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Well I've vanished from my blog account for quite some time now, but here's the reason why. I've been studying on now to become a web developer and designer.

For a long time now, I've been trying to find something I could do that I had interest in and had fun doing, something that I could perhaps do to make money from. When I created a few MyOpera groups, I liked the way how I could customize my website, and I wondered if there was a place where I could futher develop my very own website(s) for free. Well, after aimlessly browsing the web, I stumbled upon a few websites that allows me to create my own websites for free. What they do is they give you some free space on their servers. The website domain is theirs, so the web address would look something like "yourname.theirname.com/", or "theirname.com/yourname/". Most of these services offer upgrades where you can buy your own domain name and get more space for a monthly or yearly fee.

Once I found these websites, I was hooked. I liked the way you can customize your website without learning how to use HTML or CSS (though you can still use those if you want to). I've been using these free website creation tools for a litle while now, but before a go and really develop a good looking website, I first want to learn how to use HTML and CSS. These can be used to further customize a website to your liking. Right now I've managed to create one website so far using the site builder tools, but again, I going to start using HTML and other types of scripts soon.

So now my quest begins to become a web developer, where I can create my own websites, and a web designer, where I can create my own images and templates for my websites. Please wish me good luck!

Friends, almost everyone has some in their My Opera friends list. Don't get me wrong, friends are great, but how many is too many friends?

When I look through other people's friends lists, some of them have just a few friends, like between 1-5, but then there are others that have over 30+ friends! Is that too many? I remember looking at someone else's blog that mentioned this. Are people adding friends to their friends list just so they can look like they have a lot of friends but really dont? I know both users have to agree to become friends first, but after that, is the "friendship" still there? Are people adding friends to their friends list and then be never heard from again?

I had a similar case not too long ago. I added someone as a friend, and they added me as a friend. When I tried to contact this person again, they never responded. If I'm going to have friends, then I would like to keep in touch with them occasionally. Wouldn't you? One common thing I notice is with new users is that they go around looking for a bunch of people and asking everyone to be their friend, but once they're not so new anymore, then they're almost never heard from again. As I said before, don't get wrong, friends are cool, I just think that they should keep in touch with you unless they have a reason not to, that's all. ^_^

So what do you think? Is there such a thing of having too many "friends" in the friends list?