Okay, so the conversion has been made, but not painlessly -- apparently I neglected to apply the v1.51 hotfix to the import tool, which means that while the old Blogger posts do show up here, they're not listed as having an author! Which means that I'll have to individually republish every fucking last one of the posts in order to fix that. I've also added some new categories, so I can add old posts to those while I'm at it. But, natch, publishing every post is going to take forever and I'll probably just not care to do all of it. We'll see. Ugh.

Also, there's apparently a lot of code in the old posts that isn't XHTML valid -- natch, since I wasn't really shooting for that, with most of my HTML being in the realm of 4.0 -- and while I'd like for most of the newer posts on this blog to be compliant (something about that damned validation link that came in the sidebar has made me want to appease it -- if they'd had a donut validator there I probably would've shipped them a box of Krispy Kremes), there's no bloody way in hell I'm editing all of the other posts to fix that. The fact that post titles are links to individual post pages in this new blog and that I actually included links in old post titles, since they weren't hotlinks, is also causing a few problems -- so I'll probably do something about some of those instances as well.

Well, it's raining outside, so it's not like I was going to be skipping around or anything. Ja!

YES! WESOTERIC is ready to go -- layout's done and double done, though of course I'll be tweaking things and adding stuff from time to time. Anyway, now all I've got to do is import these Blogger entries over and the move will be complete! New entries will be posted there from this point onward. SO I'LL SEE YOU THERE!!!

So I drew this guy waaaay back in December while I was still working at PGCC and didn't get around to coloring him until sometime in February -- I'd all but forgotten about the pic until tOkKa sent over that cool Triceraton button for SC. Anyway, here's a Triceraton, Wes style! (more...)

Two new comics today! Well, at least one. Depending upon the time of your last visit and whether or not you clicked the preview link, you may already have seen Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #35. So what's new? A Dusty Plastic HELL Easter Hot Flash, that's what! ENJOY, and HAPPY EASTER!!!

Also, this will be one of my last posts to this blog (not the last post, so don't abandon this place just yet!), as Wesoteric is like a few images away from being ready! And I could of course always just start posting to it and continue to tweak the layout as I go along. But yeah, it won't be long now. I really thought this was going to take a lot of time when I started, but now? I expect to be posting over there by tomorrow, which will mean I got this thing together in a week. w00t!

Anyway, check out Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #35 and that Easter Hot Flash! Ja!

Well, I made a lot more headway with Wesoteric than I expected to this past week -- the site's almost ready to go live. New colors have been selected; a header graphic has been created. Fun fun. All that remains is to add some stuff to the sidebar and add a quote of some sort to the main content bar, and of course import of all of my Blogger posts, and we'll be set! It's kinda funny how on Monday I was complaining about the impossibility of all of this stuff and now I've pretty much got it covered. I've learned a lot about browser behavior (at least Mozilla and IE) where CSS rules are concerned -- enough, I think, to conceivably convert SC to a table-free layout, but I'm not going to do that anytime soon because I'm still quite satisfied with the way it looks now and I see no need to go changing a bunch of code just to get it to look exactly the same way it looks now. But if/when I decide to do a new layout for it, I'm game for a CSS layout. (more...)