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		<title>Wish Candles are available again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[one of my side projects a couple years back was the wish candles &#8211; illustrations of mine on prayer candles. i&#8217;ve brought the site back, so if you are so inclined, buy a candle and make a wish!
i&#8217;m planning on expanding my offerings soon, so keep an eye out for new candles, greeting cards, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=219</link>
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		<title>working on new illustration &#8211; biomech deer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ok, i had a bunch of other stuff i needed to get done so i had to take a drawing break, but that&#8217;s all taken care of so now i can get back to my illustration projects.
next up i am going to re-work this mecha reindeer (minus the red nose).
i&#8217;ll post the finished product sometime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=210</link>
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		<title>the difference between google and yahoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i subscribe to a usability mailing list from gerry mcgovern called &#8220;new thinking&#8221; which tends to have a lot of great insights into user-centric web design and management. the article i read today had a line which i&#8217;ve heard variations of before:
THE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOGLE AND YAHOO
Yahoo&#8217;s customer is the advertiser. Google&#8217;s customer is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=206</link>
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		<title>open letter to HTML test designers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[just about every HTML competency test i&#8217;ve ever taken includes the question: &#8220;which of these will open a link in a new window&#8221;.
one of the answers will of course be the correct one:
target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;
but invariably one of the &#8220;incorrect&#8221; answers will be
target=&#8221;new&#8221;
and i just have to point out: if there isn&#8217;t already a window open with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=200</link>
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		<title>sketchbook archive update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i was having some trouble upgrading my coppermine gallery, so i decided to screw it and use nextgen gallery as my image gallery. it&#8217;s good because it&#8217;s directly integrated with wordpress, and it was pretty easy to hack the search function so that the wordpress search will pull image results too.
here&#8217;s a hint: try searching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=172</link>
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		<title>wordpress hacking and wpfooterz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so zarkill.com recently fell victim to a hack that inserts linkspam into the template. i had been running an old installation and didn&#8217;t do many of the recommended steps to secure the software so i was like &#8220;oops my bad, i&#8217;ll go ahead and upgrade&#8221;. (thanks for the tip from brendan, a friendly stranger.)
so i [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=100</link>
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		<title>drawing pad from 1992-1993</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;ve added another gallery to my sketchbook archive &#8211; this one is a large-format drawing pad that&#8217;s mostly from 1992 with some drawings from 1993. there are two exceptions &#8211; a horrible early attempt at an anime-style girl that is probably from 1990 or 1991, and the &#8220;unbreakable comb&#8221; drawing which is dated 1994.
this gallery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=56</link>
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		<title>sketchbook archive update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so i was looking through my archives for an original sketch that i could use for my next full-scale illustration and i realized an entire sketchbook was missing.
somehow i missed the one called &#8220;property of no one&#8220;, from 1996. looking through it, i can see that it&#8217;s probably because there&#8217;s a lot of text i [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=53</link>
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		<title>biomecha girl illustration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i completed another illustration based on a re-working of this sketch from 1995.
the only thing i&#8217;m not completely sure of here is the coloring and shading on her face. :/
i might tweak that a little.
UPDATE &#8211; i adjusted the lighting and color of her face and i like it much better. woo!

click for full size
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		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>biomech fire dragon illustration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so it&#8217;s been over a year since i&#8217;ve updated, but the other day i was like &#8220;oh man i never draw anymore&#8221; so i busted out an old sketch and said &#8220;OK I AM MAKING THIS INTO SOMETHING FINISHED&#8221;
and so this dragon was born.

(click for full size)
i&#8217;m pleased with it and i hope to bring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zarkill.com/?p=34</link>
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