If you’ve been following Animated Meanderings for a while you might have come across some of my comments regarding the flood of comment spam I have to deal with on a daily basis. It all happens at the backend, since I queue comments for moderation in any case (which would explain to anyone wondering why their comments don’t appear immediately).

Regardless – it has reached a point where I have to clear my comments of something in the range of 100 – 200 spam comments per day, and over weekends it gets much worse. Bots never rest, after all. As you will also already probably know, I’ve been looking for a solution for a while now, and it appears that Disqus has offered me that solution. I hope.

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Those of you who have been following Animated Meanderings for a while now will probably remember – vaguely – that I did a post regarding the rather unfortunate and untimely demise of South Africa’s only print magazine that focused exclusively on anime, manga and japanese culture. I’m referring, of course, to Otaku Mag.

For South Africa, it was pretty revolutionary – the anime scene at the time was very much underground, or rather, completely invisible, and the magazine itself did a lot to bring the genre into the light. If anything, we can probably credit them to some degree with the eventual appearance of South Africa’s very own dedicated anime channel, Animax SA.

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Some of you may probably have noticed the little banner linking to J-list hovering in my side-bar lately. J-list is an online shop specialising in all sorts of goodies from Japan, and when I say all-sorts, I do mean all sorts.

We’re talking books, toys, figurines, anime (although mostly in BD format), magazines (you can even get subscriptions through them), cosplay items and clothing. And … ummm … some other things I should probably not mention here.

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Well … it’s about time. After a lot of fussing about and hard work (and tearing my hair out because things were taking too long), Animated Meanderings is finally back up and running in its new home.

As you can see, we have an entirely new theme going – looking, in my personal opinion, a lot better than it used to. Of course, with a big move like this there are bound to be some teething pains – with any luck I’ve managed to do what’s needed to avoid most of them – but there might still be a broken link or two – if you find one, contact me and let me know. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, here we go …

Whoever thought this would happen, me … with a blog. I’ve played around before, on MySpace, but its not something I ever took seriously, but this time I’d like to take something of a different approach.

This blog was meant to tie in with my website, but with time being as limited as it is and things just not going quite the way I want them to – that website just doesn’t seem to want to happen.

Because the site will mostly have to do with anime, that will be one of the things I’ll be focusing on, along with manga, japanese language, and any other tidbits I can come along with that wanders along those topics.

Of course, you’ll be faced with a couple of other posts as well – all dealing with my various likes – such topics as gaming, LANs and even the results of my cricket matches will all find a home on this blog

I’m off to an awesome start, look at the originality of that title … ;-)