How long have I been around the whole "cute" website community? Four years now? I must admit that I've learned quite a lot, everything from HTML and CSS to how people are around these corners. I've got to known some good people and quite some bad people as well. Can't say I regret anything (aside from spending hours upon hours figuring out confusing computer-related issues).

I've been around with Auberginer for a little over two years now. First time I popped up with this name was in.. let's see, November 2007 with a subdomain, and later with my own domain in March 2008. Ah, I've grown so much by having this website! Possibly more than I expected (not that I expected a website to have any effect on me at all).

I'm not pleased to let you know that I may not be able to renew the domain when it expires in March this year. The reason is that Ezyrewards, where I registered the domain for free, has sadly closed down. I don't have the funds for the renewal, so there's the tiny issue.

I'm glad Auberginer has brought so many positive memories. Everything from funny puns by friends and generally funny people of the WWW to "useful" CSS tricks.

I have no problem admitting that there are several things I can't do. Dance, sing, crochet, play soccer or roller skate, just to mention a few. That doesn't bother me at all (that there are things I don't master), but it does bother me when a person decides to rub it in my face. What does that mean? That you stand above me? I almost feel bullied, even though it sometimes isn't meant that way, but in rather in a jokingly type of way.

Not everyone can sing and dance, and certainly not everyone understand the way an engine works. It's plain disrespectful to look down on someone because he/she can't do a certain thing. It doesn't mean that that person is anything less than you.

I also experience the feeling that I'm not as "important" because I don't have a God. I don't believe that there is a special power up there, and therefore I'm looked down on because of that. Doesn't the Golden Rule say that you should "do to others what you would like to be done to you"? If these people who claim they have faith and respect to their religion, why don't they follow this rule?

The fact that I'm an atheist doesn't mean that I don't have any moral or values. I don't visit the church and eat meat - does that make me anything less "a good human"?

(Hm, I sort of went a little bit off-topic there, I think...)