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Why this Blog was (Mostly) a Mistake

Posted on November 2, 2021 by bakatsundoku

So, before I come to a conclusion on this blog and answer the question in the title, I need to put forth some background. I announced earlier a project I’ve been doing called “Lovely Lily Lives”, or just Lily for short.  I’ve been writing her for around four months now,

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Project(s) News

Posted on September 9, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Updates on this site and other associated projects: So after having moved to self-hosting for a couple of days, there are some upsides and downsides.  I don’t believe new posts will appear in the reader anymore, and subscriptions appear to follow to the old site.  This is going to mess

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Yatta! New site!

Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

And, ladies and gentlemen, the move is completed!  Well, mostly. I say mostly because I still need to put it behind a CDN, but I want to let this settle first before I do so. This sports a new look and feel!  A new commenting and discussion system!  Ratings!  And

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Transparency: How is This Blog Doing?

Posted on September 4, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’m on a bit of a posting tear today. I thought to myself, “Self, why don’t you share some of the pertinent statistics about this blog, so that people can now how great or pathetic it is?” I thought, “Self, that’s a great idea”. Even though it probably isn’t. So

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Administrivia: I am a Friggin’ Moron

Posted on September 4, 2021 by bakatsundoku

So I have had this blog up for pert near four years by now. It’s at least as old as 2018. And in this entire time, the contact form has been misconfigured. Oh, I configured it. I did that. But I forgot to hit the “update” button. So… yeah. It

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Restarting Japanese – and More

Posted on August 9, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I really liked the format of my last post. The use of separators gave it a flow that I haven’t yet been able to achieve in any other way, and I intend on continuing to do that. The other day, the smoke alarms in an apartment in my building started

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This Site is Moving

Posted on July 31, 2021 by bakatsundoku

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

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Changes Coming

Posted on July 26, 2021 by bakatsundoku

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

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Reflections

Posted on December 24, 2019 by bakatsundoku

It is that time of year again – nay, that time of the decade.  The time where we hit an arbitrary marker that causes us to look back on a particular, arbitrary period of time, and think about how it measures up against a series of arbitrary criteria that matter

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Why I Blog.

Posted on November 29, 2019 by bakatsundoku

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

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