{"id":1731,"date":"2002-05-09T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2002-05-09T21:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2002-05-09T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2002-05-09T21:15:59","slug":"ah_the_smell_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/09\/ah_the_smell_of.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the smell of it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At long last, I’ve gotten ComicBase <\/a>back installed on my PC. This is the world’s premiere comic book inventory database. About two years ago, I had it up and running and cranking with loading comic books in. Then a reformat, and a software upgrade, and my Muse decided it was Not the Thing to Do this season.<\/p>\n

Well my Muse is back, poking me in the butt with her ice pick, so I got ComicBase 6.0 installed last night, and then spent a while trying to get it to read in my old ComicBase 4.0 file.<\/p>\n

(This is a great program, really, no question about it, but it has a few distinct quirks that betray its Macintosh background. Just like Mac users complain about interface oddities and rough edges on programs ported from Windows, so this program is always just a slight bit off true in its behavior, sort of like the difference between American English and English English. Only less amusing. But don’t let that scare you off. It’s a great program.)<\/p>\n

So, anyway, my collection, when last I left it two years ago, was about a third to a half entered into the database.<\/p>\n

The issue count? Almost 6,000 comics.<\/p>\n

And that was at most half of them.<\/p>\n

Two years ago.<\/p>\n

I have some work to do …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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