In Ashes. Of Ashes.

I received an email today. It was sort of confusing at first, since it has no subject title, no vocative (no greeting line), and the sender directly began by telling me I was wrong about... Some Japanese customs common in Peru.

I realized this person was talking about an entry I wrote in my blog about half a year ago. While it's quite useful and necessary to have someone correct you, it's also quite annoying to suddenly receive such a message. Well, I guess I'd appreciate this message a bit more if the sender could have used proper grammar, orthography and some manners.

...And he said I'd know more about traditions of Okinawa if I'd have read a book titled Memories, though he didn't mention anything else about it (author, complete title, where to find it... So it was like I should have known something written in a book I otherwise don't know about, I guess).

Finally, I don't know what to make of his closing phrase, in that it was interesting to know that someone was GOSSIPING about Japanese traditions in a webpage. Well, he wrote GOSSIPING in capital letters, so I've got no clue he meant it sarcastically or just as a joke.

...At least I've set my mind on something. Had the sender used capital letter other than in the word GOSSIPING, I'd have liked it better.

The most annoying thing I've found about LJcom and all other clone sites of it... The friends' only option(?). First of all, if you're going to keep a diary online, it's there for people to read, right? So there's no much point in locking it... Unless you're feeling elitist or whatever.

Well, you can always keep a very personal journal and, in that case, it's natural that you won't want just anybody to read your entries. Though, were you a Walking Mental Trauma (read: you've got lots of issues), shouldn't you be looking for, let's say, professional help instead of posting to your blog?

And now, just adding The Thing That Annoys Me More Than A Friends' Only Locked Journal: people who promotes themselves or their works (icons, fanfiction, graphics of some sort), which can be found in their friends' only journals, naturally.

At the very least, try to effectively promote yourself among commoners by letting them in your humble domains. And please, don't spam my flist with the very same entry, five times, in five different communities. Everyone got the idea with your first entry, that's all.

My sister convinced me to sign up for a Deviantart account, though I can't even draw a straight line. But I could upload some of the graphics I made for my (other) blog, she said. Since I'd been looking forward to have an account (for the "add to favorites" option), I eventually signed up at the site... After surfing it for half an hour and reading its hiding FAQ. I mean, it doesn't matter how many times you seem to read the FAQ, there will always be other questions that pop up of nowhere from time to time, rules and regulations you, naturally, didn't know about. So here is the one thing the site gives each time I try to login: a headache. As for the other thing s that cause the headache, I'd like to mention:

1. I was just wondering why my browser doesn't save my username and password. I remember my sister using her account in my computer; for some reason, hers actually kept on registered until you hit the "log out" button. And for that reason, why isn't there a "keep me logged" option?

2. I like green, really I do, but taking into consideration that lots of people might not like it, and that other lot of people who pay for an account at the site (I bought my sister and a friend a paid account, in fact), the lot of money the site should be receiving and the such... Why can't the developer staff just add some skins or at least another theme to the site?

3. The site hates people who, like me, have monitors with a 800x600 pixels resolution. I think I can stand the contents of the site being pushed down in my screen, but it's not funny at all when all letters are sort of pushed together, making them unreadable. Too much pushing in my opinion.

4. According to my brother, the site uses a sort of HTML codification that makes it load slower. Ok, I'm not arguing him this point.

5. They say there are millions of files uploaded into the site. I believe them. I mean, how they even tried to search for a specific piece of art ever? The search engine is the lowest, more disgusting, irritating and stupid thing I've seen in a website in a long time.

Well, not that long a time. I remember a fanfiction archive in Spanish which had a dazzling, blinding design. Because you glanced at it and were automatically rendered blind thanks to the colors. And the font sie set at 17px by default.

6. How you ever tried to find the FAQ in the site? Have you? I've only found it in the forums sections. It's a subsection in a subsection of the site. I mean, how difficult could be it to put a small text-link in the main page?

7. Speaking of the main page, why isn't there a site map at the index? Or for that reason, why isn't there a site map anywhere in the website?

It's like a Law of Murphy, you'll see. The bigger the site, the fewer your chances for it to feature a site map.

Bleh... I think that makes it... I think.

So, I finally have a blog at JF.net. Because, you know, each time I felt bored and idle in the net and wasn't playing RO, I surfed this site to find out what was new at Fandom Wank. And I think I'm not that wrong if I state that about the 85% of all the people lurking in this site is here because of the comms, right? I joined the fun... Hmm, this morning.

I got money in my debit card and bought an account, because it seems to be the one way to create a journal as for lately in this site. Some months ago I was told JF.net was up for free accounts but didn't really care about blogs, JF.net or wankdoms back then, so I missed the chance. However, now you see what you can do with some spare money in your account.

...And I was about to kick the computer the instant I saw I was reccomended to pay via Paypal because of my good/bad karma whatever. You'll also see, I'd get a Paypal account so every living creature in the net could stop pestering me about paying through PAYPAL, only if this service could deign itself to operate in my country.

Anyway, I just put up a layout. Before trying JF.net I was at GJ.com so I was sort of familiar with the "modify journal" option; but only with this one, since I don't know how in hell to use the "create style" option.

And I have 500 userpics to upload. It doesn't really sound bad, problem is, I'm not that certain if all iconmakers at LJcom would approved of their creations being used outside that page. But my disclaimer is up, so if anything think the answer to my unasked (if that a word?) question is NO, let me know and I'll take everything that's not mine off. Hmm, that'd be to say, everything. Nothing in this blog is mine, except for the ranting.