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Conservatives should really learn to conserve resources rather then using them up as quickly as possible. Will it take the earth to reject us completely before they come to their senses?

On a brighter note, I solved my issues, and the website can be found at 365yesterdays.com. So the website is all set up with placeholders at the moment though, but I’m sure I’ll have a comic up by the end of the day. For now I’m going to go swimming.

Also I ended up using comicpress rather then manga+press. Mostly because it worked.

Cheers, as I’m off to go swimming. Excuse me while I kiss the sky?

Well, upgraded WP to 2.7.1 and forgot the spot for my twitter boxes AGAIN, so I’ll have to track that down and update it. Trying to think right now how I can update my website as a comic, and whether or not to have it as a seperate addy that redirects here or what.

What’s that, you say? Comic, says I? Webcomic, in fact? Why yes! I’m working on starting up an autobiographical comic about my life as a way of improving my art skills. I have a few different reasons, one of them is that I’m tired of having offline journals and what not, trying to keep track of them. Besides, maybe some people will even learn from my mistakes. It could be a nice possibility.

Still working on my video game (World of Trouble), not sure if I’ve mentioned it on here. Been interesting learning all the different parts of game design and programming. Not sure that I’ll continue in C# past this project though.. It’s taught me a lot, but I’m not the biggest fan of it.

OH! Over on my facebook page I’ve been working on a 365 days of self portraits using my camera, been a lot of fun so far. Hoping to continue that, but I might move it over to Flickr or something so that I can post something about it here.

Back to the webcomic for a moment, it comes with it’s own theme.  I think I’m going to give the plugin and theme a try, maybe have to look into making my own theme some more. Funny that now that I’ve started pulling away from school (For various reasons) I’m finally starting to get a real education. Maybe I’m just the type to learn better from doing… Then again, aren’t most people?

On a personal note I’m looking at restarting a DND group for the amount of time a good friend of mine is in town. And my physical training is shaping up well, even though I’ve yet to go swimming today. Maybe after that belly dancing student night tonight.

EDIT: Well bloody heck. I keep getting an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/corbinis/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mangapress/includes/mangapress-classes.php on line 41

Problem is that when I load the file in question up in Dreamweaver, there is no T_STRING anywhere on line 41.  So there are bugs and issues to sort out. Hopefully they help take care of themselves, or I manage to solve this before I start uploading comics. To victory over the machine I go!

EDIT the second: BAH So it might not be a manga+press issue after all on account of the fact that I loaded up version the first (Manga+Press 1.0) and got the same results. Bah. BAH!!! So I think to fix this I’m going to have to reinstall wordpress ALONG with everything else… but I need to figure out how to back up my entries first. I suspect this will be a “Later this evening project” on account of all the swimming and bellydancing I need to do.

-What’s up me hearties YO HO!

Well lately I’ve been drawing inspiration from a great many sources. But I am writing here for a few reasons. The first is that while UI’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.5 a couple weeks ago, I just had to upgrade to wordpress 2.7 today. But I’ve become a bit of an old hat at it, so it was quick and relatively painless.

And I like the new wordpress interface, I think it will be fun when it comes time to work on my theme.

On that note I’ve also been catching up on most of my projects. Especially Net.Art, though I’m still behind, I’ve picked up a lot on CSS and different ways of using it. I still need to study layout and design options as well as how to achieve them, as it hasn’t quite sunk into my brain yet.

Working on applying for my internship and setting up my portfolio, so also reteaching myself flash. There is my animation project that I’ve been slaving over in my mind, so hopefully I’ll be able to finish that (Though I’m going to try to develope a purely digital process of working on it, so that I can work on it in more places).

Also I have links to write about before I get into my project in detail. I’m certain they are all Visual Inspiration links:

First is Newgrounds.com, an older net site hosting tons of flash videos and games. A great time-waster and at the same time reveals many unpolished gems. Lots of addicting stuff too!

Next up is Questionable Content. This website is one that I check almost daily. Though the humor is not always SFW, I find it cheers me on and encourages me.

Following that is Youtube. A great place for finding instructional videos on almost anything as well as for listening to music almost anywhere, a must have for checking.

One Manga is a comic site for translations of japanese comics. The sense of flow in many of these is amazing, there are a few such as Bakuman that I turn to whenever I need inspiration.

CSS Zen Garden is a relatively new discovery for me, but has been a huge aid in learning CSS through examples.

ImagineFX is similar to Deviantart in that it is an artist community, but rather then the catch all approach that DA has, IFX has a more narrow focus towards Fantasy and Sci-fi art. While these are not only my favourite genres, IFX also has a great collection of tutorials.

On now to projects…

One of the major problems I had with these projects was to learn CSS. When I was first taking Net.Art a few years ago, tables was the norm and CSS was just this new thing that people were trying (as far as I knew). Now CSS is everywhere, and it’s hard to imagine how I ever got more then a stone’s throw away while learning how to use it.

After spending days fooling around and playign with code trying to get it right, only to give up in many ways due to time constraints (But I’m still learning, might even come around to work on it some more later).  Other difficulties included not throwing the monitor out the window when things got to frustrating.

All in all, it has been a valuable experience, though I’d do it differently if I have a third time around.

Couple new links in no particular order, first up is Bluehost, my web host.  Here is where the site and my little projects are stored for the most part. They’ve provided me decent service since I first signed up a couple years ago. The site has been through several incarnations since then.

The next is one of several new wordpress links is their Theme Website. I am using this to browse for new ideas and I’ll be referencing other themes from the site as I design my own style for the blog.

Also from wordpress is the codex, a wealth of information on how wordpress works.  I should have been reading through this sooner, I might have made fewer mistakes in creation and implementation of this site.

Similar in nature is the wordpress support forums, another store of information.

Lastly, is not a visual resource in the usual sense of having a refference source, but Alchemy is a downloadable program for drawing that creates a very free form sort of image.  I find this to be excellent for decluttering my head of ideas.

Those are the links, back to some studying!