A Lesson in Blogging

First of all, what is a blog? Well, dear friends, a blog (a contraction of the words Web and Log) is a forum to express one's thoughts, pictures, hobbies or, in my case, adventures. Our dear Wikipedia defines a blog as "a Web site with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video." Which is exactly what I plan on delivering to you.

But how does one use this particular blog? Here are some of the common things that you might be doing while visiting my blog.

• Read it! - This one is fairly simple. All the entries in this blog will be posted in reverse chronological order. That means that the entries at the top of the website will be the newest and the entries at the bottom are the oldest. On the left hand side of the screen, you'll see a section called Blog Archive. You can use this section to click on an entry from any year and any month, if that entry is not displayed on the front page.
  
• Comment on it! - On any post, you can look in the bottom right hand corner of the post and click the "Comment" button. Leave me comments! Tell me what you think of my travels or my pictures or just my blog in general! I'd love to have some feed back. If you have a Blogger account, you can comment using that account or, if you don't, just comment as a guest.
  
• Read the comments! - If you click the "Comment" button, you'll also be able to read comments that other people have left. If you click the "Comment" button on this post, you'll be able to read a comment that I have left. When other people leave comments, you'll be able to read those, as well!

If you plan on commenting, you will want a Google account. They're very simple to start up and Google is a very safe company. They never give out your information. All you need to do to start up an account is go to the Create An Account Website. Just fill out the information and do all the prompts. It will probably have you activate your account through your email. When you're finished, you can use your account name and password to post a comment! Just type your comment in the comment box and fill in your account name and password where prompted. It's pretty easy, really.

You can post anonymously, but make sure you sign the comment so I know who you are!

But if you're having problems, just shoot me an email and I'll try to clear everything up. If you don't know my email... Call my mom. ;)

Until next time, my loves, when I'll probably be posting from Japan!