not my blog

So a couple of the guys that used to work with us at the office decided they were going to start a Penny Arcade style comic about tech work. If you ask them, it’s not PA styled, but just looking at it, it just smacks of PA’s influence. They are calling their comic Techs in Debt, and are attempting to use it to help supplement their income so they can get out of debt. Knowing the two of them, it is safe to say that their claims of how large their debt actually is what they say. The comic itself has seen five individual comics so far in the two months they have been on the web, and I think they’ve done a fair job. It’s done in colored pencil for the cartoon, with the dialog being added in afterwards via (insert graphics program here). The style is appropriate I think, just for the fact that it adds to their “I’m poor” mantra. So far, I’ve had one of their comics make me laugh, and two elicit a chuckle. They are pretty much running the normal array of make money tools: Google Ads, Firefox Download, CafePress crap, Affiliate links (Spysweeper and AVG), along with the ever popular donation option.

Given their slacker nature I’ll be very impressed if they ever reach ten total comics on their site (of the level that is there or above… no crap). If they make it that far, I’m going to go ahead and pick up a t-shirt or mug or something from the CafePress store. I figure if I’m going to give them money, I might as well get something out of it.

Also, Alan is getting rid of a used laptop (with a couple missing keys), so make him an offer. It’s a Toshiba (BLAH), but it works and has the usual bells and whistles.

Of course now I need to get them to improve their horrid table ridden web design, and move themselves over to some sort of CMS package. It’s 2006 boys, no reason to be running a website that is nothing but static HTML. Pick a Drupal or Joomla or something, please! Hell, even WordPress would be an improvement, static pages are dead!

Now go view this comic, best one they done so far.