So I promised them, so here they are, or rather, there they are. Over there.

So on Saturday I set off for London to go to “The Thing”, dragging my brother along with me. I didn’t have a stall or anything, just went to see what a convention was like, and to see the people that make the comics that I read. After taking a wrong turned and walking for while down the wrong end of the aptly named “Mile End” we eventually got there. I swear that was the windiest road in Britain. Today at least. I’d heard the forecast that it’d be a cold one but I thought, “hey, it’s London, it never gets THAT cold in London…” Silly me. So after being battered by the bitterly cold wind it was nice to get inside. I was of course late for a rendez vous with NobbyNobody from the quite simply amazing Odd-fish and Anezka from the TWCL forums. But they were found happily chatting to each other. We even got a free key chain from Nobby. Score! Speaking of Merchandise, I bought the two bunny books, and got Huw to doodle in them. Also, weirdly, I bought Issue one of Steve and Bob by Michael Georiou. Weirdly because I had literally only come across Steve and Bob the night before, and hadn’t realised he was going to be there. So when I recognised the art and characters I had to say hi.

All in all it was a good day out. I bought a few other bits and bobs, got a few freebies and plenty of flyers. The only downside is that the moo minicards that I’d ordered didn’t arrive in time for me to take, so I had nothing to hand out. A bit of a missed opportunity! But it was nice to go to a convention for the first time. And I’ll definitely be going next year. Who knows, I may even get a table!

Due to the success of my Facebook application, and a growing number of emails from other webcomic owners asking for help making their own I have decided to release the files I used, and write a tutorial on how to make your own Facebook application.

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I noticed today that the site has gotten a review on the Buzzcomics website. I actually got the review in December, but have only just noticed it. From what I can’t tell the review is positive. I think. If you want to take a look at it, click here.

In other news, today the 80th person added the Apathetic Rant Facebook application, YAY!

That’s right, you heard it here first; you can now get the latest Apathetic Rant updates sent straight to your profile, for you and all your friends to see! The application is discrete, it won’t fill your news feed with loads of stupid notifications. And it won’t let you throw a sheep at your friends, in fact, it actively discourages it. But, well, it has comics…? That makes it cool right? And ergo, if you have the application, you to are cool. You want to be cool right? Well, you’d better get the app, and invite all your friends to get the app too! Quick!

Sorry for the very late update, I went out to celebrate a birthday, and well, after some drunken leap frogging and one sprained ankle later I didn’t quite feel up to staying to get it done.

Ok, so yet another update. The homepage is somewhat different. Basically I have changed the area under the comic to be a little bit more useful, it now shows the latest updates from the Site Blog (you’re reading that now!) and it also shows the latest comments, comic entries and the latest wallpaper available for download. Speaking of which, there’s a new one for you to check out. It’s in the downloads sections as usual.

The CSS is a bit iffy at the moment, displaying differently across browsers but the basics are there. What do you guys think?

A few more minor adjustments got done today. Well, two. And they took less than five minutes.

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Hey guys, just a quick update on the site. Traffic is steadily improving, we got over 100 hits yesterday, which is a record so far, and the numbers continue to improve, I can only thank all of you who have been telling people about the site. On that theme, I have added two links to the sidebar to help spread the word to potential AP fans. There is a link to Buzz Comix and one for Top Web Comics. When you click the link you are effectively voting for AP, pushing it up the ranks.

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Since everybody loves the comic so much (if I say it enough times, it will come true) I figured that they would want to tell all their friends. And when I say “they”, I mean you, and when I say “tell their friends” I mean, tell everyone you know. Now that has been sort of possible up to now thanks to a piece of code I wrote a short while back. It gives you the code to place your favourites comics anywhere on the web, html to put the comics on your myspace, blog etc and bb code to put the comics in your forum sig. Well, now we go one step further, thanks to the handy “Share This” feature developed by Alex King. After a few tweaks it now sits proudly at the top of the sidebar below the tags. Click on it and you will be rewarded with a list of social sites to share the comic with, from face book to stumble upon, with a nifty Email feature too. So go on, tell people, you know you want to.

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