I’m still here!

by Kyle on February 12, 2013 at 3:49 AM
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OK, I know it’s been a few months since there was any activity here, but I figured that all two of you still checking here even occasionally deserve some information.

First thing’s first – I’ve had page 23 ready for several moths, and page 24 was inked but never scanned.  The original plan was to build up a buffer of about 20 pages before doing anything with them, but clearly that hasn’t happened.  I’m uploading page 23 now and will get page 24 done ASAP, partially because I just want it done and partially to establish a Before And After for myself regarding the drawing class I took last semester.

That will be all.  Have a nice day!

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What’s Going On

by Kyle on May 20, 2012 at 8:50 PM
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You might have noticed that the site has been acting a bit strange for the past few weeks.  There are reasons for this.

Two weeks ago, I noticed that my site had been hacked.  I reported this to my web host, which had changed management recently, and was told that they were going to act on it.

I have not heard from them since.

As a result of this, two things have happened.  First, I have considered legal action against InstantFreeSite.com and asked that my account be cancelled.  Second, I have changed web hosts.  I am currently with nearlyfreespeech.net, which, while pricier and less user-friendly, is much more competent.

It’ll still take me a while to get the site running at full capacity again, but for now it’s in a state of ugly-but-functional.

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Scheduling

by Kyle on March 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM
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Due to a few last-minute changes, I’ve come to the decision that it would better to hold off on the next update and instead deliver two pages next week.  Sorry about this, but hopefully you’ll see my reasoning once the pages go up.

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Delay

by Kyle on March 12, 2012 at 3:38 AM
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Re: why there’s no new page despite it being Monday: the page is ready to go, I’m just having some major issues with the uploader.  For whatever reason, it’s refusing to recognize the file no matter what I do.  I’m going to keep working at it and will do everything in my power to make sure that it’s available by the end of the day.

In other news, I really need to get myself a decent webmaster.  The guy I have now is completely incompetent and irresponsible, and – oh wait, I am the guy I have now.

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Kickstarter

by Kyle on March 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM
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Hello, readers!  All three- actually, scratch that, there are ten of you now!  Anyway, if you’ve liked what you’ve seen so far, please consider heading over to my brand-new Kickstarter project and helping me to continue working on this.  Thanks very much.

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General Update – 2/27/12

by Kyle on February 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM
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To all three of you who are reading this, I apologize for my scheduling problems.  Photoshop doesn’t like to work on my computer unless it’s plugged into an external monitor.  I spent most of the past week in Boston and away from said monitor.  Do the math.

I highly recommend The Secret World Of Arrietty, Studio Ghibli’s latest piece.  While it plays things a bit more safely than Ghibli usually does, it’s understandable coming from a first-time director with a lot to live up to, and the film is still extremely well done.

Like just about everyone else, I’m ticked about Viz clamping down on scan sites.  As a rule, I don’t support piracy, but Viz seems to have chosen to make it the only viable option.  I will subscribe to their pay service as soon as they approach the same level of speed and quality I expect from people who work for free.

That’s it for now.  I think I’ll keep doing these, if only so I have something to actually put on the blog page.

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Not my fault this time

by Kyle on January 31, 2012 at 9:50 AM
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There might be some delays with the next couple of pages, but for once, it’s not my fault.  I’ve just bought a new computer, and I’m having some trouble getting my copy of photoshop to work on it.  Unfortunately, this means that I can’t color the pages until I get it working today.  What I might do is just letter over the lineart and upload those as placeholders until I get photoshop running again or find myself a different program.  Sorry.

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