happylife

The 2nd anniversary

I found that it was the 2nd anniversary of this blog three days ago. Keeping this blog is already my daily routine just like brushing teeth. I know I would feel bad if I missed this blog one day for some reason or other, therefore I can't stop writing it everyday. "Once started moving, it would continue moving forever." This is the law of inertia, and I think a kind of mental inertia applies to my blog. I know well that It's a great exercise for us ESL people to keep a blog in English, but I'm not satisfied with it now; I hope to be able to use English as natural and fluent as possible. I'm thinking about dealing with more complex themes, in longer articles. I wish this blog would be interesting and attractive for native English readers.

Getting harder

I feel it's getting harder to keep this blog because I found some of my friends were checking it everyday. I can't say bad things any more in this blog. It used to be one of the great advantages of keeping blogs to say bad things about something and feel refreshed. It might now interfere my real life. I can only abuse huge things just like weather, Canadian government, Microsoft and so on. However, the weather in Vancouver has been fine these days, I've already gotten the extended visa, and Microsoft doesn't look so powerful as it used to be ... that is to say, I have nothing to blame. I'm probably happy.

Movable Type

Movable Type is the most popular software tool for making blog sites and it is also getting popular as the tool for managing ordinary business sites. Sure it is a little bit difficult to start an usual web site not a blog site using Movable Type, but once you make up the framework of the site, it is getting super easy to manage the whole website. If you wanted to change particular key words or design all over your site, you can change them with one touch operation. For these three days, I was struggling with Movable Type so that I can change my business site into Movable Type based web site. Now I've finished the work, and I can update my site contents very easily. I feel happy owing to Movable Type.

Digital diary

Apart from this English blog, I have been keeping a Japanese diary for more than ten years. A few days ago, I converted all my diary data into MovableType, one of the most popular blog system. As my old diary was in the format of digital text files, it was not difficult to convert it. And now I can search whole of my ten-year-diary with any keywords I like. It is very interesting. For example, by choosing one of my friends' name I can read the diary of the day when I first met him or her. I can also research what I did today of last year or ten years ago. Although each of my diary is plain, light and boring, the ten-year accumulation of them is very interesting and effective at least for me.