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Cartooned
May 9, 2008 – 11:32 am
I had a few minutes between projects, so I took a moment just now to draw a cartoon version of myself based on this picture. The inspiration for this is because I’ve kind of wanted to replace my Gravatar (again, the aforementioned photo), and I kind of like the idea of using a drawn portrait, [...]
Original Art
May 6, 2008 – 10:23 pm
This right here is exactly why I want to ultimately draw on paper every comic I hope to be doing in the near future – and always why Dave Kellet recommends in How To Make Webcomics having original artwork. Plus, there’s just something extremely satisfying about drawing with pencil and inking by hand that just [...]
Two New Comic Characters
May 5, 2008 – 11:05 pm
Meet Jessica. She’s the first of the characters I’ve created for the webcomic I will eventually be drawing. She’s smart, sexy, and often sarcastic, and she’s one of a team of space-faring adventurers manning an exploration outpost on another planet. Science is her thing, and she can think circles around just about everyone else on [...]
How’s That Again?
April 29, 2008 – 7:04 pm
Whoa – Scalzi? Subversive? Apparently Annalee Newitz of io9 thinks so:
It’s great to see two smartypants writers [Doctorow and Scalzi] aiming their often-subversive messages at the next generation. #
Doctorow I’ll buy. Scalzi, not so much. I wonder – has Annalee ever actually read Scalzi’s blog?
We Need Better Leaders
April 29, 2008 – 5:53 pm
It’s incidents like this one that demonstrate to me that there is a general sense of paranoia in American culture these days that borders on insanity. In the article linked above, you have a father who mistakenly ordered a hard lemonade for his 7-year-old son, followed by the hysteria of the ballpark guard and the [...]
Another Hacker
April 28, 2008 – 11:49 am
Over the weekend, I spent several hours cleaning up yet another hacker who had infiltrated my server account. I became aware of him only after upgrading a couple of my WordPress installations from 2.5 to 2.5.1, only to find that the version number shown in my dashboard still showed 2.5. I searched the WordPress support [...]
Essential Plugins for WordPress 2.5
April 23, 2008 – 2:34 pm
With every new version of WordPress, I update my list of plugins that I consider to be essentials. That is, these are the group of plugins that I install in almost every instance of WordPress that I run on my site. In the last couple of weeks, there have been several really slick little plugins [...]
The Casual Gamer
April 21, 2008 – 1:00 pm
Those of you who have been subjected to my gaming-related posts here can breathe a sigh of relief – I’ve got a new gaming column called The Casual Gamer over at Difference In Opinion, so most of my gaming-related essays will probably appear there almost exclusively. Now, Difference in Opinion is a website built by [...]
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xkcd - A Better Plan
Another xkcd today. Personally, I think this is a no-brainer.