I used to play bass drum in a marching band. The problem with this is, you're stuck at the back, and the bass drum harness really inhibits your walking ability. Thusly, you start falling behind everyone else. Instinctively, you begin to walk faster to catch up, thereby quickening your drum beat and causing the whole band to move away from you at an even faster rate.

Eventually the whole thing lapses into a Benny Hill affair of people playing sped up music and quickly walking around an oval. At least, that's how I remember it.

For those of you unaware, a recent TV show "Yasmin's Getting Married" (a more drawn out version of "Blind Date" with the resulting union being legally binding) has been axed about a week after airing because of extreme unpopularity.

Now, whilst I feel some sort of pity for poor Yasmin, having to deal with a) being rejected by every man she's met, b) letting the entire country know she's entirely desperate and c) the entire country rejecting her once more, I'm pleased to report that her TV show has (at least temporarily) been replaced by Futurama re-runs. Sure, I've seen them all before, but that's the first time in about fifteen years a TV executive has made a decision that has pleased me (basically ever since the creation of reality TV).

7th of August, 2006. I'll always remember this date.

Oh and Yasmin, if you're reading, I watched the show for about five minutes. You're not boring nor your plight so depressing per se, it's just that the show chiefly consisted of uninterested and unprepared hosts sitting on couches offering banal improvised conversation.

Yes, still here. Just another weekend with precious spare time for comicking, hence the lack of update. Apologies. Will try to remedy this soon.

After two years away from Australia, I'm a little worried that we're in the middle of winter and I'm boiling hot. I can't even conceive of what summer is going to be like, although I do have a distant memory of the soles of my shoes feeling like they are on fire and the rivers of sweat on my back adhering me to the couch. Can't wait.

Hi,

Hate to do this to you twice in the one year, but once more I'm going to have to call a hiatus on the comic. Unfortunately things have become far too busy for me at the moment to be able to update regularly. Hopefully in a month I will be able to get things back on track.

In the meantime, thanks for reading, I hope to be back to my old tricks soon.

Spargs is understating when he says "things". Congrats to the happy couple!

That's right, I'm married now. AND I didn't screw up in the ceremony. Although I did think I was going to faint at one point. Also, I did down a few champagnes and ride a golf buggy so haphazardly Emm's dress tore off the shoulder.

Good times.

Thanks to everyone who was there to help us celebrate and to everyone who sent in well-wishes. I had a pretty good night, so I'm pretty certain everyone else did.

Hi Y'all -

Yep, I'm still around. Just to let you know I'm going to be participating in the Comixpedia "Fright Night Project", whereby I shall be redrawing some other webcomic characters adding my own unique perverse twists.



Entries are shown 31st of October, at least that's what I read off the website.

Now, as for making some damn digi-comics again anytime soon, we'll see. There are a few other things I want to do with my non-work time at the moment, but rest assured I shall be back to regular updates at some point.

Jak se mas.

Some guest comicking action on digi-comic soon, I have done a guest comic for another webcomic, and they for me. These comics shall become available once the Fright Night event is underway, I shall keep you posted.

I must say the whole drawing another persons comic/having them drawing your comic thing is pretty god damn fun. I both heartily and pancreatically recommend it.

Comixpedia's Fright Night is up, and you can find the remixed Digicomic here (many thanks to Eddie Bowley of Eddegg for that!). Rollover the image to get the remix.

The Digicomic remix of this Eddegg original resides here.

For the Australian readers ...

NEWS.COM.AU: ABC drops Glass House.

Bollocks.

Fortunately Digi-comic is not associated with the ABC, and can still freely liken Howard's countenance to that of a horse's butt without being accused of political bias.

Did it smash?

Nice Fright Night comic, by the way.

Yes, it did smash.

Verily.

Thanks, I was happy with the Fright Night thingy. Here is a direct link to it if my links to it above were too confusing, or if the frightnight server goes down ...

Good news everyone, it seems Peter Jackson probably WILL direct the Hobbit movie after all.

Many of us nerds baulked at the idea of a non PJ director being given control at the last minute - presumably some sort of Michael Bay type.

Of course, nothing is confirmed yet, but my mood ring has turned a more calming blue colour.

I just wanted to check out this youtube embedding function. So here's Weird Al's "White and Nerdy".

Greetings people -

Well, I've had this half done redesign for the website sitting around for a good four months or so now so I figured I'd just plaster on the bloody thing, fully complete or not. So you might notice half of the website is a clean new css based design, with a chunky ol' table based heart.

So what the hell's been going on you ask? Why was the last post in December last year? Let's just say, don't get old if you want to succesfully run a comic strip. Too much "big boy" stuff gets in the way (however, I do own a house now as one of the results of the past half year's events, which is awesome).

I can't say the prospect of new Digicomics in the near future is terribly likely unfortunately, although I would like to get back to them eventually. Before that I'd like to try my hand at some flash cartoons, specifically of Casual Jim. The idea of playing around with various amusing sound effects and silly voices is quite appealling to me, as would it be to all. We'll see how they turn out, I'll probably post them up here even if they turn out to be utter shite.

Well, maybe not utter shite. Moderately shite.

The other big news is I recently aquired a Playstation. One. That's right, I'm getting into all the cool stuff people were raving about in the mid nineties. Tenchu totally rocks man.

Anyway, I'll continue to post here with further progress of either Casual Jim or Digicomic stuff. Hopefully in less than half a year this time.

A new trailer has been released for the Transformers live action movie.

The trailer looks absolutely fantastic and has me very excited, which means that it is extremely likely the movie is going to suck a great deal.

Still, I've very happy that the original transformation sound has been worked back in. Chk-chur-chr-chr-chr.

Well, I've reached the age of rock and roll death, 27. The year Cobain shot himself, Jim Morrison died of a heart attack and Jimi Hendrix choked on vomit (of course, they can't really prove whose vomit it was - you can't really dust for vomit).

This is the beginning of an exciting new era of comfy slippers and pipe smoking. I'm currently working on making my front lawn nice and green so I can yell at kids to stop playing on it.



In other news, the constructicons have almost finished replacing the roof on my house - everything should be completed today assuming they don't go forming Devastator and trash the place. That's a good thing, as the roof is 1930s vintage, and whilst making an excellent possum refuge wasn't terribly effective at deflecting water.

Congrats at having made it through another of those "year" things. May you have many more.

Apparently, the 25th of May is also the birthday of Star Wars, at least, it was the release date for Yanks. So happy birthday to both of you, and your roof.

Thanksch.

Also my birthday is International Towel Day, which is fantastic.

Desktop Tower Defence. Most addictive flash game. EVER.

Do not start playing if you have a deadline, an assignment or an appearance in court looming. You will miss it.

Hi Everybody -

If you've downloaded the Apple Safari browser for windows, and it's not displaying any fonts, the problem lies in the XML file Safari generates for listing all your system fonts.

Look here: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME HERE\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Fonts.plist

You can edit this file and hack in the basic Internet fonts you need, or try plugging in the Fonts.plist file from a machine that did display the fonts correctly.

Apparently the apple forums are saying if you have thousands of fonts installed it's probably the cause of the problem.

Here is my hacky solution file if you need a starting point.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Names</key>
<dict>
<key>Lucida Grande</key>
<string>C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\Lucida Grande.ttf</string>
<key>Lucida Grande Bold</key>
<string>C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\Lucida Grande Bold.ttf</string>
<key>Lucida Grande Bold.ttf</key>
<string>C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\Lucida Grande Bold.ttf</string>
<key>Arial</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf</string>
<key>Arial Bold</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALBD.TTF</string>
<key>Arial Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALI.TTF</string>
<key>Arial Bold Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALBI.TTF</string>
<key>Verdana</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdana.ttf</string>
<key>Verdana Bold</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdanab.TTF</string>
<key>Verdana Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdanai.TTF</string>
<key>Verdana Bold Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\verdanaz.TTF</string>
<key>Times New Roman</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\times.ttf</string>
<key>Times New Roman Bold</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\timesbd.ttf</string>
<key>Times New Roman Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\timesi.ttf</string>
<key>Times New Roman Bold Italic</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\timesbi.ttf</string>
<key>Helvetica</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\HVL_____.TTF</string>
<key>Courier New</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\COUR.TTF</string>
<key>Tahoma</key>
<string>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\tahoma.TTF</string>


</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

I should point out that if you break your machine following my instructions, it's your fault for assuming I know what I'm talking about.

I recently purchased the new White Stripes album, Icky Thump (a misspelling of Ecky Thump, a Goodies episode famed for killing a man), and it's taken a few listens but I suspect it's a rather good album.

I'd describe it as "Jack White does musical genres". Including Scottish folk music, Mariachi music and whatever the hell genre Creedence Clearwater Revival belongs to (Southern delta blues swamp rock or some other funk-country-blues-sing-through-your-nose equivalent).

My first impression was that it was a little disjoint and/or daggy but it seems to be one of those albums that grows on you.

I give it four out-of-tune guitar strings out of five.

News.com.au recently likened John Howard to Yoda and Kevin Rudd to Luke Skywalker.

What the hell? Yoda was wise and for the powers of good. Howard is more like the emperor, a man grown overconfident in his absolute power through years sitting on his fancy throne unchallenged. However, it all comes undone when he fails to factor in armies of angry teddy bears.



But even this analogy is not perfect, as John Howard most resembles Dark Helmet from Spaceballs.

Well, I went and saw Transformers last weekend, and I must say it wasn't the total disaster I was expecting. In fact I found it *gasp* enjoyable. There was of course stuff I could nitpick, but it was reasonably faithful to the original series and had lots of giant robots beating the crap out of other, so I have little nerd outrage to vent.

Except ... no - it was fine really. I'm not going to start.

Also, today is new phone day! My new Nokia 6300 has proven to be a wise investment, and I was kindly provided with a bonus miniSD card of 128mb (not huge by any stretch of the imagination, but much more useful than the standard 8mb), and a service pack that has the Opera mini browser bundled (very exciting and saves me a lot of buggering around). So hurrah! The phone is pretty mid-range, but has a particularly nice screen, and a standard mini USB port and 2.5mm headphone jacks (shocking).

Hooray! I've constructed my very first pedal board. By linking my guitar effects pedals with patch cables and vecroing them to a ... erm .. board, I now have a handy portable effects unit that allows me to quickly and effectively irritate my neighbours.

Currently most of the pedals are still running off batteries, but I'm looking to daisy chain a power supply once I get some connections that actual fit the pedals.

So what is in my splendiferous effects chain? From right to left:

Digitech Whammy: For creating all those ear-piercing weee-ooohh weee-oooh Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine effects, and for replacing your bass player White Stripes style.

Boss DS-1: Ah, the poor maligned DS-1 pedal. So many people have a problem with the pedal, and would consider its inclusion on a board as rather amateur/embarrassing. Poor little fella. However, rather than a distortion pedal as such I'm currently using this as a "boosting" pedal. With the distortion down to zero it's a neat way to increase the volume of your playing when you switch from rhythm playing to lead (certain people would refer to this as the cock spotlight pedal)

Korg (or something) Tuner: (above the Boss DS-1) Lights up and tells me what I'm playing is hideously off-key and would I please stop.

Dunlop Crybaby Wah: I love this pedal. Everything sounds better with wah. That's right, everything. This pedal takes me from an atonal abuser of the guitar to Hendrix-like sounds with ... oh wait a minute.

Big Muff: I love this pedal even more. Were it not against god's law I'd make it my wife.

So what has this got to do with comics? Well, nothing. I just wanted to show off how crafty I am with velcro and an old cupboard shelf (that I'm hoping nobody notices is missing).