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		<title>I think I&#8217;m walking away&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: 12/30/2011 Alright, the last page of this arc is up. I&#8217;m done for a while&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe it took two months to do it. Thank you all so much for your support, your hits, and your links. I&#8217;m already contemplating the ways that I can come back. Schemes and ideas. So keep half an[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2011/10/i-think-im-walking-away/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Update: 12/30/2011</strong></em></p>
<p>Alright, the last page of this arc is up. I&#8217;m done for a while&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe it took two months to do it. Thank you all so much for your support, your hits, and your links. I&#8217;m already contemplating the ways that I can come back. Schemes and ideas. So keep half an eye on the site, and follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Paoken" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://paokenkeeper.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Deviant Art</a> for my triumphant return.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not putting a date on it, but wander in during the Summer and I&#8217;ll at least have some kind of update for you. Until then: Peace, love and everything else.</p>
<p>-Paoken&#8217;s Keeper</p>
<p><em><strong>End update.</strong></em></p>
<p>I guess I should just stop pussy-footing around it&#8230;I&#8217;ve been trying to deny it to myself for way too long.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m done, for a while at least. I&#8217;ve got no time in my life right now for the comic, and as much as it pains me to say it, I need to hang up it up.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been building for a while now. Since I started Book Two, I think. But I just don&#8217;t have the heart for it anymore. I love The PKF, but it needs to be put aside for a while so I can decide my next move.</p>
<p>See, I thought I&#8217;d be able to hire someone to work on the art for me, but the more I look into it the more I realize that for what I&#8217;d be offering, I&#8217;d be lucky to get a decent penciler. Which would leave me with inks/colors/post work (lettering, bubbles, etc.).</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t think that I could even keep up with that. So I&#8217;d be doing a disservice to the artist, myself, and all of you.</p>
<p>Back when I started this comic I was a bored senior in high school who&#8217;s more strenuous activity was marathon gaming sessions with his friends.</p>
<p>Then it was college&#8230;and let&#8217;s all be honest here, the first two years of college are a joke. I mean, I barely had to work for anything other than an odd project here or there.</p>
<p>But the last two years it&#8217;s been work, studying, preparing for a career, finding a job that starts said career, and now trying to maintain that career and excel at it.</p>
<p>And now my living situation has changed (I&#8217;ve never been one to whine to you, so I won&#8217;t go into it), and I need to concentrate on saving every penny so that I can move out as soon as I can.</p>
<p>So the comic is getting taken off the burner officially.</p>
<p>I hardly have time to sit and relax, let alone force myself to do something that I no longer have a passion for.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s just it, really. I&#8217;m sick of keeping a schedule, the only times I&#8217;ve really enjoyed drawing lately were when I was doing for giggles.</p>
<p>And that means I procrastinate working on the comic.</p>
<p>Worse, it means I put off doing things I WANT to do, like write.</p>
<p>See, I wasn&#8217;t lying about that. I still love to write. But I&#8217;m sick of drawing. I&#8217;m sick of watching my stories stagnate with a weekly (if I&#8217;m lucky) update.</p>
<p>So my illustrious twelve month plan is dead.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;ve got a new idea. Something vaguely crazy, but I think it will work out better for everyone.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to start work on a new story, a new comic. I&#8217;m going to prepare, and work, and write it. Then I&#8217;m going to find an artist, and pay them decently. And I&#8217;m going to publish it online.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not The PKF, it&#8217;s something else. Something that I came up with five years ago, but ignored, but now I&#8217;ve got the angle.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got the idea right.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m going to go for it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll tell you a little secret, when I started the PKF in 2005, I had no idea what I was doing. I had twenty or thirty stories written over a ten year period that I decided I was going to make into a comic.</p>
<p>Since then it&#8217;s expanded as I learned more and more about what I wanted my stories to be. But I&#8217;ve always been left with those early comics that I hadn&#8217;t planned out well enough, and they make my life hell.</p>
<p>But not this time. I&#8217;m going to have this new story totally planned out. And ready. So when it hits the intertubes I&#8217;ll know exactly where it&#8217;s going.</p>
<p>Sadly, this does mean I&#8217;m hanging up my PKF hat for the time being.</p>
<p>But, and here&#8217;s the honest to god truth, I&#8217;ve never stayed away from it for too long. The PKF has been around since I was seven years old, and this was the biggest, longest, period of my life that I consistently work on it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s always been there, and will always be there.</p>
<p>And when I&#8217;m ready, The PKF will continue. Maybe with a time skip. Maybe from right here, right now.</p>
<p>But it will continue. You have my word.</p>
<p>Just&#8230;later.</p>
<p>As it stands, I&#8217;ll finish this arc (I&#8217;ve always hated with web-comics end midarc), but then I&#8217;m going on extended hiatus.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t ask the few of you to keep checking in, that wouldn&#8217;t be fair, I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll relaunch. But if you keep an eye on <a href="http://paokenkeeper.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">My Deviant Art</a>, or <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Paoken" target="_blank">My Twitter</a>, I&#8217;ll keep you appraised and you won&#8217;t even have to check the site.</p>
<p>But if you do stick around, I&#8217;ll keep the blog updated from time to time, and maybe I&#8217;ll even post a picture or two.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>But for now, it&#8217;s goodbye.</p>
<p>Thanks for an amazing six years.</p>
<p>And all the fish.</p>
<p>Peace, love, and all the other good things,<br />
Paoken&#8217;s Keeper<br />
(Keith Thomsen)</p>
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		<title>Accomplish none of the things!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay! Lol, so this week was a total bust as far as &#8216;comic&#8217; things go. As far as new job/life related things go it was pretty sweet. I love the people at my new school&#8230;seriously, aside from a few quirky individuals everyone has been fantastic. And even they&#8217;ve been pretty cool. Now if the kids[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2011/08/accomplish-none-of-the-things/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yay!</p>
<p>Lol, so this week was a total bust as far as &#8216;comic&#8217; things go.</p>
<p>As far as new job/life related things go it was pretty sweet. I love the people at my new school&#8230;seriously, aside from a few quirky individuals everyone has been fantastic. And even they&#8217;ve been pretty cool. Now if the kids are half as awesome I&#8217;ll be in for a good year.</p>
<p>But the week was hectic as all sin. I worked on the summer fun pic a fair amount, but it&#8217;s not really done yet. I&#8217;ll try to finish more of it tomorrow, but today was spent working on more school (work? Not sure what to call it now&#8230;) stuff. But I&#8217;m totally ready for the first three days, and mostly ready for Thursday and Friday. Just need a few more things printed.</p>
<p>In any case it will be up before August is over so help me Gods.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still planning on going back to two a week starting September 6th. Until then the comic is on&#8230;Hiatus? I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d call it that.</p>
<p>Temporarily suspended due to life overload.</p>
<p>TSDtLO?</p>
<p>Lets go with that.</p>
<p>I want to get the last three comics done that would get me through the month, then there&#8217;s only another month or so before I step down as artist (hopefully&#8230;we&#8217;ll see how the whole &#8216;work for me for jack&#8217; thing goes). In any case The 12 Month Plan is still on.</p>
<p>If I think of anything important I&#8217;ll update this post, but otherwise all information stands until further notice.</p>
<p>Thanks again for hanging in there.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<title>My Twelve Month Plan for This Comic&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essentially what follows is my one year plan for making the PKF more popular/profitable. Now, keep in mind, I don&#8217;t want to live off this comic. I&#8217;d love to, but I don&#8217;t really care about that. What that means is basically this: If it can pay for itself, The PKF will continue expanding and growing[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2011/08/my-twelve-month-plan-for-this-comic/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Essentially what follows is my one year plan for making the PKF more popular/profitable.</p>
<p>Now, keep in mind, I don&#8217;t want to live off this comic. I&#8217;d love to, but I don&#8217;t really care about that.</p>
<p>What that means is basically this: If it can pay for itself, The PKF will continue expanding and growing until it either tapers off or I die (or run out of ideas&#8230;which seems unlikely).</p>
<p>I want the comic to not be a financial burden on me, but I&#8217;m also willing to put some time and effort and money into getting it there.</p>
<p>So without further ado&#8230;the steps.</p>
<p><strong>Step One, starting in August:</strong><br />
<em>Free advertising, anything latent that will take time to build up.</em></p>
<p>-Webcomic Directories<br />
-Load More comics into DA (late August)<br />
-More Facebook, more twitter<br />
-Mirror Sites (Drunkduck, CG, comicfury, smackjeeves, etc&#8230;)</p>
<p><strong>Step Two, Starting in September:</strong><br />
<em>Any advertising that involves instant interaction, IE: post on other&#8217;s blogs/reading sites (redit?)</em></p>
<p>-Back to Two days a week&#8230;eight comics a month.<br />
-LINK EXCHANGE! Any takers?<br />
-Article sites (Bukisa and Hubpages), lots of articles, maybe a short series, I don&#8217;t know yet.<br />
-Shetoldme (I&#8217;m told its a very good platform to advertise your URLs or website address.)<br />
-Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/webcomics<br />
-Webcomic news sites:</p>
<p>http://www.fleen.com</p>
<p>http://www.comixtalk.com</p>
<p>http://www.webcomicoverlook.com</p>
<p>http://www.stormingthetower.com</p>
<p>-Other</p>
<p>http://entervoid.com/news.php</p>
<p><strong>Step Three, starting in October:</strong><br />
<em>Find assistance<br />
</em></p>
<p>-I will looking for someone to help me sometime in October, I want someone to take the weight off of me. Realistically, I&#8217;d like a full-blown artist, someone who&#8217;ll draw/ink the comic and I&#8217;ll do the coloring. However, I don&#8217;t know if this will be possible on my meager salary. I&#8217;ll have money saved up between September and October and I&#8217;ll start my search.</p>
<p><strong>Step Four, starting in November:</strong><br />
<em>New artist/Paid advertising</em></p>
<p>-With some new blood in the site I&#8217;ll begin updating more often. My short term plan is to have ten pages a month, maybe bulk update each Friday? I&#8217;d love to have twelve again, but that&#8217;s totally up to my budget/artist.</p>
<p>-Here&#8217;s where I start shelling out some cash, just a few dollars at first. I don&#8217;t know what my advertising budget is going to be, but it should be decent. With the new help/regular updates I hope to have major retention of readers.</p>
<p><strong>Step Five, starting in March (2012):</strong><br />
<em>Reader driven advertising</em></p>
<p>-I intend to have a some incentives, little things, nothing huge. Maybe a print. I don&#8217;t know. Basically if you &#8216;donate&#8217; your time to me and post some &#8216;check this shit out&#8217; stuff around the web/your campus (don&#8217;t spam, please) I&#8217;ll give you something.</p>
<p>-This is where you guys really come in, if you love the comic, pimp the hell out of it!</p>
<p><strong>Step Six, starting in May (2012):</strong><br />
<em>Donation Drives/Products for sale</em></p>
<p>-By this point I&#8217;ll have SOMETHING for you guys to buy, unless this just explodes and I have to get on that sooner. It&#8217;ll likely be smaller stuff, maybe buttons, or something tiny for donation reasons. Like: Donate four dollars and get a button set.</p>
<p>-I&#8217;d also like to get prints up and running properly. IE: Buy a print of this page.</p>
<p>-I also wouldn&#8217;t mind some kind of shirts or something. Maybe King of No Pants (though that&#8217;s mostly because I want one&#8230;).</p>
<p><strong>Step Seven, starting in August (2012):</strong><br />
<em>Rounding it out/expansion</em></p>
<p>-I figure that by this point I should have a clear view of the future&#8230;or, at least, a less muddled view. If readership is up and I&#8217;m not totally shouldering the burden I&#8217;ll likely ask the artist/assitant if they&#8217;d be willing to continue on after the year is over.</p>
<p>-More merchandise if there&#8217;s a call for it.</p>
<p>-Expand/remove donations. If there&#8217;s enough coming in from sales I might shift the donation incentive into the merchandise category (the buttons, for example, would be for &#8216;sale&#8217;). If donations are still a huge part of the thing, I&#8217;ll probably just go ahead and make more donation incentives, more buttons, more stickers, etc&#8230;)</p>
<p>-Beg like a son of a bitch if we&#8217;re not doing well.</p>
<p><strong>Step Eight, starting in November (2012):</strong><br />
<em>To infinity and beyond&#8230;</em></p>
<p>-If everything goes well, it&#8217;s mostly going to be more of step seven. More expansion, maybe another assistant (if I&#8217;m coloring, get someone else/pay current artist to color), etc&#8230;</p>
<p>-If this has bombed horribly, then, well, I&#8217;ll probably just take over myself and start updating once a week again&#8230;or I&#8217;ll shelve The PKF for a while and reconsider what I&#8217;m doing. Though the former is much more likely&#8230;at least through Book Three (which gives an &#8216;acceptable&#8217; ending).</p>
<p>-Conventions? I don&#8217;t know&#8230;that might be interesting, haha.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Alright, there&#8217;s my plan, my rough plan. I&#8217;m thinking that it might behoove me to have some merchandise sooner (small stuff) than my current plan. So I&#8217;m going to have to look into that.</p>
<p>Maybe as early as December/January I&#8217;ll have buttons or patches for you guys to buy.</p>
<p>If ANYONE has anything to add to it I&#8217;d be appreciative. Or, hell, if any of you are decent artists that are willing to work cheap, I&#8217;d love to hear from you.</p>
<p>As it stands, this is what I&#8217;m going to follow in hopes of getting this comic to a place where it&#8217;s not hemorrhaging money out it&#8217;s severed neck, so we&#8217;ll see.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m thinking that there might be a minor website design change in September&#8230;one that highlights this plan so that new readers know what&#8217;s going on.</p>
<p>Either way, thanks again for sticking it out with me, you have my word that I&#8217;ll be doing everything I can to return the comic to a normal update schedule.</p>
<p>And bring in some new friends.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<title>Ding Dong Sidebar&#8217;s Gone&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which old sidebar? Those @#$%ing sidebars. Ding Dong&#8211; Okay. I&#8217;ll stop. Anyhoo, I apparently lied when I told you that I was done messing with the site. I wasn&#8217;t lying at the time, but a few days ago (Friday? I think Friday) I asked the good folks at the Comic Press Forums what they thought[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2011/01/ding-dong-sidebars-gone/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which old sidebar? Those @#$%ing sidebars.</p>
<p>Ding Dong&#8211;</p>
<p>Okay. I&#8217;ll stop. Anyhoo, I apparently lied when I told you that I was done messing with the site. I wasn&#8217;t lying at the time, but a few days ago (Friday? I think Friday) I asked the good folks at the Comic Press Forums what they thought of my site, and the prognosis was what I feared:</p>
<p>Too Complicated. Too much scrolling. And why the hell do you have two separate archives?!</p>
<p>See, about a month ago, my friend (and reader, SmallWonder) mentioned that he didn&#8217;t notice I was still updating&#8230;he didn&#8217;t notice the &#8216;latest pages&#8217; thing changing&#8230;so I knew I had a problem&#8230;I just didn&#8217;t know how to fix it.</p>
<p>BUT, I took it to heart, and with the help of the illustrious <a href="http://frumph.net/" target="_blank">Frumph</a> (At this point I should have a Frumph tag&#8230;man&#8217;s helped me out a lot) I&#8217;ve whipped the site into shape. I was originally against the whole &#8216;splash entrance page&#8217;, but really, what was on the old main page that isn&#8217;t here, just more accessible?</p>
<p>My Blog?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t fool myself. You&#8217;re all here for the comic, if you reading this right now, thank you. But I&#8217;m not so infatuated with my wordsmithing that I feel it&#8217;s some high-brow art and that you&#8217;re here just for this.</p>
<p>Basically, it&#8217;s all here, just easy to get to. There&#8217;s little to no scrolling, everything looks nice and clean (seriously, that twitter button I was using bugged the hell out of me).</p>
<p>Now, I know I&#8217;m missing that shout-box, but honestly, that thing was a resource hog and the people that ran it seemed shady (I hardly had control over it&#8230;). I&#8217;m going to try and find a place for it, because I know some people enjoyed it, but right now, it&#8217;s hidden away. Sorry, I&#8217;m working on it.</p>
<p>I make no promises about it, but I&#8217;m working on it.</p>
<p>Finally, a big thanks to the folks (folk?) at <a href="http://www.milkaddict.com/" target="_blank">MilkAddict</a> for the snazzy new buttons that I&#8217;m using to point people to DA, FB, Twitter, and RSS. I was originally scrambling around trying to find buttons that looked kind of similar, but found nothing for Deviant Art, then lo and behold, I found a whole set.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;m still playing with it a little, but for the most part, we&#8217;re done. Again.</p>
<p>Hopefully for good this time&#8230;heh.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLDR Version: Site&#8217;s perfect, I can stop obsessing (first time in two years&#8230;). Schools winding down, still working five days a week (who doesn&#8217;t?), but I&#8217;ve got breathing room for the first time in a while. Short on Friday. Story update soon, with many, many more to follow. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Three months on the 12th. That&#8217;s[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2010/12/three-months/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>TLDR</strong></em> Version: Site&#8217;s perfect, I can stop obsessing (first time in two years&#8230;). Schools winding down, still working five days a week (who doesn&#8217;t?), but I&#8217;ve got breathing room for the first time in a while. Short on Friday. Story update soon, with many, many more to follow.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Three months on the 12th. That&#8217;s how long it&#8217;s been since I last posted a blog.</p>
<p>And for that I&#8217;m sorry.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been abusing my little &#8216;emergency message&#8217; dealie at the top of the site, rather than sit down and type a cognizant piece of news. But my life&#8217;s been hectic and I haven&#8217;t really had much to say that couldn&#8217;t be summed up in a few choice sentences. But today&#8230;well&#8230;today&#8217;s a different story.</p>
<p>First, what likely lead you down here in the first place:</p>
<p>The site&#8217;s been &#8216;redesigned&#8217; again. Brought back a few months to what I&#8217;ve called the &#8216;Starry Night&#8217; design, this is, fundamentally, my favorite design. It&#8217;s funny, when I set out from comic genesis two years ago it wasn&#8217;t because I was unhappy with the site design, it was because I wanted to have a more &#8216;personal&#8217; hosting of my site. I wanted a host I could control, one I could improve.</p>
<p>But somewhere along the line I became obsessed with the appearance of the site.</p>
<p>I mean, literally, it&#8217;s kind of sad how much time I&#8217;ve spent in front of this thing. Tweaking this, futzing with that. But this should be it. Really this time. Why? Because this is a child theme, attached to the core ComicPress theme.</p>
<p>Which, in layman&#8217;s terms, means that I can update ComicPress when the new version comes out without losing my layout. When I first switched to CP (ComicPress) it was version 2.5&#8230;since then it&#8217;s become 2.9. That&#8217;s, roughly, a major update every six months&#8230;with dozens (seriously) of minor updates between. For example, it&#8217;s technically version 2.9.2.26. And for a while I was updating almost every change. Sometimes because I had to, other&#8217;s because I just started it and got caught up in it.</p>
<p>That was a lot of HTML @#$%ing every year. And I started to focus more on the site, than the content&#8230;</p>
<p>Why did I do it? I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t have an answer for why my mind works this way&#8230;I think I&#8217;m mildly OCD&#8230;I have to check the lock three-four times before I can leave the house. I&#8217;ve even driven back home ten minutes and check it because I didn&#8217;t feel like I had locked it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of a problem, actually.</p>
<p>In some ways I regret leaving Comic Genesis, because when I was there, there was so little I could mess with that I just didn&#8217;t give a shit. There was no personality in your page&#8230;not without some serious work. But CP&#8230;it opened up a whole new world of PHP and CSS and HTML that I got lost in it.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s over now. The site is perfect. There&#8217;s nothing I want to change (save that the navigation needs to be centered&#8230;but that&#8217;s easy&#8230;I just want a &#8216;right&#8217; way to do it).</p>
<p>I look at it and, for the first time in two years, I&#8217;m happy. I&#8217;m not going to stress the site. I just don&#8217;t have a reason to. Everything is the way I want it.</p>
<p>So, for the first time in two years I can walk away from it and really relax. There&#8217;s not going to be little bits of code dancing in my head. There&#8217;s not going to be me deciding to play with it as I&#8217;m working on comic pages.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m happy. It&#8217;s done. The site almost looks professional. On every browser (you&#8217;re welcome, Internet Explorer users -_-)</p>
<p>And when Book Three rolls around, and it will, I&#8217;ll just have to update the child theme with new images. But that&#8217;s a while off yet.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m trying to say is, combined with school, work, and life in general, I&#8217;ve forgotten why I started this comic. I started it to tell a story that I&#8217;ve been writing since I was five years old. And in three months, I&#8217;ve hardly finished eight comics. I need to get back into the swing of things.</p>
<p>And for the first time, in over a year (since school started to really kick my ass) I feel like I can do that.</p>
<p>No, there won&#8217;t be a set of story comics on Friday. But there will be a short, that I promise you.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m going to be trying new things out. New methods. New ideas. I&#8217;m going to try and start getting one page done a week again, and I&#8217;m going to try and keep it up.</p>
<p>Because for the first time in a long time, I feel like I can focus on the comic. Not the site.</p>
<p>Thank you, and I&#8217;m sorry for all the shit you&#8217;ve had to endure.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<title>The full explination&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of these have I done? I forget, more than I care to have done. Remember when I used to religiously update three days a week? Neither do I. It seems like every few days something else is kicking my ass. Take right now: I&#8217;m barely able to sit down and do this. Don&#8217;t[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2010/02/the-full-explination/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many of these have I done?</p>
<p>I forget, more than I care to have done.</p>
<p>Remember when I used to religiously update three days a week?</p>
<p>Neither do I.</p>
<p>It seems like every few days something else is kicking my ass. Take right now: I&#8217;m barely able to sit down and do this. Don&#8217;t know why. But it&#8217;s taking every fiber of my being to not just say @#$% it and walk away.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why.</p>
<p>I still love doing this comic, but it seems like it&#8217;s gradually slipped to the low end of my priorities. I have no explanation for it, but it has. Simply put I&#8217;ve got three jobs right now: School, school work, and substitute teaching. Then I&#8217;ve got the comic. And the comic is basically a 20+ hour a week job.</p>
<p>You may not think so, but I manage the site (no small task), write (nearly done with this arc&#8217;s strips), work on background sets (seriously, I love sketch-up, but @#$% the un-user friendlyness), and I haven&#8217;t even STARTED talking about the drawing, inking, coloring, shading, lettering, and other miscellaneous crap that getting one of these pages done entails.</p>
<p>Throw in the fact that I haven&#8217;t been happy with my method in a LONG time I&#8217;m starting to get discouraged.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that I&#8217;m going to end the comic. Or that I&#8217;m even thinking about it. But I&#8217;m going to try something out.</p>
<p>Basically: I&#8217;m going to start updating multiple pages once a week. I&#8217;m also scaling down the number of panels, it&#8217;s hard to explain, but I&#8217;m trying to make each comic page look more like a comic and less like one big @#$%ing newspaper strip.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll have visual aids on Thursday. I think. I&#8217;ll let you know.</p>
<p>My hope is to update every Tuesday with 2-4 pages. Which evens out to about 2-3 &#8216;regular&#8217; comics a week.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if this will work. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll be able to do this. I don&#8217;t know if Tuesdays will work (maybe Fridays, maybe Mondays).</p>
<p>This is a total experiment.</p>
<p>Basically what I&#8217;m saying is:</p>
<p>I&#8217;m one man doing six jobs. I&#8217;d love to be able to hire someone to take over the art duties for me but I make less than minimum wage and The PKF just isn&#8217;t popular enough to financially support me let alone an artist.</p>
<p>But the second I win the loto I&#8217;m going to pay someone to draw for me.</p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
<hr />
TL:DR VERSION:</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to start updating once a week but with a larger, more &#8216;issue&#8217; oriented page count. Basically I&#8217;m going to have 2-4 pages with a panel count of 1-2 pages (9-12 panels, give or take).</p>
<p>This is an experiment, if it doesn&#8217;t please you, let me know, I want to hear about it.</p>
<p>Thanks for sticking with me, once I start to get into a groove, life will be sweet. Until then, hold on to your socks.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<title>A day of relaxation&#8230;well&#8230;A Week.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, to anyone who actually muddled through those wrecks that were my short stories, I&#8217;m sorry. I am truly and utterly sorry. After taking that creative writing course last semester I discovered how truly and utterly horrific I managed to make them. They were good stories, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but dear god[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2009/12/a-day-of-relaxation-well-a-week/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First of all, to anyone who actually muddled through those wrecks that were my short stories, I&#8217;m sorry. I am truly and utterly sorry. After taking that creative writing course last semester I discovered how truly and utterly horrific I managed to make them. They were good stories, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but dear god they were so poorly laid out it was ridiculous. Not to mention the huge number of spelling and syntax errors that I should know better. Stupid shit that I have no excuse other than &#8216;I was lazy&#8217;. I&#8217;m sorry. I really, really am.</p>
<p>But they&#8217;re all fixed. Really. They&#8217;re cleaned up and proof-read to Hell and back. I know that they&#8217;re still not perfect, but without an editor (I&#8217;ve enlisted both my mother and grandmother) they&#8217;re as good as they&#8217;re going to get. So, if you read them already, you don&#8217;t have to go back and read them again, they&#8217;re not that different. But if you were one of those people who took one look at them and left, give them another try. I promise that they&#8217;re better.</p>
<p><a href="http://peacekeepersforce.com/extras/tales-from-the-universe/" target="_blank">Check them out.</a> If you care to.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
<p>Second. I&#8217;ve finally changed hosts, yet again. I wont tell you who (I want to actually give them a few weeks before I say they&#8217;re good or not), but they have a good rating and they&#8217;re even cheaper than that massive pile that was Dreamhost. Never, EVER use Dreamhost. EVER.</p>
<p>But these new guys promise to be much better. And is it my imagination, or is the site moving faster? I think it&#8217;s moving faster. But I also removed some stuff that might have been bogging us down. But I&#8217;m happier. Much happier.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m saving something like $80 a year.</p>
<p>@#$% Dreamhost.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This also leads me into my next point: The site is done. I&#8217;m not @#$%ing with it anymore. After ComicPress 2.9 comes out (which I&#8217;m running a beta one) and I make the switch I&#8217;m done. I&#8217;m done until Book Three.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I spend entirely too much time messing with shit here and I need to stop.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So I&#8217;m done with the site unless something explodes. But that what I&#8217;m hoping this new host helps me with. That way I&#8217;m not coming and checking on the site ever two hours wondering &#8216;is it dead?&#8217; and my buddy isn&#8217;t texting me every few days saying &#8216;hey, your site&#8217;s down&#8217;.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Seriously, @#$% Dreamhost and the @#$%ing horse they rode in on.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">* * *</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Now for the stuff that doesn&#8217;t really pertain to the site, but you might find enlightening (IE: I&#8217;m bitching, walk away now).</p>
<p>Oh, thank god this arc is over. I actually really enjoyed it but I think that I jumped into it too quickly after the massive beast that was Book Two, Chapter Four. I needed a longer break and I didn&#8217;t give myself one. That and I really need to start taking the week of Christmas off. If it wasn&#8217;t one thing it was the other.</p>
<p>That and I had orientation for my new job the day that my Grandmother flew in and I had to drive to the other end of town.</p>
<p>So that sucked.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t bore you with the smelly details of my life, I try not to, despite the fact that this is a blog. But basically I&#8217;ve been busy and feeling a little stressed. So I&#8217;m taking this week off totally (I&#8217;m only doing comic related stuff if I feel like it) then next week I&#8217;ll get to work on building a good and proper buffer, then we&#8217;ll see where I go from there.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m actually feeling much better already (I send of a slightly frazzled Email to my friend yesterday, and if you&#8217;re reading this I&#8217;m feeling much better, haha). I&#8217;ve rearranged my room, so I have a little more space (though my drawing table is closer to my computer than I&#8217;d have liked&#8230;) and I also picked up some aroma therapy smelly things (the first one who laughs dies. Eventually. At their convince. Of old age more than likely) and I&#8217;m doing some stretches (again, first to laugh dies at their earliest convenience).</p>
<p>I also tried a new way of working on the comic that seemed to work quite smoothly. Basically I start to feel rushed when presented with a totally blank canvas, and I get bored of doing the same thing for too long (inking, coloring, shading, etc&#8230;) so I tried to do something I haven&#8217;t done in a long while, I did each panel individually, then combined them on the page.</p>
<p>It only took me an two hours and felt quite natural.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m going to try that for a while and see if it sticks.</p>
<p>Anyhow, enjoy your New Years and I hope your holidays kicked ass.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<title>Ok, explination time (again)&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, first of all, I&#8217;m extremely happy with the way the title page came out for this Chapter, seriously, very happy. This is a short and goofy arc that I feel like doing. I got the idea in my head about two years ago and now I&#8217;m finally getting to do it. Don&#8217;t worry, there[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2009/11/ok-explination-time-again/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, first of all, I&#8217;m extremely happy with the way the title page came out for this Chapter, seriously, very happy. This is a short and goofy arc that I feel like doing. I got the idea in my head about two years ago and now I&#8217;m finally getting to do it.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry, there are only ten updates planed (maybe eleven, I don&#8217;t remember at the moment). So if you hate it, it&#8217;ll be over quick.</p>
<p>OK Time for some explanations&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been going through a few crises of artistic faith, basically I thought that I would be able to work better and more productively at a drawing board, so I decided to get totally away from the computer except for coloring. This made sense for a few reason, but the big one is that when I&#8217;m sitting at the computer I have a tendency to wander away from my comic and start doing other things (like read other comics or browse forums). That&#8217;s not good.</p>
<p>But over the course of the last few weeks that I&#8217;ve been experimenting I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that I really just don&#8217;t like the way that my inking looks when I do it physically. No matter what I tried it never quite looked right. So I&#8217;m back at the computer to do my inking with a few new resolutions:</p>
<p>1. Don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff: You guys won&#8217;t notice that a line went slightly askew or one line slightly overlaps an adjacent line once I shrink it down from 600 DPI to a more web-friendly number.</p>
<p>2. Control my self inflicted ADD: Twitter goes off. Photo-shop goes into full-screen (no distractions) and I&#8217;m not aloud to leave my chair until I&#8217;m done (save tinkle breaks, a man&#8217;s gotta pee, right?). I have laser focus when I want to, but other times I wander off&#8230;</p>
<p>3. No more than two ctrl-Zs per line: Some times I&#8217;d go over the same line a dozen times. If I @#$% it up twice I pull out the pen tool and do it right, and I stop my BITCHING (this also goes back to number one a lot of the time though).</p>
<p>4. Next time I take a week off to &#8216;get a buffer&#8217; that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m doing: No more of this &#8216;spend a week messing with the site&#8217; shit. The site needs to be a totally separate project to be done when I have nothing but free time. I need to stop messing with it when I should be working on the comic. Enough is enough.</p>
<p>So far I&#8217;ve been able to do well with this system. I&#8217;ve still got no buffer, but I&#8217;m working on it. I&#8217;ll let you all know how it goes.</p>
<p>The next thing that&#8217;s been keeping me from my duties is something more personal, which I don&#8217;t normally discus on the site, but I feel like I should. I&#8217;ve been to the Doctor a lot lately and he basically said &#8220;You&#8217;re 300 pounds and lazy, get off your fat ass and lose some weight or you&#8217;re going to die young.&#8221; So I&#8217;ve gotten off my ass and I&#8217;m down to 250 pounds. Now, I&#8217;m Six-feet-three-inches tall, so I was never &#8216;obese&#8217; but my family has a history of high blood pressure and heart disease. So at twenty two and 300lbs I was basically pumping syrup though my veins.</p>
<p>Not Healthy.</p>
<p>So for the last few months (read: since updates got erratic) I&#8217;ve been going to the gym two days a week (three hours a time, give or take) as well as eating better. So I&#8217;m now less likely to drop dead. Luckily for me I&#8217;m not a naturally fat guy, hell, most people called me &#8216;scrawny&#8217; when I was little. But between Junior High and High School I became less &#8216;run around and play&#8217; centered and more &#8216;let&#8217;s watch TV and play video games&#8217; centered.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m trying to be better. And I have been. Fifty pounds is nothing to sneeze at (also, I have biceps now, which is cool&#8230;). But it cuts into my already slim personal time. Which is what those rules will hopefully help with (especially 4, I really spend too much time on the back-end and not enough on the comic). So wish me luck.</p>
<p>Next semester looks like it&#8217;ll be a TOTAL bitch too. So I&#8217;m going to try and get a serious buffer going this winter.</p>
<p>Thanks for listening, and at least I&#8217;m trying to be proactive in my troubles rather than just bitch to you lot about how hard my life is.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
<p>(Goes off to work on scripts&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>Ok, here&#8217;s the long and short&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basically, I&#8217;m switching to a Tuesday Thursday format for the time being. This happened back in Book One as well, basically I was forced to take classes on Tuesday and Thursday, rather than my preferred Monday and Wednesday, so I no longer have a whole day to work on school stuff and the comic before[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2009/09/ok-heres-the-long-and-short/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Basically, I&#8217;m switching to a Tuesday Thursday format for the time being. This happened back in Book One as well, basically I was forced to take classes on Tuesday and Thursday, rather than my preferred Monday and Wednesday, so I no longer have a whole day to work on school stuff and the comic before the comic goes up. I&#8217;ve decided to stop trying to fight it and just change. So new comics will appear next TUESDAY, not Monday.</p>
<p>This is such a small thing that I doubt anyone will care, but I was resisting it because I feel like I&#8217;ve been jerking you lot around lately and that&#8217;s not cool. Oddly enough my hits have remained pretty constant since my inability to get a proper update out on time has started, so you guys either love The PKF, or you&#8217;re just so used to it with other comics doing the same thing that you don&#8217;t even notice.</p>
<p>Either way I&#8217;ve been a crappy comic-artist and I need to get my shit together again.</p>
<p>One of my biggest complaints about the comic comes from when I&#8217;m behind (read: not ahead) in scripts&#8230;Now, I do scripts an odd way that I&#8217;m now trying to break myself of. Basically I draw a full &#8216;comic&#8217; in pencil then scan it into the computer to ink it, however, I&#8217;m now trying to write SCRIPTS rather than draw them&#8230;So far I&#8217;m happy with it.</p>
<p>In fact, I&#8217;m so happy with them that I&#8217;m posting them along with the archiveds comic as the transcripts. If you remember, a few months back I started adding transcripts to each comic&#8230;Well, I stopped because I was basically rewriting each page so that you could &#8216;search&#8217; it&#8230;It was stupid to me. But now, this seems like it&#8217;ll work perfectly.</p>
<p>You can read today&#8217;s script by going to it&#8217;s archive page <a href="http://peacekeepersforce.com/a-hacked/" target="_self">HERE</a> then scrolling down and clicking on the thing that says &#8216;transcript&#8217; (might soon say &#8216;script&#8217; if I decide to tackle the task).</p>
<p>Aside from that I&#8217;m two scripts ahead for this chapter and I&#8217;m  nearly done with the scripts for next chapter (started on those first). It&#8217;s shaping up to be a good thing that I&#8217;ve kind of dropped the ball. Now cross your fingers and hope I can actually pull ahead now.</p>
<p>Who knows, maybe we&#8217;ll be back to three a week by the end of the next chapter (only nine to ten comics long)? Wish me luck&#8230;</p>
<p>I swear, I think I&#8217;m back on track. I promise not to abuse you anymore.</p>
<p>If only you&#8217;ll stay. I know we can work this out.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t hit you any more. I love you&#8230;</p>
<p>I LOVE YOU!!</p>
<p>&gt;_&gt; &lt;_&lt;</p>
<p>::Cough::</p>
<p>Anyhow, thanks for sticking with me.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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		<title>Upgrades are done (mostly)&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paokens Keeper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took the better part of two days to get everything working (and a lot of help from Frumph from the CP forums) but the &#8216;new&#8217; site is up, running, and kicking ass. I&#8217;ve still not managed to get the archives to align horizontally, but I&#8217;m still working on it (and in the grand scheme[...]<a href="http://thepkf.com/2009/09/upgrades-are-done-mostly/"><br /><br />Read More...</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It took the better part of two days to get everything working (and a lot of help from Frumph from the CP forums) but the &#8216;new&#8217; site is up, running, and kicking ass.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve still not managed to get the archives to align horizontally, but I&#8217;m still working on it (and in the grand scheme of things, is it really that important?).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also on <a href="http://twitter.com/Paokenkeeper" target="_blank">Twitter now</a>, if you haven&#8217;t noticed. Again, a huge thanks to <a href="http://frumph.net/" target="_blank">Frumph</a> to welcoming me to the fold. Honestly, the man knows his code.</p>
<p>Other than that, there&#8217;s not much to point out. Wander around, enjoy the sites. Tell me if there&#8217;s anything broken/disliked.</p>
<p>-Peace</p>
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