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		<title>Year In Review &#8211; The Good</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2010/02/16/year-in-review-the-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has it been a year already? Boy does the time fly! Since last year, a total of 56 comics were done. Personally, I didn&#8217;t even think I would make it to 52, let alone exceed it. Though some stand out in my mind as personal favorites, what are yours? I want to know! Now don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has it been a year already? Boy does the time fly!</p>
<p>Since last year, a total of 56 comics were done. Personally, I didn&#8217;t even think I would make it to 52, let alone exceed it. Though some stand out in my mind as personal favorites, what are yours? I want to know!</p>
<p>Now don&#8217;t look at this like I&#8217;m try to justify my thoughts on my favorites, but so I can find which comics stand out and I can use what worked in those comics in the future. I can&#8217;t improve if I don&#8217;t know what works and what doesn&#8217;t. This is less of a self-congratulatory pat on the back for myself and more of an evaluation from you to me.</p>
<p>With that in mind, pick 3 comics from the last year that stand out in one way or another, and I&#8217;ll compile a list of the best comics from last year. Don&#8217;t want to pick 3 because you can&#8217;t find a total of 3 that were that great, then don&#8217;t!</p>
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		<title>Year in Review &#8211; The Bad</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2010/02/16/year-in-review-the-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;ve decided what the best comics of the year were, now lets talk about the bad! Personally, if I had to choose, I would pick PPLFROMIRL 3.0 again if I could, but that wasn&#8217;t last year (can you imagine it was actually 7 years ago this week that I started that, and 6 years [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, you&#8217;ve decided what the best comics of the year were, now lets talk about the bad!</p>
<p>Personally, if I had to choose, I would pick PPLFROMIRL 3.0 again if I could, but that wasn&#8217;t last year (can you imagine it was actually 7 years ago this week that I started that, and 6 years when I started weekly last year?). Here, you can pick the 3 worst comics of the year, and this poll will be a reminder of what not to do in the future.</p>
<p>Now, I can think of well more than 3 myself, but I&#8217;m going to limit it at 3 regardless. I don&#8217;t think my self esteem could handle the harsh truth that probably 80% of the comics were crap last year.</p>
<p>Like the last poll, once it&#8217;s over, I&#8217;ll post the results. Happy voting!</p>
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		<title>I Love Breaking My Website</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2009/03/15/i-love-breaking-my-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pplfromirl.com/?p=411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always seem to get this great idea of &#8220;Hey, I want the website to have this or that. Lets try it!&#8221; and I always end up with &#8220;How did this happen&#8221; and &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t I pay attention during class back at the NSCC&#8220;. Apologizes ahead of time if there is something broken. Everything should [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always seem to get this great idea of &#8220;Hey, I want the website to have this or that. Lets try it!&#8221; and I always end up with &#8220;How did this happen&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/2003/05/08/pplfromirl-v30-4-this-is-going-to-happen-at-least-once/" target="_blank">Why didn&#8217;t I pay attention during class back at the NSCC</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>Apologizes ahead of time if there is something broken. Everything should be fine for tomorrows comic.</p>
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		<title>Reinventing Myself</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2009/03/06/reinventing-myself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should be sleeping, but I had the urge to finish this. Working on a new design for myself since I&#8217;m the most basic character (out of like &#8230; four in total) to draw, so I want to change things up a bit, plus do a little bit of color testing. I think it came [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I should be sleeping, but I had the urge to finish this. Working on a new design for myself since I&#8217;m the most basic character (out of like &#8230; four in total) to draw, so I want to change things up a bit, plus do a little bit of color testing.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/v4mike21.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="244" alt="v4mike2" src="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/v4mike2-thumb1.png" width="124" border="0" /></a> </p>
<p>I think it came out pretty well, and it can only get better &#8230; Right?</p>
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		<title>Status of the Site</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2009/02/11/status-of-the-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The site has been in need of a good kick start for a while, so lets run down some new stuff. Ability to browse through an author or era of comics. All my old comics are split up by era, and Dice&#8217;s and Mark&#8217;s are split up to just follow through theirs. With that came [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The site has been in need of a good kick start for a while, so lets run down some new stuff.</p>
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<li>Ability to browse through an author or era of comics. All my old comics are split up by era, and <a href="http://twitter.com/dicey">Dice&#8217;s</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/mark_franche">Mark&#8217;s</a> are split up to just follow through theirs.</li>
<li>With that came an update to the archive. You can browse a lot easier by month, day, year. You can access the Archive <a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/archives/">here</a>, and you can find all of the sorting of comics there as well.</li>
<li>Twitter will automatically notify you if there&#8217;s a new comic.</li>
<li>The site won&#8217;t break due to the old comics and their irregular sizes. They&#8217;ll be automatically sized down to fit in the format.</li>
<li>And (hopefully I can keep this going) regular Monday updates. I&#8217;ve got enough of a backlog of material I can use to go for a while without struggling to come up with something, so I&#8217;ll try my best to stay on schedule. <a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/2002/11/12/shut-up/">But we remember the last time I tried to stick to a schedule</a>.</li>
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<p>That said, I would love ANY feedback on how to improve the site or what doesn&#8217;t work for example (please, I never get feedback!) and we can make this a better place! Just leave a comment on this piece. That said, hopefully I&#8217;ll see you Monday.</p>
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		<title>Just when I want to work on something &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2008/08/07/just-when-i-want-to-work-on-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that something always gets in the way. In this case, its my PC. Let me paint you a picture. I use my PC for making and managing the comics or any other heavy lifting, and the Macbook is for communication. I keep the two seperate for the sake of productivity, and its worked [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems that something always gets in the way. In this case, its my PC.</p>
<p>Let me paint you a picture. I use my PC for making and managing the comics or any other heavy lifting, and the Macbook is for communication. I keep the two seperate for the sake of productivity, and its worked pretty well.</p>
<p>So over the course of the last week, I&#8217;ve noticed some issues with Vista on my PC. Namely, the biggest issue, is whenever I right-click on an application, be it shortcut or direct file, explorer crashes. Odd. So for the most part, I ignored it, since I didn&#8217;t NEED to right-click at the time, but the problem was still there. Over time, I needed to do a bit of troubleshooting on programs, and to do so, I NEEDED to right-click on the application to put it into compatibility modes or change the shortcut line, but no dice. Explorer crashes.</p>
<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been intruged by this whole live blogging thing, (<a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/live-stream/">as you can tell by the link up at the top</a>), and decided to stream my desktop live while sketching some stuff. I didn&#8217;t have a comic in mind, so I figured I&#8217;d fool around with a sketch, and that anyone who wanted to watch me fool around could do so. Problem is, the program recommended to me doesn&#8217;t work properly in Vista, and requires compatibility mode, which then requires me to RIGHT-CLICK.</p>
<p>Fed up with the errors, I backed up the little things and formatted away. Now, upon reformatting and attempting to install updates, Vista has gone into an endless <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">setlist</span> loop trying to install updates, and never seems to go anywhere. So now, here I am, reinstalling Vista again for the third time in 24 hours. Why is it I always have the troubles with these things?</p>
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		<title>iPod&#8217;n</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2008/07/22/ipodn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I saw the WordPress app go up for iPod and iPhone users and decided to give it a spin. &#8230; &#8230; I don&#8217;t think I have any reason to blog from on the go, since the sites focus is comics, but hey, at least I can do it, right?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I saw the WordPress app go up for iPod and iPhone users and decided to give it a spin.</p>
<p>&#8230; &#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think I have any reason to blog from on the go, since the sites focus is comics, but hey, at least I can do it, right?</p>
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		<title>Cha&#8217;Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2008/07/16/chamark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark wanted an avatar picture like Ben got last month. Here is my response.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark wanted an avatar picture like Ben got last month. Here is my response.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/markdaily-cha.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="195" alt="MarkDaily-cha" src="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/markdaily-cha-thumb.png" width="195" border="0"></a></p>
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		<title>Rockin&#8217; Out</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2008/07/10/rockin-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to make a comic today, but didn&#8217;t have anything really in mind, so I decided to just whip something up. I didn&#8217;t realize until I was finishing the inking stage that I drew me holding the guitar on the wrong hand, unlike this sketch where I was holding it correctly. If I was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> I wanted to make a comic today, but didn&#8217;t have anything really in mind, so I decided to just whip something up. I didn&#8217;t realize until I was finishing the inking stage that I drew me holding the guitar on the wrong hand, unlike <a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/gh.png" target="_blank">this sketch where I was holding it correctly</a>. If I was going to do a comic today, it was going to be with me playing Rock Band in some form or fashion, so I figured it couldn&#8217;t go to waste. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rockbandle.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="244" alt="RockBandle" src="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rockbandle-thumb.png" width="244" border="0"></a></p>
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		<title>Color Test #1</title>
		<link>http://www.pplfromirl.com/2008/07/09/color-test-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Opelious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to give a quick try at coloring an existing panel to see how well it would turn out. Using some stuff I&#8217;ve learned from doing these recent strips, I was able to give this some basic color in only a few minutes with minimal cleanup. Not sure if I&#8217;ll color the actual strips, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to give a quick try at coloring an existing panel to see how well it would turn out. Using some stuff I&#8217;ve learned from doing these recent strips, I was able to give this some basic color in only a few minutes with minimal cleanup. Not sure if I&#8217;ll color the actual strips, but its nice to see that it can turn out well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/dailycolortest1.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" src="http://www.pplfromirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/dailycolortest-thumb1.png" border="0" alt="DailyColorTest" width="244" height="244" /></a></p>
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