Moving Day

Without fanfare, I announce that future entries will be located at a new site. I've already redirected FeedBurner, so feed readers should experience a smooth transition.

Thanks for reading, and I'll see you on the other side.

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Summary Burner switched off!

By popular demand!

In another of those, never-spot-the-obvious-until-it's-brought-up moments, it finally occurred to me that the Antenna automatically summarized entries anyway. So now there is choice! Summarized feeds via the Antenna, or full entries via FeedBurner or Blogger. Having Blogger redirect to FeedBurner for stats is a nice touch.

While not the impetus for switching off the Summary Burner, I also get the vast majority of site updates via Google Reader, using it more as an update notifier with varying amounts of latency up to a few hours. If the headline is intriguing, I'll read the summary, and if the content is promising, I'll head to the site.

I'm subscribed to few actual blogs, anime related or otherwise, and prefer to go through aggregators, which all summarize entries. So I sort of grew into feeds with the summary mindset, and haven't quite turned Google Reader into my primary reading pane.

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Well then

Installing HaloScan amounted to nothing less than a hostile takeover of the Blogger feedback system. In addition to losing a grand total of 2 comments, I toasted my backlinks. I don't suppose it's worth my while to go around replicating backlinks using TrackBack pings, but I did a few of the ones I could remember.

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Bizarro

I realized that I had two labels for essentially the same thing: knm and kannazuki no miko. Merging them into a single label causes all of the affected pages to be issued new publishing dates, it seems, which wreaks havoc with the site feed. So for those who visit this site through the feed, and are seeing all of these old pages, my sincerest apologies. I'll try not to make such radical changes in the future.

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Archiving complete

All old posts have been mirrored and touched up. I also added some shorter posts on more current events.

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Expandable posts

Just adding something to make the main page more appealing, once new content goes up.

These large-ish expository posts are fine without expansion for the time being only because I don't anticipate them being up on the main page for very long.

The expansion is not, in the strictest sense, but is actually a convenient page re-direct.

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Traveling on Faraway Trains (Passing By)

If you understood the second reference, I guess we have something more in common other than an interest in anime and Japanese music.

Anyway, I'm leaving for a graduation trip tomorrow. I'm concerned about falling deeply behind in terms of releases and the postings of other sites, but I guess there's always that post-trip down time to catch up. I don't think anyone knows for sure when we're coming home, but it has to be no longer than three weeks, and probably closer to two and a half. Hopefully this break doesn't put a dent in my plans to get listed on AnimeNano.

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About

After a while, I realized that I was making more anime and j-pop themed posts, deviating from the original site's intended purpose. Certainly the content is similar in terms of style, but it seemed a good idea to compartmentalize. As such, I am going to slowly move those posts to this site, and polish them along the way. On newer posts, or some older ones that I feel strongly about, I may also add some frame captures, something that I've never done before.

Right off the bat I've observed the possibility of some temporal disconnect. I'll revise as necessary, but it will be refreshing to add a more current perspective in correlation to the more recent stamps.

I only came across the term wabi-sabi recently while reading a translation of one of Utada Hikaru's entries. I am, for the time being, enamoured by the discovery of the term, which encapsulates much that I identify with.

I initially tried to register wabi-sabi in Blogger, which was taken. Instead, I chose a related word from wabi-sabi, transcience, and used its Latin root. It has a soft ring, as Latin words are wont to have. I hope it pervades most of my entries, which implies I have my work cut out for me.

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