Archive for ‘August, 2009’
Hey,
As you may have noticed, the site’s been pretty jerky over the last 24 hours. Essentially there was a big spike in traffic that gave the server a bit of a migrane and bad stuff happened (I’m not sure if it’s connected to the downtime we had earlier in the week or not). I’ve been working at fixing this (read: screaming loudly at the laptop screen). It’s a little tricky, as when the site goes down for you it also goes down for me making it nearly impossible to do any maintenance. But my hosting service (Dreamhost) have been pretty good, providing a temporary private server and stuff, and we’re working on getting the problem sorted.
For up-to the minute reports on what is happening, please see my Twitter. Hopefully everything should be sorted in time for Friday’s update. In the meantime, why not read Basketcase Comics or Last Place Comics?
Thanks for your patience,
Luke
Sorry to anyone who got “internal server error” when trying to access the site for the last few hours. I have no idea how it happened, especially considering that I haven’t even been near a computer for a week to mess things up. Hopefully all should be fixed now.
L
At 7.30pm each night at the Camden Roundhouse, Thursday 13th thru Sunday 16th of this month I will be performing in ‘The Golem’, a very cool play adapted from the novel by Gustav Meyrink (no, I’d never heard of him either). Rehearsals have been going pretty well, and it’s shaping up to be a rather good show. Maybe if you are somewhere ’round London at the time you might be interested? Full details including how to book tickets, can be found on this website.
As a result of this and the final rehearsals beforehand, I’m going to have limited Internet access over the next week or so. Comics are scheduled into the sever and the site will update as normal, but I’ll probably be slow to respond to any emails / comments. While I’m away, the site will be kept in order and spam-free under the stewardship if the wonderful Wendy Wood of www.gilbertandgrim.com. Make sure you’re all on your best behaviour, I don’t want to hear any stories of mischief when I get back

Talking of comics and drama, most-famous-person-I-know Emma Vieceli‘s Manga Shakespeare title Much Ado about Nothing has recently hit the shelves in the States - and can still be found in any good bookshop here in the UK. I would thoroughly recommend getting your hands on a copy post haste, indeed my typing of this blog entry has actually been greatly slowed by me continually dipping back into the book.
See you soon!
Luke
Hey,
I put together a few more changes on the site design today (like the new page borders?) Comments are a little more organised, and you can now have “comment threads” meaning you can reply to other commenters slightly more directly (example below).
Another thing is that I’ve calibrated the site for use with the AutoPager Firefox add-on. If you use Firefox (and according to my stats three-quarters of you do) this plugin is quite nifty. On this site what it will do is automatically load the previous comic when you scroll down, meaning you could, theoretically, browse the entire archive with only your mousewheel (no clicks!)
Let me know if you like!
L
Just a heads-up, I’m going to be doing some site maintainance work and stuff which may make viewing the site fairly jerky, and occasionally make the site not work at all. Should be all complete by the end of the day.
L
#UPDATE# Right, that should do it (it was mostly behind-the-scences stuff)
