To all my subscribers, fans and both the occasional and regular readers and the friends who never took in the fact that I had this site or column till right this very minute:
- I am still here so if you haven't heard from me in awhile via Xanga, don't worry.
- Perth Diary is still going strong - however I won't be putting up the articles on my Xanga site any longer. If you do like it you can still read it at the Sunday Leader and if you want to be notified when they go up, keep reading.
- I have started a business and as a result have moved all my writing endeavours to one website at www.marisa.com.au . You can find everything here, except for backdated columns of Perth Diary which for the moment are still available on the Xanga site. I am not sure if they will get moved over or not considering the fact that I have been doing this for three years now.
- Eventually I will shut the Xanga site down or lock it or whatever. I prefer having my own website.
- For those who still want to keep up with the column or with me with or without Xanga, just mosey along to www.marisa.com.au where you will find a button in the top right hand corner to press in order to subscribe via an RSS feed. If this doesn't work out, let me know and I will set up a mailing list or something.
- Those of you who read my stuff via facebook - if you want to add me, just search for my whole name - the feed that powers my notes in facebook will probably switch from being the Xanga one to being the marisa.com.au one in about a month's time. You probably won't even notice that it has switched over.
- Best thing about my website? You can read all of the other writing stuff I do and get some tips and even hire me to write or edit for you.
- But to Xanga, thank you because despite all the issues with servers, privacy, spam and site configuration, I have been on Xanga since 1998. All those little fiddly bits of HTML, JAVA and CSS, I practiced it all on my Xanga site. That's just over ten years - heck, you know I bet I am one of the few who has stuck around that long - you should give me a lifetime membership. When I started out on Xanga, it was free, and extremely easy. My needs have finally outgrown the site's capabilities though. I can't put a lot of stuff on here, I can't get it to look how I want it to and having a Xanga address on a business card just looks weird. But I am appreciative of those four mad people in NYC running around to set Xanga up and keep it going so thank you. I may lock it but I won't delete the site - it works for me as an archive of most of my thoughts since 1998. And I might need to go digging for gold amongst all those entries.
- And thank you to all the people I met via Xanga whether you are still on here or not. I had fun doing random things, discussing philosophy and getting pulled into rants and photography contests and sending christmas cards. I won't be active via Xanga but I am more than happy to continue talking to you via my site and yours so if you want to, please check out www.marisa.com.au and drop me a note.
Cheers, Marisa.
Comments (2)
This entry gives me a sense of 'moving on', and you sound very happy about it, so I'm glad. I will see you on your new site = )
Thank God you are STILL here. Some time ago I was
and then 
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Good luck.