Previous News03.09.2009 - Terrence Marks:It's been kind of a busy week for me.
Firstly, after six months of downtime, The Nice's forums have been brought back and upgraded from UBB6 to phpBB3. There was a server crash in October that brought our old forums down, so we've moved to a more stable and maintainable system - and from a collection of thousands of text files to a real database. The old forum is available in read-only mode for private messages (which couldn't be migrated) and anything else we may have missed.
Secondly, the entire archives of Unlike Minerva are back online. For the last few years we only had an edited version up, which didn't include the original pre-restart beginning. Since we've got the tenth anniversary coming up on March 15th, it's only fair to show what it's the anniversary of. This also puts Unlike Minerva and its sequel, You Say it First at over 2000 comics, combined.
Thirdly, we're running Unlike Minerva with commentary, Monday through Friday at UnlikeMinerva.com. It'll be at quintuple-speed, with a new week of comics up every day.
Fourthly, to celebrate the fourth anniversary of NamirDeiter.net, our reward site for donors, we've got a special this month only - subscribe at $4/month for as long as you like, or, if you donate $10, get free online access to one of our past bonus books.
Fifthly, we've got a public tour of NamirDeiter.net. Because after four years, there's probably a lot of people curious as to what's inside. I'm sure it's not the first bonus site, and it's probably not the biggest, but there's an awful lot there at the moment.
Sixthly, people keep asking us: "Isabel has drawn how many comics?". We've got a running total now. Currently it's 5713, or about 27 centiHolbrooks. Any larger and we'd have to get into Tezuka units.
03.07.2009 - Terrence Marks:I've been busy. For one thing, I've got a big pile of audiotapes that I'm trying to digitize. A good chunk of them are 4-track recordings of my band. I don't have a tape deck. The only ones I see for sale are either cheap things that eat tapes or $200 home stereo systems. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on speakers I'm not going to use, and some of these tapes can't be replaced (I really, really hope I've got another copy of The Modern Lizard Quartet - The Rough Mixes Years somewhere, or that I can splice it back together...).
Man, it makes me feel old to have a big pile of stuff that I can't use anymore because I can't find anything to play it on. Even the places I figured might sell them aren't in business anymore. So I think it's a pretty good metaphor. But seriously, if any of you know where I can get a decent tape deck for a decent price let me know.03.04.2009 - Terrence Marks:Wallpapers are up - three of them each for Namir Deiter and You Say it First! There are also three more weeks of Unlike Minerva commentary.Now, when last I spoke, I mentioned a subscription - here's how it works: Just $4 gets you into the concentrated awesomeness that is NamirDeiter.net. Unlike our usual, it's a recurring charge, $4/month, until you decide to cancel. Why? To celebrate NamirDeiter.net's fourth anniversary.
If you send us $10, you will get a free e-book of your choice from our extensive library. If you don't specify, you'll probably get Better than Valentine's Day, a double-sized Spare Parts book that I think more people should read.
03.01.2009 - Terrence Marks:This month only, we're offering a subscription service. Sign up now and it'll be $4/month for as long as you keep the account active. More news tomorrow or so.02.27.2009 - Terrence Marks:You know how I mentioned projects a while back? Firstly, I'm getting The Nice's forums up again. Secondly, I'm rehabilitating Unlike Minerva's archives. I'm going to be re-doing the main page real soon now. I've got commentary up for the first two weeks , and I'll probably add another two or three every week, time and memory permitting. I probably shouldn't have waited nine years, eleven months before starting this. Mind you, the first six months of Unlike Minerva don't count; I restarted the comic and most everything before isn't canon.02.23.2009 - Isabel Marks:Is anyone still having the short site outages? We haven't noticed ourselves, so hopefully that's a good thing... Terrence also worked around the statistic issues... which is good only for us and only because we're curious. As we don't have banner ads, those numbers don't do too much, but they sure do mean a lot. Thank you for being a reader (and as a result, adding to the numbers).Over the weekend you may have noticed a few small changes to Namir Deiter's front page. We now have several new characters added to the header image's rotation (and updated the old ones) and new small button links to our other comics and sites. ND Unlimited, a directory to all our series, both updating and otherwise, got a much needed update.
You may have also noticed You Say it First's... lack of facelift. I know, sorry... don't worry, like many other much needed things, it's coming.
Pretty sure that's all I have for today's update- hope everyone has a great week!
02.19.2009 - Terrence Marks:No blog post this week. I've got projects.In the meantime, enjoy this video of Caravan performing "Golf Girl", one of their poppier and more popular songs. I had been looking for something like this for a while: the lead singer? Richard Sinclair.