And now for something completely different.

• Dasaku.net lives. Formerly Ikimashou.net, Randall’s relaunched the main site to be a lot more functional than it was before — if you’re one of those people like me who can’t afford hosting, a domain name, or both yet want your shiny anime blog, this is the place to go to. Aside from listing dasaku.net’s members and how to contact him, there’s a snazzy application form over at the Apply page that you should look at if you’re interested in a blog that ends in dasaku.net or oniichannoecchi.com, and if you’re wondering about the “rubbish” and “worthless” taglines? Don’t be too bothered — it’s just a play on words, “dasaku” being the pun in mention.

Here are some spoilers: Your blog dies in Wordpress 2.3. Or at the very least goes into sudden cardiac arrest, requiring a mouth-to-mouth and a frantic trip to the ER for that quadruple-bypass you’ve been putting off. You might even need to shut down for a couple of days while it lies comatose, like I unwittingly had the foresight to do while upgrading.

Let me tell you, however, that the upgrade, amidst all that blood, sweat, tears, and missing out on reading (and writing) Autumn posts was worth it. I have seen the future of anime blogging, and it is Tags. Spelled with a capital letter. Tags. With bold. Tags. You get the idea. While this might seem like a small matter to some of you who have been using categories for your anime series for ages, the benefits of using Tags were immediately obvious to me.

what goes through my mind everytime I see Gensokyoans(sp) using computers isn’t “oh, they’re using them”, but “why do they suck so much”, since their scope of powers are so hax, you’d think they’d be able to get better rigs

Just a bit of link blogging before I return to the normal schedule (wait, what schedule?). I’d like to think that four whole days away from the PC at camp did my hands good, but a prolonged bout of instant messaging proved otherwise. I can live with the pain, though, seeing how it serves as a good reminder to take frequent breaks and all. Workrave’s helped a lot, too.

It’s always a joy to discover new anime blogs worth your time and effort to read. To my chagrin, ever since I started proactively looking for blogs with both quantity and quality, I’m quite embarrassed to note that my daily reading efforts have been stunted somewhat. Gone are the days of being able to skim through the list of daily entries effortlessly before breakfast, and I have these blogs to blame for adding to my “burden”, although I’m not in the least morose about it.

the concept of relevant/related pictures in my posts are practically unheard of, I know, but in the picture Haruhi’s saying “oh! this is a unique site…”

So I’ve noticed that the anime blogosphere is as incestuous as a chapter in COMIC LO. Everyone links to the same old same old, and I’m guessing you guys haven’t updated your blogrolls in ages, or can’t be arsed to get out there and look for new things to read. Which is fine and dandy with me, since I’m about to showcase a few blogs that, shockingly enough, are actually fit for the good old feedreader.

Links to follow. If you’ve got any blogs of special note that you feel I should be reading, too, don’t hesitate to link to them in the comments. I’d like to think my taste is pretty diverse, about 50 blogs in the anime folder and counting. Check my Links page above and this post before you get about to linking anything, though, and try not to overdo the linking too much, since Akismet is funny about stuff like that.