Web spiders have been intermittently DOS-ing my web server, which seems to have been a misconfiguration that I (think) I have fixed.  I'll be keeping a closer eye on things, sorry if things have been down when you've been looking for them.

I was just admiring the number of journal entries I hvae that end in "More to come soon!"  Fun :)

As a little update ... I've finished my comic lister, at least in a rudimentary way.  I can make comic lists, I can add items to it, and it by and large works.  I need to do a few things before I can open it up to the public though:

• Registration probably needs email confirmation to avoid spam.
• Comics on the list need to be editable and deletable.
• More testing

Also, I want to add the ability to have private lists ... I'll probably make private lists as a for-pay thing, but it'll be really cheap (a one-time fee of $5 probably).  That is, if anyone actually wants it.  Could be I'm the only one who ever uses this thing.

All the PHP code is done, at least in a basic sense.  Adding and viewing entries works, though delete and edit would be nice at some point.  I just need to do a little javascript and then I can release this thing.

My comic listing software is taking me longer to finish than I originally planned... but that's kind of how it goes when I'm working on free software.

That being said, it's really close to done.  I'm going to try and pull it all together this weekend for release, and at least get it so the base functionality is there.  It's one of those things where if there's no interest, there's no point in making it feature-riffic anyway.  But I guess all software is like that to some degree.

I'm realising that I will probably never get around to adding comments to the Tanabicom blog, so I think when the comic lister is finished I'll go ahead and release the site source code for better or worse.  It's clear I learned a lot from beginning to end with this project, and there's good and bad, but it gets the job done and that's what matters.

Today I found someone has partially beaten me to the punch.  My idea was basically to make a web comic tool where web comic viewers can store their lists of comics and see them presented by update days.  This makes life a lot more efficient for people who watch a lot of web comics that may or may not have RSS feeds.

However, today I found a web comic social networking site.  The URL escapes me at the moment as I found them through a Project Wonderful ad, but in some ways it's similar.  Except it seems they're more oriented towards like, voting and comic popularity whereas my site is much more centered around the idea of personal organization but at the same time letting your friends see what you're reading.

Anyway, I pludge along.  I've made all the model stuff -- just have to make the user interface.  As I'm not quite yet sure what the most useful means of working on this stuff is yet, it's quite difficult.  I probably won't have it this weekend, but I hope to have it finished next weekend; it's been an idea stuck in my head for awhile, and it's so simple that I just have to see it through!