First Post

Before this blog, I used to blog at Xanga.com. I have had that account ever since I was in high school, so it's been at least 5 years since I've had it. But unfortunately, do to lack of innovation and computer engineering power they have, their ship seems to be sinking. I know Xanga was slowly going down, but didn't want to abandon it and hop onto other bandwagons simply for their popularity.

One day, however, I noticed that my subscriptions were missing the pictures, and were instead replaced by words "". That was weird, I thought, because I don't remember changing the setting to not display images. Xanga gave options to not display for those with slow downloading speed (e.g. 56Kbps, or mobile phones), but I never turned on that option. Turns out others were experiencing the same thing. One possible explanation for it that I came up with is that they are trying to cut costs by saving on bandwidth. That pretty much said it all. After that incident, I checked Alexa.com to see the traffic to Xanga, and it sure has fallen a lot in the past few years. At this rate, it seemed like Xanga was going to go out of business.

So I had find a new home for my writings. Out of slew of choices, I decided to go with bloggers, because since I already have a Google account, I thought I'd just connect it to it (Blogger is owned by Google). Because of Google's burgeoning empire, it seemed unlikely that they'll go under any time soon.

So here I am, ready to blog, and this is my first post.