Waffle

A couple of days ago, I tried coloring in GIMP on the iBook. I can do it, but don't think I will make a habit of it. GIMP works but the laptop screen isn't all that accurate. I could only do professional-level work on the iBook if I already had a well-established palette (and the palette was present on the iBook). It'll come in handy in a pinch, but not for regular production.
This image will be used, though. The cast page for Atra still lacks a full picture.
This weekend, I'll do some serious geeking-out on the iBook, creating (I hope) local mirrors of all my websites. That means installing Movable Type on it, and figuring out how good the bundled version of Apache actually is.

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Thanks, Collin Branko, for sending in the first entries to our Waffle Creative contest! Behind the cut:

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I've been getting interested in using iPhoto to manage my drawings, so this feature on the programme should come in handy (via).
Meanwhile, iTunes has been displaying other people's playlists over the local network at work, but not, so far, letting me play them. Generally, I still need to work on networking and folder sharing, especially with the Windows machine. I don't think I'm getting as much as I can out of that aspect of the iBook.

Reinder and I were sitting in a bar with some friends tonight and noticed this peculiar coaster. A beer commercial, with two males and a female not quite comfortable sitting drinking beer. There's a weird subtext there, but we're not quite sure what. We'd like your help in figuring out what it is. (pictures behind the cut)

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According to The Belfry Webcomics Tracker, the webcomics host Keenspace has been down for several hours. Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan, whose main site is hosted on Keenspace, can be had at Modern Tales, as always.

I don't know the cause of the outage, and the Keen Forums are not yielding much information yet (they're up but there is no news about the outage), but it seems unrelated to the Keenspace name change, as the server that all of Keen is located on is not responding, and doesn't carry the Keenspace domain name.
Fixed.

I knew she's not the smartest person in showbizz, but to forget the doors to the General Lee are (supposed to be) welded shut?
Watch the video (beware, errors in Firefox and Opera) here, (and you'll have to watch some commercials first).

Edit: another link to the video thanks StatusNil
For your convenience, I made some screen-shots (behind the cut):

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Not long from now the modern day Dukes of Hazard movie will appear in theatres: the gang of modern day Robin Hoods now played by Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, with Willie Nelson and Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg. With this cast I have very little hope they'll do the series much justice, it seems to become more of a spoof like the Starsky and Hutch movie. In that light I tried to imagine what our heroes would drive these days: (pictures behind the cut)

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Reader Martin Diehl has just alerted me that my email address reinder@despammed.com is unavailable. I don't know how long this has been the case and for how much longer it will be, but if you must reach me urgently, my gmail address is my first name, reinder, and my last name, dijkhuis, separated by a dot, at gmail.com.

If you have an account at Onlinecomics.net and like my comics, please take some time to add the two comics I've got listed there to your favorites.
Onlinecomics listing for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan
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If you're a webcomics creator whose stuff I like, and you don't see your comic listed in my favorites, drop me a line and I'll rectify the situation.

I had an email from a reader the other day urging me to join one of those topsite lists. I might do so in the future, when the time is right, but for now, I don't really like them. If you want to show your appreciation, marking any of my comics as a favorite in Onlinecomics.net is your best option for the time being. Thanks.

So after band rehearsal, Jeroen, Danny, Sidsel and I went to Scholtens Wristers at half past 12 to check out the queues at the Harry Potter launch. When we arrived, there was a sizable throng already, reaching to the bend in the road towards the Vismarkt. Unlike two years ago, there was no scaffolding on the buildings opposite the store, so we didn't get a good vantage point to view the proceedings from. But then, there wasn't that much to see.

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