Veronica Pare was the artist behind the ‘Home on the Strange’ webcomic and I love the cartoon style she developed for that one…

see her stuff a veronicapare.com

I’ll pimp her to the aces once the new blog theme goes live

I’ve considered paying someone to make a banner for me. Someone on my LJ friends list promised to draw me something, but never came through with it.

I also paid the artist (Veronica Pare) who did my banner and Avatar.

It is a somewhat expensive hobby but ohhh so rewarding!

I’ve spent $20 on mine, and that’s entirely for the two domains.

Although, to be fair, I already pay for webhosting for my ne’er-used vanity page, Asmor.com, and the blog is just piggybacked on that.

Actually, at this point, it’s probably more accurate to say that my vanity page is piggybacked on the blog, since that sees way more traffic than Asmor.com.

But still, even my hosting only costs me around $120 a year.

Anyways, I’m rambling. Good luck with the adverts, man. For what it’s worth, I don’t mind advertisements, I just ignore them. I don’t use any adblockers, either (though I do block all flash, which tends to catch a lot of ads, but that’s not why I block it).

Also, I was only joking about the xBox, of course, but don’t let that stop you! I want me some Rock Band!

In seriousness, though, don’t burn the comments feed to feedburner. I did for my blog, and changed it back quickly. See, when you make a new post, your blog notifies feedburner of the update. But it doesn’t do that when a new comment gets posted.

So you end up having to wait for feedburner to check for updates itself, which is (at most) once every half hour or so.

The stats you gain from feedburner aren’t so useful for the comments feed anyways, so just leave it as it is, and we can see your comments feed without delays.

Pity I don’t have an international job like I used to…