y name is Onigiriman, and I am a blog addict. Jiminy Crickets, I just love to start new blogs. I don't mean to cheat or be unfaithful to Xanga, but when I find out about a new place that seems cool, I go for it.
My first blog was, of course, Xanga, about a year and a half ago. As I slowly grasped the idea of what a blog is--a chronological record of my thoughts and feelings on the web--I started venturing here and there to see what blogs looked like elsewhere, and learned a terrible word: archiving. Other blog sites allow a kind of archiving system, but most are chronological. But some bloggers who maintain their own site independently archived in different ways, many by category. So after a few months I thought it would be cool to figure out how to maintain my thought and feelings by topic. Xanga doesn't have a functoin for that, but I have another site through my cable company where I can create a homepage and store pics, and so I decided to use that as my archives, the JAJournal. Unfortunately, it is not a blog site, and maintaining it is a bitch since I have to create each page using HTML--I don't like using Dreamweaver or any other web site maker. I feel like I lose control, and it usually puts in a lot of extra garbage encoding anyway, so I avoid it. I am old school, I guess. But a typical page looks like this to me:
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<H1>Hot Chile Peppers</H1>
<p class=first>Original date, October 22, 2003</p>
<P>I caught a glimpse of "Good Eats" on the Food Channel tonight. Alton Brown was talking about chile peppers, capsicum and Scovilles units. He talked about how capsaicin--the oil that makes chile peppers hot--can lock into your taste buds and stay there for long periods of time. He also mentioned, as he was cutting and jalepenos for a salsa, you should also where plastic gloves when you prepare chiles beause the capsaicin can stick to your hands and stay there even after repeated washings with soap and water--remember, its an oil. I wish I had seen this program before I made my salsa this summer.</P>
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Well it's a little neater than this, but you get the idea. These are the tags I put in to develop and design my page. But it is a hassle. It is so much easier to just type into a textbox like Xanga's. Then Simply_Marie introduced me to Diaryland. I tried it out, but I needed to do the HTML schtick to make it look the way I wanted it to, so I decided to go back to my original site. Recently, a loyal reader has left Xanga and gone LiveJournal and I was lured into its world as well. It is a very intimate place where bloggers don't feel too exposed. So I occasionally post a Xanga post that I feel is more personal, and have occasionally written a post that is exclusively LJ.
Well, I figure with a public Xanga, a private LJ, and an archive at the JAJournal, I wouldn't need another blog, right?
*gulp*
I think I'm gonna kill jerjonji! She has informed me of a new site--well, its new to me, anyway--called 
Spaces, and guess what? I'm testing another site to blog. Aargh! Anyway, I can't be writing all the time, and I'm stil not sure what I'm gonna do there, but for the time being, I think I will use it as my time machine. I am posting smae date entries from one year ago. In a way, its a place for reruns. So if you're interested in reading what I was thinking a year ago, visit me at msn Spaces. There's a link above, as well...
Lordy, what am I gonna do?
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