Temporarily switching from the Comvatar comment icon to Gravatar via the Easy Gravatar 1.1 plugin. One nice thing about Gravatar is you can keep your icon across any blog that is Gravatar enabled. The downside is few people have one registered (register one!). I’ll see how it goes for a couple of weeks before deciding which comment avatar system to use.

I forgot to update my billing information with my host, so the site was down for a little bit. ^^;

And while I’m here…I increased the post width and body by 20 pixels. I didn’t notice anything broken in Firefox, but can’t say that for any of the other browsers since I don’t have them to check. I’m sure something in IE6 looks funny.

Guess it’s time to update the good ole top 10 list and any other post would just take too long. :)  Filler!  Yes, indeed:

• Cowboy Bebop
• Princess Tutu
• Planetes
• Kamichu!
• Boogiepop Phantom
• SuperGALS
• Gunslinger Girl
• Fruits Basket
• Figure 17
• Magic User’s Club
• FLCL

That’s 11, I know.  If I did this tomorrow two or three might be different.  What changed since last year?  Evangelion, His and Her Circumstances, and GitS:SAC bow out to make way for Magic User’s Club, FLCL, and Kamichu!  Recent rewatches of MUC and FLCL helped, no doubt, but Kamichu! is not in any danger of falling off this list anytime soon.

Figured I’d give one of those hey this is why I haven’t updated post.  My home PC is busted.  It can’t find the heat sink so it won’t start, so I opened up the case and sure enough there’s this loose chunk of computer broken off and sitting on the motherboard.  Plus that whole work thing isn’t helping.  Hopefully, this weekend I’ll sort it all out.

“Thai police who break rules will have to wear hot pink armbands featuring Hello Kitty.”
–Yahoo News

This struck me as funny in light of the recent whirl of otaku navel gazing. So are Japanese cartoon icons the new scarlet letter? In Thailand, it seems to be for police who litter and arrive to work late. Not exactly in step with last weeks discussion, but an amusing aside. On a side note, whoever came up with Hello Kitty is a freaking genius or super lucky, but probably both.