Lots of people have asked why I started up my own journal site instead of staying on LiveJournal. The answer depends on the person doing the asking. I'll get to that.

First, I'm not leaving the LiveJournal community. I'm very fond of the people I read there and supportive of the open-source, community-based development behind the LiveJournal project. I can't contribute anything in code, so I've paid up my membership and a few others as well. If any of you are LiveJournal free accounts, think about it.

For others, the problem starts at a more basic level of understanding. LiveJournal is what's known as a blog, which is Cute Internet Shorthand for web log. Web logs usually scroll in reverse chronological order and have a section for comments. The point of web logging is to share an interesting link -- to an article, to an interesting site -- with commentary. To document the life of the world.

The point of online journaling is to document the life of a person: for example, me. If I fail to interest or amuse you, I assume you'll go elsewhere. Since you're here, are you not entertained?

The clash is that I've been writing a journal on a blog script. And it turns some people off. This is something you'll either get or forget. Those who get it: link me, baby.

So there we go. My LiveJournal will become part of this website as soon as I can figure out how to embed it in the code. When I get my balance, the journal and blog will stop crossing over. Until then, tuck and roll.