Opening remarks
Welcome to my real blog. Aleksandra the Great’s Exploits is made possible by Mike, Christina, and readers like you. Seriously, though, none of this would exist if Mike hadn’t set it up. The amusing title and tagline are his doing, as well. They’ll probably stay that way for a while. Christina very kindly let me use her website as my subdomain. I feel much more like a real person, now. Thanks a lot, guys!
Three things: 1. I will have photos from college on flickr (link coming soon, when I upload the pictures). It seemed a really good idea to have the photos in a blog setting, but Christina has already done that, and I don’t want to copy her too much. 2. It appears I already am copying her title style by not capitalizing every important word, but that goes back to Spanish and the good old days of The Acorn. 3. Right now, and it might stay this way, the category for my non-blog links is Sites, like on Mike’s blog. I’m not trying to copy him, either, although I’m sure it was subconsciously ingrained in my head that Sites serves as a good name for such links. If either of you (or anyone else who feels I’m cramping his or her style) is upset about how things are so far, let me know and I’ll consider changing it.
Eventually, Christina might come all 103 blocks down to my dorm to help me change the way this page looks. Until then, I’ll probably have the default settings. See you next time!
September 14th, 2005 at 1:21am
Welcome aboard
I really should update my own links…
September 14th, 2005 at 1:46am
Thank you. If it’s any consolation, you’re probably the first person who didn’t know that I have a real blog now to come across it, or at least you’re the first to comment. Congratulations!
September 14th, 2005 at 7:38am
wootness! That’s cause I was procrastinating… er…. hard at work on my paper due in 9 hours…
September 14th, 2005 at 9:07am
Yay, congratulations. I don’t know what sort of thing is appropriate for a blog warming…not a plant, I guess.
Oh, and whatever you do, it’s unlikely that I’ll get offended and think you’re copying.
September 14th, 2005 at 10:58am
Well, Steve, it would be far too unnatural to complete an assignment more than maybe five hours before it’s due.
That’s good, Stina, because I’ve been working on my Christina costume lately. And we aren’t allowed to have plants….
September 14th, 2005 at 12:20pm
Hi!
“Blog warming” is funny. Is the blog cold?
I’m glad to see your new blog is up.
September 14th, 2005 at 12:22pm
Actually, I haven’t bothered to ask it yet. How inconsiderate of me! And I’m glad to see you noticed.
September 14th, 2005 at 4:42pm
Wow! This blog is even more popular than mine, and it just opened!
Well, seriously, I think you thanked me about 3-4 times already. It’s really nothing: Setting up a wordpress blog takes me about 15 minutes. It’d be even faster if I had broadband :).
But congratulations for being a real person now!
Uh, well, you can change the title and the tagline if you want. Really! I needed to put something there during installation of the blog, so I took your Xanga tagline and modified it for the title. Then I spent about a total of 1.3 minutes thinking of a tagline and the best I could come up with was the above. I intended it was a temporary solution so if you can change it.
And also, I don’t consider having a Sites category for links copying at all! That’s like calling a group of pictures an album instead of photos. The sites category seems like a common thing to do. In addition, I don’t care if you copy off of me either. Finally, I don’t even have a defined style. I just do whatever looks good in the easiest way. That’s usually how I come up with my designs :).
I look forward to reading your blog.
September 14th, 2005 at 7:21pm
I’m sure the popularity is just people being nice and welcoming me. And about half of these comments are mine, anyway. Besides, it wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for you, right? But I guess I can stop thanking you now since it just forces you to say how it wasn’t a big deal.
It might not have taken you much time to name the blog, but I would have had to sit and contemplate various titles and would ultimately have chosen a mediocre one. So, thanks for that, and for not minding about the Sites thing.
I hope you enjoy it.
September 14th, 2005 at 8:01pm
Yo, it wasn’t a big deal. I mean, setting up a wordpress blog takes me 8 minutes! If I had fast internet, it’d take me even less time! (Each time I tell it, I have to decrease the minutes so it becomes a tall tale.)
September 14th, 2005 at 8:15pm
Oh, that’s understandable. Pretty soon, people will be telling stories of Mike H., who can set up a wordpress blog in 15 seconds.
September 20th, 2005 at 5:59am
I heard that there’s this guy named Mike H. can set up a Wordpress blog in seven seconds!
September 20th, 2005 at 6:24am
Wow, that’s even faster than the Mike H. I know! (Were you really up at 6am commenting on blogs?)