Why does the xTools window have a *Publish to:________* dropdown menu window when the only weblog you can ever publish to is the one your signed in as?

Why does the *Edit Time Stamp* tool in Premium say, as it has forever, "This feature is coming soon!" ?

Why is there a rectangular box that says "weblogs" in it at the top of every blog whenever you go to prop/comment?

Why did Jewel finally come to life after all these years?

There's no doubt that the structural success behind weblogging is in its interlocking links.  Nothing can beat someone visiting your blog and leaving a comment with a hyperlink back to their page.  Or having mutual linkage served by a SIR list.

Yet occasionally while in Xanga and blogging, I've found myself wanting to access a certain function or two and not having the relevant links immediately available.  Such usually occurs when I'm on my private page and I want to, say, see the Newly Updated list or when I'm visiting another's weblog and suddenly want to view my SIR, or my data, or post a new log myself.  In such cases, I usually find myself scurrying back through numerous links--oftentimes 2 or 3--and waiting for them to load--to get to where I want to go.

In such cases, I have found that it would be much more convenient simply to type in the relevant Xanga URLs, if I could ever remember them!

Well, I solved my problem.  By creating redirects through www.DynDNS.org, I can now remember the shortcut URLs and type them in much more quickly than I could navigate back through the relevant multiple links.

How does this work?  Just try it.  Suppose you are logged in but on the main Xanga page and want to see your data.  Normally, you'd have to go to your private page and hit the link for *Site Data* or remember that the URL for this page is: http://www.xanga.com/private/feedback.asp  But by a shortcut redirect you can now type : mydata.webhop.net in your browser's URL entry box and hit enter.  Your data on demand!

So here are the shortcuts I've devised--they should work for you too (and are easier to remember than the actual Xanga URLs):

mydata.webhop.net  Your site's data page.

sir.webhop.net  Your SIR listed sorted by the latest entries.

featured.webhop.net  The Featured Content list.

updated.webhop.net  The Newly Updated list.

newlog.webhop.net  The xTools URL for Premium

xlog.webhop.net  The xTools URL for non-Premium

comments.webhop.net  Your comments left on others' posts.

lookfeel.webhop.net  Your *Look and Feel* --the back door if your site gets hosed.

nfp.webhop.net  My Xanga home page, of course!

Obviously, these are not useful when the desired link is immediately accessible, only when the relevant page is more than one link hop away.

I figure, the more time I save navigating, the more I'll have for blogging--and a less frustrating experience it will be.

I’m sitting in an urgent care center wondering.

There are certainties in life that aren’t possible otherwise.

It seems that life is everywhere and forever a battle. 

Perhaps winning is just a matter of finding a better way to lose.

Like Bowie said, we are the Diamond Dogs.

Hear my hardened-crystal howl.

                   *Om*