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2/03/08
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Woah.  People are still checking the site?  Nice.  So yeah, I disappeared again.  Why you ask?  Well, the basic truth of it was that I was just remarkably uninspired.  But I'm back now.  For how long?  Who knows.  But I'm going to try to help keep it going for as long as possible by changing my update schedule.  No longer will I update every Sunday and Wednesday, but instead on every Senday, plus some Wednesdays.  Hopefully this will keep me from getting too overwhelmed with the update schedule, and allow me to keep going longer before needing breaks.  The RSS feed will always update when the comic does, so you can keep track with that.<P>

So in the short term, the plan is to have this comic today, then another one on Wednesday.  Then the Portal week I promised you (updates on S/W/F).  After that, it's going to be the schedule described above.
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12/21/07
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Woah.  What happened to the Portal Week I promised you all?  This time it was not my fault.  What you don't know is that Sunday I left for a vacation with my family.  Now, surely, I figured to myself, surely the resort we will be staying at will have internet access.  After all, this is a fancy resort, one which costs almost $400 a night.  And even the cheapest Super 8 Motel offers free wireless these days.  I'll be able to update my comic from the hotel, I thought to myself.<P>

I was wrong.<P>

The resort had internet access, however it was not wireless.  Instead, you had to plug into the only jack in the place, which was in the bedroom in which I was not staying, using a cable that you brought yourself (I always carry 2m of cat5 with me, so that wasn't a problem, but was still pretty crappy of the).  Furthermore, they wanted you to pay and ADDITIONAL $10 per day, or $40 a week for the priveledge.  Now, I love the webcomic, and I love being able to bring regularly scheduled updates, but I can't justify the $40 cost just to update the webcomic three times (that one payment would have almost doubled my annual costs).  As such, I was without internet access for an entire week.  Trust me when I say that it was much more painful for me than it was for any of you who missed that comic.<P>

So what now?  Well, you may have noticed that Christmas is around the corner, and I'd like to do a comic themed around that or two.  As such, I'm postponing Portal Week until sometime likely in January.  This has the fortunate side effect of allowing me to draw two more Portal comics and letting Portal week be a 5 day event.  So until then, check back on Sundays and Wednesdays, and I'll do all I can to have a new comic up for you.
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12/09/07
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A few new things have happened.  First and foremost, I have added a comments system to the site, located at the top of the sidebar that houses the shoutbox.  The forums have never gotten much attention, but the shoutbox has always been relatively popular.  The problem is that the forums are too disconnected from the comic page to be convenient (requiring registration) and comics on the shoutbox quickly lose their context.  This should fix both of those problems, allowing quick, anonymous commenting on individual comics (each comic automatically has its own comment thread which is kept separate).  I don't foresee either the forums or the shoutbox going away; this is meant to supplement them, not replace them.  That said, we'll see how you all end up using them.<P>

Additionally, if you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll notice that I am no longer reserving all rights.  Instead, I reserve <i>some</i> rights.  The site, and all its content, is now licensed under Creative Commons.  So enjoy.
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