In addition to “Ask a Manager” which already existed in the comics aggregator, there is now also “Ask a Manager (1-day delay)” which gives you yesterday’s Ask a Manager columns. I recommend this for most people who only visit the aggregator once a day, since Alison Green, the author of Ask a Manager publishes new… Read More »
If you use my comics aggregator, you may have noticed that a month or so ago the comics on your page started appearing in a different, random order each day. This was the result of an upgrade to the version of Perl being used by the aggregator. In the old version of Perl, the order… Read More »
Washington Post columnist Damon Young has been added to the comics aggregator. Note that he publishes on an intermittent schedule so you shouldn’t expect to see him daily. My wife and I both find his writing to be insightful, thought-provoking, and a pleasure to read, and we highly recommend him. I have at long last… Read More »
Baby Blues is once again being hosted in my comics aggregator, being pulled from GoComics instead of Comics Kingdom.
TLDR Edge City is now being syndicated online by two different comic-strip syndicates. I’ve never seen that before and I have no idea what the heck is going on. There’s this comic strip, Edge City, which ended new strips in 2016, but reruns of the strip continued to syndicated online, and presumably in some newspapers… Read More »
Apparently “Edge City” is now being syndicated on GoComics, so I’ve updated the comics aggregator to get it from there instead of Comics Kingdom.
Users of my comics aggregator who are also Comics Kingdom subscribers may have noticed that Tina’s Groove and Edge City have been missing in the aggregator for more than a week. This is because they are also missing on Comics Kingdom, which has stopped updating them without explanation. This is not the first step this… Read More »
Users of the comics aggregator who are also Comics Kingdom subscribers may have noticed that the comic strip Baby Blues is no longer available as of January 12. Apparently syndication of this strip is moving from King Features (Comics Kingdom) to to Andrews McMeel (Go Comics) as of February 1, and the maintainers of Comics… Read More »
I have my Eastern Bank account configured to email me notifications about checking deposits. There are three problems with these notifications: (Century Bank’s online banking platform had the same problem. I was hoping things would approve in this area after the acquisition by Eastern Bank, but alas no.) This finally annoyed me enough today that… Read More »
My bank was recently acquired. The migration of accounts into the new bank’s infrastructure happened over the weekend, and this morning at 8am, we were officially able to log into the new online banking site. We were told that any direct deposits or debits we had configured with the old bank’s routing number would automatically… Read More »