I’ve returned from Japan!  Well, I actually returned almost half a month ago, but I upgraded Wordpress and ran into a few problems with my admin panel.  I haven’t been able to make a post since then, but luckily it seems to be fine now!
I have lots to say and lots of images to share [...]

If success is measured by looking at hit counts, Sparkle Sparkle is…slightly more successful than before!  (It’s so relative!)
Sparkle Sparkle has finally cracked 5000 unique hits in one month, which is a pretty big deal to me as a small-time, not-so-regular shoujo blogger.  I almost reached my goal of 5000 in one month in December, with 4978 hits (ouch! so close!).
Sparkle Sparkle is also 500 days old as of today!  I’m going to try to keep on sparkling.  Thanks for reading my blog!

I mentioned the other day about the anime music [...]

Well, it’s all done! I finished upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress. I was scared because this blog is running quite a few plugins and I’ve been reading about all sorts of horror stories from different bloggers since 2.3 was released. I wrote the PHP script for the Star Ratings page [...]

Well, it’s 5am.  I’ve been up for hours poking around with Sparkle Sparkle’s theme.  I was originally just installing a plugin that would count visits on individual posts, which led to me finding a different plugin that would list the most visited posts of all time.  But then, I had an idea:  I decided to [...]

My sister is a darling!  My birthday was several months ago, but we were seperated by distance and so we didn’t exchange gifts.  I’m a poor student, so she understood that I couldn’t afford to give her one this year.  But, she went ahead and got me a present anyway!  (What a sweetheart!)  She knows [...]

Whoohoo! It has officially been one year since I opened this shoujo manga/anime blog! If only I posted more in it, huh?
I’m still waiting on a stable internet connection at home. This is the eighteenth day of library-only internet access. Today, a splendid hero should arrive in my apartment finally in [...]

Oops.  I was one day late paying for my domain name, so magitek.nu and all its subsites (including Sparkle Sparkle) were down for a short while.  The site’s finally back up; I apologize about the downtime!

I love web site statistics.  I’m always checking up on them to see where my traffic is coming from.  Usually, the search engine referals are somewhat bland and predictable but once in a while something pops up that makes me smile.
My top keyword for this blog is “anime”. Hee, that’s too be expected, I suppose, dealing with this [...]

Oh look!  A pink and Blue Shinshi Doumei Cross design, I’m excited.
Finally, Sparkle Sparkle has a real design now!  Seeing as the content of this anime and manga blog has expanded, and I’m actually spending more time on it then initially speculated, I figured it was actually deserving of a pretty layout!  I had no idea what [...]

Sparkle Sparkle is my highly shoujo-tastic anime blog.  As indicated by the intense amount of pink and the girly title, I am mainly a shoujo anime and manga fan with a high tolerance for sparkles and bubbles in my media.
 The site is currently being formatted to match my needs, but hopefully it will open soon!