DESCRIPTION:  Some comic strips have archives available online, but it can be a pain to remember where you left off the last time you read that comic strip.  To solve this problem, I wrote a web interface to all the strips in the archives.  It saves the date of the newest strip that you've read, and when you sign in, it'll automatically display that strip.

LIMITATIONS:  I chose user convenience over security, so all you need to do to log in is enter your name.  Currently, only Calvin & Hobbes and Sinfest are available, since those are the comic strips I read.  I also read Dilbert, but the archives only go back one month, so my comic viewer wouldn't be too useful.

CODE:  The web application consists simply of a 210-line CGI app written in Python.  I'd post the code, since it's nicely commented and everything, but it's probably not a good idea security-wise.

Select user: Select comic:
Bart
Bosun
Caroline
Cho Ting Yuen
Doris
Gopi
Hanie
Josh
Ken
Kent
Lucille
Mike
Newuser
Nick
Nobody
Quatro
Ravian
Roger
ThatTallGuy
akk
alan
anand
aragorn
awxiaq
bwaxkcohx
eka
eureka
gjpesb
guest
indonesia
jerm
jhnlsnmp
kentu
kutegrzvf
luckyangel
m
miqoju
mmnkyldnjz
ndut
newhomeyork
prmwuau
qkjbec
quantumghost
sdsdfds
sondragonfly
telo
test
toigdcnvtx
tom
ukwxjxrve
yojan
yusak
zmschp
zvzltffakw

Calvin & Hobbes
Sinfest

UPDATE (2003-02-08):  What I meant to say in the last update is that I fixed the comic viewer so that it'd only try to display two weeks' worth of Calvin & Hobbes comics.

UPDATE (2003-01-23):  I fixed the comic viewer so that it'd only try to display two weeks' worth of comics.

UPDATE (2003-01-01):  uComics stopped hosting Calvin & Hobbes comics more than two weeks old.  Since the current comic viewer system links images straight from the uComics site, it won't work for comics more than two weeks old.  I'm still deciding what to do, but for know, just know that the Calvin & Hobbes section isn't supposed to be working perfectly.