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So, if 2013 was the Agincourt of weblogging, 2014 was The Battle of Little Bighorn.

That’s Agincourt from the French perspective, as last year’s success turned out to be shorter-lived than I expected.

I’ll have a regular post up on Thursday, but for now I’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Thank you for reading!

I had a project come up over the weekend, when I usually draft my posts, and unfortunately haven’t had a chance to write anything up for the blog. So, rather than rushing and posting something sub-par, I’m taking a short break.

So, with only two weeks left in the year, I thought I’d take a look back and share some thoughts on how Everything is Oll Korrect! fared in 2012, and share some of what I consider the best, or at least most interesting, posts of the last year.

As I’ve mentioned before, when I first began this blog I intended to take an academic approach and post mainly essays and commentaries on works of literature and religion. Even after I started blogging seriously, the only result are a couple lackluster posts on Mishima Yukio, Confucius, and maybe one or two other things that even I can’t remember anymore. The best idea I’ve had for Everything Is Oll Korrect! was changing focus to sharing my impressions on individual works, essentially a reading or viewing journal.

I’ve spent most of this weekend so far either working on my website redesign or with my family. However, I just wanted to take a brief moment to wish everyone a merry Christmas.

This is post number 100 for ‘Everything is Oll Korrect!’, and it’s also been about a year since I registered this domain. I have mixed feelings about the relevance of the landmark - though ‘OK!’ has been around a lot longer than most blogs (since Autumn 2007), it’s been mostly an on-again off-again affair since its beginning as a school project. Only this year have I taken this at all seriously, and only the the past half-year have I begun to find a voice, so to speak.

So, a few days ago Wordpress released Jetpack, which makes some features of wordpress.com available to users of self-hosted WP blogs. I find this a little funny, because I briefly made ‘OK!’ a self-hosted blog but eventually returned here because I found wordpress.com more useful. No major problems, of course, just a few minor things. Now, though, it turns out I may as well have just waited and self-hosted a little longer and I’d feel a little silly moving this blog again. Maybe I’ll go back to self-hosting in the future; we’ll see. ^_^

Yep, back at Wordpress.com. I tried hosting this blog myself, but found that there really aren’t any features to Wordpress that I can’t get on wp.com, so I figured I’d go back to the free hosting option. The main site, itsollkorrect.com, is still there, though, for more permanent stuff.