This week, I moved 1977 to a new host (Dream Host for the curious). At this point in time, the comic site has over 400 comic posts and well over 5500 comments. Add in all the attachments, etc., and you’ve got yourself one whale of a job when moving the site. With WordPress/ComicPress sites, there’s also all the plug-ins, widgets and the CSS modifications to take care of as well. So, getting the site situated on the new host proved time consuming in a week where I had little spare time as it was.
So, Lorraine now will be cutting some hair. We’ll see how her natural attraction to trouble works out for her co-workers and customers! I see a few things coming, don’t you?
Ah, AC/DC. I am a big fan of the Bon Scott era of the band, but still enjoy Brian Johnson’s helm at lead vocals. But Scott’s era of the band coincided with my years of debauchery in the late 70s, so naturally I am drawn to his songs with the band. Today’s comic title rings true with not only Lorraine, but the entire gang. They have a long way to go yet, as does 1977 the Comic. So, click play, read the comic and enjoy your weekend!
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Discussion (19) ¬
I use Webcomic rather than Comicpress on my site, and I’m not planning on switching hosts anytime soon, but I do need to set up a proper backup on a Linux machine. A little birdy tweeted to me that you have tips on moving, but it seemed like it might take more than 140 characters, so….
Ah, I know WordPress and ComicPress stuff, but not much about LINUX, even though I own a copy of the OS for a webserver I use to run. The things I’ve forgotten…
The thing I found out was if you have a big archive, you should do the backups in chunks. I chose years, made it easy to select in the Export function on the WordPress admin page. Importing was a breeze that way.
This is *not* the database backup, but rather the Export/Import functions on the WordPress Dashboard.
Email if you want to know more… I’ll try to help.
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Thanks! Linux is just easier to set up a web server on, in my opinion. The WordPress stuff is good to know. My archive is only around 150 pages or so total, but it still could be a pain.
(And yeah, I should probably mention that I also enjoyed the comic today. I’m always commenting about everything else but!)
Seriously, man. This is perhaps the best one I’ve seen in a while.
Awesome
Yeah, this made me happy too… silly without being over the top. You could see an owner making a women work until the last minute like that.
“Hey, you’re contractions are still 3 minutes apart! Time for another perm…”
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Wot Mavrick said!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
No, seriously. This is funny and striking and sweet and realistic and…just OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Can’t wait to see the finished strip!
And your wish is granted. What a week it’s been, man… too much to do in too little time.
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OH, shit… admin is me if you didn’t guess… damn these settings! 🙂
~laughs~ Don’t worry, it was obvious even without your icon 🙂
And it looks even more awesome in living colour!
Ah, now in my defense, the icons were not showing up last night for me. Damn…
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Hairway to Heaven, huh…?
And they say my puns are bad…
I stand by my puns 100%… 🙂
one of my (myriad of) favourite records is by a texas band and the record’s called “Hairway to Steven”. i love it when anyone makes fun of that song, which is my least favourite zep tune…
i searched “Hairway to Heaven” and it turns out there’s quite a few of salons that go by that name.
Also, hilarious when Loraine said “i can do this” i love little jokes like that.
this something like this happened (sorta) where i used to get my hair cut. the lady broke her finger or two and the rest of the people were just standing there cutting hair then finally someone pulled out their phone and called 911 she was fine but quit and sued. I never got a good haircut from that place again. Beleive it or not someone came in and had a conversation similar to that. “Thank Maranda for quitting and leaving an open spot” were the last words in the conversation. The owners of the place tried to blame Maranda even though no one would help her with the broken fingers.
sorry about the rant. when i wrote this I was in that happy little phase after drunk and before hangover
Eh, rant away… it’s a free world.
But it is a sad day when your co-workers won’t even help you with a broken finger(s). Either Maranda was a total bitch, or the others were just completely ignorant. Luckily, I do most of my work by myself, so the only butt-head is me.
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