| New Dinosaurs Eat Everybody! |
[Jul. 28th, 2008|11:55 pm] |
Well, it took a long time, but I finally finished the redesign of Dinosaurs Eat Everybody! I still need to flesh out the content on most of the pages, but I've got the blog up and working (thanks to hours and hours of hacking up WordPress). What this means is that I'm done with LiveJournal and now I'll be doing all my blogging from that site.
I repeat:
My blog has moved to Dinosaurs Eat Everybody (that's www.dinosaurseateverybody.com)! Update your bookmarks and RSS feeds!
More about the new site written there... |
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| The Twilight Hours of This Livejournal... |
[Jul. 28th, 2008|02:40 pm] |
Whoa! Maybe I'll actually finish building the new Dinosaurs Eat Everybody! I spent some solid nerdy time last week/weekend working on the new site (mostly functional, backend stuff, and some style tweaks I've been putting off), and it looks like I could actually launch the new site soon. Right now the blog is functional (after A LOT of hacking up WordPress and the WPGET PHP class I found) and my last.fm and Twitter AJAX is working pretty well. I still need to design the global navigation and make some content for the rest of the site, but I might just launch with what I've got soon. Why am I putting so much work into a site/blog that most people will just read through their RSS reader? I dunno! It's fun!
Keep an eye out here and I will announce when I make the switch over (this means changing your RSS feed links, kids). |
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| Woo! Camping! |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|03:57 pm] |
Hey! Time for another sporadic blog update!
So last weekend was The Annual (the yearly "camping trip" that my dad has been doing with his friends for the last 39 years). It was a blast, as usual. I drove up with Jessica and Rachel on Friday and we got there in time to hang out, have a few drinks, go on a pontoon ride, and hang out by the fire. On Saturday morning I tried barefoot skiing again. I couldn't quite get it, but I'm going to keep trying. Later I got some good wakeboarding in. I was using Eric's board (which is much newer and much nicer than mine) and I was able to land things better. I even forced myself to ride fakey for a bit after landing a couple of 180s. Later we did some tubing (which is always fun) and then layed around in the sun. As usual, weekends like this remind me of how much I wish I had access to a ski boat and good skiing lake (and more friends who were into in watersports).
Last night I finally signed the lease for our new place. It's really close to my old place (less than a 5 minute walk away). I'm glad I was able to stay in the same neighborhood. Also the apartment is REALLY nice. Like nicer than someplace I should be living in. We have 2 (count 'em TWO) decks! I'll post pictures when we get moved in. I'm down to 12 nights left of sleeping on the couch!
Now, I know I've been talking about moving off of this blog and onto a WordPress one at dinosaurseateverybody.com for quite a while, but as you can see, that hasn't happened yet. Hopefully tonight I will get some work done on the new Dinosaurs Eat Everybody site and get closer to being able to launch that. |
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| Homeless (And Not In The Good Way) |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|12:03 pm] |
So as of July 1st I have been officially homeless. I decided to move out of my current place to get a new place with Rich and Chris. Well, some things feel through and we haven't found a place yet, so I'm now sleeping on the couch in my old apartment (somebody has already moved into my old room). The girls are really nice to let me stay there, but it still really sucks to not have a room.
All my shit is staked up in the extra room in the apartment and I just sort of live in the living room. It's made it hard to get any work done or write any music lately. I really miss having my own space to get away from people and get stuff done. I might have found a place that I really like that will let us move in August 1st, so hopefully everything works out well for that place. I'm kind of sick of not being able to get to most of my stuff and not having a real bed.
In other news, The American Autumn has a huge show coming up...
Tuesday, July 15th
7:00 $6 (you can buy tickets from us before the show!)
@ Clearwater Theater in West Dundee
w/ Flowers for Dorian, Love Me Electric, Walrus, & The Alumni Club
These are some great local bands and some of them have started to get some good national attention. I think this could be a really big show for us, so you should probably come check it out! |
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| Browser War In A Box |
[May. 23rd, 2008|04:28 pm] |
So I just set up a box at work for browser testing. It has...
Firefox 3.0
Firefox 2.0
IE 7
IE 6
IE 5.5
IE 5
IE 4
IE 3
Opera 9
Safari 3 (for Windows)
Well... I thought it was neat...
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| Help Save Chicago Music |
[May. 13th, 2008|09:58 am] |
So apparently there's a vote up tomorrow for an ordinance that will be pretty detramental to Chicago's music scene. I encourage everybody to do what they can to help prevent this from getting passed.
(from an email I received)
Metro/Smart Bar asks you to oppose the Promoters Ordinance, which
would require independent promoters to get licenses to promote events.
Under the proposed law, independent promoters would have to acquire a
promoter's license at a cost of up to $2000 every two years, obtain
liability insurance for every event thrown, even if the presenting
venue already has liability insurance, be fingerprinted and background
checked, and maintain extensive records of each event.
Metro / Smart Bar believes that this ordinance is unnecessary, as
current regulation of PPA licenses and safety and security guidelines
are sufficient. The ordinance also unfairly singles out small venues
and venues without seating, with no justification for during so. The
goal for any additional regulation should be enforcement of current
laws and punishment of those who do not obey them, not increased
burdens on existing businesses. Additionally, the Promoters Ordinance
would negatively affect the Chicago music community. First, it would
affect the bottom line of small businesses like Metro and Smart Bar,
who make a significant portion of revenue from partnerships with
reputable, incident-free independent promoters. Second, loosing
independent promoters means Chicago music fans would loose out on many
small niche events important to minority groups. Third, restricting
independent promoters would drastically cut into the ability to do
charitable and political benefit concerts at Metro, as it would no
longer be financially feasible for non-profit organizations to
organize these events.
TAKE ACTION TODAY - Please email or call your alderman or alderwoman
and voice your opposition to the Ordinance today! Email or Call your
alderman and ask him or her to oppose the Promoter Ordinance. Be
polite. Tell him or her you support live music in Chicago, and feel
this ordinance would kill many great events. Say you want venues to be
safe, but this ordinance goes too far. Place a call to your
alderman's office today. This page will help you find your alderman
and give you his or her email address and phone number — quick and
easy and only takes a couple of minutes.
http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncil/alderman/find.html |
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| The American Autumn Website Launched! |
[May. 11th, 2008|02:02 pm] |
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Alright! After a long time and a LOT of coding I've finally launch the site for The American Autumn! I'm really happy with this one. I've been working with generating and consuming RSS feeds, so now people can subscribe to a feed of our news and upcoming shows. I've also written a new front end for Word Press and built a band blog into the site, which should be pretty fun (and can also be consumed through RSS).
There's certainly more stuff I'd like to do with the site (mp3 player, more info on past shows, more picture display options, etc) but I think what I launched last night is a great place to start.
Let me know what you think. Enjoy!
www.theamericanautumn.com |
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| Twerp |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|01:13 pm] |
So, Twitter is much more fun when other people I know use it. Recently Jeff, Bryan, and Mike got accounts and it's livened things up on my Twittering. If you you've never tried it, it's worth playing around with. It's kind of interesting in a really stupid way.
For now I've been using this IM client called Digsby as my vehicle for Twitter, but I'm playing around with a few other things, too. |
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| What Time Is It? |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|11:21 am] |
Alright! So yesterday I launched the redesign I had been working on for my company (Risetime). I started this about a year ago, but kept getting pulled on to other projects, so this site sort of dragged on. At this point I've been looking at the design for too long and I'm looking forward to doing a bit of a visual/information architecture overhaul when I have the time, but for now I'm happy to have it launched and it's a much needed improvement over our old site!
This site is built on SharePoint 2007, and is pretty much what I learned how to develop/style SharePoint on. It's been an interesting experience.
Without further adieu: www.risetime.com
In other news: The American Autumn is doing some recording in Dane's basement right now. So far it's sounding really good. Its kind of fun and relaxing to record this way. We're laying down She Likes The Radio, North and Damen, Ghost Town, & A Body For Arms. I'll post some stuff (probably on our MySpace) as soon as we get it done. |
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