Josh Nichols

I was in the news, again

I attempted the the 24 Hour Comics thing again this year and I teamed up with a friend. We did a comic jam of two different stories that would be bound in a flip-book style comic. The trick was that the stories had to relate and every half hour, we would trade our half-finished page and let the other finish it with no pre-planning. Since we were going to end up with 24 pages between the both of us, we did the challenge in 12 hours instead of 24. I know it doesn’t exactly fit the rules, but 24 hours is too much work, in my opinion. The last time I tried it I was a zombie for the rest of the week.

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Midmococo feature in the Missourian

I’m part of a small group of comic enthusiasts called the Mid-Missouri Comics Collective (Midmococo) and during our last meeting we had a reporter from the Missourian interview us about the group. Zac, Scott and I each contributed a self-portrait for the story, which came out today. Go give it a read!

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CanoScan LiDE 80 Mac drivers dead

I get really annoyed when I buy a computer accessory and after one simple upgrade, poof! it stops working. It’s was understandable when I moved from OS9 to OSX. It was whole new operating system and software had to be rewritten, so I dealt with it, but the transition from a PowerPC to an Intel processor shouldn’t be a problem. For some reason, Canon wants to make it a problem.

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I’m on McCloud nine

I know, the title of this post is sooo lame, but I don’t care. I got my copy of Making Comics signed by Scott McCloud!

Winter and I took a road trip to St. Louis yesterday to Star Clipper Comics so we could see Scott McCloud on his 50 state tour promoting his new book. His talk was informal and fun and I had a good time talking to other comic fans who were there.

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My new desk

Check out my new score from the university surplus. I’ve been waiting a long time for one of these to show up. It’s a Hamilton brand wooden light-box drafting table from the 60s. It’s solid as a rock and the glass doesn’t have a scratch on it. All it needs is refinished and rewired and it’ll look brand new.

I’ve been using a regular drafting table and a large light-box on another desk. Now they’ll be combined into one desk, saving me a bunch of space. I can’t wait to start using it! :-)

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More PSP hackery: Ripping PS1 games in OSX

What’s the fun of having a PSP if you can’t play your old Playstation 1 (PSX) games on it? None! That’s why I decided to write this handy guide on ripping and converting a PSP game for play on a PSP with custom firmware 3.40 OE.

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This hotlink is too hot!

Someone copied my Ebay listing and hotlinked my images, so I decided to change the images. I hope this link isn’t too hot! >;-)

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PSP hackery

Not satisfied with messing around seeing which Xbox games really work on the 360, I decided to do something much more nerdy: Hack a PSP.

I thought about maybe getting a GP2X instead since it’s way easier to run homebrew software, but after hearing about a new Silent Hill for the PSP, I went with the Sony.

Deciding which system to go with was the easy part. The hard part was figuring out how to hack it. Depending on what firmware it has determines how you’re going to downgrade it, or if you can even downgrade it at all.

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Make sure you’ve got extensions

Recently, I took some pictures with a borrowed camera and got some images from the photographer at my wedding. I wasn’t able to upload these images directly off the cameras into iPhoto 6, so I had to import the images later off of a portable drive.

Everything worked fine in iPhoto, and I synced everything up to my video iPod. My intentions were to show off my marriage pictures to family over Easter. When it came time to present the slide show, my marriage photos weren’t on my iPod. Mom was disappointed.

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My domain is safe!

If you didn’t already know, Registerfly is a sinking ship and if they are hosting any of your domains, you better get them out pronto. All the juicy details of sabotage and scandal can be found at Registerflies.com.

I feel bad about it too. I recommended Registerfly to several of my friends and their domains are now stuck in limbo about to expire. Since Registerfly wasn’t putting anything on their site about this situation, I would have been totally oblivious to all this if I hadn’t come across Todd Dominey’s post on the subject. He managed to escape the disaster, but I was too late. My own 2 domains were trapped, until today. I was able to transfer the important one out — joshnichols.com. The other one is still stuck, but I’m not concerned about it.

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