a few quick comments about this björnal, because I get a lot of email asking, among other things: why is it called a björnal? how do you make that umlaut thingy on the o? Doesn't the umlaut mean that you don't need the "r" in björnal? and finally "I love your björnal, why don't you update it more often?"

Well first of all, I would just like to let all my fans know what a pleasure it is to receive your emails. I never knew just one björnal post could make me so many friends, so keep 'em coming!

 web log = blog; web journal = björnal

Many many characters can be made simply by holding down the key and pressing a sequence of numbers. To get a "ö" for example is alt 1, 4, 8. hold down alt and press 1 then 4 then 8. I am told this is called HTML
Did I look that character up? no, I just fiddled around until I found it, and that took a while. A list can be found here: http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html Ted also has a decent HTML tutorial that's a good reference for doing things like, oh I don't know, writing a björnal

I don't think most English speakers will know how "bjönal" is said.

I am too forgetful and busy playing video games to update this bjö(r?)nal that often.