Custom Domain

I bought a custom domain in August last year for the main blog, which is takhsiru.net. However, while creating a new tumblr account today (4th July 2012) did I realize that I could use the characters that come before that for other places with just editing the DNS settings of that same domain.

I have changed the domain for most of my blogs. Entering the older URL still works, but would be redirected to the new URL. The names of each blog affected listed below are in bold.

1. Chasing After Rainbows (existing)
   the1iam.blogspot.com → www.takhsiru.net or takhsiru.net
2. 虹を追いかけて
   xn--n8jos8fqkx000ci6n.blogspot.com or 虹を追いかけて.blogspot.com → jpblog.takhsiru.net
3. Neverending New Beginnings
   takhsiru.blogspot.com → anime.takhsiru.net
   
4. 終わらない新しい始め
   asuna888.blogspot.com → jpanime.takhsiru.net
5. Profile and Blog Updates (here)
   the1iam-updates.blogspot.com → up.takhsiru.net
6. にじとき
   nijitoki.blogspot.com → art.takhsiru.net
7. Injuration
   injuration.blogspot.com → tech.takhsiru.net
8. :;:〒 takaharu じー」
   takhsiru.tumblr.com → rofl.takhsiru.net

 At the time of writing this, I have not discovered other places I have that could do this except for Wordpress. However, Wordpress insists that I must pay $14 (per year?) to be able to do so with my existing domain.

Updating of links to my stories

If you have read the stories I wrote on my main blog, you would have noticed that the links might not go all the way to the latest post.

As these links are done manually, this might take a while to do it, and I might tend to overlook some of them. If you do, please mention or DM me on twitter.

Some of you might be wondering why my other blogs aren't updated recently. Well, I have a lot of things to do, and it's not worth my time and effort into something that doesn't even pay me. Can't even by fruits with it.

If you are feeling generous, please donate to me via PayPal. Send a direct message to me for details.

To follow or not

I've my various reasons for following, not following, or stopped following (replace "following" with "to circles" or "friended" where applicable). As much as I like to follow you back, I don't want my timeline to be filled with junk too. What is listed here mostly applies to twitter.

Reasons for following:

1. You are already being followed by several people I'm already following and possibly receiving mentions from the said person regularly
2. Your tweets are interesting
3. Out of curisosity

Reasons for not following:

1. Tweets are mostly in a language that I don't understand
2. Too much links, including "I favourited a Youtube video" or "MyAnimeList updated".
3. Protected account, so I don't know what you are tweeting about (protected accounts you see in my following list were not protected at the time I followed them)
4. Not interested / Never seen you before
5. Too many retweets
6. Boring tweets
7. Ugly profile and/or display image (if viewing via the PC web version at that time)
8. Has a #teamfollowback hashtag somewhere
9. Number of followers is more than several thousand
10. (For accounts of well-known people) Not from a personal point of view
11. Adopting a wait-and-see approach if not having the same interest or not having anyone I'm following following them too.

Reasons for unfollowing:

1. Tweet too frequently and clogging up my timeline, especially when I'm following a lot of people.
2. Became uninterested. "Protected" accounts are not excluded.
3. Spamming my timeline with rubbish at the time I saw you doing it. This includes replies to those that we both follow.
4. Thanking all followers individually for following and not placing the username first. One right after the other for countless times. (Example)
5. Not on good terms (They usually unfollow me first.)
6. Tweets too infrequently (eg. 5 tweets a month), or the last one was a long time ago
7. Changes to a display image (and maybe display name too) to something I find disturbing

Reasons for blocking:

1. Obvious spammer (and gets reported too)
2. Corporate accounts following me based on what I said recently
3. Accidentally did so

New twitter layout

Twitter has introduced a new layout which seems to makes use of space better. Well, having the timeline to be on the right instead of the left itself could get becoming something to get used to over time. This could affect how I do things.

Why is this the transition more smoothly than during the previous transition in... was it in 2010? I think there was an overall with the code, like being able to view images without opening a new page or what tweet is being replied to. The current new one just needed repositioning of things.

Anime blog: change of layout

I'm about to start changing the layout of the anime blog. It currently has too much pink, and the width of the post is kind of narrow. If posting an image as large as the one seen above, the side would be squished.

I'm aware of it for quite a while, but the Twitter and Facebook buttons at the side doesn't work properly, especially the latter.

Background image is to be removed, but I'm compensating it with images at the header, and ones in the posts.

It's been there for a while but...

It's been there for a while, but did anyone notice the translator badge on my profile? No one commented about it.

Rejected version of "Alternate Dimension (Part 76)"

This was rejected because it doesn't seem right, and I wanted the 6^th Story to be independent from the other stories.

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I'm kind of curious what Isaka's son is like, because his situation feels almost similar to Itsuki when he enters Mizuho for the first time so...

Itsuki: "Hey Saeko. Something interesting happened. A colleague's friend, who is a teacher of a high school not far from Kamisugi High, told me that a male student approached him saying that he lost his student ID, but found a girl's student ID of the same school during an event at Mizuho. What is strange about that ID he found is that, everything except the photo contains exactly the same information as the student who found it, and some mysterious force made the teacher say that the ID is his, despite the photo on it being obviously a girl. The name of the student in question was a second year called Isaka Tsukasa."

...so just as I was thinking about the person in question, Itsuki came in to talk about someone. Wait... That student's family name is also Isaka, and people think the girl in the photo is him... The Isaka woman who worked with me said she found a female uniform in her son's closet that has his own name instead of her daugher's sewn onto it. I have a strong feeing that the student Itsuki was talking about, and the son of the Isaka who worked for me as a supervisor, are of the same person.

Me: "So, exactly what are you planning? Just so you know, that student's mother happens to work for me in a senior position."

Itsuki: "Well..."

It seems that my mention of knowing the mother made him rethink about what he originally wanted to say.

Itsuki: "What about letting him buy whatever he likes with our money? Our combined income keeps coming in a lot quicker than we can spend them, even after including spending on the most expensive things money could buy."

"Where's story 5?"

The rough idea of writing a 6th blog story is starting to come inside my head. When I do publish it, people may ask if I've skipped a number as, if you look at the navigation menu, there's currently only no.1-4 listed, with the fifth entry listed as no.6 and might ask what happened to no.5.


Well, there is a 5th story, but I'm just publishing it for a friend who asked me to put it up on my blog on their behalf. Since then, there has been no new parts written for it and I don't know what that friend is up to. In other words, it got abandoned as soon as it got published, and I'm already busy writing for story 2 and 3.

So what exactly will the sixth story be about? Well, it's based on an idea of the manga I read a few hours ago. Initial plans includes an another person's point of view of Mizuho Girls' Academy, which the most recent parts of the second story is taking place in, but that doesn't really allow me to tell much about what the place.is like from a normal person's point of view. Hopefully with minimal interaction with the main characters of the older stories.

Mentally stressed now

Why why why? What's with the requirements being a complicated process and requiring things that I don't have or hard to get? Also, why do they use difficult words to describe it too? Too bad it's not like games where you can't restart/undo things, or have something to guide me.

Can't I just know and do what I want, get paid a lot, find a spouse, a nice place to live in, and be happy?

Backgound image changes

The background of my main blog in English has changed to an image taken in Ikenohata, Taito-ku in Tokyo, which was the same image previously used on my Twitter profile. This has yet to be applied to the Japanese version.