A lot of things seem to be happening on this blog within the last few weeks which, in truth, I knew nothing about. I haven’t really made any specific changes to it; I’ve been far too busy with other things. In fact, unlike the previous month, this is probably the only month where I didn’t post at least everyday.

• The site’s Alexa traffic rank has jumped 3,366,289 places to land at 1,670,154 which is amazing since I haven’t done much linking or affiliating with other sites. If any, at all. In fact, I’ve steering clear of those since the beginning. Amazing what organic search results can do.
• The unique visitor count has averaged 114 last week against the measly 69 of the week before that. For that increase I am completely baffled since I don’t see any new site linking me. I’d just assume it’s the search engines again since 70% of my traffic come from them.
• Popular forums are direct linking my Vampire Knight avatars. That would have irritated me to no end, but I already disabled direct-linking on my site before so that was covered. I just made a new image to announcing someone as a direct-linker.
• I got my very first hostee here in Swordian and it’s named Parody Quest XX by Wren and Rion which features their own comic!

Does these mean that this blog is becoming popular? I really hope so. Sometimes I really miss those Painted Wings days when I get a lot of comments regarding my updates. But then again, that was a very impersonal site, more focused on freeware graphics than my personal life. So it’s really makes me smile to know that at least my scattered thoughts in this blog are reaching others in some way.

My hatred for internet spam has reached a whole new level. It has passed hatred. It is now undisguised loathing and contempt for all things spam-related. If there was a way to rid myself of all of those, I will gladly do it.

The reason? Winglica has been attacked by these dreadful spammers. Nothing dangerous, just rampant advertising in the comments area; even inappropriate content for our teen audience.

I had to spend almost an hour just trying to weed out all the spam messages we got. Suffice it to say that once done, our total comments was pruned down to only 1/8 of its original number. A daunting fact, and I congratulate myself in having the patience to go through all of it.

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More on the topic of scanlations, I’ve recently searched the web to find some resources that’ll help me get a better hang of things. I must admit that I was overwhelmed by the resources I’ve found and I had to pick the best ones. Makes me want to translate the japanese manga I bought myself. ^^ Oho, as if I could trust my japanese skills that far. ^^”

• Idiot’s Guide to Editing Manga – a resource goldmine for newbies. It has step by step instructions on everything. ^^ I’m going to spend hours browsing through this site.
• Japanese Sound Effects – Aha! Finally, I get to understand what all those special effects mean. I was reading manga and I couldn’t help but scratch my head when a bunck of “do” characters keep popping up.^^
• Some japanese dictionaries, especially for those dreadful kanjis; both online and for download – Coolest.com, JWP, and Wakan (one I personally use)

So that’s about it. *rolls up sleeves*I better start practicing for this new endeavor. ^^