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This Site is Moving

Hi again, everyone. To follow on my previous post (see Changes Coming) I am going to be moving this site off of the WordPress.com platform onto a self-hosted platform. This comes with a few advantages to me, most of which relate to site theming, configurability, and reliability. It’s going to be a lot of work on my side, but I think it will be worth it in the end. I am able to migrate subscribers, so I will be doing that. So there should be no effort required on your… Read More »This Site is Moving

Changes Coming

I have been a busy bee lately. I have mentioned that this blog goes all over the place. I realize it, and I even see it as a problem. I haven’t been quite sure what to do about it, but it’s pretty clear I have to do something. Over the next couple of weeks, I am moving all of my social justice related posts over to a new blog. That blog is created specifically for that purpose, and is designed to provide me much greater anonymity than I have on… Read More »Changes Coming

500 Likes.

A few days ago, WordPress notified me that I have more than 500 likes on this blog. Of course, I am appreciative that people like this blog enough to like posts, follow, and even occasionally comment. I am not a good blogger. I am all over the place in topic, basically just writing whatever I feel like at any given time. I’m unfiltered – I probably share too much, and I suck at formatting it into a cohesive package. The time I tried, with the 5 Reasons J-Pop sucks post,… Read More »500 Likes.

Metablogging

There are times when I hate writing this blog. No, I like to write, that’s not the problem. In fact, I have probably a half dozen drafts sitting in the “draft” section that may never see the light of day. Some are pretty deep, some are pretty personal, some just aren’t the kind of quality I want. I write them, then I look at them, I click the “save draft” button, and you’ll probably never see them. The honest truth is, I want to share them. I really do. I… Read More »Metablogging

Why I Deliberately Do Not Correct Typos (Most of the Time)

If you go back to my previous posts, you will find typos. Some of them are pretty prominent. I am aware of them, and I don’t correct them, unless they substantively change the meaning of a sentence. See, I write this blog, usually, on a chromebook. Some of the keys are not very responsive (particularly the ‘l’, it seems) and sometimes I miss or add letters. I correct them when I spot them, but sometimes I don’t, and I click the little “publish” button with the odd mistake coming through.… Read More »Why I Deliberately Do Not Correct Typos (Most of the Time)

Why I Suck at Blogging

A week or so ago, I decided to post on a Japanese forum an observation I made about learning Japanese. Some people agreed, some people didn’t. I expressed the opinion that I was posting in order to share an observation that I made, but at the end of the day, I wasn’t really interested in whether or not people agreed with me. I said that I would trust my sensei over a bunch of random people on the Internet. Someone responded, “then what’s the point of discussing?” I said that… Read More »Why I Suck at Blogging

Why I Blog.

I have been blogging in one form or another for about twenty or twenty-five years now.  I was blogging back when the only way you could blog was mark up the HTML yourself and put it on a static page, then manually link to it.  Then WordPress came out and made it easier, and there are a few other blogging platforms that are probably better in one way or other. I blog because I am curious and I like to share my curiosity.  I am, if not educated, at least… Read More »Why I Blog.

My Gaijin Life

I have launched my new project.  Well, “launched” is a pretty hefty word.  Perhaps it would be better said, I have thrown my new project at the world, while holding out a faint hope that the world doesn’t throw it right back. It can be found at https://mygaijinlife.com. In the beginning, I fully expect I will be making liberal use of Google Translate and jisho.org.  I will not be using Google Translate to translate English phrases to Japanese, as that would be cheating and contrary to the purpose of the… Read More »My Gaijin Life

100 posts

I started this blog on a whim, not really knowing what I would even do with it.  Honest truth is, that hasn’t changed.  I still have no idea.  I just write about what I feel like.  Sometimes it’s good.  Sometimes it’s crap.  Sometimes it’s crappily good. But here are some interesting insights. My most popular post is 5 Reasons J-Pop sucks.  Interestingly, that was an experimental post.  Everything in that post was designed to be popular.  I put in a “5 reasons” tagline, I had an emotional conclusion that would draw… Read More »100 posts

Endings and Beginnings

I have mixed feelings about blogging, to be honest.  I’ve been doing it since before blogging was a thing – a while ago, I found a blog that I’d written nearly 20 years ago out of pure HTML – wordpress didn’t exist back then, and all I had available was a web server.  I’m glad that blog’s gone – but the point is I’ve been doing it a long time. And I don’t feel like I’m very good at it. Blogs have come and blogs have gone in my life,… Read More »Endings and Beginnings