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May 9

I never really was one for using tools to help me manage my site. It always felt like cheating for some unknown reason. However, hindsight, it’s probably a good idea to use some soft of 3rd party tool to get me rolling.

Weblob Tools Collection has a few links in Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done that give bloggers nice tools to get things rolling.

Right now I’m using Windows Live Writer. Trying it out. There are some nice features, but I’m not sure if I really .. LIKE it or not.

People area also talking up ScribeFire … which I may look into after this. We’ll see what works the best for me. Really, in the end, use what works the best for you.

For instance, I use a lot of WordPress Plugins. 28 to be exact. Not all are for functionality, but all are used.

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Date May 9th, 2008 Filed in WordPress 2 Comments »

May 1

This Final Earth

Ok, out of all the posts I was going to post I decided this was the one I wanted to roll with this morning.

As you all know (well, probably not but I’ll pretend that I have regular readers) I’m in the middle of writing some stuff. One of which is for a graphic novel that I’m working on with a co-worker here. It takes place in the not to distant future where an unknown race appears from nowhere with nothing in mind but the total annihilation of humanity. JUST for the sake of destruction.

This is the logo I’m running with thus far.

The website is in the works. Really there isn’t much more to show at this point. We’re working on some character designs now (Todd - co-designer - is an amazing artist) and we’ll start getting things worked out.

The cool thing about this project is we’re going to attempt to use all open source. Blender, Gimp, Paint.net, Inkscape … all open source. That’s our goal. Our website is going to be run via WordPress - love it. Hopefully, using all open source, we’ll have more flexibility and be more unique in design. I may also use Ubuntu Studio as a dual boot with WinXP Pro (DOWN WITH VISTA!). But we’ll see how adventurous I am. Learning a slew of new programs may be hard enough - but jumping on a whole new OS may just kill me!

Ok … wish me luck!