Pampaluz's Journal: This is a test of the Slashdot Journal System

This is to test and see what this "Slashdot Journal" thing is all about. I was given a choice of Journal topics for this to be classified under; it was set on "User Journal" and I suppose that that is as appropriate as any (I was wondering what topic a "test" should be considered).

I enabled comments; it should be interesting to see how that works (can I make comments on my own entries? If I disable comments, does that mean that I have to make a new entry in order to say anything about it?)

I'm not sure what use having a Slashdot Journal is; although I have been reading other people's journals, I do not see references to journals in the comments to various articles. It would seem the best use of a journal: to have a comment that is continued in the person's personal journal for discussion that goes on over a distinct detail, or that goes off-topic, perhaps (instead of making a bunch of posts of arguments between people that only get modded down).

One thing I noticed when I first started this post to my personal journal, is that it said this was going on my "permenent record" or something (I'd have to hit the back arrow to see exactly what it said, and I don't wish to do this because I'll lose all that I've typed so far! :) Does this mean that I can't delete an entry that I wish to take back, or that has grown obsolete? There is a link at the top of the page that says "Delete/Edit Entries". So does deleting an entry really delete that entry?

Well--this is about as much as I figure should be said for this test.