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For the past week or so, I have been working on various improvement on this site, one thing in particular is the average load time.  I began using Google Webmaster some months ago and it has always bothered me when it said my site is below the average performance in load time.  I know I have been procrastinating over this but during the Labor Day Weekend, I have finally installed page speed to look for ways to improve my site.

Page speed and Firebug

Sure enough, Pagespeed has identified several red flags for me to respond to… including Combine external Javascript, Minify CSS, serve scaled images, Serve static content from a cookieless domain… most of these sounds like French to me.. but there were several flags that I was able to rectify by installing appropriate plug-ins, such as the WP HTTP Compression, this plugin allows your WordPress blog to output pages compressed in gzip format if a browser supports compression. HTTP compression generally means a 60-80% REDUCTION in the size of your pages (broadband usage) as well as an INCREASE in download speeds of 3x to 4x.  Other than that, nothing else I tried seemed to work as I tried several other plug-ins to help with the Javascript and CSS but none of them worked out as planned.

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While I don’t always talk about food in my blog here but there is a Chinese saying “民以食為先”, which roughly translate into “Food is the top priority of normal citizen”.  As for me, I have always enjoyed good food, the color, the aroma, the taste, and the texture of the food are all important to me.  I seldom dine out these days due to most of my money being allocated for my Dollfie Dream hobby, but from time to time, when the opportunity arises, I do make an effort to go out and try to enjoy a good dinner.  One such opportunity presented itself a few days ago, where I went to one of the Brazilian Steakhouses in Chicago – Brazzaz.

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I have always heard about how Anime Expo is one of the largest Anime Conventions in North America but I have never once thought about going there myself in previous years.  However, the convergence of various factors this year including the chance of meeting some of the friends I have made online at figure.fm, a trip to Volks USA and meeting Danny in person were enough to convince me to make this journey.  Not to mention that based on my previous experience at Acen 2010, an anime convention is the perfect opportunity for me to take my Dollfie Dream daughter outside for some intense photo sessions without having to worry about uncomfortable stare from onlookers not familiar with Japanese anime.  So, for this past weekend, I have my most pampered Dollfie Dream daughter, DD娃娃 Kiriha Kuze 紅瀬桐葉 to accompany me to Anime Expo 2010 in Los Angeles!

在上個星期,我帶了我最疼愛的DD娃娃紅瀬桐葉到洛杉磯去渡假和參觀動漫博覽會AnimeExpo 2010!

Volks Dollfie Dream ドルフィー DD娃娃 Kiriha Kuze 紅瀬桐葉 in Los Angeles outside Marriott Downtown

And here is a shot of my lovely daughter Kiriha resting outside of the hotel we stayed in!

這張照片是我替桐葉在酒店外拍的。

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I have finally decided to submit an entry for Otacool 3, since my room was already setup from submitting the otaku room video tour for Danny’s upcoming TV show Culture Japan, slated to air on June 12 on Tokyo MX TV and then on the whole Animax Asia network.

Name: Wolfheinrich
Age: 37
Country of residence: United States/Hong Kong
Main machine spec and OS: Intel QX6700, @2.66 GHz, 8GB RAM – nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX, Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
Job title/ Currently studying: Mechanical Design Engineer
Web: http://tcwenterprise.com/wordpress
Any messages: My desk workspace also serve as my command/entertainment center where almost everything are interconnected in some way and could be toggle and/or switch from my location.

Here is my entry to Otacool 3 at figure.fm

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It seems that Kotobukiya and Danny have been working closely to bring about more synergy between figurine manufacturer and us collectors through Danny’s newly launched figure.fm;  Kotobukiya loves the otaku room photos that were submitted to the 20090326 giveaway so much that they are planning to publish a book based on otaku room photos named – OTACOOL.  In response to Danny’s call to submit new photos, I once again took out my digital camera and started snapping photos of my command center!

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It seems that somehow, my Dollfie daughters and Hikari photo studio managed to get on the cover!  Well, it’s not the finalized version it is quite cool already!

Anyway, I snapped a bunch of photos and hopefully some of them will get picked for the book!  To be honest here, I never was ready to take good photos during the giveaway since I was literally buried in junk before, I guess it really took 4 months to completely reorganize my room to a point where I can safely take photos of it without embarrassing myself in front of everyone.

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It’s been some time since I have done a review on the site stat, now that my computer has been fixed, all dollfie dream standing pretty in their new home; allow me to take a moment to share the visitors statistic of this relatively new blog site, coincidentially, today also marked the 4th month since I began this site when I wrote this post “The Beginning“.  A lot of things has happened in the past 4 months, I had no idea what I wanted to write about when I started this site, slowly but surely, I am getting used to this blogging habit.

Where do I begin, ah let me post the visitor count:

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There weren’t very many visitor during the first month, since I didn’t have much content then.  Approximately 7464 unique visitors have visited this site since the last time I did a review of this blog site statistic at the 2 months review mark, all together I have just managed to break the 10000 visitors mark with a little room to spare, total pageviews have grew from 7571 to 26273 at the time of this review.  I would say the site is still growing at a healthy rate after 4 months ^^;  Thank you for all your support!

Over the last 2 months, I have done many feature upgrade to this site.  I have upgraded my static blogroll to a live blogroll to help me keep track of my blogging friends’ sites so it can remind me when I should go visit, added a feature content gallery to highlight some of my most unique work like the Eroge game heroine story summaries, and I have kept my promise to introduce my own blend of Otaku Project, such as the Asuka Langley Soryu 造形補完計画, My Ikea Detolf Dioder Project and My dust shield +1.  In the future, I hope to introduce more of my own Otaku Projects to share with everyone.

Once again, thank you for all your support.  The objective of this blog is to share information and for me to make new friends who share the same interest as I do, Japanese Anime, figure collecting and now Dollfie Dream Collecting!

Feel free to drop me a line here if you would like to be a part of my blogroll, I will be sure to come visit :)

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