Yup, it is time. I’ve been dwelling on this since the start of the semester since I knew I was gonna do it before exams. You’d think with all the time I’d come up with something more eloquent than this, eh? Basically, I’m going to move all my blogging over to OpenAlpha and turn this domain into a static site. I’m getting marks for the re-design for one of my courses, so, yay for that. Now, because it’s OA and all, the posts will focus way more on gaming and tech (and probably some anime since I’ve been watching more at the gym lately) and less on the boring school stuff that I can’t seem to get motivated to write about anyway. Nice how that works out.
I’ll likely migrate over some of the posts from here so people don’t have to rely on the wayback machine if they remember something here that they’d like to read again. This will happen in bits and pieces though since schoolwork is gonna ramp up all crazy like with the final winter exams fast approaching. With only one site to focus on, in theory, I’ll be able to put out some better content and have more fun in the process. The one thing that I know I’ll get flamed to a crisp about (jenn@openalpha.tv if you want to join the inevitable mob) is that the new OA site proper won’t have comments on the main entries. I know, I know. I just talked about working on increasing the interaction viewers have with the show and I still plan on doing that, but it won’t be through the typical blog comments. This will stop me from obsessively cleaning out spam during class as well as turning into thread cop… which I detest doing, by the way. I’d rather let people say whatever they want to say even if it is stupid or insane. However, letting that nonsense continue was really upsetting my family and so I chose to intervene and I told them I’d keep the comments closed and explore other avenues of communication. It sucks, I know. I’ll always have e-mail so I’m not shutting myself up in some tower or nunnery ;)
The OA that exists tonight will change over the next week as I tweak it around my assignments and there’s even a handy-dandy long weekend coming up for more gaming and coding and *gasp* filming. I still haven’t gotten my studio lights so I could still be more orange than is normal but I can’t wait to shoot again! Oh, so save whatever you want from here cause it’ll go *poof* before the weekend. Good times, eh?
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