Aloha from Asura

I have decided to give blogging another whirl, but before I start, I would like to state that my second blog is intended to be much lighter than the first. In the event that I am unable to handle real life matters, I might have to stop blogging entirely, but I do not expect that will happen -- I would miss Snippy and Lia too much. Since I am creating a second blog that is similar to my first, I have decided to carry the original layout over, but everything else will be new.

So what is new with Khaki lately? First of all, I have changed my character name to Exemplar, and I have moved to Asura after Ariane and her linkshell gave me the mean, old endgame attitude. As a newcomer to the LS, I just could not handle it, and after a tough decision, I have decided to migrate to Asura and join Decu (a BST that shares ideologies similar to my own) on his home server.

Unfortunately, I have not met Decu in over a month, but I can comment on the differences that I have noticed between servers. For one, Asura seems to boast a large NA population, and there is always a ton of shouts at any time -- the complete opposite of my former server. In addition, the Asuran player base is predominantly English-speaking, a much better situation than the NA/JP divide that I was used to. On the downside, I have not made many friends yet, and there are a lot more craftsmen on Asura than on Diabolos. Overall, I still find the server transfer to be a good decision, so here begins a new BST adventure!

Layout Changes

There has been a few small changes with my main site recently, and I thought I would point them out in case anyone liked the old layout better.

1. The number of posts displayed per page has been reduced from 5 to 1. This will help dial-up users load my blog faster and create a more judicial use of my site index (this decision has been reversed in 2009).
2. The "Quick Reference" links have been moved to the bottom of the page; I have felt that the right-hand side of my blog was getting cluttered, especially with the new shout box (this decision has been reversed in 2010).
3. My display picture has been changed. 
4. A new link called "Beastmaster Blogs" has been added as a convenient reference to other blogs that I enjoy. If you are wondering why some sites do not have their latest entries below their names, it is because those blog owners have disabled the use of live feeds.

Retroactive Continuity

Checklist
August 2007: Done
September 2007: Done
October 2007: Done
November 2007: Done
December 2007: Done
January 2008: Done
February 2008: Done
March 2008: Done
April 2008: Done
May 2008: Done
June 2008: Done

Retroactive Continuity (retconning) is the act of changing documents well after they have been published, established, etc., and I happen to retcon a lot. In addition to my normal editing, I have decided that I wanted to keep my older posts neat and tidy while fixing grammatical mistakes at the same time. So while it seems like I have not been posting a lot, I have been:

• updating my "BST leveling Guide" links
• fixing incorrect spacings between pictures and text (Blogger tends cause these problems a lot)
• correcting my hyphens usage
• fixing minor/major errors (spelling, nominalization)
• getting rid of old Snippy Cam pictures
• updating my "Glossary & Acronyms" page
• updating older pages with corrections and new information
• renaming posts to be more descriptive

Please bear with me as I update and correct my old posts. I will be posting my progress as I go, but it will take a while to proofread everything. The checklist will be updated as I go, and new posts will come out when I am finished with everything. Thank you for your patience.

Shoutbox

I have decided to try a shoutbox with this blog. If all goes well, I might put another shoutbox for my main site as well, even though I do not get that many visitors in a day. However, if enough people shout (no pun intended) at me for one now, I might put one up immediately.

Welcome

If you have managed to stumble across this blog before June 1st, congratulations! As a reward, let me introduce you to my new blog testing site. For the most part, I have decided I will be using this blog for testing new widgets, keeping track of ideas, and to remind myself of things to do. I probably will not be updating this blog very often, so this blog will not become a second website or required reading to understand my other blog. Now I suppose I should give you another treat for reading this post, so I will respond to a comment regarding the latest banner on my main site!

Imaginary fan: "Your banner is not drawn to scale! Snippy cannot be as tall as yourself or Liabelle!"

Lies! To illustrate my point, I have moved Liabelle a few inches to the right since we were at a rather intimate distance from each other, but as you can tell, Lia and I stand twice as tall as Snippy. In fact, Snippy is standing on a box to be on level with us, so as you can see, my banner is not drawn poorly, it uses studio magic!