Hey Lifers and Lifettes! (Okay, THAT one won't stick. Srsly.) Now that things are moving in the store side of things, (and trust me - in the next week probably, I've got some BIG announcements about the store and a CERTAIN figurine that's going to be starting pre-orders) I've found that we've got a very, very small extra stock of the Silhouette shirt ninja t-shirts available! We have all sizes ranging from Small to XXXL, but keep in mind that limited doesn't even BEGIN to describe how many of these we have... two sizes, we only have ONE shirt each in that size. So, that being the case, it would be a good idea to act fast! These will ship out priority mail, so you should get them right quick.

And just a quick note to those of you who have ordered prints - they are going to be on their way shortly. Right after we started the print sale, our trusty HP LaserJet 2550L pretty much gave up the ghost on us. We purchased a 2605dn to take care of things, but that came with a scuff on the fuser film, which left a noticable mark on every print - completely unacceptable. The GOOD thing is, because the 2605dn is apparently discontinued, they're replacing it for free with a 3505dn - about TWICE the price of the 2605dn. It should be arriving here either today or tomorrow, and as soon as it does, we're going to be printing like madmen to get these things out. Sorry it took so long, but equipment failures are, to be frank, a bitch. :P

So, this Feedburner thing.

by sagus

Posted at 03:56 AM on Saturday, May 10, 2008

Upon a little further looking around, I'm thinking perhaps I will be keeping Feedburner around after all.

The main reason is because by using Feedburner, I'm able to automatically add all those sharing links you see at the bottom of the feedburner feed - to sites like stumbleupon, del.icio.us, reddit, technorati and whatnot. That's what all you crazy kids are using now, anyway - I gotta get with the times, I suppose. :)

The best part is, I'm fairly certain now that I can slip PW ads into the feed, and that makes everyone happy. Well, me mostly, but since it means I'm keeping the image in the feed rather than cutting it down to just a link, there's a little bit of goodness to go around. :P

As an aside - be sure to check the rantspace on Monday. Big announcement. :)

I was misled.

by sagus

Posted at 03:12 AM on Friday, May 9, 2008

So, I'm not ENTIRELY sure FeedBurner is the right option for me anymore. See, like people said - yes, FeedBurner does allow for Google ads, which sounds all well and good, but then I find out that those ads ONLY show on the feedburner "site". This is different from the feed itself - it doesn't inline that code into the feed at all. And it doesn't look like it will any time soon, either.

Next step, which someone pointed out to me as well, is to try project wonderful. From what I hear, those ads seem to work in RSS feeds just fine. We shall see. We. Shall. See. :)

That was fast...

by sagus

Posted at 06:08 PM on Thursday, May 8, 2008

So, like I said... if I could figure out how to get ads into the feed, I'd publicize it. Well, many of you alterted me to the fact that feedburner.com has the ability to work adsense ads into the content, so - even though I haven't exactly gotten it up to speed yet, you can switch your subscriptions over to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/reallifecomics/comic/ today. I'll be trying to get the ads in there, but hey - it's definitely a start. :)

And a quick aside - I know a lot of you let me know that I can just change the feed to being a link of the comic rather than the image itself. I know that, but I really dig the idea of the image being in the post... as long as I can still get my due from it. This way, I'll be able to have my cake and eat it too.