A Quick DTP Note

Well, I just tried to register that copy of Quark that came with the March 2007 issue of PC Pro that I told you about earlier in the week. No luck.

For Quark's corporate purposes, Canada is treated as if it were US territory.

Disappointing to say the least.

So I'm not eligible to register, much less, install the software. I'm sure there's ways of dealing with it, but I neither need nor want to know of them. Not unless Quark's willing and able to share. Fortunately, there's enough freeware goodies on the DVD in question to still make it halfway useful.

If I get any positive news later on, I'll share it here.

From TV to Sketchbooks to Comics

Memorables from Little Mosque on the Prairie's latest installment on CBC TV, "The Archdeacon Cometh":

- Rev. Duncan McGee: "Christianity didn't survive two thousand years by being charitable."

- Amir Raashid: "The question is one of ethics."
Yasir Hamoudi: "The question is 'can we get away with it?'"

- Just about any exchange between Fatima Dinssa and Fred Tupper. Comedy gold, those barbs they were slinging back and forth.

Moving on...I've posted something from my sketchbooks inspired by Eddy Newell's work on Black Lightning with Tony Isabella. I like that costume design. Apologies to Ed Benes and Brad Metzler, but I do like it still.

I am unsurprised by the way Marvel ended Civil War this week. The old Samuel Delany saw about inconclusive endings still works for me here. Still uneasy about Omega Flight. Like Puck said to Sasquatch a long time ago, a lot of people busted their buns to get Alpha Flight back again. They want to read Alpha Flight.