Anyone who is a fan of the Doctor Who BBC Television Series needs to take a look at Rich's ComixBlog. Rich has been writing a truly jaw-droppingly good fanfic comic featuring all ten incarnations of the Doctor since March 10, 2007. I can't begin to tell you how good it is. He's managed to do justice to every version of the Doctor I've seen on TV (I've seen a little of Doctor #2, a fair number of Doctors #3-6, a few of #7, all of #9 and #10 that have been made available in the US to date), both in the way they're drawn and in the way they're characterized. I'm especially fond of the day he's been writing Doctor #6 (the version played by Colin Baker -- I always felt like that version was under-appreciated during its run).

Anyway, I can't recommend it enough. It starts here and is still ongoing.

It's definitely worth a read.

The move from New Orleans back to Monroe went pretty well. My only complaint was that what should have been a minor cold turned into a minor cold plus a slight upper respiratory infection, which means I'll be taking antibiotics for the rest of the week and using a prescription nasal spray that cost me 40 dollars. 40 dollars! I love the US health care system.

Anyway, updates should return to their normal schedule.

I don't usually talk about webcomics. I've been drawn into "web comics drama" in the past, usually when I was on Keenspot and someone was slagging Keenspot over some issue I considered terminally stupid, but by and large I don't decide "today I'm going to talk about webcomics" and post webcomic-derived screeds on my website.

Today I break from that non-tradition by talking about webcomics on Fleen. Now that I can see it in print I wish I'd edited it a little better, but since it started out as an off-the-cuff email I think it works well enough.

Updated: I've changed the category of this post because apparently setting it to "Miscellaneous" caused it to break the RSS feed. I hadn't actually intended this to be included in the RSS feed, but since it seems to have gone in anyway I guess I need to make sure the feed doesn't break.

Slashdot has a story about how Websiteoptimization.com is reporting that web page sizes have trippled in size between 2003 and 2008.

Here is what they're reporting:

2003 sizes: 93.7K

2008 sizes: 312K

Out of curiosity I used their site analyzer to see how Ubersoft.net measured up:

375K

... that's not good.

Still no comic today (but look back here tomorrow) but I did want to announce that all comics on this site have now been completely transcribed, and the site has been re-indexed. That means the comics are now searchable.

This was a huge undertaking and once again I want to thank all you readers who helped.