Wow… October passing and nothing horrible happened to my family for the second year in a row. Friggin’ A!

If you don’t see anything different with this page… then I did my job! I made the switch FROM MT to Wordpress last night…

….and OH HOW I LOVE IT AND ALL IT’S FLEXIBLE DATABASEY GOODNESS!

It must be permanent, as I have put up every single post I’ve ever made since April 1998. Ironically, my very first post was titled “WHUZZUP!” (In case you’re ever on Jeopardy and that’s the question.)

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Can you guys do me a favor? (I’m spreading the word on this everywhere)

I just put the finishing touches on my job’s political/election model, and I got higher-ups watching me to see how well I do.

www.poconopolitics.com

It’s quite the programming masterpiece, if I do say so myself. Pure MySQL, database driven, has info on each of our voting districts, right up to Presidential candidate profiles.

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If it wasn’t going to be the Yankees, I was hoping the Boston Red Sox would take the World Series.

Kind of a fairy tale -type feeling going on….
Congratz guys. You deserved it!!!

*goes off to make “2004″ signs to mock the Red Sox for next year….*

I know, I know… the artists get all the glory. In fact, my dream as a kid was to be an artist for Marvel Comics.

Then I found out how much money they made, and I had to find a new dream. Fast.

I’ll just borrow this straight FROM the Animotions Newsletter:

Got comics in your blood? You could be making money doing them!
Do you have a great story that needs illustrating? Are you a super 2D or 3D artist in search of a good story to illustrate? Or are you just waiting for a venue to sell your own comic in?

There’s a market out there for good stories. Get the details here.

So if anyone’s interested in writing for indy comics, there’s a whole discussion on at Animotions . It’s a 3-d community (like Renderosity) dedicated to comics, superheroes, anime, fantasy, etc.

Membership required (free, of course).

(Well, besides “Dump it and go with Wordpress”. You already know that.)

Basically watch out for dashes when you import/export posts. The text file you import is separated by 5-8 dashes in its features, so if you have some yutz who writes:

“Here are my thoughts:
………………………………..
blah, blah, blah blah”

It is going to screw you up if you ever import that post back INTO MT at a later date.

Elsewhere on my site, I am recreating my entire Whuzzup archives (going all the way back to 1998), and I am triple-checking all my “import.txt” files. What a bitch.

Then I’m switching to Wordpress. I was successful with SoApBoX, and I really like HAVING my stuff on a MySQL database. (I hate CGI).

More news coming up for comic book fans next…. STAY TUNED!