Technical Difficulties or
You only think you control the Horizontal
You just assumed you control the Verticle

It all started when tripod closed down their Canadian branch. I recieved a notice by email that I'd have until mid-November to move all my works off of tragiclad.tripod.ca. And that was probably a good thing. Up until that point, my site was nothing more than a dumping ground, a catch-all of comics and illustrations.

So I coughed up the cash and registered for myself, The Elusive Fish dot com. I began to work on a number of illustrations, icons and graphics that would help spruce the place up. It was beginning to look pretty impressive. A handful of new comics, a few images to go in the gallery, a slew of html. And then my hard drive quit.

Acutally, quit is an understatement.

What happened is the power unit for my CPU decided that it had enough of this life and committed suicide. In a fit of depression it killed itself. The other components in my computer, distraught at this event, took their own lives shortly thereafter.

Of course - they did all this because they realized that I was going to backup all my data. If I had my data backed up, then it would only be a matter of time before I didn't actually need that computer and it would be obsolete. So my planning to back things up is what led to the brutal suiciding. Sad really. Have only myself to blame.

With no backup I lost almost everything. Comics, illustrations, everything. So a week before launch of my new site has been stretched out for months. The site still isn't quite ready. There's a couple of rooms not quite set and more than a few places where you can still see the pipes and wires exposed. But I figure it's time enough to open the door.

So this is my website.
It is small, and broken, but I think it's pretty good.

-Tragic Lad