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2/15/2004
- It's been almost two weeks since I switched
hosts. My new host is canaca.com.
They've
been very helpful, and offer a very good
price compared to other hosts I'd looked
at.
The
only shock has been the amount of spam that
was going to my old e-mail address from
the old site, I'm averaging about 100-150
spam messages a day I guess. As such I've
had to setup e-mail in Mozilla to handle
it, it's done a very good job so far of
determining what messages are spam and which
ones aren't (so far EVERY message has been
spam though) and I've set it up to delete
Junk messages immediately. It's great, I
don't even have to look at them. It's not
really doing them or their clients any good
really since I really don't care about the
offers they are sending me for their clients.
Well,
I've posted the new site, or the new site
such as it is. I'm not sure this is the
scheme I want to go with, or if it'll fill
my needs long-term.. But we'll see. I'm
not terribly happy with the HTML code, it's
not very pretty at the moment... or how
I've laid things out.. But, it's a start.
I've been very uninspired the last couple
of weeks after getting the PDF's ready for
the Strips and Scripts to go under the Comic
Strip Archive.
I
used PDF
Creator to create the PDF's
along with Open
Office, PDF Creator is a Win32
utility. So I had to use my Windows boot
partition to do it. I'm sure there are other
options for Linux that I could have used..
But I was in a hurry at the time.
PDF
Creator isn't terribly fast, with my Athlon
1800+ it took around 5 - 10 minutes to generate
a PDF file... but I liked the way you kick
them out like you're sending them to a printer
and how it queues them up.. And of course
that it's free and I don't have to buy Acrobat
from Adobe to do what I needed to do.
The
Comic Strip Archive contains Episodes 1
- 6 of the Mr. Bun comic, scripts for several
of those episodes, and also the unpublished
scripts for Episodes 7 and 8. Some of the
Episodes had been dropped into Word docs
a long time ago, Episodes 1 - 3 specifically
so I had decent copies of those. Episodes
4 and 5 had been printed out at one time
so I scanned those back in as they were
higher quality than the GIF's from the old
site. Episode 6 was only available in GIF
format unfortunately, but with some manipulation
I was able to get it cleaned up to a level
of quality that I found to be acceptable.
The scripts from the Episode 1 - 6 range
are scanned in, as all I had were print
copies (or handwritten copies from Phil
in the case of Episodes 1 and 2). Some have
my notes, and scrawl on them.. Nothing terribly
fascinating.. Just things that I wrote as
I was working on the artwork. Episodes 7
and 8 are pristine as I had soft copies
of those thanks to Phil. All of the Scripts
are formatted (somewhat) in a Script Format
for standardization with a cover sheet and
proper copyright notices.
Anyway,
I hope anyone who reads this will enjoy
reading them.
I'm
going to be looking to add some of my artwork
to the site next, but I can't decide what
to do first.. Hand drawn stuff, or the small
amount of 3D work I have left and was able
to salvage after my PC crashed. It's not
alot of 3D stuff, and I'm still pretty ticked
off at myself for not making any backups
for almost two years. I was a real idiot..
I can still see the 3D models in my mind,
and the renders I kicked out and was so
proud of.
That's
it for now.
Stephen
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