog ring and such...
and my name ends up being on their
friends list... so whatever...
and the whole experience...
sometimes has gotten exhausting
when i see what i say effecting others...
when i mean no harm...
dunno... thinking of going to friends only...
that actually kinda felt nice
writing amongst friends...
i just rarely talk about blog/journals...
on yw... just cuz even tho blogs are usually public...
i see it as a seperate entity to a forum board...
like i really dont think ppl should be
linking other ppls blogs/journals...
on a forum board without their permission first...
Are there still links to blogs on YW?
fossilfuel
11-22-2004, 06:07 PM
I have one. It's mostly for my own amusement and to communicate with some close friends. I don't care about who reads it because if someone stalked me I would be quite flattered.
I checked around and the ratio of teenaged girls to any other group having one is staggering. Oh well, gives me something to do while I wait for my next issue of Tiger Beat magazine.
Its popular with young women because it's often about getting attention.
tapestrybabe
11-23-2004, 08:38 PM
Its popular with young women because it's often about getting attention.
i really dont understand
whats inherently wrong with
wanting attention tho...
i think we all seek attention, recognition
feedback in one degree or another...
but your quite right...
there are those blogs
that have lots of cam whoring...
and such...
but amongst all the clutter out there... there are those gems that stand out as being reflective, honest, open, story telling journals... and i think i'm one of them...
there's nothing wrong with young women wanting attention especially if they really need it and writing is a good way to express their emotions.
lethal
11-23-2004, 10:21 PM
I seldom post on my blog and don't advertise it to anyone. I don't care if anyone reads it. I may start posting more, but still not going to tell people about it. They can find it on their own.
Emperor_Mike
11-23-2004, 11:28 PM
I pretty much update on a daily basis during lunch times and in the evenings. It's psychologically satisfying because in my blog I can express my frustrations with life and people. I just can't be pleasant to people I don't like without some sort of outlet for the negative thoughts. I'd go nuts if I kept everything bottled up.
Fireblade
11-24-2004, 12:37 AM
I'm with Emperor Mike... I'm a lot like that. I can't for the life of me, keep things bottled up, so I have to have an outlet for that. Ever since moving up to where I currently live, I've had trouble expressing my worries to my friends, so I just rant on my xanga.
rice cracker
11-26-2004, 12:04 PM
Since I've moved out of MN, my blog gets less and less use since I don't have all that much to bitch about.
For some reason, I really don't like the words "blog" or "blogger." To me, those words conjure up narcissistic twits who obsess over the minutiae of their life in a shopping-list sort of a way...or people whose "blogs" seem to consist of nothing but pictures of themselves...or people who overdramatize every little thing that occurs in their life.
I dunno..."blog," to me, has become one of those annoying catch-phrases like "Gen-X." There's a descriptive value to it, but it also has become increasingly meaningless as the thing that it describes becomes not only greater in quantity, but also variety and depth.
Heh, I don't know if I necessarily agree with the inaneness of the term, "blog". I do think it's rather superficial when the media uses the term...or when the media sets up their own blogs (ahemm, they're everywhere!).
As for myself, yes, I do have an online journal (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=eax) (ha! take that, blog!). Most folks on the YW BlogRing (http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=53730)has seen mine on Xanga, especially considering that I write every single day. Unlike the usually depressing content found on other Xangas, mine (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=eax)is more to flex my mental and academic muscles. I write about daily occurrences, but most of my entries focus on either racial or sexual politics. Heh, if you need to know anything about sex, then visit my Xanga.
I've never really had too much trouble with people from real life reading my Xanga...except this one time involving a boy...but that's not worth explaining. I did however catch the attention of a former classmate, who was rather impressed by my discussions about API politics.
If I were to recommend a YW-er's Xanga, I'd say you should check out Kasie's (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=demi_kasia)...the lawyer madness entries are particular good reads.
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