WordPress 2.5 brings a lot of new features to the table and one of the interesting things is avatar icon for the comments that you made. Originally I thought I could create a small database of avatar icons for readers to pick, but smarter people have come up with a much better solution - Gravatar.com.

First create an account at Gravatar.com with a valid email, then log in, and pick an image on your hard drive and upload it. That will become your avatar icon, and whenever you make a comment on any WordPress blogs with the same email address that you registered at Gravatar.com, your icon will appear in that person’s blog comment section. Very cool!

A very creative 3D billboard! I have to take some photos of it before it’s gone! It is installed next to the Toronto Don Valley Parkway. The shredded cheese is yellow foam, I guess? They never get blown away!

I am jealous of people who consistently devote a bit of their day to write something for their blog. I write whenever I am not lazy. My recent discovery of painters who can create a small painting daily astounded even me more.

Not only they can deliver, their works are excellent. I believe painting is their full time job; if you are a fast writer, you probably can get a few-paragraph long blog entry done in half an hour, but if you are a realist painter, I doubt you can get a masterpiece done in an hour.

I discovered Jon Bernard Koch’s work through eBay. He puts most of his paintings (mostly very small paintings with a size of 5″x7″) there for auction and I think it has been a very successful business for him. His work is genuine, which topic is nearly always of still life.

I bought his “White Genoa Fig” painting on eBay and put it beside my bed. I wanted another one for the other side of the bed but I couldn’t wait for him to eventually paint my favorite fruit and put it up for auction, so I contacted him for a commission work and he gladly accepted. I had never done such thing in my life, because as a graphic designer/illustrator myself, it seemed to me that I was the one who would receive projects but not give out projects to other; but his work casino roulette spielroulette online kostenlosswiss casino onlineeurovip casino netgeld gewinnebest casino onlineroulette systemeonline roulette spielbaccarat onlineinternet casino gamblingonline casino combestes online casinotop online kasinoonline casino costa ricacasino bonus codecraps spielkostenlos roulette spielencasino austria onlinewww slotsroulette online gratisechtes kasinocasino online pokerkeno online spielewww casino net comonline casino bonus ohne einzahlungcasino roulette spiel,roulette pc spiel,roulette spielonline casino playbaccarat systemonline casino kostenlosonline casino texasroulette lerneninternet online casinoonline casino testeinarmiger banditcasino online mit bonusroulette online gamesonline spiel automatenall slots casinoonline casino mit bonus,online casino bonus ohne einzahlung,online casino bonuskasino spielenslots gratiscasino spiele kostenloscasino online comparty casinoeuropa casino bonus codeonline slotmaschinecasino compoker im internetpoker spielen lernenpoker spielen berlin was so amazing to me that I had to ask.

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I am happy to tell the whole wide world that my comic site “Chloroville” has just been launched. The site is not very polished, and not all the sections are complete, but the essential functions of displaying and archiving my comics are all running smoothly. (Thanks to the wonderful programmers of Word Press and Comic Press.)

MagicKetchup.com is still my graphics portfolio site, and I am not going to close this blog despite my focus has shifted to Chloroville. Just expect I am not going to write on this blog as often.

Only recently I have used Google Analytics to find out how many people actually read my blog. If it is accurate, I have about 100 people visit my site everyday. It’s actually more than I have originally estimated, but overall, it’s still a very lonely process because not many people post their comments. But let me thank you guys for giving this blog a value for its existence.

This year I am going to refocus my energy and use it to build something more meaningful to me, and possibly to more people - comics. I really need new a new channel that allows me to create graphics of my own. I am really bored with doing graphics for others that I have no attachment with those work whatsoever. I will draw what I want and don’t need to please my clients or employer, but only to myself or possibly fans (am I dreaming too far?)

The comic site is a brand new gig, so there are going to be challenges, frustrations, nasty comments, and hopefully, more self-satisfaction and improvements. The site is under construction, once it’s done I will post the link to that site here. (Those who have received my sample strips, you know where to go for a sneak preview.)