So, Xanga is dying, like Friendster before it, and hopefully like the evil spawn of MySpace after. Facebook is the new social networking site of choice, for high school and college teens at least.

By the time you read this post, it will already be imported as a note on Facebook. Furthermore, it is pretty darn likely that you are reading this on Facebook, rather than on the real site. It’s a convenience eliminating the primary use.

Interestingly, I’ve run into this sort of “problem” before; my brother pointed out that launching items from my Dockyard program defeats its original…

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For anyone who’s played Zelda: A Link to the Past…

You are in the Dark World! (lyrics)

I finished reading Les Misérables. All fourteen-hundred-something pages of it.

I’ll post something real, um, soon.

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I think I’m gonna write a story
Something fantasy
It will not bore like Richard Cory
or the Odyssey

I was going to look at real novels
for ideas to use, then
I got a bit distracted
reading Eragon again

But I finally started writing
You can look at what I’ve got
I finally got a title
and I’ve almost picked a font

Off we go, then, writing
I’m slightly stuck today
I’ll add an ancient curse or something
In prologue, it’s OK

The main character will be a girl
or a woman from the blue
Smart and reckless, clever…

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