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Sewage lines unclogged
February 1st, 2006 (6 years ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Comments OffDisregard the bit in my last post about the “Raw Sewage” subsite. After much discussion with my wife, we felt that the user management angle was going to become too cumbersome. So the current plan is to publicly announce next week the big news I’ve been sitting on for a few months, just open up all that stuff into the public blog, and completely get rid of the private “Raw Sewage” part. So, I suppose the most important part of this would be to come back Sunday or Monday, as that’s when I’ll make the big announcement. I will also make the same announcement Monday in the GPF News, but that will be a general statement with any and all GPF ramifications. The more personal details will be chronicles here.
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Miscellaneous, Personal
Silence isn’t always golden
January 27th, 2006 (6 years ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Comments OffSorry for the lack of updates, guys. I’ve completely recovered from hard drive crash and Apollo is back up and running. In fact, I managed to recover so much of my data that the final outcome essentially boils down to about a week’s downtime, me being a couple hundred bucks poorer, and Apollo getting a 20GB hard drive upgrade. If you want the gory details, feel free to check out the hard drive crash thread on the forum, which pretty much has a blow-by-blow account. (The previous blog post was actually originally posted there and copied here with minor editing, so don’t worry if something sounds familiar.)
I keep hinting in the GPF News at bigger news floating around, and I do plan to eventually announce it to the Web at large… but not today. Instead, I’m going to file that away for later. Instead, I’ll turn my attention to a new link over there in the Site Links area: Raw Sewage. This is a new, private section of the site intended for personal friends and family and not for the general public. As such, you’ll probably be confronted with a username and password prompt if you try to click that link. As stated in the updated NCD FAQ, regular GPF readers, fellow online cartoonists, and ordinary random Internet denizens are generally not invited, so please don’t bother asking for a password. You won’t get one, and you won’t get a response. No offense intended, of course; it’s just private conversations should remain that way. The public blog isn’t going away; I’m just adding a private section for private information. If you’re a buddy or relative and I haven’t sent you login information yet, shoot me an e-mail an I’ll rectify that oversight.
Not much else to add for now. I’ve been extremely busy, but I’ll try and throw up some more relevant posts as soon as I can.
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Miscellaneous
On Vacation
Hey, everyone. There’ll be a GPF News item about this on Monday, but I’ll be on vacation all this week. My Internet access is likely to be spotty (if present at all), so please be patient if you send me an e-mail, as I don’t know when I’ll be able to respond.
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Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous, Part Deux
August 29th, 2005 (6 years, 5 months ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Comments OffWell, it’s been a week-ish since I first linked to the blog from the GPF News, and it seems to be generating at least a little bit of traffic. Donald Crankshaw over at “Back of the Envelope” wrote an interesting appendium to my “God’s not politically correct…” entry from a while back. His additions add a lot to what I was thinking when I wrote my post back in April. (I really ought to turn on TrackBack pings (or whatever they’re called) and find out when people actually link here.)
Not much else to say at the moment, other than to remind folks that I’ll be in Atlanta this weekend for Dragon*Con. The gory details are all up in the pre-con report over at GPF. If you’re going and you want up-to-the-minute info, or if you’re not going and just want that virtual con experience, make sure to check out that page daily during the con. I plan to get more ConCam footage this time, especially since I’ll be on the webcomics panel this year.
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Miscellaneous, Webcomics
Miscellaneous
August 2nd, 2005 (6 years, 6 months ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Comments OffI’m back from Comic-Con, if you hadn’t guessed. Had a blast. You can get the skinny in the GPF Comic-Con 2005 Con Report if you’re curious. There’s also some interesting video footage for subscribers to Keenspot PREMIUM (once I get the bugs fixed).
I’ve been off-and-on-again sick since Comic-Con. Alan Foreman (S.S.D.D.) imported his cold over from the U.K., and I probably caught it off him in the cramped confines of the Keenspot booth. It knocked me down hard in the days immediately after returning from the con, and I thought I had recovered. Unfortunately for me, just about any respiratory ailment I get goes directly to my lungs and sets up camp, so it usually turns into bronchitis and, if I don’t catch it early enough, pneumonia. I thought I had it licked last week, but it seems to have gained strength in the past couple days. Guess I’m heading to the doctor tonight.
Next con is Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA, September 2-5. The pre-con report is up and I’ll update it when I can. Unfortunately, D*C is always on Labor Day, which means it almost always interferes with my dad’s birthday. He’ll be getting his birthday present early this year anyway.
Not much else to write at the moment. Don’t forget to check the last post, BTW. I actually wrote it on the plane to San Diego, and back-dated it to the approximate time it was written (but it didn’t get posted until today). Just an amusing anecdote.
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Miscellaneous
A Domain of its Own…
June 22nd, 2005 (6 years, 7 months ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Comments OffWell, for all of you who have been paying attention (both of you… meaning my two eyeballs), I’ve made another change. This time, I’ve moved the blog from the gpf-comics.net domain (which serves the GPF Store) to jeffdarlington.com. The blog itself hasn’t moved; it’s still on the same physical machine in the same ol’ directory. I just thought I should eventually register a domain with my own name (something I’ve thought about doing for a while now, but never got around to it), and I needed somewhere for it to point to. So here it is. It took a while to get all the virtual hosting stuff to work, but between this and some work I’m doing in my day job, I can safely say I now know a lot more about the configuration and maintenance of Apache than I used to.
Of course, all this tweaking meant that I would have to eventually rebuild the MT files, which of course meant I would end up with another blank front page. Thus, another pointless entry to make sure the front page isn’t blank.
However, I am considering on making this a more active blog and a more regular part of my life. So maybe you can expect this site to update more frequently than once ever two or three months. 
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Miscellaneous
I hate blogs.
February 17th, 2005 (6 years, 11 months ago) by Jeff | Permalink | Comments OffI’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s the fact that so many of them are self-serving garbage, little more than virtual diaries left open for the world to see, or with those pointless little locks with the flimsy keys that are ridiculously easy to pick or break. Frankly, I have no interest in reading what a total stranger ate for lunch, or what kind of music they’re listening to while typing, or what little animated GIF best fits their mood at the moment. Sure, there are a few blogs out there that have actual content, that actually have something legitimate to say. But the vast majority of them are inane drivel that at their best form small cults of personality around a prolific poster with far too much free time on their hands.
That said, you’re probably wondering why I’m writing this in the first place in, of all places, a blog. To be honest, I’m wondering that myself. In part, I wanted to experiment with Movable Type, and sure enough I’m getting that experience now. But over the years I’ve thought of plenty of things I’ve wanted to say online that I didn’t think appropriate to put in the GPF News, or that wasn’t on topic in the GPF forum. Those places, after all, are for GPF, not my personal thoughts. To me, there’s a separation between the comic and my personal life, much like most professionals separate work from home. A blog would seem much more appropriate for these musings.
So don’t expect a detailed analysis of my gastronomic ingestions or a complete discography of my CD collection. I only plan on posting when I have something I think is worthy of a post, and by correlation, don’t expect rabid, prolific pontifications either. If you’ve ever read the GPF News, you know I tend to post long, detailed, but infrequent news items, and I suspect this site will be no different.
But what shall I post about? I don’t know yet. I’ve created a couple categories, but I suppose I’ll delete some and add more by the time anyone reads this. While it will be certainly more random than the GPF-specific News, I wouldn’t expect anything extraordinarily mundane. (Then again, I won’t exclusively deny that the extraordinarily mundane won’t appear, but there aren’t any plans for it.)
Also note that I haven’t enabled comments. It’s not that I’m not interested in what you may have to say, but I’m more concerned about comment spam and unwarranted attacks. I don’t have time to police the GPF forums and a blog, so if you have a comment you just have to share, feel free to e-mail me at the address on the GPF site. Eventually, I may enable comments, but not for now.
Enjoy.
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